An interesting interview with Jacinda Ardern

[Lilith7]

I find him fairly annoying.

Like finding a maggot in your dinner 

And that's another excellent reason that every last MP should be fed the very same lunches...

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Remember trolls just troll, there's no rhyme or reason it's just sheer bloody mindedness to get on your goat and get a rise out of you.

They especially attack treasured beliefs and undermine them.

There was a cult here in Christchurch that was called Z.A.P., Zenith Applied Philosophy, which used this technique as a way to break people's minds through proving to them that all they hold dear is actually not true and then after they collapse mentally they go into a state of fugue (a period during which a person experiences loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase) and can be reprogrammed into believing anything.  Z.A.P. used this to get people working for very low wages in their Fried Chicken Outlets in the Square and Carlton Corner whilst they sorted themselves out again after the mind zap and got back on track admittedly altered and never the same again.  (The Dog House, Farmer John's Chicken House)

It works because all beliefs are just that, beliefs, knowing is the thing that's harder to destroy in anyone's mind, it goes: thinking, believing, knowing.

The leader of the cult had people driving past his place somewhere on the way to the University of Canterbury, in Fendalton I believe, shooting shot guns through the walls.  (John Dalhoff (aka John Ultimate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Applied_Philosophy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalhoff

There's a bit more if you search for Zenith Applied Philosophy on Google.

Doesn't sound much like NZ does it?

When I was on my way to Christchurch I think it was when I was in transit in Durban and I had a conversation with someone in the bar of a hotel and one of the things they said to me was:  Look Out For The Cults in NZ there is lots of them.  They also said back in the past that Christchurch was known as Sin City.  I guess that would have been in the hay days of Lyttleton Port before the advent of container ships shut a lot of the pubs down.

Crazy really but it happened.

I vaguely remember hearing  about them, & there was another called The Divine Light Mission I think it was. Heard a bit  about  both, enough  to steer well clear.