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Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 8, 2020 at 5:27 am
Hello everyone,
I'm working on a report to help all the followers of the Trump cult that swept the nation. I feel really bad for these people because I know personally that understanding that you were being lied to because you were stupid enough to not do any extra research and you got nothing in the end other than the experience of being duped by a cult.
And no one wants to believe they were duped, they want to find a scapegoat. But the problem I found when trying to reach out to my ex jw mates was that they wanted to hate the doctrine that I still loved and wouldn't accept me unless I took a firm stance. So I did
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RE: Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 8, 2020 at 5:28 am
Thinking is hard, it's best to you let others do it for you.
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RE: Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 8, 2020 at 5:33 am
Good luck with your report. I suspect it won't accomplish much.
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RE: Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 8, 2020 at 9:19 am
A report exists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
You'll need to convince them to actually read it, then accept what they read.
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RE: Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 8, 2020 at 9:28 am
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Good grief - scanning through that Wikipedia article - his father was Frederick Christ Trump????
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RE: Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 8, 2020 at 10:09 am
Please tell me Barron's middle name isn't Von.
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RE: Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 8, 2020 at 10:49 am
One of the vulnerabilities people have to falling for cults is thinking they're too smart to fall for a cult. It's skepticism and fact-checking that keep cults from sinking their hooks into you, not IQ.
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RE: Overcoming shame of being duped by a cult
December 9, 2020 at 10:11 pm
I recently saw an article about this, but it's the usual stuff, here are some parts:
For 100 years, strongmen leaders like Trump have found favor at moments of transition, when traditional parties and political systems no longer seem adequate and progress toward racial and gender equality, even if limited, leaves many unsettled.
Often coming from outside politics, these figures forge whatever alliances are necessary to get to power and stay there. Their amoral and opportunistic attitudes explain why they end up with an improbable mix of supporters, with religious authorities, criminals, business elites and homemakers prominent in their bases. Personality cults help the strongman be whatever his followers need him to be at that moment.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/20...ality-cult
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
