new.morning wrote: >--- 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. > But we usually speak in abstractions not concretes. Speaking in concretes is burdensome and for lawyers. I think with the web we've gotten a little obsessed with concreteness as everyone expect you to look up everything on the search engines before you make a statement.
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