Carou Fredrikson

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:03:19, as written by Athias

Carou Fredrikson lightly taps Halithar on the shoulder

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:03:59, as a chat transcript.

'Stupid? I could not disagree with you more fervently, people are smart, very smart.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:07:43, as written by Athias

Carou Fredrikson taps Halithar Looney harder. 'Did you hear me? I said I disagree!'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:09:33, as a chat transcript.

'I don't think you understand the complexities of that issue. Tell me, why do people join cults?'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:11:30, as a chat transcript.

'Bzzt, Wrong!'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:12:05, as a chat transcript.

'People are smart, which means smart people in charge of cults are smart enough to generate converts, but why are there so many willing converts?'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:12:30, as a chat transcript.

'Because, think about it, you're having a bad time, you lost a job or some friends, and thus a whole support network.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:13:09, as a chat transcript.

'Thats where a cult steps in, when a person is vulnerable, they're desperate, and willing to do more for that support. Which, as social creatures, us humans are addicted to.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:13:43, as a chat transcript.

'The cult provides a social network, and the lower levels of cults generally don't d anything to bizzare

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:14:43, as a chat transcript.

'And as people are slowly wrapped into the cult, they're willing to do more for it. They slowly adjust to the weird stuff because EVERYONE around them acts as though its normal, and gradually they do as a result.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:16:24, as a chat transcript.

'Then, they begin to take note of those bad-mouthing the cult. Since it seems normal to them, they defend the cult. And, in addition, people like you, who claim all members of a cult are 'Stupid' are actually pretty stupid and drive them further in, by making outsiders seem more hostile by comparison.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:17:04, as a chat transcript.

'I do'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:17:12, as a chat transcript.

'But here's the thing'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:17:43, as a chat transcript.

'Once you are engulfed in the cult, you're effectivly trapped, you've thrown out all secondary means of social support, and the other members will froce you to stay.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:18:10, as a chat transcript.

'You can either defect at your own considerable risk, or stay and slowly continue to be brainwashed.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:18:18, as a chat transcript.

'No it's not'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:18:28, as a chat transcript.

'Because I just explained hwo cults brainwash people.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:18:54, as a chat transcript.

'Also, no, you're stupid in all accounts. Hypnotism is not about strength of will, and what it can actually do is very limited.'

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:20:13, as a chat transcript.

'When people are under stress, they will go to great lengths to end that stress, hence joining a cult, or for an example, when people are tortured they will admit to false criems in hopes of the torture stopping. (BTW font change)

# Gambit's Bar, 2009-08-31 16:20:35, as a chat transcript.

'Only ignorant of the cult itself, and many cults start out obscure.'

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