Solitaire wrote: OMFG!! now I've heard it all...........

""But they tend to be proud of their independent intellectual accomplishments. <
How the hell they can actually put that down in writing is beyond me!!! ""

I mean, I know we now realise why they don't allow independent thinking, cos then we would see through the crap............but to actually list that as a negative 'apostate' thing is just mind-blowing............they are literally calling their members intellectually challenged!!!!



honey, i totally agree with you! i remember i was doing research one time while i was still in. i researched all the time b/c i had so many questions and so many disagreements and was continually searching for some kind of proof or real support to show why these beliefs were 'true'. anyways, i ran up on that quote and was like, wow. really? really?! its a bad thing to make an independant intellectual accomplishment?! okayyyy... that's one more thing to put on my questionable beliefs list!

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." "she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her." -1984, George Orwell