The first part of this article interested me, but I got bored halfway through and began to find it rather unsurprising.
I feel like I read that article twice.
I met one trying to sell Dianetics book on a street of NY city in 1985. After a certain point they get unhinged in their personality. Very amazing when it comes out.
This must be the year of cults in America.
The more the article repeats the word ‘blurred’, the more I know it’s as a propaganda meme.
So…they’re a couple?
Wonder if Tom made it to the first screening of THE MASTER, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, and I wonder also if John Travolta was his date. Sorry, couldn;t resist that one.
And a second thought: how is it that so much of this cult
BS reaches so many people? How is it that people who are otherwise talented and “intelligent” are vulnerable to these
sci-fi ideologies? How much is this the result of a failure
of education-—did they never hear of any of the actual thinkers who formed the basis for Western Civilization?
I suppose part of the appeal of things like Scientology is that they blithely sweep all “common knowledge” aside, and try to replace it with their various crackpot versions of the human mind, spirituality, and evolution, and that this, more than anything is very attractive to people who want to think of themselves as defiantly “cutting-edge”, proud in their lonely elitism as the Enlightened Ones.
It’s a breath. It’s a candy mint. It’s two articles in one.
It’s a breath. It’s a candy mint. It’s two articles in one.
I’ve heard cults try to brainwash you with repetition. I’ve heard cults try to brainwash you with repetition.
A lot of actors have no firm personality of their own. That’s how they are successful in their trade of playing other people.
And we are supposed to care anything about this because?...