Here's a simple psychological profile for all the past and present leaders (GB) of this religious publishing house.
Psychoanalyzing the Governing Body as a Collective Body by what they cause to be written in literature and private letters:
by frankiespeakin 147 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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frankiespeakin
Finkel,
I think that may be a stretch to paint them all with that brush, I really don't think they are enjoying themselves with all their repressed shadow material and cognitive dissonace going on.
But your right they are devious crooks, of which they are only very vaguely aware, useing great feats of illogical anecdotal reasonings to keep it submerged from consciousness.
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frankiespeakin
The dangers of Black and White thinking on the Governing Body:
Black and White Thinking (Splitting) Is Both a Borderline and Narcissistic Trait
Splitting causes massive confusion in family and friends Published on December 2, 2011 by Randi Kreger in Stop Walking on Eggshells
This is here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4A here, part 4B here part 5 here, and part 6 here and part 7 here.
Being split black can happen out of the blue and can leave you reeling. One day you may be enjoying the "best" intimacy, sex, love, times of the relationship and the next you are dealing with a robot void of emotion, icy cold, and being completely ignored. (FromBPD Relationship Recovery -- Me Project).
Splitting, or all-or-nothing-thinking, has always been considered a borderline trait. But like emptiness, it commonly occurs in people with narcissistic personality disorder as well.
Splitting is a cognitive distortion and defense mechanism--a totally unconscious way BPs and NPs make sense of the world. It causes mood swings and contributes to arguments, criticism, and blame. For example:
- Family members are seen as all good or evil; idealized and devalued. BPs and NPs put them on a pedestal (often at the beginning of the relationship) and knock them right off of it when the new partner invariably disapoints.
- People with BPD (and sometimes the "vulnerable" type of NPD) see themselves as good or evil, idealized or devalued depending upon how they feel that day. When they see themselves as all bad, BPs are at risk for self harm or impulsive, reckless behaviors.
- Situations are seen as great or terrible, e.g. losing a job means one will be unemployed for life.
Narcissistic vs. borderline splitting
Those with NPD value those who give them admiration, approval, and narcissistic supply. Unsurprisingly, they devalue people who don't go along with their grandiose fantasies. As one NP says, "You value those who feed your world and your view of yourself." Narcissistic splitting seems to be focused more on "superior-inferior" terms, such as the competent parent versus the incompetent parent, or the supposedly financially brilliant NP versus the financial incompetent spouse.
People with BPD split depending whether or not others are meeting their emotional needs, whether that is not abandoning them or giving them some space when they feel engulfed (one follows the other and then back again). BP's see people as all-good or all-bad in "close relationship" terms, judging qualities such as trustworthiness, sexual fidelity, or betrayal.
When BPs get divorced, they often have custody or access battles over the children because they see the other parent as morally evil (making claims that the soon-to-be-ex will sexually abuse the child, abandon the child, or neglect the child). When NPs get divorced (or several years later when they have an unrelated set-back--a narcissistic injury) they often seek full custody of the child because they see themselves as a superior parent and the other parent as incompetent.
part 8on my series on the similarities and differences between people with borderline personality disorder and those with narcissistic personality disorder. You can find part 1 -
frankiespeakin
Also they suffer from narcissistic personality disorder:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS00652
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. Those with narcissistic personality disorder believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by dramatic, emotional behavior, which is in the same category as antisocial and borderline personality disorders.
Narcissistic personality disorder symptoms may include:
- Believing that you're better than others
- Fantasizing about power, success and attractiveness
- Exaggerating your achievements or talents
- Expecting constant praise and admiration
- Believing that you're special and acting accordingly
- Failing to recognize other people's emotions and feelings
- Expecting others to go along with your ideas and plans
- Taking advantage of others
- Expressing disdain for those you feel are inferior
- Being jealous of others
- Believing that others are jealous of you
- Trouble keeping healthy relationships
- Setting unrealistic goals
- Being easily hurt and rejected
- Having a fragile self-esteem
- Appearing as tough-minded or unemotional
Although some features of narcissistic personality disorder may seem like having confidence or strong self-esteem, it's not the same. Narcissistic personality disorder crosses the border of healthy confidence and self-esteem into thinking so highly of yourself that you put yourself on a pedestal. In contrast, people who have healthy confidence and self-esteem don't value themselves more than they value others.
When you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may have a sense of entitlement. And when you don't receive the special treatment to which you feel entitled, you may become very impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — the best car, athletic club, medical care or social circles, for instance.
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frankiespeakin
Dr Bishnu Chitrakar the Governing Body's approved mental health therapist at bethel praises the ogranization:
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frankiespeakin
I would say that Stephan Lett talk about "not listening to the voice of Strangers" give a sterling example of B&W thinking and Narcissistic personality disorder:
Main article: Narcissistic personality disorder
People matching the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder also use splitting as a central defense mechanism. Most often the narcissist does this as an attempt to stabilize his/her sense of self positively in order to preserve his/her self-esteem, by perceiving himself/herself as purely upright or admirable and others who do not conform to his/her will or values as purely wicked or contemptible. Given "the narcissist's perverse sense of entitlement and splitting. . .[s]he can be equally geared, psychologically and practically, towards the promotion and towards the demise of a certain collectively beneficial project." (Abdennur, the Narcissistic Principle of Equivalence) [ 7 ]
The cognitive habit of splitting also implies the use of other related defense mechanisms, namely idealization and devaluation, which are preventative attitudes or reactions to narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury.
Listen to his portrail of those who do not conform to his/her will or values as purely wicked or contemptible, Everything is B&W, and those that disagree with him are wicked with garbage spewing out of their mouths:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnnKU4FyTVE
Can you see where he is projecting his own shadow on to the apostate and all the evil things he is saying about apostates is really all about the evil he is denying in himself, he doen't even realize what he is doing in his reality tunnel but clearly all the things he is saying about apostates are his own repressed evil.
If you want to really understand what they are repressing and actually doing just listen to this and you will get a clear idea of the evil he is doing as a Governing Body member.
The Devil is in his shadow projections, he takes to be real and project the Devil every where in his reality tunnel, he is in people, human institution(governments,college,school,Psychiatrist, and scientist).
Eating Garbage illustration sounds like he's going off the deep end, he is desperate, he's pulling all his tricks out of the box to get an emotional responce to get the audience not to ever look at what apostates say,, he is that worried and sound like desperation to me, so he projecting eating garbage out of a garbage can to listening to those who don't go along with the programed thinking of the Governing Body.
This guy would do a great job as an actor for the movie "1984". He is very desprate to stay in his delusion and I sure he is charge with emotion over apostates and looses sleep at night over it.
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Satanus
Your post 9134 has links to a lot of info on border line personality. Thanks.
S
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frankiespeakin
Waiting for appeal to be files march 26th dead line.
One does wonder what is going on in the mind of the Governing Body over their fudiciarry duty to keep small children from being molested while being out in the Corporation's sponsered door to door literature placements, with persons already guilty of child molestation but unknow to unsuspecting parents.
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frankiespeakin
Feddy Franz discusses the wrong ideas taught by the WT corporation which furnishes a sterling example of Cognitive Dissonance being resolved by changing cognitions. Looking at past mistakes in understanding as merely to be expected as the light gets brighter and brighter. Thus they become forgivable mistakes by making some unrelated scripture about morning sun light getting brighter in the afternoon, into some sort of prophecy about increases in understanding the bible in our day.. Cleaver but still a delusion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKdwk5SVXM
Some may be wondering how this man can justify still placing full trust in a corporation that has a notorious record of failed dates for the end of the world and all sorts of crazy idea that latter must be disguarded.
The answer is to increase delusional thinking to lower cognitive dissonance over all the contridictory ideas that are held simultaniously.
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_dissonance.htm
Description
This is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same time.
Dissonance increases with:
- The importance of the subject to us.
- How strongly the dissonant thoughts conflict.
- Our inability to rationalize and explain away the conflict.
Dissonance is often strong when we believe something about ourselves and then do something against that belief. If I believe I am good but do something bad, then the discomfort I feel as a result is cognitive dissonance.
Cognitive dissonance is a very powerful motivator which will often lead us to change one or other of the conflicting belief or action. The discomfort often feels like a tension between the two opposing thoughts. To release the tension we can take one of three actions:
- Change our behavior.
- Justify our behavior by changing the conflicting cognition.
- Justify our behavior by adding new cognitions.
Dissonance is most powerful when it is about our self-image. Feelings of foolishness, immorality and so on (including internal projections during decision-making) are dissonance in action.
If an action has been completed and cannot be undone, then the after-the-fact dissonance compels us to change our beliefs. If beliefs are moved, then the dissonance appears during decision-making, forcing us to take actions we would not have taken before.
Cognitive dissonance appears in virtually all evaluations and decisions and is the central mechanism by which we experience new differences in the world. When we see other people behave differently to our images of them, when we hold any conflicting thoughts, we experience dissonance.
Dissonance increases with the importance and impact of the decision, along with the difficulty of reversing it. Discomfort about making the wrong choice of car is bigger than when choosing a lamp.
Note: Self-Perception Theory gives an alternative view.
Research
Festinger first developed this theory in the 1950s to explain how members of a cult who were persuaded by their leader, a certain Mrs Keech, that the earth was going to be destroyed on 21st December and that they alone were going to be rescued by aliens, actually increased their commitment to the cult when this did not happen (Festinger himself had infiltrated the cult, and would have been very surprised to meet little green men). The dissonance of the thought of being so stupid was so great that instead they revised their beliefs to meet with obvious facts: that the aliens had, through their concern for the cult, saved the world instead.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma
Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event. When that trauma leads to posttraumatic stress disorder, damage may involve physical changes inside the brain and to brain chemistry, which changes the person's response to future stress.
A traumatic event involves a single experience, or an enduring or repeating event or events, that completely overwhelm the individual's ability to cope or integrate the ideas and emotions involved with that experience. The sense of being overwhelmed can be delayed by weeks, years or even decades, as the person struggles to cope with the immediate circumstances. Psychological trauma can lead to serious long-term negative consequences that are often overlooked even by mental health professionals: "If clinicians fail to look through a trauma lens and to conceptualize client problems as related possibly to current or past trauma, they may fail to see that trauma victims, young and old, organize much of their lives around repetitive patterns of reliving and warding off traumatic memories, reminders, and affects." [ 1 ]
Trauma can be caused by a wide variety of events, but there are a few common aspects. There is frequently a violation of the person's familiar ideas about the world and of their human rights, putting the person in a state of extreme confusion and insecurity. This is also seen when people or institutions, depended on for survival, violate or betray or disillusion the person in some unforeseen way. [ 2 ]