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Originally Posted by awareness
Oh not this again. Not there's no such thing as brainwashing. Such exquisite denial.
Regardless of how you frame it, local churchers live a heteronomy life, not a autonomy life.
And it's a need of the flesh. They need a fleshly leader.
"We want a king. Lord gives us a king, like all the others have."
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Well, scientifically that is a fact. Read the wikipedia article. Read the articles and position of the experts, the APA. You can't prove, scientifically that brainwashing is real. And heteronomy - that's religion.
If intentional, deliberate, brainwashing didn't work on American POW's, even with drugs, electric shocks etc, then it wouldn't work on current and former LC members because they said Amen a few times, would it?
Therefore those that believe they are brainwashed are "brainwashed" into a self-delusion or lie that they are.
There are rational explanations for what people call brainwashing, these are fear, coercion and survival. No one can really claim that WL was a Voodoo master who had control over people's minds against their will. Fear, coercion and survival are the repetitive themes on this forum, not brainwashing.