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Lindsey Williams, Part 1: Shiny Happy People, The Institute in Basic Life Principles, and Meeting Bill Gothard

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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The Importance of Resilience

As a child, this is literally getting beat into you, right? You have to always be joyful, regardless of any situation and circumstance. Even just me feeling resistance and rigidness about something would also falter into my conversation or how I would respond to my parents. And they're taught this to avoid, it's to avoid future catastrophe of your children. Let's do this preemptively so that you will be the best human. Exactly. When you go into the world, you're not going to rebel. You're notGoing to wear eye traps. What's your gonna stay? You're sure right now. Baby, pop it up. Everybody. I'm in there. Oh my

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