Should I Join a Cult?

[Jetfire]

https://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5632306/should_you_join_a_cult.html?cat=3

Reason NOT to join a cult: You could be brainwashed.
Reason to join a cult: Might have had a dirty mind to begin with.

Reason NOT to join a cult: The leader will have sex with your wife or girlfriend.
Reason to join a cult: The leader spending time with your wife or girlfriend frees you up for watching more football.

Reason to join a cult: Boost your social life, become a part of something larger.
Reason NOT to join a cult: There are plenty of more popular and established cults that you can join. They're called "religions".

Reason NOT to join a cult: Might result in financial ruin.
Reason to join a cult: Might get your favorite actor's autograph.

Reason NOT to join a cult: Bigoted outsiders will accuse you of drunken sex orgies.
Reason to join a cult: Drunken sex orgies.

 

[JonathonWally]

I started my own cult.

 

[pookha]

science fiction in its own way is a cult.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Religion, cult, it's a fine line.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I've often considered starting my own cult. I say a lot of profound things-- I deserve to lay around in a toga, surrounded by naked female acolytes.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Woah! Religions are all cults? Cool!

Since I'm already a Roman Catholic, when do I automatically get a girlfriend who I have to share with my priest, get Charlton Heston's autograph, and have drunken sex orgies?

I'm really looking forward to the drunken Catholic sex orgies!

 

[RandyS]

We're all born into a cult. It's called the Human Race. That"s the biggest cult there is.

 

[Tan Ru]

Star Trek IS a cult.

We're already members of the best cult ever!

Share the message!!

 

[TheBrew]

I started my own cult.

Then where were the sex orgies during the meetups?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Let's ask the expert.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AopWqv-eQFM[/yt]

 

[Holdfast]

Reason to join a cult: Free Kool-Aid
Reason NOT to join a cult: May taste funny

 

[JonathonWally]

I'm really looking forward to the drunken Catholic sex orgies!

That was the single best part of a lifetime of Catholic school.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

You're already in a cult. You're here aren't you. Room for one more honey.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Woah! Religions are all cults? Cool!

Not all religions. But some like to disguise themselves as religions when they're really cults, like Scientology for example.

 

[shivkala]

Let's ask the expert.

That's exactly what I was thinking of when I read this thread. That, and the Movementarians.

"Church, cult, cult, church. So we get bored someplace else every Sunday. Does this really change our day to day lives? "

 

[Jetfire]

Reason NOT to join a cult: Might become involved in criminal misdeeds.
Reason to join a cult: Might become the subject of a popular band's music or may boost sales of your artwork.

(From https://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5632306/should_you_join_a_cult.html?cat=3 )

 

[scotpens]

Not all religions. But some like to disguise themselves as religions when they're really cults, like Scientology for example.

As far as I can see, the only differences between a cult and a religion are numbers, social acceptability, and influence. After all, wasn't Christianity originally a Jewish cult that followed a heretic Jew who said he was the Messiah?

I'm really looking forward to the drunken Catholic sex orgies!

That was the single best part of a lifetime of Catholic school.

You know what they say about Catholic girls -- when they let go, they REALLY let go!

 

[Owain Taggart]

Not all religions. But some like to disguise themselves as religions when they're really cults, like Scientology for example.

As far as I can see, the only differences between a cult and a religion are numbers, social acceptability, and influence. After all, wasn't Christianity originally a Jewish cult that followed a heretic Jew who said he was the Messiah?

I don't really think you got what I was saying. It's one thing to follow a god, as it's legitimate. It's another thing entirely to follow some hooey that disguises itself as religion and brainwashes people into thinking it's a true religion, and then tries to get the person disassociated with anyone who doesn't believe in it. Scientology's an example of this kind of thing. It's a cult made popular by a famous author and doesn't have much basis in anything, yet it likes to disguise itself as a religion. Very expensive to get in, and very hard to get out of apparently.

 

[Admiral Shran]

I'm really looking forward to the drunken Catholic sex orgies!

That was the single best part of a lifetime of Catholic school.

Dammit all! I knew I shouldn't have gone to public schools.

Scientology's an example of this kind of thing. It's a cult made popular by a famous author and doesn't have much basis in anything, yet it likes to disguise itself as a religion. Very expensive to get in, and very hard to get out of apparently.

Not apparently, just ask Katie Holmes.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I would LIKE to join a cult, but don't know how to find them...