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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Xerobull, Sep 29, 2021.

  1. VanityHalfBlack

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    I'm in one. It called, the booty
     
  2. Buck Turgidson

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    "Donut?" "No thanks, do you have any fruit?" "This one has purple stuff inside, purple is a fruit." -- Homer Simpson
     
  3. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    Oh yes, the pro-plague cult. Good one.

    How do I join, where's the profit?
     
  4. boomboom

    boomboom I GOT '99 PROBLEMS

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    Did you collect underpants yet?
     
  5. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    I’m more anti-undies pro-cult
     
  6. VanityHalfBlack

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    they scary for sure. Ain’t that right @Space Ghost
     
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    Kpop stans since I’m in that one. Formerly LOF. Kpop stans are insane bruh it goin to get worst @Space Ghost
     
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    Let's talk and let's join, fap.

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    Wasn't Tinman the leader of the 99'ers cult?
     
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  10. Buck Turgidson

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    Well see, you join and then you sign 3 other people up to work under you for your cult, and then they each sign 3 people...it's basic math.

    The Japanese have cornered the market there, they've got vending machines full of that stuff.
     
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  11. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    I saw this, and I've seen a few other cult documentaries and it always makes me realize I overestimate the intelligence and will of the general public.

    This one was pretty crazy.

     
  14. Bandwagoner

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    people who are attracted to high control groups end up being higher intelligence than average. I think the danger trait is narcissism not stupidity.

    • The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.
    • The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
    • The group is preoccupied with making money.
    • Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
    • Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
    • The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth).
    • The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).
    • The group has a polarized us- versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
    • The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations).
    • The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities).
    • The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to control them.
    • Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that were of interest before joining the group.
    • Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group.
    • Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
     
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    If you believe that Robin Williams is communing from the great beyond with a lady named "Mother God," I'm gonna go ahead and call you stupid.
     
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    this guy convinced billionaires to turn themselves into rail thin people because they thought he was the smartest person on earth.

    I don't think you understand what brainwashing is.
     
  17. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum
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    Pretty much never overestimate the plebeian group IQ since 2016.
     
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    There is something lacking in the people that get brainwashed, call it whatever you want.
     
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    The pleeb of the infinite timeline for any cult goes to Moroni Johnson.
    • Follows a "prophet" that created his own cult from splitting a sect of another
    • Is furious to give up all his daughters to said "prophet" to wed
    • Still follows said "prophet" after
    • Loses his wife to "prophet"
    • Is forced to get pegged by "prophet" while all "prophets" wives watch, in which are also the pleeb's daughters and wife- told to be "binding of brothers"
    Good lawd, talk about emasculating someone to the depths of no return.
     
  20. davidio840

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    As far as pleebs of the infinite timeline as you would say (your infinite timeline is a few years? lol) is David Miscavige not in your list? He should be.. or you could look back a little over a half century and start there.. Jim Jones? Charles Manson? Or hell, even David Koresh?
     

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