بیایید گاگول نباشیم!؟Lets not be gullible!!
اندر باب کرامات و معجزات Smart Lies and Foolish Lie
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We are all gullible; just enjoying from a charismatic leader, we may believe
anything even something that asks us to act self-destructively, no matter that
we are completely normal, psychologically stable, well-educated and highly
intelligent human beings!
As long as the lie which people hear from the charismatic leader cannot be
checked or validated, it is called SMART LIE and it is seductive; however, the
FOOLISH LIE can be checked, tested and rejected. Thus the important point is
not that if the charismatic leader tells the followers a big lie but it is
the uncheckability of the lie which makes it credible for gullible audience!
Anyone who has studied history will affirm that people
are gullible. We consistently find that sufficiently charismatic leaders can
persuade people of any lie, even a lie that obligates followers to engage in
painful or self-destructive behavior.
As an illustration of above principle,
consider the case of the California cult known as Heaven’s Gate in this video . The group, led
by Marshall Applewhite, included seventeen men and twenty-one women between the
ages of eighteen and seventy-two. Applewhite taught his followers that he was
an alien who first “moved into and took over” Jesus’ body just prior to
Christianity’s founding, and that he again in 1970 “incarnated into” his
current human body. In March 1998, Applewhite revealed to his followers a
prophecy indicating that an approaching spaceship tailing the Hale Bopp comet
was coming to pick up members of Heaven’s Gate, but that they would have to
take lethal doses of phenobarbital in order to join him aboard the alien craft.
