[i convinced my father to watch the first episode of The Vow with me. he thought it was an advertisement for nxivm (it was made by an ex-leader after the cult was taken down), which maybe is an example of the influence conflicts people are left with. statements below this email line are fictional or non-literal. “this cult sounds so charismatic!” “oh, no, this is the cult that destroyed my life and the lives of everyone i love, it’s taken down now and the leader is imprisoned for life, i’m trying to warn you against other cults and plan with you how to make things better and share the experience to process my trauma” pause “so, you’re saying if i join this awesome cult it will help you?” [other quotes include: “mark vicente is too good a movie director for what he is trying to do” or “cult survivors shouldn’t be allowed to make movies against the cults they came from, they’re too hypnotized to market them”]