Cons and cults both fascinate me. The way people are brought in. The way harmless seeming language and behaviors are used to lay secret traps, ready to spring shut and keep you there when the time is right.
Human behavior is such a rich and interesting tapestry.
#cults #truecrime #nxivm #TheVow #socialengineering
I've been watching #TheVow (docuseries about the #NXIVM cult), and it's been difficult at times because of the familiarity of so much of it as someone from an evangelical background.
I mean the "curriculum" has #BillGothard and #IBLP written all over it so to speak.
Anyway, the familiarity doesn't surprise me, but it's weird watching and going "that's classic cult behavior" and then thinking up half a dozen similarities with communities I've been exposed to. #CultDeprogramming #ReligiousTrauma
#TheVow #nxivm #billgothard #iblp #cultdeprogramming #religioustrauma
Finished watching #TheVow. While season one was compelling albeit problematic (particularly in its credulous handling of Mark Vicente: "What the bleep did he know, and when the bleep did he know it?"), season two was more troubling. Nancy Salzman repeatedly compromises her narrative of victimhood, but the filmmakers let her sweep enough under the rug (ahem, $500k in cash discovered on the premises of her home) that the viewer has to ask similar questions about them: Dupes or accomplices? #nxivm
RT @StepRam@twitter.com
No wonder Ian Murray looked so depressed on #channel4news tonight, Browns regurgitation of the #TheVow is about as appetising to Scotland as pile of cold sick on Lothian road at 3am!
đŚđ: https://twitter.com/StepRam/status/1599891031184400384
@Roadwarrior29 and none of what he promised was delivered.
It's the same this time. But. Wev'e seen this story before. Once bitten, twice shy.
#brown, #vow #thevow #indy #brokenpromises #nevergoingtohappen
#nevergoingtohappen #brokenpromises #indy #TheVow #Vow #brown
if you're intrigued by Gordon Brown's latest foray into the public arena, and on the back of a poll showing a 4% lead for Scottish independence, then settle down for a comprehensvie appraisal of his Unionist froth.
#ScottishIndependence #Indyref2 #Scotland #GordonBrown #TheVow
#TheVow #gordonbrown #scotland #indyref2 #scottishindependence
Watched the last episode of #TheVow. Heart breaking seeing people who are in a vulnerable state just want to improve their lives and fall into a cult. The nxivm 5 are tragic figures, aren't they? What sets a person on a course to deny so much truth in front of them? Anyhow, interesting series. Let's be mindful out there.
TV TONIGHT (November 21)
#BelowDeck #DWTS #NoOneCanHearYouScream #TheVow #TheSurrealLife #DeathInTheDorms #MyLittlePony #PoundingInstincts #CollegeBasketball #NFL #BobHeartsAbishola #TheVoice #WWERaw #HolidayBakingChampionship #AllAmerican #TheGoodDoctor
http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2022/11/tv-tonight-november-21.html
#TheGoodDoctor #allamerican #holidaybakingchampionship #WWERaw #thevoice #bobheartsabishola #NFL #collegebasketball #poundinginstincts #mylittlepony #deathinthedorms #thesurreallife #TheVow #noonecanhearyouscream #dwts #belowdeck
i have been beyond obsessed with #TheVow on HBO. It's my first real deep dive in to the NXVIM world, following a years-long obsession with MLMs.
Same goes for #TheVow - I just lost interest 2 episodes into the current season.
RT @oakroyd@twitter.com
'Upper Chamber of the Nations you say?'
#Shitfuckery #TheVow
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