Tag: Social Science on Cults & Anti-Cults
A Critical Discussion with a Cult Counselor
Anti-Cultists Steve K. D. Eichel and Stephen Hassan had a conversation with me about cults and brainwashing on my Facebook Page. Here’s how it went.
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How Hubbard Lied: ReDefining “Individuation” Like It’s A Bad Thing
What if being a Scientologist was never a really a disease in the first place that you needed to “recover from”? What if it was just one part of your own much longer spiritual journey that taught you many important lessons, and from which you emerged stronger and wiser than ever?
How would you know?
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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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Cult Expert, London School of Economics Social Science Professor Eileen Barker Submits Herself to the Gearty Grilling
Why do anti-cultists reject science so much? When they call a social scientist a “shill” or a “quack”, where is their quantitative data that disputes the work of that social scientist? I have never once seen them offer any scientific data to dispute the results of any of the scientists they wish to discredit with this juvenile name calling character assassinations.
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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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Adjusting to Mainstream Society After Scientology is Not “Recovery”
The cult recovery paradigm of Ex-Scientology sets up a whole bunch of things you think you need to...
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Steven Hassan Makes Bizarre Claim for Why Moonie Brainwashing Didn’t Work Whenever Scientists Were in the Room
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.
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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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Two AntiCult Movement Evangelists Defend Their 40 Year Careers Trying to Scare People About ‘Cults’
Jon Atack and Steven Hassan have been the Jimmy Swaggart and Billy Graham of the Anti-Cult...
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Mike Rinder on Why Scientology is a Religion
At one of the most prestigious universities in the English language for debate – The University Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin – Former head of the Office of Special Affairs for the Church of Scientology Mike Rinder lays out why Scientology is a religion. This speech was given 4 years after Rinder left the official Church of Scientology.
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Brainwashing and the Cults: The Rise and Fall of a Theory
In the United States at the end of the 1970s, brainwashing emerged as a popular theoretical...
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Chris Shelton Read One Book By Social Scientists And Now He Knows All About It
This is the level of thought that is acceptable by those who believe in the AntiCult Movement’s ideology about minority religions. This is not critical thinking – it’s the sociological equivalent of an AntiVaxer rant.
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Who is Alanzo?
Alanzo is an Ex-Scientologist who sees the same tribalism he escaped in Scientology rising up in Anti-Scientology.
Of all the lessons he learned by escaping Scientology, he learned one lesson harder than any other: Never let your tribe do your thinking for you.
Alanzo tries to use critical thinking on the war between Cults & AntiCults.
Latest Tweets from Alanzo
Is skepticism the opposite of faith?
No.
#Skepticism is the process by which you come to discern what, as a mortal human being, you must have faith in.
And what not.
#TrueSkepticism
#TrueSkepticismRocks
#Cults
#AntiCults
#CriticalThinking
Is @TroMcManus the FanGirl of #CelebrityAntiScientology?
She has that membership to Karen's sekrit Outer Banks Facebook group.
Is that where she's getting all her information on #Scientology?
#ScientologytheAftermath
#ExJW
#ExMormon
#Cults
#AntiCults
#JournalismNotTribalism
Why hasn't Bryan continued to report on the person who murdered a Sydney Scientology staff member in January of 2019?
Because he's from the wrong tribe we report on?
This tribalism has to go on reporting on #Scientology & Bryan Seymour is one of the biggest tribalists around. https://t.co/mr77hPRrwS
Another great video for Ex-Scientologists from @ScientologyR
I was studying #Buddhism before I was a Scientologist & went back to it after I left. Until Molly came along, I've not really realized how helpful that approach to "Recovery" has been for me.
https://t.co/ccC7OUCUi8
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