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To break people, recruit them into a cult. Steven Hassan has written several books about the mind control practiced by destructive cults. The acronym BITE refers to Hassan's four factors of brainwa...
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<p><strong>To break people, recruit them into a cult.</strong></p><p>Steven Hassan has written several books about the mind control practiced by destructive cults. The acronym BITE refers to Hassan's four factors of brainwashing: behavior control, information control, thought control, and emotional control. </p><ul><li>Behavior control: The organization teaches believers to behave without questioning, not to associate with outsiders, and to spend time performing rituals or proselytizing.</li><li>Information control: The organization is the only source of truth; other sources of information shall be distrusted.</li><li>Thought control: Believers are expected to internalize the organization's doctrine as "truth". They are encouraged to adopt an us-and-them mentality and refrain from critical thinking.</li><li>Emotion control: Associating love with the organization. Guilt. Fear of the outside. Fear of punishment for not meeting the organization's standards, up to and including everlasting punishment.</li></ul><p>See also <a href="https://www.freedomofmind.com/Info/BITE/bitemodel.php" rel="noreferrer">more details about BITE</a> and how it <a href="https://www.freedomofmind.com/Services/HumanTraffickingBITE.php" rel="noreferrer">applies to human trafficking</a>.</p><p>In fact, several real-world religions have been accused of practicing BITE techniques, especially <a href="http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/fear-cult-mind-control.php" rel="noreferrer">Jehovah's Witnesses</a> and the <a href="http://www.rationalrevelation.com/library/bite.html" rel="noreferrer">Mormons</a>. Jehovah's Witnesses in particular are known to use shunning to cut off former members from their families. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS, Daesh) uses BITE as well, according to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hassan/isis-is-a-cult-that-uses-_b_6023890.html" rel="noreferrer">Hassan's article</a> in <em>The Huffington Post</em>.</p><p>Try to catch the mages when they're children, before they've been given a chance to go to a more relatively mainstream magic school such as Hogwarts. Children are especially vulnerable to BITE techniques.</p>
- <p><strong>To break people, recruit them into a cult.</strong></p>
- <p>Steven Hassan has written several books about the mind control practiced by destructive cults. The acronym BITE refers to Hassan's four factors of brainwashing: behavior control, information control, thought control, and emotional control. </p>
- <ul>
- <li>Behavior control: The organization teaches believers to behave without questioning, not to associate with outsiders, and to spend time performing rituals or proselytizing.</li>
- <li>Information control: The organization is the only source of truth; other sources of information shall be distrusted.</li>
- <li>Thought control: Believers are expected to internalize the organization's doctrine as "truth". They are encouraged to adopt an us-and-them mentality and refrain from critical thinking.</li>
- <li>Emotion control: Associating love with the organization. Guilt. Fear of the outside. Fear of punishment for not meeting the organization's standards, up to and including everlasting punishment.</li>
- </ul>
- <p>See also <a href="https://freedomofmind.com/bite-model/" rel="noreferrer">more details about BITE</a> and how it <a href="https://freedomofmind.com/trafficking/" rel="noreferrer">applies to human trafficking</a>.</p>
- <p>In fact, several real-world religions have been accused of practicing BITE techniques, especially <a href="https://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/fear-cult-mind-control.php" rel="noreferrer">Jehovah's Witnesses</a> and the <a href="http://recoveringagency.com/articles/the-bite-model-and-mormon-control/" rel="noreferrer">Mormons</a>. Jehovah's Witnesses in particular are known to use shunning to cut off former members from their families. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS, Daesh) uses BITE as well, according to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis-is-a-cult-that-uses-_b_6023890" rel="noreferrer">Hassan's article</a> in <em>HuffPost</em>.</p>
- <p>Try to catch the mages when they're children, before they've been given a chance to go to a more relatively mainstream magic school such as Hogwarts. Children are especially vulnerable to BITE techniques.</p>
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