Posted by:
fortheloveofhops
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Date: September 07, 2016 11:05AM
I remember feeling like that. Even though I was studying psychology in college and *knew* TSCC and its superstitions were all bunk, the feeling that I would be punished was there. The first time I posted here, my heart was racing.
Check out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking"In clinical psychology, magical thinking can cause a patient to experience fear of performing certain acts or having certain thoughts because of an assumed correlation between doing so and threatening calamities."
So here's the thing. There is no guarantee that something horrible will or won't happen to you. However, it won't be because you left a superstitious cult. It's just that life is uncertain. For everyone.
TSCC knows this and uses magical thinking as a tool to control/influence/manipulate people with both fear and hope; easily manipulated emotions.