Oh gosh - I didn't mean for my reply to seem irrelevant to the convo - I was earnestly trying to reply to a valid question in Sat eve discussion of cult aspects in this thread (5 or 6 really great posts in a row - hate I wasn't here then). One mentioned Hitler's sway, which was such a good parable (was it #141? Thereabouts) and really spurred some thinking.
Then
@887sMtreme lamented:
I agree! And I feel like early intervention
is possible which I was trying to illustrate with the two examples and related risk factors, but perhaps I didn't connect the dots very well.
It may seem like it, but I promise, promise, promise I haven't gone off and joined a "Freaky, Irrelevant Perspectives on WS Threads Cult"!
Have been running a day or so behind, but may have to give up on reading every single post in every single thread here just to keep pace.