Scientology, it works if you work it! The slogans of cults! Are AA slogans portable to other cults?

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Submitted by JR Harris on Tue, 06/12/2012 - 18:43

Cults use a thought stopping tactic called "slogans" and "special" language to protect and retain the members they manage to attract through promotion by its members and by being enabled by a "central office" in their general area and a "main office" in a large marbled building that coordinates all of the cult members below them. With Scientology, the "main office" is in Clearwater, Florida at the Fort Harrison Hotel where plans are coordinated for world domination. With the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous, the "main office" is at the Interchurch Center on 475 Riverside Drive in New York which does the same thing. Both cults promote their growth and claim it is a policy of "attraction" and not "promotion" and it is the just a "choice" and the prospect can always just leave. The cult of Alcoholics Anonymous does have one advantage though, it is the preferred cult of the US Judiciary and community control officers of that country. Are the slogans of Alcoholics Anonymous, taught by various AA Intergroups portable to other cults? Bear in mind that cults have different "special" language dictated from the scripture of the cult leader so you have to change them a little.

It is suggested that you try Scientology for 90 meetings in 90 days.
If you don't do the 90 meetings in 90 days in Scientology, your aren't really trying.
Scientology has helped millions of people worldwide.
The millions of people in Scientology can't all be wrong.
Scientology isn't extraterrestrial, it's Religious.
How can you say anything is wrong with Scientology if you haven't even read Dianetics?
Read Dianetics and you will understand that Scientology isn't the way you think.
Scientology is not a cult like Alcoholics Anonymous.
Some people need their brains washed in Scientology.
Scientology is the Religion of the stars.

Can you think of other slogans in Alcoholics Anonymous that are portable to Scientology?

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JR Harris

Tue, 06/12/2012 - 19:16

Can anyone help me to con people into believing that doctors don't know what they are doing?

Chapter 7 "Working With Others" page 92 of the Scripture of Bill Wilson commonly known as the "Big Book"

Continue to speak of alcoholism as an illness, a fatal malady. Talk about the conditions of body and mind which accompany it. Keep his attention focused mainly on your personal experience. Explain that many are doomed who never realize their predicament. Doctors are rightly loath to tell alcoholic patients the whole story unless it will serve some good purpose. But you may talk to him about the hopelessness of alcoholism because you offer a solution. You will soon have your friend admitting he has many, if not all, of the traits of the alcoholic. If his own doctor is willing to tell him that he is alcoholic, so much the better.

I believe this is called "setting the hook" in con man terminology....

"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.

patti

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 19:51

Always was confused by how Wilson knew how doctors felt about telling their patients about their drinking. How did he know they were loath to tell an addict that they needed to stop drinking. I've always interacted with Doctors who were straight shooters, if you needed to stop drinking, they would tell you to stop drinking, they were not loath to give any patient good medical advise. That is what doctors do, even back then, they gave their patients medical advise, they weren't loath to tell some one they needed to stop drinking. Wilson just knew everything. Wilson knew that Doctors loathed to give patients medical advise & were loathed to let an alcohol addict know what they were in for if they continued to drink. I never believed some of the stuff Wilson wrote, it just had no validity whatsoever. How the hell would Wilson know what doctors would or wouldn't do pertaining to medical advise. Its common knowledge that doctors give their patients truthful medical advise every day, that's their job.

patti

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dolson

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 00:00

What are your crimes?
This is the default circular mind fuck slogan that Scientology parrots squawk at its detractors.

Then there is this, direct from the dark pages of wilsonism.

They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear, they only thought they had humbled themselves. But they had not learned enough of humility, fearlessness and honesty, in the sense we find it necessary, until they told someone else all their life story.
Alcoholics Anonymous Edition 4 page 73

L. Ron and Bill W were master manipulators.

Go ahead, enjoy yourselves - it's getting late, much later than you think.

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alkieanon

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 06:33

"Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death, Thoughtcrime is death.... The essential crime that contains all others in itself."

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JR Harris

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 14:19

The softer, sweeter side of the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous.
He's not heavy, he's my brother I met in jail through Alcoholics Anonymous.
The Alcoholics Anonymous taste test, don't worry the Reverend Jim Jones is dead and he didn't make the Koolaid.

"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.

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JR Harris

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 14:41

Scientology isn't an evil cult, that top prize goes to Alcoholics Anonymous.

"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.

patti

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 20:01

JR,
agreed. I can't find a copy of that film where Wilson does the death warrant rap. But I did see it in the last few weeks, I thought on youtube. I did find a site where people can buy cds & dvds of Wilson's speeches @ various AA functions. The cost is $7.00. Bottom feeders.

patti

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becket

Thu, 06/14/2012 - 20:11

And who is it that's trolling around the bottom again? Who immerses herself in all the up-to-the-minute pricing of AA CDs and DVDs?

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian