know anyone in a cult?

[FUNKMAN]

and what do you think about them?

i went to a local luncheonette(sp?) and ordered my food and went to wash up. when i got back there was a lady 'let's say' in her early 60's sitting in the next seat at the counter.

we got to talking and it turns out her son has been being 'punished' by the cult he belongs to. he's been banned for the last 6 months. he has been sent away from the group while his wife and children remain living in the community. she said the group believes in God and the Trinity. her son will not reveal to his mom why he got sent away. She also says he is a very good computer technician but the group won't allow him to work in that field and also do not like his current occupation. the mom feels he is 'on the fence' with his beliefs but it looks like the wife has bought in whole-heartedly.

the mom and dad had once visited the community and they said that they had put on a very friendly front.

i didn't get the exact name of this group.

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[Heavy]

Maybe they were gay

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I was raised Protestant.

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[jamesdiggy]

I know a guy in a cult that currently has 12,798 members, but I can't mention any names in order to protect the innocent.

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[JohnnyCash]

I know a guy who was raised in a religious cult. He left as soon as he was old enough cause they were crazy. His parents and sister still belong to it though.

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[TheMojoPin]

Only a cult of personality.

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[serVice]

i've wanted to belong to a cult for a long time now; theres so many upsides and very little downsides as far i see. Free room and board, food and just overall life in general. i wouldn't have to sit around bored because all my activities would be planned out already, and wouldn't have any stress really, because all my decisions would already be made and i'd have no bills to pay. Plus, if i was lucky, it would be the kind of cult that hooks me up with a chick, so i would have almost no work to do in order to get a chick, she'd already be betrothed to me, plus she'd have to be loyal to me. And then theres the clothes; already provided, and i'd never have to do any laundry, because there'd already be someone to do it.
On the downside, theres the whole mass suicide thing, but after so many years in the cult, i'd be so used to it, i don't think i'd want to go back to normal life. And in this day and age, mass suicides are very rare in a cult.

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[CrazyClare]

no but I saw one on Law and Order:Criminal Intent. So I almost feel like I do.

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either love me or leave me alone.

[Mike Teacher]

i've wanted to belong to a cult for a long time now; theres so many upsides and very little downsides as far i see.


Possible Downsides:

-Having a standoff with the government at your compound in Texas, and dying.

-Drinking Kool-Aid laced with Potassium Cyanide with 900 of your fellow members, and dying.

-Have a couple vodkas to wash down the barbituates you and your friends took; so you can wake up somewhere else, having left the earth in your Nike's and $5 mony in your pocket, and dying.

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[Mike Teacher]

The house sits on 400+ acres. There is not another house like this for miles around. This is the most rural part of West Virginia. When you enter, there is a small bridge with `MOONIES GO HOME!' scrawled on it. We hear the locals visit at night, drunk, yelling at the place.

We sleep about 8 to a room; a total group of 40; who share 2 bathrooms; for weeks. We are asked not to leave the grounds for the duration. Water is available. Hot water is available. Maybe. Sometimes. There is no heating or air conditioning. There is one phone in the house. There are no computers, TVs, radios, or tape recorders in the house.
We prepare and cook and clean all meals. Everything macrobiotic, made from scratch, even using the 15th century Jesuit bread recipe.

We begin each day at 5am by sitting silently for 30 minutes. The day usually ends after midnight. Silence often visits during meals. It may become silent for up to 90 minutes at a time.

Work is about 8-12 hours a day. Sometimes we work by doing nothing in a circle. 40 people in a circle, sitting, doing nothing, as hard as they can. Often when working in the circle; doing something as opposed to nothing, there are people who use the Alexander Technique on you. They begin by touching you, laying on hands. We might practice the idea of Contact At a Distance.


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[Arienette]

i knew this girl who got involved in what i would consider a cult. bisexual, did a bunch of recreational drugs, she was a nice girl. in high school, we went to israel for a week or two, and she decided that she wanted to get more religious. that's fine. but then after she graduated, she went off to israel to start attending some "school". within a couple of months, she had changed her name, stopped communicating with any of her friends who weren't jewish, and kept trying to get me to come there and join her. about a month after all that, she wrote to tell me that she was getting married. not only was the guy more than 15 years older than her, she had met him maybe two or three times. basically, the school people had decided that she was "ready" to get married. she invited me to the wedding, and asked that i come a little earlier so we could.. umm.. do stuff before she was married. so, that showed me that she hadn't really changed so much, it wasn't like she'd really completely reformed into this super religious person. the whole thing was really sad and really creepy. i havent spoken to her in years now. she's about 26 now, and probably has about that many kids.

so, yeah, cults are bad.

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[furie]

I dated a girl who was an ex-mormon. that's close


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[ADF]

i've wanted to belong to a cult for a long time now; theres so many upsides and very little downsides as far i see. Free room and board, food and just overall life in general. i wouldn't have to sit around bored because all my activities would be planned out already, and wouldn't have any stress really, because all my decisions would already be made and i'd have no bills to pay. Plus, if i was lucky, it would be the kind of cult that hooks me up with a chick, so i would have almost no work to do in order to get a chick, she'd already be betrothed to me, plus she'd have to be loyal to me. And then theres the clothes; already provided, and i'd never have to do any laundry, because there'd already be someone to do it.


Sounds like jail, only you'd be provided with some guy named Bubba for a lifemate instead of a chick.

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[nycenice]

I was in the international church of christ and at the time i didn't think i was in a cult. they kept rushing me to get baptised and be a disciple i had put it off for months cuase i wasn't wholly up to never cursing flirting listening to rap music. not to mention i can't love anything more than my family which they insisted i do. anyway finally they gave me a confrantation meeting where they all described my faults as they saw it and that totally turned me away from it. Afterward i found out they started telling people long hair is not alot allowed and telling people to cut it or be out i was thankful i didn't stay there till then. but for anyone thinking bout making a cult on day don't do confrantation meetings they don't work

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[monsterone]

i went to college near a Bruderhof (http://www.bruderhof.com/us/index.htm) comminity. i thought they were amish like until i was in a bar and sat next to a drunk and a guy from the community and they got into it about them not paying taxes.

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Survivor really is a great book. That was one of my first thoughts when i opened this.

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