The short Life of "Fools"

Packerjohn

Packerjohn

Packerjohn
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It's "cult time" again. I am always amazed how so many people in this world are totally clueless and perhaps brainless and will follow whatever leader comes around and tells them that God or Jesus has spoken to him and this is what they have to do. Some of the cults in the media I remember were Heaven's Gate, Branch Davidian, the Manson Family and the People's Temple with "Rev." Jones. There are plenty of others and I don't want to bore you with a long list.

Now there is one from Kenya. What amazes me is that young people here in Canada want to change or ignore history because some aspects of our history they do not like. If you ignore history and it's many lessons you will continue to make the same mistakes over and over. Look at these cults. People just can't or don't want to learn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65363585
 

I remember getting a knock at the door, and finding two men screaming at me that I was a sinner, and I was going to hell. I don't think you have to go to Africa to find religious zealots, with cult like behaviors. Belief is a medicine, which some abuse, and some become addicted, with sad results.
 

When I was young most people were born with something called "Common Sense." Now, common sense is very rare. Society seems to wait for some "Great Leader" on the TV to tell them what to do. Technology is great and I'm all for it but not when technology replaces common sense. Even when you use the Internet, the smartphone and whatever, you still need common sense.

I sometimes wonder if common sense is gone forever or will it someday come back?
 
Packerjohn said:
When I was young most people were born with something called "Common Sense." Now, common sense is very rare. Society seems to wait for some "Great Leader" on the TV to tell them what to do. Technology is great and I'm all for it but not when technology replaces common sense. Even when you use the Internet, the smartphone and whatever, you still need common sense.

I sometimes wonder if common sense is gone forever or will it someday come back?
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I equate common sense with logic, and I don't think logic can be taught. People seem to be increasingly more emotionally reactive in the past few decades, and emotions cloud logic.
 
Poor things. They were trying to emulate the 40 day fast Jesus did before starting his ministry, but the big mistake was giving up food and water. Jesus didn't give up water, there's no evidence that Satan tempted him with water the way he did other things. Fasts were common at that time, but it meant no food, not no water. In a desert climate they wouldn't have survived for more than a few days. Heathy adults can last 40 days without food. Children should never fast.

Cults fascinate me I've watched many a documentary about the one's Packerjohn mentioned in the OP. Jim Jones is so frightening to me because his church began as just the type I would like. It was racially integrated in a time when that was rare and it was all about helping the poor. Then the power started to go to Jones's head. He started making up his own rules and when someone challenged him for contradicting the Bible he threw the Bible across the church, everyone with common sense (or logic) left that day, but others dug their heels in and were willing to follow him to another country.

Then Jones began thinking he should have all the women. If there's one common theme in lots of cults it's that.
 
Cults tend to exploit emotionally vulnerable and needy people, providing some with an autocratic “family” when they lack cohesion in a real one. I had a friend in college who was seduced by “Rev.” Moon, perhaps best known for the mass marriages he conducted of his followers. He wrote me a frightening letter after college, talking of all his “perfect” brothers and sisters…very alarming!
 
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