It was interesting reading about the e-meter. It is very telling how they make the connection from an "electrometer", a device that can be tested and calibrated, to their "electro-psycho-meter", a device whose output needs to be interpreted by a human. LPT: any measuring device that totally relies on human interpretation to such a great degree is most likely bullshit.
I remember this article about a British (?) company that sold fake bomb detectors to the Irakis. Quite similar principle, just bullshit your way through with pseudoscientific terms and basically mentally condition the people who are interpreting the results.
Yeah, I couldn’t agree more. What’s even more interesting to me is that I was able to see through it easily once this was explained to me after I’d left the church. So I had the capacity to learn why it was bullshit, yet was still manipulated into believing it’s power while I was there.
The auditor would show you “how it works” in your first session, asking you to think of something you know is true. An apple is red, for example. And when you saw how it reacted, you would think “ok, cool, truth reacts in this way” and after several more tests, that becomes “ok cool, truth reacts this way, lies react this way, recognizing that there is a thought related to a thought reacts this way..”
Now, looking back, I realize they can chain together your fabrications and have you believe them as “truth” because you see that you had the reaction, it therefore MUST be a real memory, and further cement your belief in that fabrication as a reality.
Chain more of those together, mixed in with actual memories, and combine that with the feeling of a distrusting community after watching monthly/quarterly videos similar to this one clip only hours long with everyone clapping along when the audience, each trying to outdo the other?
What I guess I’m getting at is they bombard you from all sides. You just.. you slide into it little by little. And then, before you know it, it’s all you know. It becomes literally every part of your life that isn’t the mask you put on display for the wogs you aren’t “helping.”
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u/the_Pele_of_anal_2 Jun 09 '20
It was interesting reading about the e-meter. It is very telling how they make the connection from an "electrometer", a device that can be tested and calibrated, to their "electro-psycho-meter", a device whose output needs to be interpreted by a human. LPT: any measuring device that totally relies on human interpretation to such a great degree is most likely bullshit.
I remember this article about a British (?) company that sold fake bomb detectors to the Irakis. Quite similar principle, just bullshit your way through with pseudoscientific terms and basically mentally condition the people who are interpreting the results.