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Cults are cheap, they come and go. Religion - a true one, that's what counts. Cults we've had in the high school, nobody remembers them after a while.
by avmich 6y ago
Cults are cheap, they come and go. Religion - a true one, that's what counts. Cults we've had in the high school, nobody remembers them after a while.
- bawolff 6y agoSurvivorship bias? Or am i just missing the joke here?
- avmich 6y agoThe point was that there are illusions which hold lots of people for long time. Religions are a good example. However to keep really lots of people for a really long time, religion should survive itself - and outcompete others, and that's not easy. So the argument "religion" shouldn't be brought every time a government is suspected in doing something... conspirological.
- mullingitover 6y agoHow do you define 'a true one' when it comes to religion? For most people the true religion is just whatever religion you grew up on. And cults turn into religions all the time. There's a fine line between a cult and a religion, and that line is ownership of real estate.