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Call it what it is. Leftism is cultism reinforced by Marxist ideology.
Its the “get off my lawn” syndrome.
The author later gave an example and what needed to be done to break the cycle further down in the article.
I've had a few encounters with people like this. Once they're "locked in", nothing sort of major trama can break it. And yes, you can actually show this person to their face the reality and they will deny it. Its fascinating and very disturbing at the same time.
“(Transfixion) is to the mind what setting is to concrete.”
Better put, I think: “...as spurious thinking is to strong delusion.”
In 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul (by the Holy Spirit) nailed it: “because they received not the love of the truth, God will send them strong delusion, that they will believe the lie.”
.......because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 2:Thess 10-11
Liberalism is a mental disorder. Civil discussions used to be possible with liberals but now a conservative, no matter ho reasonable and logical, is likely to be shouted down by a mob of self-righteous leftists chanting Marxist slogans.
I believe that Bill Maher, while still a liberal, bemoans the fact that the liberal movement has been taken over by such transfixed leftists whom there is no reasoning with.
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There is a point when a person ,Ives a life of sin and unrepentance that God turns that person over to their reprobate mind. When that happens there is no turning back. The person is irredeemably lost in their sin.
That is not to say that everyone that lives in sin has reached such a “no return” point, but they are in danger of it if they continue. God forbid that anyone reach such a point, but sadly some will.
This is a good article, and a good word; “transfixed”, to describe the hardening of the leftist mind.
TRansfixion is a result of consistant indoctrination from the age of 5 or 6 onward, throughout education, the mechanism of virtue signalling like lemmings on the way to the cliffs.
The victims of transfixion, unable to acknowledge facts in theior environmenyt have a vaery low survival rate in existential crisis like storm, famine, war. This is because their delusion is too concrete, so much so that their perceptions actually cannot accurately sense what is happening or even present. THey have a perceptual mechanism trained to ignore manifest fact and happenings within the environment. Since they ignore so much in the environment, they are truly “ignorant” about whats going on around them.
And when they have cognative dissonance from their ignoring, then their only reaction is attack, and violence.
So we are in for a fight. And in the process we must destroy their ignorance mechanism.We must prove to them that their way of life, lack of tolerance, lack of freedom and liberty, will shorten their own.
And they mean to do the worse to us and are planning already, weaponizing government agencies to do the dirty, including -the FBI , EPA and the IRS., we will be sent to FEMA created re-education camps, imprisoned, or executed, just like the Red Chinese do.Jan 6 prosecutions were a rehearsal.Make no mistake about it.
Oh no, we must not fail to win the 2024 election.
If we do not win , we will have to fight.
The scripture says if one does evil and loves the doing of it God will give them over to a reprobate mind. Or in other words Transfixed…..
There is nothing new under the sun.
WWG1WGA!
“The reason is never the reason. The reason is always the Revolution”.
You can’t argue a leftist out of support for whatever cause, because he’s lying: his support of that cause is because he thinks it will advance socialism.
You have to discover the real, underlying purpose, for which the “cause of the moment” is just a means to that end.
politics is like religion,
for those ho believe, no explanation is necessary
for those who don’t, no explanation will ever be good enough...
If a solution works, then we don’t fix it and we definitely will argue with anyone who tells us otherwise … even if they’re right and we’re wrong.
I think that’s just human nature, but perhaps it’s even more innate to being human. For example, have you heard about “Original Antigenic Sin”?
From Whikipedia,
“… also known as antigenic imprinting, the Hoskins effect, or immunological imprinting, is the propensity of the immune system to preferentially use immunological memory based on a previous infection when a second slightly different version of that foreign pathogen is encountered.Same thing. See a problem and use the same solution we learned the first time over and over again whether it works or not.This leaves the immune system "trapped" by the first response it has made to each antigen, and unable to mount potentially more effective responses during subsequent infections.”
Whether it’s mental/emotional “transfixion” or original antigenic imprinting, apparently, being stubborn is in our DNA.