cults

I was prompted with this question

Definitions of reality are most significantly impacted by:
1. Group cohesion
2. Strength on group boundaries
3. Control of negative feedback
4. Ideological perspective

it got me thinking about Ideological perspective

We perceive reality in terms of our ideological perspective
• Example: person with low self-esteem getting a complement then rejecting that complement because it is not consistent with their ideology.

Reality becomes something that is not out there realistically.

example: pen it is a pen or weapon

i did some research and found some information in Ideological totalism (centralization): they ( the cult) believe in one thing and that is it.

The world becomes defined in their ideology.

i was just wonder what you guys thought about cult, my ideas, pretty much anything relating to cults sects?

As far as I can see, a cult is only a small group (fewer than a thousand I suppose) of separatists' worship that is looked by negatively from whatever society they live in.
Every religion starts off as a cult to some extent. Just wait until one form of Christianity calls a smaller group of Christianity a cult.

I would disagree that there is any limit on the size of a cult (scientology anyone?), the definition of a cult is usually in it's practices. The word cult is generally used in place of sect to indicate a more negative view of that group. Usually this view pertains to totalitarian control of the members of said sect, generally obvious from the level of effort put into preventing members from leaving. Other defining characteristics of groups described as cults tends to be the age of the ideology involved, most cults are founded upon newer and more extreme readings of an old religion, or entirely new ideas (generally considered to have been pulled out of thin air by the "prophet" or other figurehead sorry back on scientology again there).

hmmm......i just figured out the one thing that bothers me more than religion....CULTS! ( well a lot of things bother me more than religion but cults are much like religious practices in a sense ).

i beleive in neutral minded thinking, and cults ( and religions too ) are VERY single minded. meaning they only look at things one way and see nothing else.

and i hate christians. i only say that cause i AM christian. according to christian law i am going to hell cause i rejected jesus as gods son......BAH! rubbish. religion is a flop and cults are even worse.