--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> > > What is your definition of a cult? Thats the point. Everyone has something differnt in mind in terms of the attributes of a cult. And often different intensities are applied, internally by each, to various attributes. Thus the word itself loses much value for clear communication -- but retains its emotional charge and its ability to dampen down conversation and rational thought. Far better, IMO, than using loaded, power words like "cult", is to decompose the word and examine and discuss the various specific attributes one has in mind. And how different organizations may manifest more or less intensities of these attributes compared to other orgs. Depending on how one means the term (and the precise definitions are often not communicated), little league could be a cult -- or almost nothing is. > Your definition of Turqy's cults > are rather broad. By those definitions anyone who watched a TV show on > a regular basis would be considered in a cult. Now maybe if they > watched that show and got together with a group of people who were not > only a fan club but worshiped members of the cast with rituals then you > might have a cult. And if they punished anyone who trying to leave the > group it might considered a cult. > > Likewise if you have a guitar teacher you see regularly for lessons I > wouldn't call that a cult either anymore than I would call seeing a > personal guru regularly. However if the guitar teacher or the personal > guru has a group that worship them then that might be a cult. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
