Extreme legalism - long term effects

Some things I've noticed due to personal experience about living through and after effects of extreme legalism in "religiosity" in certain sects is that their lust to control grows:

1) People are persuaded through suggestive notions, speeches, common dialogue, preaching, "nurturing", "pushing ya toward the Lord" to think and adopt behaviors and thoughts that they never assumed possible and during the process may discuss how they are happy no one can convince them otherwise and it was all from the "Spirit". But when one doesn't adopt those thought contaigons they are sometimes and more than often quite frequently seen as "rebellious", "unteachable", "unreachable", "was never meant to 'serve the Lord'", "keep up with the footmen", or "keep their hand to the plow" so let them go by refusal of nurturing through many forms of communicative processes; visual body language being the predominant sorce of "meme" enforcement.

2) A manipulator who feels the need to be domineering through bluffing, emotional blackmail, pushing, shoving, cursing, hitting, date rape drug use, threat of removal of support, threat of removal-destruction- "rip from under you" of personal belongings, pets can become an object of abuse or means to manipulate the controlled individual(s), damage to housing structures or vehicles, threat of ruining reputations through the "good ole boy system", "buddy system", "band of brothers" (no offense to the movie referring to military), invading privacy when there is no need to do so, etc. The manipulator uses control like a drug similar to how a junkie gets their fix ... its a rush to them and addiction. Anger, rage, unforgiveness, impulse control problems, harrassing, etc., is like a rush to them since the body/mind gets caught in that cycle of building up for that natural chemical release... add substances to it and it is like adding gasoline to the fire.
So when outside realms of sociatal, cultural or familial based behaviors are reduced or restricted due to working in isolation (the bush, north slope, other work camps, etc.) it can compound the build up of someone living in denail to wanting outside help from local community resources, medical professionals or online support groups in anon manner. Sometimes behaviors and society blending are restricted or encouraged through scripture manipulation even further when a group of extremists find each other and agree upon what their surroundings should be like. Sometimes those people end up in corruption, destruction of company property, theft, threats of legal action if they don't get their way or attempting to organize their own personal "unions". (not saying all unions are bad, some are necessary)

i.e. someone who "hates how union workers take their time louzing around and still get paid big bucks" who suddenly wants to organize their own union or get a big union involved to force a large company to give in to their demands or "accidents will happen" in an attempt to prove how the company doesn't care for their workers and when an accident does happen and the controllers find out they "can't get blood from a turnip" they get angry and take it out on their family, friends, strangers, spouse or road rage... be cautious of that/or those individuals.

3) Recovery possiblity: (something learened through experience of watching others who worked for major oil companies)The art of awakening and learning self control if someone refuses mental help through counseling... if someone doesn't learn being accountable to self, the laws of the land, rules of the company, following proper safety guidelines as prescribed and described by qualified safety teachers, society, etc. through basic ethics and morals if one doesn't prescribe to Godly morals and ethics... respect of life in itself one can recover so that people can live in peaceable means as a society or coexistant human element or attempt to do so.

4) If all fails... remove the conflict of interest and hazard to the company through forcement of court ordered rehabilitation or serve a sentence! once someone learns they can manipulate people in their home they often feed their lust for controlling others and their surroundings and might end up finding buddies, other co-manipulators who taught them the ropes or whom are willing to participate so that their deeds do not be discovered or anyone willing to lie for them or lie in exchange of or special free gifts that are company "safety awards" used as tokens of being paid off or to appear so "innocent" when it's time to serve a life sentence or face other penalities.

5) When someone finds that their partner, spouse or mate has become a "liablity" to be witness of their acts and conversations on multiple levels they often try to find a way or ways to harrass them or threaten to take their life and everything else from them.




M. Cheri B., former "Slope Widow"... North Slope that is.


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