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Cult mind control

BlackCat said:
Don't confuse brainwashingWP with socializationWP.

They might look similar, but socialization is a natural process and behavior exhibited in all social mammalian species. It is unconscious, and used for the benefit of the species, in order to teach the young how to survive.

Brainwashing is a conscious act, usually done to an unwilling participant, in order to change their thinking to that of the brainwasher.

BlackCat
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Call me a radical, but I don't see a difference.

LLH
 
Hypnotists can brainwash some people to believe that they had alien hybird babies, used to be a pharoah, were abused as a child, saw the repotiods, or anything else no matter how silly.
 
Ryan O'Dine said:
Please -- where do I send the money? Take it. Just take all of it. And my worldly possessions.
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Right this way. Now don't leave the compound. The bad influences hate it when they can no longer control you. It makes them crazy. They will be looking for you. They will do anything to get you back under their control. Don't leave the compound. You will be safe and happy here. I will protect you. I cannot protect you if you leave the compound.
 
Luke T. said:
Right this way. Now don't leave the compound. The bad influences hate it when they can no longer control you. It makes them crazy. They will be looking for you. They will do anything to get you back under their control. Don't leave the compound. You will be safe and happy here. I will protect you. I cannot protect you if you leave the compound.
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Gee, I like what you’ve done with the razor wire. Really sets off the glass shards.

Hey -- that funny man in the tower -- why’s he pointing his crutch at me? Poor fellow, I wonder how he got up there with a game leg.

Ahh, home.
 
Almo said:
oooh... Magic. I played that from Fallen Empires till Alliances. That would have been an easy addiction to avoid, had it not been a good game design. ;) I played White/Blue, White/Red, or White/Blue/Black (when I was feeling weird) decks. What was your preference?
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*grin* I actually got in during Arabian Nights, and played through Fallen Empires--after that they started doing too many weird things to the rules for me to follow.

I liked white/blue/black a lot, but my favorite was the monolithic White Death deck. There's just something emotionally satisfying about beating someone to death with an ornithopter and a tragic poet...
 
UrsulaV said:
That being said, cults can do wacky crap to your brain. It's nothing paranormal or, sadly, even all that extraordinary, it's just that when you get people together in a relatively isolated pack, re-inforcing each other's behavior and beliefs, without anybody acting as a reality check...dude, people get weird
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Stanford Prison Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Prison_Experiment
 
osmosis said:
With regard to the definition of hypnotism, that's just it. I've never really seen a definition of hypnotism that made much sense. The best def. I know of is "a state of high suggestibility" but emphasis is placed that you can't make anyone do anything that is against their morality.

But can you twist and bend their morality?
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If you're interested in what hypnotism really is, the best way to find out is to experience it. Find out if there's anyone in your area that teaches self-hypnosis and go experience it for yourself.
That's what I did. The guy spouted a lot of woo, but it was well worth it. No amount of reading could have really described it adequately.

As for brainwashing, I was curious about that myself once, so I did an experiment. I had been told that by simply repeating a statement over and over, eventually you would come to believe it. So I tried it. I chose a statement that I knew to be false, and I got into the habit of repeating that statement during every spare moment, every day for a couple of weeks. I ended up in a very strange state of mind. I still knew it was false, but I found myself tending to behave as if were true.
Choose something harmless to believe in if you want to repeat the experiment, because you may find that you're not able to entirely deprogram yourself afterwards.
 
I saw it a long time ago, but as I remember, the movie, "Ticket to Heaven," illustrated brainwashing, or something like it, quite well. It's about a guy gets involved with a cult--based on the Moonies, if I'm not mistaken.
 
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