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Mind Control Used on Children

According to Steven Hassan's book "Combatting Cult Mind Control", there are four components of mind control.

They are "control of behavior, control of thoughts, control of emotions and control of information"

As a child, I was subjected to all four of the 2x2 mind control methods.

Control of Behavior

  • Forced to remain still and listen to brainwashing

    I was always brought to meetings of workers. We went twice a week. I only got to stay home when deathly sick. I once asked my folks "When will we quit going to meetings?" I was told that we were always going to go to meetings. In meetings you had to force yourself to sit still and listen to people talk on and on about things it was apparent they didn't understand. When I got bored and started doing something else, I would be frowned at by people sitting around me. If I poked my sister trying to liven things up and keep from falling asleep, I would be taken outside and spanked. Many children are forced to sit through boring meetings and spanked when they don't "behave". Whippings were used to make me behave during meetings. If I wasn't good in meetings, I would get a spanking when we got home. This threat is commonly made to kids. It is not wholesome for kids to be in meetings. There is some freaky stuff going on in those meetings.

  • Peer pressure to answer questions in meetings

    During meetings, some workers would ask "kids questions". Basic questions would be asked on certain verses. If they didn't give the correct answer, people would chuckle. The workers asking questions often didn't even understand the questions. For example, if they asked who raised Jesus from the dead, a kid may say "Jesus" because Jesus said he would raise himself from the dead. But the workers would say he was wrong because in Acts it says "God" raised Jesus from the dead. So then the kid is confused, being taught by implication that Jesus is not God, but just a nice guy who obeyed God and suffered so we wouldn't go to hell. This, coupled with how the workers teach that they give up stuff (getting married, having a house etc) teaches children that people can only be helped by suffering.

    Control of thoughts

    I remember coming home once from school and Everett Swanson was in the house with my mom. I told mom about school that I was learning "critical thinking" to analyze what motives people have in telling you certain things. Everett told me that critical thinking was bad and that I should not use critical thinking skills. My mom did not rebuke Everett. So I learned from my mom and Everett Swanson that it was wrong to analyze the workers motives in telling me things but it was OK to be critical about people who taught critical thinking.

    Control of emotions

    During meetings we rarely smiled. We often looked down at the floor and avoided eye contract. Sunday morning meetings were not a celebration of looking forward to when Jesus returned, they seemed to be rather a mourning of dying to ourself.

    Control of information

    I was never brought to other services or taught about other religions. Other religions and beliefs were condemned by the workers. I found out later that the workers weren't even educated on their own religion and many did not know how their religion got started.
    If I asked questions, I was viewed as "doubting". The Bible was not used as a source to find answers to questions. In fact most 2x2s cannot even list the ten commandments and certainly don't believe in keeping them.

    Symptoms of mind control that manifested themselves in me:

    1. Sadness
    2. Confusion
    3. Loss of interest in activities
    4. Decreased creativity
    5. Depression
    6. Loss of hope
    7. Decreased desire to live
    8. Decreased desire to interact socially
    9. Despise "worldly" people
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