So many cults have been popping up in my social circles, among really smart and emotionally mature people I know, what the hell is happening? Have cults always been going on this strong or is there something new in the water?
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They look like quaint, unusual communities run by charismatic leaders with norms different from the regular population, often with really good ideas and inspirational teachings
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yea no one actually “joins a cult”... people join what they think is a good thing some time later, the other shoe drops
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Sure, but without specific objections to specific practices, it can become an awfully convenient label to throw around. The Branch Davidians had what I would see as some pretty f'd up beliefs and practices. But was the real tragedy that, or gov decision to go in guns blazing?
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I've been pretty hesitant to call things cults, as I'm very open and often really love communities that fuck around with norms and look real weird. I'm not using the term lightly here - 3/4 of the cults I know of have ppl who reported getting serious trauma from the experiences
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Yeah, no offense but this is kind of what I'm objecting to here. "The outgroup is a cult." Are you sure they're just not people with different beliefs and practices than you?
End of conversation
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Or from the inside? :)
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I have often mused about what it would be like to try and start a cult that was just like, "Hello, we are a cult." I think it would be almost impossible to have a cult that was honest about being a cult, because being a proper cult almost 100% requires denying it.
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