And it looked like she married the guy so he could get citizenship in the country or something and he probably was paying her for it.

They weren’t remotely accusatory, Hannah. I talked to Shana several times and expressed a very sincere and genuine curiosity about SSM and a willingness to hear what drew you guys to it (and in your case I would’ve asked about your partnership with International).

they all write (and I’d imagine, by extension, think) in the exact same style and tone, which could simply mean that a certain sub-type of person is attracted to this group, or it could mean this group creates a very specific sub-type of person.

At what level (and at what cost) does the Superstar Machine bestow the arcane knowledge of paragraph breaks? Because the SSM posters in these comments are posting some completely-unreadable walls of texts up in here.

Also: “Hot School teaches women how to be damn hot. Like, really smokin hot, to men.” You say that like…

What about anal sex, a la pegging? Because... hey, that’s still anal sex and I have to admit, it *does* make me feel like a true, fierce, powerful woman. :P

I’m pretty sure I’m gonna find out my ex has started a cult someday. He’s really good at “that”.

How someone even hears the phrase “International Hot School” and doesn’t collapse on the floor laughing is beyond me. Dude can’t even name things right.

So much funny in four paragraphs. “whose palette contains thousands of years of mystic tradition...” Written like a true mystic. A 13-year-old mystic with a spiral notebook and a sparkle gel pen.

I got thrown out of a cult once, and it was BRILLIANT! These things are awful and just... I wish more people would speak their mind IN the meetings. I was invited to one (now that I think on it, I do wonder if it wasn’t mostly women), and they told everyone that the source of our problems stemmed from trauma inside…

I’m surprised to hear him described as an “unlikely looking” guru, because he looks exactly like I’d picture a smug, middle-age self-defined guru who tries to control younger women.

If someone was going to found a cult based on Divine, it would sure be better than this.

I swear to god the dude cannot do ONE FUCKING THING like a normal person.

Thought he studied the Constitution?
HELLO THE *PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS*!

Dear Pink Repblican Gun Ladies.

Leaders say “we” when accepting credit but “I” when taking blame. (Think about every bland post-game QB or head coach interview you’ve ever heard.) Politicians say “I” when accepting credit and “we” when grudgingly acknowledging a failure. And, even if I agreed with you, that gets us to “...we exercised poor judgment”…

I still can’t believe a human being has the real name “Lockhart Steele.”

It’s both parts of the joke.

You are kinder than me to be able to feel anything at all for him. I am completely numb to mine. He left my mama and all 4 of us kids for some trashy bitch at work, literally closed all credit and bank accounts left us with NOTHING. My mama had always been a stay at home mom so no resume to speak of and employers are…

Maybe around this time? So adorable.

So if I do the math right, she hasn’t spoken to her son since he was 16? That’s a little more than not wanting to “take him away from his father.”