Comments on: Join a Cult Online: How I Joined, Started & Finally Recovered http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pipiro http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-386008 pipiro Mon, 11 May 2009 11:51:58 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-386008 guys Cult is not encouraging to any one at all so stop preaching about it guys Cult is not encouraging to any one at all so stop preaching about it

]]> By: Felix http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-382516 Felix Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:34:05 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-382516 Like 2 join a cult Like 2 join a cult

]]> By: mchlbk http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-382043 mchlbk Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:31:34 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-382043 HAHAHA! :D HAHAHA! :D

]]> By: Guy McDowell http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-382011 Guy McDowell Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:05:18 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-382011 The Sigler commands, I will obey.....must tattoo moobs.:O The Sigler commands, I will obey…..must tattoo moobs.:O

]]> By: Scott Sigler http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-382000 Scott Sigler Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:44:30 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-382000 You bastard, we will get you. If you even THINK about joining Siglerism, you are already in. That helps us eliminate paperwork (save the trees!), and drastically improves our recruitment ratios. You were in. There is no getting out. You bastard, sooner or later you will have my face tatted on your man-boobies. You bastard, we will get you. If you even THINK about joining Siglerism, you are already in. That helps us eliminate paperwork (save the trees!), and drastically improves our recruitment ratios. You were in. There is no getting out. You bastard, sooner or later you will have my face tatted on your man-boobies.

]]> By: Jasmino924 http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-381989 Jasmino924 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:31:32 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-381989 I vote that someone joins a McDowellerism cult! I vote that someone joins a McDowellerism cult!

]]> By: Guy McDowell http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-381977 Guy McDowell Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:54:28 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-381977 "According to Rodney Stark's A Theory of Religion, most religions start out their lives as cults or sects, i.e. groups in high tension with the surrounding society. Over time, they tend to either die out or become more established, mainstream and in less tension with society. Cults are new groups with a novel theology, while sects are attempts to return mainstream religions to what the group views as their original purity.[15] As set out by Stark and Bainbridge, the term "cult", is used distinctly among the general definitions, and is closely related to the historically changed definitions of "sect." In this contemporary view, a "sect" is specifically "a deviant religious organization with traditional beliefs and practices," as compared to a "cult" which indicates a "a deviant religious organization with novel beliefs and practices." Since this definition of "cult" is defined in part in terms of tension with the surrounding society, the same group may both be and not be a cult at different places or times. For example, Christianity was by this definition a cult in 1st and 2nd century Rome, while in fifth century Rome it became rather an ecclesia (the state religion)." That's Wikipedia's take on it. I neither agree nor disagree with this outlook on first-century Christianity. “According to Rodney Stark’s A Theory of Religion, most religions start out their lives as cults or sects, i.e. groups in high tension with the surrounding society. Over time, they tend to either die out or become more established, mainstream and in less tension with society. Cults are new groups with a novel theology, while sects are attempts to return mainstream religions to what the group views as their original purity.[15] As set out by Stark and Bainbridge, the term “cult”, is used distinctly among the general definitions, and is closely related to the historically changed definitions of “sect.” In this contemporary view, a “sect” is specifically “a deviant religious organization with traditional beliefs and practices,” as compared to a “cult” which indicates a “a deviant religious organization with novel beliefs and practices.”

Since this definition of “cult” is defined in part in terms of tension with the surrounding society, the same group may both be and not be a cult at different places or times. For example, Christianity was by this definition a cult in 1st and 2nd century Rome, while in fifth century Rome it became rather an ecclesia (the state religion).”

That’s Wikipedia’s take on it. I neither agree nor disagree with this outlook on first-century Christianity.

]]> By: Guy McDowell http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-381976 Guy McDowell Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:50:07 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-381976 You clicked on wastemytime.com? Doesn't that redirect to the IRS? ;-) You clicked on wastemytime.com? Doesn’t that redirect to the IRS? ;-)

]]> By: J http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-381972 J Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:59:56 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-381972 Christianity is not a cult and it never was a cult. It may have been thought of as a cult in it's infancy, but that was by people who didn't understand and chose to make judgment without educating themselves first. Christianity is not a cult and it never was a cult. It may have been thought of as a cult in it’s infancy, but that was by people who didn’t understand and chose to make judgment without educating themselves first.

]]> By: JK http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-i-joined-then-started-and-recovered-from-a-cult-without-leaving-my-armchair/#comment-381970 JK Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:52:12 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=15244#comment-381970 I actually clicked on that link; what a waste of time. I actually clicked on that link; what a waste of time.

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