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The video Ginni Thomas doesn't want you to retweet... (leaving a cult) (Original Post) Pluvious Sep 2022 OP
She's always been prone to cult activity. SergeStorms Sep 2022 #1
Interesting that they visited Russia Farmer-Rick Sep 2022 #2
She is still in a cult. Trumpism Handler Sep 2022 #3
kinda, maybe prodigitalson Sep 2022 #7
She was very attractive ..... secondwind Sep 2022 #4
wow gopiscrap Sep 2022 #5
K & R for visibility FakeNoose Sep 2022 #6

Farmer-Rick

(10,140 posts)
2. Interesting that they visited Russia
Sun Sep 11, 2022, 05:53 PM
Sep 2022

"The Director for Corporate Affairs of Lifespring, Charles "Raz" Ingrasci, had also worked at est to promote a mission to the USSR and the Hunger Project. Ingrasci is now President of the Hoffman Institute, an organization founded in 1967 and also part of the human potential movement which offers programs which are similar to Lifespring's."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespring

Sounds like the Hunger Project is a a bit of a scam too.

"IN 1977, EST GURU Werner Erhard had a vision: He was going to end world hunger by 1997. To that end, he started the Hunger Project, a nonprofit that quickly picked up celebrity sponsors including John Denver, Valerie Harper, and Jimmy Carter‘s son Chip. But, as Mother Jones reported in December 1978, the group had no intention of actually feeding the starving, just raising “awareness” of hunger—and est."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/hunger-artist/

Wow, it seems cult leaders never go away. They just move from one scam to another.

prodigitalson

(2,381 posts)
7. kinda, maybe
Sun Sep 11, 2022, 08:52 PM
Sep 2022

Q/MAGA is a cult like entity that reinforces her already held beliefs (liberals bad). Traditionally cults cause people to jettison previous held values. So for many Q/MAGA is a cult Though this may be an academic distinction without a difference.

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