@@tanith117 In sorry? Even if you meant I'm, it would not be appropriate there. I guess you have to be grammatically sounds to enjoy life if you have to ask such a question...
@@ImaNerdANDaGeek yes and no, in BCT before a meal the instructors will line everyone up and question each element (squad, platoon, company) and the best ones get to eat first
when the first story got to "They used to not feed us until we could chant back the company mission statement without messing it up." I thought that sounds like the ARMY.
My fiance is rather religious and she was looking for a new church to go to. We stumble on one and the pastor claimed he could make people's bones grow and that God was a battery and he was a jumper cable. We noped it out of there really quick.
Not a conspiracy theory. Being raised by JWs, you are actually taught not to get close to people outside the religion unless you want to convert them. Glad to see more people are seeing Jehovah's Witnesses as the cult they really are. My family may not be saved but a lot of people will if they realize of the true nature of the religion.
I once had a JW in my class, he wasn't really anyone's friend and only had small interactions with the rest, he was also the one who was considered the smartest in our class due to his excellent grades. I always wondered why he didn't need to come to our religion class where we learn about other religions in the world, I got the explanation that it was because of his religion, I didn't understand why his religion mattered since surely learning about other religions is just knowledge like any other thing. Now that I am older, I guess his parents prohibited him from learning about other religions due to possible "corruption" of his mind if he did learn about other religions.
Either my aunt or great aunt told me this story about going to a funeral of a friend’s husband who were JW and how it didn’t feel like a funeral but more like a persuasive presentation for joining JW.
My grandparents (the sweetest beings on earth) are JW’s. They seem very tolerant because almost all of my family is either agnostic, atheist, Christian, or catholic. They hang around with all of them and don’t try to shove their religion down our throats. The church does tend to steal them away from us (missed this year’s family reunion and were gone for two weeks), but they don’t care about what views we have. However, my older cousin and her parents always freaked me out, even when I was a kid. They always asked me if I converted yet (I’m agnostic), the mother seems depressed and thinks that anyone who joins the family isn’t safe, the father is always smiling, has the same tone in his voice, and acts very robotic. Their daughter used to act normal but now that she is older, and more involved with the church, she is becoming like her father. They only say hi during the reunions and then go back in hiding until the next year. And when they do show up, it’s only to say how great their congregation is and how my mother (they know she’s a hardcore atheist) should join and hopefully convert. They also act strange around my aunt and her wife and when I had a partner the same sex as mine, they seemed awkward and disgusted by the thought. I’m glad my grandparents never became this way, but it’s sad to see how that religion made a part of my family turn into mindless machines. I used to be very close with them but they sort of kick not only me, but the rest of our kin out of their lives
I had a completely different experience. I was friends with two JW brothers through out high school (about 5 years till we all moved away) and they never tried to convert me. I knew that they had meetings and would go out on missionary stuff but that was just stuff I gleamed from conversation pieces. Neither them or their parents ever discussed religion with me and I was over at their place at least once a week. Most of the other kids they hang out with were not JWs either. I guess you get different sects with different approaches.
Przemek Kozlowski Yeah, despite not being according to what the religion teaches, there's a lot of cool JWs. After all, it's not the people but the system of beliefs what is bad. Glad that you were friends with some chilled ones.
I was married to a Jehovah's Witness for 5 years. Yes, they are a cult. I'm damn proud of the fact that not he, nor his family, nor anyone else in the organization, could ever convert me.
@@UnholyTingz yes they are they print there own version of the Bible that matches no other English bible version because it contradicts Christianity as a whole. If you leave your family and friends will never talk to you again because they will get in trouble with the church.
@@princessshannon7696 well I never heard of this before certainly never seen this happen maybe things are different in that certain church but not here in florida where I live at
BoujeeBukkake Look up the Cult Bite model . It’s basically a checklist used to identify if something is a cult. Also Jehovahs Witnesses are most definitely a cult
TheShinyAmparos They don’t even believe in the Holy Spirit. They just believe in God ( Jehovah ) and Jesus. My only experience with religion is with JW’s and I’m not even sure what the Holy Spirit is supposed to be exactly. I have a basic idea but that’s it.
When I went to the Army, there was a church up the road from Ft. Campbell where a few soldiers lived. This was obviously a draw, since getting out of the barracks was a nice bonus, and they told us that when we reached a certain level we'd be able to live there. That was the first red flag. Later some of the guys were talking about how they went horseback riding with the women. The women wore skirts, but wore sweatpants under the skirts to ride--which had to be pretty uncomfortable. I commented that I'd read about women riding side-saddle, and one said "Yeah, we'll make 'em do that!" I said "*make* them?" but I don't think they heard me. After that I started being 'too busy' to make it to service.
Ken Abbott oh man, I used to go to a strict church like that. I was so unhappy. Don’t know how women can stand it, but good for them if they like that life.
10:07 Ugh. That reminds me of the second Mary Kay party I attended. The first one was a for-fun party where one of the consultants brought over the left-over make-up from previous parties and taught us (a bunch of pre-teen girls at the time) how to put in on, no pressure to buy because we were all like 12. But the second one was when I was an older teen or young adult, can't remember which, and a lady from my church was the consultant. When I said I didn't want to buy anything, because I have sensory issues and hardly ever use beauty products, she kept on pressuring me until I was just about ready to cry. Another lady there (a friend's mom who was seriously one of my heroes. Coolest lady ever) took me aside, assured me it'd be fine, she'd buy something and I didn't have to, and I felt a little better, but I'm definitely never going to a Mary-Kay type party ever again.
I remember at a boy scout campout, me and some of the other girls in the girls troop started a potato cult based off the baked potatoes we got for lunch and kept in our pockets to warm up our hands, we were the potato goddesses/priestesses and I came up with our potato chant (literally just singing ooooo potato while rhythmically beating sticks together) TL:DR if you didn’t want to read that, me and a few other girls started a cult at a boy scout camp
@Dragma Plays - New, I've heard a lot of people say Walmart is one of the worst companies to work for. However they are a good store with good selection and reasonable prices. I've also heard they have some cult like activity, chanting and almost worshiping the company.
@@user-pw8nt6bx4b more than likely a specialty store that only focuses on one type of product such as electronics, vehicles, or furniture. I know that thoughs types of stores will ussually give commissions for warranties to employees.
I needed to see this even when I didn't know I needed to. I joined as a distributor for It Works!, a company that sells health and vitamin supplements. Only paid $26 to sign up, and had to watch all these weird "training" videos which were these long, drawn out speeches that sounded like an evangelical sermon or whatever you might call it. They hold these huge meetings all over the country, and even have retreats. Fuck if I wasn't bamboozled. Going right now to delete all my card information.. 😂😭
2:43 fun little fact, It isn't a church, and we don't call them that, its called a kingdom hall (atleast one ones i went to) I think they have another name too, not sure. and we dont say "going to church" we say "going to meetings" also i think the rules are layed back in new zealand because you got in absolutely no trouble if you didn't follow them at both of the congregations i've been to. Not sure if i was just lucky and was in very layed back ones or somthing but we were allowed to talk to non witness people, and we were allowed to date, they did encourage you to try get people to join, and door knocking was a thing, but what you did outside of the church was not their business and they didn't care to much.
"The army wasn't so bad after all". Yeah, you had me there. I was like no way am I going to be led into the woods, and told to hand over my phone, just for a job.
When I moved to Arizona about 15 years ago, my neighbors invited me to their local LDS church, the church thanked me for coming and then asked for my entire family’s social security numbers, and income details. We walked out and never went back.
My dad was involved in Amway and my childhood best friend's was too. When my dad got remarried my step mom pointed out that it's a spend money to make money thing, and that it wasn't the best. We got to go on a lot of cool trips (I went to Nashville 3 or 4 times and stayed in a really nice hotel). My dad is still technically part of it, but doesn't buy the products anymore. My friend's family is hardcore part of it and has made tons of money from it. I think the coolest thing was I had gotten a lip gloss that lights up when you open it, it's still my favorite and I think my dad is only part of it because of things like that.
“Going to my first high school football game in south Texas” Oh god the flashbacks. The noise. THE NOISE. My ears still ring from the fucking t-shirt cannon
Let me start off by saying that I knew full well what I was getting into, but I didn't expect the actual event that made me ask this very question. I decided that I wanted to join Greek life at my university. I got a bid from the sorority I wanted to join, went through the official ceremony that the school has for all Greek life chapters, and then met up with the rest of my pledge class for the chapter's ceremony. We wait and wait and suddenly we look over and here's the sisters, dressed in all black, holding candles and standing in two lines. They rush at us and circle us in absolute silence. Our pledge mom comes over to us and lights our candles, whispering to us to stay quiet and follow them. They split into two lines once more and we follow them in silence. We walk to the very back of campus to one of the dorm buildings, and follow the sisters inside. They lead us into a dark lounge and begin speaking. After the speeches are done, they turn on the lights and all start hugging us and welcoming us. They insist on taking selfies with us, and give us little gifts, mostly candy or something caterpillar themed. Meanwhile, we were just blinking as we tried to understand what just happened. One of my pledge sisters and I were shell-shocked, and one of the members asked us if we were okay. We blurted out that we thought for a minute that we had joined a cult. She just looked at us and said "Yeah, everyone thinks that. Don't worry, we're actually really nice. Just don't get sister x started on her advisor, or y started on Harry Potter. They'll talk your ears off."
So a good decade or so ago, I was working in my local grocery store. I remember it being a rather slow day and being on the check-outs, so I was chatting away with customers more than usual. A rather cute young lady came up to buy her items and as we were chatting, she said her family had just moved to the area, and were holding a party in a few days, inviting me along to it. Me, being young and naive... and never actually have been asked out like that before... was more than happy to agree, thinking this girl really liked me. I got to their place casually late, all gussied up, and even brought a bottle of wine as a gift. She invited me in, and said thanks for the wine but none of them drank alcohol (which is fair enough). An hour or so in, they call everyone into the living room, and call for a mass prayer, at which point I was very tempted to sneak out and disappear, but I was always taught not to be rude... and there was still a chance that the girl really did like me... so I stuck it out. The main thought running through my head most of that evening was “I’ve joined a religious cult...”
I think I'm currently going to the school mentioned at 7:18! 😂😂 It all sounds familiar too! The constant chanting at night (and during lunch), the chapel ceremony, wearing all white to visit the grave of the founders, especially the part about students nearly committing suicide and/or being admitted into an institution 😅 I don't know about the transfer stuff, but it wouldn't surprise me since the office staff are pretty incompetent and desperately need to be replaced. Only reason I haven't left is because I only have one more year in college before I graduate and it would be a hassle to transfer again (that paperwork is no joke 🙄). Pretty sure that school won't last much longer though, because all the new changes being made are making students unhappy.
The Second Life one.... Yeah, sounds like a Gorean RP. I used to 2nd Life a bit, and a favored troll was to go to any sim with Gorean in the title and make comments like "Wow, you people are REALLY into Al Gore!"', until getting banned/kicked. This was back in the days around/just after his VP stint, and before the whole Unpleasant Truth/Manbearpig thing.
Caught the first story at "they used to not feed us untill we could chant back the company mission" - Paused it - they used to? as in, you stayed? - _squints eyes_ Ah, the Army.
Ah, DECA. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time. It was senior year of high school, and I had an open elective space. So I had thrown in a marketing class, figured that couldn't be too hard. It wasn't. My teacher was this nice older lady. She did shock me though in how she seemed to genuinely believe it every time some company claimed to be doing something good just because they're nice. I mean since we're on the subject of cults already, she acted as if these businesses truly were angelic when they donated to some charity and then made sure the whole world knew it. It was a marketing class, and she never treated it like these things were just to look good and make money. I've never figured out if she did it on purpose, to try and keep us from becoming cynical and sort of "tainted" by seeing everything as motivated by greed, or if it was just the hopeless, blind trust and optimism of a boomer. Anyway, there was a DECA event we had to attend. It was mandatory for the class. It was boring. You had to dress up on a Saturday, role play some scenario in which you had 30 minutes to create some randomly picked pr plan to local businessmen who volunteered to grade us(I didn't do too bad myself). Then you had to listen to people talking about stuff you didn't care about for a few hours, have your complimentary lunch, and leave. Now for real club members, I know the fees were absurdly high to go to these places. Remembering the attitudes of the people who did it, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was a bit of a cult. No one, especially no teenager, just naturally shows up with that kind of energy, motivation, and just weird level of love for what they're doing.
I'm surprised no one brought up groups that sell homeschool curriculum. I mean, homeschooling gets a pretty bad rap as a concept but I'm not just talking about that. I'm talking about groups of moms that both homeschool their children with certain (laughably bad) curriculum and take part in a MLM to sell that curriculum. They're literally told that God wants everyone to homeschool their kids and that they're a bad person if they don't sell books and try to convert all their friends to homeschooling. The kids almost always end up 100% incapable of socializing and most of them become professional missionaries.
Ha, that one about the women’s college is definitely the school I went to. I loved it there, enjoyed the closeness and thought the Founder’s Day ceremony was/is a beautiful tribute. But it’s definitely not a place for everyone, very small and insular and tradition heavy.
DECA isn't a cult, it's a marketing club. I did it in high school, and the competitions are mostly written stuff, like creating a marketing plan or a stock market simulation. There's just so much complex crap that they don't really get into it in presentations. Some schools are super involved, others treat it as a way to travel/party. They have conferences all over, and we almost went to NY. No shade if you aren't into it, but if you're interested rest assured they won't indoctrinate you or any of that crap lol
so a guy in my music class asks me to join him at lunch with his friends, seems pretty innocent when I got there they were all screaming at the top of their lungs, dancing around a badly etched pentagram in the ground in the middle of the pentagram was a ratata pokemon card, which they removed and then asked me to stand in its place as a human sacrifice
Amway...sounds a lot like Quick Star...wow I was part of a cult and didn't know it! Glad I didn't like talking to people I don't know and dropped out LOL.
My "Wait... did I join a cult?" moment was when I became a kpop (/bts army) fan. Istg for non-fans it probably seems like a cult sometimes haha _Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jeon Jungkook, BTS_
I was sacrificed to the turkey man (who is female) 3 separate times by my Girl Scout troop while camping. I was then told by my 12 year old friends my soul would be sucked out of my body while I slept. I almost killed them when I woke up with a Charlie horse.
The boys in my school picked on me a little for liking anime and being like other girls. Then one of the boys made a cult where I was their god. It doesn’t actually do anything it’s just a joke, and even though it’s summer now I still get noticed by my followers
I’m in a brass band and my mum drives me and two other members to and from band and the car ride is basically a cult. We do sacrifices (draw faces on paper then stab it) translate weird stuff into Latin during the sacrifices and we say hail jatan a lot (we call one of the girls jatan son of Satan) we’re trying to spread the cult but it’s not quite working. And we’re all splitting into different mini cults so it’s not rlly working. I think there’s like 5 people overall and ive got two in my sect of the cult and everyone else has themselves. Pls join my cult. U just have to write pancake on paper and then say all hail jatan or it is honerable to die for jatan (in Latin) while stabbing it with a pencil every so often
I have one similar to The school one where they couldn't tell anyone they were transferring when I was little I went to a super religious school my older brother also went but he went to a school close by that was way different and when I was starting to have a hard time at the school since it was a hard school my parents decided to start sending me to the other school and when I started going there my parents then official changed it my school to that one but this one girl that was previously rude to me at the school went to my school which I never told anyone where I was going and she hugged me and acted like we were life long friends and started talking about how I should go back
my friend's husband works at one of the warehouses and he said that they had to do the chant every shift and the higher-ups have people circulating to see if there were any who weren't 'enthusiastic enough'. if they found somebody like that, they were immediately taken into to be talked to.
I was in DECA my jr year. It was fun but I was not good at it and had to leave mid way through the year do to massive amounts of homework from my AP classes
That one about the Army made my veteran mom and grandpa laugh.
They could have put in how the Leader was training them all in weapons to fight the enemy of the Cult one day
It should have made them cry. They wasted their lives...
In sorry but how are you enjoying your freedom?
@@tanith117 In sorry? Even if you meant I'm, it would not be appropriate there. I guess you have to be grammatically sounds to enjoy life if you have to ask such a question...
@@tanith117 The real question you should be asking yourself is why aren't you happy and enjoying freedom?
"The army wasn't so bad overall"
Top 10 Anime Plot Twist
The Army would refuse to feed them?
@@ImaNerdANDaGeek yes and no, in BCT before a meal the instructors will line everyone up and question each element (squad, platoon, company) and the best ones get to eat first
Except, it was.
They had us in the first half. Not gonna lie
when the first story got to "They used to not feed us until we could chant back the company mission statement without messing it up." I thought that sounds like the ARMY.
PointofNoReturn485 2558 or a fraternity
Same lol
I was thinking that reminds me of bootcamp.
Not gonna lie, you had us in the first story
Tabitha Greenfield They most certainly did...
Why were the Navy, Marines and Air Force exempted from military service bashing? I claim discrimination!
@@tenhirankei They are the better services that's why. Anyone who joins the Army is because they couldn't pass the ASVAB for the other services.
"Let's all draw an eye on our right palm" -My English Teacher, who was also a flat-earther and anti-vaxxer.
Lol my mom drew 2 eyes on my face
K
So you became a famous scientist to prove her wrong. That's what I call giving your students motivation!
I once told FDR to never become president then he won 4 terms
Got me on the first one
Ye
When I heard the first one
THEY GOT US IN THE FIRST HALF
My fiance is rather religious and she was looking for a new church to go to. We stumble on one and the pastor claimed he could make people's bones grow and that God was a battery and he was a jumper cable. We noped it out of there really quick.
Not a conspiracy theory. Being raised by JWs, you are actually taught not to get close to people outside the religion unless you want to convert them.
Glad to see more people are seeing Jehovah's Witnesses as the cult they really are. My family may not be saved but a lot of people will if they realize of the true nature of the religion.
I once had a JW in my class, he wasn't really anyone's friend and only had small interactions with the rest, he was also the one who was considered the smartest in our class due to his excellent grades. I always wondered why he didn't need to come to our religion class where we learn about other religions in the world, I got the explanation that it was because of his religion, I didn't understand why his religion mattered since surely learning about other religions is just knowledge like any other thing.
Now that I am older, I guess his parents prohibited him from learning about other religions due to possible "corruption" of his mind if he did learn about other religions.
Either my aunt or great aunt told me this story about going to a funeral of a friend’s husband who were JW and how it didn’t feel like a funeral but more like a persuasive presentation for joining JW.
My grandparents (the sweetest beings on earth) are JW’s. They seem very tolerant because almost all of my family is either agnostic, atheist, Christian, or catholic. They hang around with all of them and don’t try to shove their religion down our throats. The church does tend to steal them away from us (missed this year’s family reunion and were gone for two weeks), but they don’t care about what views we have. However, my older cousin and her parents always freaked me out, even when I was a kid. They always asked me if I converted yet (I’m agnostic), the mother seems depressed and thinks that anyone who joins the family isn’t safe, the father is always smiling, has the same tone in his voice, and acts very robotic. Their daughter used to act normal but now that she is older, and more involved with the church, she is becoming like her father. They only say hi during the reunions and then go back in hiding until the next year. And when they do show up, it’s only to say how great their congregation is and how my mother (they know she’s a hardcore atheist) should join and hopefully convert. They also act strange around my aunt and her wife and when I had a partner the same sex as mine, they seemed awkward and disgusted by the thought. I’m glad my grandparents never became this way, but it’s sad to see how that religion made a part of my family turn into mindless machines. I used to be very close with them but they sort of kick not only me, but the rest of our kin out of their lives
I had a completely different experience. I was friends with two JW brothers through out high school (about 5 years till we all moved away) and they never tried to convert me. I knew that they had meetings and would go out on missionary stuff but that was just stuff I gleamed from conversation pieces. Neither them or their parents ever discussed religion with me and I was over at their place at least once a week. Most of the other kids they hang out with were not JWs either. I guess you get different sects with different approaches.
Przemek Kozlowski Yeah, despite not being according to what the religion teaches, there's a lot of cool JWs. After all, it's not the people but the system of beliefs what is bad. Glad that you were friends with some chilled ones.
I was married to a Jehovah's Witness for 5 years. Yes, they are a cult. I'm damn proud of the fact that not he, nor his family, nor anyone else in the organization, could ever convert me.
Lmfao they are not a cult
@@UnholyTingz yes they are they print there own version of the Bible that matches no other English bible version because it contradicts Christianity as a whole. If you leave your family and friends will never talk to you again because they will get in trouble with the church.
@@princessshannon7696 well I never heard of this before certainly never seen this happen maybe things are different in that certain church but not here in florida where I live at
BoujeeBukkake
Look up the Cult Bite model . It’s basically a checklist used to identify if something is a cult. Also Jehovahs Witnesses are most definitely a cult
TheShinyAmparos
They don’t even believe in the Holy Spirit. They just believe in God ( Jehovah ) and Jesus. My only experience with religion is with JW’s and I’m not even sure what the Holy Spirit is supposed to be exactly. I have a basic idea but that’s it.
*Me: watches tons of reddit videos and can't stop*
Oh crap, I'm in a cult!
Lol same
A long time ago me and a few of friends set up a group/club called "sinister lemons"...until things got a little too...sinister.
What haapened
OMG what happened?
Give us the story of else
What happened
When I went to the Army, there was a church up the road from Ft. Campbell where a few soldiers lived.
This was obviously a draw, since getting out of the barracks was a nice bonus, and they told us that when we reached a certain level we'd be able to live there. That was the first red flag.
Later some of the guys were talking about how they went horseback riding with the women. The women wore skirts, but wore sweatpants under the skirts to ride--which had to be pretty uncomfortable. I commented that I'd read about women riding side-saddle, and one said "Yeah, we'll make 'em do that!" I said "*make* them?" but I don't think they heard me.
After that I started being 'too busy' to make it to service.
Ken Abbott oh man, I used to go to a strict church like that. I was so unhappy. Don’t know how women can stand it, but good for them if they like that life.
“What was your I joined a cult moment”
My room mate: “my first day of boot camp at Parris Island”
10:07 Ugh. That reminds me of the second Mary Kay party I attended. The first one was a for-fun party where one of the consultants brought over the left-over make-up from previous parties and taught us (a bunch of pre-teen girls at the time) how to put in on, no pressure to buy because we were all like 12. But the second one was when I was an older teen or young adult, can't remember which, and a lady from my church was the consultant. When I said I didn't want to buy anything, because I have sensory issues and hardly ever use beauty products, she kept on pressuring me until I was just about ready to cry. Another lady there (a friend's mom who was seriously one of my heroes. Coolest lady ever) took me aside, assured me it'd be fine, she'd buy something and I didn't have to, and I felt a little better, but I'm definitely never going to a Mary-Kay type party ever again.
I remember at a boy scout campout, me and some of the other girls in the girls troop started a potato cult based off the baked potatoes we got for lunch and kept in our pockets to warm up our hands, we were the potato goddesses/priestesses and I came up with our potato chant (literally just singing ooooo potato while rhythmically beating sticks together)
TL:DR if you didn’t want to read that, me and a few other girls started a cult at a boy scout camp
8:57 I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that company was probably Walmart.
I know so many people just want to hate on walmart these days but that really doesn't sound like walmart.
Walmart doesn't give commission to their employees so not Walmart.
@Shyla Smith, I didn't know that thanks. What company do you think it could be?
@Dragma Plays - New, I've heard a lot of people say Walmart is one of the worst companies to work for. However they are a good store with good selection and reasonable prices. I've also heard they have some cult like activity, chanting and almost worshiping the company.
@@user-pw8nt6bx4b more than likely a specialty store that only focuses on one type of product such as electronics, vehicles, or furniture. I know that thoughs types of stores will ussually give commissions for warranties to employees.
snipe well, kitter
EDIT: after writing this, i got 25 killstreak on TF2
thank you, sniper kitter
snipe well, kitter...just not me...
snipe well, kitter
Ha the first one I was like....that sounds like bootcamp XD
I needed to see this even when I didn't know I needed to. I joined as a distributor for It Works!, a company that sells health and vitamin supplements. Only paid $26 to sign up, and had to watch all these weird "training" videos which were these long, drawn out speeches that sounded like an evangelical sermon or whatever you might call it. They hold these huge meetings all over the country, and even have retreats. Fuck if I wasn't bamboozled. Going right now to delete all my card information.. 😂😭
Wow, that first one got me
2:43 fun little fact, It isn't a church, and we don't call them that, its called a kingdom hall (atleast one ones i went to) I think they have another name too, not sure. and we dont say "going to church" we say "going to meetings"
also i think the rules are layed back in new zealand because you got in absolutely no trouble if you didn't follow them at both of the congregations i've been to. Not sure if i was just lucky and was in very layed back ones or somthing but we were allowed to talk to non witness people, and we were allowed to date, they did encourage you to try get people to join, and door knocking was a thing, but what you did outside of the church was not their business and they didn't care to much.
3:49 laughed harder than I should have, "holy vomiting".
"The army wasn't so bad after all". Yeah, you had me there. I was like no way am I going to be led into the woods, and told to hand over my phone, just for a job.
1:07 KKK?
Oh army lol
Same thing
@@ItsGlitchUwU lmao what?
When I moved to Arizona about 15 years ago, my neighbors invited me to their local LDS church, the church thanked me for coming and then asked for my entire family’s social security numbers, and income details. We walked out and never went back.
The western US is where LDS starts turning more cultish
8:49 Are you sure that club wasn't run by Octavian?
I found another one of Uncle Rick's cult followers! Jk, its not a cult, just a very involoved fandom. Gotta love Riordan.
The First One: "Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half"
But the Latin one is understandable if you ever taken a Latin class. You know what some of the kids are like in that class. Love em to death tho
My dad was involved in Amway and my childhood best friend's was too. When my dad got remarried my step mom pointed out that it's a spend money to make money thing, and that it wasn't the best. We got to go on a lot of cool trips (I went to Nashville 3 or 4 times and stayed in a really nice hotel). My dad is still technically part of it, but doesn't buy the products anymore. My friend's family is hardcore part of it and has made tons of money from it. I think the coolest thing was I had gotten a lip gloss that lights up when you open it, it's still my favorite and I think my dad is only part of it because of things like that.
Football in Tx is pretty much a cult. --- a deep South Texan 😂😂😂😂😂😂
“Going to my first high school football game in south Texas”
Oh god the flashbacks. The noise. THE NOISE.
My ears still ring from the fucking t-shirt cannon
Let me start off by saying that I knew full well what I was getting into, but I didn't expect the actual event that made me ask this very question.
I decided that I wanted to join Greek life at my university. I got a bid from the sorority I wanted to join, went through the official ceremony that the school has for all Greek life chapters, and then met up with the rest of my pledge class for the chapter's ceremony.
We wait and wait and suddenly we look over and here's the sisters, dressed in all black, holding candles and standing in two lines. They rush at us and circle us in absolute silence. Our pledge mom comes over to us and lights our candles, whispering to us to stay quiet and follow them. They split into two lines once more and we follow them in silence. We walk to the very back of campus to one of the dorm buildings, and follow the sisters inside. They lead us into a dark lounge and begin speaking. After the speeches are done, they turn on the lights and all start hugging us and welcoming us. They insist on taking selfies with us, and give us little gifts, mostly candy or something caterpillar themed. Meanwhile, we were just blinking as we tried to understand what just happened.
One of my pledge sisters and I were shell-shocked, and one of the members asked us if we were okay. We blurted out that we thought for a minute that we had joined a cult. She just looked at us and said "Yeah, everyone thinks that. Don't worry, we're actually really nice. Just don't get sister x started on her advisor, or y started on Harry Potter. They'll talk your ears off."
So a good decade or so ago, I was working in my local grocery store. I remember it being a rather slow day and being on the check-outs, so I was chatting away with customers more than usual.
A rather cute young lady came up to buy her items and as we were chatting, she said her family had just moved to the area, and were holding a party in a few days, inviting me along to it.
Me, being young and naive... and never actually have been asked out like that before... was more than happy to agree, thinking this girl really liked me.
I got to their place casually late, all gussied up, and even brought a bottle of wine as a gift. She invited me in, and said thanks for the wine but none of them drank alcohol (which is fair enough).
An hour or so in, they call everyone into the living room, and call for a mass prayer, at which point I was very tempted to sneak out and disappear, but I was always taught not to be rude... and there was still a chance that the girl really did like me... so I stuck it out.
The main thought running through my head most of that evening was “I’ve joined a religious cult...”
NOT GONNA LIE, THEY HAD US IN THE FIRST HALF
🤣🤣🤣 the first one was hilarious
I think I'm currently going to the school mentioned at 7:18! 😂😂 It all sounds familiar too! The constant chanting at night (and during lunch), the chapel ceremony, wearing all white to visit the grave of the founders, especially the part about students nearly committing suicide and/or being admitted into an institution 😅
I don't know about the transfer stuff, but it wouldn't surprise me since the office staff are pretty incompetent and desperately need to be replaced. Only reason I haven't left is because I only have one more year in college before I graduate and it would be a hassle to transfer again (that paperwork is no joke 🙄). Pretty sure that school won't last much longer though, because all the new changes being made are making students unhappy.
Man I joined the Air Force and I didn't even understand the beginning bit until I heard, "The army wasn't so bad afterall."
*me clicking on this video*
Someone’s gonna mention the army...
*first story*
F#$@IN CALLED IT
"When my latin class sacrificed a stuffed animal" oh shit was that a former classmate?
6:40 I’m 99% sure this is Mount St.Mary University. That post gave me flashbacks.
Could also be Sweet Briar
The Second Life one.... Yeah, sounds like a Gorean RP. I used to 2nd Life a bit, and a favored troll was to go to any sim with Gorean in the title and make comments like "Wow, you people are REALLY into Al Gore!"', until getting banned/kicked. This was back in the days around/just after his VP stint, and before the whole Unpleasant Truth/Manbearpig thing.
Woah! Can you tell me any more? What's Gorean?
Caught the first story at "they used to not feed us untill we could chant back the company mission" - Paused it - they used to? as in, you stayed? - _squints eyes_ Ah, the Army.
During the first story, I was like
“Is this the army or the Girl Scouts?
Ah, DECA. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.
It was senior year of high school, and I had an open elective space. So I had thrown in a marketing class, figured that couldn't be too hard. It wasn't. My teacher was this nice older lady. She did shock me though in how she seemed to genuinely believe it every time some company claimed to be doing something good just because they're nice. I mean since we're on the subject of cults already, she acted as if these businesses truly were angelic when they donated to some charity and then made sure the whole world knew it. It was a marketing class, and she never treated it like these things were just to look good and make money. I've never figured out if she did it on purpose, to try and keep us from becoming cynical and sort of "tainted" by seeing everything as motivated by greed, or if it was just the hopeless, blind trust and optimism of a boomer.
Anyway, there was a DECA event we had to attend. It was mandatory for the class. It was boring. You had to dress up on a Saturday, role play some scenario in which you had 30 minutes to create some randomly picked pr plan to local businessmen who volunteered to grade us(I didn't do too bad myself). Then you had to listen to people talking about stuff you didn't care about for a few hours, have your complimentary lunch, and leave.
Now for real club members, I know the fees were absurdly high to go to these places. Remembering the attitudes of the people who did it, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was a bit of a cult. No one, especially no teenager, just naturally shows up with that kind of energy, motivation, and just weird level of love for what they're doing.
I'm surprised no one brought up groups that sell homeschool curriculum. I mean, homeschooling gets a pretty bad rap as a concept but I'm not just talking about that. I'm talking about groups of moms that both homeschool their children with certain (laughably bad) curriculum and take part in a MLM to sell that curriculum. They're literally told that God wants everyone to homeschool their kids and that they're a bad person if they don't sell books and try to convert all their friends to homeschooling. The kids almost always end up 100% incapable of socializing and most of them become professional missionaries.
Ha, that one about the women’s college is definitely the school I went to. I loved it there, enjoyed the closeness and thought the Founder’s Day ceremony was/is a beautiful tribute. But it’s definitely not a place for everyone, very small and insular and tradition heavy.
Cults need sheep, but the problem is that sheep first get fleeced...and then slaughtered. :/
**3 people wearing dragon heads jumping around on a table chanting **_"Humunnumamannuanauamanammaannauaauaaa..."*_*
^ That.
Me when my colleagues all have robes on: *confused confusion*
“What was your I joined a cult moment?”
When I put the Trump bumper sticker on my fridge.
"Snipe well, kitter." Protect me from cults.
The first one win the cake.
It made me laugh so hard.
DECA isn't a cult, it's a marketing club. I did it in high school, and the competitions are mostly written stuff, like creating a marketing plan or a stock market simulation. There's just so much complex crap that they don't really get into it in presentations. Some schools are super involved, others treat it as a way to travel/party. They have conferences all over, and we almost went to NY. No shade if you aren't into it, but if you're interested rest assured they won't indoctrinate you or any of that crap lol
Snipe well, Kitter.
I gotta get better at Overwatch
so a guy in my music class asks me to join him at lunch with his friends, seems pretty innocent
when I got there they were all screaming at the top of their lungs, dancing around a badly etched pentagram in the ground
in the middle of the pentagram was a ratata pokemon card, which they removed and then asked me to stand in its place as a human sacrifice
Amway...sounds a lot like Quick Star...wow I was part of a cult and didn't know it! Glad I didn't like talking to people I don't know and dropped out LOL.
No one:
Automated voice: ceyult
Location: *REDDIT*
The first i walked into a church and every other time after that
The Army isn't a cult, the Marines are.
That army plot twist wasnt too much of a twist if you can read the signs. About the oath part I was thinking to myself sounds like the army
The first story really had me in the first half 😂😂😂😂
The second I joined middle school band.
3:42 was that a small text-to-speech chuckle i hear?
Snipe well, Kitter. Starting with those cult leaders if you please.
The first one really got me😂😂
My "Wait... did I join a cult?" moment was when I became a kpop (/bts army) fan. Istg for non-fans it probably seems like a cult sometimes haha
_Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, Jeon Jungkook, BTS_
I was sacrificed to the turkey man (who is female) 3 separate times by my Girl Scout troop while camping. I was then told by my 12 year old friends my soul would be sucked out of my body while I slept. I almost killed them when I woke up with a Charlie horse.
Hang on...I have subscribed to three of your channels...Holy Crap! Is Updoot cult?
The DECA one, honestly it really was an excuse for kids to get drunk. Source: Dr Pepper and whiskey midday during one of the competitions.
The boys in my school picked on me a little for liking anime and being like other girls. Then one of the boys made a cult where I was their god.
It doesn’t actually do anything it’s just a joke, and even though it’s summer now I still get noticed by my followers
I’m in a brass band and my mum drives me and two other members to and from band and the car ride is basically a cult. We do sacrifices (draw faces on paper then stab it) translate weird stuff into Latin during the sacrifices and we say hail jatan a lot (we call one of the girls jatan son of Satan) we’re trying to spread the cult but it’s not quite working. And we’re all splitting into different mini cults so it’s not rlly working. I think there’s like 5 people overall and ive got two in my sect of the cult and everyone else has themselves. Pls join my cult. U just have to write pancake on paper and then say all hail jatan or it is honerable to die for jatan (in Latin) while stabbing it with a pencil every so often
That first one got me
So my friend searched "is DnD a cult" and apparently it technically fits
I was trying the whole time to figure out the first one! 😂😂
“snipe well, kitter.”
“Snipe well, kitten”
“Snipe well, kitter”
And there goes Primerica.
That south Texas football comment hit a little close to home...
The first one about the military was hilarious. Anyone who doesn't know it's a cult, is stupid.
its not a cult
I have one similar to The school one where they couldn't tell anyone they were transferring when I was little I went to a super religious school my older brother also went but he went to a school close by that was way different and when I was starting to have a hard time at the school since it was a hard school my parents decided to start sending me to the other school and when I started going there my parents then official changed it my school to that one but this one girl that was previously rude to me at the school went to my school which I never told anyone where I was going and she hugged me and acted like we were life long friends and started talking about how I should go back
Working walmart. The beginning of shift chant. I will never do a pep chant for my sh*tty workplace.
my friend's husband works at one of the warehouses and he said that they had to do the chant every shift and the higher-ups have people circulating to see if there were any who weren't 'enthusiastic enough'. if they found somebody like that, they were immediately taken into to be talked to.
the first one got me holy shit
The ending of the first one gave me fucking whiplash
I joined fandoms.
First story:
They got me in the first half not gonna lie
The thing i hate about these videos is the fact that they use text to speech instead of real people reading it out.
I was in DECA my jr year. It was fun but I was not good at it and had to leave mid way through the year do to massive amounts of homework from my AP classes
,,snipe well, kitter”
Not gonna lie they got us in the first half
I want to join a cult that worships cars
Marching Band. At least mine.
Joining the royal marines lmao
,,sniper well,kitter".
Snipe well, kitter
I need that aim
your name speaks the truth
Nut Dealer I wish to educate, even in the small ways. I’m not sure how I feel about yours.
@@jessicaahlgren1462 shhhhh
Sniper kitter more like sniper killer lel
I knew the first one was the military right away