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The lgat I was involved with said "'WHY' is the booby prize". Talk about stopping thinking, questioning, examining, probing...... We weren't supposed to ask WHY!
Ah yes.... Werner all time stupid proclamation of all time:
[b:c9ddb831f0] "Understanding is the booby prize" ! [/b:c9ddb831f0]
This revelation should be the preamble to every edition of the Jackass movie series..... and then these imbeciles walk around repeating this piece of fuck-a-hole-in-your-head ingenuity like they discovered fire or something...
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Also, "don't explain, don't complain".
Yeah... too bad Art Schreiber can't seem to remember the theories he loves to so agressively defend
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"I am my results"
While they're at it, could they define their distinction "results" ? What IS a "result" ? How does it differ from everything else ? Are thoughts "results" ? .... I say there, Einstein had some pretty interesting ideas.... so were Einstein's ideas his "results" ? Or did something have to later happen as a , ummm, "result" of those ideas before Einstein "could be Einstein" ? How does a "result" differ from a "non-result" or a "semi-result", or a "contributory result".... was Wagner's music responsible for Hiltler ?
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I'm halfway through [b:c9ddb831f0] "The Sociopath Next Door" [/b:c9ddb831f0] by Martha Stout, and I see even deeper how lgats teach sociopathy. The lgat I was conned by programmed us not to say/think certain words/concepts.
An excellent, if modestly flawed introduction to the subject... and yes,
the New Age/Human Potential/LGAT milieu draws the [b:c9ddb831f0] sociopathic personality [/b:c9ddb831f0] like flies to shit.... or trainers to training rooms for a little mind massage....
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We were not to say that something "makes me" anything, e.g. feel, think, question. If I do something hurtful or unethical to you, you cannot say I made you feel hurt/angry/etc. If you feel that way, you need to change your mind about how you feel and quit being a damn victim (because, afterall, you are CHOOSING to feel as you do). This is sociopathic.
To put it mildly.... sociopaths, it seems, are past masters, well practiced, at minimizing their responsibility... this is a cardinal feature of the sociopathic style, [b:c9ddb831f0] minimization of culpability [/b:c9ddb831f0] and the mirror component [b:c9ddb831f0] making YOU the full owner of the problem [/b:c9ddb831f0] ... yeah, there is a sociopathic streak in Erhardian thought...
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"Makes me" means there is connection and interplay among humans. We effect one another. While I know it can be argued that there is a problem with "makes me" in the literal sense, the spirit of it is necessarily human.
This is why there is intersubjectivity theory.... some of it IS in your head, some of it IS out there, some of it IS in your control, some of it ISN'T... and human consciousness is shaped by the interplay of minds in a collective process of understanding "reality"... the Erhardian Morons want you to believe that each mind is a self contained reality generator that is blocked form "powerful" reality generation by evil "rackets"
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According to Stout, what underlies the absence of conscience in sociopaths is a disconnection from others. And damn if the lgat I was in didn't teach us how to be disconnected from others and be conscience-free. In that sociopathic state, we had license to do anything to anyone and not feel a twinge of guilt or empathy.
The sociopath has a limited emotional range... generally their greatest thrill is derived from manipulating other people, and their greates source of rage is being frustrated in their desire to manipulate... does this behavioral pattern sound like any trainers we have experienced ?
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As my learning of lgats grows, so does my disdain for the man who conned me.
You're just warming up..... wait until the full realization hits home.