Do you think "brainwashing" is real or just imagined? Can someone be brainwashed or this used as an excuse to explain away mistakes and bad decisions? What is the difference between legitimate religious conversion and "cult brainwashing"? Where is the line between religious indoctrination or instruction and "brainwashing"? 1st question, It's real. 2. Yes, yo
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Hi Mr. Ross, I was replying to Warfrog, but when I read Warfrog's comment, I missed the word covert so his comment read differently without the word covert in it. I thought he was talking about cults in general.
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Sorry Mr. Ross, I missed the word covert.
Forum: Coercive Persuasion and Undue Influence

Hi moderator, I missed the word covert in a post I just read and sent a reply to, please don't post it.
Forum: Coercive Persuasion and Undue Influence

I am asking this because more and more we are seeing covert cults commandeer places one must visit on a daily basis such as schools,colleges and the workplace. If you know that they are a cult, walk away. Say no to what ever they are offering and walk pass them.
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Stoic, Anticult, I made a mistake with my post to anticult. All I meant was normal research, like brain cancer. I did not mean the what is mind aspect of it. I wasn't going there. My mistake.
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Anticult, I added another comment to my post but it hasn't gone through yet. It might have been something I did on my end. What I wrote, (maybe not exact words) was the question of "what is mind" where science is concerned is not dumb. Or to put it better, not unimportant. I over reacted when I seen nobody know's what mind is. To me it's part of the brain. From experi
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"And no one on earth even knows what the freaking human mind really "is", but it certainly its the most astonishing thing known in the universe. " Hi Anticult, I think that this part of your statement can be misleading, "And no one on earth even knows what the freaking human mind really "is". You think, and you have thoughts and sometimes people can ask you &
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