Cult Scare Hoax FAQ
Advisory
The Internet is constantly being flooded with spam about "cults" and
so-called "sects". However, interspersed among real information and
reports are cult scare hoaxes. While these hoaxes do not affect
intelligent readers, they are still time consuming and difficult to
ignore. At FFL regular respondents find that they are spending much more
time de-bunking misinformation about their cult, than investigating real
movement incidents and activities, much to their dismay. What most
people want when they come to this forum is factual information, not
hearsay, insinuations of a personal nature, and/or ignorant assumptions
about other TMers.
This FAQ Advisory addresses the most recent warnings that have appeared
on FFL and other newsgroups concerning brainwashing and cult conversion
tactics and mind-control, which are topics being circulated throughout
the internet today. Informants should address the history behind cult
scare hoaxes, how to identify a cult scare hoax, and what to do if you
think a message is or is not a cult scare hoax. Informants and flamers
are requested to not spread unconfirmed scare rumors about cults and sects.
Readers, if you receive an unwanted spam concerning accusations that
your religion, sect, local church, temple, or synagogue or civic group
is a dangerous cult, don't pass this rumor on to your friends, pass it
to your computer wastebasket.
Responding to scurrilous and titillating tales of miscreant nay-saying
that attempts to mislead by pernicious slander simply tends to validate
the prurient interests of the spammers themselves, and actually drives
new members to seek out really dangerous groups that are actually based
on this disinformation.
Do not be mislead by impostors attempting to convince you that your
spiritual path is a cult or dangerous group being led astray by forces
of evil! Do not attempt to confirm or deny that your own personal path
to spiritual liberation or knowledge is right or wrong. And, do not fall
into joining OR condemning any so-called dangerous cult or sect.
Invariably, these informants can be shown to be harboring a hidden
agenda of their own, usually to convert you to their own schismatic
splinter sect or religion.
End of Advisory
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On 9/4/2014 9:33 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
There is no joy in Mudville:
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