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When confronting a Pentecostal, one must remember that Pentecostals are stuck in a mental thinking loop that prevents them from thinking in the normal sense about anything relating to religion. They have designed an enormous list of code words designed to trigger thinking patterns in a particular way. Think of it as a computer program or a computer virus. When you hear the words “reprobate” or “backslider” or any other code words, they are designed to trigger a particular thought pattern. Another phrase that comes to mind is “touch not mine anointed!” The last one triggers thoughts of incapacitating terror at the thought of questioning the pastor about anything. Also, there are particular gestures that are designed to trigger certain thoughts like the tightening and closing of the eyes followed by something like “Woo, I feel something in this place, let’s pray for that guy right now!”
And, so it is. It is hard to even speak about religion to these Pentecostals stuck in the mental traps because the minute you try to question them, those code words, and those gestures come into their imaginations, without even them hearing them or seeing them, and these things short-circuit the mental processes to the point where they cannot hear the words you are saying. The mind is stuck and has something like a computer virus.
Often, it takes a tremendous effort to break these people from this state of self-hypnosis. Sometimes it takes a dramatic event for them to begin to question. Sometime the pastor betrays them so deeply, they go through terror, depression, and many other things that are so unbearable that they have to begin to question the system.
The services are designed to nurture these thought systems and loops that they cannot break out of. All the emotional things that go on from excitement to terror, to grieving, to anything with extreme emotions - all this contributes to the deadening of the mind to thinking outside of the particular mind set.
Their minds are stuck. They do not know this. You can tell them this and often, they do not understand what you are telling them because their thoughts are stuck in a short circuit. Sometimes we have to spend many years or months trying to figure out a way to break within a particular person’s mind to break it out of the shorted-loop. Each of us has a lot of work to do if we are to do this. Each case is different, and I suspect that there is a particular KEY to each person to break them out of the loop. It just might take a long time to find the Key to break the code and delete the looping control loop of their mind’s software programs, in a manner of speaking.
So, do not ever be surprised that you cannot communicate with these people. It is part of the design of the system to keep them trapped in the mental control loops triggered by words, gestures, music or whatever a local preacher can design. The pastor does not do this deliberately as in, “How can I design a system to keep them trapped,” but he simply does it by trial and error in Darwinian fashion as to what works with a particular person and congregation and what does not. This is how it works. And whatever system of controls survives the experimentation is what survives in the same way as animal species survive in the process of natural selection in the Survival of the Fittest. The better the system design, the harder it will be to break them out of the mental loops.
Note: For reference to some of the code words, check out this thread and you might be able to think of others from your own experience:
p212.ezboard.com/fexpente...=485.topic
2 comments:
this reminds me of one of my sister's, she is super depressed but she can't see that being a pentecostal is suppressing her as a human being there is NOTHING i can think of to say to make it click in her brain that something isn't right, me and my other sister have tried everything
she thinks she is depressed because she isn't doing enough for god
Hi there, I have a friend who in personality wise was just like me, and basically told me he came from the catholic faith and he told me his mother was more religious than the rest but I never thought more than that. We are both music students in NZ and in 2013 got into a bit of strife financially being poor students and making dumb decisions as of course young musos do.. haha
well we are now on study break/holidays and he's gone back to the North Island for Christmas etc but all year had asked me to come up for the new year so I did, but about 3 weeks before I was due to go up there he told me that he had "found God" and first of all thinking "I've lost my friend.." no offence to God but he and I don't share the same sense of humour but I had came to terms with the thought of him becoming religious so I went up there prepared to be aware of my language and manners etc but when I got there, boy did I get a surprise. I was bombarded with his new found faith where he does what God says, follows and loves God and nobody else basically. "you do as you're told and for that you feel great." He kept trying to get me to ask God to speak to me and to be "donked on the head" as he had been so I could then feel happy like him and can enjoy being drunk on God, and then begin the journey doing the tests given to him by God. I was christened in a Presbyterian church after my birth and I am happy to remain the way I am and by no means was I going to live by one man (again no offence to God or any followers of any faith.) I lasted 4 days on my holiday and asked a friend back home to fly me back asap as I couldn't handle it or being pressured into it and with Sunday the next day I knew I wasn't gonna stick around for that song and dance.. so when I got home and began to describe the "asking God to hit you" and him falling on his bed/floor unable to breathe, and the praying in tongues and talking of learning to heal to bring people back from the dead they basically told me what I thought.. he's been brainwashed into this sick cult like thing hidden behind the word religion. My Mother has a friend who is a strong Christian and when we described some of these characteristics to her she also had nothing pleasant to say about this religion of course in the nicest way you can hate on a faith cos she's not one to put anyone down but I began my research today on this religion and others like it and found your blog interesting. Basically do I stick by my once friend and hope it's a phase or leave him and then watch his world crumble because he's gonna loose everyone or he isolates himself scared to talk to anyone outside the church cos they may be possessed by the devil? I'd like to stick around but if I am not prepared to change then he may not want to be my friend any more which is the hinted impression I got while I was on holiday...
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