People who are in cults act like they are in spy novels. Their vibe is weirdly intense. Learn to pick up on this. It is a byproduct of cult socialization.
* Secretiveness
* Solemnity -- may go into sudden fury if you unknowingly make a joke at the
expense of the cult or its behavior. Cults hate jokes and playfulness. Cult leaders and cult members cannot take a joke
* Weirdly childish excitement
* Elitism perhaps disdain toward outsiders(which often compensates for humiliation and shame and pain, social and financial, incurred within the cult - Only the Tough Endure -- which by the way is bollocks unless you are a trainee in the Armed Forces)
* Changes in entertainment, diet, colors of clothing, may re decorate his or her house or lodgings if the cult favors certain design features.
The person who is involved with a cult has intense emotions, of both anxiety and
ecstasy. He or she is often keeping secrets and that means the person is living
a double existence. One life in the cult, and another in the outside world.
When socializing with a friend who is not in the cult, a person involved with a cult lives in fear and lives in hope.
*Fear - will you be horrified or shocked or tell the person something he or she is afraid to know?
*Hope - will you join the group and become a) safe b) a source of status by being a new recruit?
Here is something subtle that might tip us off that a friend
is involved with a cultic group or leader.
A friend involved with a secretive cult, especially one that already has had
some bad publicity, may betray a weirdly intense joy if you decide to get involved.
Why? Because you have become safe company for them.
When I told my friend I had decided to work with the same therapist she'd been
praising for many years, X behaved as though I had joined a special, very very
special project. Someone she could share more of herself with.
As though I had become clubbable, had shown myself to be officer material.
This friend had come to believe that this cult compromised therapist was special, superior to any other therapist. All this was wordlessly conveyed to me. Without realizing it, I unconsciously believed this guy was special, too. An aura of secrecy attached itself. As though the outside world had become inferior if not threatening.
Most of the time, if a pal enjoys doing something, he or she will
will be pleased, even happy if you decide to get involved.
But if your pal is involved with a cultic, dodgy group or leader, and you
decide to get involved, the friend may betray an enthusiasm that is strangely
intense.
* Secretiveness
* Solemnity -- may go into sudden fury if you unknowingly make a joke at the
expense of the cult or its behavior. Cults hate jokes and playfulness. Cult leaders and cult members cannot take a joke
* Weirdly childish excitement
* Elitism perhaps disdain toward outsiders(which often compensates for humiliation and shame and pain, social and financial, incurred within the cult - Only the Tough Endure -- which by the way is bollocks unless you are a trainee in the Armed Forces)
* Changes in entertainment, diet, colors of clothing, may re decorate his or her house or lodgings if the cult favors certain design features.
The person who is involved with a cult has intense emotions, of both anxiety and
ecstasy. He or she is often keeping secrets and that means the person is living
a double existence. One life in the cult, and another in the outside world.
When socializing with a friend who is not in the cult, a person involved with a cult lives in fear and lives in hope.
*Fear - will you be horrified or shocked or tell the person something he or she is afraid to know?
*Hope - will you join the group and become a) safe b) a source of status by being a new recruit?
Here is something subtle that might tip us off that a friend
is involved with a cultic group or leader.
A friend involved with a secretive cult, especially one that already has had
some bad publicity, may betray a weirdly intense joy if you decide to get involved.
Why? Because you have become safe company for them.
When I told my friend I had decided to work with the same therapist she'd been
praising for many years, X behaved as though I had joined a special, very very
special project. Someone she could share more of herself with.
As though I had become clubbable, had shown myself to be officer material.
This friend had come to believe that this cult compromised therapist was special, superior to any other therapist. All this was wordlessly conveyed to me. Without realizing it, I unconsciously believed this guy was special, too. An aura of secrecy attached itself. As though the outside world had become inferior if not threatening.
Most of the time, if a pal enjoys doing something, he or she will
will be pleased, even happy if you decide to get involved.
But if your pal is involved with a cultic, dodgy group or leader, and you
decide to get involved, the friend may betray an enthusiasm that is strangely
intense.