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#DeProgram (v.) #UnBrainWash also deprogramme, "release from cult brainwashing," 1973, from de- + program (v.). Related: Deprogrammed; deprogramming. https://johndenugent.com/holocaust-deprogramming-course/ #Program (v.) #BrainWash 1889, "write program notes" (a sense now obsolete); 1896 as "arrange according to program," from program (n.). Of computers, "cause to be automatically regulated in a prescribed way" from 1945; this was extended to animals by 1963 in the figurative sense of "to train to behave in a predetermined way;" of humans by 1966. Related: Programmed; programming. #PreProgram (v.) ( #PredictivePrograming also pre-program, "program (a computer, etc.) beforehand," 1955, from pre- "before" + program (v.). Related: Preprogrammed; preprogramming. cult (n.) My Definition: Cutting Yourself Off From Outside Information. Insularity. PURE Blue-Pilled Echo-Chamberism. 1610s, "worship, homage" (a sense now obsolete); 1670s, "a particular form or system of worship;" from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony). The word was rare after 17c., but it was revived mid-19c. (sometimes in French form culte) with reference to ancient or primitive systems of religious belief and worship, especially the rites and ceremonies employed in such worship. Extended meaning "devoted attention to a particular person or thing" is from 1829. Cult is a term which, as we value exactness, we can ill do without, seeing how completely religion has lost its original signification. [Fitzedward Hall, "Modern English," 1873] Cult. An organized group of people, religious or not, with whom you disagree. [Hugh Rawson, "Wicked Words," 1993]

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