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The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult.
‘The Leftovers’ takes place three years after 2% of the population has gone missing. And it’s about how that changes society. Cults form as a result, and it drastically changes home life for a lot of people, including the Garvey family, which is the family I belong to.
That’s really the nature of how cults get you – by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao’s sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
When people leave cults, they don’t know that they left a cult.
Personality cults are an insult to Islam.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
The Social Affairs Ministry and the police will continue to fight against the abuse of women and children. The ministry battles the harmful phenomenon of cults on a daily basis.
What makes a star or a movie into a legend? I don’t know. For instance, when Robert Taylor and I made ‘Party Girl’ in 1958, nobody was particularly excited about it. Now, it’s considered by thousands to be a classic. There are ‘Party Girl’ cults.
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
I’m actually loving the soundtrack to ‘The Secret Circle’ that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else… I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
I’m all for ‘tools,’ not ‘schools,’ of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like religions, or even cults, all claiming to know the cause and to have the best method for treating people.
It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but a growing number are doing just that.
Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.
But as in all cults, what’s central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you’re very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members’ lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a ‘cult’; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
We explored cults in ‘Sound of My Voice.’ I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality.
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.