What follows is one of my favourite
jokes in the nccg_concern website. The author
actually believes that he can become hypnotized by reading large amounts of
material, and that C.C. Warren has designed his material in order for it to hypnotise
people. Nccg_concern has testified he has trouble
understanding a lot of information in an organised manner:
"This website
contains a huge volume of Warren's writings, and as a result of the sheer
volume of material provided, the information is difficult to absorb in a
comprehensive, organized way." (from overview) In
other words, if it's a lot, nccg_concern's brain
clogs.
"The long, rambling
discussions in his weekly sermons, as well as the writing all over the NCCG web site, are part of a confusing and all-encompassing
doctrine that assists with brainwashing the women, combined with what appears
to be Chris' lifelong hypergraphia. If a man finds himself hooked on NCCG, it is possible that it may have been assisted by the
man's suggestibility being increased due to the writing invoking a hypnotic
state (yes, this happens)." (from current) In
this case, the hypnosis works only for males.
"Article 303 "SufferGrace" is a long document, one of hundreds
Christopher C. Warren has written and continues to write. It is written in a
rambling, somewhat disorderly way that can invoke a hypnotic state in
readers." (from Source Index)
This is
from the Rick Ross website, in the "Cult Education Forum", from the board called "Abusive
and controlling relationships". No comments on this one, I think it speaks
for itself. I'd like to know the name of the "leading cult expert"
though… the joke is on him too.
nccg_concern
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edited for clarity and detail on June 9, 2006.
Abusive Online
Groups and Relationships:
It's possible for
people to be "brainwashed" over the internet. During my research
on a certain dangerous religious group, a leading cult expert examined some
of the text written by this group's leader and advised me that was written
in a way that can create a hypnotic state. The writing that was
being examined was comprised of lengthy text segments, and I observed it to
make various points which were supposed to make logical sense among one
another but the logic was actually self-referencing and the points did not
necessarily lead to one another when read with a clear and alert mind.
I experienced this
hypnotic state myself (unintentionally of course), before I was aware of
the hypnotic issue with this writing. During my research of this group, it
was necessary to read a large amount of the group leader's written material.
In spite of the fact that I had conclusive evidence that this was an unsafe
religious group whose information should not be internalized as truth
without very in-depth evaluation, I found that when I was fatigued, it was
possible to unintentionally enter a markedly different, suggestible state
of mind. For me, this state would last between 1 and 2 seconds, and during
those few seconds, the kinds of impressions I had about the material were
markedly different and not in-line with the facts I knew to be true. It was
obvious to me at the time that these brief incidents represented an altered
state of consciousness and were not based upon a conscious decision on my
part to accept the material. In order for it to happen, I had to both spend
a long time reading the material and become fatigued while doing it (I
don't know if both of these conditions are required for other people). I
did not realize these incidents were specifically the result of text-based
hypnosis until the cult expert noted this about the writing style and
presentation (I had not told the cult expert about my own experiences with
it at that point).
This type of
hypnosis-generating writing could be be presented
on paper or posted to the internet and it would have the same effect.
Furthermore,
controlling relationships that capitalize upon undue influence can be
developed over internet chat or instant messaging, with the group's
leadership functioning as the gurus or counselors
and the others functioning as the followers. This is most likely to happen
when the followers have previously become very comfortable with internet
chat -- the average grandmother is probably not going to be able to develop
the right level of intimacy in an online relationship for this to be
successful.
A comment I got
from a parent regarding an internet-active cult I researched went like
this: "Out of all the things I knew to watch out for, I didn't know I
had to protect my children from religion on the internet!"
(emphasis is from the source).
--NCCG_Concern
http://www.geocities.com/nccg_concern
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