Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
For my fellow Exes
I’m actually crying right now. It’s hard for me to type. To finally see the chains breaking on the information control that descended upon Anti-Scientology 14 years ago, brought in by all the “former” Int Base Execs. To finally see today’s Ex-Scientologists & content creators & critics stop, gather up their social courage, flash back … Read more
This post was first written by me in early 2012. Marty Rathbun had gotten on to the Internet in 2009, and I had participated on his blog, watched him obfuscate and lie, and ferociously criticized him as an Int Base criminal since the first days of his blog. My history has been redefined by Karen … Read more
If you are a victim who comes forward and resolution through the court provides a conviction, it will not undo what happened to you. You will still have to heal…
Ex-Christian Kristie Burke has an incredibly valuable YouTube Channel for anyone who has experienced a catastrophic loss of faith in the way they have made sense of the world. For me, it’s been pure gold.
Activists, almost by definition, run on emotion. Emotional people are easily manipulated. I’ve watched anti-Scientology Activism marched straight into brick walls for 25 years. Let’s end that, shall we?
Andreas Heldal-Lund, creator of XENU.net and the Operation Clambake Message Board has passed. What will be the fate of those historic Internet properties? Will Jeffrey and Karen destroy them?
Serge Del Mar has got me in a lather. After all these years being beaten down as an “OSA Agent” by all of these peoples’ flying cradlers & monkey canoodlers, Serge has rekindled my purpose.
Jason Horvatic Has a Request. But is it possible these days to have civil discussions on “cults” and minority religions on the Internet?
It’s 2024. Serge Del Mar Exposes Kids That Go Missing in Scientology and That No Present or Former Scientology Executive is Safe From Prosecution.
Dianne Etex speaks about her own experience when, as an Ex-Scientologist, she exposes criminally indictable acts that Mike Rinder has covered up for Scientology
Ex-Scientologists sometimes get stuck in simplistic explanations for Scientology because it’s too much work to understand it. They just want it to be a cult & Hubbard to be a con man.
Would Scientology’s Office of Special Affairs use your own fear of the Office of Special Affairs to control you? You bet your ass they would – and do every day.
India Oxenberg is a former member of NXIVM and the daughter of Catherine Oxenberg. India was the star and producer of the 4 part documentary called “SEDUCED”. In this interview, on her podcast called “Still Learning”, she discusses her deprogramming from NXIVM by her deprogrammer. They discuss the deprogramming techniques that Diane Benscoter used on … Read more
1st in a series on the Ex-Scientologist Message Board, one of the most effective hotbeds of Scientology criticism in its day, and thoroughly obliterated by Mike Rinder et al AFTER they ‘left’ Scientology.
Doug Scott Kramer and his YouTube Channel, Dazed But Not Confuzed, was/is very popular with thousands of people who follow the goings-on of Scientology, Anti-Scientology, Cults and AntiCults. When Doug didn’t show up for a scheduled Live of his weekly “Ask Me Anything” show on 4 December 2023, people began to worry. And that worry … Read more
You would never know it, but since getting out of Scientology 24 years ago, I’ve practiced Buddhist meditation. I was just beginning to study it while I was in college and came across Scientology. They told me Scientology was American Buddhism, updated, with science and meters. Proving how little I knew about Buddhism at the … Read more
What if you were the triage nurse in the emergency department overflowing with all the various victims seeking justice for the crimes and abuses of Scientology? Who would you prioritize? And why?
Elizabeth Gale and Cassie Marie discuss the problems of the Aftermath Foundation which have been simmering for a long time, and which we have recently seen explode. These two break it down.
After 16 years in a cult, 15 years in an Anticult, and 9 years out of both, I know what it means to recover from a cult.
I’ve been practicing Basic Skepticism on marauding Anti-Scientologists on the Internet. It’s pretty much unstoppable. Here’s how it works.