This is like Scientology redux. During "counseling sessions" with his celebrity congregants, I'm guessing they don't know they are being recorded. All of those confessions from life are going to be used against them for more money at some point.
Adrian Zmed, I've had a Candy crush on you since I was a weather girl on a local UHF station and you were keeping the streets safe in that skin-tight LCPD uniform. I'm currently writing a police drama, and perhaps I can get you cast. It's about a team of cops who investigate a rash of thefts of garden gnomes. I'm calling it Lawn and Order.
The problem is that these people give these cults the power over them. Let it come out or come clean. Humanity is messy, They can't possibly have anything their closet that we can't relate to in some way. Hell, two of my (now deceased) uncles served jail time for burning down a company they were fired from. We once had a conversation at a family party where my cousin actually asked the group: who here hasn't been arrested lol. Low point in the family, indeed... some of us were aghast.. until we laughed that my moral and ethical BIL actually did have a bench warrant out for his arrest for a traffic violation in another state (long story short but LE did not use reciprocal laws like she should have and he actually was right and didn't pay the ticket because he was right..).... and I remembered my own DH had received a DUI at around age 20 that was eventually expunged. Lol. Was molested? Got that in the family. Mental illness, check. Murder...well, once my aunt hid a murder weapon for a friend who was under suspicion for killing her husband.... she eventually gave it back when the cops camr around.ll (aunt was ignorant/scared/believed neighbor). Murder never solved by the way. Drugs? Check. Bearding for gay family members? Check. Died of AIDS? Check.
Nothing is too shocking or too bad to be redeemed. The mindfuck is the cult's speciality.
People allow these cults to maintain power over them-- that is why the cults choose them.
Really, i hate to be mean, but anyone who joins scio or hillsong is limited mentally. They have to be to fall for that shit. I try to be compassionate but i lose patience with stupidity.
They pull you in when you're vulnerable. Then they offer hope. You're elbow deep before things start to look sideways. By then - you're friends/spirituality/roots/work is all glimmer together. The blackballing that occurs when one leaves is bone crushing. It's about faith and feeling and trusting the wrong people to just hold on. I wouldn't call the people stupid - just human.
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ReplyDeleteHillsong Church
ReplyDelete+1 on Hillsong and Carl Lentz. Joke.
ReplyDeleteGood guess Adrian Zmed - wasn't there a DM piece about Selena & Justin going to "counseling?"
ReplyDeleteI think so on counseling. Amazing the number of celebs they have drawn into their web.
ReplyDeleteAdrian Zmed, I've had a Candy crush on you since I was a weather girl on a local UHF station and you were keeping the streets safe in that skin-tight LCPD uniform.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently writing a police drama, and perhaps I can get you cast. It's about a team of cops who investigate a rash of thefts of garden gnomes. I'm calling it Lawn and Order.
Lol...Candy. had huge crush on Adrian too.
DeleteTee hee
ReplyDeleteHaha of course they are recorded. Have you not learned anything from the show The Arrangement...
ReplyDeleteExactly!! Just binged that show last week, ready for season 2!
DeleteI'm going to cover myself in falafel, and invite Adrian Zmed over to investigate a hummuscide.
ReplyDeleteAdrian hasn't aged all that well...he ain't all that Dance Fever dude anymore.
ReplyDeleteEwww, Hillsong
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that these people give these cults the power over them. Let it come out or come clean. Humanity is messy, They can't possibly have anything their closet that we can't relate to in some way. Hell, two of my (now deceased) uncles served jail time for burning down a company they were fired from. We once had a conversation at a family party where my cousin actually asked the group: who here hasn't been arrested lol. Low point in the family, indeed... some of us were aghast.. until we laughed that my moral and ethical BIL actually did have a bench warrant out for his arrest for a traffic violation in another state (long story short but LE did not use reciprocal laws like she should have and he actually was right and didn't pay the ticket because he was right..).... and I remembered my own DH had received a DUI at around age 20 that was eventually expunged. Lol. Was molested? Got that in the family. Mental illness, check. Murder...well, once my aunt hid a murder weapon for a friend who was under suspicion for killing her husband.... she eventually gave it back when the cops camr around.ll (aunt was ignorant/scared/believed neighbor). Murder never solved by the way. Drugs? Check. Bearding for gay family members? Check. Died of AIDS? Check.
ReplyDeleteNothing is too shocking or too bad to be redeemed. The mindfuck is the cult's speciality.
People allow these cults to maintain power over them-- that is why the cults choose them.
Really, i hate to be mean, but anyone who joins scio or hillsong is limited mentally. They have to be to fall for that shit. I try to be compassionate but i lose patience with stupidity.
ReplyDelete+1000 I don't get it.
DeleteHillsong.
ReplyDeleteThe Biebs and Selena are in couples counseling currently.
lol @sandybrook he is no denny terrio!
ReplyDeleteThey pull you in when you're vulnerable. Then they offer hope. You're elbow deep before things start to look sideways.
ReplyDeleteBy then - you're friends/spirituality/roots/work is all glimmer together.
The blackballing that occurs when one leaves is bone crushing.
It's about faith and feeling and trusting the wrong people to just hold on.
I wouldn't call the people stupid - just human.
*your friends etc
DeleteFormer CNN Anchor Candy Crowley said...
ReplyDeleteI'm going to cover myself in falafel, and invite Adrian Zmed over to investigate a hummuscide.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
10/10
Why the hell do youngins in their early 20's need couple counseling?
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