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"He (Krishnamurti) said he did not want to belong to any organization of a spiritual kind, because such an organization becomes a weakness, a bondage, and cripples the individual. He said that he did not want any followers or disciples, because the moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. He said that no one holds the key to Truth, that key is your own self, and in the purification and incorruptibility of that self alone."---Asit Chandmal (one Thousand Suns)
"When a group of people share a belief, they naturally bond with each other. Any new recruit is warmly welcomed. He strengthens the group and renews their confidence in the shared convictions."-----Secret, Don't Tell: The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism by Carla Emery p.239
Clearly, ‘the Jewish Holocaust Story’ has become a religious movement, with popes, priests, apostles, prophets, institutions, rituals, ceremonies, myths, holy days of remembrance, dogmas, bans, persecutions, and inquisitions!-----Dr. Christian Lindtner 1
Social dominators will want to hang onto control until it is pried from their
cold, dead fingers in the last ditch. And authoritarian followers will prove
extremely resistant to change. The more one learns about the problem, I think,
the more one realizes how difficult it will be to change people who are so
ferociously aggressive, and fiercely defensive.
You're not likely to get anywhere arguing with
authoritarians. If you won every round of a 15 round heavyweight debate with a
Double High leader over history, logic, scientific evidence, the Constitution,
you name it, in an auditorium filled with high RWAs, the audience probably would
not change its beliefs one tiny bit. Authoritarian followers might even cling to
their beliefs more tightly, the wronger they turned out to be. Trying to change
highly dogmatic, evidence-immune, group-gripping people in such a setting is
like pissing into the wind. p.237
[2006] The Authoritarians” by Bob Altemeyer