“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
As I've gotten older I've realized I *really* don't like the guy, but he wasn't wrong about this.
#Cults
Quotes from my favorite #comedy podcast about #cults...
Host 1: You know the two groups we've said need their own episodes are Mormons and Knotsees? I don't want to say that they're the same, but...
Host 2: Knotsees are way more stylish.
I legit choked on my coffee laughing. #ChaoticQueer #GeekCrafts
It's a #Cult
People Are Deep
DEEPER Podcasts
In this episode we spoke to Ali Millar, author and a former #JehovahsWitness. Ali told us about #church's methods, her childhood, her decision to leave and relationship with her family now.
Brace yourselves! ChatGPT cults are already here, and churchers which worship ”superintelligence” as a deity are forming.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zKCynxiV_8I
#ai #cults #spirituality #religion
ANSWER Coalition is a front for PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation)
"Front Groups & Front Coalitions: Creating a front group or coalition is another way vanguards try tapping into movement energy to re-direct to their own ends. The front is dominated by members of the vanguard without clear connection to the vanguard group, to better allow the vanguard to hide their politics and intentions. Its purpose is to find recruits for the vanguard, and to be a vehicle for the vanguard’s activities that appears to be separate from them."
"PSL:
Reports from former members of sexist, bigoted, highly controlling and physically abusive behavior being protected go back over a decade across various chapters. Known for entryist practices to hijack other groups, collaborating with police, and for significant involvement in the anti-war ANSWER coalition, itself originally a WWP front. Also known for leading unsuspecting marchers into police kettles without forewarning or jail support, then using the ensuing arrests to fundraise."
Red Flags: Before You Join That Org…
A Primer on Authoritarian & Vanguard Communist Groups & What You Can Do Instead
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/unsalted-red-flags-before-you-join-that-org
#Protest #Activism #AnswerCoalition #FreedomRoadSocialistOrganization #PSL #PartyForSocialismAndLiberation #MarxismLeninism #Maoism #MarxismLeninismMaoism #FrontGroups #Authoritarianism #Cults #HighControlGroups
The name "Waco" may be familiar to most folks because of the tragic Branch Davidian siege in 1993. But according to @fodors, it's now rebranded itself as a "trad wife-meets-Evangelical-Disneyland-mecca with the help of HGTV’s Chip and Joanna Gaines." Here's a look at the Texas town's history, and why it seems to cultivate cults.
How?? The uninformed, the gullible, the lemming-like, the deliberately stupid, the dangerously religious, the aggressively hateful and the lily white bigoted MAGAts have flourished.
MAGA is a thriving brain-washing, mind controlling and whites-only death cult.
The only thing intelligent Americans should do like the fool faithful cult followers is VOTE as enthusiastically as they do.
@Lazarou holy fuck
Also, have you seen the people in LinkedIn who post these answers to their special chatGPT question?
After 1 or 2 years of interacting with chatgpt, people ask it to tell them about themselves. And chat GPT gives them a flowering beautiful complimentary paragraph of how awesome they are as a human being and how they're going to change the world and whatever the fuck.
This is a commercial product being forced on us all, being shoehorned into Government, everywhere!
This is how cults work, why has OpenAI made their fancy autocorrect start cults? Why has it gone down this avenue?
Monday Miscellany!
This week:
- #Baal of Peor, #census
- #zeal and #knowledge
- #Bible readings
- Book reviews: Gregory Thaumaturgus, #cults
Please read, share, and subscribe!
Three Telltale Signs of “Christianity” Gone South https://buff.ly/qwJlFz6 #Christianity #church #cults #heresy #orthodoxy #theology
Home to a "sorry we missed you" note shoved through the letterbox.
A missed delivery? No, the smegging Jehovah's!
Add this to the teams of Mormons wandering around town stopping people, it tempts me to ask them if they've seen that recent Hugh Grant film (no, I know they won't have, but would amuse me) then give them a very broad smile.
Anyway, I am a devout Seventh Day Cartoonist. Blessings of Saint Mel of Blanc be upon you.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #3763 - Patriotism is Not a Religion. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-3763.html #Patriotism #Cults #Religion #PreachPeace #ChooseLove #Equality
So I’ve been in a bit of an atmospheric horror kick this past week. Curdle Creek just sinks into your psyche and terrifies it. Lots of layers and themes to explore- #motherhood #racism #cults #religion #horror #violence #community #belonging #bookreview #diverseauthor https://hollysreadingescapades.blogspot.com/2025/06/book-review-curdle-creek-by-yvonne.html?m=1
Poking fun at "Perfectionism," as in "Loool those religious nuts are sure not perfect!" is not the easy win you think it is.
I've gotten this type of flippant comment a few times recently when I've been trying to address serious topics to help religiously conditioned folks unpack bigotry (which requires some level of safety).
First off, victims of mind control are abuse victims who have been traumatized. Fine to criticize the harmful ways cult victims act, but our programming runs deep and hurts us too.
Perfectionism is a long-standing school of religious philosophy embedded in American culture, even in secular and corporate American culture.
Outside of very specific situations (engineering, concert piano, competition), "perfection" cannot really be defined, so it is an insidiously high standard that can never be achieved. It is a high-demand religious (and corporate) manipulation tool, and also one used by domestic abusers, to justify punishment and to continually move the goalposts, creating a sense of "perpetual inadequacy" in its targets.
Very not fun.
There are studies on how toxic and damaging perfectionism, as a lifestyle, can be. For those of us recovering from toxic perfectionism, it has caused us serious emotional, mental, and physical health issues, and is incredibly difficult to overcome.
For those of us who were programmed with this pressure as guide to the very way of living life, for which the consequences of failure were rejection for eternity by our families and God, the "lol lol they sure aren't perfect" line is punching down. Honestly, in a triggering way.
Instead, punch up at the bastards who made us believe in this crap. They're the true benefactors, and the true cause of this kind of thinking on such a large and deep scale.
How #Cults Use #Language to #Control
If there's one thing #cultleaders do, it's talk. A LOT. Language is an integral part of how cults keep their members #bonded, #isolated and #obedient.
The AllatRa Creative Society: from global peace promises to a real security threat
The AllatRa spiritual movement has become a globally influential lobby group, promising utopia while pushing far-right ideologies
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