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| | Dana Gioia Online - The Cult of Weldon Kees |
 | | Cults flourish when established religions have lost their spiritual potency. | | | A cult is a religious community built around devotion to a single deity—not necessarily exclusive devotion but special fealty. | | | The archbishops of the established religion have hardly noticed the cult's existence. |
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| | Scientology: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power |
| | A cult leader told Noah's parents that their son had been at the church just hours before he disappeared -- but the church denied this story as soon as the body was identified. | | | No cult extracts more money from its members." Agrees Vicki Aznaran, who was one of Scientology's six key leaders until she bolted from the church in 1987: "This is a criminal organization, day in and day out. | | | Even as the cult of Scientology tries to destroy the truth, the truth shall be loosed over the planet forever. |
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| | The Cult Test, Questions 0 |
| | Cult members are playing spiritual make-believe, and they sure don't want to hear that their "guaranteed" ticket to Heaven is actually a counterfeit that they bought from a con-artist scalper. | | | The individual members of the cult are told that they are inherently small, weak, stupid, ignorant, and sinful, and are in no way qualified to judge the Guru or his church. | | | Many cults believe that God will answer all of their prayers and rearrange the world to suit them. |
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| | The Cult Church |
| | Cults and cult churches always bring in their disciples through strategic "love bombing". | | | What most people don't understand is that false prophets may have been true prophets, full-blown cults may have been cult churches, and cult churches may have been normal churches at one time. | | | All the leaders of the cults, from Joseph Smith of the Mormons to Sun Myung Moon of the Moonies, feel that they were chosen by God to do some special task or to know some hidden meaning of Scripture, or to become some cherished savior of mankind. |
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| | The Cult of Mithras |
| | "It is probable...that the western Mithras had its roots in a daevic cult of the god as practiced in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, and not in the cult of the Zoroastrianized Mithra in Iran. | | | Some scholars have suggested that the conscription of Persian soldiers into the Roman army may account for it; others believe that Roman Mithraism was in fact a totally separate religion from its inception and was merely given a Persian 'gloss' to make it attractive to a population obsessed with the cryptic and inscrutable cast. | | | Mithra was originally conceived of as a kind of angel, a power of light who fights on the side of Ahura-Mazda [the Zoroastrian Lord of Wisdom]. |
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| | Scientology - the Cult of Eternal Litigation |
| | I think Hubbard was a conartist and a fraud, Scientology is a genuine religion and the Church of Scientology is a totalitarian, manipulative cult. | | | I am not, as are some critics, convinced that the Church is unreformable or that the beliefs are total nonsense. | | | The Apologetics Index keeps track of academics who naively or otherwise support cults such as the Church of Scientology. |
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| | The Cult Called A.A. |
| | A cult follower must be stripped of his sense of individual worth -- in many sects, he is humiliated sexually, deprived of sensory stimuli, sequestered from the larger community, or otherwise manipulated to look upon himself as degraded and worthless. | | | I had an uncle then (he died this past January) who had been an alcoholic prior to 1960. | | | In A.A., you are plopped in a ring of cultists every evening and pressured to place your entire destiny in the hands of some "higher power." |
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| | THE CULT CONSTRUCTION SET |
| | Simply select the beliefs that are most advantageous to you and ‘The Cult Construction Set’ will generate actual Bible scriptures to support these beliefs. | | | No religion would be complete without a catchy name, so the first thing we need to do is create a name for your newly founded Cult. | | | For thousands of years man has been putting his own spin on Religion and the Scriptures and now so can you. |
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| | The Cult of Dionysos |
| | Apis was supposedly transformed into Osiris after death, thus gaining the kind of divine immortality which was open to the human devotees of Osiris. | | | Hera drove him mad and he fled to the east where the oriental earth goddess Cybele cured him. | | | "Being then identified with Osiris under the name of Osiris-Apis (or Osorapis), he was taken with great pomp to is last resting place prepared for him in the Serapeum....Here Ptolemy I had "the object of founding...a cult area that would enable Egyptians and Greeks alike to join in a community of beliefs acceptable to each..." |
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| | Welcome to the Cult of Cod Reborn! |
| | I felt that I had something more to give to Discordianism by casting off the traditional facade of beliefs, and adopting a new set of words, principles and ideas which could spread a new kind of chaos. | | | With accepting the scriptures of my following, there have been changes in the quality and texture of the scriptures written. | | | Originally, it did not contain much information, but over time, I have grown the Cult's following, as well as its scriptures. |
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| | Cult News Network |
| | Canadian guru promises the path to inner truth, but to some, John de Ruiter is the latest in a long history of people substituting psychobabble and self-worship for spiritual growth. | | | Mother of Zacarias Moussaoui says her son "underwent a kind of brainwashing" | | | Why are the Jathedars attending 3HO functions, and addressing Yogi Bhajan with the “Sri Singh Sahib’ title? |
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| | Everybody Loves Raymond: The Cult - TV.com |
| | It's a bunch of people who care about me and want to see me happy. | | | Marie: Oh my god, he's joined a cult! | | | Continue » Posted Feb 26, 2006 11:19 am PST |
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| | Should we love Che Guevara? By Paul Berman |
| | Yet the entire movie, in its concept and tone, exudes a Christological cult of martyrdom, a cult of adoration for the spiritually superior person who is veering toward death—precisely the kind of adoration that Latin America's Catholic Church promoted for several centuries, with miserable consequences. | | | You think you are observing a noble protest against the oppressive customs and authoritarian habits of an obscurantist Catholic Church at its most reactionary. | | | I am disturbed when I see otherwise decent people wearing a T-shirt with the visage of a totalitarian killer. |
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| | How the Cult Makes Money |
| | Besides its agenda of power and spiritual abuse, the cult (specifically here the Illuminati) has another basis for existing: making money. | | | I was abused by the "Christian Church"...Oddly enough I still consider myself a Christian as I do believe in Jesus Chris... | | | Evidence of international Satanic cult that controls the world? |
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| | Wired News: |
| | Cult of Macintosh » Steve Jobs is worshipped and admired like the cultural icons he's used in his marketing campaigns. | | | Some Mac fanatics collect them, photograph them and even decorate their homes with them. | | | They're news only because of their novelty, not the threat they pose. |
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| | The Cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | But during the 1994/95 tour, Astbury quit to form The Holy Barbarians, and The Cult was no more. | | | Death Cult relased an EP and a single during 1983 ("Brothers Grimm" and "God's Zoo"). | | | CD reissues and another greatest hits package are also rumoured to be in the works, but there is no word yet if or when the band will record a follow-up to 2001's Beyond Good and Evil. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Cult of Mac: Books: Leander Kahney |
| | Not all books are presented in such loving detail as The Cult of Mac is. It really is a nice total package. | | | But the books reviewed here at MyMac.com are Mac focused books, most of which end up on a shelf before I donate them to the local library. | | | This isn't a book you have to read in sequential order, as each chapter is an island unto itself. |
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| | www.myspace.com/cultmusic |
| | Hey, Cult, I am your longitme faithful fan! | | | Anyone know if there is any truth in it? | | | THE CULT has had a major influence on me... |
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| | Beggars Banquet - artists - Cult |
| | CULT DEMO'S, PO Box 3813, London, SW18 1XE. | | | This is a rare opportunity to own a comprehensive and insightful collection of demos from one of the greatest rock bands of the last 20 years. | | | The unadorned Duffy riffs still have major power and when loose, one-take guide vocals sound this passionate you can recognise that Ian Astbury is one of the best rock vocalists of his generation. |
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| | The Cult of Distraction |
| | We are not a religion or Cult nor a business, we are a group of friends exploring the Connection. | | | This site is brought to you by Andi but represents the work of many, most of all Dan. | | | Find everything you want to know about COD on the playa in 2004 here. |
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| | The Cult biography >> liveDaily |
| | In the spring of 1995, the Cult disbanded, with Ian Astbury forming the Holy Barbarians later in the year. | | | Astbury was the son of a merchant navy man, which meant he moved frequently during his youth; at one point in his childhood, his family lived in Canada, where the young Astbury became fascinated with Native Americans, which would become a recurring theme in his songwriting. | | | Ian joined the group as their lead vocalist (performing with the last name of "Lindsay," which was his mother's maiden name) and had the group renamed the Southern Death Cult. |
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| | The Cult of Power- by Justin Raimondo |
| | The exoteric creed is the official, public doctrine, the creed which attracts the acolyte in the first place and brings him into the movement as a rank-and-file member. | | | Like other such sects, religious as well as political, the history and beliefs of the neoconservative cult come in two versions. | | | The cult of Power, with its roots in the Left and its present hegemony over the Right, is the eternal enemy of peace and liberty. |
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| | WashingtonPost.com: The Cult Controversy |
| | I woke up one day and realized I hadn't thought about the cult for two months. | | | LaRouche associates point to the Schiller Institute's sometimes large conferences as evidence that his followers do not constitute a cult. | | | LaRouche's function is to encourage people to do as much independent research as they can," she said. |
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| | The Cult: Pure Cult: the Singles 1984-1995 - PopMatters Music Review |
| | The requisite power ballad "Edie" is a tribute to Edie Sedgewick from Warhol's crowd who died (of course) from a drug overdose. | | | For others, the Cult's music is a striking mixture of the banal and the spiritual that sounds great. | | | Even in the midst of what some dismiss as pandering, the Cult continues to set itself apart from the Bon Jovi's of the world. |
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| | True Womanhood |
| | Called the "cult of domesticity," it is found in women's magazines, advice books, religious journals, newspapers, fiction--everywhere in popular culture. | | | The separate spheres of men and women were determined by men's and women's different physical and mental makeup. | | | This new ideal provided a new view of women's duty and role while cataloging the cardinal virtues of true womanhood for a new age. |
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| | Images of the Temple of Culture |
| | When Shuliang He was posthumously honored as Duke who Gave Birth to the Sage, shrines called the Shrine for the Duke who Gave Birth to the Sage (Qisheng ci) were constructed to honor Confucius' father. | | | The sacrifices to the spirit of Kongzi was part of a larger system of cult sacrifices to other gods and spirits. | | | This pantheon was headed by Heaven, to which only the emperor offered sacrifices at an altar in the southern suburbs of the imperial city, followed by Earth, which received sacrifices at an altar in the northern suburbs. |
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| | cultonline.org News |
| | (the opinions stated above are those of myself (Ozmen) and not necessarily the Cult as a whole. | | | Any old friends are welcome to join us because two things are inevitable "Death and Taxes". | | | I am fairly sure that we do indeed have some members who enjoy games that suck |
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| | The Cult of True Womanhood |
| | For, if women were so very little less than the angels, she should surely take a more active part in running the world, especially since men were making such a hash of things... | | | Woman, in the cult of True Womanhood presented by the womenÌs magazines, gift annuals, and religious literature of the nineteenth century, was the hostage in the home. | | | In a society where values changed frequently, where fortunes rose and fell with frightening rapidity, where social and economic mobility provided instability as well as hope, one thing at least remained the same - a true woman was a true woman, wherever she was found. |
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| | BEHIND THESE GATES LURKS THE CULT OF CHRISTO. |
| | The youth, after all, have always followed their icons without question. | | | It's been 37 years since the Kunsthalle project and the cult of Christo is showing no signs of attrition. | | | Almost everyone working in Central Park can tell you that Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been planning the project for 26 years; that the couple doesn't accept any outside funding for their projects; and that they do a lot more than wrapping. |
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| | The Cult Web Forum - Powered by XMB 1.9.1 Nexus |
| | The place to test your signature, avatar, image uploads, etc. | | | This is the place to talk about anything other than The Cult. | | | This is the place to talk about The Cult, or anything Cult related. |
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| | The Cult of Tintin at Tintinologist.org: unofficial Tintin site |
| | Note: You are reading this message either because you cannot see our stylesheets, or because you do not have a Web standards-compliant browser. | | | Join the largest English language Tintin discussion community on the Internet. | | | Established in 1994, The Cult of Tintin (Tintinologist.org) is the oldest and largest English language Tintin fan site on the Internet. |
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| | eBay - the cult all products at low prices |
| | Note: Item availability and pricing may be out of date. | | | Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy. | | | 57 matches found for 'the cult' in All Products |
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| | THE CULT |
| | “[The Cult] has always been the most important thing in my life,” says Astbury, who explained their four year “hiatus” by saying that when a group of people spend a dozen years together constantly touring and recording, a time comes when a break is needed and a chance to explore other creative avenues. | | | The Cult shocked its fans when they called it quits midway through their 1995, playing their last live gig in Rio De Janeiro. | | | The intense music they have created on Beyond Good And Evil is a staunch reaffirmation that this is no watered down attempt to relive past glories and grab a good paycheck on the merit of rekindling memories, as so many of the ‘80s bands have done in recent years. |
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| | The Cult v2 Angels Weep |
| | The Cult is mainly about the religious aspect of the game. | | | Many people have been there, some never returned and others experienced something that changed their lives for good. | | | This site contains lots of spoilers, so if you haven't played the Silent Hill games before and you don't want to spoil it for yourself then I suggest you not to read any further. |
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| | WashingtonPost.com: The Cult Controversy |
| | Religious belief systems should not be dismissed as "cults." | | | This special report brings together 50 years of Post photographs and news clips about some of the religious and other movements whose techniques have drawn criticism. | | | Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton probes extremism in a chapter from his book "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China." |
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| | Cult of Macintosh |
| | ou're most welcome to create a link to the Cult. | | | This makes it worthwhile for me to update and further develop these pages. | | | Therefore I haven't tried to give credit to the original icon designers who undoubtedly would deserve it. |
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| | BLABBERMOUTH.NET - THE CULT: San Diego Show Announced |
| | That was a HELL of a wicked rock show. | | | THE CULT went "on hiatus" following a split with Lava/Atlantic Records, who released the band's acclaimed 2001 CD, "Beyond Good & Evil". | | | The accuracy of the information contained herein is neither confirmed nor guaranteed by Roadrunner Records, and the views and opinions of authors expressed on these pages do not necessarily state or reflect those of Roadrunner Records or its employees. |
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| | The Cult Survivor |
| | While we have published articles from people who are not themselves cult survivors, most of the focus is on the experience of cult survivors, their individual stories, what they have been through and their particular needs today. | | | Over the years, we have published essays, editorials, news capsules, poems, book reviews, bibliographies, and interviews from a variety of writers. |
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| | SURVIVING THE CULT ECKANKAR |
| | Leaving a cult isn't as easy as just sleeping late on Sunday mornings and deciding not to go to church. | | | Everyone thinks no one else will understand - if you ever attend an ex-member workshop - you will be totally amazed that people involved in psychologically controlling groups all have the same experiences - different but the same. | | | It's pretty much universal when it comes to cult involvement. |
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| | The CULT MOVIES Webring - Home |
| | Cult movies follow no rules or pattern - some cult movies are popular only among certain limited groups of audiences or friends. | | | They elicit a fiery passion in devoted fans, and may cause cultists to enthusiastically champion these films, leading to audience participation and repetitive viewings and showings. | | | If you want to see the list of the Cult Movies in the Ring, follow this link. |
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| | Playlist: The Cult of iPod |
| | His new book about iPod culture, Cult of iPod, will be in stores in November. | | | In Cult of iPod (No Starch Press, November 2005), I look back on the years between then and now, detailing how the iPod came be and how it has profoundly changed music culture. | | | Although the iPod is a brilliantly designed and executed product—Apple did what it does best, first carefully thinking out the user experience and then designing the iPod around that idea—the company was lucky in having the right product at the right time. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Cult: Music: The Cult |
| | And I must say, it became addictive listening to. | | | It distracts you from the song's central message that you need to evaluate what is important in your short life. | | | There's a couple pieces that misfire a bit ("Naturally High" has a rather irritating chorus, "Be Free" is kind of hokey), but all in all, the album is fantastic. |
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| | The Cult - ChuckPalahniuk.net |
| | For my part, I've been so wrapped up in facilitating the class, and also learning and participating myself, that it was hard to take a step back and think of the best way to describe it for everyone else. | | | If you're the sort of writer who gets BIG IDEAS for stories, but your characters are never quite believable, or big enough to make the story work--if they end up doing or saying improbable things, just to service your plot, then Will's Master's Class is the medicine you've been missing. | | | But you won't find any of that here. |
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| | The Cult Film Archive |
| | The Cult Film Archive is the first research-based resource of its kind to be housed at a British University. | | | The Cult Film Archive's holdings include a wide range of cult movies from across the world, many of which are not widely available in this country. | | | Alongside video/DVD stocks, the Archive contains related cult film memorabilia such as film footage, books, scripts, artwork and soundtracks, much of which have been donated by key figures from the world of cult cinema. |
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| | The Cult Discography: Electric |
| | Together, Love and Electric form a natural progression towards Sonic Temple that followed in 1989. | | | The Cult still play many of these songs live, including Wild Flower, Peace Dog, Lil' Devil and Love Removal Machine, and they seem to love playing this material as much as their audience loves hearing it. | | | It's the favorite Cult album of hard rock and metal fans, and for good reason -- it grabs you hard and doesn't let go. |
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| | The Cult - Powered by vBulletin |
| | Cult meet up forum for accounts of live meetings with fellow members! | | | Any suggestions, praise, criticism, or ideas you may have for The Cult are welcome. | | | Discuss here about the state of the world, the war in Iraq, our great president, and anything else you'd expect people like Dennis Miller to be stewing about. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Love: Remastered: Music |
| | Classing The Cult as goth has nothing to do with being narrow minded which I think another reviewer stated, they were goth and this is exactly how it should be. | | | I cannot understand why I do not hear about this album in the press or on the net more. | | | I have since seen Ian Astbury perform with The Doors and he is still as great today as back then but buy this and you'll get a feel for how he and the rest of The Cult were like at their best. |
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| | THE CULT OF DIET COKE. |
| | And nowhere is this cult stronger than in the worlds of media and politics, where publicists, pundits and the people they orbit demand the Real Thing. | | | The Cult of Diet Coke is strong and slavishly devoted, making their beverage of choice the undisputed leader in diet sodas for the last two decades and the third-most popular soda in the United States, trailing only Coca-Cola and Pepsi. | | | Diet Coke is asked for, by name, in contract riders from a wide variety of artists, ranging from Michael W. Smith to Nine Inch Nails. |
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| | oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Cult of Mac |
| | Like fans of a football team or a rock group, Macintosh fanatics have their own subculture, with clearly defined obsessions, rites, and passages. | | | The Cult of Mac surveys the devoted following that has grown up around Macintosh computers. | | | Written by Wired news journalist Leander Kahney, The Cult of Mac is an in-depth look at Mac users and their unique, creative, and often very funny culture. |
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