- >Here you recurringly see how fear and repression cause the goal: slavish obedience.
- Slavish compliance is broadly opposed to:
power, (rights) positioning, depth, general freedom, self-realization
independence, equality, dignity, happiness and prosperity as well as knowledge (who asks, already knows something) - You do NOT need a close visible guru many of the behavioral effects can be created remotely.
- Sects (criminal organizations) are 'closed communities' but often only a word in a larger sence of meaning.
- We too, the public, however diluted, have to deal with behavioral influence.
- Everybody : Stop venom, competition and vanity. Help each other! Talk and write it down. So things exist!
similarities domestic violence and cult/sect
| Social control No privacy. Perpetrators check the relations of their partner, what is read and where he or she is going; everything that lies beyond their sphere of influence is limited by them. If one asks: "Why?" then one hears 'nonsense'. Ridiculization. Intellectual undermining and disdain. |
Social control No privacy.Sects control with whom the individual is allowed to get along. Sects employ/exercise their power on things like; what one may read or, how one lives. Part of monitoring. Knowledge ('outside') is a big NO-NO. Your self-knowledge is doubted! If you are not an acceptable 'authority', than no independent (self) knowledge. |
| Financial abuse Perpetrators may prevent their partners from getting paid jobs. Let her ask for money,take away her own money/income, forbid access and insight to the family income. |
Financial abuse Sects often expect a large part of a person's income, including the 'legal' remittance of possessions and money sources |
| Use of children A perpetrator can use the children to make a partner feel guilty, threaten the children to hurt them, alienate the children from their parent. Excuse tools. |
Use of children They can threaten to hurt the children to gain power over the parents. Excuse tools. Often used to frustrate outside 'targets'. The abuse of children by Sects can be emotional, spiritual and physical. Rarely are there members/people in and around cults informing authorities. It's a cryin shame. Those fake knights. |
| Coercion and threats Perpetrators threaten their partners to hurt them and use guilt and fear and other emotional manipulations to keep their life companions under their control. Blame and 'guilt' tricks |
Coercion and threats Sects often use 'guilt' and fear and other emotional manipulations to keep their members and targets under their control. Fake scare-real scare. Slander. Blame and 'guilt' tricks. |
| Downplaying/Blaming Perpetrators refuse to take responsibility for their assaults and abuse; they say it's the partners fault and ignore, lie or reduce the abuse. |
Downplaying/Blaming Sects assure themselves that incase there Really is something wrong , it is the fault of the individual. Critical thinking about or questioning the group is not allowed. |
| Powerless/Helplessness Perpetrators make sure that the partner depends on them. 'Dissapointments & faults'. Learned helplessness is cultivated, feelings of being 'not good enough'. Attack on the person. Compulsions. |
Powerless/Helplessness Sects systematically create a sense of individual helplessness by using a (subtle) system of rewards and penalties. Dependence, obediance are trained. Compulsions and low selfesteem may be present. |
| Attack on the own identity/self The result of domestic psychological violence can be a broken self, an empty shell. 'I Feel no longer as a whole person'. Behavioral change. Addiction, numbness escapisme occurs |
Attack on the own identity/self Sects destabilize the sense, awareness of self, reinterpret reality according to the Group and leader(s) and create a sectarian knots and crust identity. Threading and tainting. We is all.. Endless stubborness, duality and focus. Self-deceit, addiction, stoic effect and empty-shell feelings can occur. Personality change. |
| Performance oriented As long as you do whats being told its gonna be allright. "..I must try not to upset him tonight". |
Performance oriented 'Happiness' and obligation are measured by performance and being exhausted. Stay or suffer the consequences. |
| Side effects Many abused partners and others experience symptoms that match those of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And it can happen to Anyone. |
Side effects One of the most common psychiatric disorders victims are suffering from is PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder. |
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