I couldn't find a specific Moonies thread besides this one... I googled "Moonies" and "Rick Ross Forum" and this came up. Small world, the above post was by me 9 years ago^^ Anyway, I just wanted to share this Moonies vid I snagged a few years back: Marines, repeat after me "Rev. Moon is the Messiah!"
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Here's a great video of a presentation Prof. Ji Il Tark, who lectures on cultic groups. This may have been posted already, I just skimmed the above posts, but here's an article from 2008 about the group's recruiting in Pennsylvania: This article, about the group in Malawi, is no longer online, but I took a screenshot:
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Well I've been inactive on this board of late, but I think a return and update on this cult is warranted as although it is relatively obscure in the west, it does have branches near quite a few university campuses in the US and recruiters are always on the lookout for more members. So 8 years ago the cult leader was a fugitive, he's since been arrested in China (2007) and then extrad
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Hey what's going on? Why are the guys at Ki Health googling me?? Argh some recent posts on this old thread must be freaking them out. Hey guys, I'm innocent this time I swear! No offence Ki Health people, but I do not want to be your friends on Facebook.
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Sorry to hear about your loss
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This group is very active on Korean university campuses, under the guise of IYF (International Youth Fellowship) Lots of focus on English education (something every Korean student studies) and travel abroad on their missionary / volunteer programs. I attended one of their speech contest a few years ago, almost every speech was about how good their "church" was. A promo video fol
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I've stayed pretty quiet about this... didn't want to, but I received legal threats from the group in London and here in Korea, and threats to damage my rep at work. Here's a brief description of the threats and some other info: www.captporridge.com/letter.html The Sunday Telegraph just published.. QuoteSunday TelegraphAn alternative healing centre based in London has
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Korea's JMS cult has a branch in New York. Info on the jms cult here, www.jmscult.com. It's considered Korea's worst cult. It's leader, Jeong Myeong-seok, fled Korea in 1999 after rape allegations aried on national TV. Over the next 8 years, there were 100s of other allegations from Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan. A fugitive for some 8 years Jeong was captured in China in
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Some very interesting developments on the BK front. The site www.brahmakumaris.info, a cult awareness site run by former members, is being challenged by Brahma Kumars in Texas. Here's the thread about the upcoming legal action on the above site: A few trademarks were registered by the cult in Texas A search on Brahma Kumaris finds them. It seems they are trying to trademar
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Wow, the new president of India, Pratibha Patil, is a member of the BK doomsday cult and has admitted to speaking to its dead founder. QuoteThe milder criticism of her comes from a curious admission that a dead guru had given her a "premonition" that she was destined to become India's first citizen. A doomsday cult with nukes, isn't that nice :wink:
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Quotemissmek Also I question how Raelianism is an atheist religion. They may not believe in God, but they do believe in the Elohim as their creators, plan on their return for immortality and rely on their faith in Rael as messanger. I do wish someone could clue me in on where I am wrong in questioning that aspect. It's God by another name. He's just using a different name for his u
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I encountered them a few months ago, and wrote an article my adventures. A doomsday cult with many similarities to Aum Not a cult? I have to laugh at that, BK lies and manipulates with the best of them. The BK member who gave a lecture on my campus was a total fraud who's resume distrubuted to university staff was a total fiction. His doomsday predictions nothing but superstitious nons
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I came across a student online a couple of weeks ago... Holy moly, Orwell's Big Brother could learn a few things from those guys. Here's what I posted on my own forum... Wow, I just came across a bizarro world discussion about that place! On a forum for fans of film composer John Williams, a Bob Jones Uni student asked for soundtrack recomendations for PG related films, because
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I recorded a Filipino member of a Korean cult describing his introduction to the group. That is a current member talking. Youtube link here. Certainly with that cult - www.jmscult.com - recruitment can have nothing to do with any other factors than how well the recruiters tell their lies, flatter and manipulate. Certainly, in the beginning, the cult seems to offer things that any person
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QuotechariotHow can someone say something so stupid that a human is Jesus? It's hard to believe. Would these missionaries really be teaching something so stupid like that? That's what I want to know. Well lots groups that teach that their leader is the Messiah, and quite a few Korean based groups also, so yes, it is certainly possible they teach this. If this group is a cult, then th
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A cult led by a Korean fugitive wanted for rape by the Korean Police and Interpol is holding an event at the University of Californa's San Diego campus, this Saturday. Here is Rick's page on this group: My site: Here is the invite, straight from senior American leaders: QuoteDear Leaders and MS, In San Diego, we will hold an evangelism rally on October 22nd at Universi
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I don't think they are linked to the Moonies, but that's just a hunch. Their could be high level links, but my gut instinct is it's a different group completely. There's pretty much no critical info on them in English, but they have a bad rep here in Korea. The chaplin at my university had a few encounters with them recruiting on campus. A young guy in Germany shared h
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Cool coincidence, The cult I stalk has a presence in both Poland and the Phillipines. One Saturday night in July I happened to spend a night at that cult's HQ in rural Korea and filmed a Filipino member describing his experiences in the cult. Oops I made some mistakes with the titles at the beginning of the film, and I changed the song he sang, cause it was really terrible, and I adde
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Hi everyone, I have the opportunity to propose, and then if accepted, develop a course for international students studying at Keimyung University in Daegu, Korea. www.kmu.ac.kr I have a list of current subjects and suggested subjects, but am not restricted to those. Several of the existing and suggested topics relate to the subject I will propose which is tentatively entitled: Totalita
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There's apparently about 70 Korean Messiahs doing the rounds at the moment. Could be the Moonies, an offshoot of them, or another group entirely. I operate a website that focuses mainly on Korean cults and one in particular, if you don't mind could you perhaps get the name of this Korean Messiah? Have you seen his photo? If it's the group I encountered, some of the stuff
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Regarding Moonie Off-shoot cult known as GACP (Global Association Of Culture & Peace), known in Korea as the JMS cult: Cult leader Jeong Myeong Seok has been on the news here in Korea these past few days. New rape allegations have come from his followers in China; which follows the pattern of rape allegations wherever he spends time: Korea, Japan, America, Taiwan, and now China. I
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I attended a IYF English presentation contest yesterday here in Korea Did it feel like a cult? A little!! The event began with a promotional video for their organisation. Some of the scenes creeped me out a little. Scenes of audiances of thousands all swaying and chanting together. The founder of the GoodNews Baptist yelling out speeches and everyone cheering. Plus they had technical
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Has anyone ever heard of this group" I operate a site mainly about Asian cults (http://falsemessiah.proboards23.com) and recently received an email from someone who claimed to have some disturbing experiences with them. I had a quick search on the net and didn't find much critical of them This testimony on their site I found interesting: The guy says he was the "
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Well I wasn't exactly the first, there was already tons of complaints and criminal charges pressed against the cult I encountered in Korea, but in English there was very little info and what was around was outdated. AndI found gathering info to be both interesting and rewarding, so that's why I contibinue to keep an eye on GACP: So that was the main motivation, and in the process I
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oops/, most of the links in my first few posts here no longer work The cults LA site is offline, and a lot of other cult sites are also offline, But others are and I have no reason to think a decrease in sites means a decrease in activity. Here's Ricks and Steves pages on this cult Cult website: Not much activity, but monthly newsletters are produced and they do indicate rat
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Wow.. the shit finally seems to be hitting the fan. An article appeared today in Taiwan about GACP/ JMS activities there Its all in Chinese, I did a babel fish translation..super rough, but soem of the phrases tell me they got it right. Taiwan Newspaper link National Central University has put the story on their homepage: And my own site where I put the rough translation I&#
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A NZ cult awareness site has this little blurb: Quote Destiny NZ. An unashamedly Christian political party officially started on 4 July 2003. Party President is David Jesze, Party Leader is Richard Lewis. While having very close ties to Destiny Church (for example, Brian Tamaki spoke at the formation event), they are technically independent from that church. They aim to have candidates for mos
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So... what exactly does a cult led by a wanted serial rapist look like? Instead of writing about this cult.... I decided on a small change of direction.. A cult photo album!! Still a whole ton of pictures to post, but at the moment I think it gives a pretty good insight into this group. Beautiful girls, kids too, giant size posters of the cult leader ala Kim Jung Il, cultural and sporting
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I don't think this is the same woman, no mention of sea org.. But its a good article and the topic is the same:
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Thanks guys for the words of support, sorry I haven't checked in here for a while Haven't heard anything more from the guy who made the initial threats, but further to being informed Jung is wanted for rape by Interpol, he wrote a little "history of his soccer club" thread on his teams blog, mentioning GACP several times and it's founder personally as providing the ins
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