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Originally Posted by 11of101
The military mindset - no opinion - let to say Amen, left me braindead. I found it hard to go shopping after the FTT. I was not used to making my own choices. Some choices were devastating. Using Full Metal Jacket as an analogy, the LSM objective is to promote and protect WL's vision even if that turns you into killer, "a minister of death praying for war". Eventually you kill others. I 'killed' my ex-wife.
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Interesting . . . I've heard the same thing from ex-inmates regarding not being able to make decisions because they were so dumbed-down in that respect. One brother, who spent several years in prison, could not go shopping at all for some time, because there were just too many choices to make. He became aware of this as he wound up wandering for hours at a Home Depot one day trying to buy a tool. His family was major worried as they thought he was lost or missing. Because there were several choices, he was absolutely incapacitated as to what to do.
These days I've become aware that there were a number of these extra-biblical sayings from the LC (such as "Get out of your mind!"). Some still get spoken around Scottsdale from time to time, and they are not totally without their place. ("Turn to your spirit" is another one.) But I'm much more cautious these days, about anything not specifically in the Word. I'll just leave it at that.