If you want to build a cult around yourself, you have to learn to communicate like a cult leader. First, you have to talk a lot, meaning more than anyone else. That might draw attention, but it doesn't make you a cult leader. For that, you have to learn specific techniques of communication. You have to overwhelm your followers with what you want them to believe, cut off uncomfortable questions or disagreements, and separate your followers from unbelievers psychologically. In this episode of Otherwords, Dr. Erica Brozovsky explains the regular formula for building a cult with language. Please don't try this at home. Nor should you fall for it.
"How Cults Use Language to Control"
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Very sweet vid of a family's dogo that was mislabeled.
Not mislabeled. When you watch videos from the front page, and there is more than one embedded video, Google will often scramble them. To bring up the proper video when this happens, click the title of the post to isolate the video. That will straighten it up.
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