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Is SRF a cult?: SayItIsntSo

POSTED BY SayItIsntSo on 3/1/06
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Oh, dear this is a few months old... (I think this post belongs under cults! But here goes).

Frankly I’m surprised there aren’t more suicides by people who leave cults. It’s an isolating experience because you have no where to go. The last thing many can accept is another teaching, church or philosophy. Everyone becomes suspect. You can roam around for years in a state of denial. Some people might become atheists because they just don’t want to take a chance that they’ll get it wrong again. Admitting you were wrong is really, really hard. Especially if you’ve defended your cult for years, lost friends, jobs, family members over it, created strife for your children who were marginalized for being “different,” and the list goes on.

Being in my cult made me self-righteous. Part of being in a cult is watching out for the kooks in Christianity to justify your cult teachings, even though you have a lot of your own kooks in SRF. You also memorize all the gruesome suffering that’s come in the name of Jesus Christ just so you can “prove” your belief. Christians call it apologetics, cults call it TRUTH.

The minute someone says cult people in them tend to shut down, turn off, walk out and disassociate with the conversation. You might stop reading right HERE. That’s because the word CULT immediately brings to mind Charlie Manson and Jones Town, and, well, you’re certainly are not part of something so evil. That’s front page news evil. My way of thinking is that kind of evil isn’t so insidious. It takes out a few people and it’s over. Savvy cults aren’t run by psychotics; they’re run by everyday folks. Nice folks, even. Good looking people with pleasant homes and nice cars. They live next door. They take care of your cat when you’re on vacation and bring you casseroles when you’re sick. They’re your friend, your brother, your mother. They could be just about anyone, and that’s really daunting.

A cult is any group that holds you mentally and spiritually hostage.

The first sign you’re in a cult is when you’re told quite often you’re not part of a cult. I heard it for years. People in cults are told as part of their training that they’re not in a cult, and they usually have a darn good argument to prove their point. Oh, sure, there are some flimsy arguments, but for the most part, cults work hard to debunk the theory that they are a cult or a sect.

You come to believe their reasons and whole hardily. You even believe it when you leave the cult, defending them to the bitter end that you were not in a cult.

One doesn’t just walk away from a belief system. When you’re taught something, study, mediate, focus on something for years, it takes root. You might pull the weeds by no longer attending, but the roots are still down in the dirt and it doesn’t take much water to sprout doubts.

They all say that they don’t keep their members there by force. Members are chosen, special and come of their own free will.

They’ll say they don’t ascribe to mind control or brainwashing, but have techniques of mental control, and there’s, well, a difference. The teachings are always secret and never Biblical. Secrecy is necessary to keep them “pure,” and only those who are unique can receive them. You’re told right away that you’re better than everyone else, superior to all other doctrines, especially Christians, who you come to regard pitifully as low thinking.

That’s not to say cults don't teach from the Bible even though their message isn’t Biblical. They often do this to “lure” in the wary and give a good argument when you point out they follow a Guru or Founder. This is when they talk about Jesus, how they love an honor him, maybe have a whole day of meditation on him, and how we’re all able to be a Jesus, and he was really just a Guru, an evolved man with a good story.

SRF (all cults) exclaim that they are “higher thinking” for the “new age.” They might call it the “golden age.” They might call it just about anything spectacular to make you believe you are super special. With this “higher thinking,” you’re told how evolved you are, sometimes you’re told that everyone else just came up off all fours but you, my friend, have lived many lives and your reward is just around the corner. It’s trendy, too! You’re part of the in-crowd. You might see your cult on the cover of movie magazines. Red strings, maharishi’s, OM signs or Tom Cruise! Cults love to name drop.

Secretly of course because they are supposed to be better than the National Enquirer, but members of cults know who’s in and whose out and there is always a Hollywood A List.

My cult had a Beatle and several television stars.

I could go on...but you get the picture.

SRF is a cult.

Spot the Looney

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