Research has shown again and again that ordinary folks are very willing to hurt others with electric shock in laboratory settings. Experience has shown again and again that folks do not interfere when they see someone hurt someone else. Add to that absolute devotion to a guru, the brainwashing of minds made susceptible through meditation (the beliefs about not being the doer etc), egos willing to do anything to prove they're enlightened, group isolation, belief in establishing heaven on earth, and doing God's will, and you've got a recipe for what happened in Germany. Call it psychosis or what you will, it happened on a very large scale in Germany. I don't think Germans are any more psychotic than anyone else. We are all subject to social engineering when you get us young enough. a
jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In [email protected], Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Atrocities are very possible when you believe that a) you are not the doer, b) it's all an illusion anyway, c) the atrocities are committed as a means to heaven on earth for a thousand years, and d) death is not real. a > I think in order to commit attrocities, there has to be a fundamental lack of empathy for our fellow human beings, and I've heard that called sociopathy. Whatever else the sociopath uses as justification for hurting and killing others is just rationalizing this basic lack of empathy for others. It doesn't follow at all thnat if we are experiencing a), b) and d) above, that we are therefore capable of comitting attrocities. As for c), that sounds psychotic. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
