RE: Advice needed
November 19, 2016 at 2:31 am
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2016 at 2:33 am by Alex K.)
(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
