(September 14, 2017 at 1:15 am)Astonished Wrote: Are you fucking kidding me? I'm not a dictionary, go look it up, but I should have thought, and hoped, that it's fairly fucking self-explanatory. I don't need to constantly be given more reasons to see you as a robot with severe bugs in your programming. Your intellectual laziness is your lookout, until it starts to affect others, which is what pisses me off. When a condition like that is contagious only because of what you're not prevented from doing to others, that's a problem for the whole human race.
But I'll humor you, one last time. In my view, which I would assume is fairly commonplace among rational skeptics, indoctrination involves the systematic censoring of anything that contradicts a biblical worldview, propaganda-like tactics to prevent victims from ever questioning their limited teachings, denying without reason facts that are demonstrable no matter how solidly presented or explained, never permitted to accept anything that does not fit in with a worldview they are not free to develop on their own in the first place, threatened with force or implied threats to encourage a fearful coercion so as to stifle independent thought or questioning of whatever it is they're being taught (including threats of financial support being cut off or outright social ostracism), teaching them WHAT to think and never how to think, being taught to mistrust and/or never listen at all to anyone who disagrees, being taught to believe in things that are flatly contradicted by basic knowledge of reality and to require little to no evidence for that which they are taught...
That good enough? I bet you barely fit 10% of that description yourself, which I think we can both agree is a good thing. You're not the kind of Ham sandwich I'm worried about.
I googled the definition of indoctrination, and the results varied slightly. Some where simply "to teach a specific ideology or world view" others were more along the lines of "teaching to accept uncritically". Nothing nearly as specific as the paragraph you wrote above.
Also, you're a really nasty person.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
