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Does your group publicly humiliate or criticize members?
« on: August 28, 2007, 05:26:36 PM »
A friendlier RMA specific version....



Raps

Do you often feel exhausted from lengthy group activities, meetings and projects?
Can anyone say "dreading monday raps - all monday morning?"

Does your group publicly humiliate or criticize members?

Does your group use frequent public testimonials, confessions, or sharings that reinforce the group’s mission or agenda?

Do you often find yourself doing more and more things in the group or because of group peer pressure that you would not have done on your own?

Does your group discourage doubts, criticism or ideas that differ from their belief system?

Are doubts viewed as a lack of faith, dedication, commitment or disloyalty?

Have "your thoughts" become "the enemy?"

Do you feel pressured to attend meetings, events, lectures, seminars? And do you feel guilty if you don’t attend?

Dan Earle, Headmasters & "power staff"

Do members of your group feel specially chosen, superior, exclusive, elite?

Do you follow a particular individual or belief system that requires unquestioning obedience and loyalty?

Are your leader’s ideas or belief system considered beyond reproach or sacred?

Does your group have a totalitarian structure: a strict, top-down centralized control?


Isolation / Home visits
Do members seek approval or get permission from group leader(s) for personal life choices?

Workshop/Propheet secrecy

Is your group secretive to outsiders about its inner workings, teachings, activities or beliefs?


18 year old student's with a trust fund

Does the prospect of leaving your group seem scary, difficult?

Does your group criticize, shun, abandon or demean individuals who leave the group?

Do you feel the need to leave in secret?

Have you been told something bad might happen if you leave?
Do you feel pressured to give a portion of your income to the group, or spend money on courses, books or special projects?

Are the group’s financial needs more important than your own economic well-being?

Does your group equate purity and goodness to being in your group, and impurity or evil to those outside your group?

Do you place your group’s mission or agenda above your own goals and ideals?

Do group interests come before your own interest?

Agreements

Does your group have a system of punishments and rewards for behavior?

Voyagers

Do you see less and less of your family and friends who do not belong to your group or who do not subscribe to your group’s belief system?

Is communication within, into and out of your group controlled or censored in any manner?


Cedu doctrine

Does your group/belief system think they have/are the only or highest truth, or have the solution for the world’s problems?


Do you find yourself thinking in a we-they, us-versus-them mind set?

Does your group have its own unique words, cliches, slogans, chants, prayers and doctrinal phrases that reinforce the group viewpoint?


Post Graduation

Do you feel the need to save or convert others to your belief system or ideology?

Do you wonder if you have been in a destructive group?

Do you have difficulty forming new friendships and intimate relationships?

...have low self-esteem, poor self-image or loss of identity?

...have difficulty making simple decisions and choices?

...often feel depressed, anxious and nervous?

...feel isolated, lonely, guilty, cynical?

...feel like you are just now growing up, becoming a mature adult?

...often feel anger and rage towards the group?

...have nightmares or unpleasant dreams?

...find it difficult or impossible to stop mental or other group ritualistic practices?

Am I being I or me right now?......
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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2007, 09:38:40 PM »
All I get is a redirect to a page telling me that the page I was looking for doesn't exist.
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2007, 12:00:33 AM »
1st I went here   http://perso.orange.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/

and at the top of that page is "Are you under the influence of a destructive group? Take this Self Quiz and find out. "  

http://www.caic.org.au/biblebase/abuse/selfquiz.htm
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2007, 12:11:56 PM »
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