--- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Emily I think the main cult characteristics are thinking the cult and its > leader are almost all positive. AND what I've come to think is an even more > telling indicator of cultishness, thinking that those who don't agree with > the cult and its leader are almost all negative. So when the writing of a > FFL person expresses such extremely polarized thinking, then I think that > person is fundamentally aligned with the group I've been calling wts. >
A telling indicator of cluelessness is when a whole lot of people agree with each other about your behavior, you think there's something wrong with them and not yourself. Then, rather than consider it a gift from the universe that an entire group of people have given you exactly the same feedback, you dismiss them as a "cult" (an utterly laughable rationalization) and then run off to "healers" to validate your cluelessness. Healing in right in front of your face. Refusing to see it is what needs healing. > > For example, Judy has labeled me the most toxic person AND labeled Robin's > WTS intentions the absolute highest and purest. I think these phrases > indicate extremely polarized thinking as expressed by the use of verbal > superlatives. > > > The problem with such extremely polarized thinking IMO is that it totally > misses an essential truth about us human beings, which is that we are all a > mix of positive and negative and that most of us are mostly positive with a a > glitch or two thrown in to keep us embodied and growing. And some of us have > more and or bigger glitches. > > Another essential truth is that we humans are going to make mistakes whether > our glitches are big or little, few or many. In regards to this I have also > noticed that a big feature of extremely polarized > thinking is that it does not allow for making mistakes, learning from them > and forgiveness. This too I think is very harmful. > > As far as I'm > concerned it's up to you to decide if you're a member of wts. I'm only > weighing in on this because you and others are STILL bringing it up! BTW > this is another indicator of cultishness IMO because it too has an element of > being extreme in its expression. Also BTW I keep saying IMO to indicate that > I realize what I'm saying is only my opinion based on my observations. > Nothing more. > > > Of all the wts people I think you're pretty fluid in your thinking. But you > still are sometimes extreme in the negative direction towards me and towards > other non wts people like Barry. Often I think your negativity is expressed > cleverly and pseudo playfully. Nonetheless the extreme negativity underneath > is discernible. And as I say above, this extremely polarized thinking in the > negative direction has become for me the clearest indication of someone's > being in the group I call wts. > > > PS A very recent example of your extremely negative thinking about me: I > made no judgement about Raunchy's grand daughter. I was expressing an > opinion about the BENEFICIAL effect I thought John Newton's work would have > on Raunchy and the people in her life. IMO both you and Raunchy reached a > new low with those posts. > Who me, new lows? What about Gopi Boy? "Ravi called Newton "fucking delusional," but he didn't get a gauntlet (or even a guantlet) thrown at him either." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/328870 BTW if John Newton, himself hadn't thought the "fainting goat" riff was humorous, I'd wonder even more than I do about his bona fides.
