Great article on JC-type Meetings and Psychology - Risks/Benefit Analysis of Attending
by AuntBee 4 Replies latest jw friends
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Phizzy
Aunt Bee, I E 9 is difficult to get working on this site, please try another browser, I use Chrome without a problem.
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AuntBee
Sorry, had to switch to Goggle Chrome, duh.
This article is not speaking specifically of the WT, so it uses the words "Star Chamber/Hot Seat" meetings. I had never heard that before!
Now i am having trouble getting the link into here, and have to go to work, so here is the link for the web site: www.undermuchgrace.blogspot.com. I think it's the lead article right now. It's called "What Do You Risk When you go to a Star Chamber/Hot Seat Meeting?" The authors' name is Nancy Kunsman.
Here's a snippet from the article:
To those who believe in the benefits of confrontational meetings with spiritually abusive leaders, I offer this summary of information that I've based on the perspective of the writings of Dr. Albert Biderman. I frequently refer to Robert Lifton as a framework to talk about such matters of manipulation, but concerning the nature of manipulation that takes place directly in star chamber meetings with leaders of spiritually abusive groups, I've chosen Biderman's writing concerning manipulation, thought reform, and domestic violence. In his book, The Manipulation of Human Behavior, Biderman notes how these dynamics that occur during such meetings actually foster "disturbances in brain function.
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cofty
Marking for later thanks
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Fernando
Hey AuntBee!
A great deconstruction of the JC or Star Chamber.
A pretty extensive A-Z list of propaganda techniques used.
Knowing what I know now I would strongly advise against accepting any "invitation" to meet alone with three men in a room (with no representation and no recording devices).
Unless of course you NEED to learn from the experience as I did. I saw some amazing demonstrations of the power of the demons over the minds of the frantic and infantile Pharisees.
The Pharisees showed extreme contempt and hostility for key aspects of the "good news" in their OWN publications. They were like rabid wolves looking for accusation and found it in my personal testimony of faith in the "good news about Jesus" as the only valid way to "make disciples" of Jesus (instead of followers of a religious organisation and ruling religious clergy class and hierarchy).