Comments on: Sex Cult goes Bananas http://www.trupela.com/2009/09/14/sex-cult-goes-bananas/ on Tribalism, Open Source and the Unexpected Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:35:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roberthttp://www.trupela.com/2009/09/14/sex-cult-goes-bananas/#comment-1330 Robert Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:22:55 +0000 http://www.trupela.com/?p=5718#comment-1330 Christianity... the mother of all "cargo cults"!R Christianity… the mother of all “cargo cults”!

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]]> By: John Nichollshttp://www.trupela.com/2009/09/14/sex-cult-goes-bananas/#comment-1328 John Nicholls Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:42:51 +0000 http://www.trupela.com/?p=5718#comment-1328 "Incredibly difficult to even begin to understand “cargo cult” mentality – in fact it’s difficult to read or hear some of these stories without chucking a little giggle" Cargo cults make no less or more sense than all mainstream religions to an Atheist, except cargo cults do not try to intimidate others in joining them. Actually many are combos of Christianity, just like Christianity is a combo of pagan practices (i.e. baptism). I lived three years on the island of Tanna, and know the Jon Frum cult tribe, found them to be kind and generous. But the cult (surprise, surprise) is really a weapon of control by the self imposed leaders. One whacko with a super ego did not agree with the status quo and started his own breakaway cult (rings a bell with Christians?), he called it the Fred cult after his name. “Incredibly difficult to even begin to understand “cargo cult” mentality – in fact it’s difficult to read or hear some of these stories without chucking a little giggle” Cargo cults make no less or more sense than all mainstream religions to an Atheist, except cargo cults do not try to intimidate others in joining them.
Actually many are combos of Christianity, just like Christianity is a combo of pagan practices (i.e. baptism).
I lived three years on the island of Tanna, and know the Jon Frum cult tribe, found them to be kind and generous. But the cult (surprise, surprise) is really a weapon of control by the self imposed leaders. One whacko with a super ego did not agree with the status quo and started his own breakaway cult (rings a bell with Christians?), he called it the Fred cult after his name.

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