Just in case you have not seen it. Here is a link to the Washington Post article about Tulsi Gabbard and Science of Identiy leader Chris Butler. See Wow! what a block buster confirming what so many people discussed on this message board for many years.
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See More reporting about the ties between Chris Butler, Scienceo of Identity, Tulsi Gabbard and her family.
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There were some technical problems here concerning posts at this thread. Those problems have apparently been resolved. Test posts have been deleted. Again, thank you to everyone who has supported this thread and posted here.
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Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread over the past 20 plus years. Hopefully, it will continue to be a place for commentary about Chris Butler and his group called "Science of Identiy." Now that Tulsi Gabbard's involvement with Butler has been exposed more widely perhaps more articles will be written about the group geerally, which can draw upon the informati
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This thread has up for 24 years as one of the oldest and best resources regardng inside information about the Science of Identity group and its leader Christ Butler. Thanks to everyone that contributed here and made this possible.
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No groups are "de-listed." If there are news reports about a controversial group you can suggest that they be included by email. This would include local news reports, wire service reports, etc. Otherwise you may comment about the group here on the message board.
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Your welcome. That is the purpose of this message board.
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Changedagain, Thank you for your contribution to this thread, i.e. when you speicifically were focused on the subject matter as titled in this thread. This thead has helped a lot of people directly or indirectly affected by the Living Word Fellowhips (The Walk) and John Robert Stevens. Apparently it has played a substantial role in brining victims of abuse forward and together, in sorti
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I did my best to clean up this thread by deleting all the spam links to unrelated tocpics. Both political parties have sadly resorted to calling each other "cults," which is not helpful, a misuse of the word and it deminishes the genuine suffering of real cult survivors. Let's not discuss politics or other off topic subjects here. There are pleny of spaces online to have s
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The focus of this thread is The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens. Please refrain from posting off topic or you will be banned from this message board. Your off topic posts will be deleted. It's a lot of work to delete so much spam posts.
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Here we are once again. Warning -- avoid personal attacks. This is not about attacking people that post here. It's about Struthers Memorial Independent Pentecostal Church. Please stay focused on the topic of this thread.
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Warning: Let's try to get along here. No personal attacks. And no one is entitled here, i.e. people may respond to posts or choose not to respond. No recrimination.
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To whom it may concern: Please be sensitive to the issue of naming general regular members. Unless someone is a leader and you are commenting about their behavior and/or harm done as a leader, it's really not that meaningful to discuss regular members by name or initials.
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BigJacque has been banned for violation of the rules, e.g. personal attacks.
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Being anonymous is not an issue here. But harrassing anonymous people on this board for being anonymous is an issue and can lead to someone being banned.
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Yes. This has been an active and useful thread viewed by many people. Let's keep it that way.
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To whom it may concern, This message board is certainly a safe place and has been so for decades. But people do come here in an effort to subvert this forum in the hope of silencing criticism about a group or leader. The rules are the rules. And when they are broken people get banned. Let's stay within the rules and refrain from personal attacks.
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Esmespier, Please post at the Struthers thread. This is not the proper place for these posts. See
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Esmespiers, Please post at the Sturthers thread. That is the place where this discussion must correctly take place. See
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True Person, You are totally off topic. Please stay on topic. If you wish to post on this thread the topic is OneTaste. FYI-- Landmark and Osho are not related and have no connection to each other. There are threads about Landmark and Osho if you wish to discuss these topics please post there.
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See This explains defining a destructive cult. See also This further explains the essential core characteristics of a destructive cult. "Certain psychological themes which recur in these various historical contexts also arise in the study of cults. Cults can be identified by three characteristics: 1. a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the g
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Not something that I wish to get involved in. CEI has its own Scientology archive no need to expand or include another domain name. Sad that Andreas has passed away. He was a great guy, though I never met him face to face, his work regarding Scientology is impresive. Rick
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Maryjane: Please don't make genralization and accusations about cult vitims. It comes across like victim bashing. It's much beter and far more useful to disucss the predatory practices of cult leaders who are actually to blame instead.
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Maryjane please stop the extreme posts about people dying and suffering. It's over the top. gatis please stop personal attacks.
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Sorry about that, but I tried to be fair. But in the final analysis a troll is a troll. Totally off topic and sef-indulgent, self-serving behavior. Either pontificating, ranting or going on about himself. No one here needs to be subjected to that crap.
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XKrishna has been banned.
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It's fair and on topic to discuss Tulsi Gabbard, due to her involement with Chris Butlern and her family's long time involvment.
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