Posted on 01/25/2021 2:39:33 AM PST by sodpoodle
Great info.
It was about one party covering up their pursuit of ill gotten gains.
Bttt
I thank you for this. Enjoyed the article.
In preparing this transcript, I think that you may have accidentally omitted a word.
Regards,
“The dimming was caused by the husband going into the attic to search the belongings of his wife’s deceased aunt for lost jewels, and when he turns up the gas light in the attic it dims the lights in the rest of the house. When she mentions the dimming lights when he’s unexplainably away, he concocts the rest to convince her that she’s going mad.”
Quite right. I’ve seen the movie several times.
Bump
No apology needed. A great explanation of what is happening to us.
Gaslighting is the deliberate denial of the truth by a person or party who knows the truth, in order to cause psychological discomfort, confusion, or harm to another person or party by causing them to doubt their senses or sanity.
Gaslighting is distinctly different from lying. People lie to others for many reasons, lying isn’t gaslighting.
Gaslighting requires that the person being lied to has proof of the truth (proof via their own senses or an established, trusted, and reliable source) but are lied to with the sole purpose of causing them psychological pain by making them deny the veracity of their own senses or trusted sources.
It is a particularly sadistic thing when done to a trusting person susceptible to it.
As we have seen, in people susceptible to gaslighting (pliable, trusting, or otherwise easily manipulated people) it can cause severe mental pain, even to the point of insanity.
In people who are aware they are being gaslighted, it justifiably causes anger, since it is a sadistic assault, meant to cause pain, and is rightly perceived by the subject as such.
As another poster said, just watching the movie “Gaslighting” explains it pretty well.
The term “Gaslighting” is recognized by the shrink community as a tactic used by abusers.
The “another poster” is me.
And the movie explains it perfectly. In fact, I believe the term, “gaslighting”, came about because of that movie, and never existed before that time.
(The movie is SO good!)
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Gaslighting is the perfect term.
It means the MSM thinks you are a dumb animal.
I am pretty sure you are correct there, that is the origination of the term.
To people such as conservatives who value truth, we have a particular distaste for gaslighting even apart from the sadism inherent in the usage of the tactic.
To leftists, it is just another implement in their toolbox, but one that they enjoy greatly due largely to its inherent sadism.
While we take great enjoyment in the deployment of truth to cause pain and discomfort in the Left, it is interesting to directly contrast that with the Left, which deploys lies in order to cause pain and discomfort in Conservatives.
Somehow, I think it relates to that saying:
“If you wish to make a Conservative angry, tell them a Lie. If you wish to make a Leftist angry, tell them the Truth.”
“conservatives ... have a particular distaste for gaslighting even apart from the sadism inherent in the usage of the tactic.”
That is so true. I’m an “I.D. Addict”, and watch that channel quite often. I’m interested in the psyches of the criminals, how cases are solved, etc. When it comes to murder, rape, etc., it’s interesting and informative, but when I know a case is going to involve gaslighting, or someone being wrongly accused, I absolutely cannot watch it.
Have you ever been gaslit by someone close to you?
Good one.
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