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In Reply to: Re: The control factor posted by Carol on August 16, 2004 at 13:33:22:
1. "[T]his group of Family kids score significantly higher than general population kids on openness to change": change within The Family I can see. What I wonder is, do any of their questions/measurements provide for the cataclysmic event that is "backsliding?" I don't think they can glibly call this "change" and think they're referring to any concept of change that they have known.
2. "It would appear that the average Family Home in the US and Canada isn't producing significantly more criminal or self-destructive personalities than the general population, despite the criminal & self-destructive characteristics of Family leadership." If these questions were conducted with answers to questions, i.e., language, I have no confidence in their results because the same words that sound like English and sound like you knwo what they mean, in The Family can have an entirely different meaning and contend and charge. Also, there's another area for a gap: you know that split between how they treat/think of/respect/tell insiders vs. outsiders? If the kid is thinking of how they treat Family members when they answer questions, a very different picture may emerge than what it would look like if they had in mind the Antichrist Enemies along with the Vandari (who "were given the truth all their lives but then rejected is"), and in between there are the simply "Systemites," on a spectrum of sheepiness (and thus fitness to exist and be considered persons).
Do you really think the researcher is brilliant enough to have bypassed such chasms? My money is not on it. I think it's mistaken to assume that because your words sound like theirs, you can get a handle on their reality (what was once mine).
Also, the guy PRESENTED his thing in 2000 A.M.O. ("Ante Moving On," the era immediately preceding the current era, "P.M.N." or Post Moving On).
