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To: Quix

Your particular judgment is going to be a real hoot, for the audience.


71 posted on 10/13/2009 2:23:10 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

I gather some folks are in for some startling surprises on that score.

But that’s got to be a grant example of rule violation.


74 posted on 10/13/2009 2:25:25 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: A.A. Cunningham; airborne; Amityschild; AngieGal; auggy; autumnraine; bearsgirl90; bethtopaz; ...

It’s always fascinating . . .

as a psychologist and sociologist . . .

to observe folks who’s identity is so ENMESHED . . . to use a technical term . . .

soooooooooooooooo ENMESHED with an organization . . .

as to be INCAPABLE of distinguishing between

their person-hood and the organization . . .

between SAME vs DIFFERENT

between me vs other

between group vs me

between an insitution vs its members

between the garden and a single rose

between a symphony and a single note

My experience would suggest that folks who have a significant degree of ATTACHMENT problems the first 6-8 years of life . . . grow up with such serious self-worth, insecurity etc. deficits that this

ENMESHMENT—OVERWHELMING IDENTIFICATION with the INSTITUTION, GROUP such that there’s no clear BOUNDARIES where the INSTITUTIION starts and stops and the individual begins. It’s all an intensely emotionally construed amorphous mass. The Individual is lost in the group in very telling and emphatic ways and degrees.

Sometimes I think the RELIGIOUS rulers 2000 years ago had a bad dose of the same or a similar problem. Their arrogance presumed that THEY WERE THE GROUP—or, at least, such an important part of it that further distinctions were unimportant. Cheek to the max, for sure.

It’s kind of a sort of confabulation.

Seems to me they ought to develop a diagnostic category for that.


77 posted on 10/13/2009 2:34:58 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Disagreeing with Quix is a sign of mental illness, donchaknow.


78 posted on 10/13/2009 2:36:33 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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