Former Cult Members, Who Did You Escape?
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If you're wondering if you're in a cult or if you've exited one, the Telltale channel can really help you. As can secular therapy. Be aware that cults cause grievous harm and that you might struggle a while afterwards, but you'll be free and surrounded by people who care about you rather than that there's one more member in a cult. Be skeptical and don't drink the Koolaid.
Thank you. I was trapped in a cult for a year, and was able to leave a few months ago. I really needed to hear this. Everything everyone has told me is that I’m messed up for even getting into this mess, and that all of it is my fault. So god, is it nice to see this.
Jimmy Snow, too!
But Jim told me to drink the Kool aid
Literally how I found out I was in a cult lol
Tiktok atheist videos are A+. Viced rhino and Aron Ra are my favorite Bible debunkers from a scientific prospective.
Imagine: -joins group- nice group! -realises its a cult after a month- wait hold up
Apparently, from what someone's response is...it might have actually been a Pagan Religious Service.
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The distance between hate groups and cults is fairly short. They have similar recruiting, similar "us versus them," lovebombing, the works.
The difference is that the cults make that hate a religion, but the hate groups don’t make it a straight up religion.
In the cult I was in, and also others I've studied there's usually a strong US vs. THEM mentality.
The amount of prayer at that summer camp is absolutely insane. I'm friends with a cloistered nun (basically her job is to pray) and they spend way less time than that a day praying.
I love how, not the praying for half the day at a camp, the microphone and laying down in the field.
But the fact the people didnt like the big bang theory. Like lol thats the least amount of proof possible
i love how many of the stories were about mormonism LMAO
I mean, yeah makes sense:)
@@rachelworkman9652 coming from an ex-mormon, i agree ;)
@@yeet96421 awesome!:) I’m also exmo :)
I'm an exmo and yea not surprised 😂
Maybe the kids saying that the Big Bang Theory was stupid were talking about the TV show. I mean.. harsh, but fair.
I had a weird dream once where one of my mormon friends who is very brash and not the most polite person was instead sent to a re-education camp as his ‘mission’. I believe this was prompted due to him being sent home due to the pandemic and I almost didn’t recognize his him. He looked the same but talked so much differently, everything he did felt cold and cordial and I am his friend, probably someone he’d be more warm to. Perhaps it’s just the mindset he was in on his trip and I hope when he’s done he goes back to normal.
I was in a baptist/ jewish homestead commune where people directly asked "is this a cult or a commune"😂. I sold my house, left, and deconverted
Former member of AA (Alocoholics Anonymous) here. The group is right and you are wrong, always. Guilt, shame, coercion, and manipulation are used to get people to volunteer for service commitments. Thinking for yourself, questioning AA methods, and disagreeing with the group are all wrong and will lead you back to drinking.
I mean JW is absolutely a cult because waaaay back in middle school I knew a couple of JW kids and they were told to stop talking to me because I wasn't religious. That's a red flag lmao
I always hope JWs are included when I see stuff about cults. I was raised in it, and it's difficult to retrain your brain once you get out.
Sorry what is JW?
kinda scary how these things still exist
@@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594 Jehovah's Witnesses. Very well-known in the UK and US in particular
A kid in my son's class is JW and the demands the parents tried to place on the class teacher were so ridiculous. She was an excellent teacher and those parents really contributed to the teachers early retirement.
@@justine8387 One of my earliest childhood memories was sitting in the hallway during Kindergarten while a birthday party happened in the classroom. JWs can't participate in any holidays.
That camp sounds like hell
As a Christian? I can honestly say it sounds like a TERRIBLE time
Parents really should watch out for what camps they shouldn't send their kids to, especially if they're advertising themselves as being openly affiliated with religion, because you may just be shipping them off to a cult (although the mentioned camp sounds like it was very subtlely).
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2:57
I will say as a Christian (for those unaware) we do not do that. We are mostly nice people (or I guess it's just where I lived and live now) and our Lord's miracles don't work like that. Those people were definitely just maniacs who act like a "holy" Wannabe
Or holy wannabes that broke off of general Christianity and started their old religion.
@@jasonrandom372 that is correct. Glad to see not everyone lost their brain cells lol
@@itz_cinnabon9963 As an atheist, it boggles me how an ordinary christian church can become so wrong.
Not exactly a cult but had a falling out with a pastor. I was straight out of university, trying to figure out how to live in the real world on my own. Made some dumbass mistakes, did some good things, basically working out how life goes. So we met occasionally and i saw this guy as a sort of spiritual guide. Thought we were good, then when my fiancee and I asked to get married in his church he said No. And that's where things got weird. Had a lot of visits from the deacon, deputy pastor and youth leaders, all saying they didn't agree with this but couldn't override him. That opened my eyes that there was a real nasty vibe hanging about that church. To this day I don't know why the pastor made that decision but i knew it was time to get out. I moved to a church across town where I was a lot more welcome and happy.
I signed a book on 2b2t and without reading it first and then I was in a Crafting Table cult
Oh hey, I saw that FitMC video
@@TimBukTwo Yeah but I did join the cult tho.
@@TimBukTwo Also I just discovered Fit 3 weeks ago
LOL
@@TimBukTwo So basically this is how it happened.
A friend of mine bought me 3 months of priority queue on the sever (as a birthday gift) , so I decided to make it worth it and I played on 2b2t. A month later I had a pretty good looking base, I had lots of diamonds, shulkers and things I stole from a dupe stash, *but I got griefed* wich is common... So my friend said: Hey wanna join my team? It's about crafting tables, to wich i said yes coz it could be hilarious... Now I have been in the crafting table thingy for 2 weeks and I just discovered who Fitmc is and saw his video on the crafting table *cult*. Omg
I was in a cult, and couldn’t ever leave for a year straight.
I am in theatre. If you have ever been involved in theatre, we are basically a cult, just not as extreme as the other ones. Each theatre has a practice that if you break it, you are shamed. It is fun! And it's a healthy supportive cult
@Tabora That might just be your school, and honestly, theatre is the only place I feel safe. Most theatre groups are actually really healthy because it's a constructive place and there will always be one bad seed in a group. Don't judge the whole of theatre based on one group. I've always felt safe there and am never afraid to mess up or make a mistake because instead of laughing or judging, all of the theatre groups I've been in have instead helped me be better
@Tabora My school has 3 thousand students. My old school had 2500 students. It's always been healthy
I'm 33, have been doing theater since I was a kid and still do. Theres some definite overlap haha. Particularly in Academics- my high school groups were pretty normal, just awkward and loud. College the school program and the main two student groups were also alright, if more clicky, but GODDAMN the third student group was mad culty. They generally lived together, doing other theater was frowned upon, and ALL OF THEM would loudly insist they did the best work on campus... like they generally did ok stuff but good lord.
@Tabora how were they toxic? I only interacted with one theater group that was truly fucked and culty, the rest were just a bit cringy at times. And of course it attracts the weirdos... normal people play make believe where no one is looking, not in front of an audience :-)
No offense but theatre people I knew tended to bring the drama out of the state and into their own lives. Not all but most
Lots of JW and LDS in here.
1:34 don’t like how I know this is NXIUM (or however you spell their disgusting name)
Wait what? Please explain.
@@Ixe2077
NXIUM is an awful mlm cult made by some Hollywood celebrities that forces members to become sex slaves.
@@theanarchistocelot1620 yeah the guy who founded it got life in prison, at least that’s the news that came out today
@@cassidyb8786
:D yay
Not a cult, but the church I used to go to was, well, churchy. My turning point was at about the age of 11 when I argued with the Sunday school teachers kid about the existance of dinosaurs. For the millenials and later, back then a lot of churches vehemently denied dinosaurs even existed. This point of view has changed in probably the past 3ish years because, ya know, facts. So they have twisted it so they existed in their young earth hypothesis.
Friend of mine was sent to a convent school. Realised that they had cut 2 pages out of a history book. Being a stroppy sort she went to a bookshop to look at the original and found out that the pages removed were about the time that the then Pope declared himself to be infallible.
When did i realise I was in a cult? Today 26 days after leaving that place
That Jesus camp one made me think of ACTS retreats in when I was in high school. Also, one of the things that you can tell the anti-science Christians is the concept that what if the Big Bang was God committing suicide? A concept I learned about in a theology class in college.
I mean I was in a church that was like...a LITTLE Anti-Science, but that was just ONLY regulated to Creationism.
Personally, I think people make too big a deal over the creation of the world, and not NEALRY enough about the important bits.
Funnily enough, the story of Adam & Eve is Genesis Chapter 2, which does NOT say how long God took to create the world. The whole Order of Creation & 7 Days is actually Genesis Chapter 1.
So since many so Christians are gung ho about Addam & Eve....maybe there really was Evolution.
I have no idea what kind of "theology class" that was.
Definitely not
I like to suggest that the universe is God's way of experimenting with evolution
@@kylez8010 Ecological theology. The teacher was a aging hippee and the class was supposed to be about how wasting water was a sin and by extension so was any wasteful use of resources... but we frequently went off the rails and talked about other things. That was a concept the teacher brought up when someone asked about creationism and is linked to the branch of theology called "Christology"; the underlying idea being that what if God wanted to have His existence proven to himself and commited suicide (the big bang), and every recorded divine manifestation in history is His consciousness checking in on us. I'll admit, the concept is a bit beyond me but as I said, it's a great defence for the anti-science crowd.
I wonder what people that grew up in a cult and then escaped it think about your average everyday organized religion? I wonder if they see the similarities in it to the cult that they grew up in or if they just see it as "well, it's not nearly as crazy as what I grew up with, so it's probably not dangerous."
*Having grown up in one, I see all organized religion very cult like. And because they don't lead with the strict disconnect and separation from the start, they appear to be "not so bad". I don't buy it.*
@@RobandSijay interesting, thank you for your insight!
... I'm Catholic, though not exactly religious, but still cringe at these kind of cults >.>
Like, it's ok to believe what you will (be it in religion or non-religion), but... that's kind of sick
Samesies. On the BITE model Catholicism seems to either be a really not-culty cult or a very culty religion, make of that what you will- to me, the stories told in this vid feel worlds away from the the faith I grew up in... annnnnnnd then at other points it starts to touch on things that feel uncomfortably familiar
A cult is a cult ,and the Catholic Church is 100% a cult .
Yeah I'm an atheist and I'm not turned off by religion, but I have first knowledge of so many subsects within mainstream denominations that are just insane by the mainstream christian denominations. Catholics are generally cool though. They make a genuine effort remain modern.
I’m currently trying to leave the JW group. I realized I never really agreed with the teachings or took it seriously. But one of the things that made me realize it’s a cult is how the leaders (“Governing Body”) say their not “divinely inspired” and aren’t infallible, but they expect full UNQUESTIONED obedience on decisions they make even when the decision doesn’t make sense or ruins lives.
I feel the same. They call it then "new light". I am also trying to leave, but I do not want to get a disfellowship. I can not defend this relegion anymore.
My mother use to drag me to this religious cult that has signs from movies.
1. People will be down to take their life for the leader
2. They would carry him in those thrones.
3. Thousands of dollars are spent for his happiness.
4. My mother will tell me stories on how he’s god resurrected and how he will save all of us if he touches you.
5. She would do rituals like take our blood and eat his hair. We sometimes will put his hair in a necklace and wear it. She will cut our clothing and send it to him for “blessings”
6. Very large amount of fire. They will burn stuff that is valuable for good luck.
7. Believed that their prayers can heal cancer and would scam old sick people.
Religion is pain and suffering.
When they started complaining about the new series and saying you can't be a real fan if you like them.
I was in the Jim Pickens Cult
I'm still a kid
and i got in a Cult
A cult that Worships a Sim in Sims 4
Needless to say i'm still in it
My very evil ex used to say the Sims were evil. So that was saying something...
What the fúck
Politics.
Veganism.
Google.
You didn't leve Google....
*g o o g l e*
Religion being the most common cult of them all
I have an aunt and uncle who were part of Glorivale (basically New Zealand Amish people) who left after their leader was discovered having sexually abused over 20 children. They literally just left with only the clothes on their back and their 11 kids.
3:00 that sounds like the Toronto Blessing
Here’s an article describing the Toronto Blessing: www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/christianity/christianity-general/toronto-blessing
6:28 this sounds a lot like a camp I used to go to as a kid. Always hated that place and adamantly fought my parents about going every summer.
I wan in AA... Oh, but they were really cool people and they helped me to stop drinking.
This is Trumper‘s in about a year
im in a breakfast cult. i am toast. hail down to the toast.
That camp tho...
In New Zealand we have a cult called Gloriavale or at least that's what the place is called .
Guard your mind.
it’s a shame because some of these give christians a bad name when not everyone is like that but unfortunately some give others bad experiences
3:16 I’m praying for them
Lol, I see what you did there.
19:38 I think you're forgetting orchestra and theater
Where when the title still says who
The title should actually say “whom.”
Me too
As an very religious person 8:20 is too much prayer
Ah the Creation Museum. And their stupid Ark Park that my tax dollars went to fund. They make my grandfather's weirdly fundamentalist view of Catholicism seem reasonable.
I am a member of this church that belongs to a denomination, that others deem cultic. I did a bit of research, cross-references, and comparative studies. I realized what I am learning at my church is, of the 'genuine' Reformed theology - though slightly 'localized'. So, I just shrugged whenever I heard various accusations. Then I saw some people in the same denomination (and naturally, different churchs), and..... they sounded so cultic. I just could not help myself facepalming.
Pentacostal? Been there.
@@HH-ru4bj No. That is why things are somewhat complicated.
@@Mimu1983 wow, ok friend. I'm pulling for you.
H H pentacostal folk are something else.. the speaking in tongues really bother me..
@@stormspotter67 The Pentecostal/Charismatics are like the Red Bull - they may bring people to the LORD, and empower people through the Holy Spirit but they cannot sustain people in faith that well because they do not feed them with the Word of God 'properly'. That is why we end up seeing people just crash and burn, or deviate to satisfy their desires like those with low sugar in their blood. Speaking of the Tongue; I do not necessarily discredit it but, if someone thinks that it is some sort of 'sign' that he/she believes God, then it is a headache.
When I was a kid I was always antisocial because of huge ego. My parents forced me to be friends with the popular girls at school. There was this girl that somehow managed to be friends with the whole school even though she is low key a moron. She liked a game? Everybody had to like that game! She liked a book? Everybody had to like that book! What would happen if you didn't like what she likes? Bullying! Girls vs boys fights all day. Alkinoe if you see this, I have no regrets :)
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It's sad because these are most likely true
Damn. Im a christian white boi, but people get easily wrapped up into this stuff it seems.
Man America sounds crazy
*WHO DID YOU ESCAPE?*
I was 8 and had to spend Sunday at a church learning what the Lord frowns upon. Then they passed around a collection plate and it was optional to put money in it but if you didn't the other members judged you to be lesser then them. I think it was called Christianity
I missread the title and thought it said oh shit, I'm a cunt. I was expecting something different lol.
What's MLM?
Multi-level-management. Basically pyramid schemes
I thought Church of God had the bible right. Everyone was friendly, in an odd way, but fuck it. They fed me, they called me sister, and eventually I would up getting baptized and having my name written in the book of life. I was in college at the time (where they target new members) and a friend bought edibles for us to try. I'd never eaten edibles so I had some sour patch kids, white chocolate, milk chocolate, a Tootsie roll. I can't say for certain but I probably had about 2000mg of thc. I didn't feel anything. My phone rang and a member had come to pick me up for Bible study. By the time I got to church it all hit at once. Nothing on the whiteboard made sense and all I could say was "I feel sick, I need to go back." I don't even remember leaving. When I got back I blocked the member because I didn't want to explain and was too embarrassed to ever go back. Googled them a couple years later and found out it was a cult.
Pyramid schemes everywhere😂😂😂
I was raised on Christianity and even after I realized I didn’t want the life they were trying to build for me I didn’t realize how much I had been brainwashed a while later I was sitting in church with my parents and I realized the people around me thought I waa still a Christian I realized so many things wrong this this religion like the fact society had normalized it and yet all the people I knew who were wrong Christians has the same things in common they didn’t accept people for who they were they wanted everyone in the world to agree with them on everything and they were all hypocrites now of course not all Christians are that way however the more religious ones definitely are and I didn’t want to be grouped with those people and I am still struggling with that to this day...
One thing that scared me was when they find out anyone you hang out with is catholic and that praying to other figures (such as the Virgin Mary) is a sin and that it’s against god. My parents are Catholics and so are my extended family. But I remember when I didn’t even know Christians considered it sinful, they would almost shame me. It would be awkward just sitting there feeling in being lectured. I don’t even believe in a religion, but the way their attitudes change is just scary. Kinda almost makes me think that Christianity is a cult, so I stay away from it. I’ve met many of those people in my life. They seem like nice people at first until you get to know them even further more. but oh god the way they treat their own family and friends if one does something “not right”... I have a couple of my own friends deal with their own crazy church Christian parents who only and solely want them to prioritize the religion.
@@danielaalonso6569 yes I feel that completely my parents expect me to agree with them on EVERYTHING and their friends influence them to that as well and they’ve tried to influence me I’m concerned for those that feel as if Christianity should above everything when in reality my life a purely miserable when believing that religion.
>who did you escape
Makes sense
Wish these types of channels would at least put in the effort to narrate themselves instead of using really unnatural sounding TTS. makes the videos really hard to get into and reeks of laziness.
These videos are randomly generated, aren't they?
I dont think latter day saint christianity is a cult
They wouldn’t let me watch hentai
This shits hilarious😂😂😂
I’m here before grandma Ashley
While back like close to 20 years. I was part of a circle, so called Wiccans. might have started out that way but it didn't end up that way.
It was great at first. my son was the first child that attended.
looking back they they were polite but distant with him.
when I had gone away for a couple years and came back with my little girl and little boy in tow.
they just made her out to be the neatest thing since sliced cheese and I was annoyed.
I sat back and I watched from that point on, to see what was going on. Paid closer attention cuz stuff didn't feel right.
what happened was just like they said in one of the clips.
I had initially brought in a bunch of people when they were first starting their circle.
then I didn't I didn't buy into their delusions. I didn't buy into their bullshit.
just an FYI if you're going to be messing with energies of the universe? don't fucking get drunk off your ass stupid before you handle these energies.
I had issues with this.
I was obviously the one with the problem, because I was the only one that said anything.
everyone else was there for the party I guess.
I became, I guess you'd say like wall decoration. I was there but nobody really wanted me there.
it's like if I left nobody would miss me.
well about three people would have.
the reason that I absolutely did not ever go back?
I was there with my children as per usual.
two people who were not even part of the circle but had been welcomed with open arms cuz they brought drugs ( I didn't know it at the time).
I look out on the front porch and they're standing under a light, in full view of the street with a crack pipe!
I. WAS. DONE!!!
I'M NOT GOING TO RISK MY KIDS FOR THESE MOTHERFUCKERS IN ANY WAY.
When I had seen previously was a lot of alcohol possibly a little toke.
The minute I saw that shit I left.
I never went back.
and you know funny thing? within say, a year? A yr and a half? the circle completely imploded.
they got too many people there who just wanted to be there for the party.
who were oh so popular and then the regular people who just wanted to be there to worship?
yeah the party's fine after the businesses attended to.
The serious ones the ones that actually wanted a religious group?
we all left & with no one being responsible and trying to keep things together it blew up in their faces.
I laughed my ass off.
I was one of the few people who tried to warn them and we were basically pushed out of the circle.
Shit happens people.
You chose poorly and it blew up in your faces.
And yeah I'm a little salty over it. nobody likes to be made to feel like they're wrong. there was a lot of gas lighting going on.
I didn't know what it was called at the time. I do now.
I can laugh about it now.
Karma that shit's real.
Me sitting here, a Mormon, realizing I’m in a cult
Idk how you can use your phone if you are Mormon aren't they like bat shit crazy when it comes to technology and progression?
@@srdjanrikic978 not at all. It’s not THAT strict. That’s like Amish
Inb4 who did I escape
Wow.... Lots of Mormon stories.... Who woulda thunk it.
lol I'm in one right now, but it isnt dangerous, yet.
Get out while you can
That’s what you think because they’ve already started effecting you
It's non- denomination Christianity,
@@executiveminer8174 I’m in that as well and though it has a bit dangerous be careful
*Video about cults*
*Video starts with the footage of Ukrainian traditional holiday*
Cool
Any other ex-mormons here just to relate 😂
Dude! All religions are cults, but not all cults are religions.
@asian lee every religion/church is a cult! plain and simple, because every church/religion thinks they are the rightful religion. If those are not cults I don't know what are.
@asian lee It does define a cult because religions are run buy extremists or con artists and you just don't want to hear or read the facts.
Why tf are they almost all some sort of Christianity thing
Because I can say from expierence Christianity should be considered a cult as they brainwash people and give them the illusion the of Bible and what not I could go on but I’ll spare you the brain cells lol
@@lowvisionsuspicion3571 go on. I'm very curious. Or provide sources that do go into more detail...
If you'd be so nice. Thanks in advance
@@ryanmckenna9330 okay then here’s some things I’ve gathered from growing up in the church and what not
1 gods existence. God is a very vague figure he knows everything about us and we know nothing about him and the believe that he exists cannot he explained even by the most devoted Christian
2 church. Something designed to look so simply normal but in reality could be used to make you believe in their religion, for example most songs sang in church just repeat the same verses repeatedly not even given much thought or anything, most sermons are boring and don’t make a lot of sense.
3 evidence. People try to connect the Big Bang theory with the creation story to make it make more sense this is mainly most likely because they can’t really find any real ground to stand on when it comes to this.
4 the Bible. This book of “truth” was written thousands of years ago and translated by PEOPLE who are, as we know, sinners and most likely tainted the Bible to their own will, such as if they hated poor people they would say “thou shall be killed if thou hath no money” or something like that
5 Jesus. The theory that Jesus dies on a cross to save us all of our sins make no sense for many reasons but I’ll get to that on a second first of all I will talk about how churches use this to make children and even adults believe his existence, they will say things like you are forgiven from all sin because Jesus loves you so much now consider this. Jesus being the messiah and supposedly coming back well that was thousands of year ago and it still hasn’t happened however the other thing is if we are already forgiven of all sin then why ask for forgiveness and if god hates sin why does he love us if we are sin and my last thing is simply put, is why hasn’t he come back yet because what’s going on is people aren’t going to church as much since we are stuck at home therefore losing their faith and therefore by the time all this blows over there will be less Christians because they will not be exposed to all the brainwash and what not
Eh well I'm guessing cause Christianity is so wide spread. I'm sure there are ones from other religions such as found on the eastern side of the world but yeah.
Christianity kinda scares me a little like, believe in God or you're going to hell but I think lots of people who happen to be christian are good people.
That's the good part of religion :)
It was a few years after I left home and stopped going to church.
I'm not even kidding, either. Religion fits almost all of the definitions of 'cult'.
Hello humans
Hello there bold of you to assume I am a human and not a jar of mayonnaise
@@lowvisionsuspicion3571 bold of u to assume I'm talking to you
Ah.. are you not a human? Lol
@@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594 kitsune
Moral of the story: Jesus is LORD.
Technically Jesus is a cult leader as well but... ok
@Dominik Mitchell zactly
@Dominik Mitchell yeeeesir
the democrat party
The Republican Party
I say both parties
Eh idrc
First
No-one cares
But hes right
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@@AndriousArrow who
I mean the Latter-day Saints (Mormons) aren’t a cult, but, ok you do you.