Showing posts with label Cults. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cults. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2024

Christianity Wants You To Accept Claims Without Questioning

1 Corinthians 13:11 "When I was a child, I thought like a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things"

However,

John 20:29 "Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed'.”

Matthew 18:4 "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

James 1:6 says, "But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind."

Therefore, 

How is Christianity different than any other religion, cult, or closed-minded group?

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Bullibility And Wellness

"First off, you're asking what this word bullibility means. It is a portmanteau of two words, the first of which begins with bull and is often abbreviated BS, and gullibility. Coined by Petrocelli et. al. in a 2024 publication, bullibility refers to a person's predisposition to gullibly believe in any random BS that comes along. The TikTok generation, for example, has high bullibility. Today we're going to explore the role bullibility plays in converting so many people into members of what has become essentially a cult: wellness culture.

"The #1 absolutely critical thing to be clear about in this episode is the unambiguous distinction between healthcare and wellness. They are two unrelated industries, though both often borrow language from the other for marketing purposes — and it's important to be aware of that. Healthcare is the business of treating illness, but the wellness industry treats nothing. Its customers are already healthy — health being defined as the absence of disease — and instead it sells the promise of becoming healthier than healthy. There is always one more wellness fad you can buy into: the whole industry leverages the practices and precepts of New Age, eastern mysticism, and western esotericism to market and sell the commercial products of the organic food industry, alternative medicine, superfoods, and services like sound healing, yoga instruction, guided mindfulness, and countless others. It's so broad there is a product or service for anyone — a gateway to bring any new recruit into the cult. Whether you innocently buy a superfood fruit juice at the market or sign up for a Kambo workshop in Silicon Valley, congratulations, you've just taken your first step into the cult of wellness."

Click on the link below for more:


Friday, June 21, 2024

Cult History And Thinking: How To Penetrate It

"In an age of cultish in-group/out-group politics and media, we seek to find messaging for progressive partisans to achieve electoral success."

Click on the link below for how cults are formed historically, and presently, and how the USA can marginalize them to save freedom and our democracy:

Messaging left-wing politics amid cultish politics



Saturday, May 18, 2024

Definitions All Voters Need To Know

ANTI-SCIENCE: a set or system of attitudes and beliefs that are opposed to or reject science and scientific methods and principles (link)

AUTOCRACY: government in which one person possesses unlimited power (link)

CORRUPT: to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions (link)

CULT: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (link)

EVIL: morally bad, cruel, or very unpleasant (link)

FASCISM: a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government (link)

GASLIGHTING: manipulating someone into believing things that are not true (link)

LYING: deliberately untruthful; deceitful; false (link)

GULLIBLE: easily deceived or cheated (link)

RACIST: someone who believes that their race makes them better, more intelligent, more moral, etc. than people of other races and who does or says unfair or harmful things as a result (link)

SYCOPHANT: a person who tries to win favor from wealthy or influential people by flattering them; also known as brown-nosers, teacher's pets, or suck-ups (link)

THEOCRACY: government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided (link)
- - - - - - - - - -

IF YOU VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICANS IN THE US 2024 ELECTION, THE ABOVE IS WHAT YOU ARE AND/OR WHAT YOU WILL BE GETTING.

Sunday, February 25, 2024

A Look At MAGA Brainwashing

"Dr. Steven Hassan is a licensed mental health professional and recognized expert on cults. His book, The Cult of Trump, examines how Trump has built a base with fanatical devotion. Dr. Hassan correctly predicted that there would be violence after the 2020 election if Trump did not win."

Click on the link below for an in-depth look at the frailty of the human brain and how cult leaders easily take advantage of it:

Top CULT EXPERT Diagnoses Trump & MAGA Brainwashing

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Cults: A Hard Nut To Crack

"A few years ago, I did a video about cults and predicted that we live in conditions that make cults thrive. Today, a few years later, that seems to be the case, with cult activity skyrocketing not just in the US but worldwide. Today we look at what’s causing this problem, and what you can do if a friend or loved one goes a little too far down the rabbit hole."

Click on the links below for some advice against this major problem that notoriously is difficult to attack:



Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Health Among The Amish

"Health among the Amish is characterized by higher incidences of particular genetic disorders, especially among the Old Order Amish. These disorders include dwarfism,[1] Angelman syndrome,[2] and various metabolic disorders, such as Tay-Sachs disease,[3] as well as an unusual distribution of blood types.[4]" (Wikipedia)

Any cult/closed community may have a high risk of genetic disorders but also may have some positive social traits.  Click on this link for more.

Saturday, June 26, 2021

A Look At Cults

"On the fourth episode of Now & Then, 'QAnon, Cults, and Cutlery,' Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman discuss the recent FBI assessment of QAnon as a violent domestic terrorism threat. They also reflect on the historical relationship between cults and the government, from the Salem Witch Trials to the utopian Oneida Community, to the tragic saga of Jonestown."

Click on the link below for the podcast:


Monday, March 23, 2020

Cult Vs Religion

"Cult vs religion - what's the difference? Today we’re going to play a game called cult vs religion in which I’ll describe an organization, and you guess if it’s a cult or religion. Can you tell the difference?"

Have you ever wondered what is the difference between a cult and a religion? The link below is a video that does a pretty good job differentiating them as well as pointing out the similarities.

Cult Vs Religion: What's The Difference?

Saturday, September 3, 2016

This Explains Religion

Yes, I know.  Most religious people are good and honest.  However, why are so many people attracted to leaders who have absolutely no legitimate authority?  There is something inside of most of us that allows us to be manipulated for good or bad by people.  This documentary film by CNN nails the psychology behind all religions, not just the cult depicted here.  Be skeptical, my friends.

Holy Hell

Labels

Choose how you look at reality wisely. Yes, it is a binary choice.

Choose how you look at reality wisely. Yes, it is a binary choice.
Click on image

SCIENCE JUSTIFIES ITSELF

SCIENCE JUSTIFIES ITSELF
Click on image