CULT CHECK LIST
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CULT CHECKLIST
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1) The group is focused on a living leader to whom members display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
2) The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members and/or making money.
3) Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged.
4) Mind-numbing techniques (for example: meditation, chanting, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used to suppress members’ doubts.
5) The group’s leadership dictates how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, or get married;) leaders may determine types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth.
6) The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, it’s leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity). MESSIAH COMPLEX
7) The group has a polarized we-they mentality that causes conflict with the wider society.
8) The group’s leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
9) The group teaches or implies that its “superior” ends justify means that members would have
considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
10) The group’s leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control then
11) Members’subservience to the group causes them to give up previous personal goals and interests while devoting inordinate amounts of time to the groups.”
12) Members are encouraged or required to live and/or form closed groups socialize only with other group members.
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🙂 Richard
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Okay good. Now, when someone starts up the cult BS, we can reference this post, as clearly YRFT doesn’t meet the cult criteria!
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I said it many times and wrote a few posts about it…it’s not the cult leader that is at fault…he/she usually attract people that can’t find solutions within themselves so they project outwards and find someone that soothes their pain and gives them a sense of false hope.
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Hmm, a list is just a list, it does not make a cult. Try simple definition from dictionaries.
Blue Oyster Cult – Take me Away
4:31 minutes
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