Posted by:
RAG
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Date: April 14, 2011 01:41PM
or thinkers or facts. They trust their feelings. Thinking involves questions and doubts, which are not faith-promoting, therefore they are of Satan.
"Thought-terminating cliches" are essential to Mormonism.
"A thought-terminating cliché is a commonly used phrase, sometimes passing as folk wisdom, used to quell cognitive dissonance. Though the phrase in and of itself may be valid in certain contexts, its application as a means of dismissing dissent or justifying fallacious logic is what makes it thought-terminating."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychology_of_Totalism