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@IdentifiantE.S

Жыл бұрын

Really useful video although unfortunately these poor people have been completely brainwashed but if this video has at least saved one person it will already be a success !

Yes I am in Aperture's cult of absolutely shitting over every social media that exists out there

@pogboy6940

Жыл бұрын

How can i join this cult?

@spazninja

Жыл бұрын

I am in Aperture's cult of absolutely shitting over every social media that exists out there

@gaggs233

Жыл бұрын

Has he already done KZread?🙄

@user-ki9vx3rh9m

Жыл бұрын

@@pogboy6940 yes we must know.

@anonymouslearner2454

11 ай бұрын

@jesus_king_now They do understand, the reason why they write they are in that cult

Love this cults never refer to themselves as a cult. No, we're just a friendly congregation, a group of people. But never a cult.

@AugustCrossroads

Жыл бұрын

Religion in a nutshell and hustler's university. the lgbtq+ community. leafy fans. pineapple on pizza activsts.

@basedgamer9290

Жыл бұрын

@@Gittana-ip2msIt’s a zealous, fruity echo chamber.

@AugustCrossroads

Жыл бұрын

@@Gittana-ip2ms the community not the people

@anonionunlikeshrek

10 ай бұрын

Oftentimes in “ethical” cults the leaders are so brainwashed themselves that they believe they’re truly helping society with their cultish practices

Its worth mentioning that a cult doesn't have to be particularly religious. Non religious cults exist, cults of personality, or cults of ideas. This is especially prevalent where online communities are concerned.

A person is smart, people are dumb. That's honestly all you have to know about humanity and society in general

@EmbraceTheStruggle24

Жыл бұрын

L o L The true theme of the 21st century.

@liamlol1539

Жыл бұрын

My man just described the entire human race in two sentences.

@andrewrodriguez7727

11 ай бұрын

Its also an MIB reference.

My mum integrated my brother and I into a cult that was named a “religion” when I was very young. I watched the woman I once loved change completely, then she spent the rest of my years in the cult trying to change us. At 16 I ran away and never went back. 5 years later and completely cut off from everything and everyone I knew, I’m still haunted by loss and coming to terms with the fact that there is no closure, just pushing forward, and being free.

@syntax2922

Жыл бұрын

You good now?

@falconcarwash435

Жыл бұрын

I’m very sorry this happened to you. Do you have someone you can trust and work through this with?

@zakiNBG

Жыл бұрын

well. only difference between a cult and a religion is the size of the fanbase

@bryannaprouty4197

Жыл бұрын

Very smart you figured that out before 16, kudos to you, good job.

@CMVMic

Жыл бұрын

newsflash, all religions are cults

*Your leaders don't want you investigating the origins of the religion or it's founder.*

@zakiNBG

Жыл бұрын

religion=cult - just a bigger fanbase. oiriginally founded to control the big dumb masses and make them follow out of fear that bad things can happen even if nobody watches etc etc. funny it still works today.

@AugustCrossroads

Жыл бұрын

JESUS IS WHITE GODAMMIT ARRGH

@AugustCrossroads

Жыл бұрын

@@TAP_ME_TO_GET_50K_ROBUX_rkn It's either yes or no. As a intellectual myself, I'd say it's a 50-50 chance.

I love that you mention the idea of "subtle cults", social media definitely has it's own cult-ure that we have to be conscious about. I definitely see people my age using internet language out and about out in real life, making it easy for me to tell what type of media they engage with on average. Powerful topic as always 🙌🏾✨

@EmbraceTheStruggle24

Жыл бұрын

Definitely. Because subtle cults do exist. And I agree its important how to perceive something with all the misinformation and gossip out there.

@ApertureThinking

Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching!

@derpkipper

20 күн бұрын

Lmfao "cult-ure" i love that A handful of discord servers I've been apart of have been super culty

It's astounding how you can pick any subject, and I'll invariably find enjoyment in it. Crazy how that works!

@ApertureThinking

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is why I do what I do.

Sign 1: you feel like you are in school

@Exxperiment626

Жыл бұрын

Sign 2: You belong to an Abrahamic religion.

@nitzanshu4695

Жыл бұрын

I am in school :D

@nitzanshu4695

Жыл бұрын

@@Exxperiment626 how is that linked?

@Exxperiment626

Жыл бұрын

@@nitzanshu4695 Because most Abrahamic sects are basically normalized cults. There’s no sharp distinction between cult and religions.

@nitzanshu4695

Жыл бұрын

@@Exxperiment626 makes sense, im just not very knowledgeable about religions sadly

In my country Kenya, we are going through a disheartening saga of people who got convinced by their spiritual leader to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus face to face. The death toll stands at over 200 with children among the victims. There is even evidence that some of the children were strangled to put them out of their misery by "expediting" their appointment with Jesus. This is quite timely and offers a deep perspective on what is really going on since most of us are utterly befuddled and heartbroken.

@Dharmarenee

Жыл бұрын

Yes I have been following this for the past month and it breaks my heart.🤲🏾

@kimuyu

Жыл бұрын

@haha mad Bodies are still being exhumed. He herded his followers like livestock on a big tract of land. Those that died of starvation were buried. Those that attempted to escape were captured and returned to the fold. Recovery of bodies is still ongoing.

@ANTINATALIST_lewis

Жыл бұрын

No one cares bcz everyone is just trying to escape these horrible reality called life.Death is just the only way out of this horrible existence.

@ANTINATALIST_lewis

Жыл бұрын

Death is the true religion.

@kimuyu

Жыл бұрын

@@pi1810 He owns a big chunk of land. Most of it was bought using proceeds from the sale of his followers' property. Some sold everything and handed all of the money to him. There is are also mass graves inside an adjacent government reserve forest.

Signs I’ve come up with: 1. Faith based reasoning. Once you relinquish your thoughts & are willing to take a brief system without any evidence, groupthink is potent & literally can shape your worldview. 2. Us vs. Them phenomena. We are all just humans trying our best to survive this planet. Some of us, like to think of ourselves as inherently different from one another because of stories, mythology &/or beliefs. Fear holds us back from experiencing our very nature. And an organised group that seeks power ensures that “only they get you” question this. 3. There is collective shame/humiliation for non conformance. Whatever rituals or reasons, these are all conjectures of the human mind. However, there is strength in numbers and the framework that is created with a specific worldview, however myopic, is built on repercussions. After all, if there were none, there would be no group.

@zachfine3949

Жыл бұрын

@Fides Non Sequitur it’s all organised religion. They are cults on a macro scale

@MikeyfromBOS

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like AA

@casenswartz7278

Жыл бұрын

No he didn’t lol

@zachfine3949

Жыл бұрын

@Fides Non Sequitur I couldn’t agree with you more. But like I said, it’s all faith based religions

@casenswartz7278

Жыл бұрын

@Fides Non Sequitur I’ve got no idea what Christians your around, but we have full schools dedicated to teaching people not to just follow blindly.

I was in a Jehovah Witnesses cult from 0-13 years old, I was dragged there by my parents and I couldn't STAND being there throughout all of these years. My father died in front of my eyes when I was 9, and I kept going there with my mom so that she is not alone. I never believed this BS, there were breadcrumbs of fear of Jehovah in me while I was a kid, but somehow deep down I knew that this doesn't make any sense as there were a lot of inconsistencies and illogical speeches that I was constantly hearing there. At the age of 13 I told my mom that I am not interested in this anymore and that I'll never go there again. Now I'm 32. There were around 20 kids that were also dragged by their parents constantly, all of these kids grew up to be Jehovah Witnesses and they still are today. The indoctrination in this cult is pretty heavy and hard to get out of, but I'm not even sure how this did not get to me and I can only be thankful for that. My mother is still a JW - heavily indoctrinated one. She is out of touch with the reality, she believes that ARMAGEDDON is around the corner - she believes that for 32 years that I know of already. It's a sad situation to be constantly seeing your mother in this stadium, but at this point I know that I cannot help her in any way - the JW people are very hard to rationalize with.

@omyhaby1912

Жыл бұрын

I am JW and I don't feel like I am in a Cult,I just follow bible Scriptures 😊

@myinternetidentitystill

Жыл бұрын

Hey my brother, I am sad to hear about your past and that you more or less lost both of your parents. I was in this club for 13 years growing up as well. MY entire family circle was in there at one point. Luckily all of them found their way out exept for a few. For some people there is just no cure was the indoctrination is already too advanced. Happy to hear you got out to enjoy a lifetime

@kokoBuSiLiCa

Жыл бұрын

@@myinternetidentitystill Thanks friend, I'm happy that you got out as well. I'm always happy to hear of people that have figured things out in life, especially coming from a background of indoctrination. Have a great one!

@trashchannel1100

Жыл бұрын

I had a friend who want to be JW too, i literally did everything i know to get her out of that religion, i have sent her the stories and experiencesof some ex JW which is considering but shes still sticking on her belief on it like a super glue, yes same situation her mother dragged her with that religion, her friends aswell, it made me sad that i couldn't do anything anymore but to pray for those peoples who are in the wrong direction.

@trashchannel1100

Жыл бұрын

@@omyhaby1912 be careful for i got to know that they changed some stuffs on their Bible to make it believable and that changing anything on the Bible is illegal

3:08 You said most people. I’m glad not to fall under that. I’m glad I don’t have any active social media outside youtube and still make more than enough to live comfortably and have a few close friends that I actually get to trust and have someone else’s best interest in mind as they have mine.

@kissthesky40

Жыл бұрын

Good man. Have lots of kids. And I argue YT is a streaming entertainment service more then social media.

@paulgaskins7713

Жыл бұрын

@@kissthesky40 I’m trying too. 🌴🐣

@hedgehog278

Жыл бұрын

@@kissthesky40 it can also be much more educational than social media

@Azurethewolf168

Жыл бұрын

@@kissthesky40 agree, it functions more as a place to watch videos and get information than being a endless scrolling site

@lancepeterson7997

11 ай бұрын

@@Azurethewolf168 Yeah, I keep off social media because I know it's addicting, but it's still hard to combat now that YT introduced shorts.

ITS ANOTHER HIT! Great stuff, learned so much.

Do you think the tailored experiences and niche communities created by social media platforms can have cult-like characteristics? Why or why not?

@sheepketchup9059

Жыл бұрын

Cults had always exits.

@clusterstage

Жыл бұрын

Well, it's diffiCULT to CULTivate a CULTure in the faCULTy.

@EddyA1337

Жыл бұрын

Grew up in the Mormon Church in Utah and it is very much cultish. Many members can't see it but those who have left and people from out of state do.

@sethrobinson9291

Жыл бұрын

Most definitely. Even politics seem cultish. Party loyalty is one of the most dangerous aspects of modern day democratic (specifically American) cultures

@Natty183

Жыл бұрын

Confirmation bias and its effects as it grows in a feedback loop. Morphs the perception of reality the best. Every single person I know uses words like liberal and conservative to demonize their "opposite" and avoid having any actual dialogue, or transmitting any actual information about reality. The political parties in the US are cults. They are one cult technically, because it's a controlled Hegelian Dialectic.

Please share this chilling background music. It always gives such an amazing vibe when watching your videos.

Came across your channel today and so glad I did. Trying to get my brain the good stuff info and this channel is it

Yes! I knew you’d cover this topic someday.

A new Aperture Video always lights up the day

Sacred vs Mundane is a very important dichotomy to observe. Very glad you brought this up here.

@anonymouslearner2454

11 ай бұрын

oh 👋😃

"When the sacred starts to intermingle with the mundane and there's no distinction between the two, you might be in a cult." Yk what, all high school, college students, corporate workers, they're all cult members. Work and studies are supposed to support life, it's not life itself. And I've been thinking this a lot recently since I'm so stressed because of school and even at home I can not think if myself as a human but just a student, micro managing time and thinking all the time in terms of how like if I watch 20mins more of KZread, how many hours will I have to study everyday and what subjects how much to complete the assignments. And the other students being proud saying I'd solve maths till 2am in holidays and not sleep more than 4hours. It's fucked up.

@lancepeterson7997

11 ай бұрын

I don't understand how thousands of years of studies, civilization and advancements and society still can't figure out how to prepare children for life well.

Excellent Analysis. I was a Jehovah's Witness for 37yrs. My mother got me into it as a child. It is a very controlling and destructive cult. Glad to have my whole family be free of it now for the last 8yrs. Life has greatly improved

@bonganimabaso423

7 ай бұрын

That's wonderful to hear. I'm in a cult too called Christ Embassy I don't know how to leave cause it's also around my university. I really don't know what to do someone please help 🙏🏾💔

*If you spent only one day in kpop Twitter you'd definitely think twice before saying they are ethical or harmless cults!!!!!!*

I like this types of content To be honest your all videos are fantastic mind blowing....thanx bro yrrr

@avi_homosapiensapien6931

Жыл бұрын

Yeesss

Was forced into the Catholic cult from 0-13 years old… until I started realising things 👀

@basedgamer9290

Жыл бұрын

It’s not a cult, you have just misled yourself into ignorance and frustration. If being in a prolife, traditional family supporting environment is being in a cult than you can go ahead and join the alphabet mafia.

@triocha233

Жыл бұрын

@@TAP_ME_TO_GET_50K_ROBUX_rkn hopefully those clown emojis made you feel powerful behind that keyboard 😂

@BetrayingLight

10 ай бұрын

@@TAP_ME_TO_GET_50K_ROBUX_rkn What are you, 8 years old?

It's so weird you post this video after all day today I've been talking and researching about cults

@randytero29

Жыл бұрын

Timing

@ApertureThinking

Жыл бұрын

I read your mind!

Currently in a cruel cult called r/AnarchyChess

@shibe4503

Жыл бұрын

holy hell

@pumbi69

Жыл бұрын

Google en passant

@JaysonT1

Жыл бұрын

Wow, people will make a religion out of anything

@apollo4294

11 ай бұрын

Holy hell

The cult of Aperture is quite relaxing with the faceless omnipresent voice within these videos informing us on how the world works, but providing different philosophies does break the flow a bit.

Damn… I really needed this video fr

I have this weird issue where I actually find it difficult to *stay on* social media due to how overwhelming it is. Like for me, I’ve never adjusted to how much stimuli is thrown at us throw the various social media sites and even seeing stock footage of someone scrolling through TikTok actually gave me a bit of anxiety. Probably has something to do with my literal autism, needing space to recharge, potentially meltdowns/trauma triggers without warning etc. KZread is the only one that I still use and even then I rarely watch anything that I didn’t deliberately search up, was uploaded by a channel I’m subbed to or was linked to by a friend. Like even KZread shorts put me on edge.

As an exmo, the term "authoritarian group" from Steven Hassan to me is more descriptive and wide encompassing. It may feel like it's diluting the punch of "cult like", but if people study it, it perfectly explains the spectrum of control and manipulation even places we take for granted change us to favor the authoritarian group. While we'd like to think that we'd object to this, there are clear examples of how most people go along with this. I don't even think that it's all bad exactly, but in fact it's the little good things that make us stay in the influence of these groups. Growing up, I loved how my "religion" protected me from being an alcoholic. Still was a cult though.

@syntax2922

Жыл бұрын

Hey. You’re an exmoonie too?

@ethanstump

Жыл бұрын

@@syntax2922 exmormon.

I’ve noticed cult like terms and behavior around loyalty programs. You have to join, be a member, have a password, get special inside offers, loyalty points, incentives to get others to join, etc. Its weird. I don’t join them just for that reason.

@ethanstump

Жыл бұрын

Same. There's some great products on niche online stores, but I try not to use loyalty programs. Any place that has to do extra to keep my loyalty.... Usually means that the base experience is lacking something.

@mkhud50n

Жыл бұрын

@@ethanstump totally. Makes me think of Starbucks. We don’t get to have their secret recipes unless we join their membership. 🧜‍♀️ ☕️

@ApertureThinking

Жыл бұрын

Some loyalty programs can be very unnecessary for sure, but definitely not all in my view.

@mkhud50n

Жыл бұрын

@@ApertureThinking for sure. Every rule has exceptions.

@ethanstump

Жыл бұрын

@@ApertureThinking while I expect other's to disagree with this, i have come to the question of as a consumer, what is the cost benefit analysis of "loyalty". not the loyalty programs themselves, but of the habit's and beliefs they try to engender, which if I'm to be honest, seems more akin to codependency then anything else. if it's a healthy platonic relationship between two individuals, "exclusivity" shouldn't even enter into the conversation. i don't have an exclusive friend, because that itself would be a red flag of a unhealthy relationship. why i need a "exclusive" store, doesn't connect to my understanding of a healthy relationship.

bro youre making so many videos in such a quick time

@Strerium

Жыл бұрын

The power of teamwork

i've been in a volunteer group for a few months and the people are overwhelmingly nice and value bonds so much. i really felt i was in a cult but it felt wrong to say that at the time because they were nice. but yeah, i'm in an ethical cult lmao who would've thought.

Hi Aperture, first of all, let me tell you that I love your videos. Secondly, I'd like to ask you something. On your video of philosophy you told me you accepted petitions for videos, and I told you if you could make one about the Gilgamesh Project, but I don't know if you managed to read it, as your video what about to start and I wrote that in the live chat. So that's why I'm now writing you to know if you actually read it and, regardless of the answer, telling you that I'd be very thankful if you end up making that video because that's a subject of my interest, and I'm pretty sure that you could address it perfectly.

I was in a religious cult for ten years. They were real good at misinterpreting the Bible. I studied and found them to be liars, we were told not to study on our own. One of their main tenants was that we needed to keep the "Ordinances of washings", and certain days and weeks of worship. Jesus was rarely mentioned in their magazine The Plain Truth, He may have been mentioned as an aside, Herbert Armstrong was the Man of God. Now there are many splinter groups all emulating Armstrong, I used to monitor the fakes, all talking like The Man of God.

If you see this It's all love man wish you the best

Apparently, I am part of the Apple cult, despite not owning any of their products.

A very important video

Is this voice different or is this normal idk, btw love the video ❤

Aperture is my cult

I watched a Jim Jones documentary and it was very interesting to see how people followed him. Its sad how lots of people died in the end.

Thank You for showing the mormon cult!

I was in the OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis) for nearly 10 years... Seems so silly now in retrospect. As cults go they're hardly the worst and my local Lodge was actually pretty chill but the going ons in the upper degrees made me look into my choice to be part the Order deeper. I started digging and found quite a lot of disturbing stuff and finally gathered the dignity to leave it all behind. It's kinda nuts seeing it now from the outside

I really love your channel 😭❤️❤️, I've been watching it almost right from the beginning, it's peak👌✨

@selfdiscardedkingofruin7291

Жыл бұрын

Sounds cult-like 😆

@o_Haich_o

Жыл бұрын

@@selfdiscardedkingofruin7291 I don't mind 😂

@ApertureScience great videos. can you please but a list of the music you use in your videos .

you took this line from the bojack horseman 06:32 When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.

When did you get almost 2M subs, congratulations

Well since I wont be part of a group that would have someone like me as a member, I opted to live in a cave watching light shows projected on the wall instead. It's great!

My country just had a cult kill 500 + of its members through starvation. Thank you for this

@AnantMall

Жыл бұрын

Damn, name of the country and the cult please?

@pantsumaster4891

Жыл бұрын

​@@AnantMall The country is Kenya based on other comments

Being in a cult is obviously dangerous, and the only way out is having to abandon it all completely. Not many do survive from living in a cult. It could take several years before they could actually escape from it.

@wowplayer160

Жыл бұрын

Being alive is dangerous. Are you just gonna abandon that too? There are more than just literal death cults in the world. It's okay to be apart the cult of Apple but not Applewhite. Makes sense if you see the actual problem. It's not a problem 'cause 'it's dangerous', it's a problem because these 'cults' take away power from the state/society as a whole. But there are plenty of people living in cults right now that aren't on the verge of death as you make it sound.

@Exxperiment626

Жыл бұрын

Cults are usually extremely controling, not necessarily dangerous. Far from all cult-memberships ends in murder, or physically harm.

@fluffaduck6206

Жыл бұрын

Ye sucks im in one

@ethanstump

Жыл бұрын

It took me four years from when I realized to when I was able leave the Mormon cult.

I 'm begining to think I'm in a cult but I kind of like it and all the cool people I've met and I would never want to leave, nor do I even really know if its a cult or not...

Pickleball cult you say? That one hits home.

Imagine a cult where people wouldn’t join out of fear of losing basic human needs

Wow, now we're getting ads inside of commercials

Look to causality to explain everything ... You don't act on your will , you act as chain of events that you had no control over resulted in you having that particular will to begin with.

Damn son, you gonna call me out like that in the very first sentence 😂

Yikes🙀 I went to a church that felt like a cult⛪😳

Online cults are often overlooked. A good example are "the Bears." Owen, or "Big Bear" as all his cult members call him, has ALL the traits of a cult leader. His only defense he claims against this is that he says he doesn't sleep with cult members or their wives. And that's just based off of his word. He consistently yells and demeans his audience, demands they send him their hard-earned money lest he throws a temper tantrum, immediately bans anyone who disagrees with him or says something he doesn't like, ex-communicates and attacks the character and reputation of people who leave the cult or speak out against him (often even bringing their family and children into it), has literally every symptom of narcisstic personality disorder, makes them choose a "Bear" name and refers to them only as that instead of letting them use their own names, and gaslights his audience constantly. The clips archived by Milker Nation show Owen's lies and scams for what they are. And don't even get me started on the land scam, which is provably a scam as shown by MN's archived clips. He said if the goal for his land where they can, and I quote, "do cult sh-t" and have "weapons training," falls through that he would refund the money. He changed his tune and later said he never said that. And instead of selling the land and buying it somewhere else where he can fulfill his original promise, he's asking for more money from his followers for more land (that's all in HIS name, mind you). It's really obvious that anyone who sends him money to purchase the land is brainwashed. Even if they buy into his false promises and donate, they could still be banned at any moment from saying something Owen takes the wrong way if he's in the wrong mood and not be able to go to the land whatsoever. And trust, the banning rate is HIGH. To see Owen's true colors, watch the HighImpactFlix interview. It's nothing but narcisstic rage, gaslighting, demeaning, screaming, and not being able to handle someone disagreeing with him. It's shocking that a grown man would behave that way. And it's a good representation of who Owen truly is.

Interesting.

Take a bow 🙇‍♂️

me: knowing i’m not in a cult me: but what if

Its not about what you have or dont. The reason most feel bad stems from our lifestyles of the west. The west is soulless. Connection with nature can help improve your life. (Coming from an afrikan american person who IS ACTIVELY in povery) if i found a balance you can too.

@ethanstump

Жыл бұрын

As an atheist environmentalist, you don't need spirituality to have a connection with nature. While the west is predatory in a way, capitalism is global, which means that the "east" is just as predatory.

@thomassankara1391

11 ай бұрын

The west makes the halal difficult, and the haram easily accessible. I'm Congolese, born in Canada and I completely agree. Connect with nature. Meditate. Talk to the creator. Your relationship with God is personal, so why the f do you need some dude in a robe telling you what to do just because he went to some academy? Getting into nature is what we were meant to do. The thing is the west is all superficial. City life is superficial. Banks, credit, all this fake stuff that don't mean anything in the grand scheme of things.

slightly interesting topic but it's all over the place. there are good indicators to decide whether something is a cult, discord groups and fandoms are very unlikely to be a cult. one indicator that u mentioned is good which is behavioural control, but being unable to stop consuming media/fomo doesnt really qualify as behavioural control. i don't think saying cults exist on a spectrum is good nor useful....

@estranhokonsta

Жыл бұрын

I think his argument was that "being unable to stop consuming media/fomo" could and was sometimes (too times times) used for "behavioural control" by some groups.

@ethanstump

Жыл бұрын

As a cult survivor myself, and as someone who watches a fair amount of Post cult content, being born hasidic is a step above being Born mainline Mormon, which itself is a step above being Born Episcopalian. Authoritarian groups actually do exist on a spectrum, and this is confirmed by qualified experts on cults. You don't need the whole "I was a child bride" experience to be negatively impacted.

@Dillarune

Жыл бұрын

@@ethanstump i agree with that yeah. just kinda annoyed how the video says how online circles can be considered as cult but on the the low/not harmful side of the spectrum. it kinda undermines how serious the term is.

@ethanstump

Жыл бұрын

@@Dillarune as a cult survivor, i view it the other way though? it show's how normalized authoritarian viewpoint's/structures/methods are in our culture. i agree that the "not harmful" framing is messed up, and a better framing would be dilute rather than not harmful, because something can still be harmful and still be considered dilute. kind of like how sipping a teaspoon of trash water is still considered unhealthy versus eating half a pound of trash. a great book i just picked up is "the myth of normal". there's a lot of normalized toxicity in our culture, and calling that out i think is healthy. rather than undermining the term, i think it show's how useful it actually is, BECAUSE it can be used widely. sure, i think there is potential for a number of false positives and bad actors, but i actually do think critically thinking about these thing's actually leads to less false positives and less bad actor's than letting the culture be uncritical. and yes, online space's are controlled by corporations, which is a hierarchical authoritarian structure. the organizational cult that i used to belong to was the Mormon's, which is as corporate as can be. doesn't mean that the internet shouldn't exist, merely that it needs core restructuring.

Crap. I'm in a cult and I didn't know it. I left....just now. It hurt to know but hurts more knowing now what I could have looked past. I hold. Things. But I know its BS. Oh well. You win some you lose some. Still playing. That's what matters...right?

@domotron3598

Жыл бұрын

you win some, you lose some, but above all keep playing I like that

Im sooo happy im not as terminally online as some

I never see videos diving deep on how regular families can behave like a cult if one or both parents are narcissistic, abusive, and intend to control their kids, partners of their kids, grandkids, etc.

Definitions Cult: A small, unpopular religion. Religion: A large, popular cult.

So you're telling me i was in a cult.... for 10 years?

Damn, really am down bad huh

Honestly me right now.

my fellow hamza viewers goin crazy Rn

Another sign is that you have flags of a political candidate on your truck and are in denial of him committing crimes and treason.

Cult can be almost group Countries even

3:29 this made me look at my keyboard to see if it's real

@ApertureScience What ever happened to your cousin/lover? She didn't end up joining a cult, did she??

I like personal ads just for me. I do not want to see ads that are of no interest to me.

i work out i game i am not in a cult what i am in is a soulles system where i work 8 hours 5 days a week commute for two hours each day and can not afford to by any meaningful asset without morgaged loan

Thank you for the video. I was part of the Mormon cult for 28 years. I was born in a Mormon family, and I even served a mission for 2 years. During most of this time, I defended them with all my power. I couldn't stand someone telling me they were a cult. I felt pity for those outside. Through 2016-18 I discovered I new passion for Astronomy and Physics. It became a hobby for me to study science, but at the same time I was still very into Mormonism. I could see that both were true, so I decided to connect the dots an connect Mormonism with Science, and that's when I started to realize how wrong everything was in this 'religion' and in being part of any religion. I left Mormonism for good in 2018. My whole family is still part of this cult, and there is nothing I can tell them that would make them even think about leaving it. They think I was influenced by scientists and by the desires of the world. I still see them often, and we learned how to avoid certain topics, but I 'myself' can see clearly how the Mormon cult influences them in all of their arguments and opinions about every world topic. It's truly sad that our human minds are so corrupted that we human kind had to create cults and religions in order to corrupt and control other people.

The first 16second makes me mad. Dont rub it on my face 😂

Bro i just made a cult and its getting out of hand it actually manage to go branch out into provinces in a WEEK. Now im feeling troubled managing and fucking funding is about to start. We have a gc of officers now. Fuck

balls.

I’d be suspicious tbh.

What makes you say we aren't.

Osho ❤

This video is amazing! Thank you so much for it… This is just describing Christianity…

@meliodasv.f.9836

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@ANTINATALIST_lewis

Жыл бұрын

Every effin' religion.

@basedgamer9290

Жыл бұрын

Reddit atheist

@BetrayingLight

10 ай бұрын

It's actually describing religion. Every religion is a cult.

@officialthomasjames

10 ай бұрын

Read the book “Mere Christianity” or read the Gospel yourself rather than just getting your talking points from redditors. Every society that becomes secular collapses for a reason, and the US is heading in that direction.

I’m in a ethical cult for one piece lmao

@O.Reagano

Жыл бұрын

good work ✊✊

@soulsniper_gamer4371

Жыл бұрын

im still waiting for two peace to come out

@enzoh7151

Жыл бұрын

Master piece

@jacobperreault6844

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s funny that the three other fan here found my comment

The Sun is about to put an end to the Cult of the Sacred Screen.

I was a hyperian for 3 years and involved in the hyperian movement between 2014 and 2017. Once you leave, the "friends" you had disappear.

First thumbnail looked nice but this thumb looks like it needs and has to tell you something very specific.

Just high ...but isn't it possible for the incogni guys to get your information sell it or put it in suspicious places of the internet and then send you screenshots of your info in suspicious spaces as evidence that your information was being ....you know😁😁

I caught that Bojack Horseman reference...

Missed one crucial aspect of cults: money

Me watching while reading 20th century boys manga

*_Cyrax:_* The cult of 2023.

How does bro know/think of all these things????

Hey KZread comment cult, we comment therefore we are

plot twist, everything is a cult

@reyy568

Жыл бұрын

Lol truly

I feel like the word cult is ruined. You cant be in a cult if you live at home. You cant be in a cult if theres no supernatural belief. Without those 2 things ANYTHING could be labled a cult.