"So it was the believer's confidence in their ability to plumb his soul what I was comparing, not his deeds or pathological mass murdering mindset." Who are these believers? Innocent, gullible, feudal mindset of 1940's Chinese vs free spirited anti-establishment 60's Americans?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Ravi Yogi" raviyogi@ wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Curtis - some of us never had cultish mindset like you guys and don't have to carry this burden for rest of our lives. > > I'm not too sure about that. People influenced by this mindset are notoriously bad at recognizing it in themselves. There is a natural tendency to believe that we are too smart for that. > > > < To compare M with Mao is sick and twisted.> > > I hope you take the time to re-read to get the point you obviously missed. I was comparing the confidence his followers had in their subjective evaluation of him with that same confidence in guru followers. It is a good example because of the numbers involved and the way followers talked about him. Have you read about Mao from the perspective of people who knew him? But we can all agree that he was probably not God on earth, and that makes my point. Millions and millions of people experienced him as God. They were absolutely sure of it and many gave their lives for that belief. And by many I mean more millions of people than anyone in the history of the world killed with the possible exception of Stalin. And here Hitler has all the History Chanel specials, what's up with that? > > So it was the believer's confidence in their ability to plumb his soul what I was comparing, not his deeds or pathological mass murdering mindset. > > Although your assessment of me as sick and twisted is spot on, this is not one of the many possible examples that would prove this. > >
