Cult is the root of culture. The only difference is that one is a minority and the other is the majority. That's it.
"Cult" in the classical usage has nothing to do with being a minority.
>>42890447Nah sorry homie most cultures don't have suicide groups or one guy fucking everyone's wives on command of a deity or piss drinking chakra alignment or magical busses that will bring them to the other side of the galaxy or alien fights or whatever. They might occasionally have one of these, at best, but its not a matter of minority and majority, its that one is real and the other is manufactured in such an obvious way to appeal to people that its fake culture that inevitably is semi believed in by its creator.Like you can try an be edgy and shit about how the goat sacrificing bestiality cult that worships a goat headed tranny is like totally as legitimate but its larping. Its born out of contrarianism.
>>42890456>>42890484they are the same thing, one is just acceptable to the majority and the other is notSimple as
>>42890746>one is just acceptable to the majority Once again that has nothing to do with the classical meaning of "cult". Eg. The roman imperial CULT
>>42891035Once again, it does have everything to do with it. The only difference is that one is acceptable to the masses and the other is unacceptable.Simple as. It's not that complicated.
>>42891176>the official state religion was an unpopular minority That's just fucking retarded.
>>42890746They are not, both in practice and in essence, one is purely dishonest conjecture made with marketing and personal gain in mind in order to achieve a goal and generally exploit the attention and willpower of others, and the others are natural paths of mutual belief and more achieved through their realities, consequences and more with extremely longitudinal paths of seeking truth which persist across entire generations.Most cults die within 20 years. The only ones that basically live are parasitic to actual culture religions by modifying them enough to maintain their longitudinality while achieving personal gain and fantasy whilst betraying the nature of the original culture religion, much like how Mormonism is a cult which wants polyamory and more for males and is just heavily Americanized Christianity, or how Jehovas are basically doomsday cultists that can endlessly delay themselves the apocalypse and enter semi narcissistic fervor of being better than you for doing a few things while their higher ups rake in the cash and influence.If you cannot tell the actual difference between Christianity, Pastafarianism, piss drinking suicide meetups, niche Satanic cults, new age hippie retreats and contrarian pagans who don't want to be lame, then you are actually retarded. Even on a basic element of simple canonicity and how seriously they take one another, there's a canyon of disparity.
>>42891194>>42892033Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
>>42892446Its objectively not homeboy. I know we are on the sorta shitpost schizophrenic board and all but it is not and absolute relativism is for chinese sociopaths and white women going to one of several hundred buddhist hells that they don't know about (assuming they don't just go to normal hell for being cringe apostates and shit by default and the clearly made up 2000 cultist vibes they follow are somehow right which they are not).
