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When Did You Realize You Were In A Cult (r/AskReddit)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2019
- Fresh AskReddit Stories: Former cult members of Reddit, at what moment did you go, “oh frick, I’m in a cult”? --- LIKE AND I WILL UPLOAD MORE REDDIT STORIES!
#reddit #realization #stories
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creativecommon...
"The library: we've got your back".
This is literally true. Keep reading and keep asking questions.
Damn right, they were created to make you think
"The library: we've got your back if you in a cult"
start a pettition to change the bostion pubic librarys slogen to this
i dont mean to be off topic but does anyone know a tool to log back into an instagram account??
I was dumb forgot my password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me
@Musa Peyton Instablaster ;)
@Boone Sergio Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now.
Takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
No bigger red flags than “No questions allowed” and glorifying the leader.
Nice dig at Greta!
😉
@@vendomnu who?
@@arolurker3511 he's being a twat and referring to the girl who spoke at the UN on climate change, and calling those who agree with her cultists. While completely missing the point of her speech.
“I think some people aren’t commenting bc your topic made them realize they should leave Reddit “ 🤣🤣
no replys?
@@thefrogge Probably a mix of two factors.
-People don't like seeing 'that comment' on all these videos saying: "Society is a cult, jobs are cults, Reddit and Fortnite and TikTok are cults," on every video about cults. At this point, it's like seeing "Worse genocides happen every day in slaughterhouses," on videos about the Holocaust.
-They realized this comment is correct, and that SubReddits, especially for niche subs, are essentially cults.
I realized that the church controlled nearly every aspect of me and my family's behavior, information, thoughts and emotions. My great great uncle, who founded the religion, was a liar and was known for scamming people. So much abuse, so much pain, and I'm so much happier now that I'm away from that church. I didn't leave the church to sin, I left so I could choose who to marry and what I wanted to do with my body.
ooh awkward
Dang I want to ask if its Westboro but i respect your decision not to reveal it.
@@timriggins70 Goodness, no. They're nowhere near that bad. Even though the church doctrine is pretty anti-LGBT though, my congregation was super supportive of me dating another girl. It was the iron grip of the presidency that felt so suffocating.
"anti-LGBT" sounds like you flocked *to* the cult...pity.
@@coolguy02536 I was raised in it, as was my family for generations. My mom, my uncle and I are pretty much the only non members in my entire extended family. :/
My dad said I didn’t love god because I didn’t want to go to church. I was sick. He said the same thing to my sister when she was sick with a cold, and was just being a decent human being for not wanting to get people sick.
I choose to worship cats now.
So, you converted to the old Egyptian gods? How's that working for you? I heard they are pretty chill, well, minus the incest thingy that has going on.
@@someoneprobably1802 Atleast they aren't being chastised for not taking part in the weird incest thingy
@@aasthasingh8996 true enough
I found an old book I in my highschool library once that was titled something along the lines of "which cult is right for you?" Lmao it was like, an essay on the objective pros and cons of each known cult religion and how to decide if this one or that was right for you...
How did that book make it into a high school library?
“What movie theater shows movies at midnight?”
Would kind of suck if it turns out they were just trying to take you a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Room. But since were talking about religious cults and not cult movies, that’s unlikely
My cinema shows films at midnight 😂
If I was that person, I'd be terrified either I'd never be seen again or missing for months after torture/brainwashing/exorcisms.
I worked at a movie theater that regularly had midnight movies
@@bboops23 In my city, you can't really have midnight movies because the buses stop running at, like, 1:45. Most people won't have time to get to their bus to get home after watching a movie at midnight.
Maybe other cities are different, I dunno. Latest I've seen a movie at was, like, 11:50.
Luckily there's no cults in my woods cause I chased them out
I'm surprised no one has started a cult around you lol
Metroplex Prime Ight I deleted the comment but what I said was ima start one now wanna join then I put my phone number down and said if so text me and then I realized I fucked up
Thank you for doing your part to keep the forest clean of trash.
You deserve praise for your acts. Do you accept tributes or sacrifices?
Thanks, Bigfoot
There's a disturbingly fine line between religion and cult. Don't let anyone try to control your thoughts or your beliefs!
That line has been gone since Jim Jones snorted it.
A cult is when the person up top know it's a scam. A religion is when that person has been dead for decades/centuries.
"The only difference between a religion and a cult is the amount of real estate they own".
*Frank Zappa*
There was never a line. They're one in the same.
@@mateolitc8898 No, there is a line.
I once heard from a former cult member who wrote a book about her experience that childhood traumatic brain injury can predispose someone to being susceptible to getting sucked into a cult and she had a head injury as a child
TBI? That’s interesting. TBI can cause lots of stuff including depression and anxiety, as you likely know. It weakens the mind in general.
I don’t have scientific evidence, but I would bet that trauma in general predisposes people to be drawn to cults.
RKD people going through life changes in general are more vulnerable. Death, breakup, divorce, moving, graduation, loss of work... MLM people are often aware of this too and use it. My family got culty, MLMs got me instead! *facepalm*
My mom was abused as a kid, and she converted to her religion at 19. Us kids grew up in it. We're all out now, but I still can't tell my mom that I'm done or it would break her heart. I've been wondering if she needs that structure and control because of her upbringing? It gives her comfort or something, but I hate how it continues to traumatize her. She's always saying she doesn't feel worthy enough and that God doesn't love her.
Kristin B I relate to your mom a lot, I got into it on my own when I was a teen, but I eventually got out of it. I think abuse, emotional or verbal, creates a sense of worthlessness and a need for structure. There is a reason I was so drawn to the idea of an Heavenly Father who would love me no matter what, and new authority figures in my life. I hope you can have a conversation with your Mom that she can understand. But I can see how it will be very difficult. When I was in a fundamentalist church the most painful part for me was they my family was “unsaved “ because they weren’t in the church. I felt like it was my sole responsibility to bring them to God and felt like I failed them if I didn’t.
Anyway, I empathize deeply with your situation.
10:00 Yeah- the sad thing that history repeats itself when Christian forget why the new testament exist... Jesus himself has accepted an invitation to a feast by a tax collector, let a harlot wash his feet. The one he kicked out from the front of God's house are merchants having their business in inappropriate place.
Who the hell would mind a father thanking God for blessing him with a child? We're also singing INSIDE the church anyway.
Yay, someone who understands that not all the churches are the same!
*I realized I was in a cult when they gave me a white cloth and a cone head*
@Jhonny Auditore Kool kids klub !? No no I need to breath !
Bro you were in the KKK? The Krispy Kreme Klan? Duude that's legendary
oh naw
Kingdom of Koopa Keep?
@Jhonny Auditore MY SIDES OMG 😂😂😂😂
As a Jehovah's witness kid and leaving when i got 16 when i left home. Soooo many of these were Jehovah's Witnesses they just didnt say the name.
"Home depot is not a cult" .... I work there and I remember using those exact words to explain to my sister how work was going.....
I left the Mormon church a few years ago and last year I was hanging out with my friends (btw, all three of us are girls, about 13 at the time) who are still in the church and somehow we got onto the subject of our futures, and future children. They asked me questions like "How many kids do you want?" ect. and I answered that I only maybe wanted one when I was in my 30s. They were shocked, so I asked them "Why would it be so bad to not have kids?" And they answered in unison, " Because it's God's plan for us." As if I should've known that already. Also the Mormon church says that we shouldn't drink caffeine, and whenever I come to one of my friend's house with coffee or something, they seem taken aback. The Church has LITTLE GIRLS sing nursery songs about how they want to be a mother, and that it is their purpose in life. WTF, I don't want to be forced into wasting my life just because some creepy old man from the church tells me I have to!
The Mormon church has always been run by old, Conservative, white, men. The old men drone on for hours with some sort of lesson or something, and every once in a while this young mother will come up and tearfully share her 'Testimony' with everyone about some experience in her life that's completely unrelated to the church, it would always end with her tearfully saying "And I know,*sniffle* that the Church is true, because -insert some way the church supposedly helped her here-."
The Mormon church teaches that anyone who is gay, bi, pan, ect. are evil, and need to be brought back to god. I've heard of parents disowning their own children because they think god would want them to. And apparently
They expect us to pay them 10% of what we earn, including CHILDREN. My friends work petsitting and babysitting and earn a reasonable amount, but after their parents get them to put away some for savings and some fore Tithing, they only have a few dollars left for their work!
My mom has been trying to leave the Mormon church for years now, we've told them SEVERAL times that we didn't want them contacting us anymore. For the past few years, they've been sending all kinds of people from the church to our door, missionaries, women's group members, and even our own friends from the church to try to get us to come back! My mom has told them several times that we're not interested, and asking them NOT to contact us again. Every time a new person came to our door my my would very quickly explain that we have been trying to disconnect from the church for years now, and aren't interested. Most people would GET THE MESSAGE and LEAVE but not these people! Instead they stand there and tell us that "Oh, I'm new to this area, I didn't know! Sorry. Do you want to come ANYWAY?" And even when we put a BIG NO SOLICITING sign on our door they kept coming! They even went to far as to send a letter DIRECTLY to my seven year old sister to wash her happy birthday, and ask her to come to a meetup! You don't send mail to someone's kid without telling them! It's outrageous!!!
Luckily, we found this really great Protestant church nearby and went there for a while. They had a nice cat and a really relaxed demeanor. They had interesting lessons and activities. And, at the end, they served food and COFFEE!
I'm considering becoming a Quaker, they seem like a really good religion.
Blossomness Studios
Interesting perspective
I’m LDS and Baha’i, and I’m also a bisexual woman.
I think your experience is not a universal one, I hope you respect that it’s something other people see differently, and I hope you’ve found happiness on whatever path you’ve chosen now.
FYI There are legal services to help you officially leave the morman church
I grew up LDS and never had any extreme experiences like that :/
Like of somebody was drinking coffee everyone around me who was LDS would be like "that's fine everybody gets to make their own choices and were not going to force our beliefs on you :)"
Also, at least where I live, all the Mormons are pretty chill about LGBTQ+ people (I mean, I'm pretty openly pansexual and my parents fully support me despite being very strong in the church.)
I mean, I understand why you feel that way, but your experiences aren't universal.
I attended this church my cousins have started attending just for fun... they ended up praising the one who built the church more than they could ever praise Jesus. but then this church builder started proclaiming things not really appropriate - like Jesus underwent death penalty so it should be legal (not even realizing the context that he was innocent), and they have started to kick out couples who aren't married yet or married in a different religion altogether. their pastors have been backstabbing each other, it was so far worse one had to build a separate church about 19 kms away
"you are going to marry a Korean"
Ah crap the moons are at it again
The whos??
@@wamlythecrabgod2199 Sun Myung Moon.
I grew as a Jehovas Witness. Always thought they were strange. One day i asked an Elder if he thought there was life on other planets. He said no. only this planet has life. I said it seems really strange to make the whole universe, and then not do anything with it. he replied that maybe this is not the right religion for you then. What is? I asked. i don't think it exists he replied. I decided at 11 I was going to leave as soon a I could. I made it official at 15 and have not looked back. My mom has tried to get me to go back, but I have told her no. She likes to bring up that we are living in the "end times" I just tell her I don't wan to hear about her doom and gloom religion that espouses misery.
I am atheist now and am much happier. Thanks parents for ruining my childhood.
Congrats on getting out. A doom and gloom faith only serves to give negative community, and that’s hardly better than nothing and easily replaceable. Religion is supposed to give as much hope as discipline.
Marc Lytle
These _might_ be the end times. But if they are, it’s because we’ve fucked up our climate.
I am kind of impressed the Elder would've told you that this is not the right religion for you. Instead of trying to hold you back and all those things that some of the stories in the video (and unselected ones) do.
@@CommSchuKadaj It surprised me at the time as well. I guess he could tell there was no "saving" me.
@@pokemagetech We didn't fuck it up, it's called nature. How do you think the ice age happened? Nature. Climate change is literally just nature doing what it's always done.
Churches with hypocritical and/or overzealous pastors are not the same as cults.
I used to be part of a cult who felt they lived in a superior way to everyone else. We were encouraged to recruit people to the cult to help them and improve their lives, but when we did, people became irritated and sometimes even hostile. Through doing this, we often alienated our non-cult friends and family, so were made to feel like we were the only ones who truly understood each other, and if we left, we would have nothing and nobody. We were led to believe that our way of living was the only right way of living, and the world would be a better place if everyone lived as we did. I knew something wasn’t right, and I had to leave somehow, no matter what it cost me.
But I did it. One day, I just left and didn’t return.
And I haven’t been to church since.
were u a jehovahs witness
People who don't want you to think are never your friend.
Jehovah's witnesses' sermons ARE pretty repetitive, so idk how that one guy went so many years without learning that most other Christians believe in the trinity. Also I'm pretty sure they've been saying the end is coming soon since like... the 1910s. Not the 60s.
It was sometime in the 1870s, then 1915, then they realized there was no year 0 between 2 BCE and 1 CE so it was now going to be 1914, then sometime in the 1920s or 30s, eventually 1975 ("stay alive til '75"), and I think that was their last real prediction. But the insider lit has been hinting that very soon their message will switch "from good news to judgement". Meaning they will not be accepting new members and just knocking on doors to tell people it's too late and they're going to die in Armageddon.
@BG_Gaming they've been saying "soon" for over 150 years. Pretty lax "soon" if you ask me.
@BG_Gaming Ey! I'm one too if you couldn't tell from my comment. Nice to meet ya.
To be fair, the Trinity doctrine has a pretty shady history and is still seen as heretical by pretty much the rest of the Abrahamic world.
@@psychsoma I think in the context of human history, that would be considered "soon." It's a pretty relative word, right? For us, that's longer than a lifetime. But considering the history of the earth, 150 years is nothing. I guess it just depends on your perspective.
definition of a cult: a small, unpopular religion.
definition of a religion: large popular cult
Wow. This is really good! I might have to borrow it.
Longest day of work I ever had was when I was 15 and I worked in a comic book store. My boss was an evangelical christaian and a customer was a Jehovah's Witness. Both were determined to save my soul and spent a long time trying to convert me while poking holes in each other's religion. I wasn't convinced by either one, but it was both the most tedious thing to sit through and most interesting thing. Both seemed like a cult to me, but I didn't say that to either one.
I got out of a campus Bible study group after seeing it morph into cult-like practices. Everything was fine in the first few years, until more liberal minded students started joining the group. They all signed up for being leaders and promoted their friends to leadership positions. Around this time, the leader began making speeches about "diversity", and giving lectures where he'd twist scripture around to form political opinions about immigration and Socialism. The students who forced themselves into leadership roles would cheer him on during the speeches, and would snap their fingers in place of applauding.
The group also began making frequent trips to retreat camps, and charge students money. It wasn't for any Christian related outreach, and we would be spending a week up in rural mountains hours away from campus. We would also be instructed to take a bus ride up to the retreat, and we weren't permitted to ride in separate cars. Their excuse was they didn't want anyone potentially getting lost on the ride up there.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was when I joked about picking kids up in a van that had "Free Candy" written on the side. I was completely blacklisted on social media, blocked, and isolated from group members as a form of punishment. Keep in mind I made this joke on GroupMe, a relatively private platform that requires invitation, so it wasn't like casual non-members would see it, like on a platform such as Facebook.
The pastor even acknowledged that he knew it was just a joke, but went along with the sanctions because the student leaders were accusing me of being a child predator and were demanding that he call the police. That's when I cut ties with the group completely, and told the pastor what was happening with the group, whether he was aware of it or not, and just left it as that. I'm still not sure if the pastor had ulterior motives, or if his mindset was slowly shifted by the new student leaders. Either way, I got the hell out of their before they could do any actual harm to my life and wellbeing.
Another brother saved by the public library, praise the library, they got your back.
It's nice to know they think loners like me deserve to burn in Hell, but at least I'm not a desirable target for their nuttery.
When I started to randomly sing "Duck is lord. Duck is lord. The Duck is lord, lord, lord. Duck is lord." #starcult #starkid
The progress please the Duck
Wasn't in one, but my Uni neighbor (stayed in the same private student housing as i, his room door was a meter away from mine) was in a religious organization that sounded rather cult-like to me. Members were cordoned off into ''tiers'' of followers, from initiate up to the top tier of church organizers. Each tier was divided up into groups with a ''supervisor'' from the tier above them making sure they kept within the doctrine. They technically weren't allowed (on campus) to live in student housing that wasn't owned by the organization or were occupied by a majority of members (his was an outside case because he enrolled late into the Uni and didn't start looking for housing until just about everything was taken). Members were not allowed to have romantic relationships with anyone outside the organization, and friendships were discouraged. The dude also constantly tried to feed me the churchs' materials and try to get me to attend and join. I usually just smiled, nodded, took the stuff he gave me and just packed it away in the closet somewhere to gather dust and tried to plan my daily routine to avoid him as much as possible, as he had that air of utter devotion about him that was bordering on fanaticism that can just creep a average person out at 15 paces.
I was staying with my sister to help her move out, packing, cleaning, etc. - there was a knock at the door a child trying to talk to me about J.Witness' - I told him a couple of times I was not interested but he was persistent, eventually the message sunk in and he left. I told my sister who said "people are less likely to be rude to a child, they are a cult of cowards" - 100% accurate, if an adult persisted I would have just closed the door on their face O.o, a group of manipulative freaks
A Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses was on the parallel street from my childhood home. We have a 3/4mi driveway and patrons of the church would very often drive down to our house, (ignoring 3 “no trespassing” and “private property” and “no outlet” signs) thinking they were going to church... Usually they’d then knock on the door and try to give us pamphlets.
So many times our three Rottweilers would run to the car, barking. A couple times the parents hesitantly gazed down at the dogs, then sent their small children out of the car first! Thank god we had friendly animals, but who sends the kids to test it out?
"comment your confession" I confess, I'm obsessed with these videos
When they told me I would have my own planet in the afterlife 🔭
I wish I was joking.
Mormon?
@@charlesvitanza8867 Yes. Very happy to be out of that shit show.
@@r.c.whitaker296 same here
Edit: spelling
@@charlesvitanza8867 It feels great to have your life back,yes?🙂
@@r.c.whitaker296 absolutely, however like TSCC says "you can leave but you can't leave it alone"
Yikes....the world is really filled with judgemental loons, huh
I'm noticing a theme...
3:55 It was still clearly a trap but lots of movie theaters have midnight showings
The moment you realize everyone outside the compound is crazy but think that can’t be true
12:21 is an example of an extreme Charismatic group, if you encounter it, run away from there
Home Depot may not be a cult, but Walmart and Waffle House definitely are.
When they cut the weird guy open and danced around the eternal hole
When some guy started killing people with a Terra Blade and weird armor.
Is this a reference to a specific game?
@@KnakuanaRka PERHAPS
I dont believe in the gods existence. Man is the master of his own fate, not the gods. Men created the gods, to give answers to questions, they are too afraid to give themselves. -- Ragnar Lothbrok
Sometimes it feels like Star Wars and Star Trek fandoms are cults.
2:19 The high lama?! A Buddhist cult?!
Ohhh i thought about a stoned animal... still creepy.
Hari Krishnas. Those guys are creeps.
Stope throwing off Emperor Kuzcos groove!
Vainglory 2KW8Ω Depends. I’ve hanged with a good few, visited a temple, even went to a big event at one of their major temples and communities. It’s a more evangelizing, more manichaean branch/subbranch of Hinduism. Not exactly my thing since it’s still too religious in the doctrinaire sense, but I respected their pursuits.
My background: I was raised in a religiously independent new age-y family taking me to both protestant church and Sai Baba centers (Sai Baba was a Hindu spiritual leader), and I, while remaining eclectic, now claim Buddhism as my faith. Almost anything else has too many assumptions in word or practice for me to stand behind.
I grew up uber religious, the kind of church where the standard belief is you have to speak in tongues to get into heaven and the women wear long skirts. If being told from childhood that the world is going to end any day now wasn't bad enough, when I was 15 I went to church camp and they staged an active shooter to "show us what it's like to be in a country where Christianity is illegal." The girl I bunked with was sobbing. She literally thought she was about to die. I now realize this is a torture technique they applied to children. That was my first "oh shit I was born into a cult" moment.
I'm not strictly religious or anything, but when I was 13 a Christian friend of mine invited me to a youth church thing despite knowing I subscribed to Chinese Folk Religion. It was weird. Fellow Singaporeans may recall the City Harvest Church scandal, how several pastors were basically caught using money from the churchgoers for personal uses (amounted to about 10mil. or so) and the main pastor was known for performing "miracles" and referring to himself as "God's Son", in those words exactly. There are plenty of articles about this already, and while it's very much more Evangelical, I think the methods and tactics they employ are very familiar to those who know anything about cults.
I realized I was being pulled into a cult in my early 20s. As I learned more about the natural world, I saw that the leaders’ explanations for things did not make sense. As I learned more about psychology, I understood that the leaders were preying on those who felt an intense need to belong, and that many of the followers were behaving in a way consistent with middle schoolers - validating the bullies in order to either feel important/powerful or to avoid being their next target, without considering whether the bullies were right or wrong.
I left the cult in my mid 20s, and have never voted republican since.
It was probably an intervention but I think both theaters in my city have 12am showings.
Tim Riggins Wait what is an intervention?
I thought they wanted to beat him up.
@@leanykakicsi6152 a meeting with someone to discourage them from certain behaviors before they lead into something bad.
@@leanykakicsi6152 listening again maybe they were going to beat him up.
Does anyone else wonder about that friend/family that invited them?
So many stories about, "My friend/sister/cousin/in-law invited me to attend."
Like what happened to THOSE people. Did they turn to the loved one and go..."Yo,...this is a cult." or did they just nope out of there and never spoke to them again, or are they real confused why they won't go back to church with them??
How to tell if your in a cult or bad religion.
1. Do as I say not as I do.
2. Getting you to turn against family and friends.
3. Does not follow own rules or has a history of not
Follow it's own rules. For instance.
Thou shall not kill.
"The library: we've got your back".
to that i say
We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!"
"Home Depot is not a cult."
As a Home Depot employee, I REALLY want to know the story behind that quote.
I was not expecting to find Home Depot on this thread.
Yeah, I wasn't raised in a Depotist household
surprised there arent any mormon stories (though the one about having babies might have been mormon lmao). realised i was atheist when i was 13 and stopped going to church when i was 15--luckily my parents let me and my also atheist sister stay once we stopped attending, but they've always even ten years later had an air of disappointment, superiority, etc when it comes to anything related to church. not to mention i kept getting mail, emails and phone calls from the church for years until i told them i'd get the police involved if they didn't stop contacting me. still get random members i haven't seen in years approaching me (i still live local) and asking when i'm coming back to church
I noticed Jehovah's Witnesses mentioned a few times in this video, do people really view that as a cult? I was raised as a Jehova's Witness by my mother but while I now consider myself agnostic, my experiences seem a lot different than the ones in this video. It never really struck me as a cult, but just another religion.
It’s not quite a cult in the sociological sense partly due to its popularity and not being quite severe enough, but it’s really very culty. Far more so than most faiths. Unusual beliefs (even for a Christian denomination [whether it’s a separate religion is another matter of debate]), Strict religious laws, and excommunication for disobedience of them even when outsiders would say it’s not that bad are hallmarks that JW has. I remember a Reddit story of a business losing all but 4 of 2 dozen or so employees because almost everyone went to the same JW church and the owners were caught misbehaving. Excommunication tearing families apart is a bad sign. And I didn’t mention the media standards. Almost any religion is wary of what media we consume, and with some good reason, but the extent and seriousness of the restrictions is another red flag. JW is known for that too.
You may have had a genuinely more chill strain in your area, but maybe you just didn’t see the dark underbelly.
Source: I took a university sociology course, a couple comparative religion courses, got a psych degree, and study all in my free time.
My mother became a witness when I was 12 or 13 I attended servers till about 17. I've heard many crazy stories from other people about jehovah's witnesses that I've never experienced.
People have different experiences
There are some frickin insane congregations, like really weird, but speaking as a JW most are actually really chill. It just depends where you go. Also different places can have different beliefs which I think is odd but they usually make sense. Yes they are repetitive but I find that different speakers have more interesting versions. Just saying.
TurtleMountain By definition not a cult, a cult could NEVER accomplish what the organization does. Read the first few chapters in Revelation, where the 7 congregations are chastised. The point is, there are a few weeds in every garden, but eventually they get exposed. As a WHOLE the organization of almost 10 million and growing is highly successful and pure. I was disallusioned as a teen by a few weak people. Satan preys on the weak, can even use them to affect others. He will NEVER thwart Jah’s purpose as a whole. Visit JW.org; do research. Seek truth as a treasure, pray sincerely and humbly for guidance; if you search for God he will find you. If that’s what you want, that is, your call. There is a lot of false information spread by detractors, usually by persons who don’t seek facts before passing on rumors. We are responsible for our own lives; not to be taken lightly or based on heresay.
After a little while, we talked about being able to prophesize. We had to be paired up and look at our partners and wait for God to send us a symbol(or a message). Then we'd draw the symbol(like a tree or something) and talk to our partner about what it means. For example, "I saw siblings, do you have them? Is your relationship with them strained?"
I wonder how many of these started out with the intention to become a cult (like, a nefarious pastor decides one day “I’m gonna start a cult!) or if a church slowly becomes more zealous and wackadoodle until the “cult” forms by itself. Like, the people out there recruiting new members and then trying to distance them from their friends and loved ones must have at one point been recruited that same way as well, so they’re not doing it with evil intentions, they’re just doing what they think is correct and what they’ve been taught. So do the higher-ups at these sorts of cults know that it’s all BS, or are they just crazy and legitimately think that they’re doing the right thing?
Man. I didn't realize I was in one until I left. These make my stomach turn
Told a friend of mine that it sounded like she was in a "happy clappy" church without the happy bit
Hearing mlms are a cult instantly made me start commenting this! just because we sale oils and sacrifice people doesnt mean we are a cult! as our company motto is: healing oils from the soul 😘😙😚😄
Surprised to hear Church of Christ brought up on here just bc it's not that big, but the one I came from was *definitely* culty as hell (and especially anal about the instruments stuff like the poster said). I can't remember a specific moment I realized--it just crept up on me once I made friends in the "out-group" and saw they weren't evil like I'd been taught since birth.
I was in the church of christ too. I started to notice when I was young and realised I was one of the only kids. There were 3. The rest were really old people who would give a ton of money. The preacher was intense, stole money, and was all around awful. He tried to get younger people (in college) but it didnt work because he was weird. The church itself is actually connected to rings of pedophiles and had connections to really big ones through lawyers.
@@digitaldj267 Yikes. Both the ones my family went to over the years had a decent amount of kids, but tbh a lot of the ones my age stopped coming once they were old enough to move away from their parents. There was definitely a lot of corruption going on, though (that's why my family left the first one, though they're pretty oblivious to the same-but-more-lowkey shit going on at the second place).
@@transientdaydreams yeah. Most of my siblings stopped going as soon as they were able to which was when they were adults.
@@digitaldj267 Good for them! I've convinced my parents I'm still going, but elsewhere now that I moved out/got married. My brother went a couple hours away for college, where I suspect he probably doesn't go either tbh
1:03 "Look Gary, there I am!"
My brother went to live with some people for a job when he was about 16 and they converted him to Jehovahs Witness. You can tell he gets really sad and uncomfortable when we all have holidays and he can’t come be with his family. I remember being little and my brother and my parents arguing with each other about his religious choices. He got married last year and the whole ceremony was weird, talking about Jehovah and how he would come and we would all live forever.
I started piecing together that I was in a cult when the fucked up beliefs and doctrine triggered a Depressive episode and all the members that I knew never picked up on it or double downed on the bullshit doctrine when I raised concerns with that creepy cult smile still on their face (there was a lot of stuff about how God hated sinners and was full of wrath towards them and an emphasis on how God was going to make us " perfect" after we die.) I was raised in the cult, but I was pretty inactive and only lasted about a month of reactivation in my adulthood before I had a complete breakdown, researched the cult's truth claims and got out for good.
One friend was sent to a RC convent school. Being a clever sort , she noticed that a few pages had been razor cut out of their Church history book. Got a trip to London, went into Foyles bookshop and looked at a copy there. Missing pages covered the time when the Pope had decided to declare himself infallible.
My family dosen't go to church that often because of church politics. They don't like the idea of blindly listening to whatever the pastor/priest or bible has to say. I'm glad they're like that, and I wish that more people could be like that too.
Oh God. Don't get me started with Jehova's Witnesses. My grandmother is a "witness" and tried cramming it down my throat. Her new husband is an elder or whatever (She divorced my grandaddy because he wasn't a witness). I told her I didn't want to go, because it was against my personal belief (Baptist). She started treating me horribly afterwards. And it's all pretty much the same lesson. The Bible says that not even Jesus knows when the ens is, and they have said *exact* dates. My mom is biased against them, and that was always my mindset.
not exactly a cult, but last week our lesson at church was on how things "of the world" (not made by the church/believers) were "evil" and "allowing satan into your home" and how if you "really love god," you wouldn't want to watch/see/hear any of that. major yikes from me
re cults and end times: The first time I was told the world would end within 5 years was 1966. I later discovered that preachers had been saying this kind of thing since about 100 AD, when the gospels were written. Back then, they said it would happen within the lifetime of people alive at the time, but lately, preachers want quicker payoffs, so they've shortened the timeline.
imagine starting a cult and actually having followers...dream come true !!
We did this in one of my jobs. It was in a call center, and when they did up our department, there was a strange looking, angular column built. So.. a few people figured we should make a cult worshiping the column, which we called the Monolith. So.. we did. It was brilliant. Key rules were to respect and be decent to each other. Also, if one or two people started to applaud.. everyone else in the department had to stop and applaud, regardless of what they were doing. So.. sometimes, people would applaud for no reason XD. We also had loads of junk food in the office every day.
It was a brilliant cult to be part of, though it was short-lived. We all loved our job, and I think it showed, when we created this cult for fun. It was all about positivity and good things.
I'm so wrong but this shit has me laughing so hard, with tears in my eyes. The pastor ripped on a person as a sermon 🤣🤣🤣
Heh. Ya know it hadn't really clicked til you said it, but that level of pettiness is amusing.
Went to a martial arts place that was pretty cultish. The leader once spent an ENTIRE one and a half hour session preaching. We were often taught religious stories about spirits and chakras, and a load or spiritual bs. We were never allowed to ask questions, and once I got in trouble for asking if we were doing a certain activity that day. Another thing that made me 'hmmmm' was when the leaders son got 100 push ups, squats and leg lifts for not cutting his nails short enough. Our parents were regularly told 'if your kid gets in trouble at school tell us and we'll punish them more'. When I snapped, and quit, I was literally scared to see the leaders for fear of punishment for free thinking because my brother still went and I was young so I had to go with him and pick him up. So yeah... That defo sounds like a cult to me.
As a kid, my parents took my brother and me with them to visit another couple they had grown up with. We went to church on Sunday with them. While preaching, the minister began yelling, yes, yelling, about how 'believers' needed to be seperate from the world. People need to dress as the Bible told them to. He started shouting, yes, shouting, about tee-shirts, cowboy boots and blue jeans. I was very young and swung my feet wearing cowboy boots while looking at my brother's and my own tee-shirts and blue jeans. That was the last time my parents saw their childhood friends.
When I got told to start a whole new channel with a bear name in order to be acknowledged.
When they offer you Kool-Aid
My grandparents followed the message of a certain preacher. He was very saintly, lived a very pious clean life and an example Christian. The problem was after he died in 1965, the families of his original church split up and moved across the United States and world to continue his message. Fair enough. Good guy. BUT some people turned it into a Doomsday cult as well as treated women very inferior, believed in demonic exorcism, crazy strict rules, settlements in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes there were pockets of cult people, some pockets of normal Christian believers and sometimes both in the same church. My grandparents were some of the forceful extremely abusive cult brainwashing type. My mom is a Christian but not believed in what they did. She was abusive because of severe mental issues. This is how I ended up being a Luciferian and hating God the majority of my life. Until God reached out to me through another spiritual path to him. I'm happy now with my life, love God, and have wonderful friends. We love and treat someone the same regardless of if they're one of us, of another religion or no religion at all. If someone is meant to be on this path, they will come to us. If not, it's all good. I have no problem with Christianity or any other religion as long as they are not causing harm to others or behaving like an abusive cult.
I don't think this one church is a cult. However, this on pastor insisted that my friend wouldn't be confirmed because she was a girl scout. Reasoning was because "because scouts teach you must do good deeds or you wouldn't be able to go to heaven". That did it for me regarding that church. I realize scouts encourage kids to do good & helpful for others. But in no way does the scout program link that with any religious belief. Scouts really don't care what church your in if any. The most religious thing they say about religion is to go be involved with the church of your own choice. That's it.
Regarding the lady who was chased by a demon after watching a horror film, what movie was that? Sounds like some good sh*t!
Most of them are actually considered cults by the majority of the real church. Like Jehovahs’ Witnesses and UPC, but most other churches aren’t like that. It makes me sad to hear that they completely distanced themselves from the other churches as well because of them. Dang, I sound like my mother already.
When they started to get human sacrifices
5:58 and 6:27--Yes, being a Careful Reader will help you in Life... 😊
I was in a cult, it's called The Mormon Church. They control what you eat, what you drink, what you wear, and what you do in your free time. When I was little I would constantly be terrified of if I wasn't good enough to go to heaven. My older sister broke down crying when she was about 8 when she say my mom drinking coffee for the first time, she would not stop sobbing because she though my mom was going to go to hell for drinking coffee!
Yeah, I'm Mormon trying to leave currently.
This ended up being a very long rant so feel free to ignore all of this:
I'm pretty sure my friends' church isn't a cult, however my three friends who attended that church would constantly (CONSTANTLY) get me to try and attend service with them so it became sort of a regular thing to go (which was uncomfortable for me because I'm not all that religious in the first place) and I only stopped going because they told me that if I kept coming I would have to join their church (I was like 10 years old). I kept going once in a while, but as I got older I started realizing they were constantly trying to get people to invite friends and recruit new people and get more people to attend. Also one year my friend's dad who works there told my friend that she couldn't dress up as a Monster High character for Halloween because "monsters don't believe in Jesus." There was also some weird stuff with baptism (more recently my friend tried to get me to go up on stage and get baptized in front of everyone there even though I'm already baptized and I do not agree with most of her religious views) and I don't think it's a cult but idk how normal of an experience that is (bc I don't regularly attend church) but that's my story and the reason church makes me uncomfortable.
Bella Is a Fictional Character I think you just need better friends
Clarissa Dirtsquare maybe 😂
He smacked a toddler in the head for crying, I probably would've been killed by other cult members because I would've attacked that man so fast. Shame on the parents because if any preacher or whatever laid a hand on my kid it would be game over.
Thank God those people got out, I believe some of them were awakened by God or down right kicked out of those places with God's knowledge. Good for them.
i was raised in the catholic church. even as a little kid, i could see that their teachings and their actions were pretty much looney-tunes. but i continued until i was 18 and could leave. i left my home at 18 and left the church and have never ever looked back. i am a very happy and content atheist right now at 60+.
Theaters DO play movies at midnight sometimes, usually at the release of some highly anticipated movie.
...That being said, yeah, not going was probably wise. ^_^
I love these videos always super calming and interesting
I went to a LDS church with my friend a couple times in middle school and I remember seeing no pictures of jesus or anything religious, just a whole bunch of pictures of some old guy that was the leader, my friend was already arranged to marry one of the boys that was close to our age, we were 12, she ended up going to a LDS college and marrying a guy from there, theyre divorced and I'm pretty sure she isn't involved anymore. There was more stuff that was super weird and another different church that was also super culty but if I type I can't pay attention to what the video is saying lol. But both times at both places i noped out and never spent the night at those friends houses on Saturday nights anymore so I didn't have to go to church with them on Sunday lol
That may be what your memory presents , but it is not true that LDS buildings do not have pictures or paintings of Jesus the Christ.
Our brains /memories change and add or remove details and as you get older wipe out years of our lives.
In college / university psychology, classes have lots of activities about our minds changing memories
David has a whole chapter that is just instruments. I went to the same cult
I've grown up Mormon and I'm starting to question everything. One of the most dedicated members left Mormonism (Oliver Cowdrey) in the 1800s. Why would such a dedicated member leave? How bad is it that it made him leave? there are so many messed up things. I cannot agree with the "being gay is a sin" because I have so many gay friends and I find it ungodly and so horrible to think they'd be in a lesser place than a straight person over something they can't even control. Also it's mainly just culture, not doctrine, but culture is a big part of religion. If you're caught swearing your looked at as if you just killed someone. My parents found out my brother likes coffee and were extremely disappointed in him. I had a necklace that said "we die together you whore" on one side and "racoon slut" on the other as a gift from my best friend, we thought it was funny. My parents came into my room and were upset with me about the necklace and my dad said that if I had to go to a hospital and that's what they saw around my neck and then asked my dad if that was his daughter he would say "yeah, sadly". I then broke the necklace because I just wanted to be good enough for my parents and for god. I think it's just decreasing my mental state. I have to live to a certain standard or else I'll burn forever, and that's such a terrifying thought. I already suffer from depression and I don't think it's making it better. Why would something that's supposed to give me hope and peace make me feel constant anxiety and guilt about things that aren't even bad?
Technically they don't believe being gay is a sin, but having same-gender sexual relations is. Basically, if you are attracted to your same gender rather than the opposite sex, you are expected to be celibate.
@@jotunthe11thhyman65 yeah having same sex relationships isnt a sin and its horrible that they expect people to just pretend their feelings dont exist and that they cant ever get married or have a family
I also grew raised in Mormon church and am trying to leave
I follow no faith, other than those of Tamriel, and I swear by malacath’s toenails I shall not join a cult
7:22 *I can’t stop laughing*
I found out because of ex members on the internet
We could ask the people of jones town
I always felt bad calling Jehova's Witness a cult, but seeing that many people in it are talking about how it is 100% a cult really seals the deal for me.
Jehovah's witnesses are getting more sly, man. My family's catholic but i'm wiccan. We usually never answer the door, but there are days when we expect our landlord to get his check or the oil guy to fill up the tank. So when we open the door we're not expecting to see jehovah's witnesses.
I've been a wiccan for over a decade. Back in the day when you'd tell them that they'd take your address off the list. Nowadays they try and "relate" Get you to have conversations with them, invite you to certain meetings. Bring a "heathen" no longer applies if they feel they can still convert you.
Still a big nope on the jehovah front. My parents enjoy their god, jesus, & the saints. I enjoy my moon goddess, horned god, & nature.
@14:50 I'm pretty sure they're talking about my old church! I left it, bc I realized the same thing.
This lady at the grocery store near me rambles about satanic cults in the woods and human sacrifices. Yeah...
So the dancing youth meeting cult was definitely not Baptist. The camp one brought back memories. Except in my case replace prayer with sports. It was a Christian camp but sports seemed to be heavily emphasized.
10:03 right there is why people misinterpret Christianity from a cult to an actual moral belief