It even has drug induced brainwashing and coercive sex slavery, and it sees its inner circles (and the sufficiently devout) as gods in the making. This is full Thetan tear lunacy, but because totemic magic words like "SCIENCE" and "LOGIC" are slapped all over the outer walls, it hasn't gotten the same scrutiny.
Wow you totally owned that person who's calling out abuse by a cult using the language of said cult, by pointing out that the language she's using the language of a cult.
I'm not sure what you're getting at, but your hostility seems kind of uncalled for.
I was mostly focusing on the cult's upper echelons and its leader(s), and cited this (ex) member's own blog as a basis for the scary stuff it does and continues to do.
Going back to the Sea Og comparison, that was to say that plenty of Scientologists are well meaning, especially former members, but the damage was still done and it sometimes shows in the jargon carrying on.
So... you're not dunking on the author, but rather citing her as a source? Because that was not the impression I got from the post or any of the comments on here.
Like, if you didn't know what her deal was you can just admit it, if so it's an honest mistake. It's borderline impossible to make heads or tails of any of this shit so I wouldn't blame you. I'm not trying to call you out, I just felt uneasy about dunking on her once I read a bit further into the post.
Yes, actually. I'm not dunking on the author as much as citing her blog as a basis for talking about the mind warping rabbit hole that is LessWrong and related "rationalist" cults.
What I was saying is that her experience reminds me a lot of ex-Scientologists that are still talking in the jargon (and thinking by the jargon's precepts) long after they have left.
My mistake was not making it more clear who I was focusing on with the blog as only the basis for further discussion, and yes, dunking on capital-r "Rationalists" that receive the lion's share of funding from their billionaire friends.
Ok yeah, in that case that was not clear at all. Maybe next time either explain wtf we're supposed to get from the link or find a source that the average person can interpret coherently.
I am sorry that what I wrote I was unclear.