How To Identify An Online Writing Cult
The Things Only Outsiders Can See
All of the headers in this article were sourced from Cult Research, which seemed to provide a broad overview of cultish behavior based on anecdotal evidence. I am not a researcher of cults, but sometimes evidence presents itself.
Have you ever had a friend who is in the worst relationship you’ve ever seen in your life, but at lunch they wax poetic about all the good things their partner brings to the table? Sometimes there are things only outsiders can see. Because people get too close and can no longer back up far enough to see what’s right in front of their faces.
Have you ever had a friend who is knee-deep in a multi-level marketing scam, but insistent that they are just trying to sell a good product and don’t understand why you don’t want to sell the same product on the side and also name them as your sponsor by calling this number in the next thirty minutes?
From Cult Research, as it relates to the headers I’ve used in this article:
Bear in mind that this list is not meant to be a “cult scale,” or a definitive checklist to determine if a specific group is a cult; this is not so much a diagnostic instrument as it is an analytical tool.
