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The Game was so crucial to Synanon’s ethos that life there was split into two rhetorical categories: “in The Game” and “out of The Game.” The Game was painted as a form of group therapy, but really it was a means of social control. There was nothing “fun” about the practice, which could be malicious and mortifying (though Conrad …

My Dad Grew Up in a Cult. Now He’s a Famous Scientist.
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Adebayo Adeniran
Apr 18, 2021

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why does it remind me of Kip Mckean and the international churches of christ?

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