them out. knowledge and never is . the only thing that ends is the human civilization because that's a dead end street. it was designed not to work. members are not often intellectually deprived, sociologically deprived but oftentimes very intelligent people. what would make an intelligent person then essentially give up their life to somebody else, well as a former cult member and a licensed mental health counselor has been working for 20 years. i can tell you that i've counseled literally thousands of people who are very bright, educated. essentially they're ignorant about cult tactics that cults use deception, manipulation, hypnosis, behavior modification to get people and they're also situationally vulnerable. just three words tell you everything you need to know. they tell you