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as far as i can tell, people fall into cults because they are missing one of the following things - love and people - visibility of their soul - status, excitement, belonging - hope - a recognition of their vast underground pain and the cults are the best match for those things
their friends and families will say "nooooo don’t do that, that’s a cuuult" with like ZERO fingers lifted to understand what the thing the person was missing was, or providing it they’ll provide other things, but usually not the thing the person was most missing
i have ~ANGER towards these "friends and families" not because they're bad people, but just because they're incompetent, and we can ask better of them ask them to translate the love they have towards their friend or family member into competent care https://t.co/7yy0vljOnL
do what an intelligent person would do, when confronted with a problem they don’t know how to solve ~ask for help. read books, about cults. ask friends & people online. ask the person, what’s going on for you? be curious, truly curious
questions like this are entirely legit and worth asking and if you don’t have a good answer, i don’t think you’ll get very far https://t.co/DkNHQmFoqK
you have refused to grant the basic premise the other person is doing something, in their particular frame, internally sensible when you start with the position someone is insane, unless you have massive goodwill built up with them, they will be hostile cf entire psych system
what do you do? this where i am with it, when it comes to helping other people, or my own self, when i sense addiction to a cultish pattern https://t.co/yGYaadCnOA
ime, the dynamics for internal addiction all rhyme together https://t.co/jzAshRQpxG
put very simply, in very clear terms: cults are providing a vital ingredient it's just laced https://t.co/4XvAcNg8TI
but people will drink of the poisoned well if it's the only well reliably there for them https://t.co/4kqTve4liD