A SN Inner Circle Member sent us this. Dont know where he found it but worth a comment or two!
“Cult Members are Stupid, Gullible Sheep!”
The Bullshit exposed
Quick, go find an Internet article that mentions Scientology. Now check out the comments.
You will find almost universal agreement that anyone who participates in a cult (or, organized religion of any kind) is either weak, retarded or some kind of weaktarded combination of the two. We tend to associate cults with fanaticism, assuming that they are all made up of people that wear bed sheets and live in backwoods communes pissing in Dixie cups. Thanks to high profile, apocalyptic and/or suicide cults like the Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate, we don’t have much reason to think otherwise.
Why it is Bullshit:
Studies show cult members are just as intelligent, if not more so, then the general public. And around 95 percent of cult members are perfectly sane (when they join up, anyway), with no history at all of real psychological problems. They’re not stupid, and they’re not crazy.
Of course this only serves to make cults even scarier. How in the hell do these groups get people–who are every bit as sane and smart as your best friend–to join up?
OK, ask yourself this: Why do rebellious biker types all immediately go out and start dressing and talking exactly like other biker types?
Why did you do, well, every single thing you did in your teenage years?
As social animals we are hard-wired to want to belong to a group. It’s a need as basic and real as hunger or sex. When we get cut off from our group–say we lose a job, or move to a new city, or break up with our girlfriend–we go a little crazy. Cults are very, very good at finding people in that exact moment of weakness, and saying exactly the right things. Those pamphlets that sound so corny and transparent to you, read like a glorious breath of fresh air to somebody caught in one of those rough spots.
So sure, when we’re in our normal, stable state of affairs we like to imagine ourselves coolly shooting down all of the charismatic cult leader’s stupid-ass claims with the power of pure critical thinking. But remember that the next time you’re drunk dialing your ex-girlfriend in the middle of the night, or stalking her new boyfriend, sneaking into the parking lot where he works and pooping on the hood of his car.
If you can’t remember ever doing something dumb and embarrassing because you were feeling lonely and rejected, well, either you’re very young, or you were just too drunk at the time to retain the memory.
And once these people are in the cult they realize that, no, not all cult members wind up as part of some bizarre suicide ceremony. Most lead normal, successful lives.
And once they make friends with these normal, successful people, what are they going to do when they run into some smartass like the Internet commentators above, who talk about how only retarded sheep believe that garbage? They stand up for the group, that’s what.
It’s not even about defending the beliefs at that point, it’s about defending their friends. And mindlessly doing things because all our friends do them is pretty much 90 percent of what society is.
Friends,
This new string and its performance reminded me a little bit of Tom Cruise as a celebrity performer of Scientology; well, after having had a special coaching (for cunningness ) session for an internet performance ´special`( I heard he is a bit short of offers and that might scratch his ´Thetan-Image´).
Maybe I am so playful because ironically, the Vid posted yesterday by Parmartha (?) on the (in fact never-ending) string dedicated to Dynamic Meditation has been really funny. Kind of innocent and playful.
Now a kind of ´cross over´…to what???
In the IT-GAME factory one does not know yet…
What I know about myself is that I am repelled when I sense a Psychopath or a psychopathic procedure.
I wonder about you – unknown (unknowable) to me. What I once heard (and read) is that you meet for Saturday breakfast. If you do that and if you do that today, I wish to you you may have a good one.
Love
Madhu
PS:
Also wondering if ´Fresch` has a Hollywood Bollywood Skype call to HER Hollywood-Bollywood friends…
Dream stuff of mine…just playing…
Another rest of dream-stuff was working in me when reading. Yesterday I saw a crime story on television whose story was placed in the big, big ´Reality Soap` manufacturing ´social´ realms. It was a very good script and true is what is said, ever more so often now: that reality surpasses fiction.
I simply love it when the latter is addressed in and by the ´media´.
“Everybody who is not in the religions is in some cult.”, said a friend while taking sip of his beer during Oktoberfest in Munich (Germany).
“Does it mean you are also part of some cult?”, enquired another friend.
“No, I am not. I am a Sannyasin.” uttered the first one.
Maybe it’s off topic, but has anyone heard about Sadhguru? By chance, I have seen him in You Tube and I wonder if he was with Osho. Anyone care to comment? Cheers.
Sadhguru’s not with Osho, he’s a guru in his own right, Tan. Not sure if he’s a master though (seems doubtful somehow).
Funnily enough, a year or two ago, a friend of mine took him to watch Arsenal (English football team) play in London. I was also at the game, although sitting a long way away, in another area, but I saw him clearly in the distance, red flowing robes and all (that’s Sadhguru, not my friend!).
Thanks, Satyadeva. Why it seems doubtful if he is a Master?
Looking at his site, seeing one or two videos, getting some idea of his methods, for me he doesn’t cut the mustard. If there are masters and teachers then he’s one of the latter (imho). Which doesn’t mean he can’t help people.
Thanks again, my dear! I would say he is trying to “pull an Osho” (quoting Frank) in a very disguised way. Cheers!
Just because some famous surgeon is no more does not mean hospitals will have no house surgeons.
Some wise man was shouting before the ambulances: “Go away, Go away. Chief medical officer is dead – about other doctors’ qualifications I don´t trust!
(This satire is dedicated to over-the-counter wise guy of SannyasNews)
Secret service angels have given a confidential report to the higher authorities:
“People on the Earth don´t need any more enlightened beings as masters. Most of the people believe that they have enough books and voice recordings from previous messiahs and masters.”
First time seen this interesting photo.
To me it shows the power of Hinduism. Like a shark it swallows anything new.
As I know Osho, he will get cough and cold from the stinky fragrance of these ladies and gentlemen.
Moreover, other than Osho all other poster boys and girls of Hinduism are still active before the microphone.
Maybe the photo maker wants to convey it is Osho whose words and expressions these people steal and copy.
Looks like a poster for Arun’s Cake and DJ-BJ Party Night.
Anyone else going ?
What a beautiful, beautiful quote you have found and shared, Arpana.
And thank you, therefore.
Love,
Madhu
This article was sent by “an SN inner circle member”?
“Inner circle”, eh?
Sounds a bit cultish!
People in the media like to validate and authorise status-quo meanings for living.
For example, I read that Stephen Fry, media-friendly, supposedly brainy guy (UK) said, with reference to post-Xian spiritual stuff:
“The trouble is when they stop believing in God they start believing in anything.”
Not for a moment stopping to think that believing in God was simply “believing in anything” to start with…
thus displaying the intelligence and awareness of a man shitting his pants and, on sitting down, becoming indignant about squelching sounds and an unpleasant smell in the room!
On that level Osho was right about publicity: f they are going to nail you as a bad guy anyway, it could be better to play the villain than justify yourself otherwise.
Mind you, in India it`s hopeless, he has still managed to end up in Shantam’s team photo of neo-Hindu piss-drinkers and piss-takers.
PS: Maybe the inner circle at SN should organise a Cult Pride march in London?
Frank, I’ve been waiting for this for some time and as many of you know how cults operate, through an introverted, handwrung, homespun libido, and those anti-social, cultish me’s which are ten-a-penny in the rent-a-mobs so often seen disturbing the peace and taking it. I’m definitely up for making the streets safe to walk in without these culnts around.
Here’s my opener for printing on our own protest placards, have a wee look:
http://stopmasturbationnow.org/
How about Trafalgar Square underneath someone’s column?
P.S: Why we never gave those Cults their own Queen-free pound to stop all this trouble, I’ll never know.