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[n1rvana]

@manon_desources by @kim_akrich

[pangeen]

" Life in the north " // © bjørne parken

Music: © Ramin Djawadi - Hold the Door

[landsccape]

[charlesoberonn]

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

[charlesoberonn]

To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.

They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.

[charlesoberonn]

The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.

BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups

It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.

It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader

[charlesoberonn]

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#you might notice that there are a lot of similarities between cult techniques and those of abusive partners#and that is an important thing to be aware of

yah that goes in the post

[charlesoberonn]

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

[forgotn1]

It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.

[alp-crispy]

This was the post that lead to breaking my JW mindset. Been a while since I seen it.

[charlesoberonn]

I’m glad I could help in your deconstruction, if only a little bit. I wish you all the luck in your journey moving forward.

[homeofhousechickens]

[leahgardner-art]

Experimenting with glazing lately. Clockwise from top left, the glaze colors are pthalo green, pthalo blue, quinacridone red, and yellow ochre

[devildaisies]

🔥 H-O-T-T-O-G-O 🔥

[yourprettyfemme-deactivated2025]

Mini Chappell, bless my timeline.

[ryan-sometimes]

Paramore was right. Hard times

[yuumei-art]

Ice cream cake 🌨️ 🍨 🎂

Part of my water cake series

[uroko]

貴船/夏の夕 Kibune/Summer Evening

[yuumei-art]

My 7th annual charity sale is happening right now on YuumeiArt.com/shop Use code GIVINGTHANKS for 10% off storewide, and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to environmental charities :)

Sale lasts until Nov 30. Everything from koi lanterns, artbooks, wall scrolls, prints, postcards and more are all on sale!

[sosuperawesome]

Celestial Pins // BV Enamel Art

[hibiscusflowerhoney]

[remanence-of-love]

[seashellronan]

the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them

[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]