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The guy pictured, Marshall Applewhite, wanted to fuck dudes and was ashamed of it so he got castrated. Then, after his best friend and cult's co-founder died, he convinced a bunch of people that the world was going to end and the only way they could survive was by committing suicide so that their souls could leave on an alien spaceship hidden behind Hailey's comet as it passed by. Nobody can know what he was thinking but I'd wager he was just depressed and didn't want to die alone.
I'm more interested in wtf everyone else was thinking.
Scientology somehow managed to reach cult "escape velocity" and survive the death of its leader.
Oh no this can't be true this would exclude major religions which are cults as well
Ehh ... The definition of a cult includes things like isolating you from your friends and family, and having secret teachings that only the initiated have access to. I.e. the Freemasons: secret teachings, but does not try to isolate you from friends and family. Secret society, but not a cult. Religion is a cult in terms of the original sense of the word: organised worship, but not a cult as we think of them. Though some subsets definitely do get pretty culty. Don't know about these days, but when I was at university the Campus Crusaders for Christ definitely had the love-bombing and isolating you from your friends and family going on.
Excuse you, in a religion the person at the top is dead.
I saw an analysis of cults that have turned into religions - that is, outlived their founder. There's some very specific criteria that need to be met in order for it to endure, must critically it needs a charismatic reformer/organizer to take over when the founder dies.
There is one cult I would welcome the ritual suicide of.
They’re just about at 10 years now.
I had to think for a while.
You had a thought? Congrats, you're not in the cult
That's just what a woke gay commie deep state libtard would say!
This guy has a Kool aid stain on his upper lip
Gimme dat gay space communism
Don't besmirch the Kool aid, it was actually flavoraid. Motherfuckers couldn't even fork out for the name brand had to go with the knockoff.
“State?!” D:<
I’m surprised by how quickly I went from “who tf could they be referring to?” to “Oh, well yeah, that would make a great deal of sense.”
The problems with that cult is that it would suicide the rest of us along with them
They did nearly have a Fringe of them do it a few years back
they seem to be wanting to ritual suicide entire countries now.
Humans are super susceptible to charisma, tribalism, and dogma
it's really just americans (and maybe places heavily influenced by america ideologically I dunno) they really aren't a major problem elsewhere noone really joins cults in the uk
China had a serious problem with cults, while Japan and Korea are heavily influenced by America, I don't see that reflected in their cults.
Its not like the UK is less influenced by America than places were the average person has seen like 1 American TV show or movie.
Isn't/wasn't the Jesus Army cult UK based? Like, the USA just has a LOT more people than the UK does, it makes sense for there to be more people that fall into fringe groups. But the UK certainly isn't immune to it.
Poor education, lack of a culture of walking/socializing/eating in cities (overall different city life) and the isolation of suburban car life encouraging engagement only in your preferred echo chambers /// living in the middle of nowhere seems like an amazing recipe to make many Americans predisposed to cults way more than many other countries/world
I've never heard of them but it's always annoying whenever someone says something is worse in america americans will go "hurr durr america bigger so more thing happen" as though the rest of the world isn't aware of per capita measurements it's not just numerically a way higher percentage of americans join cults a lot of americans are predisposed to extreme religious views and searching for solutions to societal problems in religion like here that just really isn't normal here most people aren't that religious and it's considered really weird and abnormal for someone to think a rapture or whatever will be the solution to a societal problem people would just laugh at you cults don't get taken seriously here they're funny
And for the majority of Americans cults just get laughed at as well. At least until it started leaking into politics, but that is being seen in many other countries now, too.
A lot of Americans are doing horrible things, and there definitely is something about the culture here that affects that, as you don't see the mass shooting and school shooting issues in other parts of the world as strongly. But coming at this saying that it doesn't really happen outside of the USA and that it doesn't happen in the UK is just ridiculous. If you make a statement that infers you don't understand per capital, then you'll get a reply making that rebuttal.
I literally did not say they don't happen I said they're not a major problem they're really rare and don't get very big here
Lots of cults, probably most of them, exists far beyond the ten years range unfortunately.
The largest cults last a long time. Most cults consist of 2 people, a leader and a follower, and fizzle out when the acid wears off.
Yeah, some of the biggest ones have existed for about 2000 years now or a bit longer
right, and they don't fuck your wives, but your kids
If you last longer you become a cultural heritage issue and are delegated away from cult status
I would be a fool if I gave all my money to a charlatan, and I'm no fool. That proves that Jesus IV is the real deal.
I don't know, sounds kind of fun.
The charisma thing though, that ain't happening