group meetings can sometimes be a
productive process but there are some
groups out there with some sinister
ulterior motives everything was in the
name of God which just justified
everything he thought it was like God’s
will for them to send video tapes of
themselves dancing welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down the five most
fascinating surprising and frightening
facts about the world of cults which can
loosely be described as a political or
religious organization whose beliefs or
practices are largely considered by the
populace to be strange deviant or
dangerous he was clearly an antisocial
personality he was superficial
he was glib and he was very adaptable
and when I got out all your children
would come to me because they never had
anybody telling the truth number five
cults often have one charismatic leader
you see the son of God I hope you a
confident person with a radical
political or religious idea can appear
to be quite attractive and even
revolutionary to someone who’s searching
for a place to belong and cult founders
know this I’ve been involved in a number
of coach both as a leader and a follower
get more fun into follow her but make
more money as a leader this is why many
of them actively seek out to recruit the
lonely angry and disenfranchised people
are extraordinarily vulnerable to being
recruited by one of these people or one
of these organizations during all times
of their life where they’re in crisis
add in a propensity for deceit
manipulation plus a thirst for power and
it becomes easy to imagine how a group
of individuals who feel outcast from
society could then find themselves
enthralled by a powerful and
opportunistic leader when I stand on the
mountain and I say do it it gets done if
it don’t get done then I’ll move on it
and that’s a last thing in the world you
want me to do
number four cult leaders often use sex
to control devotees
if the members of a cult believe that
their leader is absolutely infallible it
goes without saying that an unscrupulous
cult leader could then parlay that
belief into just about anything they
desire sex was the thing that drove
people they didn’t do any drugs no
alcohol so sex was kind of
the the way to freedom case is in point
the news reports that Branch Davidian
leader David Koresh held multiple wives
when overseeing his Waco compound during
the early 90s or the reports that
Charles Manson’s hippie followers were
ordered into drug fueled orgies with
each other that night um we slept
together and I felt really loved by him
almost immediately in Koresh’s case
however the impregnation of cult members
by the cult leader made it even more
difficult for scared mothers to escape
for fear of harm coming to their
children number three cults don’t let
their members leave which just
reinforced the indoctrination that Satan
was in the world that Satan works
through the ones you love the most
cults will do everything in their power
to retain all their members after all if
any of them left and spoke out against
the cult in the media this could make it
more difficult for the leaders to
maintain their power you have like
deeply ingrained and you like to not
trust anyone else
for this reason cults often collect all
the damaging personal information they
can about their members to use as
blackmail should the need arise
some cults may resort to physical
violence harassment or smear campaigns
in order to achieve vengeance or
otherwise stop remember attempting to
leave window and I can leave anytime I
want but I choose not to a to stay here
it can take prospective escapees months
of careful secretive planning to
facilitate the first steps of severing
ties from a cult it wasn’t just like one
day we’re in and one day we were out you
know it took some time for us to like
slowly break away number two cultists
are often brainwashed what in the moment
I I thought I was doing the right thing
I thought I really thought you I did I
did I honestly that it takes more than
just an idea and a smile for a potent
cult leader to transition from outcasts
to supreme ruler sadly many former cult
members have reported rampant instances
of brainwashing and indoctrination
tactics so much so that the victims of
these tactics often have little to no
memory about their lives prior to
joining the cult an example of these
tactics include isolation restraint and
bombarding them with visual or audio
stimuli according to the cults wish
they’re also less physical though
equally effective methods of
brainwashing which could include
misleading media verbal debasement or
aggressive rhetoric you know lecture how
God had made the Exorcist movie this
movie was a prophecy what would happen
to you who loved the unification Church
number one cultists can be deprogrammed
and the good news is it’s reversible
it’s a man-made mental illness
thankfully there is a light at the end
of the tunnel there have been countless
reports of former cult members who’ve
managed to escape the pervasive
influence of their group and have gone
on to lead healthy and successful lives
that’s what I was taught to believe in
and I believed it when I was there and
then I got to an age where I started
questioning some things and then I just
got to a point where I ended up leaving
the practice of forcing someone to
abandon a certain set of beliefs also
known as deprogramming can be a slippery
slope however usually because it tends
to involve the physical removal which is
to say kidnapping of the intended target
an example of some of these techniques
was the backing control center which
deprogrammed fans of punk rock and heavy
metal during the 1980s and allegedly
reprogrammed them with fundamentalist
Christian beliefs nowadays deprogramming
has largely been replaced by a kinder
more passive strategy of exit counseling
but an hour ago of how how to detect you
know legitimate healthy individuals and
groups and unhealthy ones so what do you
think are you fascinated by the world of
cults yes I’m glad your parents didn’t
send you to be deprogrammed of your
musical tastes
for more obsessive top 10s and
eye-opening top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com when a
promise has been made here there is no
turning back
productive process but there are some
groups out there with some sinister
ulterior motives everything was in the
name of God which just justified
everything he thought it was like God’s
will for them to send video tapes of
themselves dancing welcome to
watchmojo.com ting down the five most
fascinating surprising and frightening
facts about the world of cults which can
loosely be described as a political or
religious organization whose beliefs or
practices are largely considered by the
populace to be strange deviant or
dangerous he was clearly an antisocial
personality he was superficial
he was glib and he was very adaptable
and when I got out all your children
would come to me because they never had
anybody telling the truth number five
cults often have one charismatic leader
you see the son of God I hope you a
confident person with a radical
political or religious idea can appear
to be quite attractive and even
revolutionary to someone who’s searching
for a place to belong and cult founders
know this I’ve been involved in a number
of coach both as a leader and a follower
get more fun into follow her but make
more money as a leader this is why many
of them actively seek out to recruit the
lonely angry and disenfranchised people
are extraordinarily vulnerable to being
recruited by one of these people or one
of these organizations during all times
of their life where they’re in crisis
add in a propensity for deceit
manipulation plus a thirst for power and
it becomes easy to imagine how a group
of individuals who feel outcast from
society could then find themselves
enthralled by a powerful and
opportunistic leader when I stand on the
mountain and I say do it it gets done if
it don’t get done then I’ll move on it
and that’s a last thing in the world you
want me to do
number four cult leaders often use sex
to control devotees
if the members of a cult believe that
their leader is absolutely infallible it
goes without saying that an unscrupulous
cult leader could then parlay that
belief into just about anything they
desire sex was the thing that drove
people they didn’t do any drugs no
alcohol so sex was kind of
the the way to freedom case is in point
the news reports that Branch Davidian
leader David Koresh held multiple wives
when overseeing his Waco compound during
the early 90s or the reports that
Charles Manson’s hippie followers were
ordered into drug fueled orgies with
each other that night um we slept
together and I felt really loved by him
almost immediately in Koresh’s case
however the impregnation of cult members
by the cult leader made it even more
difficult for scared mothers to escape
for fear of harm coming to their
children number three cults don’t let
their members leave which just
reinforced the indoctrination that Satan
was in the world that Satan works
through the ones you love the most
cults will do everything in their power
to retain all their members after all if
any of them left and spoke out against
the cult in the media this could make it
more difficult for the leaders to
maintain their power you have like
deeply ingrained and you like to not
trust anyone else
for this reason cults often collect all
the damaging personal information they
can about their members to use as
blackmail should the need arise
some cults may resort to physical
violence harassment or smear campaigns
in order to achieve vengeance or
otherwise stop remember attempting to
leave window and I can leave anytime I
want but I choose not to a to stay here
it can take prospective escapees months
of careful secretive planning to
facilitate the first steps of severing
ties from a cult it wasn’t just like one
day we’re in and one day we were out you
know it took some time for us to like
slowly break away number two cultists
are often brainwashed what in the moment
I I thought I was doing the right thing
I thought I really thought you I did I
did I honestly that it takes more than
just an idea and a smile for a potent
cult leader to transition from outcasts
to supreme ruler sadly many former cult
members have reported rampant instances
of brainwashing and indoctrination
tactics so much so that the victims of
these tactics often have little to no
memory about their lives prior to
joining the cult an example of these
tactics include isolation restraint and
bombarding them with visual or audio
stimuli according to the cults wish
they’re also less physical though
equally effective methods of
brainwashing which could include
misleading media verbal debasement or
aggressive rhetoric you know lecture how
God had made the Exorcist movie this
movie was a prophecy what would happen
to you who loved the unification Church
number one cultists can be deprogrammed
and the good news is it’s reversible
it’s a man-made mental illness
thankfully there is a light at the end
of the tunnel there have been countless
reports of former cult members who’ve
managed to escape the pervasive
influence of their group and have gone
on to lead healthy and successful lives
that’s what I was taught to believe in
and I believed it when I was there and
then I got to an age where I started
questioning some things and then I just
got to a point where I ended up leaving
the practice of forcing someone to
abandon a certain set of beliefs also
known as deprogramming can be a slippery
slope however usually because it tends
to involve the physical removal which is
to say kidnapping of the intended target
an example of some of these techniques
was the backing control center which
deprogrammed fans of punk rock and heavy
metal during the 1980s and allegedly
reprogrammed them with fundamentalist
Christian beliefs nowadays deprogramming
has largely been replaced by a kinder
more passive strategy of exit counseling
but an hour ago of how how to detect you
know legitimate healthy individuals and
groups and unhealthy ones so what do you
think are you fascinated by the world of
cults yes I’m glad your parents didn’t
send you to be deprogrammed of your
musical tastes
for more obsessive top 10s and
eye-opening top fives be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com when a
promise has been made here there is no
turning back
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