Sociopaths and narcissists use it to abuse, manipulate, and control people.
The term was the name a British stage play "Gaslight" and US movie where a man tries
to convince his wife she's crazy by confusing her and controlling her environment.
Gaslighting starts with little white lies that slowly, over time, get bigger.
And those lies begin to reshape and control the way a person thinks and feels about themselves,
and about the real world around them.
It's used to break down and destroy objective reality, real, factual information.
As lies are repeated over and over with boldness and authority, people begin to doubt the external
objective world, and accept lies from the abuser as their new reality.
Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for the Germans in WW2 is often quoted as saying
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe
it…”
In other words, abusers use this gaslighting technique, telling lies over and over, to
get their victims to stop thinking for themselves, and eventually stop challenging the false
reality that is being forced upon them.
Victims gradually believe whatever message, narrative, or reality the abuser places inside
their mind.
As Joseph Stalin – Leader of Communist Soviet Union said “Ideas are more powerful than
guns.
We don’t let our people have guns.
Why should we let them have ideas?”
Abusers want their victims to be afraid of proving things and challenging ideas.
They want to control them.
If you can get a person to stop thinking critically and challenging ideas, you can control them
for your own selfish purposes.
You're probably thinking this has never happened to you.
If you think that way, you've likely been gaslit.
Let’s examine two domains of human endeavour.
1.
Religion, for example Christianity.
Has the religious world every gaslit anyone?
Let’s consider Easter.
Christians commonly believe Christ died on Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday
morning.
Yet the Book upon which they base their faith says Christ was dead 3 days and 3 nights.
Not 2 days and 2 nights.
They named the festival Easter after the Babylonian goddess Ishatar.
Yet the source book of Christianity calls this time of year Passover.
Is it possible Christians have been gaslit?
The source Book, their objective reality, directly contradicts what their tradition
tells them the book says.
Victims by the millions are gaslit into not thinking for themselves so that they won’t
challenge a false reality that is being presented to them.
Of course, people are reticent to reject the false teachings because they’ve been emotionally
manipulated: objecting may result in being labelled a heretic and suffering eternal hellfire.
Number 2: Science.
Has the scientific world ever gaslit anyone?
Science purports everything appeared out of nothing.
A Big Bang, which randomly created matter and all entities of the universe and then,
somehow, life and consciousness, accidentally appeared from non-living matter.
Science never explains how everything that made up the big bang originated in the first
place.
We have no observable evidence upon which a certain explanation can be provided.
Recent discoveries in DNA and the intricate mechanisms inside the cell demonstrate that
random chance cannot have provided for the simultaneous development of the complex structures
necessary for life and underscore the truth that Darwin's theory of evolution is scientifically
impossible.
Dr. Stephen Meyer (geophysicist, Ph D, Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) and noted author stated:
“We know that much of this higher level information that’s required for building
new tissues and organs and body plans isn’t found in DNA.
That means you can mutate DNA indefinitely…and you’re never going to get the kind of form
and structure you need to build a new organism…that has a really devastating implication for the
neo-Darwinian mechanism."
Society has been gaslit, people have accepted the false reality that evolution has something
to do with science.
If we adhere to the strict rules and laws of the sciences, physics, biology, and mathematics.
We can't avoid recognizing the contradictions between what is known law and the theoretical
models needed to explain accidental life.
Victims by the millions are gaslit by schools, accepting without analysing the false reality
being presented.
Those who object face rejection from peers and perhaps as adults, loss of employment.
Thus the big lie goes unquestioned.
Gaslighters do two things routinely.
Number 1: They lie continuously and deny objective reality, fact and information.
Number 2: They crush any opposing view of their reality.
We see this form of lying, emotional manipulation, gaslighting, all around us in the world today.
Don't take my word for it.
Prove things for yourself.
On this program, Viewpoint, we are trying to encourage people to search for facts, analyse
what they hear and see, and seek what is reality.
It is so important to recognize and analyse what we see and hear to help reveal what is
true.
There are many examples of gaslighting taking place in the world.
From areas ranging from the environment to financial policy, religion, science, and even
how other nations are viewed.
Your thoughtful assessment of what you are told can help you identify the gaslighters
for what they are.
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