#undue influence

[nonooddo]

WHAT DO YOU CALL SOMEONE….

What do you call someone who can wrap the child-like staff of a City’s planning department round his little finger …?

What do you call someone who can get planning staff to break dozens of the rules they are supposed to enforce …?

What do you call someone who can have a bumbling City planner embarrass himself, his profession and his employer by calling a single prison-block looking apartment building a “Main Street”…?

What do you call someone who arranges it so he can deal for almost a year in secret with City planners to spring a hated development plan on the City’s best neighborhood…?

For that matter - what do you call a City that lets itself be cuck’d the way Olathe has…?

What do you call someone that can so dictate to a City that a) he demands every meeting and every vote happen immediately - then b) every vote and every meeting be delayed - and delayed again…?

What do you call someone who won’t let a City vote on something until he thinks he is sure he has the majority, and that it will pass…?

What do you call an out-of-town Big Cheese that gets his own way in a City despite thousands of citizen opponents and a seemingly elected and seemingly accountable City government…?

What do you call someone who seems to call the shots…? In the City of Olathe… ?…?……?

The OddFather…?

NO NO ODDO

[lindsaynichols]

I just finished “The Last Housewife” by Ashley Winstead and HOLY SHIT. If I could give it a million stars on Goodreads I would. I cannot recommend it enough. It comes with every trigger warning imaginable, but if you’re in a safe head space and place to read it, please do. It’s about a true crime podcast and a cult. But really it’s about coercive control, narcisstic abuse, and undue influence; the spectrum of misogyny, from everyday life to extraordinary circumstances; the role context and empathy plays in healing, forgiveness, and justice; and so, so much more. #NXIVM, a cult to which I probably have given too much mental real estate, is even given a shout out at the end, very fittingly. Those in the #igotout community, when you are far, far, FAR into your healing journey, I hope you read this and take comfort: you are not alone.

People, get thee to this book, immediamente.

[xiexiecaptain]

Been listening to a lot of Dr. Steven Hassan (expert on cults/authoritarian control tactics and licensed mental health practitioner) talk about coercive influence lately.

And a huge thing is sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is a key factor in influencing peoples minds because when you are sleep deprived, your prefrontal cortex is highly impaired. This is important because this part of your brain is responsible for functions related to critical thinking, logical reasoning & reality testing, decision making, and emotional & behavioral regulation, among other things. This makes you much more suggestable to others' whole-cloth agendas and potentially coercive ideas.

According to the CDC, nearly 1/3 of American adults are chronically sleep deprived and the NIH reports nearly 40% of American adults have reported falling asleep during the day without meaning to. Roughly the same amounts (1 out of 3 and 1 out of 4 depending on the age group) of Canadian adults are chronically sleep deprived.

Getting enough sleep FOR YOU is a HUGE protective factor against people and groups influencing your thought patterns. (Sleep needs DO vary among individuals due to a number of factors but the average adult needs between 7-9 hours while teenagers ages 13-18 need 8-10 hours, again according to the CDC.) This "influence" could be something as intense and insidious as cult recruiters, but also something as "minor" as non-straightforward advertising, reactionary politics, or black-and-white thinking.

Getting enough sleep (as well as enough food and non-sleep rest) helps you think for yourself and practice critical thinking to your full potential! This protective factor cannot be understated. If a group/religious organization/company/etc you are in is consistently pushing to deny you adequate sleep, that is a RED FLAG.

For people interested in learning more I highly recommend Dr. Hassan's books including and his landmark Combatting Cult Mind Control: Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults.

For people more multimedia-oriented, he has many many wonderful interviews he's done (found easily by searching his name on Youtube) about his personal experience being coerced into and rescued from a cult in his early 20s, and the analytical tool he developed called the BITE Model to help assess any kind of group or movement for various types of unethical/coercive influence factors! He also has a wonderful podcast that interviews people who have left cults/high control groups called "The Influence Continuum" that you can find pretty much anywhere you get your podcasts!

There's tons of free resources including his BITE Model and his Influence Continuum Model (which helps people place influencing factors on a scale from ethical to unethical) which can be found on his website freedomofmind.com)

[news-buzz]

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Michael Morfey outside Central London County Court (Image: Champion News) An 81-year-old Parkrun legend dubbed ‘Marvellous Mike’ is locked in a £325,000 inheritance fight with his stepkids who want to throw him out of his home. When super-fit pensioner Michael Morfey’s second wife Karen Morfey died in 2021, she left him nothing in her will despite the couple having been together for 18…

[kreigmitchell]

Undue Influence in Elder Law: Protecting Seniors' Rights and Dignity

At Kreig LLC, based in San Antonio, TX, we specialize in safeguarding seniors from undue influence in legal matters. Our dedicated team provides compassionate advocacy and expert legal guidance to protect the rights and dignity of elderly individuals. We offer tailored solutions, conduct thorough assessments, and empower families with knowledge to prevent exploitation. With a commitment to ethical practices and personalized care, we ensures that seniors receive the respect and legal protection they deserve. Understand the complexities surrounding undue influence and comprehensive elder law services in San Antonio. To know more visit us at : https://san-antonio-probate.com/

[filosofablogger]

Pack Him Up And Put Him In Storage!

I keep trying to remind people that Donald Trump is a private citizen, no different than you or me.  He is NOT president, does NOT have any role in government … his voice should be no louder than mine or yours.  And yet … the Texas Supreme Court has bowed down and paid fealty to Donald Trump, placing his desires ahead of the best interest of the people of Texas. The case against Texas Attorney…

[yaytomhiddlestonyay]

We've got to think with our own heads & feel with our own hearts.

[dc-probate-attorney]

Four More Ways to Stop Inheritance Theft in Your Family

In our previous post, we talked about some ways you can prevent inheritance theft in your family. Since there are so many ways this type of theft can occur, the steps to take to prevent this from happening can vary. If you have a strained relationship with a parent or live a long distance away, it can be difficult to get access to many of the documents we mentioned in our previous post. There are…

[ex-cogtfi]

In this 1977 quotation from cult founder David Berg, he decries medications as products of perverted thought and human arrogance. He regards medication to be harmful and unfitting for human consumption or use. Cult members were strongly discouraged from taking any form of medicine, as doing so was seen as depending upon fallible human reasoning rather than God’s wisdom. Instead, prayer, spiritual rituals including confession of sins and memorization of cult literature, and "natural remedies" – some of which were dangerous and harmful – were often the only forms of "treatment" deemed appropriate and acceptable.

[liketwoswansinbalance]

Excuse the semi-personal post if I bore anyone; it seemed tangentially-related, so make of it what you will:

Yesterday, I discovered that I had somehow devised a formula or a partly unintentional “uniform” for dressing for semi-formal events, on the occasions when I don’t bother wearing a dress. It’s happened thrice so far this year, and I’ve only caught onto the pattern now: item one is some kind of formal, black top (it’s been a different one every time—that could be why I didn’t catch onto to this at the start), item two is usually pale, grey pants, for high contrast and low-effort/thought, and then, there's silver jewelry.

[lagomorphique]

phonetic languages are in <3<3<3

stupid idiot languages with inconsistent pronunciation are out

[lindsaynichols]

Check out my top tip for adults facing #coercivecontrol on LCF’s Insta! The part that got cut off: the best part of new nonprofit #LivingCultFree is that we talk about what comes after. Bc we CAN all thrive after trauma: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6ElqC1Ocz6/?igsh=bm1lcWxsYWtmMHM2 Check out livingcultfree.com for more!

[navree]

someone needs to have a talk with taylor sheridan because between yellowstone having one of its main antagonists be an evil blood purist native american (whose evil crime is he doesn’t like that a white rancher acts like he owns land that, ya know, was stolen and  also said white rancher is treated as being in the moral right for using his undue influence over the government to have the native american guy arrested on trumped up legal charges and then tell him he’s not oppressed and can’t be mad about the treatment of other native americans he was elected to be responsible for because he went to harvard) and 1883′s main dutton character being a literal soldier in the confederate army, someone’s gotta check if everything’s on the up and up

[femmesandhoney]

which one of you girls alpha'ed me into getting my period i want to kill u

[red-red-spout]

my favorite tumblr discourse thing by far has to be the idea that acknowledging american hegemony is bad because it's american exceptionalism