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How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks The Brain- Psychology Today
by Brokeback Watchtower inhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201810/how-religious-fundamentalism-hijacks-the-brain.
in moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being.
but religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual.
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How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks The Brain- Psychology Today
by Brokeback Watchtower inhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201810/how-religious-fundamentalism-hijacks-the-brain.
in moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being.
but religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual.
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In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is primarily because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture, making it inherently maladaptive.
It is not accurate to call religious fundamentalism a disease, because that term refers to a pathology that physically attacks the biology of a system. But fundamentalist ideologies can be thought of as mental parasites. A parasite does not usually kill the host it inhabits, as it is critically dependent on it for survival. Instead, it feeds off it and changes its behavior in ways that benefit its own existence. By understanding how fundamentalist ideologies function and are represented in the brain using this analogy, we can begin to understand how to inoculate against them, and potentially, how to rehabilitate someone who has undergone ideological brainwashing—in other words, a reduction in one’s ability to think critically or independently.
How Religious Ideologies Spread
Similar to how organisms and their genes compete for survival in the environment and gene pool, ideas compete for survival inside brains, and in the pool of ideas that inhabit them. The famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has used this insightful analogy to explain how ideas spread and evolve over time. In his influential 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he refers to ideas as “memes” (the mental analog of a gene), which he has defined as self-replicating units that spread throughout culture. We are all familiar with many types of memes, including the various customs, myths, and trends that have become part of human society.
As Dawkins explains, ideas spread through the behavior that they produce in their hosts, which is what enables them to be transmitted from one brain to another. For example, an ideology—such as a religion—that causes its inhabitants to practice its rituals and communicate its beliefs will be transmitted to others. Successful ideas are those that are best able to spread themselves, while those that fail to self-replicate go extinct. In this way, some religious ideologies persist while others fade into oblivion.
It is easy to see why religion quickly spread through culture once it emerged. When humans gained the cognitive capacity to reason and plan for the future, they became aware of their own mortality. The realization that oneself and all one’s loved ones will someday die is naturally terrifying, and this existential fear perfectly set the stage for anxiety-reducing ideas, like ones that offer a never-ending afterlife. But religions are complex ideas, and the psychological effects they have on minds go beyond just relieving anxiety.
Essentially, the brain is a biological computer, and an ideology is a set of coded instructions, or “cultural software,” that is running on the brain’s hardware. Esteemed philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett insightfully described how ideas can control minds when he said, “The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.” In this regard, it is often not the brain that controls the mind, but the memes that compose the mind that control the brain. This is especially the case when the meme is a religion...…….
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What Will Take Away The Reins Of Power From This Delusional Bunch Of Governing Body Saints?
by Brokeback Watchtower inwill it be the complete and utter mismanagement of child abuse issues due to a total disregard for children and not wanting to bringing reproach upon corporate jehovah's name?.
or will it be some other thing?
i strongly think the governing body's days as g. o. d. are numbered due to their complete incompetence to rule a corporation, brought on by a big and getting bigger shadow, and a persistent denial of anything negative about their corporation's claims to be god's earthly organization.
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I'm sure there are some big changes that could insure their corporate survival for many decades but I don't expect them to be able make those necessary changes with a bunch of brain dead delusional old farts they got calling the shots as the Organization stands today with G.O.D. running every thing with 3rd grade school level education interpreting and cherry picking scriptures from the Bible and making up doctrines. Their brains are too filled with their own self serving bull shit to make good decisions.
It is a proven fact that fundamental Christian religion shrinks your brain:
Religions Mutate
Like genes and gene complexes, when an ideology is replicated—or passed from one person or group to another—it undergoes mutations. As a consequence, different versions of that belief system are produced, which generate different types of behavior. As such, there are often good and bad variants of any given religion. For instance, there are moderate versions of Christianity and Islamthat promote qualities like a sense of community and a moral code that fosters ethical behavior. These ideas can be beneficial to the host organism, i.e., the religious-practicing individual. At the same time, there are harmful variants of Islam and Christianity—specifically the rigid fundamentalist versions—that cause the host mind to process information in a biased way, think irrationally, and become delusional.
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November 2018 Watchtower study....attacking weak members, their personalities, and apostates
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower society always attempts to disprove or discredit valid arguments or statements by criticizing the ability of individuals to think, reason, ask tough questions and make their own decisions!
if they can't logically attack the message, they attack the messenger!!
the name calling of apostates or anyone who doesn't agree with all the wtbts flip-flops ( the light gets brighter) never stops!
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Every thing written about apostates and people who left the organization is negative and are the Governing Body's projections of their own evil shadow and their practices to deceive their members, which they cannot see because they are in deep denial. This much shadow projection is seriously going to bite them in the ass in the big buck$$ being lost in court cases over their deep denial which they broadcast on the internet, which inturn leads to a failure to take corrective measures because of the deep denial.
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What Will Take Away The Reins Of Power From This Delusional Bunch Of Governing Body Saints?
by Brokeback Watchtower inwill it be the complete and utter mismanagement of child abuse issues due to a total disregard for children and not wanting to bringing reproach upon corporate jehovah's name?.
or will it be some other thing?
i strongly think the governing body's days as g. o. d. are numbered due to their complete incompetence to rule a corporation, brought on by a big and getting bigger shadow, and a persistent denial of anything negative about their corporation's claims to be god's earthly organization.
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Governments come and go, Companies come and go. Era's come and go. But religions seem to last for some unknown and baffling reason! JW's are for sure fu*ked up but show me a religion that isn't!
IUTB, very true bbbbbbut(everybody got their big buts), we have a rather new factor to add to the same old story and that is we are in the information age, the internet spells doom for the WT, they thrive on indoctrinating ignorance into peoples mines and making them slaves to the corporation's whims, how long can that go on?
The courts of many countries are coming down on the WT, their internet presents is very weak, in fact it is exposing them as delusional, cruel, religious fanatics.
The way I see it in today's day and age they can't last a 1000 years like before the information age, intelligence is increasing exponentially not just linearly. At this rate they are doomed.
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November 2018 Watchtower study....attacking weak members, their personalities, and apostates
by RULES & REGULATIONS inthe watchtower society always attempts to disprove or discredit valid arguments or statements by criticizing the ability of individuals to think, reason, ask tough questions and make their own decisions!
if they can't logically attack the message, they attack the messenger!!
the name calling of apostates or anyone who doesn't agree with all the wtbts flip-flops ( the light gets brighter) never stops!
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This kind of explains some of Tight Pant's Tony's rant on tight pants back in 2014 to the bros in Italy . Check out the laughter over Tight pant's exclamation tight pants and other place I think the majority take him as an old fool.
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What Will Take Away The Reins Of Power From This Delusional Bunch Of Governing Body Saints?
by Brokeback Watchtower inwill it be the complete and utter mismanagement of child abuse issues due to a total disregard for children and not wanting to bringing reproach upon corporate jehovah's name?.
or will it be some other thing?
i strongly think the governing body's days as g. o. d. are numbered due to their complete incompetence to rule a corporation, brought on by a big and getting bigger shadow, and a persistent denial of anything negative about their corporation's claims to be god's earthly organization.
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Will it be the complete and utter mismanagement of Child Abuse issues due to a total disregard for children and not wanting to bringing reproach upon corporate Jehovah's name?
Or will it be some other thing?
I strongly think the Governing Body's days as G. O. D. are numbered due to their complete incompetence to rule a corporation, brought on by a big and getting bigger Shadow, and a persistent denial of anything negative about their corporation's claims to be God's earthly Organization.
The next big question is will they go bankrupt before being dethroned? It could be that they are headed to a quick financial end, and no time to try to save the ship from these clowns in sheep's clothing.
One thing for sure GB Yes Men must be getting fewer and fewer @ Headquarters due all the bad publicity they are generating across the globe. I'm sure disappointments and a worry over job security are making it almost intolerably hard to even crack a smile to these nit wits with their petty peeves about tight pants that Jehovah hates and other such like bull shit.
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AI Data Mining Of Discussion Groups?
by Brokeback Watchtower inwhat do you think will ai learn a lot from discussion groups?.
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All that is on the internet is data for AI:
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Is A Major Restructuring At Warwick In The Works Due To Years Of Governing Body Ignorance & Delusion?
by Brokeback Watchtower inthe possible financial ruin to which faithful & discreet slave/governing body has brought wt corporation, due to all the underhanded/illegal/thoughtless policies as g.o.d(guardians of doctrine) seems to be a very real possibility, as court cases mount against the wt and it's different corporations.. montana just gave a very clear $$$$30million+ shout out to wt, about it's fucked up policies, which lay at the feet of those in charge.
it seems that some type of no confidence should be expressed and a complete over haul should be happening.
they can not keep this information secret any more and they are totally delusional ass holes if they think they can talk their way out of this.. therefore i think we shall see some desperate measures to keep this fraudulent organization financially stable and a removal from power those responsible for the mess..
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Keep it coming I love new ideas. You don't have to be right, in fact if you're too worried about being wrong, you're ability to be creative will be restricted. Throw these ideas out into the noosphere, don't worry about defending yourself and project into the unknown. Let other people give their critical comments and see what develops who knows what we learn from one and other by sharing ideas subject to criticism and not taking things too personal and be open to learning.
So please speculate you never know what we might learn from this sort of fantasy.
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Is A Major Restructuring At Warwick In The Works Due To Years Of Governing Body Ignorance & Delusion?
by Brokeback Watchtower inthe possible financial ruin to which faithful & discreet slave/governing body has brought wt corporation, due to all the underhanded/illegal/thoughtless policies as g.o.d(guardians of doctrine) seems to be a very real possibility, as court cases mount against the wt and it's different corporations.. montana just gave a very clear $$$$30million+ shout out to wt, about it's fucked up policies, which lay at the feet of those in charge.
it seems that some type of no confidence should be expressed and a complete over haul should be happening.
they can not keep this information secret any more and they are totally delusional ass holes if they think they can talk their way out of this.. therefore i think we shall see some desperate measures to keep this fraudulent organization financially stable and a removal from power those responsible for the mess..
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I often catch myself wondering how many members of said Legal Dept. are quietly leaving
Good question. I'm sure many in house lawyers are pretty pissed about their having to represent the WT corporation which has become a big steaming pile shit all over the internet. I really think ALL the in house lawyers don't believe the Governing Body are the Faithful & Discreet Slave, and they know it's a scam, and unconsciously or consciously they are driving the WT corporation to its own deserved Armageddon. That could also be a reason the WT corporation is seeking worldy legal help.