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Group Think

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The more serious forms of mind control come about when force is used to make a person think a certain way. Threatening a person to think a certain way is one method. ...

The point is – all methods of mind control are geared toward controlling a person by manipulating him to think a certain way on some subject and prohibiting him from thinking differently on that subject. ...

A free mind is free to think any thought at all on any given subject. ...

To determine whether you are sane or insane in any area, take what you believe to be true and think the opposite. Do you get hit by any force when you think the opposite way? ... You are being forced to think one way, and one way only, in that area. ...

A test for the critics - think that Scientology is good. Do you feel the force against you to not think that thought?

For Scientologists - think that Scientology is bad. Do you feel the force against you to not think that thought? ... Group Think – means peer pressure to think certain ideas.

The threat for not agreeing with Group Think, is loss of ARC from other group members. ... This is used as an Extortion Lever to think and act "right". ...


Group Think also applies to the subject of humanity. ... One needs to rise above his craving for agreement from a group – especially an aberrated group. ...

Group Think is exactly like the bucket of crabs.

To gain freedom – you need to rise above the need to agree with Group Think. ...

If Group Think does not agree with what you have observed – oh well. ...



GROUP THINK for Scientologists:


False datum – any critical thought is due to overts

Quote from HCOB 21 January 1960 Justification –

In this light, most criticism is justification of having done an overt. ... He can think anything. ...



False datum – any negative statement is entheta

Quote from the definition of entheta in the Technical Dictionary -

Especially refers to communications, which, based on lies and confusions, are slanderous, choppy or destructive in an attempt to overwhelm or suppress a person or group. ...

The current top management is guilty of wilful destruction of the group, its technology and end product of Free Spiritual Beings. ...

People apply what they THINK is Scientology, driving others down tone and causing destruction, then THAT DESTRUCTION, mislabeled as being Scientology, gets attacked, AS IT SHOULD BE, and THEN we label those who correctly attack that destruction, as an SP? ... I DONT THINK SO! ...



False datum - the group is senior to the individual


Quote from HCOPL 7 February 1965 Keeping Scientology Working

It’s the bank that says the group is all and the individual nothing.


Our Commentary on the above false datum -

Any group that destroys individuals is, at the same time, destroying itself, because a group is composed of individuals.

Since a group is composed of individuals, a group is as well off as its individual members are well off. By taking care of and improving the individual, you are taking care of and improving the group. ... It puts the group above all. ...



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The common denominator on all the above GROUP THINK is NON-CONFRONT.


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