Tag: Cognitive Distortions on Scientology
Critical Thinking on Scientology & Anti-Scientology
I used to think that as long as I was not in the cult of Scientology any more, I would never fall into the unquestioning, partisan mindset that I had adopted when I was a Scientologist.
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How the Anti Cult Movement Harms Ex-Members
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?
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Why Leah Remini Will Never Get Her Federal Investigation
Social scientists who study minority religions have observed that the main activity of the...
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Alanzo’s Top 5 Criticisms of Tony Ortega & His Underground Bunker
Tony Ortega is one of the most valuable critics of Scientology ever. But is he so biased that, over time, you can start to live in a delusional world about Scientology? I think so.
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Pushing “All or Nothing” Thinking on Exes By Never-ins
Angry Gay Pope tells an Ex-Scientologist what to think about their time in Scientology. This time with a major cognitive distortion.
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Can Chris Shelton The Critical Thinker At Large Distinguish Between a ‘Cult Recovery Paradigm’ and Therapy?
Is Chris Shelton The Critical Thinker at Large the Stuart Smalley of Celebrity Anti-Scientology?
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Is Chris Shelton Waking Up From His Anti-Scientology Fever Dream?
There’s a point in your evolution as an Ex which is exactly like when you woke up from all the untrue things in Scientology: As an Ex, it’s that point when you wake up from all the untrue things in Anti-Scientology, as well.
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Embrace Your Inner Scientologist
To dismiss that part of your life, to wall it off under labels of “delusional Scientologist” or “weak” or “crazy loon” is to remain in a dissociative state – to continue living a fractured life with some of the best parts of you buried underneath a wall of self-hatred and shame.
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Post Ex-Scientology
A Post-Ex has integrated the arguments, and “truths”, he made as a Scientologist with the arguments, and “truths”, he made as an Ex/Anti-Scientologist. He has seen the disconnects and the contradictions there, and repaired them. He no longer walks around with an opposite self inside him, with which he is at war.
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Scientology & Hindsight Bias: An Ex-Scientologist’s Deadliest Disease
The human mind has certain biases which routinely, and falsely, color the perceptions of people called cognitive biases. One of the most important for a former cult member to know about is called the “hindsight bias”, or the “I knew it all along” effect.
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You Still Have Control
An interesting article written about victims of abuse from Slate.com on February 8th 2014 by...
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Healing From Scientology Abuse is Not a Social Media Activity
If you were not abused in Scientology, and you say so in the various social media platforms on the...
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Fabulous!
Regarding "Cult Brainwashing" accusations used to stereotype & dehumanize members of minority religions, I spot 10 out of 12 characteristics of BAD SCIENCE.
Can you spot the bad science in claims of "Cult Brainwashing"?
#Cults
#AntiCults
#ScientologyFairGame https://t.co/AionwanAc5
A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science
H/t @TheSGEM @CaulfieldTim
#ScienceUpFirst https://t.co/oslRFKrLxe
I love @RepRaskin and consider him a hero, but until any normal person has read this bill, no one knows what's in it, no matter the PR name they place on it.
We need widely available, public, NO-PARTISAN READINGS of US legislation impacting all our lives and all of our futures. https://t.co/CefGVR2rWu
Note: 400,000 Americans died in World War II. https://t.co/Oc4wHZSKbD
Tonight, I joined my colleagues for a moment of silence to mourn, remember & honor the 500,000 American lives lost to this pandemic. https://t.co/o6CQlXcMPd
Anticult tribalist goes after anyone connected to accused rapist Danny Masterson, getting you to assume he's guilty before his trial begins & hoping you'll hate his family, too.
He uses your most base and degraded instincts to influence you in the worst possible way.
Such a POS https://t.co/mcjoAGac66
"Barker argued that, far from experiencing brainwashing, the large majority of people who attended recruitment seminars opted not to join the Unification Church."
#cults
#anticults
#pseudoscience
#superstition
#persecutionofminorities https://t.co/FnvafjzzMX
It's been clear for a while now that @TroMcManus is celebrity Anti #Scientology's No1 Fangirl. She's been unable to remain objective in the matters she reports on for the @TB_Times. She's more of a tribalist, than a journalist, now.
This exchange proves it. It's a bad situation. https://t.co/yfkg792OZw
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