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David Boree

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Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Quote, here's a description of one of the... Because they have speeches and they break out into groups to do different exercises, right? There were hamming circles. Per person, take turns having everyone else spend 20 minutes trying to solve the most important problem about your life to you. I didn't pick the most important problem in my life because secrets.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Quote, here's a description of one of the... Because they have speeches and they break out into groups to do different exercises, right? There were hamming circles. Per person, take turns having everyone else spend 20 minutes trying to solve the most important problem about your life to you. I didn't pick the most important problem in my life because secrets.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

I think I used my turn on a problem I thought they might actually be able to help with. The fact that it did, although it didn't seem to affect my productivity or willpower at all, i.e. I was inhumanly determined basically all the time, I still felt terrible all the time. That I was hurting to some degree, relinquishing my humanity.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

I think I used my turn on a problem I thought they might actually be able to help with. The fact that it did, although it didn't seem to affect my productivity or willpower at all, i.e. I was inhumanly determined basically all the time, I still felt terrible all the time. That I was hurting to some degree, relinquishing my humanity.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

I think I used my turn on a problem I thought they might actually be able to help with. The fact that it did, although it didn't seem to affect my productivity or willpower at all, i.e. I was inhumanly determined basically all the time, I still felt terrible all the time. That I was hurting to some degree, relinquishing my humanity.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

I was sort of vaguing about the pain of being trans and having decided not to transition. And so this is a part of the thing. You build a connection between other people in this group by getting people to spill their secrets to each other. It's a thing Scientology does. It's a thing they did at Synanon. Tell me your darkest secret, right? Exactly, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

I was sort of vaguing about the pain of being trans and having decided not to transition. And so this is a part of the thing. You build a connection between other people in this group by getting people to spill their secrets to each other. It's a thing Scientology does. It's a thing they did at Synanon. Tell me your darkest secret, right? Exactly, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

I was sort of vaguing about the pain of being trans and having decided not to transition. And so this is a part of the thing. You build a connection between other people in this group by getting people to spill their secrets to each other. It's a thing Scientology does. It's a thing they did at Synanon. Tell me your darkest secret, right? Exactly, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

She's not fully willing to because she doesn't want to come out to this group of people yet.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

She's not fully willing to because she doesn't want to come out to this group of people yet.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

She's not fully willing to because she doesn't want to come out to this group of people yet.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Wow. Yeah. The hamming circle doesn't sound so bad. If you'll recall, and as you mentioned this, it was really good that you did it in part one, Synanon would have people break into circles where they would insult and attack each other in order to create a traumatic experience that would bond them together and with the cult. Yeah. These hamming circles are weird, but they're not that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Wow. Yeah. The hamming circle doesn't sound so bad. If you'll recall, and as you mentioned this, it was really good that you did it in part one, Synanon would have people break into circles where they would insult and attack each other in order to create a traumatic experience that would bond them together and with the cult. Yeah. These hamming circles are weird, but they're not that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

Wow. Yeah. The hamming circle doesn't sound so bad. If you'll recall, and as you mentioned this, it was really good that you did it in part one, Synanon would have people break into circles where they would insult and attack each other in order to create a traumatic experience that would bond them together and with the cult. Yeah. These hamming circles are weird, but they're not that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

But there's another exercise they did next called doom circles. Quote, there were doom circles where each person, including themselves, took turns having everyone else bluntly but compassionately say why they were doomed using blindsight. Someone decided and set a precedent of starting these off with a sort of ritual incantation.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

But there's another exercise they did next called doom circles. Quote, there were doom circles where each person, including themselves, took turns having everyone else bluntly but compassionately say why they were doomed using blindsight. Someone decided and set a precedent of starting these off with a sort of ritual incantation.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

But there's another exercise they did next called doom circles. Quote, there were doom circles where each person, including themselves, took turns having everyone else bluntly but compassionately say why they were doomed using blindsight. Someone decided and set a precedent of starting these off with a sort of ritual incantation.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

We now invoke and bow to the doom gods and waving their hands saying doom. I said I'd never bow to the doom gods, and while everyone else said that, I flipped the double bird to the heavens and said, fuck you instead. Person A, that's this member of CIFAR that she admires, found this agreeable and joined in.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

We now invoke and bow to the doom gods and waving their hands saying doom. I said I'd never bow to the doom gods, and while everyone else said that, I flipped the double bird to the heavens and said, fuck you instead. Person A, that's this member of CIFAR that she admires, found this agreeable and joined in.

Behind the Bastards
Part Two: The Zizians: Birth of a Cult Leader

We now invoke and bow to the doom gods and waving their hands saying doom. I said I'd never bow to the doom gods, and while everyone else said that, I flipped the double bird to the heavens and said, fuck you instead. Person A, that's this member of CIFAR that she admires, found this agreeable and joined in.