#but I thank you

[skywarpie]

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[anarchistettin]

Yours is a perspective I've never encountered before now. I'm interested in hearing your take on groups (I would call them cults as a neutral descriptor but I'm asking in good faith here and idk if that would come off badly) like Heavens Gate, The Peoples Temple, NXIVM, Aum Shinrikyo, etc.

Not surprising that it's new for you! If you let on that you don't hate the out-group, people hate you & assume all the worst. That doesn't change. Nobody wants you to find out they don't hate the people they're supposed to hate.

Heaven's Gate, the Jim Jones tragedy, & Branch Davidians come to most people's minds, because the term CULT CULT CULT was hammered in at those times. Before that it was Manson, but the door was opened before that by scary-lookin people spanging for Hare Krishna temples in the airports, and ISKCON.

By that time, in the 1960s, it was no longer okay to keep saying BLACK BLACK BLACK. You had to find a new enemy.

I'd love to talk about my experiences in communicating with CoG members fleeing the implosion of their scene, but it would muddy the waters I guess. Some folks in those days were very upset with me for not being cruel to the CoGs. Oh well! One of the things about hate-buzz like CULT CULT CULT is how it muddies the waters. Fortunately for me, I don't give a shit how y'all "see" me, & don't have anything to gain from you. I don't even think you'll agree, so I might tend to leave off trying to be persuasive.

I've already judged, is the thing ^_^ harshly it's not permanent or specific - I just don't believe in the quality of mind. Really smart seeming people are still in the grip of this sexy allowed-to-hate-them vibe and there's no talking anyone out of it. I know.

But the vast majority of cults are people you haven't heard of, mainly because they're not exciting, but also because they've worked to keep it that way. They don't want other people coming around; that's why they culted up.

They were cults! Heaven's Gate & all'em. And I don't get riled when people are using the terminology in good faith. It's just that they never are. They always (always) mean the Bad Kind of People. What baffles me about that, still, is that so many of you have now seen how that's a tactic, and how it threatens your violent horrible death.

Maybe say "good cult" every now and then, if you're interested in earning my respect (or overturning my judgement. good luck)

The fuck of it for me is that I've had to see the death. I made a post about it somewhere, that deaths by violence outnumbered deaths by AIDS in my life. Stunning to realize. Cops #1, jilted exes #2, and Random Awful Bullshit #3. Watching traumatized loved ones get hauled off to jail for the crime of not having been murdered was a defining moment in my feelings about this particular habit.

Cults are no different than other groups of people except for being natural. The other models for not killing each other are built on the skeleton of the cult (& that other similar natural model y'all love to hate: the tribe) because that's how culture is made, that's how ways of life come into being.

& that's why you've been conditioned to think Heaven's Gate or Aum Shinrikyo instead of Homegrown Veggies or A Healthful Indigenous Lifestyle. Simply refraining from slandering people you don't know fails to serve your true master, your true charismatic leader & spiritual center: God's White Father.

One unsupportable belief that life in a cult has given me: they're better than you. I'm not - I'm like y'all, basically - but they, the others in that family, are so much better. Unlike me they aren't willing to engage & don't believe there's any point to trying to get people to stop being murdering assholes in the service of their various churches & state officials. But they'd never think about you the way I do - they'd never be angry or hurt by it. They're better than that.

[evilgoodguys]

he’d forgotten how much he missed that smile.

[chiisana-lion]

[manny-jacinto]

ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (2019)

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

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[s-aint-elmo]

pass it on!

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[fosliie]

College roommates, lab partners, to basically married pipeline

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

[jackalspine]

@schnuffel-danny hehehe

regarding this post: from schnuffle

[i23kazu]

how i feel when someone reblogs my stuff with a really really nice tag

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[evilgoodguys]

caught them doing the SIN, cos, tan (bad trigonometry joke, I'm sorry, you have permission to euthanize me)

bonus:

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[qirongmycancelledwife]

god bless