Cult like organisations

Rave.ef

Seen a vegan billboard spewing some s*** about taking a calf away from it's mother.
Got me thinking about all the different crowds who push they're beliefs on the rest of us.

Vegans
Atheists
Pro lifers
ISIS
Jehovah's Witnesses.

Like I love meat but I don't lecture anyone who doesn't want to eat it. I believe in God but I don't tell people who don't that is a stupid notion that they don't believe in a large beast of a man living in the clouds.

Or is it just me :rolleyes:

Del2005

You forgot about the biggest cults that force their views. The Catholic Church, Islam, etc.

Ray Bloody Purchase

Sinn Fein.

Flippyfloppy

Rave.ef wrote: »

Seen a vegan billboard spewing some s*** about taking a calf away from it's mother.

Are you calling it **** as in you don't care or don't believe it?

corner of hells

FCA and their free clothes.

Jim Bob Scratcher

O'Neiller's

Wanderer2010

Isnt AA a kind of cult? I know at one point the 12 part programmed revolved around religious-type beliefs like "I submit to a Higher Power" "I ask the Higher Power to release my torment" etc. I don't know what modern iterations are like but that's nothing more than prayer, in my view.

Rave.ef

Del2005 wrote: »

You forgot about the biggest cults that force their views. The Catholic Church, Islam, etc.

Not as much as the others. Now days anyway. Don't get me wrong I'm Catholic non practising for obvious reasons but I base my beliefs on them. (Slightly hypocritical i know)

cnocbui

An Taisce

diomed

RTE
Although you should ask a mod to correct the spelling in the thread title.

Rave.ef

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Are you calling it **** as in you don't care or don't believe it?

Both cos ether way I'm gona be consuming mother and calf ether by dairy or beef:D

Rave.ef

diomed wrote: »

RTE
Although you should ask a mod to correct the spelling in the thread title.

That's gas I'm dyslexic use the touch to speak

Ubbquittious

Tesla, Apple

darkdubh

Rave.ef wrote: »

Seen a vegan billboard spewing some s*** about taking a calf away from it's mother.
Got me thinking about all the different crowds who push they're beliefs on the rest of us.

Vegans
Atheists
Pro lifers
ISIS
Jehovah's Witnesses.

Like I love meat but I don't lecture anyone who doesn't want to eat it. I believe in God but I don't tell people who don't that is a stupid notion that they don't believe in a large beast of a man living in the clouds.

Or is it just me :rolleyes:

I'm interested in hearing your reasoning for describing atheism is a cult?

long_b

Rave.ef wrote: »

Seen a vegan billboard spewing some s*** about taking a calf away from it's mother.
Got me thinking about all the different crowds who push they're beliefs on the rest of us.

People who do spelling and grammar correctly.

Mr. Incognito

Feminists

FatherTed

boards.ie

cnocbui

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Feminists

Misogynists.

Jimbob1977

Freemasonry

The US college fraternities and sororities

The Movementarians

Scientologists

I suppose you could say all organised religions

Voodoo practitioners

AlphabetCards

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Tesla, Apple

I know people who've worked in the states as auto engineers for tesla, believe me there's no love for the company across the board from the staff.

AlphabetCards

cnocbui wrote: »

Misogynists.

I've yet to come across any groups openly forwarding misogyny as a cause.

Rave.ef

darkdubh wrote: »

I'm interested in hearing your reasoning for describing atheism is a cult?

Haven't come across one who isn't smug about it. Who cares what you do or don't believe keep it to yourself.

Lorelli!

The last time the Jehovah's Witness people called, they did some weird magic **** on me. They were speaking really slow or something. I came away feeling really relaxed!

VinLieger

AAA/PBP and the others in the loony left alphabet soup brigade

dinorebel

Crossfit

The Backwards Man

Lollipop people.


Have you ever noticed you always see them at a school, but you never see them going to or from the school?

Jimbob1977

darkdubh wrote: »

I'm interested in hearing your reasoning for describing atheism is a cult?

I think atheists have almost formed into a quasi-religion.

Extremely dogmatic (like a religion).

Superiority complex (like a religion)

I bet they'll be praying just as hard when their plane develops mechanical problems.

Sky King

dinorebel wrote: »

Crossfit

yeah. usually people who were mediocre at sport growing up who 'discover' competitive sport when they hit 30 and can't stfu about it

yeah i've played sport once before. i get it - you feel great. fu ck off.

cnocbui

Afterhours

biko

Del2005 wrote: »

You forgot about the biggest cults that force their views. The Catholic Church, Islam, etc.

However, only one cult of the ones mentioned so far has a death penalty for apostasy (to this day).

topper75

corner of hells wrote: »

FCA and their free clothes.

Their exploitation of young men's susceptibility to cut-price draft Guinness is disgusting. Lowest of the low.

david75

Google.
Sounds mad but their social elements within the company are cult like.

valoren

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Tesla, Apple

Oh yes.

I read a brief bio of Elon Musk by a fan boy describing his daily schedule and included the following beauty...

"At 2am, Musk initiates 6 hours of Sleep..."

So you're saying 'the leader' goes to sleep? It's that kind of cult like adoration that makes me cringe hard.

Badly Drunk Boy

Lorelli! wrote: »

The last time the Jehovah's Witness people called, they did some weird magic **** on me. They were speaking really slow or something. I came away feeling really relaxed!

The last time they called on me, they called on Christmas Day. Do they not believe in it or something?

jacksie66

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Fighting Tao

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Are you calling it **** as in you don't care or don't believe it?

It's just ****e, regardless.

padd b1975

VinLieger wrote: »

AAA/PBP and the others in the loony left alphabet soup brigade

Currently at around 1% in the opinion polls.

They're not exactly reeling them.

corner of hells

Also the French Foreign Legion with the cult of Legion... Erm I mean the Legion of Mary .

storker

Rave.ef wrote: »

Seen a vegan billboard spewing some s*** about taking a calf away from it's mother.
Got me thinking about all the different crowds who push they're beliefs on the rest of us.

Vegans
Atheists
Pro lifers
ISIS
Jehovah's Witnesses.

Like I love meat but I don't lecture anyone who doesn't want to eat it. I believe in God but I don't tell people who don't that is a stupid notion that they don't believe in a large beast of a man living in the clouds.

Or is it just me :rolleyes:

It's just you. Only the last two of those groups listed are actually organisations.
Within the other three there are different levels of fanaticism, ranging from none at all to hard core. Well, I know that's the case for atheists and pro-lifers (I am one of the former, but not the latter), and I would be surprised if it wasn't true for vegans too.

If you really want to see cult-like behaviour, try browsing some gaming forums.

Lorelli!

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

The last time they called on me, they called on Christmas Day. Do they not believe in it or something?

I don't think they do. I hope you didn't insult them by wishing them a Happy Christmas cause that would be very inconsiderate

storker

corner of hells wrote: »

Also the French Foreign Legion with the cult of Legion... Erm I mean the Legion of Mary .

Wouldn't that be...er...a Roman legion?

(Sorry)

Sonics2k

Threads like this which turn in to a handbag battle arguing about if Christians/Muslims/Feminists are worse than the others.

buried

Supermac's

wes

storker wrote: »

If you really want to see cult-like behaviour, try browsing some gaming forums.

Don't mention the console wars .......

cnocbui

biko wrote: »

However, only one cult of the ones mentioned so far has a death penalty for apostasy (to this day).

Yeah, the other just thought it enough you be in another religion - or be a woman with a black cat - as justification to have you killed.

darkdubh

Rave.ef wrote: »

Haven't come across one who isn't smug about it. Who cares what you do or don't believe keep it to yourself.

One in ten Irish people declared they had no religion in the last census. Who are all these smug atheists who can't shut up about it that you keep bumping into?

lifeandtimes

Golf clubs

Graces7

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

Freemasonry

The US college fraternities and sororities

The Movementarians

Scientologists

I suppose you could say all organised religions

Voodoo practitioners

Not so. There are very strict definitions of a cult and not even all Catholics would "qualify"

Ralf and Florian

Those fellas who follow English soccer teams with which they've no geographical connection and talk endlessly about "their" team.

Ted Plain

Dermalogica

Spin Master and their damned Paw Patrol merchandise.

buried

The Bookmakers. The greatest actual cult scam of all time in full effect everywhere and nobody gives a $hit.