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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Any organization that has a dude at the top banging all the hot chicks should be eyed with supreme suspicion by everyone. Particularly mothers bringing their daughters in...
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Of course. But if you have a few thousand people scattered across different locations and you only see this guy once a year or maybe even not at all in person, you can easily just think it's an attempt to discredit it. It was also the early-mid 2000's when it really blew up, it's not like the internet was super prevalent then you couldn't as easily google (insert cult leaders name here) and find dirt. And it's also not like some of his victims didn't go to authorities, they just woefully failed women as usual.
In this instance it seems like the actual sexual abuse side of it was kept within a relatively small group and there's so much shame and pressure built into it that no one shares anything with each other. Although if you ARE privy to how this dude was living, it's tough to see how rational people weren't at least extremely suspicious.
It's strange to hear them describe the hold this guy has. Like he's not handsome and he's just talking out his ass most of the time, and people describe having sat with him for 15 minutes and it actually being hours and it makes you wonder about cult leaders in general and people like Rasputin etc.. like how are they actually able to hypnotize people like this? Are they doing it on purpose or is it just something that they do? it doesn't really seem practiced, it's just a narcissistic psychopathy that people are drawn to for some reason.
I remember my mother after our parents split dragging us to this course called Choices that she was into for a little while and it just gives me the willies the similarities in structure. There was nothing sinister about the course itself at its base level, but I think if you get into the top core few dozen of any group like that, there might be some funky s***. And really I'm skeptical of any group that claims to have a "method" that's solely going to work to improve peoples' lives.