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The word "cult" has taken a negative slant at the same time that its definition has expanded to seemingly include any group of people with a common goal or liking.<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult Merriam-Webster definition of cult</ref> It's roots lie in the Latin term ''cultus'', meaning worship, from where the term culture is also derived. However, [[Negative Ego]] behaviors such as [[Emotional Manipulation]], coercion, intimidation and [[Gaslighting]] are at the core of the definition of a cult, as we understand the term today. See [[Conditions for Mind Control]] and [[Leadership Vs. Tyranny]]. | The word "cult" has taken a negative slant at the same time that its definition has expanded to seemingly include any group of people with a common goal or liking.<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult Merriam-Webster definition of cult</ref> It's roots lie in the Latin term ''cultus'', meaning worship, from where the term culture is also derived. However, [[Negative Ego]] behaviors such as [[Emotional Manipulation]], coercion, intimidation and [[Gaslighting]] are at the core of the definition of a cult, as we understand the term today. See [[Conditions for Mind Control]] and [[Leadership Vs. Tyranny]]. | ||
==Power Abusers Attitudes== | |||
To better define power abuses that are the most common in defining misogynistic attitudes and narcissitic manipulative behaviors that can be found in the cult environment, these terms provided below also apply to any dominating personality that wants to gain control and take advantage over others, from all walks of life. These are some of the common pointers in determining bullies and aggressors in the surrounding environment that like to abuse their power in any kind of social setting, whether it is in the personal family setting, work and career, marriages and partnerships, or any kind of interaction that occurs in the world at large. Many of the following themes describing abuses are directly related to [[SRA]] tactics, and are right out of the [[Satanic]] playbook for dominating and controlling others. | |||
==Use Intimidation== | |||
* Make the target or others feel afraid for their safety | |||
* smash and destroy things, especially what they care about | |||
* display weapons or threaten them with use of weapons | |||
* destroy property, punch walls or generate chaos and damage in personal spaces | |||
* abuse pets and loved ones, telling them it's their fault | |||
==Use Emotional Abuse== | |||
* put others down, belittling and cruel remarks | |||
* make others feel bad, incite guilt or shame | |||
* call others names and humiliate them in front of others | |||
* play mind games like gaslighting, emotional blackmail | |||
* make them think they are the crazy one, fill them with self-doubt | |||
* character assassination | |||
==Use Coercion and threats== | |||
* make outright threats for bodily harm or threaten to kill | |||
* force them to do illegal things to make them complicit | |||
* threaten suicide or to report them to authorities with false charges | |||
* make up threats and false situations to manipulate perceptions | |||
* Deny, Reverse Victim and Offender [[DARVO]] | |||
==Use Economic Abuse== | |||
* Prevent them from getting a job, sabotage their lives and personal economy | |||
* force the target to ask or beg for money for basic needs | |||
* take away money and control the flow of money | |||
* hide income or ways to access money | |||
==Use Male Privilege== | |||
* treat women as servants, breeders and sex slaves | |||
*dominate the gender roles, establishing what is right or wrong with male and female roles | |||
* act like the King of the castle, tyrant behavior | |||
==Use Isolation== | |||
*control and scrutinize every move the target makes | |||
*control the flow and access to information, limit unapproved sources | |||
*use jealousy or self righteousness to justify power abuses | |||
*compel and control speech, control who and what they have access to | |||
==Deny, Blame and Minimize== | |||
* do not take concerns of abuse seriously | |||
* repeatedly say the abuse is not happening and it's all imaginary | |||
* shift blame and responsibility to something or someone else | |||
* make light of the abuse, as if it' not a big deal | |||
* say the victim is the victimizer, turn around the offense | |||
* ignore the harm or the results of abuse | |||
* conveniently change the narrative or pretend to forget what happened | |||
==Signs of a Cult Organization== | ==Signs of a Cult Organization== | ||