On 2008-Sep-05, at 00:57, David Cake wrote: > Mass hugging in the wrong context would ring a few alarm > bells. Love bombing is a cult practice, and mass hugging is a typical > expression of it. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing > Not that there is anything wrong with showing affection tp > all members of a group or similar, but combine it with a bunch of a > related tactics (such as encouraging isolation from non-members, > sleep deprivation, authoritarian rules, etc), and it becomes part of > a classic cult pattern. > > A guy who just wants to hug a bunch of people in the mall, > however, is kind of cool.
I don't see any reason whatsoever to trust one guy doing it over a group doing it. That strikes me as just trying to post rationalise your pre- judgements... he's a skinny hippy, guess he must be ok. Yeah right. Trying to identify whether a person or group is authentic and good versus negative and damaging is a really hard problem. At the end of the day, different people use these things differently and get different things out of it. I mean, look at Brian. He wasn't a messiah, and the cult dynamic was created by his "followers" who wern't listening to him anyway. Stefano _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
