Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
For my fellow Exes
OSA had probably identified me by this time. Within 3wks my whole life would change: Followed by PIs, fired from my job, family threatened, full disconnection of all my friends & business associates – everything I had built as a Scientologist.
William Drummond, long time Scientologist, now Ex, from Britain, with family members who used to work for Mike Rinder in the Office of Special Affairs, wants to talk about the things Mike Rinder has NOT exposed in the 11 years he’s been out of Scientology with his own blog on the Internet, and in 3 Seasons of Scientology and the Aftermath.
Most Anti-Scientologists will move out of this hysterical phase of their apostasy and will see that it was mostly just a socially constructed nightmare they created for themselves.
Tony Ortega’s stereotype of you is a ghost that disappears as soon as you focus on it. For some Exes who have accepted this stereotype of themselves, it has become a thought-stopping cliche.
Tribal Ninnies adopt a tribal narrative & let it do all their thinking. AntiCultism is filled with Tribal Ninnies, such as the RinderNinnie & the ReminiNinnie.
Ex Sea Org Officer Karen Pressley Justifies Her Banning of a Scientology Critic with Very Strong, and Very Tribal, Sea Org Reasoning
You do not want to live in a society where the government, or even you, has the power to take away someone else’s religion. This is why the line between legal and illegal behavior is WAY more important than the line between moral and immoral behavior.
This is a paper written in 1980 on the AntiCult Movement, as it existed when the authors estimated when it was 10 years old. Can you see any differences in the AntiCult Movement today? _______________________________________ … Read more
Until these acts have been detailed and thoroughly condemned by Mike Rider and Marty Rathbun, and legal amends made to Gerry Armstrong for what they did to him, they can’t claim to be “whistleblowers”.
The recovery paradigm of Ex-Scientology sets up a whole bunch of things you think you need to “recover” from because you were in a cult.
Social scientists like Eileen Barker traveled to Moonie recruitment seminars where brainwashing & mind control was claimed to be in use. They found that more than 90% of the people in those “brainwashing” seminars did not sign up to be a Moonie, and all were gone from the Moonies within 2 years.
Leah tells her powerful story about what happened to her in the Church which led to her leave Scientology – the only religion she knew for 34 years.
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan have been the Jimmy Swaggart and Billy Graham of the Anti-Cult Movement for well neigh 40 years now, and I hear they’re just about ready to get some science to … Read more
Angry Gay Pope tells an Ex-Scientologist what to think about their time in Scientology. This time with a major cognitive distortion.
