Cult Test

[David McCarthy]

So how does RSE score as a cult?

David.

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The Cult Test
Questions 1 to 100 by A. Orange.

? 1. The Guru is always right.
? 2. You are always wrong.
? 3. No Exit.
? 4. No Graduates.
? 5. Cult-speak.
? 6. Group-think, Suppression of Dissent, and Enforced Conformity in Thinking
? 7. Irrationality.
? 8. Suspension of disbelief.
? 9. Denigration of competing sects, cults, religions...
? 10. Personal attacks on critics.
? 11. Insistence that the cult is THE ONLY WAY.
? 12. The cult and its members are special.
? 13. Induction of guilt, and the use of guilt to manipulate cult members.
? 14. Unquestionable Dogma, Sacred Science, and Infallible Ideology.
? 15. Indoctrination of members.
? 16. Appeals to "holy" or "wise" authorities.
? 17. Instant Community.
? 18. Instant Intimacy.
? 19. Surrender To The Cult.
? 20. Giggly wonderfulness and starry-eyed faith.
? 21. Personal testimonies of earlier converts.
? 22. The cult is self-absorbed.
? 23. Dual Purposes, Hidden Agendas, and Ulterior Motives.
? 24. Aggressive Recruiting.
? 25. Deceptive Recruiting.
? 26. No Humor.
? 27. You Can't Tell The Truth.
? 28. Cloning -- You become a clone of the cult leader or other elder cult members.
? 29. You must change your beliefs to conform to the group's beliefs.
? 30. The End Justifies The Means.
? 31. Dishonesty, Deceit, Denial, Falsification, and Rewriting History.
? 32. Different Levels of Truth.
? 33. Newcomers can't think right.
? 34. The Cult Implants Phobias.
? 35. The Cult is Money-Grubbing.
? 36. Confession Sessions.
? 37. A System of Punishments and Rewards.
? 38. An Impossible Superhuman Model of Perfection.
? 39. Mentoring.
? 40. Intrusiveness.
? 41. Disturbed Guru, Mentally Ill Leader.
? 42. Disturbed Members, Mentally Ill Followers.
? 43. Create a sense of powerlessness, covert fear, guilt, and dependency.
? 44. Dispensed existence
? 45. Ideology Over Experience, Observation, and Logic
? 46. Keep them unaware that there is an agenda to change them
? 47. Thought-Stopping Language. Thought-terminating clich?s and slogans.
? 48. Mystical Manipulation
? 49. The guru or the group demands ultra-loyalty and total commitment.
? 50. Demands for Total Faith and Total Trust
? 51. Members Get No Respect. They Get Abused.
? 52. Inconsistency. Contradictory Messages
? 53. Hierarchical, Authoritarian Power Structure, and Social Castes
? 54. Front groups, masquerading recruiters, hidden promoters, and disguised propagandists
? 55. Belief equals truth
? 56. Use of double-binds
? 57. The cult leader is not held accountable for his actions.
? 58. Everybody else needs the guru to boss him around, but nobody bosses the guru around.
? 59. The guru criticizes everybody else, but nobody criticizes the guru.
? 60. Dispensed truth and social definition of reality
? 61. The Guru Is Extra-Special.
? 62. Flexible, shifting morality
? 63. Separatism
? 64. Inability to tolerate criticism
? 65. A Charismatic Leader
? 66. Calls to Obliterate Self
? 67. Don't Trust Your Own Mind.
? 68. Don't Feel Your Own Feelings.
? 69. The cult takes over the individual's decision-making process.
? 70. You Owe The Group.
? 71. We Have The Panacea.
? 72. Progressive Indoctrination and Progressive Commitments
? 73. Magical, Mystical, Unexplainable Workings
? 74. Trance-Inducing Practices
? 75. New Identity -- Redefinition of Self -- Revision of Personal History
? 76. Membership Rivalry
? 77. True Believers
? 78. Scapegoating and Excommunication
? 79. Promised Powers or Knowledge
? 80. It's a con. You don't get the promised goodies.
? 81. Hypocrisy
? 82. Denial of the truth. Reversal of reality. Rationalization and Denial.
? 83. Seeing Through Tinted Lenses
? 84. You can't make it without the cult.
? 85. Enemy-making and Devaluing the Outsider
? 86. The cult wants to own you.
? 87. Channelling or other occult, unchallengeable, sources of information.
? 88. They Make You Dependent On The Group.
? 89. Demands For Compliance With The Group
? 90. Newcomers Need Fixing.
? 91. Use of the Cognitive Dissonance Technique.
? 92. Grandiose existence. Bombastic, Grandiose Claims.
? 93. Black And White Thinking
? 94. The use of heavy-duty mind control and rapid conversion techniques.
? 95. Threats of bodily harm or death to someone who leaves the cult.
? 96. Threats of bodily harm or death to someone who criticizes the cult.
? 97. Appropriation of all of the members' worldly wealth.
? 98. Making cult members work long hours for free.
? 99. Total immersion and total isolation.
? 100. Mass suicide.





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[Whatchamacallit]

Excellent post, and educational information, efficiently stated.