I'm sure there are hundreds of cults in the US alone and probably most of them don't commit mass suicide...but of course what constitutes a "cult" is hard to define.
Many are probably aimed at causing damage to a system (to force change) that they see as dysfunctional (e.g. skin heads? KKK? "the family" of the Earth Liberation Front? Green Peace?). An interesting write up of the members of Aum Shinrikyo can be found in this Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway One interesting aspect to include in discussions may be the apparant failure of higher education (and "critical thinking"?) to be able to do too much about cult membership (many of the members of the cult listed in the page above are highly educated (medicine, physics, graduate work). --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4985 or send a blank email to leave-4985-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
