https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FYDF8wGn5E

Watched this last night. Very apropos for exmormons. Shows how the unity of a group united under the strict discipline of a leader galvanizes people with a minority cause (to be a powerful group in the wider society) and produces extreme zealotry, unity, and hatred.

Mormonism will call it love, but it is love of self reflected in the strong discipline of a minority striving for existence and recognition of their powerful right to be.



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)

I saw that movie in German class in high school. It does feel a lot like the church! Cults are cults.

Wear a white shirt to class.

Or you could watch the 2015 movie called "The Wave" on netflix, which deals with a real big massive wave:) Trailer for it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6TvhT-okSU

Cool. Mormonism thinks it is a stone cut from a mountain without hands rolling over the face of the earth in a similar way when in reality it is a rock in a hat swindling a tiny portion of the planet.

There have been several versions of this. I liked the one I grew up with back in the 80's or was it late 70's?

Is it called "The Wave?"

Yes, it was from 1981, & I saw that first as well. It was more of an after-school special type deal, but very good for this type of hour long special. It doesn't take place in 1967, but is just an adaptation set in the early '80s. & it's on YouTube —

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICng-KRxXJ8

Cool!

Also refer to the Stanford Experiment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

Fascism seems to be Human Nature. The premise of the movie is based on the reasons why German people fell in with Hitler and his movement. After the 3rd generation after the end of WW2 they couldn't believe that Fascism could ever happen in a modern world. The wave is the experiment that proves this thinking wrong.

What is interesting is this exactly describes the LDS Church. The Children MUST be converted and 90% of the Church is devoted to the demographic 0 - 25 years old. Once you make it through the Temple and start having Children you are more than likely, locked in.

* Right vs Wrong mentality
* Us vs Them
* Inclusive vs Exclusive activities
* Huge Gatherings to promote your group
* Singing
* Sacrament/Temple Ceremony
* White Shirts and Ties (Uniforms)
* One set of earrings
* Masonic Rituals
* Constant reading and Prayer to bolster your belief

Those that convert to the Church want the inclusion and acceptance from the group. The rest who are not interested don't have that need.

cognitivedissonance Wrote:
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> * Right vs Wrong mentality
> * Us vs Them
> * Inclusive vs Exclusive activities
> * Huge Gatherings to promote your group

This is how it works. God "gathers" the wheat from the tares. It is actual doctrine to exclude. The devil is in their details. Jesus partied with publicans. The successors to this movement included non-Hebrews. These are reasons Christianity is so large today.

Mormonism holds to the exclusion practices pretending they are Wheaties to their skewed Poptarts-filled world view. Only the very elect want to roughage with the Mormons.

I wish I could watch this documentary. But I can't find it available anywhere.

https://www.facebook.com/LessonPlanMovie