In Reply to: oh, and... posted by kinda gentler on June 20, 2004 at 10:59:36:
I was thinking of this just the other day. I was gardening and looking forward to the time alone to think but the same stupid thought kept rolling though my mind like a hamster on a treadmill. I tried forcing my mind to think of something else but it kept going back to default about this one thought which I had already completely thought through. Maybe I needed a coffee, but I just couldn't break my mind through to start thinking a whole new series of original thoughts.
That was just one episode for me, but think about that applying to Family members who have all that Mo, Maria and Peter propaganda in their brains and like you say they're so busy running ragged trying to earn a living, pay their 14% tithes and live according to some stupid imposed standard, and they have no time to think of new thoughts or doubt. Even if they do have the time, their programming just runs on default keeping their mind thinking the same old Family line again and again.