Are YOU Being Brainwashed ? Public Talk MP3

AlphaOmega

Are You Being Brainwashed ?

That was the title of a "Public Talk" given by

Brian Steinblock of Brooklyn Bethel(Monroe Cong) it is a post-2000 talk

This talk was e-mailed to me by a JW, and can be downloaded from here:

http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=34cd9b66d008362fa9a9acbe88a4dc1d

In it, the speaker examines the process of "brainwashing".

He details the 3 steps involved and gives an example of each.

The steps are :

ISOLATION
A "LEAN DIET"
ENFORCED PROPAGANDA

This progress of this process was charted using the following, stages

EQUIVELANCE

- Unimportant things become important

PARADOXICAL

- Aware of "not thinking normally"

ULTRA PARADOXICAL

- "Flip Flop" - enemies become loved ones, loved one become enemies. Willing to hurt loved ones. No return from this stage.

He asks how this might relate to how Satan is trying to brainwash the listeners today. Here are his suggestions:

ISOLATION
= from Brothers and Sisters (wanting you to skip meetings)

LEAN DIET

= Not studying, not reading whole Watchtower magazine

ENFORCED PROPAGANDA = "Satanic propeganda" from "worldly" questions. Apostate Literature. Dress and grooming.

I have a suggestion for him...

ISOLATION = Don't associate with worldy people,

LEAN DIET = Read only Watchtower Publications (09/2007 KM)

ENFORCED PROPAGANDA = Meetings, Talks, Magazines etc etc all containg information that is now unverifiable thanks to the September KM

SO... JWs, using this Bethel example... are you being brainwashed?

BluesBrother

Thanks AO....It is amazing how the WT mind can discuss things like this and totally fail to see tht they themselves are the prime examples of what they are denouncing.

I heard a public speaker use this quote from an ancient Greek called Demosthenes -

"The easiest thing of all is to DECEIVE one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be TRUE."

The poor dumb so and so was too blind to see that the whole idea of a New World, and the elimination of all those that one may dislike, is a classic example of believing in your pipe dreams

brunnhilde

OMG! That is the freaking HEIGHT of irony!!! There are none so blind and those who will not see!

pretty strange....

But I think it is to be expected. Cult groups will usually teach their members different definitions of what things like brainwashing mean. That way the member never connects it to his actual experience in the group.

Seeker4

I loved this:
EQUIVELANCE - Unimportant things become important

If there is one group that makes huge issues out of unimportant things, it's the JWs!!

The list is mind boggling: beards, long hair on men, length of skirts, celebrating birthdays, holidays, throwing rice at weddings, toasts, not using heck or geez or darn, no oral sex, not saying bless you to a sneeze, not using religious symbols, not saying good luck, not standing for a national anthem, not saluting flags, on and on and on.

Yeah, the cult member finds it so hard to see that they are a cult member.

S4

Sasha

Not to mention saying "Good Luck" and z'Happy Birthday!zzzzz' I remember I was at a convention and a woman was to have surgery soon. So I said Good Luck and they all came down on me like I said I hope you die! They said by saiying Good Luck, you are praying to the "Lucky God"....can you imagine?

Mum

This is just as ironic as the Watchtower lament about "loss of natural affection." How many "worldly" people do you know who won't speak to their own family because said family got on the wrong side of bullies in Brooklyn, Baghdad, Bohemia, or the boondocks?

Crazy cult!

SandraC

changeling

Maybe he's un undercover apostate elder trying to get people to think! lol

FreeGirl2006

Loved ones become enemies....sounds like df'ing to me!

jwfacts

Is he joking, how brainwashed must the speaker be to use a perfect description of the JW situation as an example.

It is like when the Awake made the following statement about other religions, but it could not be more applicable than to themselves.

“True, there have been those in times past who predicted an 'end to the world' even announcing a specific date. Yet nothing happened. The 'end did not come'. They were guilty of false prophesying. Why? What was missing? Missing from such people were God's truths and the evidence that He was using and guiding them.” Awake! 1968 October 8 p.23