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Date Posted: 11:28:18 10/22/04 Fri
Author: PECAS
Subject: Re: Systematic Obedience Training, the limits of
In reply to: Joe 's message, "Systematic Obedience Training, the limits of" on 10:12:49 10/22/04 Fri

>I was thinking more along the lines of psychological
>background. After all, the UBF "trainers" use the same
>basic tactics that they used on Bill for every other
>desirable recruit. Yet, the tactics seem to fail at
>some point for most recruits. So why does the SOT
>program succeed at all for Bill and others, when it's
>clearly manipulative and abusive? Is it low
>self-esteem, an under-developed sense of right and
>wrong, the type of home that the recruit grew up in,
>etc? Does Steve Hassan write about this sort of thing?

Good point. I was not thinking of Bill's psychological background or family background when I wrote the example. The psychological and emotional state of the sheep impacts how they will react to love bombing and the subsequient systematic obedience training (SOT). Some sheep share in testimonies that their parents neglected them, so some sheep may be looking for the parents they never had. The sheep may conclude that the overburdening intrusive shepherds are better than neglectful parents so they submit. I heard one growing sheep cry out that his shepherd was his spiritual father.
In additino, I think the desire to be loved and cared about by others is an important reason that people absolutely submit. In this world, especially for young college students, it is easy to feel that no one cares. The college environment can be a large and uncaring place. When a shepherd comes a introduces the student to a group with people that are kind and friendly, the sheep will be so happy that they have people who care about them in their life. Slowly the sheep will spend all of their time with UBF members doing UBF activites. The sheep may think that the only people that really care for them are UBF members. When the SOT comes, the sheep may think in one of two ways. First, "UBF are the only people that have cared for me since I have gone to college, so they must be giving me good direction from God." Second, "if I reject UBF, I have no place else to go in which people care about me. I would rather receive human training than be lonely and neglected, so I will bear it.


In Christ,

PECAS

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