hover bikes

>>212476521 (OP)
Muhammad promised virgins in heaven gor those who follow him

>>212476521 (OP)
they get tricked into it, are born into it or their beliefs aligned with the cult so they didn't realise there was anything odd

>>212477409
and btw, all religions are cults, just they are large scale and successful ones

>>212476521 (OP)
It plays to their narcissism.

>>212476521 (OP)
Some people will believe anything. There is one troon on this board that thinks ice cream is a meme

>>212477472
Baskin Roberts is a meme just ask ChatGPT.

>>212477792
>Confirmed
FFFUUUUUU--

>>212476521 (OP)
I wouldn't be surprised if cults are all just fake CIA ran drug/sex bullshit.

>board currently being spammed with Simpsons, Lazytown and Superman threads
You should know the answer

It's hard for rationalist types to understand, but many if not most humans are genetically religious and a follower. It actually wouldn't be very good for the human species if everyone wanted to lead and disagree. Therefore most are on the agreeable, follower side of the spectrum, with some to a crazy degree.

"free thinking" hippie westerners falling for the hare krisnha thing in the 60s 70s is hilarious.
Joining a totalatarian alien cult that treats you like literal slaves, controls your diet and works you like a dog just to worship the head guy and founder like a god

>>212479355
>Controls your diet
Do go on?

Lot of reddit atheists in this thread

Cults gain members by acting nice and targeting emotionally vulnerable people, they provide a feeling of community the actual beliefs they have are irrelevant, then they get you alone and start using peer pressure and rituals to change your mind set, often they do this by reminding you its important to try new things or be open to other belief systems even if they seem kind of odd at first

For example you get into a room with them and they all start holding each other's hands and pray or sing, they don't ask you to do it they just extend their hands out and act like you want to go along, people are raised to be polite and saying no would create an aura of tension and rejection in the air, so many begin to hold hands and sing even if they don't want to, this creates a feeling of belonging, they gradually do similar rituals and slowly like a drug dealer get you hooked by using human's in built desire for a close knit community. Then they try to cut you off of other people who could provide you the same feeling of community like family or friends.

They then have some male who plays the role of father of the cult he generally will present himself as humble and the other cult members will be the ones to glorify him, see Augustus Caesar

Most religions are not cults because its an unstable system that has difficulty surviving the death of its leader.

Really cults are not that different from mainstream society, even as a child you are taught to obey teachers without question and have unfounded respect for them regardless of competence or temperament the state is just less effective at it, and despite society's obsession with being your own person and how great going against the mold is that never is how its played out in person. Imagine standing up and saying that you don't like native American culture because of its reliance on superstitious rituals, even with no native americans in your class you would likely be shamed.

>>212480021
Baskin Roberts Fund Trust Band

>>212478531
>Christian sects that worship trees in the middle of Siberia are made by the CIA.
>Proof? No, I don't have any they just are OK?

>>212479355
I was walking through Manchester the other day and accidentally bought a book from one of these wackadoos. Didn't quite realise what I gave £1.50 to until this guy mentioned he had some name changing ceremony coming up soon. I am far too trusting of strangers

>>212476521 (OP)
/tv/ is turning into /pol/ with these repeated threads. Show flag, Shlomo!

To CULTivate their inner selves.
*badumtish*

>>212480128
Schizo it's a new thread

>>212476545
fpbp

>>212479355
It's funny how India's image has been wrecked in recent years. It used to be associated with Eastern philosophy/"free your mind" bullshit and now everyone just sees pajeets as scammers who shit on the pavement.

>>212480128
>/tv/ is turning into /pol/
How new are you?

>>212480082
Which book did you get? =]

>>212482017
This one

>>212483372
More like shit and be smelly

>>212483372
Worth a read desu senpai

I looove the sneeder

>>212483777
Lol chuck

>>212477428
>btw, all religions are cults
But not feminism, BLM, etc., no no no no no no no.

>>212483876
Rent free, touch grass.

>>212476545
I will now join your cult

>>212476521 (OP)
Stupidity, which there is plenty to go around these days considering the cheeto in chief.

>>212483777
>>212483783
Cringe, unfunny, forced, dead, discordtranny meme, rajesh

Anyone ever listen to the death tape from Jonestown in full? It's all on youtube, if you're in the mood to completely ruin your day.

>>212476521 (OP)
One of the basic human needs is the need to belong. Cults will accept and tolerate individuals that have otherwise no friends and/or are alienated from their families.

>>212484234
I remember A&E used to do good true crime documentaries: might have been Investigative Reports will Bill Curtis did an episode on Jamestown. Was really good. I haven’t had kool-aid since, just to be on the safe side

meaning in a meaningless world

>>212484399
The mass suicide was probably disastrous advertising for Kool-Aid, since I don't think you're the only one who can't drink it because of the cult, and the irony is that they didn't even use actual Kool-Aid, but an off-brand knockoff called Flavor-Aid.

I'm such an instinctual, obnoxious contrarian that I struggle to even admit in real life that The Shawshank Redemption is a really good film, so cults are just beyond my comprehension. If I ever joined a Jim Jones sermon I would probably raise my hand constantly and basically be pic related, and I don't think I am alone regarding this ITT.

>>212484491
There's always meaning in Christ, anon.

>>212485095
thanks

>>212476521 (OP)
You ever had a relative convinced that they were chatting with a celebrity or something like that? Peoples grandmas start sending half their pensions to "Tom Cruise" or someone and its not like they have dementia or are retarded, theyre just old and lonely and have so little going on in their lives that even the most blatant lie is preferable to the truth. So they make themselves believe it. Just like every single parasocial lonely faggot in the world. A better question is why real cults arent MORE common. Just imagine how many lonely people there are right now just begging for human connection in any way

>>212477472
>ice cream is a meme
wait like it doesn't exist? or that its funny?

>>212480021
This 100%

>>212485900
Sounds like something I could use for profit. Great idea, go-, I mean, anon.

>>212480021
You're not wrong. Polite society is really just one large cult. There is no healthy reason why most girls I know would break down in tears if I simply questioned the Holocaust narrative in front of them. They're not Jewish, they don't have any relatives with history from German camps, they have no real connection the the events whatsoever, and yet here we are. The meta cult is a powerful thing, maybe even the most powerful.

>>212483372
>you will chant nothing and you will be happy

>>212480515
In the 60s it was just about smoking weed. People wanted to get high, lots of various Indian cults held some sacred right to smoking weed for shit. It's just about getting high and finding excuses for it so they can tell cops to fuck off they have a core belief system that says it's okay to smoke.

Their whole
>Free Thinking
was just about the free thinking that weed is not illegal or bad, totally free!

>>212483876
>feminisim
no
>BLM
yes
>third wave feminisim
yes

all abrahamic religions are fucking stupid.