Characteristics of a Cult - Heaven's Gate

by dropoffyourkeylee 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  dropoffyourkeylee

  CHACTERISTICS OF A CULT - by my count, WT ticks 9 of the 12 boxes

  Last night I watched a really interesting video (link below) put out by an ex-Mormon site discussing the Heaven's Gate Cult. The person interviewed had a unique perspective in that he had firsthand contact with that group, specifically the house they lived in and the aftermath. Steven Hassan is mentioned several times, as well as the JWs at least once. The video is rather long, but well worth viewing for anyone interested in cults and where the JWs may lie on the cult spectrum.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvfqy1Qs-M
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  blondie

  chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://freedomofmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BITE-Model-Handout-9-23-16.pdf

  Steve Hassan's BITE Model Characteristics of a Cult
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  Anony Mous

  Where do you tick only 9? I tick all 12 of them.
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  blondie

  Anony Mous, I assume this question is for the original poster. :)
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  joey jojo

  Its hilarious that JWs believe they are serious bible students. I actually believed it myself when I was active.

  Number 11 on the list 'lack of critical thinking' says it all. JWs practice conditional learning, not cognitive learning. They are told what to think and feel. They are taught to associate feelings with words and phrases. As we all know, they never carry out critical analysis of any teaching.

  They are no different to the well known experiment when a guy conditioned his dog to start salivating when he heard the sound of a bell.

  And yet, most of them believe themselves to be bible scholars.
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  Beth Sarim

  I tick all 12 pf them too.

  Religions like Jws,,, have just different forms of the above things.
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  Phizzy

  " I tick all 12 of them too." And me, I cannot see that any of those 12 do not apply to the J.W org. at least in some measure.

  The one that jumped out at me was No 6 "Lack of Transparent Financials" that is SO true, we have already had it exposed on here some years ago how their Creative Accounting ALWAYS left a "deficit" at the start of every Convention from the previous one.

  I bet the Creative Accounting that has gone on for many decades at H.Q would be a nightmare for even the best Forensic Accountants to unravel, but if they could, they could explain the Missing $ Billions.

  Every year for all those decades in reality the Org. has spent very little, whilst taking in a fortune from donations, and most years making Profits from the Property business they run.

  So where has all that money gone ? The Cayman Islands and similar Tax Havens I would guess.
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  liam

  If you can't tell you are in a cult.

  Try leaving and see what happens.

  If you can’t freely leave without loosing family and friends, YOU ARE IN A CULT!