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    my cult would be close to nature.

    close to music and painting.

    greatness is the nature and the truth.

    as the saying goes

    the wise man is close to mountains. (think in a big picture, mountain is way bigger than a tiny you)

    the benevolent man is close to waters. (forgive and forget, yield and redirect like waters, ocean also take up or accept everything)

    zi zhe yao shan

    ren zhe yao shui.

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    yes, nature is ferocious and dangerous, too.

    such as earthquake in virgina hitting, washington DC, NYC and boston.

    hurricane coming toward florida.

    tsunamit hit Japan early this year.

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    we seek harmony among people and live harmoniously as we could with other people and nature.

    so recycle recycle recycle

    green energy is my cult

    the short version that is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPJ View Post
    my cult would be close to nature.

    close to music and painting.

    greatness is the nature and the truth.

    as the saying goes

    the wise man is close to mountains. (think in a big picture, mountain is way bigger than a tiny you)

    the benevolent man is close to waters. (forgive and forget, yield and redirect like waters, ocean also take up or accept everything)

    zi zhe yao shan

    ren zhe yao shui.

    --

    yes, nature is ferocious and dangerous, too.

    such as earthquake in virgina hitting, washington DC, NYC and boston.

    hurricane coming toward florida.

    tsunamit hit Japan early this year.

    --

    we seek harmony among people and live harmoniously as we could with other people and nature.

    so recycle recycle recycle

    green energy is my cult

    the short version that is.

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    That is not a cult. That is enlightenment, and peace. Cults are supposed to be destructive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RD'S Alias - 1A View Post
    That is not a cult. That is enlightenment, and peace. Cults are supposed to be destructive.
    actually, any group that gathers in the name of an unfounded or not provable belief is in effect a cult.

    For instance, All religions are cults.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    actually, any group that gathers in the name of an unfounded or not provable belief is in effect a cult.

    For instance, All religions are cults.
    ORGANIZED religions.
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    All cults pale in comparison to the POISON CLAN !!
    Psalms 144:1
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    Quote Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin View Post
    ORGANIZED religions.
    Military intelligence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taixuquan99 View Post
    Military intelligence.

    I love this game.
    That's an oxymoron, different thing.

    I personally think all religious activity falls under "cult" simply because it is a matter of having faith and not proof.

    If it's not a cult of shared belief, then it's a cult of personality where people irrationally ascribe supernatural traits to otherwise regular human beings.

    all of them are cults, either way. By definition.
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    That's an oxymoron, different thing.
    You're saying organized religion is not an oxymoron?

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    yes. we have a community temple of all faiths near where I live.

    christian, catholic, buddhist and moslem, induism -- all welcome.

    it is sort of weird.

    but they are organized sort of community services

    not so much a "church" per se.

    you know, koran, bible, sutra all co exist.

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    Definition of RELIGION
    1
    a : the state of a religious <a nun in her 20th year of religion> b (1) : the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2) : commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance
    2
    : a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
    3
    archaic : scrupulous conformity : conscientiousness
    4
    : a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith


    Definition of CULT
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    : formal religious veneration : worship
    2
    : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
    3
    : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
    4
    : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
    5
    a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b : the object of such devotion c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
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    Psalms 144:1
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    Psalms 144:1
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    fwiw, I don't necessarily ascribe a negative connotation to the word "cult".
    it's just a pointer really.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin View Post
    All cults pale in comparison to the POISON CLAN !!
    Why, just to hear that name, it fills me with hate and loathing....
    He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -- Walt Whitman

    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
    fwiw, I don't necessarily ascribe a negative connotation to the word "cult".
    it's just a pointer really.
    Especially when it refers to a sex cult

    I think that religious cults like Jim Jones and those "sun cults" in Montreal, not to mention the cults that through the ages have done crap, give the term cult a bad name.
    There are good cults and bad cults and the difference is what they do.
    The fitness cult is an example.
    Fact is that when we think cult we thing a small group of people, secret rituals, weird clothing and symbols, make hand signs, beliefs that strike "normal" people as strange or different and that the members view themselves as different and apart for the rest of "US".
    And for the most part, YES, that is how cults work.
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