People are vulnerable when they are isolated and feel alone. It is here many begin their journey into false acceptance and the ‘peace’ that belonging to cult brings.
“Technology has recently enabled destructive cults to arise that have no single authority figure. The authority is now “likes” and upvotes. No single person determines what is presented to the cult member as truth, it is the judgement of an anonymous, terminally online and unwell collective. The collective is enabled by social media.”
The following is a paraphrase from Mike Rothschild’s book, “The Storm is Upon Us”, is about the Q-Anon distributed online cult.
“Cultic movements like QAnon substitute good feelings of like-minded strangers and the dopamine hits of hating the things those people hate for the ups and downs of personal relationships. They blast away the possibility of strenuous debate or disagreement with someone you love, preferring to create a world where those who don’t feel the same way are the enemy, meant to be either destroyed or cut off from contact.”
Seems about right. What does he have to report from the collected wisdom of cult experts? Here is advice from that chapter, paraphrased:
* Family and friends are mostly powerless to help until the person is ready to change
* Stay in touch if possible, but on your terms. You don’t have to pretend to share their new beliefs.
* Try to unplug them from the internet (i.e. get them away from the toxic sludge)
* Understand it won’t happen overnight – disengagement is a process
* Do not use outdated terms or concepts (like brainwashing, deprogramming, etc.)
* Do not mock or belittle
* Do not attempt to debate or debunk
* Do not give up if it matters to you
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So we wait for the concussion to heal.
A close friend told us recently: this is just getting started. Your time horizon is going to be years.
Unfortunately, he is probably right.
The last paragraph is written by the parents who have lost their daughter to the transgender ideology cult. It will be a long road back.
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January 9, 2023 at 6:55 am
SM
If a religious cult was advising children to sterilize themselves in order to better serve a god, the left would be apoplectic. When it is their own cult, they are fine with it. The left needs to look inward and re-evaluate.
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January 9, 2023 at 7:30 am
lungta mtn
Echo on SM.
Add the ancient meme “It’s not fascism if we do it.”
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January 9, 2023 at 9:03 pm
Cynthia Wolff
If the parents were the ones who “lost” THEIR child to a cult to begin with, obviously THEY (in my view) share blame in contributing some degree to an emotionally unhealthy home which would’ve been ripe for fostering such a pathological behavior (father=bullying alcoholic or sexually abusive?; mother=passive and/or tormented by religious guilt complex?). It doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
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January 12, 2023 at 9:44 pm
The Arbourist
@ SM
I think the Left has just been waiting to express its misogyny in a lefty approved way. What better way to erase women than supporting the poor downtrodden trans community…
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January 12, 2023 at 9:56 pm
The Arbourist
@ Cynthia Wolff
Of course there are always multiple reasons for people making the choices that they do. However, Queer Theory, is explicitly about blurring boundaries and opposing everything that is the current status quo in society. Queer theory also is about destroying the traditional family composition and thus driving a wedge between parents and their children, and thus we must be aware of the clear and present danger that QT presents to parents and their children.
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