I have put this out there to challenge anyone: show me one of the points of Lifton's thought reform model, or any other such model, that we conform to at the present time. Come over and meet us anytime; hell, I'll take you out for a beer and we'll taalk about it. By no stretch of the imagination, by no means, is Trinity Foundation some type of isolated, paranoid, apocolyptic mind-
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Ole's a curmudgeony old man and half the time he can't even get out of bed. He's sure not Mr. Rogers, but is he a paranoid, megalomaniacal "cult leader" and are all of us puppets kidnapped mentally into participating in his fantasy world? That idea is totally ludicrous. I myself have only been part of this community for a few months now; I've have never felt manipu
Forum: "Cults," Sects, and "New Religious Movements"