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CULTS - celebrities in them, cinema about them, could you be in a cult, and more

CULTS - celebrities in them, cinema about them, could you be in a cult, and more
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Cult expert Steve Hassan is on a controversial crusade to prove that Trumpists are cult members

Steve Hassan’s controversial crusade to prove that Trumpists are cult members.

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The Magnificent 7: Must See, Must Do, May 26 to June 1

As the state approaches a full reopening, there's no shortage of ways for Vermonters to connect, learn and have a good time. We've compiled seven of this week's must-do events, including an outdoor performance of Ballet Vermont's Bees & Friends.

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Deprogramming QAnon followers ignores free will and why they adopted the beliefs in the first place

Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term personality changes. Deprogramming, also coercive, is thought to undo brainwashing. As a professor of religious studies who has written and taught about alternative religious movements, I believe such deprogramming conversations do little to help us understand why people adopt QAnon beliefs. A deprogramming discourse fails to understand religious recruitment and conversion and excuses those spreading QAnon beliefs from accountability. A brief brainwashing history Deprogramming, a method thought to reverse extreme psychological manipulation, can’t be understood apart from the concept of brainwashing.

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MIL-OSI Global: Deprogramming QAnon followers ignores free will and why they adopted the beliefs in the first place

Source: The Conversation â USA â By Paul Thomas, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies, Radford University Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term personality changes. Deprogramming, also coercive, is thought to undo brainwashing. As a professor of religious studies who has written and taught about alternative religious movements, I believe such deprogramming conversations do little to help us understand why people adopt QAnon beliefs. A deprogramming discourse fails to understand religious recruitment and conversion and excuses those spreading QAnon beliefs from accountability.

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