subby is talking about the Pharmaceutical industry? Or some other Satanic cult?

Could have sworn they were Mormons....

Let's get this out of the way:
You said "raped by a Satanic cult" twice.

Hmmm. This might explain that god-awful infected ingrown toenail my friends kid had a few weeks ago. She does all the Satanic stuff. Listens to Rock and Roll, smokes weed, does Yoga and is a 2nd Degree Black Belt. She's even living in sin with her boyfriend. I should tell her. This must be stopped!

RexTalionis: Benevolent Misanthrope: I'd just like someone to please explain to me the difference between a cult and a church.

Well, typically, cults are headed up by one extremely charismatic leader whose word is generally law among the followers. Churches don't typically have that (although the televangelists do push that distinction a lot).

fap?

Oh, please. The Satanic Cult Abuse Repressed Memory thing is sooooo 1980s.

Eating Disorder? You were raped by a Satanic cult. Anxiety? Raped by a Satanic cult.

This explains so much.

LordJiro: RexTalionis: Benevolent Misanthrope: I'd just like someone to please explain to me the difference between a cult and a church.

Well, typically, cults are headed up by one extremely charismatic leader whose word is generally law among the followers. Churches don't typically have that (although the televangelists do push that distinction a lot).

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He's charismatic?

Law schools should be closed every six years to give everyone a break. Maybe they could limit the number of licenses like they do for liquor establishments.

Stories like this exist purely due to attorneys taking the case and law graduates agreeing to hear such cases. Coffee is hot, be careful not to trip while walking, insane people sometimes create fantasies, etc.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: Go up to a member, and ask him to explain the fundamental idea at the core of his beliefs.

If he answers, it's a religion. If he tries to charge you money, it's a cult.

/yeah, I know it's not that simple ...


Not simple at all.
I was working in a store near a reggae fest once and told my coworkers to survey randomly the white rastafarians coming in about their beliefs.
I asked them to see how long a trustafarian could go on about their particular brand of stupidity before getting stuck on the weed principal.
It was sad to watch kids innocently ask about religious origins of smelly, stinky, worthless humans beings about their Highly Slacky cult and watch them avoid "ZION" and go straight for "SMOKE MON" while acting pious.

Zionism is the belief that true believers (see the recursion here?) should return to the Palestinian homeland (apparently this is Jamaica) yet never even getting a job to but a one way ticket for their unwashed asses to go there while soaking their B.O in rotting patchouilli and burning a product that, until the financial crisis, had a matched price for gold, ounce per ounce. Also, we discovered that Rasta, Mon, and Ska, and Jaaaaa, and Dread, were interchangeable nouns, verbs, adverbs, articles, and highly worshiped bulletin points.

Much like Papists create a slush fund for kiddy diddlers, Rastas convert cash into weed and oxidize it .
Any religion is only a cover for "high"er crimes.

If you have to invent an invisible friend, you're nuts, and should be removed from the general population.

Toleration of this insanity has caused only harm to the betterment of mankind.

dna_level_c: Benevolent Misanthrope: I'd just like someone to please explain to me the difference between a cult and a church.

Church = Large, popular cult

Cult = Small, unpopular church

LOL...I guess that makes the WBC a cult!

RexTalionis: Well, typically, cults are headed up by one extremely charismatic leader whose word is generally law among the followers. Churches don't typically have that (although the televangelists do push that distinction a lot).

Charisma is a word used by the weak as an excuse for their weakness.

RexTalionis: Does the hypnotic suggestion thing really work for anyone? As far as I know, it doesn't work unless you believe and accept the suggestion.

Strip. Papers, please.
Because 9/11!!!

Eating Disorder? You were raped by a Satanic cult.

i.e., liberals amirite?

And if the victims and the offenders were the same gender, then it's homosexual rape as well.
I figured I'd toss that out here with the rest of the wild accusations.
/just ask sandusky

Chariset: listened to too many people who all told him how wonderful he was, and consequently lost all sense of perspective.

He sounds...Charismatic.

vudukungfu: RexTalionis: Well, typically, cults are headed up by one extremely charismatic leader whose word is generally law among the followers. Churches don't typically have that (although the televangelists do push that distinction a lot).

Charisma is a word used by the weak as an excuse for their weakness.


Stop discussing Rush Limbaugh and his audience. We're supposed to be discussing cul.......oh, never mind - continue.

You were raped by a Satanic cult during a D&D campaign.

Benevolent Misanthrope: I'd just like someone to please explain to me the difference between a cult and a church.

A large, popular cult is a religion, a small, unpopular religion is a cult.

"I'm not saying that it was a satanic cult, but it was a satanic cult."

RexTalionis: Does the hypnotic suggestion thing really work for anyone? As far as I know, it doesn't work unless you believe and accept the suggestion.

Nasseff claims that Schwartz used hypnotic therapy on her while she was being treated with psychotropic drugs,

I'm betting the drugs helped quite a bit.

Oh, and Satan 1990 called. He want's his ritualistic baby eating repressed memories back.

Arkanaut: You were raped by a Satanic an Asmodean cult during a D&D campaign.

Sorry, pet peeve.

/nerds.jpg

So much fail.

Lady: Clearly cannot think for herself.
Whackadoodle shrink: whackadoodle.

Put a bullet in each of them, and call me in the morning.

/man, my knee hurts. I think my spine is out of alignment. Guess I better see the chiropracter.

RandomAxe: I would never have started that Satanic cult if I hadn't been raped by a Bible cult when I was a child.

In their defense, the Bible cultists were raped by a Satanic cult, which in turn was raped by psychotherapists. It's the circle of life.

/the psychotherapists were raped by the FBI, back in the 1920s

But who raped the FBI?

You say it like it's a bad thing.

She was struggling with anorexia.
So ignoring the incredibly stupidity of the situation, was she cured? Does she just not want to pay? Has her insurance reneged on the bill?

I had an acquaintance that has his marriage ruined by just this sort of crap. These highly ethical doctors get elbow deep into an individuals mind and then don't know what to do and then default to the easiest thing, fear. For some reason, a second opinion never occurs to the patient. I wonder why?

Just one more case of the so-called-doctor walking away counting the cash while the trusting patient is left a gibbering mess for their family and society to support for the rest of their wretched life.

Of course this is Funks News so the gloves are off as far as veracity is concerned.

Vantango84: RandomAxe: I would never have started that Satanic cult if I hadn't been raped by a Bible cult when I was a child.

In their defense, the Bible cultists were raped by a Satanic cult, which in turn was raped by psychotherapists. It's the circle of life.

/the psychotherapists were raped by the FBI, back in the 1920s

But who raped the FBI?

J Edgar

i call shenanigans. there are no thin women in their late 20s in the st louis area.

DammitIForgotMyLogin: Benevolent Misanthrope: I'd just like someone to please explain to me the difference between a cult and a church.

Go up to a member, and ask him to explain the fundamental idea at the core of his beliefs.

If he answers, it's a religion. If he tries to charge you money, it's a cult.

/yeah, I know it's not that simple ...

Yes, yes it is.

Benevolent Misanthrope: I'd just like someone to please explain to me the difference between a cult and a church.

A cult is a church whose message differs from your own.

FTA:

"Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, said there is no scientific evidence to suggest that the brain can store away bad memories then have them suddenly emerge."

While I can't dispute "scientific evidence", I can say that it is possible. When I was born our family lived near the ocean and I spent the first two years of my life there. We then moved to a dry area with no bridges in the area. As I was growing up, I had no conscious memories of living in my birthplace (other kids would always ask me about it and I tried to remember any details). On occasion, I would fall out of bed. When I did, in the instant I fell, I would have a vivid dream about looking down at the top of the masts of boats and the falling towards them. I finally asked my mother about the dream. She got angry and said "Damm your father, I told him you were getting scared when he put you on that bridge railing but he said you enjoyed it". She described the bridge near where I was born where it had happened. As an adult I visited the location and sure enough the view from the bridge exactly matched the one in my dream.

SevenizGud: So much fail.

Lady: Clearly cannot think for herself.
Whackadoodle shrink: whackadoodle.

Put a bullet in each of them, and call me in the morning.

/man, my knee hurts. I think my spine is out of alignment. Guess I better see the chiropracter.

You know, other than the obvious never fixing anything, how I know chiropractors are a joke? All of them at some point start shilling drinks that promise to cure every ailment. Never fails.

vudukungfu: If you have to invent an invisible friend, you're nuts, and should be removed from the general population.

You know, atheists are a minority of the population. If you want to make headway with the majority of the population, perhaps explaining to us that your ultimate goal is lock us up in concentration camps or whatever isn't such a good idea.

I mean, good farking grief, the new atheism movement is producing a segment just as extreme in their views as any Evangelical Christian and just as certain they are right.