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You have just learned how ambitious they are at promoting their church in order recruit new members. They are out there everyday selling their beliefs to the public, and certain fools will literally buy it...with both their money and their lives. Most of the persons that they are able to recruit are unintelligent to begin with, but this is often because they are very young, but they are often uneducated past highschool, they are naive, superstitious, and overall weak-minded.
Regardless of who they get, the fact is, the 4th Watch is very active and successful in their recruitment and they are gaining new members every day. Fortunately, we happen to know that they also lose members quite often, no doubt because there are persons in the church who are able to figure out that they joined a cult. However, the 4th Watch is unfortunately gaining more members than it is losing. In any case, the 4th Watch knows that they lose members a lot, but the idea is to snatch them at the right time when they are most susceptible to the programming that they will receive as a member. And even if they do leave before they are able to be programmed, at least it is possible to have gotten some money from them before they left.
If the 4th Watch is successful in their promotion of their cult, and if they manage to get you into their church, you are seen as a potential new member, and unbeknownst to such persons, the cult has already place their grip around you. Potential new members will go through a pre-initiation process to help tighten that grip. They will show you an unusual amount of kindness, and you will think that you've just meant the nicest persons in the world. This is a mild form what's known in the cultic world as "love bombing". They will try to make you feel as comfortable as possible and will do all they can to make you want to stay and become an official member.
If such a person falls victim to this pre-initiation, and the potential member decides to join the church, then they must go through an actual initiation process. As you might be able to imagine, the addition of a new member is always a big deal, because it means more potential money for the cult, and another potential person who will be good at recruiting more members that will bring in even more money. Because of this, 4th Watchers do all that they can to keep you.
The very first thing that you will experience as someone who just decided to join is an unusual sudden and abundant bursting of love being shown by all of the members towards you; often crushing you with hugs, and even smothering you with kisses. This is a more expanded form of love bombing. The cult will try to make a new recruit feel like they are part of the family; referring to you as "brother" or "sister". With this new love bombing attempt, it is easy, especially with the types of persons that the cult usually recruits, to fall into this trap and develop a sense of belonging and ultimately an emotional dependency. All of this helps to ensure that you've "made the right decision".
New members must go through a strange yet commonly practiced ritual in Christianity known as "baptism" in order to be official "children of God". During a 4th Watch baptism, you are placed within some body of water, such as a lake or a bathtub. A 4th Watch pastor says some meaningless prayer, and then tells you to hold your nose, and then pushes you back so that your whole body is under the water. After a few seconds, you are let back out and the baptism is over. According to the cult, you are now an official child of God who is eligible now to go to Heaven when they die. During all of this, some 4th Watchers in the background might be singing a song.
After baptism, the main part of a new member's training begins. Training must begin immediately to help ensure that you never break free from the tight grip that the church now has on you. However, training is a somewhat slow process because you have to break them in properly. The cult knows that new members will often not be accepting of the cult's whacky beliefs and practices, so members are introduced to these concepts gradually. Part of the training process is teaching members about the 4th Watch doctrine, while using lies and logical fallacies to teach. But the most important part of training comes from their programming. In fact, programming for new members already began the minute they walked in the church, that being the love bombing. After all, the sooner they are programmed, the quicker they make money.
But while new recruits are beginning their training, there is sometimes a more sad and potentially heart-breaking technique employed by the 4th Watch during this initiative process. It is a cultic practice that involves the leader or head pastor secretly "assigning" a friend to the new member. This person who has been assigned to be this new member's friend might actually be quite nice and might even want to legitimately be their friend, but being your friend is not their priority.
The main job of this secret friend is to act like they're your friend, to act as a personal "love bomb" in addition to all of the group love bombing already taking place. Their other main job is to help conform you to the cult and to make you more dependent on the cult by being dependent on your new friend. And very unfortunately, the other main job of this great new friend of yours is to basically spy on you. They have befriended you so that they can get to know you, to know your weaknesses, how to better program you, or they might try to figure out how much money you have and how much they might get out of you. All of this information is secretly reported back to the leader or head pastor. You might even confide in this friend and tell them secrets, but nothing you tell this person is safe.
This entire concept of having a secret friend is so sad and heart-breaking because you really believe that you have a close friend, and then later on, if you're lucky, realize that they were never a friend at all, only a spy and operative working for the leader to learn about you and to break you. It is one of the more shameful acts of the 4th Watch. One day, if you stay with the cult long enough, you might become one of these secret friends. And another sad thing about this, is that by this time you have become so well programmed that you wouldn't even see anything wrong with doing it. In fact, the leader or pastor might actually make you feel like it is an "honor"; Very shameful indeed.
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