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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

Sure.

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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

Seriously, have you seen the "rokos basilisk" thing? Buncha self-identified "rationalists" recreating god from first principles and a network connection.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago* (2 children)

Yeah, I’m very familiar with the Rationalists, and the Zizians, they don’t understand that science-fiction is fiction, just like how other cults don’t understand fantasy is fantasy, cults are going to cult. If anything, they are a further call to reject religious/cult reasoning and culture. It’s a mindset that seeks an intentional and deliberate misunderstanding of reality.

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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

Really the only prerequisite to falling into a cult is thinking oneself too smart or moral or whatever to fall into a cult.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, the prerequisites to falling into a cult are vulnerability, misunderstanding, naïveté, peer pressure, desperation, seeking social acceptance, and opportunity. You can very much have enough awareness and independence of thought to not join nor be susceptible to cults and recognize cult behavior and ideology, not everybody is that desperate for something to give their life an illusion of greater meaning.