rrmoderator - Thank you for your reply and links. Nsa-sgi does fit better under the "thought reform" category. My usage of the term "brainwashing" is that I equate it to "mind and thought control." Perhaps because sociology and psychology are some of the more imprecise sciences, semantics can sometimes be confusing (at least for me). "Thought reform" an
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I know that they tend to stress the more substantive shakubukus now, but I find that the organization has and always will ultimately appeal to a specific spectrum of individuals: the sick-feeble, weak minded, ignorant lost soul type of people who are destined to be followers on one end and the other more minimally educated, but with their own psychological pathologies (in some cases power hungr
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Quotewakatta1Re: The last detail Back in the 70's there was a Jack Nicholsen movie called "The Last Detail". In it, two navy shore patrolmen are charged with taking a "kid" across the country to evenutally put him into Leavenworth prison. At one point in the story, the "kid" meets an attractive girl who tells him she would like to "take him home wit
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