July 24, 2007
Google Search Results for "cults and the cia"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cults%20and%20the%20CIA&btnG=Google%20Search
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~I've a favorite aunt and we can talk about almost anything, even ufos and serial killers, but everytime I try to bring up the topic of cults her eyes glaze over and she stops listening until I change the subject.
I remember one conversation in which we reminisced about the nuns we had as teachers. It naturally devolved into what we learned, the urban legends, about how the nuns lived in their cloisters, and as we exhausted all the rumors and trivia we knew, I started to talk about the similarities between religious or military disciplines and cults. She wouldn't hear it. She said that cults in no way shape or form have anything in common with either traditional religious communities or military training. Case closed..
That was a few years ago. Today I'm pretty sure that America's institutions and organizations are permeated, some more than others, with various cultic techniques, practices and cult members. And it may have always been that way.
Contrary to the above links not all cultists are spawns of the CIA and the degree of zombification required and/or instilled (with knowledge aforethough) by institutions varies. As does the zombie-like qualities cult members assume during their free time.
Cult membership may be as natural a phenomena as hypnosis.
Posted by Stubbornson at July 24, 2007 05:34 PM