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How Cult Leaders Use Provocatively Loaded Language to Control Their Followers
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They've been doing that for six thousand years
It's how religion propagates as well.
The only difference between religion and a cult .... is time
Reminds me of a joke:
Reminds me of The Office
.... and I love the fact that with Creed Bratton quotes ... they could be made up fiction or based on actual real life experience.
I think it is more like the Dread Pirate Roberts, the original guy is dead but the next in line just uses the name.
I also like myths are just religion + time
I'm Indigenous Ojibway/Cree from northern Northern Ontario and I speak my language. The word we use to describe white people or Europeans is 'Mistikoshoo'.
It's a two part word ... Mishtik is the word for 'wood' ... or 'stick'
adding the ending 'ooshoo' to the word changes it refer to or describe a person.
So in all ... the word just translates to 'man with a stick'
When we made first contact with Europeans, they were all so preoccupied with their religion that they just looked like people wandering around with a stick in their hands and around their necks which was very, very important to them.
Then they taught us this strange religion and all its rules and regulations that everyone glorified but no one seemed to follow. When you look at the Middle Eastern religious traditions and what they preach and teach and what kind of culture they have evolved into, you begin to realize that religion is just another tool to control and manipulate people.
I always enjoyed reading about the history of European colonization ... especially by the Spanish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatuey
Depends on what you mean by religion.
Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads and don the robes as a ceremonial act of letting go of identity views such as 'us and them' and even self and other.
This and not holding onto dogmatic views in general is a big part of the practice and the teachings.
Not saying all Buddhists are perfect by any means. I've hung out in enough Buddhist online spaces to come across a lot of dogmatism and people using Buddhism itself as an identity view. Myself included when I wasn't as far along my own path.
But the intention of the practice is to point these things out and help people to let them go. Not to cling to them.
Yeah on the not perfect bit, like Myanmar. All religions are prone to violence.
The master's favorite teacup story comes to mind.
So you're saying it's "us vs. them"?