A thread to talk about cults!
I think this will be really interesting.
I think this will be really interesting.
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Thanks Sideyboob, it will be good if we all come over and mither!
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As a starter, some actual cults that are well known
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Bringing this book recommendation across
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As a starter, some actual cults that are well known
13 of the World's Most Infamous Cults
Maybe you've heard about drinking the Kool-Aid or listening to The Family Jams — but what do you really know about some of the world's most infamous cults?
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Bringing this book recommendation across
Jack Monroe #522 Breitlings are a girl's best friend
The ex monkey squig is nasty. They are obsessed by the Nicola Bulley case, too. Any decent points anti Jack Twitter makes are quashed by that idiot. They are always pulling out that side by side shot. Yes we usually avoid showing their work here --- This with bells on, dear ❤. Haven't watched...
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Thank you for bringing some taking points to get going, I didn’t know where to start!Thanks Sideyboob, it will be good if we all come over and mither!
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As a starter, some actual cults that are well known
---13 of the World's Most Infamous Cults
Maybe you've heard about drinking the Kool-Aid or listening to The Family Jams — but what do you really know about some of the world's most infamous cults?
Bringing this book recommendation across
Jack Monroe #522 Breitlings are a girl's best friend
The ex monkey squig is nasty. They are obsessed by the Nicola Bulley case, too. Any decent points anti Jack Twitter makes are quashed by that idiot. They are always pulling out that side by side shot. Yes we usually avoid showing their work here --- This with bells on, dear ❤. Haven't watched...tattle.life
Good thread idea, just stumbled upon it, I'm interested in book recommendations from all you lovely tattlers and will follow with interest.
Cults, religion and conspiracy theoryism go hand in hand imo. That’s why I find the recent rise in people believing in CTs / QAnon is quite worrying, it makes them so easy to manipulate.
Leah remini did a good series on scientology
Thank you for starting the thread, Sidey B!
As I said, I have been watching videos on YouTube - as you do. One of those that really hit home was about the fundamentalists mormons - apparently Warren Jeffs (when he took over from his father) not only told the faithful to destroy their tvs, burn books and toys, but also commanded them to kill their pets. And. They. Obeyed.
I really have no words.
ooh deffo following for book/documentary recommendations
I read the Amway book by Stephen Butterfield I think. It was interesting although not well written, that’s where it really struck me about the links between MLM, religion and cults. I think he worked with a cult reprogramming specialist after his Amway dream turned to dust.
These are a few of my book recs
Scientology
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavage Hill
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder
NXIVM
The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM by Toni Natalie
Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM by Sarah Edmonson
FLDS
The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser
Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
Prophets Pray by Sam Browner
Christian Fundamentalism
I Fired God byJocelyn Zichterman
Scientology
Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavage Hill
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder
NXIVM
The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM by Toni Natalie
Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM by Sarah Edmonson
FLDS
The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser
Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall
Prophets Pray by Sam Browner
Christian Fundamentalism
I Fired God byJocelyn Zichterman
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Podcast recommendation. Look for ‘Zealot’. Brilliant episodes about various cults but also absolutely hilarious. Scientology and the Moonies had me howling.
Has anyone seen the recent ‘Shiny Happy People’ on Prime about the cult that the Duggars are part of? Very good.
ooh, I’ve found my people!
Has anyone seen the recent ‘Shiny Happy People’ on Prime about the cult that the Duggars are part of? Very good.
ooh, I’ve found my people!
Amway, my mother was into that in the late 1970's/80's.
It played a part in the divorce of my parents, she was convinced by Amway, most of her friends seen through it after a while.
Pyramid-selling of the worst kind, the late 1970's weren't the most prosperous times so I guess folk were easily lured into the (false) promise of becoming a self-made rich person via selling overpriced bleach.
Sad really and definitely cult-like.
It played a part in the divorce of my parents, she was convinced by Amway, most of her friends seen through it after a while.
Pyramid-selling of the worst kind, the late 1970's weren't the most prosperous times so I guess folk were easily lured into the (false) promise of becoming a self-made rich person via selling overpriced bleach.
Sad really and definitely cult-like.
A few books that aren’t quite about cults but are kind of cult adjacent-
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan (this is a bit on that conspiracy theory side, but it’s an interesting read as long as you take some of it with a grain of salt)
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
Hey Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan (this is a bit on that conspiracy theory side, but it’s an interesting read as long as you take some of it with a grain of salt)
*looks round*
Well, this seems very nice.
*gets a cup of tea and makes self comfy*
Well, this seems very nice.
*gets a cup of tea and makes self comfy*
I think one of the Phelps girls does talks now on what it was like growing up in a cult.
Also ' Martha Marcy May Marlene' is a good film about a young woman adapting to life outside a cult
Also ' Martha Marcy May Marlene' is a good film about a young woman adapting to life outside a cult
Both Warren Jeffs and David Miscavage (of Scientology) are similar in that they took over control of really horrible cults and yet somehow still managed to make these awful organisations a hundred times worse.Thank you for starting the thread, Sidey B!
As I said, I have been watching videos on YouTube - as you do. One of those that really hit home was about the fundamentalists mormons - apparently Warren Jeffs (when he took over from his father) not only told the faithful to destroy their tvs, burn books and toys, but also commanded them to kill their pets. And. They. Obeyed.
I really have no words.
Loving Leah remini! I’ve been binge listening to the ‘fair game’ podcast.
Hell's teeth! That's like Savonarola and the Bonfire of the Vanities! They did exactly the same, including throwing their cats and dogs into the flames.Thank you for starting the thread, Sidey B!
As I said, I have been watching videos on YouTube - as you do. One of those that really hit home was about the fundamentalists mormons - apparently Warren Jeffs (when he took over from his father) not only told the faithful to destroy their tvs, burn books and toys, but also commanded them to kill their pets. And. They. Obeyed.
I really have no words.
Horrific!
I so want to discuss the cult I was part of, I’m desperate for some TV company to do an expose on it. At the moment, it goes largely under the radar, apart from the country it was started in. They have about 40-50k members worldwide. I left in 2000, and it was weird enough then, very ‘smiley happy people’. I still have siblings in it, some have recently left, and they tell me horror stories about how bad it’s got. I’d say it was more a business than a faith. Members are encouraged (I’d say brainwashed) into cutting ties with all ‘worldly’ people (including family) because we are all inherently evil and our only desire is to lead them away from god and into sin.
This is my last post of the evening I promise (I’m just a bit giddy we have a cults chat 
). My favourite random cult fact, lovely veteran actor and broadcaster Nigel Haves is married to a woman named Georgiana Bronfman, who is the mother of Sara and Clare Bronfman, who are the two multi millionaire heiresses who bankrolled NXIVM.
). My favourite random cult fact, lovely veteran actor and broadcaster Nigel Haves is married to a woman named Georgiana Bronfman, who is the mother of Sara and Clare Bronfman, who are the two multi millionaire heiresses who bankrolled NXIVM.