153719 - Jun 09 2017 - Reblog

spiral-path:

elfyourmother:

brotherwife:

I love you guys but I think a lot of you are the kind of people who are susceptible to falling in with a cult.

i know this was an offhand shitpost, but i couldn’t let this pass by.

as a survivor of a cult: please trust me when I say that the most dangerous mistake people can make wrt cults is thinking there is a special “kind” of person who is susceptible to one

anyone, given the “right” set of circumstances, can be victimized in such a way.

and they don’t always look obvious from the outside, contrary to what you’ve seen on tv and in movies. it’s not always about weird clothes and glassy eyed people.

i thought people who got caught up in cults were stupid, weak-minded, easily led. I was “too smart” to fall for that. but the kinds of people who perpetrate cultish abuse are master manipulators who are very good at sinking their claws into people. like most abusers they know when and how to fuck you up.

cause the thing is, cults are ultimately just a very specific environment for abuse, and if you correctly understand that it’s neither helpful nor appropriate to blame other kinds of abuse survivors for what happened to them, watch how you talk about cults.

Advanced Bonewits’ Cult Danger Evaluation Frame was designed WRT to religious neopagan groups but is applicable to literally any group of folks. read it and keep those signs in your head.

Always reblog. Anyone can fall into a cult or be victimized by a cult-like environment. 

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