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- A cult is a group that is unorthodox , esoteric, and has a devotion to a person, object, or a set of new ideas.
- Cults spring up everywhere but usually fade within the year. Some are religious, some are social, others comprise outright fanatics who like to express themselves in bizarre ways. Of the hundreds of known cults throughout the Frontier, a few have emerged over the last few years that present a very real danger.
- A cult can be defined as: "Any religion too small to field its own army." Nowadays cults tend to be formed when God speaks to a prophet - although in some circles this is known as schizophrenia. However, if the prophet lived several thousand years ago then the cult has either died or become a religion.
- Cedric Uthar Lavender of Thelsamar. Nickname: Cult
- Cult describes a group of adherents with religious or religion-like beleifs and practices. Unchallenged, the power of cult leaders over their followers may lead to evils such as exploitation. For example, Josh Eidelson describes Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE)/Enactus as a vehicle for Wal-Mart to recruit a cohort of politically and religious conservative Christian managers. See Cultlike, Corrupt and Christian Conservative: Inside the Campus Group Creating Wal-Mart Managers Josh Eidelson. Salon. February 26, 2014.
- A cult is a ritualistic group of followers of specific subjects, be they a person, object, religion, etc.
- Cults are often misunderstood. Most cults are attempting to do good, while simultaneously functioning as a Ponzi Scheme or a tax shelter. The best cult is Cult Jack on Facebook. Cults are also often mixed up with other entities, such as Fascist governments, Matt Groening, the Jonas Brothers, or apparel lines aimed at teens, such as Aeropostale.
- In religion and sociology, a cult is a term designating a cohesive group of people (generally, but not exclusively a relatively small and recently founded religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be outside the mainstream or reaching the point of a taboo. Its status may come about either due to its novel belief system, its idiosyncratic practices, its perceived harmful effects on members, or because it perceived opposition to the interests of the mainstream culture. Non-religious groups may also display cult-like characteristics.
- Cult generally refers to a Religious cult that uses mind control techniques but there have been secular cults as well. Cults are religious or secular groups that use mind control to manipulate members and which harm members through these controls.
- A cult was a group of individuals who possessed radical beliefs that were outside of the mainstream. In 2154, T'Pol referred to the Syrrannites as a "violent cult". (ENT: "Awakening") A small cult was formed on Bajor that worshiped the Pah-wraiths, believing them to be the true gods of Bajor. The Pah-wraith cult was considered a joke until late 2374, when Dukat released a Pah-wraith into the Bajoran wormhole, collapsing it, and starting a celestial war. A young member of the cult tried to assassinate Captain Benjamin Sisko on Earth several months later. (DS9: "Image in the Sand", "Covenant")
- A Cult is generally characterized as a quasi-religious group that engages in unconventional practices. These may include; dangerous or unusual initiation rites (hazing), mass recruiting, brainwashing, sexual predation (including statutory rape), and sometimes murder and mass suicide.
- Cults were belief-based organisations, often having smaller numbers than religions, which focused on the worship of deities or were formed with a goal or purpose for their organisation. They were often viewed to have 'unusual' beliefs when compared to other religions. Many cults were formed for specific goals or purposes. The Cult of Skaro was a cult formed during the Last Great Time War by a group of Daleks to think in manners outside that of the Dalek race. (TV: Doomsday) The Cult of Shining Darkness was formed with the purpose of destroying all robotkind. (PROSE: Shining Darkness)
- Cult is not a bad thing. Corporations are cults, such as Nike (on multiple levels). Cicero defined religio as cultus deorum, "the cultivation of the gods."[2] The "cultivation" necessary to maintain a specific deity was that god's cultus, "cult," and required "the knowledge of giving the gods their due" (scientia colendorum deorum).[3] The noun cultus originates from the past participle of the verb colo, colere, colui, cultus, "to tend, take care of, cultivate," originally meaning "to dwell in, inhabit" and thus "to tend, cultivate land (ager); to practice agriculture," an activity fundamental to Roman identity even when Rome as a political center had become fully urbanized. Augustine of Hippo echoes Cicero's formulation when he declares, "religio is nothing other than the cultus of God."
- It has been say many times that Join Me is not a cult, and indeed it isn't. It's often referred to as such, even by its own members, but it's all very tongue-in-cheek (if you hadn't got this, you're taking Join Me too seriously). Anyway, the definition of a cult, according to dictionary.com, is: 2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual. With respect, I don't think anyone worships Danny. Even all you female joinees (and non-joinees) who tell me he's hot/cute/whatever else. Quite frankly, I think it'd scare him if we did (it would terrify me). And we're non-religious!
- A cult is a non-Jesus based religious organization consisting of a leader or leaders and followers. Cults try to instill their followers with a sense of belonging and well being by brainwashing them into believing the tenets of the cult’s doctrines. By following the cult's beliefs and doctrines, the cult members are told they will be able to achieve peace and happiness. Most cult leaders assert that they have a connection to a supernatural being or are even supernatural themselves. The cult leader/s use this supernatural aspect to promote belief of that which can't be known through means that do not employ reason, i.e. faith irrationality.
- A cult is defined as "A small, closeknit group of people who share a belief system that, to outsiders, might be considered strange and possibly dangerous." Most major religions in the world started as cults, but developed over time to become less strict or demanding of their members. Cults often demand extreme loyalty from members in order to maintain them. Usually a cult does this to maintain its existence due to its small size. Some cults are not dangerous to members and these groups are usually reffered to as New Religious Movements.
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- A cult is a group that is unorthodox , esoteric, and has a devotion to a person, object, or a set of new ideas.
- Cults spring up everywhere but usually fade within the year. Some are religious, some are social, others comprise outright fanatics who like to express themselves in bizarre ways. Of the hundreds of known cults throughout the Frontier, a few have emerged over the last few years that present a very real danger.
- A cult can be defined as: "Any religion too small to field its own army." Nowadays cults tend to be formed when God speaks to a prophet - although in some circles this is known as schizophrenia. However, if the prophet lived several thousand years ago then the cult has either died or become a religion.
- A cult is a non-Jesus based religious organization consisting of a leader or leaders and followers. Cults try to instill their followers with a sense of belonging and well being by brainwashing them into believing the tenets of the cult’s doctrines. By following the cult's beliefs and doctrines, the cult members are told they will be able to achieve peace and happiness. Most cult leaders assert that they have a connection to a supernatural being or are even supernatural themselves. The cult leader/s use this supernatural aspect to promote belief of that which can't be known through means that do not employ reason, i.e. faith irrationality. For the prospect of peace and happiness, invariably cults require that their members pledge their lives to the cult’s doctrines of belief, give money to support the organization and even try to recruit new members to the cult by proselytizing to anyone who will listen. Secularists (liberals, atheists, communists) have tried convincing the world that the difference between cults and respected religions (Christianity) is small indeed by pointing out that the differences between the two is the number of members and the amount of time each institution has been around. It should be noted that this "criticism" is fallacious as there is another difference, cults are evil and lie, while respected religious institutions such as Christianity are good and truthful. How can it be proven that Christianity is good and truthful? Simply by questioning the virtues of Christianity you have proven them. The answers are self-evident and easily rationalized by referring to the Bible or your local priest. Below* are links to a 2-part documentary commissioned by Comedy Central (probably at Stephen Colberts request) called "Behind Blank Eyes." This hard hitting expose showcases one woman’s fall to the deceits of a cult and her eventual rise and freedom from said cults clutches and into the loving arms of Jesus, .. maybe, i didn't actually watch the videos, i just feel it in my gut. *Unfortunately, during the great Viacom purge of 2007, these instructional videos have been taken offline. Once said material becomes available again, the links above will be updated.
- Cedric Uthar Lavender of Thelsamar. Nickname: Cult
- Cult is not a bad thing. Corporations are cults, such as Nike (on multiple levels). Cicero defined religio as cultus deorum, "the cultivation of the gods."[2] The "cultivation" necessary to maintain a specific deity was that god's cultus, "cult," and required "the knowledge of giving the gods their due" (scientia colendorum deorum).[3] The noun cultus originates from the past participle of the verb colo, colere, colui, cultus, "to tend, take care of, cultivate," originally meaning "to dwell in, inhabit" and thus "to tend, cultivate land (ager); to practice agriculture," an activity fundamental to Roman identity even when Rome as a political center had become fully urbanized. Augustine of Hippo echoes Cicero's formulation when he declares, "religio is nothing other than the cultus of God." Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony).
* Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult, 1998 by Inquisition.
- It has been say many times that Join Me is not a cult, and indeed it isn't. It's often referred to as such, even by its own members, but it's all very tongue-in-cheek (if you hadn't got this, you're taking Join Me too seriously). Anyway, the definition of a cult, according to dictionary.com, is: 1. A religion or religious sect considered to be extremist or false, with it's followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. Join Me is completely non-religious, non-political, non-race-based collective - everyone's welcome so long as they're willing to send a passport photo and be nice to strangers! We're not extremist or false (unless you consider being nice extremist or false). We don't live unconventionally (for the most part), we're just a selection of normal people. And we're definitely not under an authoritarian leader - I've never known Danny to suggest something without asking what we thought of it first. 2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual. With respect, I don't think anyone worships Danny. Even all you female joinees (and non-joinees) who tell me he's hot/cute/whatever else. Quite frankly, I think it'd scare him if we did (it would terrify me). And we're non-religious! 3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence. Join Me has been accused of being many things, but 'formal' isn't one of them. And there's that religious connotation again - once more I say we're completely non-religious! 4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease. Danny hasn't claimed to exceptional power (except possibly in the field of tea-making), neither has he claimed Joining will give people exceptional power. And we don't cure disease, apart from the disease of people not being nice to each other! (sorry, that sounds really corny) 5. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing. Ah. We might have a problem here. We've established that we're not devoted to Danny, but being nice to strangers probably falls into the 'principle' category. And obsessiveness has been known. It's not, however, a prerequisite, and I would imagine that most joinees probably don't devote their entire lives to it, and we certainly wouldn't get angry if someone missed a RAoK of a Friday, being more likely to encourage them to try harder next Friday. And we're not a fad, just try asking joinees if they'll still be involved in a year's time! 6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest. Exclusive?? All we want is a passport photograph! How less exclusive do you want? And as for esoteric, most of the people I know who won't join say "You should just be nice to people anyway" (or "I'm not joining something you're involved in, you freak"). So there you have it - conclusive proof that Join Me isn't a cult. Unless Danny wants to impress people by telling them he's a cult leader, in which case it is. (Article from joineegresham.tk, but don't go, this site is much nicer)
- Cults were belief-based organisations, often having smaller numbers than religions, which focused on the worship of deities or were formed with a goal or purpose for their organisation. They were often viewed to have 'unusual' beliefs when compared to other religions. Many cults were formed for specific goals or purposes. The Cult of Skaro was a cult formed during the Last Great Time War by a group of Daleks to think in manners outside that of the Dalek race. (TV: Doomsday) The Cult of Shining Darkness was formed with the purpose of destroying all robotkind. (PROSE: Shining Darkness) Other cults were much like religions, formed for/through the worship of a deity; on Earth most such cults took their name from the deity they worshipped. These included the Cult of Vulcan (TV: The Fires of Pompeii), the Brotherhood of Demnos (TV: The Masque of Mandragora) and the Hecate Cult. (TV: A Girl's Best Friend) One cult worshipped Bernice Summerfield as a deity from its church on a deserted aircraft carrier at the centre of the Medelein Sea on Phraxa. They instigated a galaxy-wide campaign to bring about her death because she wasn't living up to their image of her. (PROSE: The Dead Men Diaries) Other cults had specific places within their respective societies. The Sibylline Sisterhood was a highly prestigious cult of soothsayers in Pompeii that cultivated the psychic potential of individuals present in the city. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii) The Tong of the Black Scorpion, who worshipped Weng-Chiang, was described by the Fourth Doctor as one of the most dangerous criminal organisations on Earth. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) Other cults such as Faction Paradox revelled in being known as a "cult", as a taboo and as an affront to the Time Lords, whose ideologies and practices they actively sought to mock and intimidate. (PROSE: Alien Bodies, Unnatural History) On Earth, cults such as the Black Coven and Cabal of the Horned Beast integrated elements of the occult into their practices, along with creating a "secret society" around their cult. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus, The Severed Man, Child of Time) In the 1970s, Jo Grant watched a BBC3 documentary about a cult in Utah, which "gave [her] the creeps." (AUDIO: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant)
- Cult describes a group of adherents with religious or religion-like beleifs and practices. Unchallenged, the power of cult leaders over their followers may lead to evils such as exploitation. For example, Josh Eidelson describes Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE)/Enactus as a vehicle for Wal-Mart to recruit a cohort of politically and religious conservative Christian managers. See Cultlike, Corrupt and Christian Conservative: Inside the Campus Group Creating Wal-Mart Managers Josh Eidelson. Salon. February 26, 2014.
- A cult is defined as "A small, closeknit group of people who share a belief system that, to outsiders, might be considered strange and possibly dangerous." Most major religions in the world started as cults, but developed over time to become less strict or demanding of their members. Cults often demand extreme loyalty from members in order to maintain them. Usually a cult does this to maintain its existence due to its small size. Some cults are not dangerous to members and these groups are usually reffered to as New Religious Movements. Despite popular belief, cults rarely practice brainwashing to obtain members. Most members join willingly, albeit usually not aware of the grooup being a cult. People join cults for a variety of reasons including: lonliness, in need of direction in life, or questions to lifes mysteries. Cults closeknit nature can cure lonliness, can provide a purpose by serving the cult leader, and has religious beliefs that answer their questions. Cult leaders are often very charismatic, meaning they have magnetic personalities that attract people to them. There is also a tendency of Cult leaders to have difficult childhoods and often behave very unsociable in their youth. Cult leaders also tend to have mental problems, thus making them a danger to their followers. Groups like the Scientologists, the Moonies, Hare Krishna and others could be classified as New Religious Movements. In other cases the situation is less clear. Anti-cult organizations can see the Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult. Many Christian Fundamentalists appear cult-like to outsiders. This is particularly noticeable in the Bible Belt of the United States. Within the Bible Belt relativlely small rural communities are often dominated by religious fundamentalists and residents may know little about alternative viewpoints.
- A cult is a ritualistic group of followers of specific subjects, be they a person, object, religion, etc.
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