The HT cultists will no doubt blame us, "the trolls", for trying to ruin the peecoin with our DDoS attacks.
Why is everything HT vs BCT? Aren't we all on the same team? I don't get this.
That's a good question to ask the CEO why he labels Reddit and BCT and now even exchange traders as trolls and FUDsters at every opportunity. I think there is a large community of GAW customers outside HT but somehow the head of the company thinks there is a need to make a distinction.
Alienation from the rest of society is the first step in creating a cult. It is the bedrock upon which all other attacks upon the psyche of the victims rests. This is why the Exalted GAW CEO has done this.
Edit to add: Does any of the following sound familiar to anyone who has been following this GAW saga?
What is a Cult?
Adapted from Cults: Questions and Answers
by Michael D.Langone, Ph.D.
1988, AFF
A cult is a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control designed to advance the goals of the group’s leader, to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community.
These groups tend to dictate, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel, claim a special exalted status for themselves and/or their leader(s), and intensify their opposition to and alienation from society at large.
Because the capacity to exploit human beings is universal, any group could become a cult. However, most mainstream, established groups have accountability mechanisms that restrain the development of cultic subgroups.
How Many Cults Exist and How Many Members Do They Have?
Cult-education organizations have received inquiries about more than 3,000 groups. Although the majority of groups are small, some have tens of thousands of members. Experts estimate that five to ten million people have been involved with cultic groups at one time or another.
What is Mind Control?
Mind control (also known as "brainwashing," "coercive persuasion," and "thought reform") refers to a process in which a group or individual systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s).
Such methods include the following:
extensive control of information in order to limit alternatives from which members may make "choices"
deception
group pressure
intense indoctrination into a belief system that denigrates independent critical thinking and considers the world outside the group to be threatening, evil, or gravely in error an insistence that members’ distress-much of which may consist of anxiety and guilt subtly induced by the group-can be relieved only by conforming to the group
physical and/or psychological debilitation through inadequate diet or fatigue the induction of dissociative (trance-like) states via the misuse of meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, and other exercises in which attention is narrowed, suggestibility heightened, and independent critical thinking weakened
alternation of harshness/threats and leniency/love in order to effect compliance with the leadership’s wishes isolation from social supports pressured public confessions
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