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I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:58 pm
by astasia
And this is why, kids, you should do research on things before you join them!

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:07 pm
by Cirtur
What cult?

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:33 pm
by Snarky00
Do tell

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:38 pm
by LordRetard
Scientology's big in Toronto. We have a church on Yonge, near College or Wellesley, I think.

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:37 am
by Tundra
I want to hear this story!

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:39 am
by LordRetard
I don't get it. Were you about to write the story and suddenly had to rush out of the house?

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:46 am
by mountainmage
You almost accidentally the whole cult? Phew, crisis averted there!

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:07 am
by Kimra
You should have joined. It might have been fun.

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:29 am
by Neglected Shoe
Thank god you didn't accidentally apply to join a cult!

It's always best to do these types of things intentionally.

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:24 am
by Snarky00
Astasia is either being a story tease or the cultists followed her home and kidnapped her.

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:26 am
by LordRetard
She's done this before, but that doesn't mean that cults haven't been involved in the past.

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:50 am
by Cirtur
I talked to her after this post. But she managed not to tell me. Somehow.




It was the breasts.

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:15 am
by astasia
Once upon a time, a young girl named astasia needed a teaching job. On the interwebs, she found a school that seemed perfect to apply to! It was a private high school about an hour away. The advertised their focus on organic, vegetarian meals and on meditation. Being the hippy that she is, astasia thought sounded excellent, and quickly asked the school for an application. The school applied, and supplied some additional information.

The type of meditation they did is one called "Transcendental Meditation" (Registered Trade Mark Here). It turns out, when you look on their website, that they just encourage 20 minutes of natural, calming meditation per day. That's hardly crazy! It's been practiced by people the world over. However, if you look deeper, they suck you in with the non-crazy, and then whip out the crazy.

Beliefs of Transcendental Meditationists include "national invulnerability" that can be brought around by a whole group of people praying at one time, yogic flying,, and, of course, giving them lots of your money. If you would like to read more about this cult, you can visit: http://www.suggestibility.org/, which is created by a former teacher of the Transcendental Meditation philosophy.

(Also, sorry, I forgot that I started this thread. Plus, you know, I like being a tease.)

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:06 am
by Sanjay
Sorry the teaching job didn't work out.

Re: I almost accidentally applied to join a cult.

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:19 am
by astasia
Sanjay wrote:Sorry the teaching job didn't work out.
Ah, thank you.

Nothing to do but to keep applying.

Hopefully, to non-cults.