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Cult classics are works of fiction that are extremely popular with a select audience but which may or may not have been successful at the time of the works' original publications.
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When your own thoughts are forbidden, when your questions are not allowed and our doubts are punished, when contacts with friendships outside of the organization are censored, we are being abused, for the ends never justify the means. When our heart aches knowing we have made friendships and secret attachments that will be forever forbidden if we leave, we are in danger. When we consider staying in a group because we cannot bear the loss, disappointment and sorrow our leaving will cause for ours
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― Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
― Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
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In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.
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― Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
― Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
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