By the way, it's quite fun to join a cult intentionally. I did that a number of times in my early 20ies. It means such an unusual situation to create: you sort

By the way, it's quite fun to join a cult intentionally. I did that a number of times in my early 20ies. It means such an unusual situation to create: you sort of take them seriously and not at the same time. You listen to them with reasonable openness and attention (often extracting some useful thoughts from their philosophies) and even with fair amount of basic human sympathy but without falling into blind faith like ordinary victims or even allowing a slight amount of unnoticed effect on your reason. This is an exercise which can benefit both you and the people from the cult (who often are ordinary members there and are going to get disillusioned with it soon - and an experience of meeting a person who didn't get charmed yet agreed to be open to them is going to help them). It usually ends by both parties losing interest in each other gradually: you stop hearing anything new from them, get bored and give up attending their meetings, they give up inviting actively because they understand they can't really have you anyway.