#cult behavior

[creature-wizard]

"White woman who uses her knowledge of pop spirituality to start a cult where she positions herself as this divine mother figure and makes everyone cater to her every whim while she abuses them all" is really a whole genre of person.

#cults #cult behavior #cult leader #cult leaders #love has won #final fantasy 7 house #ff7 house #and many others out there

[marvelmaniac715]

I was lowkey in a cult when I was younger because once a week I would go to a hall, in uniform, with several little girls, and we would work towards a common goal (earning badges) and we’d start every meeting with a song where the leaders, whose names we never knew so we called them things such as Brown Owl - it was all owl themed for some reason - would form an arch with their arms and we would all skip through their linked arms whilst chanting about what we were. Then we would recite a promise whilst holding our fingers up in a three fingered salute, I can still remember it and it went like this:

“I promise that I will do my best to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the Queen and my community, to help other people and to keep the Brownie Guide law.”

Then at the end of the session we would link hands and lift them up and down to simulate bells whilst singing a song that I do still remember that went like this:

“Oh Lord our god, thy children call, grant us life ease, and bless us all, goodnight.”

Then the leaders would say “Goodnight Brownies” and we’d go home like that was normal. Our parents not only knew about this, but fully supported it because where I live that’s just a normal part of childhood that’s looked back upon fondly, and they get these children in YOUNG, the Rainbows are like six or seven, and it’s not just girls, the boys have Scouts. But it’s not just the meetings that were odd, when I was too old to be a Brownie (you can only go when you’re eight to ten years old) there was a special moving up ceremony where I could become a Guide. You might wonder “What’s so strange about that?” Well, after being given a book to read about the mythological story behind the creation and ethos of the group involving a talking owl, the chosen girls would be lifted by the arms by two of the leaders and ‘flown’ over a plastic replica toadstool (I’m in a wheelchair so I just wheeled around it), then they would stand before a fake pond, spin around three times, then recite:

“Twist me and turn me and show me the elf, I looked in the water and there saw myself.”

Then we’d get a badge and people would clap. I thought nothing of it at the time but it was only after I left Guides (I could have kept going and eventually become a leader myself) that I realised just how odd it was. And that was just the modern day, back in World War Two these little girls were used to gather scraps to make weapons as well as to raise money and spread flyers for the war effort. Is it just me that finds this whole thing kind of culty? 😂

#brownies #guides #girl guides #childhood nostalgia #cult behavior

[fixing-bad-posts]

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TERF sure af is a cult-like group

Submitted by @angelasglasses

#fbp submission #angelasglasses #anti terf #fuck terfs #terf mention #cult joke #cult behavior

[johnlockdynamic]

#interview with the vampire #loustat #jacob anderson #sam reid #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #bailey bass #claudia de lioncourt #cj talks #cult behavior #i just want them to be happy #gif

[musingsofadepressedgay]

You ever like look back into your childhood and be like wow an authority figure who I was told to follow without question told me that if someone told me they would kill me for being mormon I should tell them to kill me

Like this feels like a fucked up thing to tell a child that first of all someone might want to kill them for being a part of a religion that most everyone they had interact with was part of and second of all that they should proudly die and ya know maybe thier killer would learn a valuable lesson about martyrdom and join the church because of it

Idk maybe it is just me but I am 99% sure teaching children it is cool to be martyrs is not a chill thing to do??

Like whenever people asked me how I wanted to die when I was a kid (idk if that is a normal convo for children to have but I had it more than a couple times) I never wanted it to be old age I wanted to die doing some heroic shit for other people

I don't know if my life was ever really considered to be mine by me

It was always just waiting to be used by something more important

Even if I didn't die my whole purpose would be to be a support for a mythical husband and a constant care giver to mythical kids

I was never seen a a person in the mormon church just a tool to bring more people into it even at the expense of myself

#exmo #honestly am desensitized to how fucked up the things i was told by adults in my life were until retrospect #cult behavior #religious trauma

[achenetype]

What would happend if Raven reader never left the nest?👁️ Love ur writing

THIS SPARKED SOMETHING IN ME OH MG GOD

MDNI; implied sex, hand wavey consent, abuse, raven-typical cult behavior and stockholm syndrome, riko is his own warning, injury/violence

listening to: sea, swallow me by cocteau twins

you can’t leave the nest, for a multitude of reasons. some of the other ravens still see their families; they go home for a weekend or for spring break every once in a while. they cite living close to the university, their parents being concerned or overprotective.

your family lives thousands of miles away and they hate you, so you stay at the nest. winter break, spring, summer. you know how edgar allan university looks baked in heat, drenched in rain, blanketed in snow.

riko moriyama and kevin day become your lifeline. he never leaves either. you spend more time together with them than you do with any of the other ravens, running perfect laps on castle evermore’s perfect court until all three of you are out of breath. you suck sparkling air into your lungs and laugh on the way back to your dorm, riko’s arms around your and kevin’s shoulders. perfect, perfect, perfect.

riko becomes captain and that perfection turns icelike and cold. he pushes everyone to their limits, especially himself. you and kevin push back. most of the other ravens are too scared to, but the three of you are perfect perfect perfect, the three of you are brilliant and nothing can stop you.

nothing can stop you until riko shatters kevin’s hand and you spend hours picking up the pieces.

nothing can stop you until riko shatters at the same time as your arm, when he does the same thing to you.

you spend weeks in recovery. riko sits at your bedside, murmuring apologies. murmuring we had to make it look believable, murmuring im so sorry.

your arm heals. clean break. clean hole where kevin used to be. clean, perfect number one, riko moriyama.

you still love him, which you’re not sure is a fact or a weapon. he is too tangled in you to separate what you are from what he is, and who hasn’t been cruel, in the nest? who hasn’t broken someone else to get ahead?

you have. riko has. this makes you a perfect match.

neil josten, newly rechristened nathaniel wesninski and number four, leaves as soon as he appears. some part of you resents him for it but a bigger part is, selfishly, grateful for riko’s attention to be back on you. you want your place by his side back—you want your life back.

you can’t leave the nest even when riko beats jean within an inch of his life. you can’t leave when that girl from the foxes appears and whisks him away, when riko breaks a window and punches a hole in the wall and screams about how his perfect court is falling apart.

everything is falling apart, you want to tell him. everything is falling apart and we can’t do a damn thing about it.

(instead you kiss his knuckles and help clean the glass off of the floor. instead you murmur distractions: how good his form was today, how pretty he looks with blood in his teeth, how you want him to shove you up against the court wall and take whatever he wants. you’d give it to him anyways. you’ve given it before, given everything else.)

(you fall asleep that night feeling hollow. riko’s arms around you and his head on your chest are no comfort. you want to hate yourself in a new, sick way, something that sways in your stomach and makes you want to puke or slash your wrists open like one of the freshman backliners did last week.)

(you want to hate yourself, but you can’t.)

and you can’t leave, either.

#— ash’s writing! #aftg #all for the game #riko moriyama #riko moriyama x reader #kevin day #kevin day x reader #jean moreau #neil josten #reader insert #raven!reader #ok warning tags #cw abuse #(raven typical abuse) #consent issues #graphic depictions of injury #graphic violence #stockholm #cult behavior #edgar allan university #edgar allan ravens #the ravens are kind of their own warning tbh they’re so fucked up (i love them)

[shitswiftiessay]

*laughs nervously* umm what the fuck?

#shit swifties say #shit swifties do #parasocial relationships #cult behaviour #cult behavior #it’s giving midsummers

[notaplaceofhonour]

fine, i’ll bite. if the logical conclusion of a set of “principled beliefs” is to kill yourself, anyone promoting said “principled beliefs” is trying to get people killed.

#cw suicide #i/p #death cult shit #cult behavior

[witchesbeware]

Cult Spotting:

Here is some info on how to spot a cult for new and experienced witches/people in witchcraft:

-You are only allowed to do things their way

-They come up with buzzwords like “spiritual gunk” or “love and light” or other things to scare you into doing what they want you to. (This is a scare tactic and makes you rely on them more.)

-They ask for money. (Now, if they offer services like tarot, etc and you don’t HAVE to give money, this is different.)

-if the leader claims to have special insight or abilities and you have to rely on their senses instead of your own.

-They pit you and other members against each other.

-There is an inner circle that you can reach by following the leader without question.

-They tell you if you leave, people will stop talking to you and bad things will happen.

-Just because someone in the group is a family member does not mean they have your best interests in mind.

-Do online research. See if there are any blogs, info, etc about the group.

-ALWAYS TRUST YOUR GUT. It is the most important thing that you have. Ask your guides, deities, and yourself. And if the answer is no, then follow it.

-If something feels too good to be true, or like a red flag, most of the time it is!

#cults #cult spotting #cult behavior #witchy #witchcraft #spirituality #beware #be safe #witchy shop #witchcore #spirit communication #spiritual growth #spiritual development

[womenaremypriority]

yeah, we know

#Cult behavior #but when EYE say it’s a cult that encourages suicide 🫢 #My post #Gender critucal #TRA receipts

[creature-wizard]

Hey folks, it's a massive red flag when somebody starts mashing up gods and/or divinities from different belief systems into a single mythos and basically presents it as the Absolute Spiritual Truth Ever. They're basically pushing a cult, so beware.

#red flag #red flags #spiritual red flags #spiritual red flag #spirituality #religion #belief #pagan #paganism #witchcraft #witchblr #cults #cult behavior

[dbluegreen]

#covid is not over #even as much as i wish it was #psychology #cult behavior

[stopscammingartists]

Also also why not just delete/censor all of the shit talking instead of banning them so they can't see it? It'd be a lot easier honestly... unless it's their plan to impress on others to stay in line lest they get banned and shit talked behind their back too, and also to propagate the idea that the person banned was acting in bad faith when they really weren't.

The user stepped out of line and needed to be made an example of.

To be clear, the crime they committed that earned them this treatment wasn't venting in general, or sending the NSFW thing in general.

It was leaving the server.

The goal was to tell other casual members of the community what happens if they decide to leave for their own mental health - even if the reasons are unrelated to the server itself.

You get mocked by the people you respect and banned.

#floraverse #glitchedpuppet #cult behavior #forbidden flora #fox flux

[sidewalkchemistry]

Why You Should Be Your Own Guru (Practical Advice for Anyone): a short message on the importance of trusting your own heart

It makes me pretty sad when I see people who instruct people in ways to improve their lives, but in ways that cause a dependency on their teachings. Never align with anyone like this. It's very harmful to you. And it's more common than you think. I was always reasonably critical of my teachers and professors for this reason. Being a teacher is a very sacred position (and at the same time, we are all teachers and students & all is our teacher and student). So, it's very important never to introduce manipulation or negative intentions into the equation.

I can make it a bit more practical of an understanding...

Let's say that you are following the advice of a nutrition/health coach, a spiritual or religious teacher, a life coach, a manifestation instructor, a political figure, a boss, a coworker, an academic teacher, a yoga instructor, a physician, a manager, a therapist, even a partner, friend, or relative. You receive their advice because it sounds like the results will be promising, or you'd like to see if the outcome is favorable. And you notice overtime that the advice is very strict and makes you feel small or helpless without it. (But it's very easy to ignore this feeling anyway). Examples of this would be: an expressed need to follow their exact words, strict orders to stop listening to your own instincts, making you feel afraid of the repercussions of ever setting aside their teachings (as if something dangerous would happen to you right that second😂), totally disrespecting other belief systems, and disallowing you to find your own wisdom. You may thinking that this sounds similar to what people says about cults -- yes, this is the tactic used by institutions. It's used also by individuals who (don't) *particularly* mean to abuse or traumatize. Nevertheless, it will stop you from feeling free. These kinds of instructions are not really done in love. Love would let you feel free...

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~ more guidance on following your heart are given in our Law of Love series on Patreon (at the Mystical Babes tier) ~

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#holistic health #heart discernment #guru #be your own guru #trauma #self love #self care #soft living #slow living #mysticism #intuition #sovereignty #manipulation #cult behavior #codependency #spirituality #mindfulness #meditation #life advice #psychological trauma #heart expansive #unconditional love

[volinare]

yall are gonna drive an entire nation into psychosis and then some bad shit is going to happen.

#i started seeing these a few months ago #then they disappeared for a while #thought of them again recently and started looking #edit: this is about palistine to be clear #and like lol point to where in the bible it says they commit a genicide for a fucking canal #im actually not 100 % about that my mom saud that to me lol #but anyways yall are being fucking weird and your going to cause a fucking global colapse over something vauuugly looking like something els #like. #WHAT????? #cult behavior #major cult vibes

[antimony-ore]

#jk rowling #cult behavior #psyops #it's kinda toxic AF here #none of you are free of sin