How Cults Work

[Snow White]

This is one of the best articles on how cults operate that I've had the pleasure to read. It fits Scientology down to the ground. No email address requested either, lol. Enjoy!

"Cults, wonderful on the outside but on the inside are very manipulating. Cult leaders are desperate to trick you into joining. They are after your obedience, your time and your money.

Cults use sophisticated mind control and recruitment techniques that have been refined over time. Beware of thinking that you are immune from cult involvement, the cults have millions of members around the world who once thought they were immune, and still don't know they are in a cult! To spot a cult you need to know how they work and you need to understand the techniques they use. Teaching you these things is what this article is all about.

This article exposes the secret techniques cults will use to try and trick and control you. Cult leaders will not want you to read this, but read it anyway. Once you understand How Cults Work you will be better able to spot and avoid cult recruiters, and protect your family and friends.

First let's eliminate some misconceptions about cults.

Cults are easy to spot, they wear strange clothes and live in communes.
Well some do. But most are everyday people like you and me. They live in houses. They wear the same clothes. They eat the same food. Cult leaders don't want you to know that you are being recruited into a cult and so they order their recruiters to dress, talk and act in a way that will put you at ease. One cult has even invented a phrase to describe this, they call it "being relatable".

Cults are full of the weak, weird and emotionally unstable.
Not true. Many cult members are very intelligent, attractive and skilled. The reality is that all sorts of people are involved in cults. One of the few common denominators is that they were often recruited at a low point in their life — more about that later.

Cults are just a bunch of religious nut cases.
This is a common mistake people make thinking that cults are purely religious groups. The modern definition of a mind control cult refers to all groups that use mind control and the devious recruiting techniques that this article exposes. The belief system of a religion is often warped to become a container for these techniques, but it is the techniques themselves that make it a cult. In a free society people can believe what they want, but most people would agree that it is wrong for any one to try to trick and control people. In the section "Types of Cults" we will examine the various types of cults you may come across.

Christians call all other groups cults.
Basically Christians have said that if a group claims to be Christian and yet teaches something fundamentally different from what the Bible teaches then they are a cult. ie. a Buddhist group that claims to be Buddhist is not a cult, but a Buddhist group that pretends to be Christian is. This definition is not used in this article."

More here:
http://www.cultwatch.com/hcwindex.html

[tom_]

BUMP!!!

This is really a fabulous site.

It takes years of formulation from various cult experts and condenses into one neat, easy-to-read venue.
I love the misconceptions spelled out. I especially like the prominate notation that cults are not just ~religious~ in nature -- there are commercial, selp-help therapy, ethnic, and socio-political cults in addition
to religious cults.

I like this site so much, I'm gunna add it to my sig for a while.

Thanks for sharing this Snow White.

Tom
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[hartley]

There's a lot of good stuff on cultwatch.com, the only thing I can fault it on is an article that seems to indicate that witchcraft and satanism in their modern forms are the same. Also, they haven't got around to Scientology yet
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This video shows how to become a cult leader. This is so awesome!

If you have not seen it, please take 10 minutes out of your busy day to watch it. If you are not %100 satisfied, I offer a full 10 minute back guarantee. Don't ask me how I can do this, just watch the video already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnNSe5XYp6E&eurl=


BTW - Hey Tom, nice new Avatar
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[Kilia]

I've tried to watch that video..but the dumb music turns me off!
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[Snow White]

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this was webbed linked from the Exit pages here
http://www.lermanet.com/exit/cults.htm

Thanks, this is a terrific page,
it is webbed and linked where
recovering scientologists might find it
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