Critical Thinking on Cults & AntiCults
In this video on my youtube channel, I respond to Aaron Smith Levin’s religious persecution of elderly Scientologists on the streets of Clearwater. I strongly oppose this behavior. And I say why.
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?
Jason Horvatic Has a Request. But is it possible these days to have civil discussions on “cults” and minority religions on the Internet?
Chris Shelton wants us to look at his content to see what kind of person he is. Let’s look at that time when he trashed Steven Mango for Karen de la Carriere.
Why did Rinder Lie to Corey About Scientology’s Intelligence Technology? To Make it Appear No Old Guard Critics Ever Revealed Anything Until They Came Along?
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?
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.
Mark Plummer wrote: “This is the document I posted in SWOT. It is the placard from my desk.”
Don’t Fall For the AntiCult Movement’s Hysterical Religious Persecution. Stay Focused on the Specific Crimes of Specific Criminals.
I’ve been practicing Basic Skepticism on marauding Anti-Scientologists on the Internet. It’s pretty much unstoppable. Here’s how it works.
“Ex” is not “Anti”. Anti is a stance against. Ex is simply a former member, having many different stances about their former religious pursuit.
Frank Parlato, a Real Investigative Journalist, Has Become Interested in Reporting on Scientology. And it Couldn’t Come Soon Enough.
The more power that you assign to subversive techniques such as “mind control” the easier it is for Ex-members to explain their membership and participation in minority religious groups after they’ve re-entered the mainstream.
You’ll often hear people make the argument that something done by one group is not morally equivalent to the same thing done by their enemy.
Chris Shelton, the hysterical and abusive anticultist who runs a youtube channel devoted blind anti cultism, was finally suspended from Twitter yesterday.
One of the most hysterical & unscientific beliefs of AntiCultism is that “brainwashing” & “Mind Control” are at work whenever anyone becomes a member of a “cult”.
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?
The anticult movement is destructive to Ex-Scientologists & to any Ex of any minority religion slurred as a “cult”. It’s just belief. Not facts.
Truth changes. If the experience of having gone through Scientology should teach you something, it’s that. Are your friends more important than the truth?
