What are cults and how can you know you are in one?

Thank you. Your unconsious mind knows and showed.

Again, there is no such thing as an ‘unconscious mind’.

Unless, of course, you believe that you know there is, which, if you did, then you, surely, would be able to explain, simply, what it is exactly. What proof do you have for some such thing, which you call an “unconscious mind”?

Great, then it was your conscious mind that concluded I was not susceptible to cults.

Also noted is your inability to explain in any way what this so-called “unconscious mind” is exactly.

Why this is is because there is none that actually exists. But, please do not let this stop you from believing, absolutely, that ‘you’ have one.

You got it, Mr. Infallible.

I am not in a cult, you’re in a cult! Your entire identity is that of being born into a cult!

What cult were you born into?

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It seemed like elsewhere he was saying Zionism, which he does not support. But the true irony is that he is a cult of one, but he can’t see it.

He claims to be infallible.

He knows the way to peace and harmony for all.

He knows why we are the way we are.

He is not here to justify anything to us, he is proving his claims to future generations.

If you disagree with anything he says, he will start negging you.

Cult leader stuff.

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Age was chosen by the One-Mind God to be its primary spokesperson in this dark age, it doesn’t get much more cult-leadery than that.

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He constantly projects without noticing it. If he accuses someone of something, he is the quintessence of the trait, and often has shown this in the same post.

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So, once more, your claims were based on absolutely nothing at all, except your own assumptions and beliefs, which you have absolutely no proof for at all. By the way, they exist solely because of the cult that you were born into and were brought up within, which you have still not yet recognised and become aware of.

LOL Even though I have Correct this one enough times, it still goes on to make these absolutely False claims, which LOL it believes are absolutely true and right.

LOL Could one become any more delusional?

Do you believe this to be absolutely true?

Have these two yet noticed what I have influenced them to do here?

And thinks he/she is influencing our lives. It’s useful for cult leaders to be given such powers over people.

You regularly conflate my lack of interest in discussing things with you, with my not being able to justify positions I have. You are not the world. I’m sure you’ve notice that I consider you a toxic discussion partner. I do understand how you would like to think if I do not engage with you the way you want, this proves negative things about me, but we can just add this to the huge heap of fallacious arguments you don’t even manage to write out but just assume.

I think you’re in the highest procentile. But I would guess there are others even more delusional.

A typical cult leader manipulation technique. Say something that implies the cult leader has special powers. But don’t claim it directly, because this is safer. Be mysterious.

Your words here are very much in line with the three principles of happiness. Now, I’ll restate your words using the three principles of happiness:

Principle One (Pursuing One’s Own Happiness): Individuals join groups to fulfill needs such as belonging and identity. However, the key difference between a cult and culture lies in that the former deprives its members of their ability to make independent judgments through information control, preventing them from truly “pursuing their own happiness”; the latter, on the contrary, allows individuals to maintain a balance between identification and questioning, preserving their space for choice.

Principle Two (Do Not Infringe on Others’ Happiness): The core pathology of a cult lies in systematic infringement: suppressing questions infringes upon members’ intellectual autonomy, and the “strong rejection of criticism” further establishes a fear mechanism (w↑), causing members to self-censor out of fear of being excluded. A healthy culture, on the contrary, tolerates criticism, as its boundary is “do not infringe” rather than “do not question”.

Principle Three (Building a Happy Environment): The author’s question, “Why must it be a strong aversion to criticism?” actually reveals that the distinction between a cult and culture does not lie in “whether there is an aversion to criticism” but in whether it allows for co-construction. A cult is a one-way “follow - be led” relationship, closing off the negotiation process; culture, on the other hand, retains the channel for “questioning everything” in co-construction, making rules subject to review and revision.

Conclusion: When leaders “cannot be questioned on everything”, the group has deviated from the three principles of happiness and has become a pseudo-cooperative structure that infringes under the guise of principle one - this is precisely the essence of a cult.

Yes, to use them for what they want to get.

But, once more, I was not referring to that at all, nor was I ever before.

But, again, do not let this stop you from presuming and believing what you have been or whatever you would like to

Thank you for informing the readers here. Were you assuming that none of us would have known this before?

Considering that you have repeated this, and I have absolutely no reason to not accept that you consider this, I am not surprised at all that you are sure.

LOL What you claim you do understand here could not be MORE WRONG.

But, I understand that you will not accept THIS FACT.