They refuse to confront the proposition that their worldview could be wrong. Any one singular issue with their system breaks everything down, so nothing can be wrong.
If you want to truly understand and you’re Christian, consider the possibility that God doesn’t exist. Consider how much of your life is tied up in the notion of faith to God. Your morality, duties, habits etc. If you aligned yourself simply to God and not Truth (God IS truth but that’s a deeper argument), then the notion that God may not exist would possibly destroy much about you.
I’m a devout Christian btw, and in no way equate rabid cultist leftism with Christianity. I’m simply trying to start a thinking exercise for you all so you can comprehend the difficulty that you’re dealing with.
It’s not simply a debate between going left or right. Is the freeway faster or the back road. Which restaurant is better. More or less taxes. More or less military involvement etc etc. You’re debating their fanatical secular cultist faith.
I think we would learn more from studying people who escaped cults than by debating contradictions
I think we can learn more from studying people who escaped cults than by debating contradictions
Perhaps even more important is the mechanisms by which cults recruit, retain and 'manage' thier members. When people escape, it's usually because something went wrong or a peak behind the curtain was mistakenly allowed. The truly scary shit happens when it works and the followers stick with it. The study of a fully functioning cult and it's members can really haunt a person.
These are places where blindly accepting a prescribed belief system, often without even knowing what the beliefs are, will gain a person acceptance. Being able to eat lunch by yourself is an undervalued life skill these days. And some people will allow themselves to be violated in horrible ways just to have a group to eat lunch with.
For a time during the 70s and 80s, high schools in affluent areas regularly included curriculum meant to harden students against being recruited by a cult. Many of the 70s era cults intentionally targeted young, affluent, naive people with possession of or access to resources like trust funds, inheritances and 'college funds' etc.
A fool and his money are soon parted. It's as if the victims are so afraid or intimidated by the prospect of managing the resources afforded to them that they would rather sign it all over to some self anointed guru and let them fuck shit up instead. Once they've given over everything, including their free will, these victims can become alarmingly dangerous. I repeat, Codependents are just as dangerous as thier malignant narcissist handlers.
Amongst the privelaged, there is a bizarre culture of putting those who 'gave it all up' on a pedestal. It's like they regret not being 'brave enough' to fall for a guru's bullshit.
When dealing with the ideologically corrupted, accept nothing short of unconditional surrender, or you will have to deal with weimar syndrome. It does no good to win if the mentally defectives don't know they've been beaten.
Things that make my listening shut down when a liberal is talking.
"Did you know..."
"You have to realize...."
"There was a study..."
"... Significant findings..."
"...my american empires class..."
Narcissism, leftism, what's the difference?
Cultist beliefs, modern left beliefs...
When I was around 21 or so, I stopped to get something at the local drug store. There was a girl outside, by herself. She looked really familiar to me, but I couldn’t place where I had met her before. She attempted to tell me about her wonderful world of knowledge. Turns out she was a Moonie. Luckily, I had seen a documentary about it when journalism was somewhat truthful. I let her talk a bit and asked why she was out on the sidewalk when her family wanted her back home. I told her they missed her and that she should go back. I remember that she looked very sad. I hope she did.
They refuse to confront the proposition that their worldview could be wrong. Any one singular issue with their system breaks everything down, so nothing can be wrong.
If you want to truly understand and you’re Christian, consider the possibility that God doesn’t exist. Consider how much of your life is tied up in the notion of faith to God. Your morality, duties, habits etc. If you aligned yourself simply to God and not Truth (God IS truth but that’s a deeper argument), then the notion that God may not exist would possibly destroy much about you.
I’m a devout Christian btw, and in no way equate rabid cultist leftism with Christianity. I’m simply trying to start a thinking exercise for you all so you can comprehend the difficulty that you’re dealing with.
It’s not simply a debate between going left or right. Is the freeway faster or the back road. Which restaurant is better. More or less taxes. More or less military involvement etc etc. You’re debating their fanatical secular cultist faith.
I think we would learn more from studying people who escaped cults than by debating contradictions
Perhaps even more important is the mechanisms by which cults recruit, retain and 'manage' thier members. When people escape, it's usually because something went wrong or a peak behind the curtain was mistakenly allowed. The truly scary shit happens when it works and the followers stick with it. The study of a fully functioning cult and it's members can really haunt a person.
These are places where blindly accepting a prescribed belief system, often without even knowing what the beliefs are, will gain a person acceptance. Being able to eat lunch by yourself is an undervalued life skill these days. And some people will allow themselves to be violated in horrible ways just to have a group to eat lunch with.
For a time during the 70s and 80s, high schools in affluent areas regularly included curriculum meant to harden students against being recruited by a cult. Many of the 70s era cults intentionally targeted young, affluent, naive people with possession of or access to resources like trust funds, inheritances and 'college funds' etc.
A fool and his money are soon parted. It's as if the victims are so afraid or intimidated by the prospect of managing the resources afforded to them that they would rather sign it all over to some self anointed guru and let them fuck shit up instead. Once they've given over everything, including their free will, these victims can become alarmingly dangerous. I repeat, Codependents are just as dangerous as thier malignant narcissist handlers.
Amongst the privelaged, there is a bizarre culture of putting those who 'gave it all up' on a pedestal. It's like they regret not being 'brave enough' to fall for a guru's bullshit.
When dealing with the ideologically corrupted, accept nothing short of unconditional surrender, or you will have to deal with weimar syndrome. It does no good to win if the mentally defectives don't know they've been beaten.
Things that make my listening shut down when a liberal is talking.
"Did you know..." "You have to realize...." "There was a study..." "... Significant findings..." "...my american empires class..."
Narcissism, leftism, what's the difference? Cultist beliefs, modern left beliefs...
When I was around 21 or so, I stopped to get something at the local drug store. There was a girl outside, by herself. She looked really familiar to me, but I couldn’t place where I had met her before. She attempted to tell me about her wonderful world of knowledge. Turns out she was a Moonie. Luckily, I had seen a documentary about it when journalism was somewhat truthful. I let her talk a bit and asked why she was out on the sidewalk when her family wanted her back home. I told her they missed her and that she should go back. I remember that she looked very sad. I hope she did.