Nothing resulted from this..my story was not powerful enough to deter SIU from continuing to send students directly into the lions den.
for SIU, an event for the kids is something they need, as the risk should minimal, and these claims seemed outlandish
He would come to my room for a “nap”, which meant that I would spend the afternoon giving him attention in the form of a full-body massage.
this is mind blowing, the guru comes to YOUR house and asks YOU for a full body massage, disgusting
This is a “family meeting” and we are all expected to be there.
the guru had to make sure everyone was in check 24/7 hence these mandatory "family meetings"
I was aware every time he had trouble keeping tempo, every time he improvised with the same riff ad nauseum. I knew when he was out of key or when he couldn’t correctly count.
sounds like the Guru did not want to be in the band, but rather closely supervise T to see what he was doing, maybe seeing if his music went against the cult
I have been able to acknowledge my complex PTSD symptoms based on having lived in a cult under the tyranny of a traumatizing narcissist.
cannot even imagine how severe the symptoms could have been
It was at this point that I found my breaking point. For the first time in over two decades, I was able to think to myself, “Wait a minute. Guru, I am going to trust my own decision over the pressure you’re putting on me. I am going to put my mother before your pleasure.”
Crazy it took 23 years to reach this point of no return, no one thinks that they are in a controlling group like a cult until they reach a moral dilemma.
That overconfidence is bad for learning because if we think we already know something, we might study less.
the hunger for knowledge over time will disappear as some people may not even have a need for learning when they can just google search something and find out without remembering it.
One might imagine that the active quest of seeking answers should improve our absorption of information, but the opposite happened.
now there is no active quest in figuring out information, all you have to do is move your fingertips a couple times and you have the info you were seeking, no asking people or figuring it out yourself anymore.
So many of us, including this writer, have had the experience of quickly forgetting information that we have Googled
there has been times where I have definitely had to re-google something because I forgot it right away
Would we all suffer from digital amnesia and cease to learn things that were readily available at our fingertips in seconds?
What the Google Effect can do to our memory and attention span, no one would have known how effectively the internet has been degrading both, and will continue to shorten our attention span and memory
psychologists began to wonder how the ability to have so much information instantly available was changing our brains
only if they would have known where we ended up today because of Google
Albert Einstein argued the opposite in 1921. “It is not so very important for a person to learn facts,” the Nobel laureate said
Albert Einstein supported post-Truth
Rules forbidding killing fellow humans are regulative because the capacity to kill exists before the rule.
The comparison of this quote to a game of chess helps bring a better understanding of what John Searle's construction of social reality and how we are different than animals. A set of rules must be established in order to show that we are different than animals and that we can use this to create self-control.