How Cults Rewire The Brain
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Uploaded by LocusOfReason on Jun 18, 2009
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My own preface: I consider all religions to be forms of cults.
At 17, Diane Benscoter joined The Unification Church -- the religious cult whose members are commonly known as Moonies. After five long years, her distressed family arranged to have her deprogrammed. Benscoter then left The Unification Church, and was so affected by her experience that she became a deprogrammer herself. She devoted her time to extracting others from cults, until she was arrested for kidnapping. The shock of her arrest caused her to abandon her efforts for almost 20 years.
Now, after decades of research and study, Diane has begun to speak about her experiences. She recently completed a memoir describing her years as a member of The Unification Church and as a deprogrammer.
Furthermore, she has embarked on a new project to define extremist viral memetic infections. She believes that defining extremism as a memetic infection, from a cognitive neurological perspective, might allow us to develop better memes that would inoculate against the memes of extremist thought. These inoculating memes could prevent the spread of extremist viral memetic infections and their inherent dangers.
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@humpfry24 Not fast enough for me.
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@555pontifex To quote Tolkien, not even the wisest can see all ends.
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What is wrong with thinking in terms of the categories 'good' and 'evil'?
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Excellent, I'm an ex JW looking into this subject to help others. There are a lot of us out here. With the internet we aren't as alone as we use to be, so many of us have had to deprogram on our own. Which I did for several years, still believing in it. This is one of the best so far under rated and deserves a higher view count.
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That was George Carlin in Dogma
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Some people are weak minded, and by some I mean most. Look at the people we have in office in the US, FFS. Earth will eventually shake us off like fleas.
December 2012 - CALGON TAKE ME AWAY
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When will we get a shot for everybody then?
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This is your brain. This is your brain on religion.
Any questions?
ChipArgyle 3 weeks ago 25
I'm glad we are slowly becoming immune to this world wide pandemic of religion.
humpfry24 3 weeks ago 16