EXCEPT their own!

Love, love, love this! Lived in Kalamazoo for 20 years!!!

Hi, I’ve been reading the blog for a few months. Never in, but was briefly involved with a LGAT group in the 90s that I just confirmed is a cult…
Aaaanyway, I’m finally posting to ask if either of you have read Steve Hassan’s book “Combating Mind Control”? I read it after seeing him on The Aftermath, found it a great read. I felt like I gained a lot more insight into how/why people get stuck in cults. The question has long bothered me, esp since Heaven’s Gate- I had thought cults per se were gone since the 70s. How wrong I was! Those 70s ones are even still around! So I totally agree that it’s very frustrating to see these people so adamant and superior in their cult beliefs- you just wanna shake em and make them see the real world!
Anyway, given the convo, I thought Id recommend that book. I’m on my 3rd reading 🙂

Been enjoying all the diff insights and personalities of the commenters. Never thought I’d learn so much that way in addition to Mike’s posts.
Cheers-

I hear you, Sky. Maybe its because some people will believe ANYTHING simply because they really, really want to believe and this desire to believe overrides every reason not to.
But then, in my view, then in my view another form of mental illness. Not one that makes a person eligible for a mental asylum necessarily but people like this aren’t shooting from all guns, lets just say. And obviously I’m no mental health professional either 🙂

Actually, I may not understand how so many bright people can fall for this stupid shit. But I definitely respect its awesome power. It is definitely worth being very careful when it comes to Mind Control. I’d like to see some new laws that treat it as a criminal offense. Maybe the law should be something along the lines that any crimes that someone commits under the control of Mind Control ….

Both the cult leader and the person who commits the crime “under orders” – as it were – should both bear the responsibility and the cult leader needs to do some jail time – maybe even more than their victim.

I’ve often thought one possible way the floodgates may be flung open is by some ambitions US politicians who want to become a Congressperson or a Senator or even a President. Why won’t some contender for the position of POTUS make a campaign promise that if eiected they will abolish cults that engage in mind control to effectively steal money and destroy families.

I would have thought there would be many candidate who would jump on that bandwagon and promise to eradicate these cults if they are elected?

Can anyone explain why that doesn’t happen? Don’t they want to be elected?

Aqua, I’m certainly no expert on “Mind Control” or Brainwashing. But the more I read about it, the more frightening it seems to become.

So many otherwise clever and well-schooled people seem to fall for the most bizarre kinds of concepts and they believe crazy things that would never otherwise seem believable. It just doesn’t seem to make any sense to me.

I just cannot understand how so many bright people can fall for this stupid shit.

Heh. Heh. Heh.

I never really wanted to find any fault with the cereal. I just had some difficulty in trying to construct the story so that it made some sense. I tried to create an “old saying” using the word “shreddie”. But everyone born in American would probably know there is no such thing. I was just trying to give Mike a laff. I get the feeling he has been taking things fairly seriously lately.

If you like, when this evil scam is finally eradicated, and we dedicate a national holiday – maybe called “Eradication Day”? Maybe we can make Shredded Wheat the official cereal for that day?