rrmoderator Wrote:
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> NickleandDimed:
>
> YOu seem to be here as a troll and/or a cult
> apologist.
>
> Rebecca Moore is a cult apologist who engages in
> the worst sort of apologies about Jim Jones. She
> worked to include his name on a memorial at a
> cemetery where there is a mass grave of Jones'
> victims. Jones is not buried there, but Moore
> wanted his name engraved on the memorial stone at
> the mass grave anyway.
>
> Sick.
>
> To be extremely charitable--Moore's theories are
> less than credible.
>
> And there are other apologists that have been paid
> by cults like Eileen Barker, Gordon Melton and
> Dick Anthony.
>
> See [
www.culteducation.com]
>
> The label "new religious movements" is barely
> relevant as many groups called "cults" (e.g.
> NXIVM) are not even religious.
>
> Einstein's theory of relativity is no less
> relevant today than it was decades ago and
> Galileo's basic observations and theories remain
> relevant after centuries. The writings of Robert
> Jay Lifton, Edgar Schein, Robert Cialdini and
> researchers like Singer, Conway and Siegelman,
> Zimbardo and Milgram remain directly relevant to
> the cult phenomenon today.
>
> Moore is little more than a minor academic hack
> without any stature other than her personal family
> ties to Jonestown, which makes her less than
> objective.
>
> You seem to be here to undermine this thread and
> attack people that post here personally. If I
> receive just one more complaint about you--you
> will be banned from this message board.
>
> No one is really benefiting from your posts other
> than the cults.
RRMODERATOR,
Please allow me to be the voice that finally rids this group of the N&D troll.
I find the very mention of Jim Jones and the events at Jonestown to be beyond repugnant. This comparison, no matter how phrased, is extremely dangerous.
Any attempt to justify the cults behavior in a forum designed to permit and facilitate dissenting discussion is counterproductive to the forums reason for existing. IF one wishes to start a PRO-CULT forum is this website the place to do it? I would guess your response to be NO. SO.. why allow PRO-CULT or apologist posts at all, especially if they are gross and disgusting like N&D's last regarding JJ?
Enough is enough in my mind. Please pull the plug on N&D.
Thank you!