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In a message dated 1/16/2002 10:19:25 AM Central Standard Time, Keith Henson
<hkhenson@cogeco.ca> writes:
> >Yes, certain vulnerable people will respond very positively to attention,
> no
> >matter where it comes from, but this doesn't mean they've lost all control
> >over their own beliefs.
>
> I think there are such people. Some of them recently flew airliners into
> the WTC. I cite Jim Jones' cult, the Heaven'g Gate cult, the Aum Cult,
and
> the Solar Temple as just a few such cases. Any time you see people doing
> seriously counter survival acts or neglecting their children for some
> cause, their minds have been parasitized.
Hi Keith.
I'm sure you have also noted the evolutionary psychology connections of
beliefs in a sexual paradise for "martyrs." It is as though someone told the
WTC attackers to go take a flying consummation, and they took it dead
seriously.
--Aaron Lynch
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