The definition of a "cult" implies the element of force or coercion, as in "they forced me to work in the kitchen" or "they forced me to get down on my hands and knees and pray twice a day", or "they locked me inside a golden dome and made me try to fly".
In your case, they apparently used a mind-control technique and then they put you in a trance-induction state in order to cause your chronic cognitive dissonance. Apparently you were housed alone in a small pod, deprived of sleep and fed only vegetarian food. They forced you to get up at the crack of dawn and work in the kitchen and bakery. Every minute of your day was probably already planned out with assigned minders watching over you to make sure you didn't break your celibacy and your meditation schedule. They probably indoctrinated you with endless hours of tapes, videos and speeches at meetings. For years you were made to bow and scrape in front of the elite administrators of the religious school at ceremonies. This kind of human cult slavery is just outrageous! Gawd! Only when you were fully programmed by the cult would they let you escape from the camp in the middle of the night on a Greyhound bus to get back to your mother's place. In another two weeks you probably would have been a walking nut-case or a raging maniac. You are to be congratulated on your daring escape from the sex cult, Sir! What I can't understand though, is why you refuse to see a cult-exit counselor or a professional, after going through such a hellish experience for all those years. Go figure. My advice would be for you to get yourself a PTSD dog as a pet to keep you company - take it with you everywhere and to your AA meetings. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Please explain to me how Scientology is not a cult. Then lets deal with the TMO. From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:10 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Maharishi School retrospective Okay it is all or nothing for you and you make no distinction between practitioners and the movements. Not much to converse over with you as such. Evidently they all are cultists in your book without gradation or scope. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : If anyone can look at Scientology and the behavior of Scientologists and think its not a cult..... And as I have said before, if anyone can look at the Movement with its supposedly celibate King, it robe and crown wearing little king-lets and their tendency to block up or lock up all south facing entrances, avoid solar eclipses and keep the pundits in a stalag and think it isn't a cult.... So, evidently “religious philosophy” as mentioned in this article is not the same thing as religion. Is religious philosophy necessarily cult-ish in your book? You seem to assert TM is a religious philosophy coming out of religion, like Scientology in this article? Is there a level of religious philosophy where they are just practices or philosophy for people in life. Is there a point where you draw a line between religious philosophy in practice and cults for people? Just wondering, you seem intent on painting cult on everything and everyone. From the article: “It's a religious philosophy, so when I'm sitting there, studying about something, I'm oftentimes sitting next to guys from Nation of Islam and friends who are fully Jewish and other friends who are Catholic and Reverend Alfreddie Johnson, who's a Baptist minister.” Religious philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_philosophy Religious philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_philosophy Religious philosophy is philosophical thinking that is inspired and directed by religion. There are different philosophies for each religion such as those of : View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_philosophy Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : this one is good too PAPERMAG: Danny Masterson Tells Us About His Life in the Church of Scientology http://www.papermag.com/2015/02/danny_masterson_scientology.php http://www.papermag.com/2015/02/danny_masterson_scientology.php PAPERMAG: Danny Masterson Tells Us About His Life in... http://www.papermag.com/2015/02/danny_masterson_scientology.php Pre-order the issue here View on www.papermag.com http://www.papermag.com/2015/02/danny_masterson_scientology.php Preview by Yahoo From: "LEnglish5@... 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Evidently they all are cultists in your book without gradation or scope. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : If anyone can look at Scientology and the behavior of Scientologists and think its not a cult..... And as I have said before, if anyone can look at the Movement with its supposedly celibate King, it robe and crown wearing little king-lets and their tendency to block up or lock up all south facing entrances, avoid solar eclipses and keep the pundits in a stalag and think it isn't a cult.... So, evidently “religious philosophy” as mentioned in this article is not the same thing as religion. Is religious philosophy necessarily cult-ish in your book? You seem to assert TM is a religious philosophy coming out of religion, like Scientology in this article? Is there a level of religious philosophy where they are just practices or philosophy for people in life. Is there a point where you draw a line between religious philosophy in practice and cults for people? Just wondering, you seem intent on painting cult on everything and everyone. From the article: “It's a religious philosophy, so when I'm sitting there, studying about something, I'm oftentimes sitting next to guys from Nation of Islam and friends who are fully Jewish and other friends who are Catholic and Reverend Alfreddie Johnson, who's a Baptist minister.” Religious philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_philosophy Religious philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_philosophy Religious philosophy is philosophical thinking that is inspired and directed by religion. 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