#22

i’m in a cult

the cult of

penge

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#23

My reasoning:

  • Members of my parents religion cannot write books about it without central vetting, independent publishers have been shut down even though they were compliant
  • zero tolerance for breaking away from the main organisation to start a different branch, legal action and being labelled in a similar way to Scientology’s supressive person
  • having a similar concept to Scientology’s surppresive person
  • not allowed to get involved in partisan politics
  • generally very insular
#24

Once, standing in a field, listening to The Cult.

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#25

this sounds very much like a cult, i’ll be honest with you.

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#26

Made it all the way to altar server when I was a Catholic but decided I didn’t believe in God when I got to confirmation age

Was in marching band at school and that was very cult-like

Also used to be a Frank Turner fan

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#27

That Idles group on Facebook is an… interesting place

#28

Doesn’t have a charismatic leader, and is fairly benevolent, still is bad though, people who think they have the answers to everything even though they are not allowed to think about anything, just kind of diverts well meaning people into a cul de sac.

Forgot

  • rewrites it’s own history when things don’t go as planned, ie world peace by the year 2000
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#29

No one guess the religion, it blatantly Googles itself and I don’t want a shunning

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#30

Balonzism

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#31

jedi

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#32

Being a hormonal teenager with low self confidence means I REALLY got into stuff if I liked it. That was the peak time to sign up for a cult but other than being a massive fan girl of everything I swerved cults.

My mum and dad did buy a new Hoover in the 90s to get the free holiday and had go go to cult-like timeshare meetings as a result. My mum and her boyfriend accidentally were locked into a pub during an IRA meeting which could seem a bit cult like if you’re not allowed to leave. And I was stuck in a van/hotel/in the outback with 2 ex convicts and no way out once I realised and whilst this wasn’t a cult I had to sort of play along that I didn’t know (and look away whenever the driver opened the glovebox to reveal a gun) so it was the closest I can think.

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#33

Got NLP pushed on me in a big way by my previous employers

#34

Sounds like a great place to work

(looks down and to the left)

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#35

But in regards to the latter me and my friend had to lock ourselves in the bathroom and sleep in there one night because the company that sent us all on the road trip only booked one room for all 4 of us. So actually that was closer to being in a horror film really.

Edit: the company were just 2 guys who sent us collecting for charity outside supermarkets in remote towns and we once discovered a room in their office or house or whatever weird set up it was that was quite literally filled with porn magazines and videos. This is getting far more sinister in retrospect than I thought at the time. The company was called Western Australia Deaf Recreation Society if anyone is thinking which companies to never work for in their lives.

#36

One of my best friends was their manager during this period of time (and until pretty recently) and I think the fan cult for this was one of the most culty I have ever witnessed! Another friend of mine got sucked in and was shooting up heroin into his groin and between his toes in a matter of weeks. (I was maybe a wee bit in the cult too).

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#37

Lol at all you Roundearthers. Come just us “normies”

#38

(not the smack cult. Just the shambles adoration thing.)

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#39

I found a building in Guildford that looked like a cult, did a bit of googling and it did seem to be linked to the international house of prayer from Kansas which seems proper culty, was investigating the sign up process when the Krispy Kreme donuts WiFi login took over my phone. I’m probably quite susceptible to cults so this may have saved me

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#40

Someone I went to university with, her dad ran a cult - one of those evangelical Christian ones that mainly targets African immigrants. There were a couple of blogs from escapees detailing how the church fleeced members of all their money, which suddenly made all the trips to 5* central London hotels her family took make a bit more sense. Think he went to prison in the end.

#41

A guy my friend dated was also sucked in like this! He went on tour with them as their “official tattoist” lol. He was really bad at tattooes and the next time I saw him he just looked like had done a ton of heroin and his shop on Oldham St shut down soon after.

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