He does something illegal on a practically daily basis and everyone just kisses his ass. Now I guess he can just continue on and conquer the whole world and kidnap world leaders. Why doesn’t anyone stand up to this asshole?
He does something illegal on a practically daily basis and everyone just kisses his ass. Now I guess he can just continue on and conquer the whole world and kidnap world leaders. Why doesn’t anyone stand up to this asshole?
Yeah I was 13-14, and they were telling the cult members how to make “friends” with ppl they didn’t give a shit about, how to start talking to them about the cult’s beliefs, how to tell how good of a reception they were getting, how to tell if it had gone on long enough and the person wasn’t receptive so move on, how to “dump them as friends in a friendly way” if they did join so the higher cult members could take over and the lower members could then have time to go recruit more ppl. It was fucking nuts.
My mom was vulnerable to them bc she was so lonely and also liked thinking she had secrets other ppl didn’t know.
I remember being taught how to “witness” as a kid/young teen. Thankfully I was shy and self aware enough to never attempt it.
I don’t think they were as hardcore as that though.
A friend of a friend, while in my early 20s, got roped into Mormonism in a similar way. She started dating a guy who was Mormon and pressured her to convert. She later found out that it was all a fishing strategy, and she was far from the only one he had done it to. Unfortunately, at least at that point, that information was not enough to steer her away from her newfound cult