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Jim Jones

Approx 80 dead including 22 children

MUSLIM CARTOON UPRISING

David Koresh Branch

Davidians

Jim JonesJonestown

Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban

1. Compliance with Authority

Accomplice of the Experimenter

Experimental SubjectGives the electric shocks

Orders Teacher to shock student for wrong Answers

Accomplice of the

Experimenter

Orders Teacher to shock student for wrong Answers

Experimental Subjectgives the electric shocks

“Obedience to Authority”

65% of Experimental Subjects (Teachers) obeyed Authority (Experimenter) and continued shocking “learner” to full capacity.

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On May 10, 1933 "unGerman“ books were burned by the Nazis.

(Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells etc)

Madrasas Education: The youngest boys sit cross-legged 4 to 8 hours per day memorizing the Koran.Older boys learn the Hadith, Islamic history and jurisprudence. There are no world history, math, or science

courses taught.

75% of Subjects conformed at least once with the group and picked the wrong size

line to stay in the good grace of the group .

Groupthink represents a form of social influence of the majority that results in a dangerous level of agreement by all members of the group, even if the decided action is obviously wrong

A mode of thought whereby individuals intentionally conform to what they perceive to be the consensus of the group.

Janis, I. (1972). Victims of groupthink. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Janis, I. (1982). Groupthink: Psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes.

Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagernessand examined the Scriptures every day

NIV Acts 17:11

“It is their duty to investigate as did the Bereans. The Lord says through the prophet Hosea: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee." {Sketches from the Life of Paul (1883) LP 87.2}

Raphael, 1513-1514.

People become more extreme

after they listen to and speak primarily

with likeminded others

Islamic fundamentalism is the purest example of the radicalizing echo chamber effect

Fuller Memorial Hospital

Lake Region Conferenceof Seventh-day Adventists

Lake Region Conference of the Seventh-day

Adventist

Harris Pine Mills

Shady Grove Adventist Hospital

Boston Regional Medical CenterFamily Enrichment

Resources, Inc.,

“Blue Duck Co.”&

Folkenberg &James E. Moore

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana

Now the Bereans …received the message with

great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. NIV Acts 17:11

“THE GREATEST NEED of the Seventh-day Adventist

Church is for well-informed members to give liberally not only of their tithes and offerings but

of their very best judgment—as church board members, as constituency meeting delegates, as local and union conference committee members and as institutional trustees.”

A degree of diversity of thought is the one ingredient necessary for a healthy state, working democracy and just religion