Ay guys this space is just a cult. (Page 1 of 2)

Friends don't let friends type drunk!

Hey it's always been my dream to join an alien death cult gotta have a goal in life!

That explains it........Why I was compelled to buy new Nike's and cyanide. I was lucky enough to find both items in NR blue.

Hey if we get enough members we won't be a cult we will be a religion. Then we can do whatever we want.

Positiveone:

There are many characteristics of a cult that this forum does not exhibit. For instance, since cults have an "us and them" mentality you would have been viciously trashed by now in the replies by forum members because cults hypnotize people into magical thinking and when anything threatens that the members attack and attack brutally. Look how kind and benign the responses have been to your assertion. Also cults exploit people financially, sexually and in other ways. I have not found that to be the case here. And cults encourage members to neglect themselves-their health, their financial wellbeing, their relationships, their support systems, etc. etc. and devote all to the cult. I find the opposite to be true with the NR forum, people encourage self-care and sustaining significant ties to others. True, I may spend too much time on the forum because of a period of spiritual crisis that I entered into, and I should possibly start living in real time rather than on the Internet, (but hey I haven't watched TV in years) but that is my responsibility to curtail Internet living. No one has demanded that I spend a certain amount of time reading the literature and staying on the chat.-lala

  I think I recall reading a few posts across the internet that were written whilst under the influence of something causing various states of mind (not all of them influenced by external substances either!).  At least you had the balls to own up to it, Positiveone, and thanks for the clarification.  I've often thought to myself that the internet (especially the web) is a total time sucker and extremely cult-ish (there's a group for everything, it seems), and I understand what you're saying.  I think it's good to just disconnect from the "virtual world" sometimes and clear your mind from technology.  Sometimes you just have to disconnect from it all and refocus; reconnect with the natural world.  The internet is not going anywhere... it's become more than just a cult... for the younger generation, it's becoming a real (and large) part of their "real world", unfortunately.  It boils down to an individual's choice (just like everything else) of where and how we spend our time and intent.

Aw.. come on P, that's a copout. You want to blame a momentary lapse in judgement on the bong? I ain't buyin' it.
That's like the barfly who goes around impregnating because he had the "beer glasses" on..... if the will is there in the first place, then the alcohol becomes an excuse for every bad decision. You've been around long enough to know this won't fly here. The only part that bothered me was you calling it/us "nonsense". Other than that I thought it was humorous.

But I maintain that the net has served more for long-distance unification than for 'real world' dissociation or division.
Just like anything else, it can be used, or ABused. The web has indeed given people of like mind a venue where there would not have been one otherwise.

And like lala said, this thread is proof of the complete lack of a cult mentality here,
which is definetely worthy of shining the light on, especially for the prospective future readership, so for that I say thanks.

Post on my man, post on....           J