"IMO the only "cure" is to lock these people up and throw away the key, or shoot them on the spot."
Third and totally effective option: I have succeeded in OUTLIVING my evil daemon!!!
BTW, his WTS honed Sociopathic "skills" led him to finally become a criminal. Before he died, the laws in the states we both lived in had changed to make him become a STALKER and technically a criminal.
I thought that getting out of his immediate "sphere of influence" was the answer. I did totally quit the JW's within months of moving ~3000 months away.
But that didn't change the spying, manipulation attempts and STALKING. It made his efforts inconvenient, but did not stop them.
And in the end, he became a criminal, as the laws caught up with his "course of conduct". He continued his "course of action" after these laws changed, so it is not a matter of being excused by "ex post facto" conditions. He may be viewed as having "post-ratified" his previously technically legal conduct into an illegal status. The conduct previous to the changes in the law certainly go towards "
evidencing a continuity of purpose." California Penal Code 646.9.f.
Now is "course of conduct" a JW term?? Sounds familiar, doesn't it? It may indeed be found in the Dub literature. But it is a technical/legal term, as defined in the California Penal Code Section 646.9 subparagraph f.
There you have it: my JW experience was based entirely on being pressured into being a JW by a SOCIOPATH. So was I really a JW??? Only in the sense of being one under duress. Basically, the whole experience was invalidated.
"I doubt being a sociopath is as bad as people make out"
Ahh, the innocence of youth. Try telling me this after YOU have dealt with one for 50 years.
Avenger knows what he is talking about; you are just guessing.
Mustang
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