Culty Mega-thread - High Control Groups

[Sargon's wife's son]

You might want to add a section on British Israeliism. I don't know if it really has any modern equivalents.
But basically, according to them, both America and the United States are made up of the 13th tribe of Israel and. therefore something something ye we are also Jews..

Also, Christian identity should be up there. It's generally hilarious. Basically, it's Zionism for white people. White people are basically God's actual chosen people. This is 100% accurate and I will not argue. with it.

Cabala s forms of Judaism. I met a few guys and used to go to a synagogue where the rabbi got way too into it and he basically turned the synagogue into his crazy little cult and then he. decided he was a woman.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

How about the Palmarian “Catholic” Church? It was founded by a gay Spanish Insurance broker, claiming the Catholic Church was being held hostage after they failed to authenticate a Marian Apparition on the grounds of mass hysteria. He crowned himself Pope, and in a twist of irony went blind, as if God Himself wanted the guy to stop his shit. They’re still going strong today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmarian_Catholic_Church

 

[Patrick Not-Star]

 

[Meat Target]

How about the Palmarian “Catholic” Church? It was founded by a gay Spanish Insurance broker, claiming the Catholic Church was being held hostage after they failed to authenticate a Marian Apparition on the grounds of mass hysteria. He crowned himself Pope, and in a twist of irony went blind, as if God Himself wanted the guy to stop his shit. They’re still going strong today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmarian_Catholic_Church

For context: the Catholic Church occasionally recognizes some "private revelations" that certain people have had from God or the saints that they deem "worthy of belief". However, belief and devotion to them are still optional for Catholics. Examples include Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, or St. Faustina's Divine Mercy apparitions.

Sadly, some grifters and kooks will decide that the Gates of Hell have prevailed against the Church, and that billions (i.e. anyone not in lockstep with themselves) are doomed to unending death, all because their favorite apparition was rejected by the Vatican.

I had to stop paying attention to such things, as a disconcerting number of people with those devotions put them over the Gospels.

JPII said that "we are an Easter people, and Alleluia is our song". If a spiritual message makes you feel disheartened or blackpilled, it is probably not of God.

 

[KifflomKween]

Moved Aum Shinrikyo and it's new names into Active.
Added Sokka Gakai and Moonies
Edited IBLP to mention Josh Duggar had Peter Skuly's videos
Added Vadim Borisov to the Energy Healers

I will add the rest later. Should be a section on the Amish as well.

 

[Lovely Kin]

There's Eastern Lightning also known as the The Church of Almighty God, another Chinese cult. Do not know how active they are. They believe that Jesus has returned to the earth and is currently living as a Chinese woman. Apparently it has three to four million members, and it's rather secretive due to the CCP cracking down on it since 1995. It's difficult to find much information about them due to this secrecy. They keep to secret group chats and websites. They have performed a few attacks in China, or have been blamed for them:

• Nanyang attacks (1998. Two men, Liu Shunting and Zhao Fating, assaulted and robbed many in October to November. Some of their victims had their ears cut off, others had their legs broken.
• A Primary School in Chenpeng. Due to the cult preaching doomsday rumors in 2012, Min Yongjun believing the information propagated by the Eastern Lightning Church, went on a stabbing spree. It was reported some of the children had their heads slashed, and some of their fingers were cut off in this horrific attack.

Eastern Lightning is also hierarchal with overseers known as "inspectors" keeping watch over the members. It's rather hard to find information on them to be fair.

 

[Adolf Hulkler]

I’ve had a minor interest in Jehovah’s witnesses ever since they started mailing brochures to our house a couple years ago. The more I dig into it, the more batshit insane they sound: like the FAS lovechild of the Mormons and Scientology. They think calling God Jehovah makes them special, and on Easter, they pass around a communion you can’t partake in unless you’re “one of the 144,000 anointed ones”. It seems to be a boomer death cult now more than anything, since younger people have been leaving in droves.
30+ failed apocalypse predictions award!

Honestly, the way jehovas treat people who leave the cult is extremely cultish.
Id label them a cult just for that.
For those who dont know, jehovas view people who leave the group with distain, and all members of the group HAVE to cut all ties to that person.
Even if its your father, wife, husband, son, daughter, whoever. You cant talk to your own kid if they leave the group. If you do, you get kicked out and treated the same way by other jehovas.

 

[Generic Anime Girl]

Honestly, the way jehovas treat people who leave the cult is extremely cultish.
Id label them a cult just for that.
For those who dont know, jehovas view people who leave the group with distain, and all members of the group HAVE to cut all ties to that person.
Even if its your father, wife, husband, son, daughter, whoever. You cant talk to your own kid if they leave the group. If you do, you get kicked out and treated the same way by other jehovas.

That and their child abuse coverups make catholic priests in the 70’s look like saints

I also learned they don’t believe Jesus died on a cross. How pedantic and contrarian do you have to be?

 

[KifflomKween]

Cult believes child is the reincarnation of their leader who died 13 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/cults/comments/1czkicg/they_believe_he_is_the_reincarnation_of_a_god_who/

Could be this group according to comments
https://www.premasaiashram.org/

The guy with his hand on the kid's thigh could be, presumably, this Svyatoslav Dubyanskiy. I mean, I think so. Older, fatter and with less hair.
https://www.youtube.com/@SDubyanskiyKriyaYoga/playlists
https://dubyanskiy.com/about-master
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100056700420649
https://www.instagram.com/s.dubyansky/

Cites Sathya Sai Baba (the reincarnated "god") as one of his masters.

Accusations against Sathya Sai Baba by his critics over the years have included sleight of hand, sexual abuse, money laundering, fraud in the performance of service projects, and murder.

Source

What a surprise.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Remnant Fellowship Church

Remnant Fellowship Church that was run by Gwen Shamblin before she died, may be falling apart or see a splinter soon. I suppose it's been declining. Many may already know Gwen Shamblin for her crazy hair, and her weight loss program that was popular among evangelical Christians within the United States. Her own son called it a church, but also a cult. Like many cult leaders, Shamblin claimed her church was the only true one and any other church or Christian community was "false." She believed the trinity was not biblical which caused plenty of controversy before her cult was founded.

The most controversial one was when she and her church paid for legal defense's of a child's death from abuse. The child, Josef Smith, was placed into a small wicker box with cords, wrapped around the inside to keep him inside. Regularly, he faced beatings with coat hangers that were heated and foot long glue sticks. It was discovered they were inspired by how the Remnant Church promoted child discipline, and former members mention bringing the harsh discipline system for children.

Word of Faith Fellowship

Founded by Jane Whaley and her husband, Sam Whaley. Started in Spindale, North Carolina, but the cult has supposedly spread to other countries (Brazil, Ghana, Scotland and Sweden). What may seem as a typical speaking in tongues church is full of strict rules. Some examples of the rules:

• Followers are not allowed to celebrate Birthdays, Holidays or anything viewed as secular. This includes Easter and Christmas as they are seen as pagan.
• Television and movies are forbidden, reading newspapers as well.
• You cannot eat in restaurants that have a bar and serve alcohol
• You must wear shirts while swimming for modesty
• No beards for men
• You are not allowed to enroll in college without permission (from Jane Whaley), and she will choose your major. You will have a minder when in college, to make sure you do not disobey the church. She also requires permission if you want to buy a house or car.
• You must tithe 10% to the church of your income

Children are kept isolated and they attend the church school. Children, and I suppose, other members are required to be constantly positive about the church, regardless how one feels. Beatings were given to exorcise "evil spirits", a prayer chair where members would shout in tongues circling the "sinner." There have been cases where children, even toddlers were subjected to something known as "blasting." Blasting is where the disobedient member or child, is screamed at in tongues and prayers. When asked about abuse, children are often trained to give the "correct answers" to authority, leaving anyone unable to help them. They also have a website which includes a special page about "response to media lies."

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

My favorite cult is Yahowa 13, it was a hippy sex commune led by a fat man who killed himself in a hand glider trying to show of to the congregation. They didn't take him to the hospital because he was pretending to be fine. Its a really stupid story. They also had a vegetarian restaurant and made a bunch of shitty rock albums with funny covers.

Also want to mention Happy Science, they are a still going lulzy japanese cult. They worship a deity called "el cantare" which is a very awful japanese mistranslation of the spanish word for singer or the singing one (el cantante). Their beliefs are a hodgepodge of christianity, budism, confucianism, aliens and MLM schemes as you would expect.

Happy science is most notable for having produced a ton of media including many anime shows and live action movies.



Here's a sample of a short anime made by Happy Science, the very first one in the 90s. With their stuff you might not even realize its cult propaganda at first glance since their beliefs are so mixed with anime bullshit to begin with.

 

[Meat Target]

Here's some defunct ones: Synanon and its troubled teen boarding school counterpart, The Elan School.

Both of these were supposed to rehabilitate drug addicts and troubled teens, but eventually roped in normal people who were adjacent to addicts and teenagers doing teenage hijinks or who were abuse victims themselves.

Both would use a method called "attack therapy", in which one person was put in the middle of a circle while the rest surrounded them to scream, berate, and verbally abuse them.

In the case of Elan, the children had their belongings taken, clothing replaced, boys and girls could not interact without permission, and contact with the outside world was strictly forbidden. They also worked long hours on tasks such as cleaning a whole bathroom with a toothbrush, while bring deprived of sleep. Some kids even died from it.

It lasted from 1970 until 2012, when it was shut down after its former students reunited on Reddit and exposed it to the outside world.

Nexpo has a whole documentary on it:

 

[NiggerNiggerNigger]

This is basically what mass culture replaced tribes (authentic high control group) with after scattering them.
People seek this kind of shit out because humans naturally fall into this pattern of looking for their group identity where they are not initially born into a group, and since they don't have their authentic cult(ure) anymore they adopt all kinds of fucked up shit to fill the void of missing something they haven't had for generations.
To them its just 'being social' and 'wanting to have friends'.
Nearly every social group and organization, ideological, political, professional, institutional, military, religious, etc, today fits on OP's BITE model of high control grouping.

It may not be deliberate (predicted/conspiratorial) that scattering peoples and nations would have these kinds of consequences, but the formation of a lot of these counterfeits are plausibly made by people that are very aware of what is happening with people, seeing the hindsight of the problem, and it is deliberate and contrived now.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Its been talked about in the piracy thread and might be worth mentioning here too.

Notable tranny videogame cracker EMPRESS that has become prominent in the pirate community for being one of the few individuals (or group, no one knows) that was active cracking games protected with DENUVO recently have started its own femdom sex larping AI worshipping cult based around a private telegram group.

EMPRESS was already infamous for adding schizo ramblings and long petty rants with every new release, getting into slapfights with everyone else in the scene and gaining controversies like wanting to charge people to crack games as well as having dogshit opinions like saying the new saints row game was a masterpiece or refusing to crack japanese games even when they were paid to do it (they charge 500$ per crack and alledgedly were paid that several times for Persona 5, which they refused to do) . They were also the ones that cracked Hogwarts Legacy two weeks after release and couple it with a large rant bashing trannies while pretending to be a radfem even though the probability of EMPRESS being a real woman is about negative 9000

 

[Patrick Not-Star]

Here are two obscure documentaries about Aum Shinrikyo. They were made in Japan in the late 90s and early 00s by a guy who got access to inside the group.

A - 1998

A2 - 2001

Edit: grammar

 

[Crex Crex]

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I find something about this image incredibly funny but I can't put my finger on what exactly.

 

[Radola Gajda]

Speaking of Nation of Islam, they were infiltrated by agent of Imperial Japan back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satokata_Takahashi

 

[Apteryx Retardi]

Here's some defunct ones: Synanon and its troubled teen boarding school counterpart, The Elan School.

Both of these were supposed to rehabilitate drug addicts and troubled teens, but eventually roped in normal people who were adjacent to addicts and teenagers doing teenage hijinks or who were abuse victims themselves.

Both would use a method called "attack therapy", in which one person was put in the middle of a circle while the rest surrounded them to scream, berate, and verbally abuse them.

In the case of Elan, the children had their belongings taken, clothing replaced, boys and girls could not interact without permission, and contact with the outside world was strictly forbidden. They also worked long hours on tasks such as cleaning a whole bathroom with a toothbrush, while bring deprived of sleep. Some kids even died from it.

It lasted from 1970 until 2012, when it was shut down after its former students reunited on Reddit and exposed it to the outside world.

Nexpo has a whole documentary on it:

There's been (and is) a whole bunch of Synanon offshoots doing the same thing, and there's actually a thread about it here https://kiwifarms.st/threads/the-am...y-cons-and-cults-disguised-as-schools.185287/.

Also, might add this to generic resources: https://forum.culteducation.com/. They're a bit slow nowadays, but do have a ton of material.

 

[Adolf Hulkler]

Here's some defunct ones: Synanon and its troubled teen boarding school counterpart, The Elan School.

Both of these were supposed to rehabilitate drug addicts and troubled teens, but eventually roped in normal people who were adjacent to addicts and teenagers doing teenage hijinks or who were abuse victims themselves.

Both would use a method called "attack therapy", in which one person was put in the middle of a circle while the rest surrounded them to scream, berate, and verbally abuse them.

In the case of Elan, the children had their belongings taken, clothing replaced, boys and girls could not interact without permission, and contact with the outside world was strictly forbidden. They also worked long hours on tasks such as cleaning a whole bathroom with a toothbrush, while bring deprived of sleep. Some kids even died from it.

It lasted from 1970 until 2012, when it was shut down after its former students reunited on Reddit and exposed it to the outside world.

Nexpo has a whole documentary on it:

Fuuuuck, one of that "schools" victims was a guest on PainKillerAlready podcast years ago.
The absolute worst part of kids being sent into culty hellholes like that is the fact that the parents wouldnt believe the kids when they told how horrible the conditions were.
I will never understand that mindset, your kid is telling the place is a hellhole but you send him back because "HES 14 AND HES UPPITY, MUST BE BECAUSE HES BAD, I DONT KNOW BIOLOGY SO MY REACTION IS TO SEND HIM TO A BOARDING SCHOOL THAT ISNT RAPEY! IM A GOOD PARENT, WE TRIED FOR THIS CHILD, OUR CHILD ISNT A NUISANCE!"

 

[Dharma bump]

Universal Medicine, led by Serge Benhayon is another active one, started in Australia but now also in Europe.

Serge had an epiphany on the toilet and now heals the well and the unwell with "esoteric breast massage" and "ovary reading", has somehow roped in a bunch of actual medical professionals to spread the word, and has been known to have a 'special interest' in girls as young as 10 who he has stay at his house. He also considers himself a hemaphrodite who orgasms like a woman.

There's been some legal proceedings, and a pharmacist struck from the register for oversupply of ketamine and hormones.

While believing that disability and autism are caused by Karma, Unimed run a bunch of rehabs, have their own version of psychological treatment and autism assessment. Much of this is sponsored by the Australian government.