What is wrong with a little weed? everything in moderation! the problem with the haris is that they do not allow anything but chanting and brainwashing activities. they do not have sex and sex is ok they do not even eat normal food i liked their food a lot but i can't live without something besides rice and greens. there is nothing wrong about eatting meat but as with ALL cults they
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no your god idea is a myth and not based on facts why do you give up your intelligence and critical thinking to worship a make believe new age fairy tale?
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landmark UNITY the moonies what do they have in common? They are anti science and anti skeptical thinking. I am a former jehovahs witness turned cult Buster and i know what i believe as I have seen the results of mind control at work and the harm and horrible damage unity is not about medicine or proven FACTS it is a fairy tale wishful thinking and blind fantasy... fillmore was a croo
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Yes I can say that I have had experience with this cult and similar groups They believe that you can cure illness by thoughts alone and follow Ernest Holmes who like many cult leaders invented a religion based on wackiness. Are they harmless? You have to ask yourself is going to the doctor a good thing? Is science real and I am not talking about what they refer to as the science of mind. I
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this guy is a looney tune cartoon. He claims that he is a special chosen ambassador of Peace he is a nut case and all the bs about some kids being star kids or crystal kids is total mindrot have any of you heard of doreen virtue she is a total new age cult leader who is also doing the idigo kid scam Also lee caroll who is a fake medium who channels KRYON and he coined the phrase INIGO
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the mormons are a cult like the watchtower who I was brought up in the mormons abuse women and are into following a man who had many many wives many underage and was a pervert. they have built an empire on lies and rightwing hate they are not rational nor do they accept outsiders talk to someone who has left and you will know why
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my parents told me that jehovah was a spirit who contolled our lives as a man now i know that the myths told to me as a boy were lies and lies need to be stopped the god idea is a myth god is where santa claus and the tooth fairy are
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last month i saw these people on the street in new york. they are nuts and they are brainwashed into believing new age mumboo jumbo . the people I spoke to were gulllible and believed that they were helping their fellow cult zombies in china this is not the case as they would not have a problem in china if they were not messing with peoples heads and trying to affect the government. I have one
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eric is right about the myths and the brainrot. ALL gurus are bad as they are ALL selling myth and deceiving innocent people they are anti thinking a and ALL CULTS ARE BAD there is NO middle ground and if you say that they are ok this is not the truth as they hurt innocent people. I thought that haris were ok people and once I read more about them it made sense that they were up there with the
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spiritualism like unity is a cult that con people and lead people into believing in a false god and nonexistant spirit world. Wake up people and see that they may not hold brainwashing sessions in a harsh manner they may be all so new agey and nice but the niceness and the lies they teach do NOT encourage critical thinking. Free thinkers DO NOT follow this type of new age hodge podge!! Free t
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this is part of their set up for mind control! They get you into their temple or Soup Kitchen and feed you and then you are brainwashed. A lot of cults do this. The Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation used to do this in all their so called churches. They would feed you cheap boxed Kraft macaroni and cheese and kool aid from a mix. Really good food and save you. In Brooklyn their sto
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the eckists really are into eating anything although some are into health food. i don't know about raw food per say, but it would fit into their flaky world view. Father Twitchell the soul traveling con artist ate meat and smoked he was not into fady health food but wanted to seem so normal that people would believe his lies. his books were mainly writtten by ghost writers.. they are a cu
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I busted this cult back in 1983 when their living eck master was a con artist drug sex addict named darwin gross. and let me tell you he was GROSS. Their Manhattan office was filled with darwin look a like wanna be's they all dressed like him. this cult is one of the most dangerous that I have encountered. they do act VERY normal and you would think that they were born again christians
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even if they are not extreme they damage people as they encourage people to believe in mythology over science and rational truth. all religions were invented by people to control and exploit others and because people want a false sense of security and do not want to face the fact that life is created by chemicals randomly mixed. a mircle NO! Science and fact YES!
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it is a good thing that you got out but don't thank god or any false myth as the reason you were saved was because you used your rational mind and thought for yourself. Myths and phony gods can't help us only our rational informed critical thinking can.
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I say that you are in a cult and you are saying that you are sorry for its wrong doing and sleazy beliefs and painful practices.. you are brainwashed and while you may be a nice man you need to get out while you still can reason.. ALL religions in my view are based on MYTH and not ratioinal fact or logical science. Jesus started christianity hindu started hinduism and buddha founded the bud
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I was born a Jehovahs Witness and excomunicated when I no longer followed the cult my parents friends all my family they disowned me so I turned away from their lies and found TRUTH> I have fought cults now since the 70's and believe that they are ALL evil and should be shut down. We need to stand together and reach others with the truth of the evil that cults do
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Of course people died as they should have consulted a real medical doctor with science background. Cults do the same thing they feed people lies and falsehope and then the people die with brains washed by the nonsense the cult leading snake peddlars spoon feeed them. Con artists gurus and cult leaders and fake faith healers are one and the same as are priests and ministers who give people h
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John Mack is just another cult leader who leads the public astray with his fantasies about alien abduction. Does he sleep with some of the people adminsters therapy to? Your guess is as good as mine. What we need is people in positions to stop quack therapists and fake medical experts from destroying minds and feeding LIES and FALSE HOPE to avereage joes who just might need genuine therapy and
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the hindu beliefs as the hare krishna beliefs have caused much pain to people over the years. this guy is in a cult and even if it is not the hare organization he still is following a cult leader. Maybe his "father" is not jim jones or "father" moon but he is still a cult leader. I call a spade a spade. The hares I encountered were nice people harmless but you are very ver
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I found in my investigations that the hares were nice but harmless but I they were brainwashed and believed in superstitious nonscience based hindu ideas. Harmless but very very HINDU. Hindus believe in burning their widows after their husband dies and they support idolatry and think that sex is evil. I disagree with their god but they would not be dangerous to the extent of the moonies or ton
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how can you believe in a hindu god and still have a free mind/? seems like a contradiction to me.
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If I were hurt I would see a doctor before I would trust a massage doctor to help me. Massage is just another new age quackery .Rub downs might feel good but for serioius problems I would stay away unless you want to make the injury worse. The public is so MISLED by unproven theories and misinformation. Massage is not based on Science but what people feel. When I was growing up people "fe
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James Randi's approach isn't that bad. this cultish new age junk is dangerous. It is more than taking peoples money but taking their minds . carl sagan wanted to educate people which is good but sometimes the best most effective way is in your face and not what people want to hear. I got thrown out by my Jehovah witness family when I refused to follow and believe their lies I lost m
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thanks that makes sense. there are way too many cults out there i have difficultly keeping up with them too thanks for this message board and the imput given.
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Iprefer to see things first hand. I used to do exit counseling and talk sense into cultists who had left the outside world and forgotten what it was like. I would place the hares on my top 20 dangerous groups maybe top 15 they are more visible but that does not make them more violent or paranoid. I infilterated tony alamos cult back in 85 I street witnessed with them in brooklyn chicago and ho
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I am read all of this before and met nori muster at the American Family conference. She seemed to be mad at the organization not the religion. Well they do have the best food that is for sure. I infiltrated their farm in pennsylvania back in 89. Some what they are into seems weird but it is hindu and there were a lot of hindus living there and just about everyone going there was hindu so they
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Yes some of their membership are cultists but in my days of cult busting I found that they were the only ones that did not react to me in a demeaning way. I have heard them speak at the American Family conferences and they are not as bad as some people make them out to be. I also went to several of their meetings and most of them are very normal and average joes. It is just a hindu religion no
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Out of all the cults the hare krishna people are the only ones I have met who were truthful. what other cult did you join and what did they do to you that hurt you so much?
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We need science not backward NATIVE AMERICAN or SHAMANIC techniques that are based on false superstitions and nonsense. Harner is just doing this to make money off of people who want to believe in something more than the reality of their pain. Cults and phony make believe healing arts buy into this.
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