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@@artsyhoodies is it bad that I immediately thought of the teenage mutant Ninja turtles because a person put the colors of them with these hearts

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And I knew exactly what our narrator was talking about when he said "spiritually banging them with rays of light emanating from his fingertips inside them". But who were they? The women or the guys??? 😏😉😁

SPICY

The anti-cult, the cult that protects it's followers from cults.

Beware the coming of the Anti-Cult!

im in

I agree, for the children that had to be raised lke me that would let them escape and be free

That'd be good, gotta make sure to find some random old man, too! they're *always* trustworthy, no matter what the police might imply

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Make sure it has decent production standards and a writing team that makes the stuff you like. Remember, Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story!

Don’t let the truth get in the way of Anything!

John Frum's a pretty good start

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. - Groucho Marx.

A friend described to me the woman on tape arguing with Jones about how they could potentially escape to the USSR. “You think the USSR would want this?!” was apparently his response, and that sticks with me.

​@@electricfishfan7159 Some Believe Jones Was a CIA Asset In a Mind Control 🛂 Experiment, That Sadly Worked.

You don't really need a great grip strength to break fingers, just press/pull in the right way.

Oh yeah my mom broke a nurse's fingers while giving birth to me (or it might have been one of my siblings). She was really new to the job and she was so excited about getting to be a part of it all for the first time that she didn't even care about her injury that much lol

Lucky! yikes!

Damn

Weirdly enough one of my high school history teachers was also supposed to be on one of those trains to get to class, college I believe. He was spared only because he missed his alarm. Had never happened before and hasn’t happened since which is pretty weird too lmao

I want to live there!

L Ron Hubbard’s ‘Power of Source’ - accurately named because it’s certainly a POS.

Actually tom cruise was a roman catholic seminarian before he became an actor and scientologist so he would have just been a priest.

​@@SC-ev6fdwho was really into jazz! hehe

And women do walk around topless…

What did you see, if I may ask?

@@websurfer5772 Not sure. Like something was moving just beneath my vision, where my cheeks are.

@@anahoffman7745 Thanks for answering. It's weird that happened after you watched it.

Makes sense considering it’s 1000% real and not fake

@@websurfer5772 lol its called being a naive kid homie wasnt being hypno haunted

Agreed

This was so funny I loved it ,,the guy azz hopping in hell made me laugh so hard

just put this into a voice ai as dr doofenshmirtz voice, would link it but it would porb get blocked

Best comment ever.

It sounds like a good idea to someone who isn’t familiar with snakes. Lots of people don’t realize snakes avoid wasting their venom on stuff that they can’t eat.

@@DustyHoney it's sad to be honest, the poor snake was probably just thirsty and confused.

@@john.d.rockefeller2538 Yeah, it’s just stupid.

I thought the same thing for years lol.

yeah i noticed that….. like why did they decide in that???

Yeah, they’ve gone off the Raels.

I noticed that and it reminded me of the same “logo” Kanye posted awhile back… looked it up to check that tweet and it was the exact same thing!

Pick a lane

What, no Chick Tracts?

I was thinking they sounded familiar, and it turns out I've read multiple distinct stories just like that in a Reddit thread about experiences in "troubled" children camps. It's absolutely insane what is allowed to go on there, and how parents often don't know the truth and are willing to do anything to "fix" their children. They take kids who need compassion and a listening ear and give them lifelong trauma.

I’m sorry to hear that you experienced that. The fact that places like that are allowed to exist is deplorable

Are you talking about the Elan School in Maine?

I’m so sorry!

@@chrisramsey6725 That was one of them, but there were plenty that followed that same model all across the US.

I wonder if they thought the State names were epithets used by the god/messenger depending on where he landed.

Thank you, I was looking for this comment.

@@ladykoiwolfe 👈 me too.

That's crazy!

Methinks the Scientologist doth protest too much.

That seems to be Cultism 101. I shouldn’t make this political, but I’ve noticed similar behavior in which outlets people trust to get their daily news…

All those rumors you heard about Scientology? Fake news. Locker room talk. It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it. Just give us money.

Until they finally open the locked briefcase full of Xenu materials and you're like oh shit all the jokes were true

@@Enkarashaddam Yes, except anybody who bought enough classes to open that briefcase has never heard any of the jokes. 🙉🙈

Having autism is like an anti-love bomb mechanism.

Abusive people do this too. Love bombing is a common tactic to break perfectly normal and healthy initial boundaries.

Screw that. Strangers hug me they get smacked the f down.

.................⬆️...must be life of the party...

@@miriamscuderi4680 very true. Like the classic trope of dad kicking the shit out of you and buying you ice cream after. It's an act to confuse you, are they sorry or is this a ploy? If they are capable of this level of kindness what did I do to set them off earlier? Is this really all my fault?

people need to be taught how to not be a victim tbh. idk how some are so blind. way easier before when no one was jus throwing the word narcissist around but now we're devolving on the opposite side. like now ppl know the signs almost too much to the point they say it to anyone. idk but you should really have the ability to tell who's getting into your head/life for bad purposes

Yeah. I feel like a lot of people think they're too smart to fall for cult tactics, but it's not always about intelligence, vulnerability plays a major role in it as well.

It's so frightening and people around me are still masking and vaxxing. 😵‍💫

how though? Most of these cult people are just whacked out, baked-as-hell weirdos without much charisma or magnetism. The ones that do have some gravitas you can clearly tell something's wrong with so honestly I just blame the dumb people who felt like they should join these ridiculous groups.

Yes, they can actually convince you to fly an airplane into a building and that you will be rewarded in an afterlife.

Oh that is a long-running tradition; James Brown, Ike Turner, Ray Charles, Ted Nugent...the list goes on....

@@Starcrunch72 there are no wrong notes in Jazz

@@KamBoomBap That's true

Wtf, that's pretty nuts, lmao.

The sax playing in the first jazz clip is flatter than my bank account.

Reminds me of that scene of the Simpsons where Grandpa tells a war story but edits it for the kids: "I was just telling Maggie how we chased the teddy bears into their cuddle bunkers, then had to tickle them out with machine hugs and fun throwers! They say the more soldiers you tickle, the easier it gets. Well, sir, it doesn't..."

@@arthas640 this is a perfect example, because Maggie already has an intimate understanding of gun violence and so avoiding the "bad" words was actually pointless with her.

This shit drives me nuts. It’s also just so stupid because the new, monetization friendly words just become placeholders, then just end up meaning the same thing. I fuckin hate this shit, it’s dumb af. Suicide, as an example, is a serious subject and having to use dumb ass terms like “un -aliving” makes it sound like it’s being made light of. Fuck RU-vid.

It won't be long before you'll get banned for even thinking about the word. Or maybe that's just Microsoft. The level of censorship on American platforms is ridiculous. The land of the free to stfu so you don't offend anyone ever even by accident except in music depending on the genre. 🤣

As someone who was murdered, i find it offensive.

As a fellow Kansan, yeah, I second this. It's a cult and a hate group. I remember they once protested at my high school because we had an LGBTQ student alliance, and my best friend (a gay man) flipped them off.

Pretty much nobody likes them. One time, the KKK showed up to counter protest them. Also, they have a very irrational hatred of other Christian groups.

They’ve also picketed at the funerals of school shooting victims, basically celebrating the shootings and saying they’re a good thing and God’s judgment. They are vile.

@@BlackFlagHeathen absolutely they are the worst.

"THE KING OF NOTHING TODAY!" made me bust up laughing. Glad I'm not the only one who has actually found some cult music kinda catchy. (Charles Manson - Home Is Where You're Happy) there's a great cover of it on youtube by a lovely woman.

His slam poetry unironically slapped. And I'm ashamed to say I'd listen to some of the other soul songs.

@@ZeranZeran David Koresh's music was surprisingly pretty well made, it's just a shame about everything else.

@@ZeranZeran I love that and him freaking out over L. Ron's drum riff and the Vatican II song.

@@HoxMouse I am ashamed to admit that I kind of like his oddly prescient "Madman in Waco" song.

It’s one of Japan’s top, most prestigious private research universities, (also! can’t forget, with a catholic overtone) so it goes to show that they are purposefully targeting and recruiting arguably some of the most intelligent young people in Japan.

It's not more dangerous to Japanese students more than other people, it's just that in some parts of the world, people recognize the difference between cults and religions and don't go overboard on religious freedom

@Gernot Schrader The "Wow, cults are dangerous." comment is clearly satirical, and we recognize that it is describing a cult to avoid cults. We couldn't do that if we never learned anything about cults, could we? Spreading information and warnings is effective. It's not an absolute fix, but it will save countless people, regardless.

Cults are generally way more high profile and prevalent in a lot of East Asia right now than in places like the U.S. or Europe. South Korea and Japan especially have a massive cult epidemic with huge portions of the population participating in them. It makes a bit of sense if you consider the less strongly monotheistic religious culture and the high rates of suicide and depression because of the sheer expense of living and awful work culture.

@Gernot Schrader There’s a difference between religion and cults. There can be cults created within Christianity (including Catholicism) but it is not a cult just as is. Not a single church leader would hunt you down if you left or cut you off from your families. There are expectations to be considered practicing, but you can actively not follow them and not get called out on it.

I was also confused by this as a kid.

I will add that as a Jew it's not weird for a religious building to have a gift shop in general. A lot of synagogues do lol, but that money literally goes to support local Jewish artists (since you're buying their work) and also to do charitable work. That uhhhhhhh isn't what Scientology is doing with theirs lol

that is really well explained.

@@Plethorality thank you! It’s something I’ve been really passionate about recently, these people deserve our compassion because they’ve been through so much

@@teddybearable so true!! we all need to see different exoeriences to be less polarised.

No, that's what extroverts want... to join a group

@@auemmjee what does that have to do with what I said? Would you mind elaborating?

In order to be really creative/original... you have to be a little crazy already.

I agree. "L-Ron" would have been more famous for jazz!

Like how a lot of alt right people have fantastic potential for fiction writing.

For some reason the best music always comes out of the most passionate groups of people. And there's nothing more passionate than a fanatic.

What, you don’t know the hit “garbage truck” by Charles Manson?

They were connected to an evangelical school I attended in New Zealand back in the 80s. Insidious.

*try and succeed at this point

Oh my God! How f**king awful.

Actually I think that was a different group also called "The Family" check out the book "The Family : The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" by Jeff Sharlet

You could have just gotten up and walked away.

@@helmsscotta I wanted to know what the experience was meant to be like

If you wanted to know the experience then why did you make up the bs ?

@@mikehoman7351 That's part of the experience. They essentially tell you to make it up. They tell you to just say whatever is coming to your head and that whatever is coming to mind is a valid "memory" of what happened in the womb aka make it up lol. Since you're so interested, why don't you go ask for a free session yourself?

I am shocked you got a free session, and didn’t get hounded afterwards for money.

Yeah, I almost got conned into one of those "personality tests" in the '80's, soon as I was led in the door by the (extremely attractive... hey, I was in my 20's, whaddaya expect) young woman and saw Scientology I said "NOPE!" and walked out!! 🤣

they got a compound building going in Back Bay but i am not sure if they had to cut it loose

Lmfao 🤣

I was visiting my friend at MIT in the 80s and took that personality test… then promptly made as many excuses as I needed to get the heck out of there 😳

Lol!

Undertale fan songs:

@@DogDogGodFog fr fr

Every Christian church I've ever visited

I was gonna say, I've written about 50 so far..

Mel Brooks "The Inquisition" and ALW "Jesus Christ Superstar".

I wonder if Christians think that Moses, Noah and other characters from the old testament are burning in hell because they were not Christians?

​@@majorneptunejrno, we don't.

That's not how monotheism works. Hell isn't even a thing in Judaism, for example... Sheol is closer to Greek Hades. Anyway, Abrahamic religions don't like shamanism and witches simply because they are con artists fooling people.

​@@majorneptunejrThe short answer is no.

thx for doing that 💓

You don't support free speech?

bravo to you! we need more people with the guts to stand up to these kids of people....plus also those members need to be exposed to us so that they know we are not evil or out to get them or devil worshipers!

sodie pops are the only correct type of carbonated beverage >:O u got the good shit

@@madsfiedler3884 I think you meant to say a "Co-colah."

Some of the more fanatical religions look sort of the same to those who aren't.

@@wintersbattleofbands1144 Except in this case, the more fanatic religious one is the one who made the video. 😂

"Orthodox Christians are Jews and Catholics are Luciferians!" -Nutzees of Y'all-Qaeda, now accepting Catholics if they're Sedevacantists, exhibit A: Milo Yiannopoulos

@@autobotstarscream765 You've got it! Exactly simply by looking at the reality, and by placing the ideology based on the reality presented, not simply ideologies supposed by anyone group.

@@isabellalive2.081 I feel like I keep having strokes trying to parse your sentence. I suspect like in javascript, a missing comma and maybe a typo is causing the parsing issues.

That "smell your personal weaknesses" technique is damn near diagnostic for psychopathy.

Filling an empty cup is the remedy for common sense in most people who long for things unknown to them. Being a child of divorce, I learned early on to play both sides of the fence when it came to which parent I was around at the time. I'd transform myself into what they wanted in a son instead of trying to be myself and it caused me a great deal of problems with social networking, relationships and trust issues. I could easily see both what the cultists are lacking in life and fill that void but I can also understand how easy it would be to let go of all my responsibilities and put my faith in someone I naively believe is providing the missing ingredients to make my life meaningful.

@@accuser_of_the_brethren7816 yeah, my parents divorced when i was 8 after a year of increasingly not speaking to each other. in my 30s i heard about this thing called " double agent syndrome" man, everything u just wrote is spot on, their separation separated me.i was sent back & forth, when with my dad i downplayed anything good in my life connected to my mom & vice versa.got way weird with stepparents, i had to unlearn those mental/emotional gymnastics.i don't have to pretend to be or not be anything, love me, don't love me, i will have to live with it either way but i dont have to change to be more of whatever it is that u would like, AND, THAT IS NOT HURTING ANYONE!! Edit; have u heard of or checked out Eckhart Tolle ?

If someone could produce a cure to my bipolar that wasn't pills, I'd follow them. Issue is, they can't, no one ever can without medicine, so they'll never get me. Because science wins over their mumbo jumbo. Even when it's called "scientology."

Exactly. The current cultural narrative is that only weak or crazy people fall for the lure of cults, which isn't true, and makes them even more dangerous, "oh I'm an independent thinker, I'll never fall for something like that." Yikes.

I like to hit the balance between uncomfortable and nervous laughter.

I love weezer

He needs to learn how to pronounce “sarin”, though. That was f-ing annoying.

Yes. I agree 💯

Who’s Brad? I won’t rest until I find out.

I liked and subscribed, thanks for turning me onto this channel.

Oh hey! It’s you! I like you!

This explains why this was in my recommended, I've been on a bit of a Wendigoon binge over Christmas. btw, you're awesome dude!

I think you commenting alone has encouraged the algorithm to bring it to me

My man

That’s not what a “cargo cult” means. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

This isn't correct. Cultural anthropologists would be referring to actual cargo cults, which were religious groups formed in rural, usually tribal societies that recieved supplies from soldiers during wartime. While they are now aware this was NOT anything from a higher being and rather more modernised cultures trading or giving modern supplies to them, many still keep the rituals they created based around military men!

Doesn't have to be religious. Cults can be instructive and destructive. I recommend looking up the BITE model for identifying cults.

I'm sure it was created by some egdy antinatalists.

I looked them up too, and I think you're right. Church of Euthanasia is about as serious as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Their whole cannibalism thing is satirical, like Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal. The Stork is actually safe to watch (less violent than Bugs Bunny cartoons). He stopped the clip before it got to the really funny part 😆

Look up the church of the sub-genius or discordianism For some background. These are some of the best parody/surrealist religions in the U.S., The church of euthanasia is very probably an offshoot of these movements. I knew some of the original church of euthanasia folk as I live and Boston in Boston is the spiritual home of the Church. They got famous in Boston for holding rallies that would feature over 20 foot long banners emblazoned with the words, save the world, kill yourself.

Same, especially because there's been some similar organizations in the past created out of pure edginess or defeatism like the Euthanasia Coaster and the voluntary extinction "movement".

@@selflessself reminds me a lot of the voluntary extinction movement who are almost universally just faux nihilists and mopey defeatists. They're mostly just people who dont want to have kids who've assigned some ideology to their decision.

Weeeell, I dunno - combining a David Star with a Swastika as their symbol tells me they have some other interests as well....

Yeah, I’m suprised you’re the first person to actually point out their questionable symbol design

@@commanderkruge Actually the swastika is a symbol that is arguablly as old or older then human migration as every culture across the world has a varient of it. Thats actually why the nazi's used it, they loved their occult symbolism(probably got it from Helena Blavatsky's theosophy).

@@commanderkruge Sigh... It's the Big Dipper around Polaris at the beginning of each season. For f**k's sake.

@@joshuaobrien6137 So? I have yet to see any organisation or cult that does combine those two symbols and NOT follow some crypto-fascist agenda.

No it doesnt. Coming from someone who is still tripping.

​@apesy800 lies. How'd you even get here if you're tripping on lsd. You wouldn't even know if you OWNED a cellular telecommunication electronic device

copious amounts of hallucigenics will in fact fry your brain, who knew!

@@apesy800ha! Agreed friend! Cheers here’s some good energy your way!

🎶👯Leader, Leader, Leader…👯🎶 Leader, Leader, Leader👯(x 4 minutes) ….YES! I WiLL Join!!! This is GREAT!

We do. Its what happens when politicians get together, e.g. at the UN or COP or GX meetings.

@@infwhale9183 fair enough 😂

and don't let them eat or use the bathroom

@@quester09 truth!

Yeah and also with pseudoscience/fake medicine

Reminds me of the Neo Sannyasans, led by Guru Rajneesh, aka Osho. Many of his followers were lawyers and doctors. They tried to kill a lot of people, yet hilariously, every last attempt they made was thwarted by common sense, or ridiculous coincidence, like their car breaking down.

Yes. Added note, one of the attackers on the train used to be an ER doctor.

IIRC when the Japanese state police and special forces (Yes the Japanese JGSDF 1st Parachute Division was present) raided the cult's compound they found things like radio jammers, machine tools for manufacturing AK47s and explosives, a Russian military Mi 8 transport helicopter, and even labs for manufacturing biological and chemical weapons!

@@556deltawolf yeah, the followers also had military training on a base in Russia where they also purchased the Mi 8 helicopter. Also they had followers in South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, Russia, Canada, and the U.S.

@@darksideofthemoon488 weren't they also rumored to have caused a nuclear explosion in their massive property far in the Australian outback?

So, to get respect in life i should start a cult and get people killed... huh? I'll write that down, might give that idea spin.

*more

That was really insightful, you took the words right out of my mouth!

Groupthink is always bad

@Gernot Schrader Groupthink refers to the phenomenon of falling in line with the thinking of others to avoid repercussions such as ostracization (or snake hitmen!), not people coming to similar logical conclusions or general agreements on their own.

I personally believe God wants praise from a happy and grateful heart, not an uncomfortable one. I don't get why people are so critical about it. There's been songs I was uncomfortable singing too, but I had to sing anyway lest I be looked down on. That's fine though, soon as I grew up I quit going to church. I study by myself now. Much more peaceful that way.

That's what I stuck with, too, when being a youth in church camps or so. Not if there were a lot of them, but if I personally had a problem with a verse, I wouldn't sing it. And I would say why afterwards. Nobody had a problem with this - and I think that's a good sign.

As an Orthodox Christian I am very creeped out by American Protestant church songs, they sound like they're in love with Jesus. I like music but no way am I going to sing about my Redeemer like a lover.

This is why I love the internet. I find answers to why I feel the way I do.

Personally I'd feel a lot more comfortable singing a love song about a woman than a love song about a long dead Jewish cult leader from the middle east. But to each his own, I guess.

Your comment reminded me of one time I went to this fair and there was like a church or something there. I remember they had like quizzes about something weird that me and my friends did. It was a really strange atmosphere. Apparently they had been handing out bibles but they had ran out before we came to their booth. I really wonder who they were now. The quiz was just very strange but I can’t remember what it was about for the life of me. They must of been some cult and I wish I knew who. I had completely forgotten about that.

May I recommend 'The Cults of unreason' by Dr Christopher Evans, 'The Space Gods Revealed' by Ronald Story and 'Karma Cola' by Gita Mehta. Firstly I took a Scientology personality test (free, no gadgets) I never took them up on their offer. During the same trip to London, I had a free lunch at a Hari Krishna 'temple'. The effect is I am a 'cult sceptic'

Should be 'Unreason' not 'unreason'

Well played!

"I said I would if they came to mine first and I’d even buy lunch." That honestly sounds like a really good idea.

Ik some Catholics who think the pope is a Jewish imposter antichrist kind of thing. EDIT: These people got covered in the video I just hadn't gotten to that point yet.

I'm more surprised there are people who think he is Catholic or Christian

@@thelordz33 Um, he isn't catholic?

I think they mean what BRANCH of Christianity is he in.

I think there are a lot of people who think that he is catholic and a lot of people who think he is protestant

I read Marilyn Monroe as Marilyn Mason and got really confused for a minute.

She wasn't born into Judaism or brought up Jewish, but converted in 1956 in order to marry Arthur Miller. She doesn't seem to have been particularly religious. Not that it in any way excuses the abusive cult using her image to lure in victims.

Even more sad, Don Quixote was also a spirit helper and more than that one of the alter ego spirits that frequently possessed and "spoke through" the founder and it wasn't until I ran away from my commune and read the book that I realized he is a fictional character 🤦🏼‍♀️ information bubbles are scary things to do to children. Also to add insult to injury, I am Spanish

@@faithbarcelo4795 When I was around them, "Mo's" spirit guides, who spoke through him and thus his pamphlets, were not historical peole, Don Juan was not the guy who chsed windmills, nor the one who tuaght CARLOS CASTENADO. HE WAS JUST SOME GUY, Special for I don't mmeber why. Abrahime was a king of the Gyppsies. Ivan Inovitch was some guy who steered a bot in a Russian canal. Kind of random, I gueass. But later, he started, apprently, to channel more and more peolpe, and Godesses, and, yea--. (sorry for the bad spelling.)

@@milascave2 yeah exactly, but as a kid who grew up in it only being taught what they want you to know and not going to school and stuff....I had no way of knowing these characters were not real. They taught us that everything that he said was gospel truth so how would I know it's bullshit

They shot that senator or congressman and jim sealed their fate with it the ones who ran into the woods were the lucky ones

@@TheRealRusDaddy Plus the deaf guy who literally just didn't hear the call. And a couple of others.

@@jessiehermit9503 the ones that didnt get hunted down like animals and forced to drink it at gun point or shot yeah

It was 100% murder at gunpoint. Having to decide if you wanted to give your kids posion and have them die in your arms or have them watch as their while family is shot with automatic weapons... that's a choice I couldn't make...

Wouldn't it be both? There were people who willingly drank the Flavor-aid mixture there. They would have been killed regardless, but some people willingly took their own lives.

It was both. A lot of people were forced to drink, and some. were shot in the back while fleeing. But some of them took it willingly. The people who administered the poison and forced other people to take it must have taken it willingly, at least,

I honestly just don't get why people didn't fake it, like everyone else is dead, including Jones, you would have owned him. 😂

@@hblackburn5580 If I recall, Jones and his armed guards tricked many of the families' children into drinking the juice as a snack without telling the parents. By the time Jones announced his mass su*cide plan to the parents, their children were already starting to get sick. He did this in order to make the parents feel so hopeless that they would off themselves and join their children in heaven. Any child that didn't already have the juice was forced to drink it by their parents whom all of which were instructed to do at gunpoint. You can actually hear many of the children crying in the background as they're being forced against their wills during Jones' final speech instructing everyone to kill themselves, it's so disturbing. Most of the adults there were also held at gunpoint in order to make sure that they actually swallowed the juice. And if they didn't, they were made an example of.

anyone who thinks it is impossible to get people to do stupid things hasn't stepped back and look at modern politics

Jones was a CIA asset, like most cult leaders

Er, how'd that go?

@@GlareanLiebertine As awkward as it could possibly be. I ended it with something like "thanks, I've got [this task] to do and I really should get back to the office" and left the kitchenette. At the office it was only four of us and suppliers coming with a load of samples once in a while, and that day it was just me, boss, and Mr. Audit. Pretty isolated location. It was focused on an injury I had as a child that I had mentioned in passing. It was semi-work related in that I had good reason to be wary of nonsense medicine [not all home remedies are, but...] and had recently found out that the issues I'd been talking to my OB about were caused by a testosterone cream I was being accidentally exposed to by the lone male that worked there and NOT the aforementioned childhood injury. He thought bringing his body chemistry back to the levels it was in his 20's would make him... not 70 anymore? IDK. He didn't realize that since it absorbed through his skin that he'd need to wash his hands before using shared computer keyboards and such. I grew 3/4 of a beard. That job was... a lot. I really should have sued, but I was working 50+ hours a week as a manager of one of the store locations as well as a bookkeeper and needed the money badly. Besides, I was the bookkeeper. I knew how much money I would get and it really wouldn't have been worth the cost of a lawyer.

I really need to stop thinking Scientology is some sort of pushy science-nerd club, because I do not understand what else it could be. Is there any chance you could explain to me like I'm 5? Or point me somewhere where it gets explained to 5-y-olds?

@@Roadent1241 Like many conspiracy theories and cults, it convinces people that their problems have an easy solution and provides a convenient scapegoat so that they are never really your fault. In this case, you are possessed by tortured space ghosts, so it's better than the bigoted kind of scapegoating, but there is a lot of classism baked into it since it is all about paying huge amounts of money to people higher up the pyramid. The testosterone cream and "supplements cure aging" thing wasn't a scientology thing per se, but the Young Living oils nonsense was strong with every one of them I've spent an extended amount of time around [which is less than ten people.] I think it is more that that type of person also has money to burn on Goop, crystals, oils, and other nonsense. One of them refused cancer treatment in favor of auditing and essential oils, and over the five years I knew them I watched him die a slow and probably unnecessary death from what should have been an easily operable tumor. Cutting it off was a huge no-no. I'm not sure but they seemed to think cutting into the body would effect the thetans. Fill him with bad mojo. I really don't know enough to recommend a source less well known than South Park or Hubbard's own books [cliff notes for them do exist.]

@@sofiadragon6520 Possessed by space ghosts sounds like a parody of FF's Spirits Within, that sounds amazing XD I would make a book of THAT. Though it probably already exists from what little I know of Metroid. The rest of it, oof. I wish my lifelong disability had an easy way out that allowed me to keep experiencing life.

Thanks!

Wow props for standing up to it❤

Former cult member here, too. It’s easy to get sucked in, because we all want answers to life. And they know it. So to have some levity helps

What one?

@RabidlyTaboo very very small one. There isn't a name to it but the leader always calls it a coven. It was a pagan cult as she invited everybody in, no matter what the religion... but mostly Wiccans (however, they do not act like Wiccans. Wiccan are usually very nice but not this one.) The appeal is that she knew magic... real magic. So she would get A LOT of youngins. I was 19 at the time. My whole life I wanted magic to be real and she gave me that. And I was hooked, line and sinker. That and she provided me alcohol. Even the kids got all the alcohol they wanted too. And seriously, everyone there worshipped her like her shit smell like roses. Even me. I even introduced my own friends to it.

@@MarzieMalfoy wtf did she do to make you believe that magic was real?

Goes to show how dangerous it is to think anyone is immune to the psychological tactics cults use to draw members in. When people only see horrific events like the sarin attacks and mass suicides, it makes them think that the cults were just Like That, and that the people perpetrating those crimes joined because they LOVE doing murder and domestic terrorism on a Friday night. But this is like showing a movie at its climax; these incidents are largely removed from the necessary context to understand them. What they don't see is the slow buildup and escalation that blinds otherwise intelligent, rational minded people to the reality of their actions. Call it boiling the frog; spend long enough in an environment that constantly beats you the person down and forces you to define yourself by it, and I bet YOU would be puncturing gas bags with umbrellas on a subway. This is the true terror of brainwashing, that it is not some magic woo woo status effect that is inflicted, but a legitimate identity change that happens slowly, and can't really be 'cured' or 'recovered from' per se. More people ought to keep that in mind when talking about cults, I think. you are not immune to propaganda, etc etc

United States University system is basically this, except they produce more drone-type people. critical thinkers haven’t been a majority in college in years. it’s all the kids from school who spent 4hrs a night memorizing instead of learning. this is why many colleges contain some of the most mentally ill, racist, bigoted areas of any town they are in right now. recently oberlin college had to pay 40million because their teachers encouraged students to harass a shop owner who caught some students stealing. the students defense was this - “thaaaatttttsss rayyyyycist!!!!” students are constantly bullied for their political and religious opinion on campuses, usually this isn’t present until second or third year, which makes it even more obvious what’s happening.

"Highly intelligent" is almost as meaningless as the term "racist"now. I mean, look at AOC.` She is considered "intelligent" because she went to college, but she is dumber than a rock. Much of the time, universities are just left-wing indoctrination centers now.

@@staters_college_tagers This is really important, thank you for posting it! It's tempting to assume that we, ourselves, could never fall for these tricks. But the tricks are clever, and they easily could.

Damn… 😞

there's not that many cults to be fair, this could be an honest coincidence of a teacher going "Uhhhhhhh.. that one I didn't pick yet" lol

@@ZeranZeran I don’t think anyone else who was in both classes with me got doubles though

maybe you just have one of those faces that says "i enjoy mass murdering people by feeding them poisoned Kool aid"

When we were doing the college presentation in judicial medicine, the professor while assigning subjects, looks at me and says:" you look like you would be into firearms, do you want to do gunshoot wounds?" to which i replied something to the tune of: "nah i'm more of a blades kinda guy". Unfortunately, due to her having to leave for court and me not being able to get the slideshow running i didn't get the chance to present it. And one of the opening slides was my own humble collection of knives and stabbing weapons. Don't know why i shared this , it only tangentially links to your comment and has nothing to do with the original topic of the video. Sleep deprivation, kids: not even once.

@@mikeoxlong1395 lol I’m just picturing like a note the grade book next to your name that says “guns?” and that’s crossed out and they’ve written “swords.”

Aaaaand new favorite praise lol.

I loved it it made me laugh

I lov

Rights its fucked up

i dunno, i beleive some people are just naive, or just want to believe. Like with jonestown, Most joined becuase he preached equality between the races, america when racial tensions where high. He taled about a paradise with everyone can be equal and dont be judged by colour. So i understand people joining. the scared the people into beleive that if they did move with him, they would be killed by racists etc etc, and when youre there you have literally no way to leave, the only way you could leave jonestown where to die. The horrible stories of the few survivours are so tragic, and now its justed as a joke "dont drink the koolaid" most where forced to drink it, guns to thier heads, or forced down their throat. They had to kill their own children. Its such a tragedy. Most that join cults are also people in bad places in life or cults take advantage on people down on their luck, poor or depressed. That japanese cult did promise their members to harvest supernatural gifts, such as flying, in a time in japanese society where you should not be special, stick out. Honestly alot of other social factors in japan made people seek out cults like his, And later when youre in it youre to far in it to get out alive, most are forced to do things, by peer pressure, financial pressure or force. But also in denial. Its true that when kids get hurt and the parent show little to no remorse its disgusting and i do lack the sympathy for those people too. But we cannot ignore that theyre probably also too deep to leave, and it might even be a life danger.

Perhaps we're seeing the largest loss of discernment r n. Same hallmarks of propaganda & othering.

@@jenniferray8569 I think you might be in denial in your own life. If you're pointing to others as they are the example when you're probably an example too it's just not gotten that serious yet but it can and it will. In our lifetimes we will go through something like what you're pointing to but in your own backyard

I DO have compassion for the peole who joined. I was one of them. They have NO idea what they are getting into, because the group gets worse gradualy. That said, when horrible things are done, the people doing it still have responsibiliy. Some leave at a certain point, so. it isp ossiblee, though often hadd.

@@PaperWill Also the whole "Ti and Do" naming thing might have been the idea of Applewhite, as he was actually a music teacher before the cult thing.

Just do ti... Weren't they also wearing Nikes when they were found on the bunk beds dead? This was when hale bopp was in the sky, so my memory is a bit fuzzy.

@@Ramen10420 Yep, though from what I heard, the only reason they were all wearing the same brand of Nikes was because they got a really good deal on them.

Thank you, was looking for this comment

@@Ramen10420 black n white nike decades which the brand discontinued cuz of the association. they sell for a lot lot of money now

Ya aint wrong

You noticed too...Ya- I'm out.

Oh shit.this comment made me realise the links between 1q84 and the gas attacks, even down to the leaders description.

I remember the attack ( while in the US). It was reported and it was terrifying. I think it quickly became a discussion of how unsafe mass transportation is though ... I had totally forgotten about it until watching this video though. I don't know iq84, so I guess I need to investigate that too... EDIT: Ohh, right. Murakami's book!! Still have to get around to that one. Thanks for the reminder!

@@zel9298 Murakami has even done a book all about the Sarin Gas Attacks which is how I learnt about it. There's also a documentary that came out recently about it.

I hear it discussed quiet a bit in the west, especially since after 9/11 when concerns of bioterrorism or terrorist chemical weapons attacks became widespread. I first heard about it as a kid around the time of the Iraq invasion and 2001 anthrax attacks since people were worried about a similar gas attack on US soil, especially in light of Saddams supposed chemical weapons. I've heard it discussed quiet a bit since too, since the cult is pretty crazy and they're brought up after a few subsequent attacks and he was discussed in media a bit after his execution as well.

When the United Methodist Church became less united over accepting gay members, the common crack was "one branch will continue offering traditional marriage, the other will have the better choir."

Unlike other cults, the WBC generally limited itself to the Phelps extended family and didn't try to actively convert people into their church

He called the kids crying "nonsense"??? wtf???

Jim Jones died of a gunshot wound to the head he did take the high amount of Pentobarbital but he died of a gunshot wound to the head. Jones was found laid out on the stage his head on pillows he is believed to be one of the last to die

Worth noting Jones himself did not drink the cyanide after all this, he would not die in the way he forced them to, he instead shot himself in the head.

@@microwave8931 the worst part was the hypocrisy

For sure it was not a mass su.Ic.idE .... maybe partly but mostly it turned out to be a mass mU.r.dEr (especially where children and babies are concerned).

Not going to lie, I am kind of onboard with the topless women thing though. None of the other weird shit, just to be clear.

@@davemccage7918 Meanwhile I'm indifferent on the topless women thing but am digging the weird early 3D modelling of their demo center and want to rip scenes from it for vaporwave music videos.

@@Soitisisit An equally valid opinion…

if that ones real then when the aliens invade im going to fight them no matter how doomed and hoples the battle is better to die standing then live wearing a top