On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
I had a hard-core cult following of at least 12.
This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.
One person's religion is another person's cult.
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.