Anyone see the HBO documentary “Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God”?
All the woman did was drink and turn blue and couldn’t even heal herself.
I can do magic :3
I cast manual breathing >:3
They have social and political powers
Well you see I expend all of my powers holding the darkness at bay. Notice how it gets dark when I get tired and fall asleep?
We need to test this with some sleeping pills and caffeine. Open wide!
There is a fun Netflix documentary where a guy creates his own cult: Kumare.
In the end he feels bad for taking advantage of peoples’ trust particularly when vulnerable and has a semi-sincere apology for including them in his project.
So the first requirement is you need to be a bit of a sociopath or a true believer (aka a bit crazy)
I think that is undercutting the prime requirement to be in a cult… too dumb to question shit like that.
A good deal of the miracles happen conveniently off-screen, and mostly become “true” because the whole group tends to unanimously trust the mythos.
Easy, join the cult of linux and bow to the power of the cult leaders: “doing math very fast”. BEHOLD.
If you learn Bash, you can do some proper command line magic. If text files are more like your thing, consider looking into Vim.
This is why claiming to be a “prophet” (by any of a multitude of definitions) is so popular for cult leaders.
You can say you have information from a deity, one way or another, or even that you get special treatment from a deity. No special powers needed. If people believe in the deity and they believe you were chosen by that deity, to counteract that would mean counteracting the belief in the deity itself.
False prophets will arrive and mislead many
Yup. The requirement of “faith” is a sure sign of charlatanism.
It’s a funny thing, when you think about it. If you were truly God, you wouldn’t need to prove it; you could just make it so everyone believes you.
Not if “believe” from the followers is some kind of cosmic energy that powers the gods or defines their hierarchy, a pandimensional twitter subscription counter of sorts. In that case the last thing you want is to prove your existence as a god, because as soon as your existence is proven all believe will pop out of existence and will be replaced with knowledge of the existence.
Believe is only possible when the thing to believe in is vague and unknowable, you can’t by definition ever believe in the existence of anything that you are sure of.
That’s composing quite an edifice of unprovable postulation to reverse engineer faith. “A” for effort!
Thanks, that’s so sweet 😊
Extremely relevant video of Derren Brown, British illusionist: Miracles for Sale - It’s very easy to pretend you have some sort of miracle healing powers.
Coincidentally watched The Man Who Would Be King for the first time last night. 😆
Still trying to decide if Huston (or Kipling for that matter) intended the anti-colonialism or if that’s just my reading.
All this hullabaloo about a guy who never existed. Jesus buttfucking Christ.
I think we have archeological evidence for Jesus. Just not for the miracles obviously.
