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I love a good cult, the wackier and more left field the beliefs, the better. So to kick this off, I present to you an old favourite of mine: The Temple of Theola (Do click around, there's some hidden gems on there) Do you love new age aesthetics and beliefs that are kind of rooted in Celtic myth if you squint? Are you a massive racist and want to flaunt your genes that are descended directly from the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9Ox9kKmLg Temple of Theola's main goal at this point seems to be preventing blood donations from RH- people until their demands are met. What are these demands? See for yourself! Temple of Theola posted:So I pledge to withhold my life saving pure blood until such a time that our demands are met, and they are: Bonus video! The story of the Theolites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AalKbp8-qcQ Cymbal Monkey has a new favorite as of 11:46 on Mar 11, 2015 |
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So, what rights do other species of humanoids get?
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Mar 11, 2015 14:48
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Tiggum posted:So, what rights do other species of humanoids get? My question is, if I sleep with a
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In order of Preference: Panna Wave Aum Shinrikyo Heavens Gate
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So you're a traditional Catholic who broke ties with the Church after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council? You don't want to join the Fraternity of St Pius X because they don't claim that all popes since the council have been literally agents of Satan? You toy with the idea of simply electing a new pope and starting the Church anew, but don't think you have the chops to elect yourself? Instead of following the trend of simplifying the liturgy, you instead decide to double down and introduce all sorts of new funky colours to the Mass? Then look no further, the Palmarian Church has got you covered! In 1968, several Spaniards claimed to have seen an apparition of Mary by a tree near Palmar de Troya, Andalusia. While the local clergy dismissed the visions (and most of those who claimed to have seen the Virigin decided to not insist), one insurance broker by the name of Clemente Dominguez y Goméz proclaimed that Mary had ordered him to rid the Church of progressivists and communists. Supposedly he also started showing stigmata (the wounds Christ suffered on the cross) and claimed to have lost 16 litres of blood at once - the blood he later showed to others was proven to not be his, though. He and his followers started a religious order (the "Carmelites of the Holy Face") and managed to persuade an arch-conservative and more than a bit senile Vietnamese archbishop to ordain Dominguez a bishop. Shortly afterwards he lost his eyeballs in a car accident, which sped up his downwards spiral into insanity even more and multiplied the "visions" he received. After the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978 (whom, oddly, they still continued to venerate as a holy pope even though he was the main man responsible for continuing the council and actually implementing its reforms) he claimed to have been crowned pope by Christ himself, following this mystical coronation with a real one in Seville. During his reign as "pope", his acts included canonising the fascist dictator Franco as well as Christoph Columbus, authoring a "revised" version of the Bible, proclaiming new dogmas like Mary being present in the host as well, and sexually abusing several of his priests and nuns. The Palmarian Church now claims to have 60 bishops (apparently every priest is also a bishop for them? No idea), 70 nuns and about 2,000 followers. They even had a small schism when Dominguez excommunicated several of his clergy for allegedly planning to assassinate him; they formed the Archidonian Palmarian Church, which seems to have been reduced to maybe four or five members, though. The Palmarians are currently at their third pope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGUQqNgffUM Dominguez receives a vision (lolling at even the altar servers being cardinals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70SDAJ8qRg A badass montage of Palmarian church services cut to Marilyn Manson, made by an ex-member of the church (  for gory imagery)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lGgSPLG9Ns A former Irish member of the Palmarians has posted several videos in which he threatens the church leadership. He doesn't seem to be too mentally stable himself, though.  The Palmarian cathedral in Palmar de Troya  The current pope Gregory XVIII System Metternich has a new favorite as of 15:37 on Mar 11, 2015 |
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Mar 11, 2015 15:31
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System Metternich posted:
He looks like he bought his vestments in a costume shop for $20.
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System Metternich posted:
After being pope he went on to a minor role in the transformer franchise.  I'm actually interested in learning more about a cult one time I saw featured on a 20/20 like show. The kids in the cult would all live in a house, not have cars, and they would beg or dig food out of garbage. I think it was highest concentrated somewhere in texas but it was in more than one state. I know thats not a lot of information and describes a lot of cults. But maybe someone will know what it is. Also for a creepy but pretty good movie about cults, watch Martha Marcy May Marlene.
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When I went to college in New Hampshire, there was this town named Richmond nearby with this traditionalist Catholic splinter group that hated Jews. It was the only town in the state where Ron Paul won the primary in 2008. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/summer/trouble-in-paradise  I specifically remember seeing that nun with the mole in the grocery store once.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:38
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Surprised no one's mentioned Scientology.
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Mar 13, 2015 23:58
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Surprised no one's mentioned iPhone users
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DicktheCat posted:Surprised no one's mentioned Scientology. To be a cult you have to be a religion. Scientology is a business.
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Mar 14, 2015 01:44
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Raëlians are cool because they lied to everyone that they cloned a human and everyone believed them. Also it was founded when a race car driver was abducted by aliens on a volcano. Which is pretty loving cool.
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Mar 14, 2015 01:55
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DicktheCat posted:Surprised no one's mentioned Scientology. trap sprung get him xenu.
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The followers of Rajneesh were located in a small Oregon town called The Dalles. At first the town was good to them, and most of the time they were good to the town. Then the Guru and the government of The Dalles started butting heads over land usage rights. From there Rajneesh had two choices: Accept the city's regulations and play nice, or poison a shitload of people until only his followers can vote in municipal elections. Seeing no other option, Rajneesh ordered his people to sprinkle powdered salmonella into the food in every restaurant in town, leaving 751 people too sick to vote. As it turns out they did not poison enough people to turn the election in their favor and accomplished nothing but a record for biggest bioterrorist act in American history. For coming up with a plot straight out of a bad sitcom, they get a mention from me in this thread.
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Mar 14, 2015 02:37
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Bitcoin. They recently created their own bible, satoshibible.com.
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Mar 14, 2015 03:06
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ZeusCannon posted:Bitcoin. How can it be a bible if it's not in the blockchain? It's not even a .onion.
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The Benandanti. They went on crazy astral projection dream quests at night to fight demons and witches. Later the inquisition pointed out that this was a very witchy thing to do.
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bunch of people too crazy for the Pentecostals started a town in New Jersey and led by their KKK-lovin' leader
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brick cow posted:I'm actually interested in learning more about a cult one time I saw featured on a 20/20 like show. The kids in the cult would all live in a house, not have cars, and they would beg or dig food out of garbage. I think it was highest concentrated somewhere in texas but it was in more than one state. I know thats not a lot of information and describes a lot of cults. But maybe someone will know what it is. I think you're referring to The Brethren also known as The Garbage Eaters. They're loony-toons.
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DarklyDreaming posted:The followers of Rajneesh were located in a small Oregon town called The Dalles. At first the town was good to them, and most of the time they were good to the town. Then the Guru and the government of The Dalles started butting heads over land usage rights. From there Rajneesh had two choices: Accept the city's regulations and play nice, or poison a shitload of people until only his followers can vote in municipal elections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrb9MV5KICI The Ant Hill Kids, a doomsday cult from Ontario active from '77 to '89. Most people haven't heard of them and I find it surprising because even by cult standards, the leader was a real piece of poo poo. quote:Despite his devastating punishments, the members of the Ant Hill Kids never questioned his authority. His punishments included making members break their own legs with sledgehammers, sitting on lit stoves, shooting each other in the shoulders, and eating dead mice and feces. A follower would sometimes be asked to cut off another follower's toes with wire cutters to prove loyalty. The children were not spared, and not only were they sexually abused, but they were also at times held over fires or would be nailed to trees while other children threw stones at them. Thériault was also responsible for the death of his own infant, as he left the child outside during a blizzard. quote:When follower Solange Boilard complained of an upset stomach, Thériault laid her naked on a table, punched her in the stomach, jammed a plastic tube up her rectum to perform a crude enema with molasses and olive oil, then cut open her abdomen, and ripped off part of her intestines with his bare hands. Thériault made another member, Gabrielle Lavallée, stitch her up using needle and thread, and had the other women shove a tube down her throat and blow. Boilard died the next day. Claiming to have power of resurrection, Thériault bore a hole into Boilard's skull with a drill, and then made other male members—along with himself—ejaculate into the cavity. Celery Face has a new favorite as of 08:39 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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DicktheCat posted:Surprised no one's mentioned Scientology. I'm going to recommend the book Going Clear by Lawrence Wright. I read it after it was recommended by the goons in the scientology thread way back when and it was a surreal loving read. Dude throws light onto all the creepy dark corners of scientology, plus he dishes the dirt on Tom Cruise.
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Dr Scoofles posted:I'm going to recommend the book Going Clear by Lawrence Wright. I read it after it was recommended by the goons in the scientology thread way back when and it was a surreal loving read. Dude throws light onto all the creepy dark corners of scientology, plus he dishes the dirt on Tom Cruise. A Piece of Blue Sky is really good as well. It goes pretty deeply into the origins of the group.
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I am a fan of Richard Wayne Gary Wayne's cult
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