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The rise of the Russian Christian Right: the case of the World Congress of Families
This article offers a case study of the Russian-American pro-family organisation the World Congress of Families, explaining its emergence, strategies, and religious and political agenda from 1995 until 2019. The article adds to a growing body of research that sheds light on transnational networks of conservative and right-wing political and civil society actors. It zooms in on Russian pro-family activists as connected to such networks and thereby takes an innovative perspective on the Russian conservative turn as part of a global phenomenon. The article also makes the argument that a specific Russian Christian Right movement, comparable to and linked with the American Christian Right and conservative Christian groups in Europe, is taking shape in Russia.
Article was published in 2019.
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The rise of the Russian Christian Right: the case of the World Congress of Families
This article offers a case study of the Russian-American pro-family organisation the World Congress of Families, explaining its emergence, strategies, and religious and political agenda from 1995 until 2019. The article adds to a growing body of research that sheds light on transnational networks of conservative and right-wing political and civil society actors. It zooms in on Russian pro-family activists as connected to such networks and thereby takes an innovative perspective on the Russian conservative turn as part of a global phenomenon. The article also makes the argument that a specific Russian Christian Right movement, comparable to and linked with the American Christian Right and conservative Christian groups in Europe, is taking shape in Russia.
Article was published in 2019.
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The rise of the Russian Christian Right: the case of the World Congress of Families
This article offers a case study of the Russian-American pro-family organisation the World Congress of Families, explaining its emergence, strategies, and religious and political agenda from 1995 until 2019. The article adds to a growing body of research that sheds light on transnational networks of conservative and right-wing political and civil society actors. It zooms in on Russian pro-family activists as connected to such networks and thereby takes an innovative perspective on the Russian conservative turn as part of a global phenomenon. The article also makes the argument that a specific Russian Christian Right movement, comparable to and linked with the American Christian Right and conservative Christian groups in Europe, is taking shape in Russia.
Article was published in 2019.
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Why Bek Condello left a doomsday church at 27
By Jackson Worthington and David MarcheseAuthor Bek Condello says she has not spoken to her friends or family inside the church since she decided to leave.
#Cults #Christianity #BookPublishingIndustry #JacksonWorthington #DavidMarchese
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Why Bek Condello left a doomsday church at 27
By Jackson Worthington and David MarcheseAuthor Bek Condello says she has not spoken to her friends or family inside the church since she decided to leave.
#Cults #Christianity #BookPublishingIndustry #JacksonWorthington #DavidMarchese
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Why Bek Condello left a doomsday church at 27
By Jackson Worthington and David MarcheseAuthor Bek Condello says she has not spoken to her friends or family inside the church since she decided to leave.
#Cults #Christianity #BookPublishingIndustry #JacksonWorthington #DavidMarchese
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Favorite signs at this week's protest outside #KenHam's Noah's Ark Encounter, which, on its 10th anniversary, is exposed as an endless siphon of money from Kentucky taxpayers.
"Tax dollars should not fund religious fantasy parks"
"Ark Encounter: Built on myth, Funded by grift"
[I also like "Based on myth, Built on grift"]
"Ken Ham's 'Jurassic Lark'"
and my #1 pick -
"Gilgamesh called: He wants his flood story back"
#ChristoFascism #fascist #USA #ArkEncounter = #grooming #children for #cults -
Favorite signs at this week's protest outside #KenHam's Noah's Ark Encounter, which, on its 10th anniversary, is exposed as an endless siphon of money from Kentucky taxpayers.
"Tax dollars should not fund religious fantasy parks"
"Ark Encounter: Built on myth, Funded by grift"
[I also like "Based on myth, Built on grift"]
"Ken Ham's 'Jurassic Lark'"
and my #1 pick -
"Gilgamesh called: He wants his flood story back"
#ChristoFascism #fascist #USA #ArkEncounter = #grooming #children for #cults -
Favorite signs at this week's protest outside #KenHam's Noah's Ark Encounter, which, on its 10th anniversary, is exposed as an endless siphon of money from Kentucky taxpayers.
"Tax dollars should not fund religious fantasy parks"
"Ark Encounter: Built on myth, Funded by grift"
[I also like "Based on myth, Built on grift"]
"Ken Ham's 'Jurassic Lark'"
and my #1 pick -
"Gilgamesh called: He wants his flood story back"
#ChristoFascism #fascist #USA #ArkEncounter = #grooming #children for #cults -
Dear Friends of #OFF
As we know
there are many cu@ts
The curts R precise #cults
e.g. Cult of the #Dead #Cow
Or the RNG based on
three rIngs to unruly them
ALL
https://www.random.org/To put IT in a #question
#WHO is paying The #Way?
How many B4 #dead?
Find or fund the #unquestioned?:nonazis: :0dd_verified: ✅
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Dear Friends of #OFF
As we know
there are many cu@ts
The curts R precise #cults
e.g. Cult of the #Dead #Cow
Or the RNG based on
three rIngs to unruly them
ALL
https://www.random.org/To put IT in a #question
#WHO is paying The #Way?
How many B4 #dead?
Find or fund the #unquestioned?:nonazis: :0dd_verified: ✅
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#Tennessee #cults #churches #bookstores #drag #LGBTQI+
"THE DEMON NEXT DOOR
A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.
There were older and grander churches in Maryville, a college town in East Tennessee where you could barely drive a minute without passing a cross or a sign about Jesus. But when Mike and Andrea Brewer established the Well, in 2016, they understood themselves to be part of something more mystical and revolutionary than any existing denomination—a charismatic-Christian movement that has drawn millions of Americans with the promise of supernatural encounters with God and visions of cosmic battle.
By his own account, Mike had been an exhausted factory worker and a lapsed Pentecostal addicted to pornography when one night, at home and praying for a better life, he heard an unfamiliar voice calling out to him and believed that it was God. At church a few days later, he would write, he felt a 'tangible explosion' in his chest, followed by 'the purity and righteousness of God moving through me in waves.' He came to believe that a demon had exited his body and that the Holy Spirit had taken its place. He decided that God had chosen him for a divine assignment.
They went abroad as missionaries to India and Haiti, which only confirmed their emerging understanding of a universe with three distinct realms—the heavenly, the earthly, and the underworld, with the Earth being the realm of spiritual warfare. On one side, the Holy Spirit, angels, and believers comprised an army of God. On the other were the forces of Satan—legions of demons with names, ranks, and personalities that could inhabit people, geographical regions, and entire nations.
(. . .)
By the time the Brewers returned to Maryville, they saw themselves as hardened spiritual warriors. They founded the Well to continue the battle, joining an international network of churches and ministries called Global Awakening, which also had a seminary, where Andrea began studying demon history and hierarchies. When Mike asked God for their exact assignment, he told me when I visited in March, 'the Lord spoke so clearly. He said, ‘I’m giving you and the Well a mandate for the full eradication of witchcraft and demonic activity in the region.’'
And that was what led the Brewers to look across the street one day a few years later and determine that the central hub for demonic activity in the region was roughly 100 yards away. It was a bookstore called Southland.
(. . .)
Over the course of three decades in Maryville, Misosky had made Southland Books and Cafe into a local institution, a sprawling maze of old bookcases where people could find a leather-bound Mark Twain, a paperback Charles Bukowski, shelves of military history, and flyers for a local mah-jongg group.
Misosky had a bar downstairs where she hosted trivia nights, readings, all-ages punk shows, and fundraisers that sometimes involved drag performances. She occasionally provided space to the local Democratic Party. But none of that had drawn public protest until a new church moved in across the street.
(. . .)
Misosky had been born and raised in Maryville. She was 58, Catholic, and gay, and told me she was used to living among conservative Christians. Still, demonic came as a surprise. 'This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,' she remembered thinking after seeing the first video, not yet realizing that the church was part of the fastest-growing segment of Christianity in the country, or that the language she was hearing in the fall of 2022 was spreading across the Christian right and the wider political landscape.
(. . .)
Another version was the run-up to the January 6, 2021, insurrection, when prominent apostles and prophets held prayer rallies calling for 'the minutemen of the Kingdom' to rise up against demonic forces that they believed had stolen the 2020 election, after which many of their followers were among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Another version was what happened after the Brewers returned to Maryville."
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#Tennessee #cults #churches #bookstores #drag #LGBTQI+
"THE DEMON NEXT DOOR
A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.
There were older and grander churches in Maryville, a college town in East Tennessee where you could barely drive a minute without passing a cross or a sign about Jesus. But when Mike and Andrea Brewer established the Well, in 2016, they understood themselves to be part of something more mystical and revolutionary than any existing denomination—a charismatic-Christian movement that has drawn millions of Americans with the promise of supernatural encounters with God and visions of cosmic battle.
By his own account, Mike had been an exhausted factory worker and a lapsed Pentecostal addicted to pornography when one night, at home and praying for a better life, he heard an unfamiliar voice calling out to him and believed that it was God. At church a few days later, he would write, he felt a 'tangible explosion' in his chest, followed by 'the purity and righteousness of God moving through me in waves.' He came to believe that a demon had exited his body and that the Holy Spirit had taken its place. He decided that God had chosen him for a divine assignment.
They went abroad as missionaries to India and Haiti, which only confirmed their emerging understanding of a universe with three distinct realms—the heavenly, the earthly, and the underworld, with the Earth being the realm of spiritual warfare. On one side, the Holy Spirit, angels, and believers comprised an army of God. On the other were the forces of Satan—legions of demons with names, ranks, and personalities that could inhabit people, geographical regions, and entire nations.
(. . .)
By the time the Brewers returned to Maryville, they saw themselves as hardened spiritual warriors. They founded the Well to continue the battle, joining an international network of churches and ministries called Global Awakening, which also had a seminary, where Andrea began studying demon history and hierarchies. When Mike asked God for their exact assignment, he told me when I visited in March, 'the Lord spoke so clearly. He said, ‘I’m giving you and the Well a mandate for the full eradication of witchcraft and demonic activity in the region.’'
And that was what led the Brewers to look across the street one day a few years later and determine that the central hub for demonic activity in the region was roughly 100 yards away. It was a bookstore called Southland.
(. . .)
Over the course of three decades in Maryville, Misosky had made Southland Books and Cafe into a local institution, a sprawling maze of old bookcases where people could find a leather-bound Mark Twain, a paperback Charles Bukowski, shelves of military history, and flyers for a local mah-jongg group.
Misosky had a bar downstairs where she hosted trivia nights, readings, all-ages punk shows, and fundraisers that sometimes involved drag performances. She occasionally provided space to the local Democratic Party. But none of that had drawn public protest until a new church moved in across the street.
(. . .)
Misosky had been born and raised in Maryville. She was 58, Catholic, and gay, and told me she was used to living among conservative Christians. Still, demonic came as a surprise. 'This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,' she remembered thinking after seeing the first video, not yet realizing that the church was part of the fastest-growing segment of Christianity in the country, or that the language she was hearing in the fall of 2022 was spreading across the Christian right and the wider political landscape.
(. . .)
Another version was the run-up to the January 6, 2021, insurrection, when prominent apostles and prophets held prayer rallies calling for 'the minutemen of the Kingdom' to rise up against demonic forces that they believed had stolen the 2020 election, after which many of their followers were among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Another version was what happened after the Brewers returned to Maryville."
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#Tennessee #cults #churches #bookstores #drag #LGBTQI+
"THE DEMON NEXT DOOR
A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.
There were older and grander churches in Maryville, a college town in East Tennessee where you could barely drive a minute without passing a cross or a sign about Jesus. But when Mike and Andrea Brewer established the Well, in 2016, they understood themselves to be part of something more mystical and revolutionary than any existing denomination—a charismatic-Christian movement that has drawn millions of Americans with the promise of supernatural encounters with God and visions of cosmic battle.
By his own account, Mike had been an exhausted factory worker and a lapsed Pentecostal addicted to pornography when one night, at home and praying for a better life, he heard an unfamiliar voice calling out to him and believed that it was God. At church a few days later, he would write, he felt a 'tangible explosion' in his chest, followed by 'the purity and righteousness of God moving through me in waves.' He came to believe that a demon had exited his body and that the Holy Spirit had taken its place. He decided that God had chosen him for a divine assignment.
They went abroad as missionaries to India and Haiti, which only confirmed their emerging understanding of a universe with three distinct realms—the heavenly, the earthly, and the underworld, with the Earth being the realm of spiritual warfare. On one side, the Holy Spirit, angels, and believers comprised an army of God. On the other were the forces of Satan—legions of demons with names, ranks, and personalities that could inhabit people, geographical regions, and entire nations.
(. . .)
By the time the Brewers returned to Maryville, they saw themselves as hardened spiritual warriors. They founded the Well to continue the battle, joining an international network of churches and ministries called Global Awakening, which also had a seminary, where Andrea began studying demon history and hierarchies. When Mike asked God for their exact assignment, he told me when I visited in March, 'the Lord spoke so clearly. He said, ‘I’m giving you and the Well a mandate for the full eradication of witchcraft and demonic activity in the region.’'
And that was what led the Brewers to look across the street one day a few years later and determine that the central hub for demonic activity in the region was roughly 100 yards away. It was a bookstore called Southland.
(. . .)
Over the course of three decades in Maryville, Misosky had made Southland Books and Cafe into a local institution, a sprawling maze of old bookcases where people could find a leather-bound Mark Twain, a paperback Charles Bukowski, shelves of military history, and flyers for a local mah-jongg group.
Misosky had a bar downstairs where she hosted trivia nights, readings, all-ages punk shows, and fundraisers that sometimes involved drag performances. She occasionally provided space to the local Democratic Party. But none of that had drawn public protest until a new church moved in across the street.
(. . .)
Misosky had been born and raised in Maryville. She was 58, Catholic, and gay, and told me she was used to living among conservative Christians. Still, demonic came as a surprise. 'This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,' she remembered thinking after seeing the first video, not yet realizing that the church was part of the fastest-growing segment of Christianity in the country, or that the language she was hearing in the fall of 2022 was spreading across the Christian right and the wider political landscape.
(. . .)
Another version was the run-up to the January 6, 2021, insurrection, when prominent apostles and prophets held prayer rallies calling for 'the minutemen of the Kingdom' to rise up against demonic forces that they believed had stolen the 2020 election, after which many of their followers were among those who stormed the U.S. Capitol. Another version was what happened after the Brewers returned to Maryville."
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So don't just jump to the obvious, pre-packaged option. It's certainly *easier*. There's less dissonance there, too.
But curiosity also resolves dissonance. It's a consonant feeling, maybe the only time a lack of or contradiction of information causes a good feeling. Step into that, and out of the box.
It's a cycle. Question everything. Come up with answers. But don't settle there. Keep poking. Dig deeper. Keep open-ended the answers you do find.
Otherwise you're still just being run by your conditioning.
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#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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So don't just jump to the obvious, pre-packaged option. It's certainly *easier*. There's less dissonance there, too.
But curiosity also resolves dissonance. It's a consonant feeling, maybe the only time a lack of or contradiction of information causes a good feeling. Step into that, and out of the box.
It's a cycle. Question everything. Come up with answers. But don't settle there. Keep poking. Dig deeper. Keep open-ended the answers you do find.
Otherwise you're still just being run by your conditioning.
/🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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So don't just jump to the obvious, pre-packaged option. It's certainly *easier*. There's less dissonance there, too.
But curiosity also resolves dissonance. It's a consonant feeling, maybe the only time a lack of or contradiction of information causes a good feeling. Step into that, and out of the box.
It's a cycle. Question everything. Come up with answers. But don't settle there. Keep poking. Dig deeper. Keep open-ended the answers you do find.
Otherwise you're still just being run by your conditioning.
/🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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One example of a false dichotomy capitalism offers is how it links itself to commerce.
Commerce, or trade, has ALWAYS existed, even before humanity did.
So pro-capitalists have a hard time letting go because they think they'll have to throw out the ability to buy and sell things, to run small businesses and such.
Anti-capitalists who haven't unpacked this lie get mad at small shops posting Etsy links or selling books they wrote. They get upset at anyone who makes a living in a world where you have to make a living or die. The worlds they imagine try to design unwieldy bartering systems that never address the underlying problems of power and the fact that anyone who abuses power will ALWAYS find a way into positions to amass it, no matter what system you design.
By working within the false framework, their alternatives are not very appealing and don't solve the real underlying issues, which isn't money or commerce itself, but a certain mentality who will always leverage what they have available to coerce and rule.
🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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One example of a false dichotomy capitalism offers is how it links itself to commerce.
Commerce, or trade, has ALWAYS existed, even before humanity did.
So pro-capitalists have a hard time letting go because they think they'll have to throw out the ability to buy and sell things, to run small businesses and such.
Anti-capitalists who haven't unpacked this lie get mad at small shops posting Etsy links or selling books they wrote. They get upset at anyone who makes a living in a world where you have to make a living or die. The worlds they imagine try to design unwieldy bartering systems that never address the underlying problems of power and the fact that anyone who abuses power will ALWAYS find a way into positions to amass it, no matter what system you design.
By working within the false framework, their alternatives are not very appealing and don't solve the real underlying issues, which isn't money or commerce itself, but a certain mentality who will always leverage what they have available to coerce and rule.
🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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One example of a false dichotomy capitalism offers is how it links itself to commerce.
Commerce, or trade, has ALWAYS existed, even before humanity did.
So pro-capitalists have a hard time letting go because they think they'll have to throw out the ability to buy and sell things, to run small businesses and such.
Anti-capitalists who haven't unpacked this lie get mad at small shops posting Etsy links or selling books they wrote. They get upset at anyone who makes a living in a world where you have to make a living or die. The worlds they imagine try to design unwieldy bartering systems that never address the underlying problems of power and the fact that anyone who abuses power will ALWAYS find a way into positions to amass it, no matter what system you design.
By working within the false framework, their alternatives are not very appealing and don't solve the real underlying issues, which isn't money or commerce itself, but a certain mentality who will always leverage what they have available to coerce and rule.
🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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This is the process I used to get where I have on capitalism and whiteness. Always stepping back and 🤔
As we deconstruct capitalism and western colonialism, don't spend too much time in the "just do the opposite" phase. That's a resting place.
There ARE better ways to run a society!
And I fully believe we don't know what those are yet.* But we can't figure that out while working strictly within the limiting framework given to us BY capitalism and whiteness!!!
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* Quick note without spiraling intoa whole different rant: I believe people who lived before us (or trying to survive alongside us) know at least some of the puzzle that humanity should learn from. But we're not going to be able to go back to exactly how it was unless billions of people die, and then the whole ring is valuable to the next colonizing culture rises up. Whatever better system comes, it'll have to be, to some extent, something new.
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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This is the process I used to get where I have on capitalism and whiteness. Always stepping back and 🤔
As we deconstruct capitalism and western colonialism, don't spend too much time in the "just do the opposite" phase. That's a resting place.
There ARE better ways to run a society!
And I fully believe we don't know what those are yet.* But we can't figure that out while working strictly within the limiting framework given to us BY capitalism and whiteness!!!
🧵
* Quick note without spiraling intoa whole different rant: I believe people who lived before us (or trying to survive alongside us) know at least some of the puzzle that humanity should learn from. But we're not going to be able to go back to exactly how it was unless billions of people die, and then the whole ring is valuable to the next colonizing culture rises up. Whatever better system comes, it'll have to be, to some extent, something new.
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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This is the process I used to get where I have on capitalism and whiteness. Always stepping back and 🤔
As we deconstruct capitalism and western colonialism, don't spend too much time in the "just do the opposite" phase. That's a resting place.
There ARE better ways to run a society!
And I fully believe we don't know what those are yet.* But we can't figure that out while working strictly within the limiting framework given to us BY capitalism and whiteness!!!
🧵
* Quick note without spiraling intoa whole different rant: I believe people who lived before us (or trying to survive alongside us) know at least some of the puzzle that humanity should learn from. But we're not going to be able to go back to exactly how it was unless billions of people die, and then the whole ring is valuable to the next colonizing culture rises up. Whatever better system comes, it'll have to be, to some extent, something new.
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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In fact, curiosity is a great example of what I'm talking about.
My cult framed doubt as the opposite of unquestioning faith. This is an example of the control technique called Black & White Thinking, or polarized thinking. We're trained to think in binaries. This quality is all good, while that quality is all bad.
So once I discover my group is bad, and faith is bad, I might start to think doubt is all good. I might lean into doubt as my new replacement value. We start to see some of the outlines of the skeptic community, and the toxic behaviors of a certain subset of atheist thought.
At first, doubt is my only choice. Because I'm still operating under cult conditioning!!! where it's either full-on faith or doubt as a service.
Doubt makes for a terrible value. It isn't a goal! Skepticism by itself doesn't LEAD anywhere. It can't be a destination! Eventually, all that can be debunked, is. Then what?
I can surely bring a balance of skepticism into my life to help me check the answers I come across. It's a nice tool for moving towards *something*.
But step outside the false dichotomy.
Curiosity IS a value. Never one promoted by my cult, though. Isn't that interesting? Why is that?
Because curiosity does lead places. Endlessly. It NEVER runs out. It's difficult, if not impossible, to ideologically control someone who is constantly practicing curiosity.
You can't hold unquestioning faith and curiosity at the same time. In fact, it wasn't doubt that got me out of the cult in the first place. It was curiosity.
So this is just one of hundreds of examples of how we can step outside the framework, the binaries our conditioning provided us. True free thought means always stepping back from what is "known," always wondering if if this or that foundational assumption needs to be revisited, retested, redefined, reassessed.
[ed: typos]
🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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In fact, curiosity is a great example of what I'm talking about.
My cult framed doubt as the opposite of unquestioning faith. This is an example of the control technique called Black & White Thinking, or polarized thinking. We're trained to think in binaries. This quality is all good, while that quality is all bad.
So once I discover my group is bad, and faith is bad, I might start to think doubt is all good. I might lean into doubt as my new replacement value. We start to see some of the outlines of the skeptic community, and the toxic behaviors of a certain subset of atheist thought.
At first, doubt is my only choice. Because I'm still operating under cult conditioning!!! where it's either full-on faith or doubt as a service.
Doubt makes for a terrible value. It isn't a goal! Skepticism by itself doesn't LEAD anywhere. It can't be a destination! Eventually, all that can be debunked, is. Then what?
I can surely bring a balance of skepticism into my life to help me check the answers I come across. It's a nice tool for moving towards *something*.
But step outside the false dichotomy.
Curiosity IS a value. Never one promoted by my cult, though. Isn't that interesting? Why is that?
Because curiosity does lead places. Endlessly. It NEVER runs out. It's difficult, if not impossible, to ideologically control someone who is constantly practicing curiosity.
You can't hold unquestioning faith and curiosity at the same time. In fact, it wasn't doubt that got me out of the cult in the first place. It was curiosity.
So this is just one of hundreds of examples of how we can step outside the framework, the binaries our conditioning provided us. True free thought means always stepping back from what is "known," always wondering if if this or that foundational assumption needs to be revisited, retested, redefined, reassessed.
[ed: typos]
🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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In fact, curiosity is a great example of what I'm talking about.
My cult framed doubt as the opposite of unquestioning faith. This is an example of the control technique called Black & White Thinking, or polarized thinking. We're trained to think in binaries. This quality is all good, while that quality is all bad.
So once I discover my group is bad, and faith is bad, I might start to think doubt is all good. I might lean into doubt as my new replacement value. We start to see some of the outlines of the skeptic community, and the toxic behaviors of a certain subset of atheist thought.
At first, doubt is my only choice. Because I'm still operating under cult conditioning!!! where it's either full-on faith or doubt as a service.
Doubt makes for a terrible value. It isn't a goal! Skepticism by itself doesn't LEAD anywhere. It can't be a destination! Eventually, all that can be debunked, is. Then what?
I can surely bring a balance of skepticism into my life to help me check the answers I come across. It's a nice tool for moving towards *something*.
But step outside the false dichotomy.
Curiosity IS a value. Never one promoted by my cult, though. Isn't that interesting? Why is that?
Because curiosity does lead places. Endlessly. It NEVER runs out. It's difficult, if not impossible, to ideologically control someone who is constantly practicing curiosity.
You can't hold unquestioning faith and curiosity at the same time. In fact, it wasn't doubt that got me out of the cult in the first place. It was curiosity.
So this is just one of hundreds of examples of how we can step outside the framework, the binaries our conditioning provided us. True free thought means always stepping back from what is "known," always wondering if if this or that foundational assumption needs to be revisited, retested, redefined, reassessed.
[ed: typos]
🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma #cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction
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The extreme opposite of a bad thing isn't necessarily a good thing.
This is only an extension of cultist / colonialist / capitalist conditioning.
I see this with people who have left cults. Their first instinct is to go all out opposite of what they were raised with.
We go through a similar process as we deconstruct wider society.
This phase is a bad place to land permanently, because you're still operating within the false, unhealthy framework that the conditioning offered you. It should only be a temporary step in the deconditioning process while you get your bearings and open up to be ways of thinking.
Look for balance and nuance. Never stop questioning, especially any new worldview you find yourself adopting.
Curiosity is a destination in itself, an ongoing value, a tool in the neverending process of understating reality and morality.
🧵
#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma
#cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction -
The extreme opposite of a bad thing isn't necessarily a good thing.
This is only an extension of cultist / colonialist / capitalist conditioning.
I see this with people who have left cults. Their first instinct is to go all out opposite of what they were raised with.
We go through a similar process as we deconstruct wider society.
This phase is a bad place to land permanently, because you're still operating within the false, unhealthy framework that the conditioning offered you. It should only be a temporary step in the deconditioning process while you get your bearings and open up to be ways of thinking.
Look for balance and nuance. Never stop questioning, especially any new worldview you find yourself adopting.
Curiosity is a destination in itself, an ongoing value, a tool in the neverending process of understating reality and morality.
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#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma
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The extreme opposite of a bad thing isn't necessarily a good thing.
This is only an extension of cultist / colonialist / capitalist conditioning.
I see this with people who have left cults. Their first instinct is to go all out opposite of what they were raised with.
We go through a similar process as we deconstruct wider society.
This phase is a bad place to land permanently, because you're still operating within the false, unhealthy framework that the conditioning offered you. It should only be a temporary step in the deconditioning process while you get your bearings and open up to be ways of thinking.
Look for balance and nuance. Never stop questioning, especially any new worldview you find yourself adopting.
Curiosity is a destination in itself, an ongoing value, a tool in the neverending process of understating reality and morality.
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#AbuseCulture #ReligiousTrauma
#cults #atheism #exmo #exmormon #deconstruction -
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The less said, on this platform (because most of us don’t need reminding) about #PaulineHanson the better. Unless of course it is in the course of throwing some more ridicule on the ridiculest: towit #AnnabelCrabb — who suddenly begins to be awake to it —and her critique of #PHON call to #monoculture:
“Pauline Hanson herself, meanwhile, popped back into the chat regularly over the week to offer helpful definitional prompts including that Japan is a monoculture.
Now, this in itself should have been a clue that it was well past time for everybody to go home for a lie down.
Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it.
And yet. And yet. Unbelievably, there were still players willing to trudge out and engage, seriously, with the question of whether we should be Japan.”
Thanks for the merriment Annabel, may all your future pieces and vids carry the same clarity of political nous. And for all those polies still wondering what monoculture is, I’ll give you all a clue… it’s about #Cults … sit with that for a while.
#AusPol #Nationalism #Fascism #Racism #TaxTheRich #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising
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The less said, on this platform (because most of us don’t need reminding) about #PaulineHanson the better. Unless of course it is in the course of throwing some more ridicule on the ridiculest: towit #AnnabelCrabb — who suddenly begins to be awake to it —and her critique of #PHON call to #monoculture:
“Pauline Hanson herself, meanwhile, popped back into the chat regularly over the week to offer helpful definitional prompts including that Japan is a monoculture.
Now, this in itself should have been a clue that it was well past time for everybody to go home for a lie down.
Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it.
And yet. And yet. Unbelievably, there were still players willing to trudge out and engage, seriously, with the question of whether we should be Japan.”
Thanks for the merriment Annabel, may all your future pieces and vids carry the same clarity of political nous. And for all those polies still wondering what monoculture is, I’ll give you all a clue… it’s about #Cults … sit with that for a while.
#AusPol #Nationalism #Fascism #Racism #TaxTheRich #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising
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The less said, on this platform (because most of us don’t need reminding) about #PaulineHanson the better. Unless of course it is in the course of throwing some more ridicule on the ridiculest: towit #AnnabelCrabb — who suddenly begins to be awake to it —and her critique of #PHON call to #monoculture:
“Pauline Hanson herself, meanwhile, popped back into the chat regularly over the week to offer helpful definitional prompts including that Japan is a monoculture.
Now, this in itself should have been a clue that it was well past time for everybody to go home for a lie down.
Because if there's anything more hallucination-inducing than the woman who 30 years ago had her undies in a bunch about too many Asians suddenly fancying we should be a bit more like Japan, I don't care to imagine it.
And yet. And yet. Unbelievably, there were still players willing to trudge out and engage, seriously, with the question of whether we should be Japan.”
Thanks for the merriment Annabel, may all your future pieces and vids carry the same clarity of political nous. And for all those polies still wondering what monoculture is, I’ll give you all a clue… it’s about #Cults … sit with that for a while.
#AusPol #Nationalism #Fascism #Racism #TaxTheRich #TruthInPoliticalAdvertising
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What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?
#football #cults #sport #religion #DailyPrompt #love #relationships #unity #WorldCup
https://forsinglesandcouples.is/seeing-the-human-race-interact-with-real-love-and-true-unity/
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What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?
#football #cults #sport #religion #DailyPrompt #love #relationships #unity #WorldCup
https://forsinglesandcouples.is/seeing-the-human-race-interact-with-real-love-and-true-unity/
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What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness?
#football #cults #sport #religion #DailyPrompt #love #relationships #unity #WorldCup
https://forsinglesandcouples.is/seeing-the-human-race-interact-with-real-love-and-true-unity/
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Their Secret Society Leaked... #Thiel #SecretSociety #Dialog #leak #cults #WW3 youtube.com/watch?v=eSy4...
Their secret society just leak... -
#BringHerBack was a recommendation given by @lunchb0x_b some months ago.
Please watch it a great #Australian #BodyHorror #movie that doesn’t waste your time!
1 hour and 45 minutes of not useless/meaningless scenes.I know that the #FosterFamily can be seen as an old and overused topic, but movie adds #cults to it.
#HBO #HBOMAX #streaming #cinema #movies #horror #AustralianCinema #AustralianMovies
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#BringHerBack was a recommendation given by @lunchb0x_b some months ago.
Please watch it a great #Australian #BodyHorror #movie that doesn’t waste your time!
1 hour and 45 minutes of not useless/meaningless scenes.I know that the #FosterFamily can be seen as an old and overused topic, but movie adds #cults to it.
#HBO #HBOMAX #streaming #cinema #movies #horror #AustralianCinema #AustralianMovies
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