authority, conformity, groupthink and adventism
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Jim Jones
Approx 80 dead including 22 children
MUSLIM CARTOON UPRISING
David Koresh Branch
Davidians
Jim JonesJonestown
Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban
1. Compliance with Authority
Accomplice of the Experimenter
Experimental SubjectGives the electric shocks
Orders Teacher to shock student for wrong Answers
Accomplice of the
Experimenter
Orders Teacher to shock student for wrong Answers
Experimental Subjectgives the electric shocks
“Obedience to Authority”
65% of Experimental Subjects (Teachers) obeyed Authority (Experimenter) and continued shocking “learner” to full capacity.
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On May 10, 1933 "unGerman“ books were burned by the Nazis.
(Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells etc)
Madrasas Education: The youngest boys sit cross-legged 4 to 8 hours per day memorizing the Koran.Older boys learn the Hadith, Islamic history and jurisprudence. There are no world history, math, or science
courses taught.
75% of Subjects conformed at least once with the group and picked the wrong size
line to stay in the good grace of the group .
Groupthink represents a form of social influence of the majority that results in a dangerous level of agreement by all members of the group, even if the decided action is obviously wrong
A mode of thought whereby individuals intentionally conform to what they perceive to be the consensus of the group.
Janis, I. (1972). Victims of groupthink. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Janis, I. (1982). Groupthink: Psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes.
Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagernessand examined the Scriptures every day
NIV Acts 17:11
“It is their duty to investigate as did the Bereans. The Lord says through the prophet Hosea: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee." {Sketches from the Life of Paul (1883) LP 87.2}
Raphael, 1513-1514.
People become more extreme
after they listen to and speak primarily
with likeminded others
Islamic fundamentalism is the purest example of the radicalizing echo chamber effect
Fuller Memorial Hospital
Lake Region Conferenceof Seventh-day Adventists
Lake Region Conference of the Seventh-day
Adventist
Harris Pine Mills
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Boston Regional Medical CenterFamily Enrichment
Resources, Inc.,
“Blue Duck Co.”&
Folkenberg &James E. Moore
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
Now the Bereans …received the message with
great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. NIV Acts 17:11
“THE GREATEST NEED of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church is for well-informed members to give liberally not only of their tithes and offerings but
of their very best judgment—as church board members, as constituency meeting delegates, as local and union conference committee members and as institutional trustees.”
A degree of diversity of thought is the one ingredient necessary for a healthy state, working democracy and just religion