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How can you determine who the insiders are if you are an outsider? I'm not familiar with anti-cult movements. I'll have to look into it. I might consider that
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
How can you determine who the insiders are if you are an outsider?
I'm not familiar with anti-cult movements. I'll have to look into it.
I might consider that if you find yourself referring to other people as outsiders, you might be in a cult (though, I may be using a different definition than you).
- themodelplumber 11y agoAh, so just to clarify regarding insider / outsider terminology, I'm getting those terms from my research into religion in general and anthropology[1][2] rather than my own religion. But that made me chuckle a bit, the idea of a bunch of stepford wives chanting "outsider...outsider" and banishing someone. That is a familiar sort of stereotype to me as an insider, though many outsiders (again, not really my term, just a convenient abstraction) haven't usually seen such a mental concept through to completion via e.g. direct research, so it's still a shockingly common perception. I have some pretty hilarious anecdotes from encounters with those perceptions, but they are long to tell. (BTW I'm happy to leave the non-scholarly use of terms like "outsider" to nation-states[3]...hehe) [1] http://www.amazon.com/Insider-Outsider-Problem-Study-Religion/dp/0826481469 http://www.amazon.com/Insider-Outsider-Problem-Study-Religio... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin
- jsprogrammer 11y agoThanks for the links. I've started to look at them. Sorry, I don't have much more to add to the conversation for now.