Cults/New Religious Movements

Kieran

Kieran

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Hi gang,

Anyone here interested in cults? I find them fascinating, in particular how members of certain cults do mental gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable.

Anyone hear about the Lambeth Slavery case?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeth_slavery_case

One of the victims, an elderly Irish woman who was terribly mistreated still supports and campaigns to free Balakrishnan, the cult leader. Very typical Stockholm Syndrome and fascinating.

Am I the only one with this morbid interest?
 
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I always thought it was interesting that cult leaders are almost exclusively male and their most ardent followers (and the most likely to end up with Stockholm Syndrome) are almost exclusively female. That's some weird, preternatural, evolutionary biology happening there.

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want to join my religion called "coolism"?
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When I sell off all my worldly possessions to join do you want me to write you a check or give it all to you in cash? How can I make this happen?
 
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I find the bizarre half race supremacist/half religious cult approach many black movements have. Nation of Islam and its splinter groups are probably the most well know (Yakub! Big Head Scientists! White Devil!).

Black Israelis are fascinating too, I love the compilation videos of them shouting insane shit at random people. We have a thread on them here.

Pablo Birmingham said:
I always thought it was interesting that cult leaders are almost exclusively male and their most ardent followers (and the most likely to end up with Stockholm Syndrome) are almost exclusively female. That's some weird, preternatural, evolutionary biology happening there.
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It's not really surprising, most (if not all) mainstream religions are run by men and their most ardent supporters are women.
 
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The Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints are definitely one of the prominent Cults, they still practice Polygamy and are divided into about a hundred different splinter groups. There leader Warren Jeffs is an alleged Pedo, and the city they're based out of, Colorado City is completely run by the group. There was a book "Under the banner of Heaven" written on them.
 
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Pablo Birmingham said:
I always thought it was interesting that cult leaders are almost exclusively male and their most ardent followers (and the most likely to end up with Stockholm Syndrome) are almost exclusively female. That's some weird, preternatural, evolutionary biology happening there.
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The whole sex abuse by male cult leaders, often including child sex abuse, is so common it's a cliche.

There have been a couple female cult leaders, like Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.

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Why aren't suicide cults much of a thing these days?
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They have a habit of killing themselves.
 
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Sperglord Dante said:
most (if not all) mainstream religions are run by men and their most ardent supporters are women.
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AnOminous said:
The whole sex abuse by male cult leaders, often including child sex abuse, is so common it's a cliche.
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I meant ardent supporter as in Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and Ma Anand Sheela.


Nekromantik said:
They seemed to have died out with the coming of the millennium.
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Nothing like a good calendar rollover to really clean house.
 
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What do we think about the sex cult that apparently had an actress from Smallville (Not Kristin Kreuk, unfortunately) recruiting for them?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/f...son-mack-went-actress-sex-cult-slaver-1112107

https://www.thedailybeast.com/horri...x-cult-recruiter-allison-mack-at-bail-hearing
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I don't know about it enough to comment on that incident specifically, but it seems like if you push aside the religious aspects (or whatever their focus is), the vast majority of cults are motivated by sex in the end.

The whole thing isn't very surprising to me.
 
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I think, from what I've read, that it started out as a self-help/Hollywood networking thing. "We can make you famous and get rid of all your insecurities in one go" or some such bullshit.

You just have to fuck our leader.
 
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Sperglord Dante said:
I find the bizarre half race supremacist/half religious cult approach many black movements have. Nation of Islam and its splinter groups are probably the most well know (Yakub! Big Head Scientists! White Devil!).

Black Israelis are fascinating too, I love the compilation videos of them shouting insane shit at random people. We have a thread on them here.


It's not really surprising, most (if not all) mainstream religions are run by men and their most ardent supporters are women.
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Black Israelites don't seem that much like a cult, more like an Ethno Nationalist group based around religion, like Christian identity.
 
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