Re:My attempted cult recruitment
by pyuser583 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @02:28AM
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My experience with cults is that they’re not effective, they simply focus on the minority who are open to their line.
They even try to sound crazy, to discourage well-adapted people.
Like a Nigerian scammer who deliberately uses bad grammar so the only responders are people with dementia.
My experience with cults comes from being part of a large, mainstream church that had cooky and predatory groups operating at the margins of the congregation.
They would target new members who had severe issues: drug abuse, mental illness, having been trafficked.
I’m not sure if the Mormons have anything similar. I read about extreme fundamentalist Mormon groups, but they don’t seem to be recruiting mentally ill/drug addicted mainstream Mormons.
They even try to sound crazy, to discourage well-adapted people.
Like a Nigerian scammer who deliberately uses bad grammar so the only responders are people with dementia.
My experience with cults comes from being part of a large, mainstream church that had cooky and predatory groups operating at the margins of the congregation.
They would target new members who had severe issues: drug abuse, mental illness, having been trafficked.
I’m not sure if the Mormons have anything similar. I read about extreme fundamentalist Mormon groups, but they don’t seem to be recruiting mentally ill/drug addicted mainstream Mormons.