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237: Steven Hassan | Combating Cult Mind Control Part One

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Height of Self-Dilusion

I've got a friend who will Simultaneously argue that there's a For example a certain leader is really really got some good answers. He's cutting through all the BS and then we'll also say and he's a genius manipulator. That is the height of self-dilusion It is to quote another academic concept cognitive dissonance theory Leon Festinger came up with this studying a UFO cult which was prophesying a spaceship coming to a particular mountain on a particular night. Only they believed more when the spaceship didn't come. But humans want to be congruent if we do a An extreme behavior our thoughts and our feelings are gonna shift to justify the behavior.

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