#Satanic Cult of Scientology

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Cate Blanchett named son after convicted child sex offender Roman Polanski | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/cate-blanchett-named-son-after-convicted-child-sex-offender-roman-polanski/news-story/7643a75ab10a08d35b781b1f07043c59#:~:text=Blanchett%20said%20Roman%20was%20named,famous%20American%20novelist)%20Dashiell%20Hammett.

https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/98319492.html

Blanchett said Roman was named after the disgraced director, who fled the United States in 1978 before he was due to be sentenced for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

“You run out of ideas by the time you get to number three,” she joked.

“Dashiell came from (famous American novelist) Dashiell Hammett.

“Roman, I don’t know... Polanski. But it’s also the French word for book.”

Polanski has been living in exile in France since 1978, despite multiple attempts by the United States to extradite him.

Blanchett previously came under fire in 2014 after starring in Woody Allen’s film Blue Jasmine.

Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow wrote an open letter to Blanchett, criticising her for working with the director despite her claims of child sexual abuse.

Tough love ... Cate won an Oscar for Blue Jasmine despite being criticised for working with Woody Allen. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Tough love ... Cate won an Oscar for Blue Jasmine despite being criticised for working with Woody Allen. Picture: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

“What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?” she wrote.

In response, Blanchett said it had “obviously been a long and painful situation for the family and I hope they find some resolution and peace”.

Roman Polanski

Ignatius, Captain Underpants

"According to the American Library Association, the Captain Underpants books were reported as some of the most banned and challenged books in the United States between 2000 and 2009 as well as between 2010 and 2019. The books were named one of the top ten most banned and challenged books in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013 and 2018.

The Captain Underpants series was explicitly banned in some schools for "insensitivity, offensive language, encouraging disruptive behavior, LGBTQIA+ issues, violence, being unsuited to the age group, sexually explicit content, anti-family content, as well as encouraging children to disobey authority."

Dashiell Hammett....

Hammett devoted much of his life to left-wing activism. He was a strong antifascist throughout the 1930s, and in 1937 joined the Communist Party. On May 1, 1935, Hammett joined the League of American Writers (1935–1943), whose members included Lillian Hellman, Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Frank Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, I. F. Stone, Myra Page, Millen Brand, Clifford Odets, and Arthur Miller. (Members were largely either Communist Party members or fellow travelers. He suspended his anti-fascist activities when, as a member (and in 1941 president) of the League of American Writers, he served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Especially in Red Harvest, literary scholars have seen a Marxist critique of the social system. One Hammett biographer, Richard Layman, calls such interpretations "imaginative", but he nonetheless objects to them, since, among other reasons, no "masses of politically dispossessed people" are in this novel. Herbert Ruhm found that contemporary left-wing media already viewed Hammett's writing with skepticism, "perhaps because his work suggests no solution: no mass-action... no individual salvation... no Emersonian reconciliation and transcendence".

In a letter of November 25, 1937, to his daughter Mary, Hammett referred to himself and others as "we reds". He confirmed, "in a democracy all men are supposed to have an equal say in their government", but added that "their equality need not go beyond that." He also found, "under socialism there is not necessarily... any leveling of incomes."

Hellman wrote that Hammett was "most certainly" a Marxist, though a "very critical Marxist" who was "often contemptuous of the Soviet Union" and "bitingly sharp about the American Communist Party", to which he was nevertheless loyal. 

At the beginning of 1942, he wrote the screenplay of Watch on the Rhine, based on Hellman's successful play, which received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). But that year the Oscar went to Casablanca. In early 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hammett again enlisted in the United States Army. Because he was 48 years old, had tuberculosis, and was a Communist, Hammett later stated he had "a hell of a time" being inducted into the Army. However, biographer Diane Johnson suggests that confusion over Hammett's forename was the reason he was able to re-enlist. He served as an enlisted man in the Aleutian Islands and initially worked on cryptanalysis on the island of Umnak. For fear of his radical tendencies, he was transferred to the Headquarters Company where he edited an Army newspaper entitled The Adakian. In 1943, while still a member of the military, he co-authored The Battle of the Aleutians with Cpl. Robert Colodny, under the direction of an infantry intelligence officer, Major Henry W. Hall. While in the Aleutians, he developed emphysema.

After the war, Hammett returned to political activism, "but he played that role with less fervour than before". He was elected president of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) on June 5, 1946, at a meeting held at the Hotel Diplomat in New York City, and "devoted the largest portion of his working time to CRC activities".

In 1946, a bail fund was created by the CRC "to be used at the discretion of three trustees to gain the release of defendants arrested for political reasons." The trustees were Hammett, who was chairman, Robert W. Dunn, and Frederick Vanderbilt Field.

The CRC was designated a Communist front group by the US Attorney General. Hammett endorsed Henry A. Wallace in the 1948 United States presidential election..."

'Blanchett and Stewart joined fellow Cannes jury members, Ava DuVernay, Khadja Nin, and Léa Seydoux, in the South of France for the start of this year's festival earlier this week. Not only did we see both Blanchett and Stewart donning spring-inspired pantsuits we now need in our lives, but we were, more importantly, blessed with photos of Stewart staring tenderly at Blanchett. What a time to be alive."

[ramon-balaguer]

The Only Thing Worse Than Religions of the World With Their Dead god or gods and idols and or living personification presidents, representatives and leaders, Sanctimonious Dogmas & Doctrines, Dress Codes and Rules, Rituals & Righteous Rights Are Cults and Paganisms like Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientologists, Latter Day (Satan’s) Saints or Mormons, Moonies or Unification Cults and Creeds, Humanists, Evolutionists PETAs; and The Only Thing Worse Than Cults are The Occults like Satanists, Spell-castors, Fortune Tellers, Psychics & Divination or Diviners, Witches & Warlocks, Wiccans, Clairvoyants, Spiritualists, Sorcerers, Mediums, Magicians & Mystics, Masons, Eastern Stars, Sororities, Fraternities, and other Secular Secret Societies and Sects…and Halloween is the Day or Night they twisted and possessed from its Christian roots (Hallow, from it 2,000 years old Celtic and Christian roots, meaning Holy as the Holy Eve before Hallows Day or All Saints Day; kinda like Christmas Eve to Christmas Day or New Years Eve to New Years Day) to celebrate their beliefs, faiths, bonfires, costumes, drinking (or worse junk) and dancing and seances. 🤷‍♂️ and Don’t let it be a full moon 🌕 too 🐺 🤣🤣🤣

So yeah, Happy Halloween 💀 and however you participate, Keep Jesus🎚️ First and do it as unto Him👻🙌🙌🙌 🎃🙏🌎#REBTD😇

[valentine--x]

A few of my moots are talking about religion and I have so many big opinions about religion that I would probably only cause drama by talking bout them 😭 it's too nuanced to just write out in a single post, I have books worth reasons I hate religion and even more on how it's all front for cultural grooming

I've had too much experience with cults that all organized religion looks the exact same and all the same patterns form - Mormons, FLDS, JWs, Catholics, Mega Church Christians, and Scientology are all the same grift in diffrent fonts

I've had too much experience with far-right idiots using God's name in vein to promote hate and violence that even individualized religion is starting to look like the mass cultural grooming the Christians did in the 80's for the Satanic Panic

And somehow, I still can't bring myself to hate religious and spiritual people at all, programs like Alcoholics Anonymous are decently successful and I've sat in on meeting before and I think the stories people tell about finding a higher power (sometimes it's god, a pet, a parent, or a partner - it's anything that makes you want to change) are beautiful, and honestly were a huge influence on how I veiw God now, I'm still an agnostic/aethist but sometimes I pray to just whatever might or might not be out there just for my own sake, sometimes I call it Jesus and God and other times it's the Ghost poster on my wall or it's my cats or dog - I have my personal higher power and that's kinda just it

[bmspectra24]

WeirDelhpi!

Scientology is an allowance of faith-based practices, invented by American creator L. Ron Hubbard. It has been differently characterized as a cult, a business or new religious movement. There have been various conspiracies and claims made about scientology and it has been the center of critique for a long time.

Delphi school - one of the institutes affiliated with scientology, falls under the purview of a religious faction, Nohki. Nohki encompasses a set of principles that are deemed to be far from moral and ethical. The school has very odd teaching methods and correction methods that are not ethical in any sense. It consists of an ‘Ethics Room’ and ‘Isolation Room’ for pupils who have done wrong. Other methods of punishment like various forms of physical torment, like being struck by a rod for failing to finish work have also been reported by previous students. The school adopts the very scandalous teachings of Scientology as a religion and the faction Nokhi in particular.

Additionally, the school also has several bizarre drills as a part of their curriculum. One example of the given drill was to perform a task in which students were required to sit still for two hours and stare at each other. Another drill entailed repeating a word over and over until it's meaning registered. The method of evaluation used by Delphi School has also been criticized for being a poor measure of education. Furthermore, students are trained under a strict disciplinary system based on peer monitoring. In other words, they are required to expose every wrongdoing witnessed so that the accused may receive a painful punishment. “It was a fear-oriented student life”, one student reported, while another spoke on the mind- controlling tactics taught by the staff, who were all largely Scientologists themselves. Most students that leave Delphi School have little job prospects in any field. What makes the school disputable is its affiliation with the controversy on how the minds of young children are molded to think in a forceful manner.

Apart from all this, the school has an unreasonable high fee rate of USD 42000 even though the only staff present are the teachers. The cleaning, cooking and general maintenance of the school is done by their pupils itself and there is little informationabout what the exorbitant fees are being used for. Ultimately, The Delphian has garnered a negative image with some even calling it a ‘Satanic School’ as it is unbearably strict, and

impossible to succeed in.

Task at Hand:

You are a Board of Director of Delphi School and have decided to expand to India, a country where there is maximum diversity and friction between different cultures. This

makes setting up a school with such principles a challenge. Furthermore, the high fees of

30 Lakhs p.a. charged by your school acts as a deterrent to students applying.

Deliverables:

Devise strategies for handling legalities and setting up this affiliated school in India in any state and city of your choice with proper justification.

Create marketing strategies to gain visibility and improve the public image of the school without changing the fundamental beliefs and principles of the institution.

PR strategies to address the allegations of imposing physical and mental trauma on students to convince Indian parents to send their children to Delphi School.

Provide details on the allocation of your finances including:

a. Break-Even Analysis

b. ROI (Return on Investment)

c. Sources of Funds

d. Detailed Cost Breakdown to justify the unreasonably high fees.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

"does this include [insert religion]?"

no because christianity and atheism are the only two real religions that go out of their way to proselytize and convert others.

atheists who make being atheist their entire personality are just as annoying as christians who make being christian their entire personality.

[nexomy]

I feel like a lot of people who ship Johnlock have it as like. Their 'blueprint' ship. Like sure, they ship other things, but Johnlock was their earliest, most fervent love, and now they see them everywhere. And meanwhile like, obviously Johnlock was my second real ship, and they are very much dear to me, and I do see them everywhere, but my blueprint ship is just something else. Something worse, in a way? There was this one french YouTube comedy series, in the 2010's, about two friends. One is such a people pleaser, he never says no, so the other decides to give him a Balls Therapy™, to get him some Balls™ so he can get his girl back. And like, dude, I shipped them SO HARD. And obviously, it wasn't AS queerbaity as BBC Johnlock, first off cause BBC raised the bar HIGH in that area, and second because they ACTUALLY BECAME CANON??? Like???

This is genuinely so absurd. This was borderline a crack ship, how tf did this happen. One of the main plot points of the last season is about a freaking Scientology inspired cult, except the aliens are kinda real, and finding a ghost of a Panty-less bride??! The second season is about selling your rights to SATAN editions, and selling cup and balls?? One character invents "hardcore musette", or a mix of accordion and heavy metal??? It's SUCH an absurd ass thing, but they took their gay love story seriously?? Before kissing him, Balls Therapy™ guy yells at People Pleaser™ guy "what are you afraid of??" And they kiss in the leaves, in the forest??? And the Balls™ guy's girlfriend is like, strongly implied to be aroace??? Like WHAT????

But like, at the end of the day, they're just... Surprisingly similar to Johnlock, and I kinda wanna write a crossover comic about them.

[puppydolled]

when I talk abt my spirituality and self conception, ppl seem to want to gather around me or follow me when it clicks for them, it's hard to be ok with that when you just get called a cult leader for fostering spirituality and self love in those around you. personally I try to just think of it more like just a system of worship for an isolated spiritual group, like the greco-roman mysteries and other ancient cults, doesn't really help when you know they mean it like scientology and evangelical christianity and all those cults of personality. I don't really talk abt any of it anymore tho cuz of it.

p.s. fuck the greeks and romans, all the cool mysteries started out non greco-roman and slowly assimilated

yeah, it's a known phenomena forever that western culture has been kinda brainwormed by cults popped up especially in the late 20th century and also like, satanic panic & other reactionary forces spawned from them and also christian forces etc. and also how these are applied especially towards online trans women, there's a reason cultjacketing is a term

it does not get particularly upset about people doing it, but it does wish its girlfriend could live in peace from the millionth online harasser targeting trans women online with their personal excuse to view them as a force of evil. it thinks having to practice personal security and general distance/paranoia about people when you are literally just playing and practicing spirituality with yourself kinda sucks and no one should have to do it

or that people were able to comprehend existing together as beings who talk about shit didnt mean someone was Coerced into whatever they can imagine. literally like, sharing little beliefs and drawing eachother's little pictures on things and the interactivity of it all is literal kindergarten playground behavior, but because adults are doing it, it must be some sort of wicked force

also it thinks the greco-roman stuff was fine, the imperialist and colonialist forces obviously is not what it's talking about but the approaches to spirituality were like, fine it thinks. it special interested on roman legion structure when it was much younger and thus learned about some of the more niche cults, and while like the cult of mithras and stuff was originally very not roman, it thinks the way these smaller cults etc were practiced was very genuine, and in some cases literally the only practice of it left over time.. there's obviously more nuance to it but it doesn't entirely get the hate for roman and greek polytheism, it was a slightly bastardized practice for the main deities but it was still genuine for those who lived and practiced it

[msclaritea]

The John Wick films are falling out of popularity, so they're going to use an Indian actor, to get some international flavor and continue pushing Ammosexual Films. I thought Jordan Peele did Horror, or did interest in that dry up, too?

[idbangmegamind]

Summing up religions (but only the ones I've personally experienced) (with a really baked atheist)

(Offensive)

Christianity- Love yourself

Catholicism- Hate yourself

Buddhism- Superiority complex

Hinduism- Inferiority complex

Judaism- Get hatecrimed it builds character

Satanism- Love yourself

Scientology- Join our cult

Jehova's Witnesses- Join our cult

Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism)- Men fucking rock

Atheism- Why do you need the fear of God in you to NOT be a dickhead??

Norse Paganism- Die in a war

Greek Paganism- Don't piss off the gods Don't fuck Zeus (or anything that MIGHT be Zeus)

Celtics Paganism- Don't piss off the Fae

Agnosticism- Nothing matters

Spirituality- Everything matters

[rebeleden]

Watch "Revealing The Dark Secrets Of The Church Scientology" on YouTube

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[msclaritea]

Paramount bidder Byron Allen has long history of failed media bids

Byron Allen, offering $14 billion for Paramount, has a long history of media bids that haven't materialized

PUBLISHED WED, JAN 31 2024 3:23 PM EST

UPDATED WED, JAN 31 2024 4:38 PM EST

Ryan Anastasio

@RYAN_ANASTASIO

Byron Allen, the media mogul offering $14 billion for Paramount Global, told CNBC on Wednesday that he has the money to finance a deal.

Allen has a long history of making offers on major media assets, but few of his bids have resulted in sales.

His bids for linear TV assets come as the media landscape shifts away from traditional TV toward streaming.

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"We have more than enough capital available to us. The real challenge is certainty of close," Allen said.

"This deal lives or dies at the [Federal Communications Commission]," he added.

Allen, the founder and CEO of a media group that owns dozens of television networks across the U.S., offered $30 billion for all of Paramount's outstanding shares, including debt and equity.

The Allen Media Group said in a statement the offer "is the best solution for all of the Paramount Global shareholders, and the bid should be taken seriously and pursued."

Allen has a long history of making offers on major media assets. But bidding doesn't mean buying.

His recent media buyout offers have failed to materialize into sales. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Allen last year offered $18.5 billion for Paramount, and was rejected.

Allen told CNBC he hasn't received a response from Paramount to his most recent offer.

Shari Redstone, who controls Paramount through her company National Amusements, has been open to deal-making in recent months in an effort to either merge or sell the company that's home to brands such as CBS, Showtime, Nickelodeon and its namesake movie studio.

CNBC reported last week that David Ellison's Skydance Media and its backers were exploring a deal to take Paramount Pictures or the entire media company private.

In December, CNBC also reported Paramount had entered preliminary talks with Warner Bros. Discovery to merge the two media giants in a deal that could have faced regulatory hurdles.

Allen's bid for Paramount is the most ambitious of the deals the media mogul has tried to complete. Here are some of his recent deal attempts:

In December, Allen renewed an attempt to buy Paramount-owned Black Entertainment Television and VH1 for a combined $3.5 billion.

In November, Bloomberg reported, he was weighing a bid to buy television stations from E.W. Scripps.

In September, Allen made an offer to buy ABC and several other networks from Disney for $10 billion after Disney CEO Bob Iger opened the door to selling the company's linear TV assets.

In 2022, he explored a bid to buy the National Football League's Washington Commanders.

In March 2020, he offered $8.5 billion to buy television stations owner Tegna.

Allen told CNBC via phone Wednesday that he lost out on several deals because ownership changed course on wanting to sell. He highlighted his acquisition of The Weather Channel in 2018 for a reported $300 million and broadly defended his track record, invoking baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth.

"Let's talk about Babe Ruth. Does he go down as one of the greatest baseball players of all time? And he struck out half the time," Allen said. In actuality, Ruth struck out 1,300 times in 8,399 at bats — a 15% strikeout rate.

Allen's bids for linear TV assets come as the media landscape shifts away from traditional TV toward streaming. Almost all the major media companies have launched services to compete with streaming giant Netflix.

Paramount reported in its third-quarter earnings report that its streaming platform, Paramount+, increased its subscriber count to 63 million. However, Paramount's direct-to-consumer products have failed to turn a profit like Netflix has. The division reported adjusted losses of $238 million for the third quarter.

Paramount will release its fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 28.

Allen told CNBC he wants to buy Paramount for its linear networks, what he says is the most challenging part of the company.

"These are still great businesses if you know how to manage them properly," Allen said.

Shares of Paramount were up almost 7% Wednesday and have risen more than 35% in the past three months as talks of a deal have ramped up. However, the stock is more than 40% off its 52-week high of $25.93 a share reached in February 2023.

— CNBC's Alex Sherman and Julia Boorstin contributed to this report.

[smilingsheltie]

Some of my favorite unhinged old songs that were actually hits:

"Timothy" by the Buoys, went to #17 in the US and #9 in Canada, is about miners who resort to cannibalism when trapped underground. (Todd in the Shadows made a video about this song and band and it's one of his funniest ever, you ABSOLUTELY must see it if you haven't)

"Joe's Garage" by Frank Zappa-an incredibly BIZARRE album (that got to the top 30 on Billboard) about a guy named Joe who gets dumped by his girlfriend, joins a parody of Scientology whose members have sex with robots, accidentally kills his robot by "plooking" it too hard, and...honestly so much weird shit happens I can't list it all here. (Unfortunately, the album cover has Zappa in blackface, so just be warned of that. I know, gross.) Here's the part of the album when Joe gets an STD.

"Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart" by Johnny Cash-yes, the great Cash actually recorded a song with a toilet metaphor. And it's on At Folsom Prison, one of his most popular albums (top 10 in Norway and UK, #13 in US, #1 on US country chart).

"Autobahn" by Kraftwerk-an OVER 20 MINUTE SONG about how awesome it is to drive on German roads. Sure, the 70s had lots of car songs, but one about a specific road system that's, I repeat, OVER 20 MINUTES?! Went to the Top 10 of 2 countries, Top 20 of 7 others, and #25 in the US.

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels-this one you probably know. Satan challenges a random kid to a fiddle-playin' contest and quickly regrets it.

"Hotel California" by the Eagles-Another one everyone knows. How many #1 songs (that's where this peaked in the US and Canada) are about eldritch locations? Whether you interpret it literally, as a "music industry bad" song with a weird metaphor, or an allegory for the Manson Family cult, the last line remains chilling.

"I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats-basically "Pumped Up Kicks" but 40 years before. It's about a real-life school shooting where the shooter claimed she did it because she hates Mondays. This one's obviously a lot darker than all the others I've listed, but it's still a subject that mainstream pop groups of today probably wouldn't touch (side note, apparently "Pumped Up Kicks" came out a decade ago?!)

"Junk Food Junkie" by Larry Groce. It's about a guy who really loves Twinkies. Pretty simple yet fun premise. Went to #9 in the US.

"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haa!" by Napoleon XIV-a man goes insane after his dog runs away. Features the creepiest chorus of a mainstream hit, like, "this guy could've played the Joker" type creepy. The B-side of this song was just the original played backwards. Still reached the top 5 in Australia, the Uk, Canada, and the US.

Finally, "Ben" by Michael Jackson. You may know this song, but not the story behind it. It's not a love song, at least not for a human; Ben is the killer rat in the horror movie also called Ben (which is a sequel to Willard, about a guy who has an army of rats that kill for him, Ben being one of them). Remember, this was pre-Thriller-MJ was just out of the Jackson 5 at this point in time. Who thought to get a child star to sing a cute song for a scary movie? It's like if whoever Disney Channel's biggest star now (I haven't kept up with Disney in years idk who they're hyping now) wrote a song called "Annabelle", about how much they love this Annabelle chick, and it's only if you go see the movie that you'd know she's actually a creepy evil doll.

I could go on and on but I think I've added enough. (I tried to focus on lesser-known and forgotten ones, but I couldn't leave "Hotel California" out, it's so creepy)

In conclusion, Ye Olde pop hits were weeeiiird. And oh, how I wish today's pop hits were too. I'm begging for a current pop star, ANY current pop star, to give us an upbeat cannibal ballad this coming year.

Rock bands used to just write about whatever the fuck. Not to be all "old music was better!" but when's the last time the world's highest selling band released a song about killing people with hammers. The Who made an entire rock opera about a deaf, mute, and blind guy who is so good at pinball that he inspires a cultlike group of devotees who think he's the next christ. It was released at the peak of their popularity and was made into a movie featuring people like Elton John and Tina Turner.

I think classic rock gets a reputation for being all about girls and cars and drugs but for about 15-20 years there were absolutely no rules on acceptable song subject matter. Pink Floyd has a song about a gnome going on an adventure. Alice Cooper has a whole album about breaking out of the Ableist Insane Asylum because he misses his dog. These weren't weird little indie groups, these were all highly successful charting bands getting radio airplay and selling out stadiums.

We need to bring this culture back. No more love songs. Sing about wizards.

[timeisacephalopod]

I tried to watch that fucking Son of Sam documentary on Netflix and eventually I had to quit because almost all the ‘evidence’ they had for the two other people they pinned for the SoS crimes were almost Exclusively satanic panic nonsense. And at No point did the doc seem interested in pointing out that NONE of the crimes people thought were happening during the satanic panic actually happened- seriously the satanic panic (at least at the time) resulted in the most expensive criminal investigation/ trials in US history and NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED!!!! There’s wasn’t evidence of SHIT!! Not to mention every occult thing they used as evidence like… not only is it Wildly irresponsible not to mention the satanic panic and all the false accusations that led to ruined lives based on zero evidence, but interest in the occult was popular at the time of the shootings so Berkowitz (the Actual shooter) having a passing interest- in a time where neo paganism took off 20 years prior and neo religions/ spiritualisms were popular- isn’t fucking SHOCKING and is not, in fact, a reason to accuse people who didn’t confess to the crime at hand of being serial killers???!?

There actually were a couple interesting nuggets based in Actual reality that had me going 🤔🤔🤔 but the fact that satanic panic nonsense completely ripped from context and presented in a Deeply irresponsible way meant I had to stop watching, it pissed me off too much that whoever made this shit just wasn’t interested in context whatsoever and then created a doc that’s basically satanic panic 2.0 and people will fucking believe it because for some reason people think the devil will show up in a backwards hat if Jerry asks but Jesus won’t show up until the second fucking coming and this makes Perfect sense to Christians.

[rebeleden]

Watch "Tiffany Haddish MISTAKENLY Leaks NEW Jada Pinkett's Scientology's Ties" on YouTube

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[ausetkmt]

understand the differences in cultic groups

The thing I wish the “it would be so great to live in a cult!” people understood is that “cult” can refer to very different things. These are not clearly-defined categories; they can change and overlap a lot. But some groups have more qualities of one than another.

A New Religious Movement is a group whose beliefs and practices differ significantly from established mainstream religions. These can be intensely varied and can range from fewer than a dozen followers to millions of adherents. They are not necessarily bad or harmful to their followers. NRMs of the 20th century include Wicca, Pentecostalism, the Church of Satan, Chaos Magic, and most types of neopaganism.

A commune or collective household is a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities. Although it can be tricky to make sure the rules work for everyone and everybody’s needs and feelings are accommodated, these can be positive communities that benefit all their members.

A Totalistic Movement is a group that uses abusive techniques to take control over its followers’ lives and pressures them into situations that are unsafe, harmful, or illegal. Literally anything can be a totalistic movement, from a book club to a workplace to a political party. Famous examples include Scientology, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven’s Gate.

Basically, you and your friends can form whatever religion you want and have a fabulous time. You can worship the moon or the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster or Satan. You can move into a dilapidated Victorian mansion and split up groceries, or grow your own food together on a farm. Fly! Be free!

But you’re safer and better off if you avoid groups that:

View their principles as absolute truths that cannot be deviated from

Discourage or even punish questioning, doubt, dissent, or noncompliance

Use feelings of guilt to control their members

Claim to have special, exalted access to the truth, which nobody from any other group can possibly have

View the rest of society with a polarized us-vs-them mentality, where only people inside the group can be trusted

Dictate a great deal of how its adherents should think, act, and feel, including but not limited to where they should live, how they should dress, what they should eat, what media they consume, and how to conduct their personal relationships

Deny or discourage its members from having access to outside help and support, including education, money the group does not have control over, and medical and mental health care

Believe that its leaders or members should be uniquely exempt from a lot of society’s ways for holding people accountable, or can’t be held to any set of external laws or standards

Discourage members from having relationships, interests, activities, or goals that aren’t related to the group

Check out the International Cultic Studies Association for more information on destructive group tendencies and how to spot warning flags for totalistic movements.

[star-anise]

The thing I wish the “it would be so great to live in a cult!” people understood is that “cult” can refer to very different things. These are not clearly-defined categories; they can change and overlap a lot. But some groups have more qualities of one than another.

A New Religious Movement is a group whose beliefs and practices differ significantly from established mainstream religions. These can be intensely varied and can range from fewer than a dozen followers to millions of adherents. They are not necessarily bad or harmful to their followers. NRMs of the 20th century include Wicca, Pentecostalism, the Church of Satan, Chaos Magic, and most types of neopaganism.

A commune or collective household is a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities. Although it can be tricky to make sure the rules work for everyone and everybody’s needs and feelings are accommodated, these can be positive communities that benefit all their members.

A Totalistic Movement is a group that uses abusive techniques to take control over its followers’ lives and pressures them into situations that are unsafe, harmful, or illegal. Literally anything can be a totalistic movement, from a book club to a workplace to a political party. Famous examples include Scientology, Aum Shinrikyo, and Heaven's Gate.

Basically, you and your friends can form whatever religion you want and have a fabulous time. You can worship the moon or the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster or Satan. You can move into a dilapidated Victorian mansion and split up groceries, or grow your own food together on a farm. Fly! Be free!

But you’re safer and better off if you avoid groups that:

View their principles as absolute truths that cannot be deviated from

Discourage or even punish questioning, doubt, dissent, or noncompliance

Use feelings of guilt to control their members

Claim to have special, exalted access to the truth, which nobody from any other group can possibly have

View the rest of society with a polarized us-vs-them mentality, where only people inside the group can be trusted

Dictate a great deal of how its adherents should think, act, and feel, including but not limited to where they should live, how they should dress, what they should eat, what media they consume, and how to conduct their personal relationships

Deny or discourage its members from having access to outside help and support, including education, money the group does not have control over, and medical and mental health care

Believe that its leaders or members should be uniquely exempt from a lot of society’s ways for holding people accountable, or can't be held to any set of external laws or standards

Discourage members from having relationships, interests, activities, or goals that aren’t related to the group

Check out the International Cultic Studies Association for more information on destructive group tendencies and how to spot warning flags for totalistic movements.