>Fear is the mind killer, silly.
Movies are the mind killer.
>You watchin' the wrong movie ;-)
No, the only good brain/mind you can have is the one you create with a lot of thought and rest. The fiction I absorbed is the cause of almost all my major flaws I've ever had.
>We live, we learn, we move on. If you are here, yiu are doing something right.
After having removed all the garbage programming with an amount of thought and rest most people don't have time for.
>How in the world did you imagine the 'controllers' getting initiated to be controllers in the first place?
They get initiated by some person who wants to control others. The person who designs it is in control, not the people who believe in it.
>The Ten Commandments is a good movie.
The ability to successfully resist all the bad in a movie takes to much effort to warrant, even if there might theoretically be good movies.
>How did THAT controller initially get accepted 'into the club'?
The initial controller CREATED the club!
>certain phrases and scenes as intentional gaskighting.
You think there are a finite number of tricks, but there are an infinite number of potential tricks.
>The club is older than a single person's life.
But control likely passes down from the creator to others who are in on it, rather than those who are a victim of it.
They generate new tricks.
Nothing substitutes the need to think and rest a lot.
Each movie adds to your intellectual debt.
>And those who ARE 'in it' are approved to be the next generation of controllers.
Likely the true controllers would logically be family of the powerful people who created it in the first place, not actual cultists.
>Nah, it's a cult.
The real cult leaders don't necessarily do the things or practice things that would make them vulnerable.
>They're not as smart as you assume they are.
>They're stupid.
Vile cult practices are about, IMO, setting people up for blackmailable situations. People who indulge in those same practices are more vulnerable, and less likely to be in charge, than those who merely set up those situations.
>Why is there a motif across blackmailable situations if that is all they are?
It can be about picking things that people are likely to fall for.