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Women are more susceptible than men to falling under the control of cults
National Post ^ | April 18, 2019 | Marni Soupcoff

Posted on 04/18/2019 3:06:20 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: PIF

You tend to wonder about the mental processes of people like John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Greta Van Susteren, etc., Scientologists all. With their money they finally got clear. Maybe.


41 posted on 04/18/2019 5:52:33 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer
“You tend to wonder about the mental processes of people like John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Greta Van Susteren, etc., Scientologists all. With their money they finally got clear. Maybe.”

Scam artists, especially those with a messiah complex, are very dangerous and convincing. I would wager that when they made overtures to people like Van Susteren it wasn't in the context of aliens in a volcano, but more likely a very touchy feely philosophical diatribe about how to grow as a person and be your full self, mentally, physically, and most of all, spiritually.

Everyone wants to be a better more complete person, and if what's being pitched sounds very reasonable, you might agree to go to a few meetings etc. (Well, most FReeper’s wouldn't, but that's another discussion.) From what I've heard from those who were part of Scientology previously, they make a very special effort to get celebrities into their ranks - plying them with adoration and give them special status.

Anyway, I'm not making excuses for poor judgment. Personally, I think it should be required coursework in high school to learn about scams and cults.

42 posted on 04/18/2019 6:06:11 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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My cousin set out to be popular with women by playing guitar in rock bands. He became quite exceptional at guitar and a gifted musician. His fourth wife would probably agree.


43 posted on 04/18/2019 6:12:15 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: rickmichaels

IMO, that is because too many women are still thinking that they should be ‘taken care of’ & leave decisions up to the man of the household.

I know a couple that are reaching for 80, and neither one is in excellent health. SHE REFUSES to know how to write a check & pay a bill or where all the investments are.

They want all the romance bells & whistles, but don’t know how to put gas into the car or how to change a tire if they need to do that.

All that “Honey, please do this or that” drives me nuts.

They lose their survival skills & critical thinking skills.


44 posted on 04/18/2019 6:15:33 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: rickmichaels

Naaah. Really? I’d never have guessed.


45 posted on 04/18/2019 6:25:45 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: ridesthemiles

“I know a couple that are reaching for 80, and neither one is in excellent health. SHE REFUSES to know how to write a check & pay a bill or where all the investments are.”

And he probably couldn’t prepare a good meal,know when to change the sheets,or take care of the laundry.

If it works for them,who cares?

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46 posted on 04/18/2019 6:27:38 PM PDT by Mears
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To: rickmichaels

Heart vs. Head.
In most cases.


47 posted on 04/18/2019 6:34:19 PM PDT by vpintheak (Stop making stupid people famous!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

You beat me to it


48 posted on 04/18/2019 7:49:58 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
28 Men are generally not welcome in cults because cults are generally all about getting lots o' nookie for a very few guys. The more guys the less nookie. So guys are not targeted unless they have something that the cult wants as much as they want nookie. That thing is generally money or being so loony you will kill for the guy who is getting most of the nookie. …

2018 saw a rash of mini-series on cable TV about …

Jim Jones and the Peoples' Temple
David Koresh and the Branch Davidians
Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist CoJC&LDS

All 3 of these men indulged in an over abundance of flesh.

49 posted on 04/18/2019 11:06:41 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: rickmichaels

I read the headline as “Women are more susceptible than men to falling under the control of cats,” and thought, doesn’t everyone know this?

My cataract surgery isn’t for another month.


50 posted on 04/18/2019 11:37:33 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: rickmichaels

“There are many theories about why women are disproportionately represented in the population of cult followers, perhaps the most common being that women are conditioned and/or wired to believe there is something wrong with them. The urge to self-correct to find outside acceptance...”

In the last ten years, male-to-female transgenders are up about 300 percent. Female-to-male transgenders are up about 4,500% (Yes - four thousand five hundred percent!). While it may not have one crazy leader, it IS a cult.


51 posted on 04/19/2019 12:04:43 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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Women are more social than guys, leading to joining groups. They also are genetically prone to desire security more than men in their relationships, as they don’t want to get stuck raising children alone. Security often entails trusting other people to do the thinking on hard stuff, which makes cults appealing.


52 posted on 04/19/2019 12:23:26 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Mears

Most men in that age group know diddly about their own health, health care, prescriptions, or family medical history. Especially family medical history.

“Is there any history of cancer in your family?”

Man: “No, no, I don’t think so.”

Wife: “Of course there is! Honey, don’t you remember your brother Joe had colon cancer?”

Man: “Oh. Oh, yeah, I guess you’re right.”


53 posted on 04/19/2019 8:32:39 AM PDT by susannah59
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To: SkyDancer
That are mainly started by guys.

Everytime I see a particularly hot actress she turns out to be in Scientology. Thus I am convinced that L. Ron Hubbard did it for the chicks.


54 posted on 04/19/2019 8:49:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: susannah59

“Most men in that age group know diddly about their own health, health care, prescriptions, or family medical history. Especially family medical history.”


Exactly !

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55 posted on 04/19/2019 10:21:06 AM PDT by Mears
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To: rickmichaels
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
—2 Timothy 3:1-9 (NKJV)

56 posted on 04/19/2019 12:06:35 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In war, there can be no substitute for victory. --Douglas MacArthur)
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Video: Why Women DESTROY NATIONS,CIVILIZATIONS and other UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS
57 posted on 04/19/2019 12:07:51 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In war, there can be no substitute for victory. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: rickmichaels

Women are more susceptible to seduction - and consciously or unconsciously - want to be seduced. It is inherent in the female psyche.

That is largely the source of the Good Girl and Bad Boy dynamic. A cult leader is usually male, and definitely a very bad boy.


58 posted on 04/19/2019 3:14:17 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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