Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: March 28, 2024, 5:22 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Advice needed
#21
RE: Advice needed
(November 18, 2016 at 11:22 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(November 18, 2016 at 10:17 am)Alex K Wrote: Sorry, but I don't share your happily libertarian attitude towards family-destroying cults.

If they practise scientology-style disconnection, and it sounds that way,  it's a case for professionals who know how cults work. Yes, they probably fill a need of hers, but exploiting said need as a vulerability to psychologically isolate and enslave people is not cool, don't you think?


I don't think it is necessarily a matter of being too easy going.  If you fight her on it, it likely won't change her mind but it may well push her away and out of your life.  Very sad though.

Wait. Is she a minor? Screw that, get her out of there.

Nope. She's 22. It's her call.

I agree that confronting her won't work, at least not in the short run, these groups practise the necessary psychological innoculation against that, as in scientology's idea that someone who criticises the group must by necessity have committed crimes and probably is a Suppressive Person, and contact with SPs leads to disease and accidents, so you need to not listen for your own safety. These cults all have their own version of that.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  No Tower Of Babel Needed Minimalist 0 339 March 28, 2018 at 1:17 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  Help needed for atheist/science films, CG especially skydivephil 3 946 December 14, 2017 at 11:08 pm
Last Post: c172
  Long term advice when debating theists. Brian37 33 6834 May 6, 2015 at 12:06 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  Appointed leader in each age needed for religion to be true. Mystic 17 3962 October 24, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Last Post: dyresand
  Atheist parenting advice - Church run preschool? EvolvedKnight 13 2652 March 13, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Last Post: MindForgedManacle
  Advice For Those Who Have 'Questions For Atheists' BrianSoddingBoru4 26 7092 February 6, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Last Post: rexbeccarox
  Some Advice needed from real people themonkeyman 32 10968 August 9, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Last Post: pineapplebunnybounce
  How many miracles needed in the Noah myth? Doubting Thomas 74 33833 January 31, 2012 at 6:36 am
Last Post: KichigaiNeko
  Richard Dawkins applauds my channel + Help needed TheIslammiracle 2 1646 March 14, 2011 at 11:50 am
Last Post: TheIslammiracle



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)