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Comment author: lavalamp 10 October 2011 02:20:23AM 2 points [-]

I've found that difficult to do IRL for a few different reasons:

If the target figures out what you're up to, in my experience they react negatively.
If you introduce the analogy before the thing it's an analogy of, it comes across as a non-sequitur and people spend more of their time trying to figure out what you're up to than reasoning about the analogy.
On any topic remotely related to religion, people are extremely reluctant to make testable statements. If they notice the analogy, they figure out what I'm up to and shut down.

I'm totally willing to believe this is a problem with my application and not a problem with the technique, but I've not found it very effective.

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