has anyone else who's following the presidential campaign noticed that mitt romney shows classic signs of a behavior common among members of high-control religions, one we as former dubs recognize, a condition known as cognitive dissonance?.
it would explain his inability to "connect" with people.
his stilted phrasing in many of his speeches and comments.
But is he a true sociopath, or is that the LDS in him? I recall many JWs who may have appeared borderline sociopathic, too.
I should point out that I am not taking political sides here, just wondering if Cog Dis plays a role in Mr. Romney's behavior the way it does in many JW's.
has anyone else who's following the presidential campaign noticed that mitt romney shows classic signs of a behavior common among members of high-control religions, one we as former dubs recognize, a condition known as cognitive dissonance?.
it would explain his inability to "connect" with people.
his stilted phrasing in many of his speeches and comments.
Has anyone else who's following the Presidential campaign noticed that Mitt Romney shows classic signs of a behavior common among members of high-control religions, one we as former dubs recognize, a condition known as Cognitive Dissonance?
It would explain his inability to "connect" with people. His stilted phrasing in many of his speeches and comments. His otherwise inexplicable omission of support for the troops and his strategy for fighting the ongoing war in Afghanistan when he accepted his party's nomination at the convention.
The press reports often that Mr. Romney appears aloof from the concerns of average Americans. Is this a result of belonging to a high-control religion which fosters a culture of "us versus them"? Is he uncomfortable around "worldly" people (i.e., non-Mormons)? Does he see the world through a highly skewed vision as a result of his lifelong indoctrination in Mormon principles and beliefs (particularly the ones he never talks about in public)?
Symptoms of cognitive dissonance have been covered in detail on this forum; it is the ability to hold two conflicting thoughts at once and explain away or compartmentalize them. It impacts JWs and they way they comport themselves in what they see as a hostile world. That's why, as dubs, we went door to door and did NOT say, "The world as we know it is coming to a cataclysmic end very soon and God will destroy every man, woman and child who is not a JW, so you'd better listen carefully and act quickly or you're doomed." That is what we were taught to believe. But instead, what we said at the door is: "Have you notice the world is filled with strife and seemingly insurmountable problems? Well, good news, God is aware of this and has a plan to fix everything that's wrong. To find out about it, we offer a free home bible study. It will answer all your questions."
That might explain why Romney's campaign strategy is a variation on this theme.
If a JW were somehow running for President, wouldn't he act out his inner conflicts in much the same way?
Can you think of any other examples of Romney's cognitive dissonance rising to the surface in public?
hardly a week passes without some credible figure testifying to ufo reality.. http://beforeitsnews.com/unexplained-phenomena/2012/08/ufo-disclosure-may-be-imminent-2430224.html.
i've followed ufo stories for some years now and this barrage of authoritative people looks unprecedented.
couple that with the claim that ufo sightings have increased enormously in the past couple years and...... who knows?.
Look no further than our own history:
When aliens first visited the New World the effect on Native Americans was far from peace, love and the sharing of advanced technology. Oh, the techology was demonstrated, all right. And some Indians began to use it on their uninvited European guests and put off their total capitulation for a few decades. But it would be a long, long time before the natives were allowed even a fraction of the prosperity their conquerors carved out of the land.
In between, it was a nightmare and most of them were slaughtered.
Be careful what u wish for.
so tonight after the meeting, this brother whome i've grown up with invited me to eat.
he had come almost an hour late to the meeting and looked kind of down and a bit depressed.
i agreed to go eat.. there was very little talking at first.
...they didn't need to do it any more and they just wanted to "get along with the rest of their lives." Shortly afterward , they moved away & I've never seen them since.
I saw this happen over the years when I was active. And when we decided to get on with our own lives, we modeled our exit after some of the refugees we'd seen take a hike.
Suggest you think of some subtle way to get some information into his hands; find someone you can trust and provide the guy's email and send him a few good links. Or mail him a copy of C of C anonymously. It will do him good to know there are lots of others like him out there. That's what impressed me when I first discovered this forum.
But be selective. There's some off-putting whack-job stuff on this site these days so don't send him the forum addy just yet, but send him some carefully selected samples.
I think the point folks are making, EOM, is that the average jaydub doesn't give a sh!t what it says in print because they never read that stuff. They react to what they hear at the hall, from the platform, and from the example set by "mature" dubs.
The rank and file understand that, regardless of the WTS's public stance on controversial issues, there is "inside" information that supercedes the material written for public consumption. And this inside info is what you have to tune into if you really want to be viewed as "spiritual."
i went to the last day of the dc here in west palm beach, just to make my mother company.
wow, what a difference can a year outside the lie can do to perception.
it was the same crap as you'd expect but there is a plot twist: the speaker was so into the talk he was actually starting to shout and wound up mentioning that they now know how many angels will be needed to destroy everyone at armaggeddon.
Add to list of requirements for convention speakers:
47. Don't have to be bat shit crazy, but it helps.
p.s. I made up the number, 47. Have no idea how many requirements there actually are.
members of the governing body are "public figures", so i used a full name.
i am doing a research project.
did anyone know him or his first wife?.
I can tell you that in the mid-1980's he served Nevada Circuit No. 1, which is (or was then) all of northern Nevada including Reno. His wife's name was Penny.
i was watching the beverly hillbillies the other night and i have to say, the writing and the acting was terrific!.
another classic is all in the family.
loved that show!.
My list: Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, Cheers, Frasier, and...almost nothing since. Well, okay, Seinfeld.
i was reading this news article and it brings out that nasa is planning a manned mission to mars.
nasa plans to work with other countries on this mission, and not just go it alone.
it turns out that the obama administration has set a goal for nasa to have this done by the 2030s.
If our fragile economy takes one little misstep this project gets shelved.
The only reason our economy is so fragile is that we've thrown a 10-year party in the Middle East and don't have the money to pay for it. And by that I don't mean to imply this tragic war was a "party," but you get the point.
The only way to fix the economy and get back on track towards making real progress is for us to collectively man up and pay the piper. It's really very simple (in theory): Figure out how much the war cost, then raise the money through Savings Bonds, increased taxes, cost cutting - any and all means at our disposal - and pay this bill now.
As a nation, we are like a family that ran up $150,000 in credit card debt and can't seem to figure out why there's never any money left to pay for essentials, much less a vacation (to Mars or anywhere else).
they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .
thoughts?.
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They are dubs in the way that adults whose parents took them to the Baptist Church grow up and identify as Baptists.
Surely you noticed that a lot of dubs treat their dub affiliation as a "religion" in the conventional sense, whereas others are all in and consider it a way of life.
What blondie said about religiously divided households is absolutely true. Kids with a parent (usually the father) who's "not in the truth" have one foot in each world and want to please both parents. It's an awkward dance.
