Cults
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| GreenFlySoup Jackass  Age: 39 Gender: Female Posts: 1163 | yeah, it's like the whole thing about if you say something enough you start to believe it. That's why victims of abuse think it's their fault they are being abused  Luckily i've never been in a cult like situation - unless you count GSB haha |
| † Lestat † Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 847 | *Redundant*Rebel*: I know and she was born into her cult so she thought it was normal from the start of her life which i think is sick |
| Effy Addict  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 13565 | I reaD something about it yesterday but I cant really remember (  ) but I will look it up, some were really creepy.... |
| Anji Basket Case  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 15914  | If Helter Skelter comes back, I'm going into hiding. |
| redheadtrouble Basket Case Age: - Gender: - Posts: 15155 | *Murderdolls*:it was their choice... there responsible....exept for the kids...most of them probally didnt know what was happening |
| † Lestat † Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 847 | redheadtrouble: You obviously dont understand what a cult is, you think they choose to work 11 hours and day and be raped and abused everyday? They are brainwashed and if you were in that situation i doubt very much that you would of had control over it |
| † Lestat † Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 847 | GreenFlySoup: I know the way they feel they need to punish themselves like that or at all is horrible |
| skanking Brit Falling In Love With The Board Age: 34 Gender: - Posts: 5427 | I heard about that. The people who commited suicide. I think that they're stupid for believing that guy. |
| girl almighty GSBitch  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 76615 | I'm a Name Changing Whore: but they're fed so many lies and things they come to believe it. i know what you mean cos when i read it i thought "how thick can you get?!" but they must come to believe it cos they're told so much |
| † Lestat † Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 847 | I'm a Name Changing Whore: No thats not the case at all the guy makes you believe its right its called brainwashing there isnt any way you can control your own mind once you are in a cult you think like you are in a cult |
| Automatic man King For A Couple Of Days Age: - Gender: - Posts: 2415 | Anji: There's a pretty good bad religion song about it. http://www.badreligion.com/media/ its anesthesia from all ages...actually first from against the grain...but yeah that was weird...Oh yeah, did the beatles song come out before or after they wrote that on the walls? |
| GreenDayIsBetter Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 662 | Cults don't have to be a bad thing. When people think of a cult they think of freaky people who control your every move and make you kill yourself. That's not a modern-day cult. I think religion is a cult. My mother would kill me for saying that but it is. It doens't have to be a bad thing. Those who believe in God (which I do) are sort of part of a cult. They are FOLLOWING someone and in a sense doing what the "person" tells them to do. We follow the ten commandments (or try to anyway) and that's following what he wants us to do. That's sort of like a cult. So.. basically I think cults can be a bad thing and I think they can also be everything. Not necessarily bad.. that's just my take.. |
| † Lestat † Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 847 | GreenDayIsBetter: Yeah i see your point i think religion is one of the biggest cults out there but it is a positive one and people still have free will and can still think for themselves |
| †foresaken †Geek Age: - Gender: - Posts: 200 | Depends what is defined as a cult. Everything is a cult really. All religions loads of stuff with a following is a cult. Green Day have probably go their own cult. |
| ->Insert Name Here< Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 513 | yay somthing i know about, i recently did an assignment on cults "...one person's cult is another's religion; all religions begin life as cults. An alternative definition is that a cult is a religion which you happen to dislike." Anthony Campbell i found this quote amusing |
| ->Insert Name Here< Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 513 | i have stuff on this cult called the family. Here is a brief introduction if you wanna know more just ask. The Family is a high-demand faith group that requires great personal sacrifice on the part of its members. They emphasize Jesus' teachings against loyalties to one's family-of-origin. They stress Jesus' preaching in favour of poverty and a simple life. The group merges traditional Evangelical Christian beliefs and practices with the belief in universal salvation, contacts with spirits, communal living, and free love among adults within the group. They are a favourite target of the counter-cult movement who attack its unorthodox theological beliefs. They are also attacked by the anti-cult movement who accuse it of mind control and criminal sexual practices. The latter accusations appear to be unfounded. |
| †foresaken †Geek Age: - Gender: - Posts: 200 | i'd like to know more about cults actually... |
| ->Insert Name Here< Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 513 | ok then let me get more info |
| ->Insert Name Here< Idiot Age: - Gender: - Posts: 513 | ok here is an example of a dooms day cult its very long. Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) INTRODUCTION: The Aum Shinri Kyo is a destructive, doomsday cult centred in Japan. Their name is a combination of Aum, which is a sacred Hindu syllable, and Shinri Kyo, which means "supreme truth". It appears to be a syncretistic religion, founded in 1987, and combining elements of Buddhism with Christianity. Buddhist leaders in Japan have rejected it as a legitimate Buddhist faith group. On 18/01/2000, Aum Shinri Kyo changed its name to Aleph. ORIGIN/AGE: Its leader, Shoko Asahara was born in 1955 as Chizuo Matsumoto, the son of a tatami straw mat maker. He was partially blind at birth, and attended a school for the blind. As an adult, he was an acupuncturist. In the early 1980's, he opened a folk medicine shop. Later, he established a school for yoga. Then he travelled to the Himalayas to study Buddhism and Hinduism. This led him to organize the Aum Shinri Kyo in 1987. Asahara is regarded as Christ by his followers. Using the book of Revelation from the Christian Scriptures, and the writings of a 16th Century Christian astrologer, Nostradamus, he has predicted major disasters to occur in the final years of this millennium. TEACHING/PHILOSOPHY: Asahara claims that he has travelled forward to the year 2006 and has talked to people who have survived World War III. Asahara called for the group to fight in a final world revolution against the enemies of Japan, including the US. The group established a number of chemical factories and stockpiled various chemicals, as preparation for this Armageddon. There have been allegations that Asahara had ordered the assassination of at least one of his followers. POPULATION: His group reached a peak membership of about 20,000 worldwide. Many of them were drawn to the group because of a promise that they would develop supernatural powers; others were attracted by the group's rejection of the corruption and materialism that they saw throughout modern Japan. The government failed in 1997-JAN to have the group disbanded. A legal panel ruled that there were insufficient grounds to believe that it remained a threat to the public with only 1,000 full and part time members. Estimates of the number of members in the group vary widely from 1,000 to 5,000. During 1997-AUG, the Japanese Public Security Investigation Agency announced that the AUM has established 10 new "departments" and reopened five regional chapters and one training centre. They now have 26 facilities in Japan. PLACE OF WORSHIP/RITUALS: Many arbitrary, strict rules of behaviour were enforced on the membership. They were explained as being part of an ancient tradition. Supreme Truth emphasized a siege mentality: that outside groups, including the national governments were intent on destroying their organization. CRIME/ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES: A study by the New York Times revealed that the cult had also mounted at least nine biological attacks on different installations in Japan. Targets included the Legislature, the Imperial Palace, and the U.S. base at Yokosuka. Cult members sprayed microbes and germ toxins from rooftops and convoys of trucks. The attacks failed; they resulted in no known deaths. It appears that the germs that they were able to obtain lacked sufficient virulence. Asahara was placed on trial for the spreading of a nerve gas, Sarin, in a Tokyo subway station on 1995-MAR-20. The gas killed 12 passengers and injured over 5000. US Senate testimony revealed that if those responsible had not made errors in preparation and dispersion of the gas, that many thousands of innocent subway patrons would have been killed, and untold thousands injured. Over 100 Aum members have been charged. Trials are expected to last up to 10 years. The government is attempting to outlaw the cult under their Anti-Subversive Activities Law. Membership had dropped to about 7,000. Ikuo Hayashi, "Dr. Death,� is a formal medical specialist of the Aum group. He was found guilty of spreading deadly gas in the Tokyo subway system. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment. His "apparent remorse and his co-operation in the investigation were believed to have influenced the decision to punish him with life imprisonment instead of the death penalty." (Japan is one of only two democracies in the world that still retain the death penalty; the other country is the U.S.) In 1998-OCT, Kazuaki Okazaki, a founding member of the Supreme Truth group was found guilty of conspiring with five other group members in the murder of lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, his wife Satoko and their baby son Tatsuhiko in 1989-NOV. He was also found guilty of killing Shuji Taguchi, a member of the cult, in 1999-FEB. Okazaki was scheduled to be executed. Rika Matsumoto, third daughter of group leader Shoko Asahara has now taken charge of the cult. The group apparently believes that she has great spiritual abilities because she was born after her father was "enlightened" in 1982. |
| phobilemone Falling In Love With The Board Age: - Gender: - Posts: 7221 | *Redundant*Rebel*: it probably is! the part where it said "Special kool-aid-formula potion" cracked me up so badly!!!  !!! |
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