{"id":3499,"date":"2024-02-27T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:58:23","slug":"conversation-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/2024\/02\/27\/conversation-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/4affc7ee-aa64-4414-891b-d3139202a49e\" alt=\"Attachment.png\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A time ago, I was scrolling on TikTok, and I saw a video of some people screaming, \u201cDon&#8217;t talk to them, they are a cult,\u201d and \u201cPlease don&#8217;t go with them, they are a cult.\u201d I was so confused with the situation because the person who was recruiting strangers looked like a store employee, and where the recruiter was taking them looked just like a regular store. It looked as if Sephora employees were outside, trying to get customers inside the store to generate more sales. Scrolling in the comments for context, I got to know that it was a cult indeed and that its name was Scientology. They recruit people and brainwash them with the cult\u2019s way of seeing life. People are brainwashed to the point they can&#8217;t escape the cult.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN describes Scientology as \u201cAt the core of Scientology is a belief that each human has a reactive mind that responds to life&#8217;s traumas, clouding the analytic mind and keeping us from experiencing reality. Members of the religion submit to a process called auditing to find the sources of this trauma, reliving those experiences in an attempt to neutralize them and reassert the primacy of the analytic mind, working toward a spiritual state called &#8220;clear.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To avoid getting enlisted you need to avoid being nice to the recruiters, basically know how to say no.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Second, you need to know that no cult is good for humans because it takes your liberty away. The leaders brainwash them for their benefit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And third, you always need to do research before joining any group.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A time ago, I was scrolling on TikTok, and I saw a video of some people screaming, \u201cDon&#8217;t talk to them, they are a cult,\u201d and \u201cPlease don&#8217;t go with them, they are a cult.\u201d I was so confused with the situation because the person who was recruiting strangers looked like a store employee, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-conversation-4-cults","category-uncategorized","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}