Also known as The Delphi Technique.
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Hopefully this ends our tax dollars going to study anything at these crack houses. Wasn't there just a study released last week saying religious folks are happier folks.
This outta really get the evo and treason lobbies going. LOL.
Here's to being "Strident". But can we ratchet it up another notch?
This would be a good time to remind everyone that in the Soviet Union, if you objected to the system, you would be considered to be mentally ill, and committed to an asylum (or ordered to a gulag, or just executed).
As always, leftists believe that theirs is the only good way, and that if you disagree with them, there must be something wrong with you. Or, it could be that you're just plain evil. So, off to the looney bin. Or jail. Or the grave.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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"In describing Christian America, Benjamin Franklin observed: "Atheism is unknown there. Infidelity is rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country without having their piety shocked by meeting with either Atheist or an Infidel."
I'm afraid Ben Franklin wouldn't recognize America today.
And sodomites and pedophiles are perfectly normal....
Are they taking Michael Savage's assertion that "Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder" and turning it around and thowing it back at us? Sort of like the GI in the foxhole picking up an incoming grenade and thowing it back at the thrower just in time for it to explode?
Who's sick, the generators of peace, prosperity and strength, or the perverted minds of the Socialist Left? I know which one is sick.
I'm glad they think 'God is dead', more of Him for the rest of us.
they forgot to add Hillary's book under Sources..it takes a village idiot......
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Mental disturbances certainly don't jibe with mental "rigidity".
Also known as The Delphi Technique.
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That's an important quote, going to the heart of the left's agenda. Especially those that want to be part of the ruling elite class of The State.
Again, look into The Frankfurt School for where many of their specific tactics originated.
Well, these things are true for many "social conservatives", especially those whose conservatism stems entirely from religious beliefs. But they also hold true for many adherents of leftist philosophies, who cling fast to dogmatic beliefs in the power of socialism to solve all problems, just as many religious people cling fast to the belief that all problems would be solved if everybody would just believe what they believe. Both camps use extreme social pressure and brainwashing techniques to try to stamp out uncertainty in their ranks. I'm always amused at how both camps, who claim to inhabit opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum, are devoted to a dogma of the evilness of humans -- religious conservatives with their dogma about inherent sinfulness, the fall of Adam, yadda yadda; lefties with their dogma about humans destroying the planet. Both symptoms of the same mental illness, if you ask me -- good old-fashioned self-loathing.
When the deceptions are peeled away we discover that ''dogmatism'' refers to Christianity, ''mental rigidity'' refers to ''individualism,'' and ''uncertainty avoidance'' really means that Christians are resistant to the ''change-through-consensus'' process.
Nonsense, conservative and orthodox Judaism certainly are included, and most of these scholars would include Islam to the extent that it is a religious movement (though it is largely a political movement, and many of these scholars are no doubt sympathetic to its political agenda). "Mental rigidity" refers to their stubborn refusal to consider the possibility of flaws in their belief system (again, displayed just as zealously by religious conservatives and socialist/envirowacko leftists). "Uncertainty avoidance" really is a pretty unique feature of religious conservatism, and refers to psychological dependence on the belief that they know everything that it's important to know and that the final outcome of their own consciousness and of the whole world is certain, and they know what it is. Leftists almost universally rely on the opposite psychological dependence, namely, belief in extreme uncertainty, with personal and group adherence to the belief system utterly dependent on perpetual fear of what may happen if they don't stick to their belief system and persuade most of the world to convert to it -- if we don't cut down our use of paper and recycle every scrap endlessly, there will be no more forests, the whole environment will be horribly toxic from the output of pulp and paper factories, all the animals will die, and we will suffer the equivalent of burning in hell for eternity. Opposite psychological dependencies, but equally nutty, and with pretty much equal potential for harm.
A handful of leftist movements, not the least of which was the Soviet Communist movement, had an dependence more like that of religious conservatives, in which they firmly believed they would save the world by convincing everyone to believe what they believe. For a more recent, smaller, and kookier example of this, read up on the National Labor Federation which, although it has had to give up its firm date on which it assured members it would control the world, continues to operate under many front groups, including the Eastern Service Workers Association. Even many lefties find this group alarming.
History of NLF: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IAySpXvnGfIJ:boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21338/index.php++%22eastern+service+workers%22&hl=en
List of National Labor Federation front groups: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IAySpXvnGfIJ:boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21338/index.php++%22eastern+service+workers%22&hl=en
Alarmed leftist sounding a warning: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:IAySpXvnGfIJ:boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21338/index.php++%22eastern+service+workers%22&hl=en
college prof who's been duped into recruiting for ESWA: http://sociology.department.tcnj.edu/Internshippage/SWK/SWKeswa.HTM