Notice the difference between my post on Roy and the one quoted below. You will notice that my post is thought out, reasoned, and it provides details of what Roy did and the specifics about exactly what happened and how the system was impacted by CEDU.
Suppose I just said - CEDU sucks and it should be put out of business. Would that be a supported statement?
That statement is not supported by anything at all and it is the same as annon's post about Roy Phillips.
Read annon's quote below, and notice that a comparison of the two statements sheds light on the difference between a free thinker and a cult convert.
Notice how the convert makes his statement about how he hates Roy and what should be done to him without providing any specifics, detail, process, event experience to back up the premise.
The earlier post by the same individual was similar (an opinion with no premise that supports the conclusion that what Roy was doing was bad and why) The reader is thus left with nothing more than one individual's disjointed and accusatory "belief."
This is how cults teach people to think. All events, and even the character of individuals, are judged by the standard that they are not on the inside supporting the beliefs and behaviors of the group and they are therefore bad.
Some people call it group think. I call it "no think," because the specific beliefs of the group are not allowed to be questioned, critisized or even given the honor of dialogue.The beliefs are based on unsupported authority alone. (So were Hitler's beliefs werent they).
Now you begin to see how insidious this all is. It stops the thinking process. It makes questioning illegal, and damns everything and anyone who dares to think, reason, question, or see in shades of grey.
People and systems can't be part good, but flawed as we all are. The only thing is the omnipitent cult, CEDU, and it is believed without question to be all knowing, all powerful, supreme and without flaw.
Roy was a human being, flawed like all of us, but a damn fine human being. Notice that, by my earlier posts that statement is logical. Then look at annon's statements below. Quite clear, isn't it?
On 2005-03-12 14:54:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Roy Phillips was the worst thing that could have EVER happened to me at that school. He should be stripped of his license and never be able to practice again."