The Hot-Seat Technique. Imagine you enter a dimly-lit room inside the cult compound and you see the cult members sitting in a large circle around a centrally-located chair. At the summons of the leader, an individual cult member slowly rises, walks toward the chair, and sits. The leader says, "Tell us your shortcomings this week, Aaron. Purify yourself by confessing to us all." And so Aaron thinks, and then begins to speak. "Well, I doubted our teachings about the afterlife for a few moments on Monday. And I felt base sexual desire toward a woman on Tuesday. . ." and so on. His confession is met with a combination of alternating disapproval for his confessions and praise for "coming clean" by the rest of the group. As Aaron becomes overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of his hideous sins, he begins to weep, and is exhorted by the leader to improve himself, to resist doubts and base urges, etc., and redirects Aaron's confessional into an extemporaneous exhortation to the group, which largely humiliates Aaron, while simultaneously lauding him for his confession.
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Originally Posted by Pannonian
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