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Very clever. The scariest monster remains unseen. I try to live my life being open to challenging and being challenged by anything. But there are some things — needing money, clothes, electricity — which are hard to escape. I’ll try and have another go though, I promise.
I was waiting for the part that would make it clear what was being satirized, and it never came? I feel like I'm missing context?
My reading is that the very fact that it's so abstract and general is itself the point. What could the cult be? Politics? Religion? A particular professional mindset or focus? Many could fit. Apart from the reference to "promise of godly exaltation or gift in a theoretical afterlife" (which nod towards religion), you could apply a lot of this to many social groups.
whatever you are thinking about while reading this is probably the cult you are in
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A good indication of a cult is that there is a shopping list of specific core beliefs (say 20) you are expected to believe. And you believe 19 of them but on the 20th you have a slightly different view. If this causes you to be banished and ostracised, then it's probably a cult. JK Rowling would be an example of this.
"I completely agree with the core tenants of Buddhism, but I think I should be able to eat babies."
I was waiting for the part that would make it clear what was being satirized, and it never came? I feel like I'm missing context?
It's agile isn't it ....
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A good indication of a cult is that there is a shopping list of specific core beliefs (say 20) you are expected to believe. And you believe 19 of them but on the 20th you have a slightly different view. If this causes you to be banished and ostracised, then it's probably a cult. JK Rowling would be an example of this.
"I completely agree with the core tenants of Buddhism, but I think I should be able to eat babies."
whatever you are thinking about while reading this is probably the cult you are in