Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
Every mainstream society identifies certain ideas as heresies. I publish the present ones I find interesting.
Adopting the beliefs of the anti-cult movement dramatically changes the views and attitudes of those who experience a loss of faith. Those changes have a profound effect on how Exes make sense of their own past. So we must ask: How helpful is the ideology of the anti cult movement in making sense of your life?
Google these names: Kyle Brennan, Ken Ogger, Flo Barnett. Ask yourself why, to this day, Leah Remini has never mentioned them.
Aaron Smith-Levin’s problems with Tony Ortega ‘run long, and they run deep’. He lays out exactly why the tribalist Tony Ortega can not be trusted.
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.
When a person gets out of a minority religion and is thrust back into mainstream society, he can be bombarded with personal defamation and the destruction of everything he’s built in his life.
Human mainstream cultures protect themselves against minorities they feel threatened by.
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.
Why do you think anti-cultists reject science so much? And when they call a social scientist a “shill” or a “quack”, where is their quantitative data that disputes their work? Nowhere.
Everyone should know the story of Gerry Armstrong. Because if it was not for Gerry Armstrong, LRH, Marty, Mike and Dave might have gotten away with the whole thing.
Max Scheler said that an apostate was ‘engaged in a continuous chain of acts of revenge against his own spiritual past’. Can you be an anti-apostate Apostate?
Celebrity anti-Scientology is a hell of a drug. Presenting all your trauma, over and over to a sympathetic audience on TV can create and maintain your whole self-identity for you. And it can get you all the status & fame you desire. But is it good for you?
Read over this very quick selection of tweets by Anti-Scientologists on the subject, and see all the support they are giving to a murderer.
Scientology is a religious choice. And the people who get themselves involved and stay involved for years, do so knowingly and willingly.
The following is a compilation of scientific studies which have thoroughly debunked the idea of brainwashing.
If you can’t believe in Atheistic Materialism, what can you believe in? Not much, if the withering skeptic Rupert Sheldrake has a crack at it. My God, if we can’t believe in Atheistic Materialism – IS THERE NOTHING SACRED??
No one really thinks that Tony Ortega is unbiased and objective and tells all sides of the truth in his reporting on Scientology, do they?
Mainstream society can’t claim to have all the answers for everybody. If we claim to be a free society, why do we de-legitimize & dehumanize those who join our subcultures?
If you understand what a belief is, you know that human existence is 99.9999% belief, and NOT knowledge. People who realize this are closer to reality than those who don’t realize it. People, like atheists, who think they are looking at knowledge when they are only looking at beliefs, are simply delusional.
