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A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
The followers of such a religion or sect.
A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
The object of such devotion.
An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
This is the defintion for cult on dictionary.com
it's also the same defintion for religion so is it a cult of it's own that people choose not to speak of because it has a bad ring to it?
Thats why everyone's a hypocrite. They say cults are bad but yet 90% of the world takes part in it
hmm....
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Being religious is a cult i didin't know where to put this
MultiQuote#2 Guest_conformist_*
Posted 30 September 2004 - 03:07 PM
Not everyone who is religious is a religious extremist. There are people who believe in God or some other deity who do not go to religious services, read the Bible or whichever book, follow the "guidelines," so to speak, etc...
There is a difference between being religious and being fanatical. Fanatics are the devout advocates who try to shove their beliefs down your throat. They are the ones who are unaccepting of the persons/things outside of their own religion.
So, no. Not everyone is a hypocrite.
There is a difference between being religious and being fanatical. Fanatics are the devout advocates who try to shove their beliefs down your throat. They are the ones who are unaccepting of the persons/things outside of their own religion.
So, no. Not everyone is a hypocrite.
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Posted 30 September 2004 - 10:00 PM
Get off the anti-religious trip will you. Let them worship how they want to worship. If you want to believe in Holllywood celebrities, musicians, wicca and so-called magic do it on your own time. A lot of you people, the anti-religious, preach just as much.
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Posted 30 September 2004 - 10:44 PM
jane, on Sep 30 2004, 08:38 AM, said:
A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
The followers of such a religion or sect.
A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
The object of such devotion.
An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
This is the defintion for cult on dictionary.com
it's also the same defintion for religion so is it a cult of it's own that people choose not to speak of because it has a bad ring to it?
Thats why everyone's a hypocrite. They say cults are bad but yet 90% of the world takes part in it
hmm....
The followers of such a religion or sect.
A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
The object of such devotion.
An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
This is the defintion for cult on dictionary.com
it's also the same defintion for religion so is it a cult of it's own that people choose not to speak of because it has a bad ring to it?
Thats why everyone's a hypocrite. They say cults are bad but yet 90% of the world takes part in it
hmm....
Sounds like Otep's next whiney song. Everyones a hypocrite. Happy ?
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Posted 01 October 2004 - 12:54 AM
I don't really care if it's called a cult or not since what it's called doesn't change what it is to me. The bad ring commonly associated with cults derives from all those smaller groups that actually hurt others or themselves directly. For example all these idiots who go and kill themselves just because their oh-so-charmant leader says the end of the world is coming and that's why they need to kill themselves. Or cults that are just about a pervy man getting young kids to do drugs and then to sexually abuse them in the name of something holy. To me that's what the bad side of cults is. If christianity, wicca, buddhism, zen, taoism or whatever are also cults by definition I don't mind because what you call a thing doesn't change it.
Jane, you really a wiccan? Officially I mean..?
Jane, you really a wiccan? Officially I mean..?
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Posted 01 October 2004 - 08:37 AM
Jane, you really a wiccan? Officially I mean..?
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What the fuck? i never said i was a fucking wiccan. where did you get that from? what i was trying to imply was that religion has the same defintion as a cult. I myself am i religious person in a way. Everyone keeps trying to turn my words around. I'm not complaining about anything.
I'm not assuming anything.
I'm not declaring anything. And i'm certainly not claiming i was a wiccan and even if i was, i wouldnt preach it to the world.
I just wanted to point out a simple coinedence, that's it
so there for all you who assume the world...
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What the fuck? i never said i was a fucking wiccan. where did you get that from? what i was trying to imply was that religion has the same defintion as a cult. I myself am i religious person in a way. Everyone keeps trying to turn my words around. I'm not complaining about anything.
I'm not assuming anything.
I'm not declaring anything. And i'm certainly not claiming i was a wiccan and even if i was, i wouldnt preach it to the world.
I just wanted to point out a simple coinedence, that's it
so there for all you who assume the world...
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Posted 01 October 2004 - 01:08 PM
A religion is a sect who succeeded.
"Watch your têtes!" (Mercedes Lander in Paris, 26/10/2008).
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Posted 01 October 2004 - 01:34 PM
That's very true.
and to whoever sayd that what jane wrote sounds like otep's next whiney song, where the fuck have you been during the last century??? in case you haven't noticed, pretty much every single song created is "whiney".
and to whoever sayd that what jane wrote sounds like otep's next whiney song, where the fuck have you been during the last century??? in case you haven't noticed, pretty much every single song created is "whiney".
The Howling, on Oct 1 2004, 02:08 PM, said:
A religion is a sect who succeeded.
Sorry about that.
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Posted 01 October 2004 - 09:10 PM
It's true that the difference between a "religion" an a "cult" are basically nothing...other than the fact that one has 50 people, the other 50 000...but, whatever, everyone go off and do mainly what ya want, long as it don't bother me. lol
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Posted 02 October 2004 - 04:17 PM
eh im not religious i dont believe in anything. maybe i will when i get older and really want to understand it. but right now its not for me. however i dont bash others that want to believe in god or whatever it is that they believe in. just as long as they respect that i dont and dont try to force it on me. when u do that thats when i get fucking angry and want to kill u...............kidding but i just get really pissed cause to me thats so disrespectful to try to force something on someone else. ugh
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