[ExI] Do you have a secret family pass phrase?

[Anton Sherwood]

I knew someone who, when diagnosed as diabetic and hypertensive, became 
an exercise junkie.  (Dunno what he was like before that.)  A few years 
later he faced his alcoholism and became obsessive about AA meetings 
(non-theistic flavor, I think he started a group called We Agnostics).

He reported that his girlfriend kept telling him that his problem was 
not alcoholism or hypertension or diabetes but atheism.

After that I lost touch with him, but many years later heard a rumor 
that he had become a Mormon and then Catholic, or vice versa.

On 2025-01-20 10:41, Keith Henson via extropy-chat wrote:
> My experiences with the scientology cult make me think there is a big
> genetic component to being sucked into a cult.
> 
> I don't have survey data but my impression is that people with Mormon
> genetic background are considerably overrepresented.
> 
> The scientologists also get sucked into every MLM scheme that comes along.

An ex-evangelical Youtuber, "Genetically Modified Skeptic", remarked 
that church and MLM use similar arguments: if you don't make money, you 
haven't tried hard enough; if you leave the church, you were never sincere.

(six layers of previous quotations omitted BECAUSE I CAN)

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