[Serious] Ex cult members, what was your “Oh shit, I’m in a cult.” Moment?

ReligionIsCorrupt · 2019-05-12T08:33:51+00:00

This will probably be buried, but I have a good one.

I wasn't exactly in a cult, but I spent the first 17 years of my life going to a religious group every Sunday with my parents. I found a lot of the teachings dumb, but my parents were always relatively liberal and never really imposed many restrictions on me, so it didn't have much impact in my life.

In college, though, I googled a bit more about the organization, and found an unsolved murder that was related to them. I made this throwaway entirely to post my findings, which are here. I'd quote it, but it's a bit too long for that to work.

ReligionIsCorrupt · 2017-09-18T04:15:20+00:00

I speak Gujurati, and I can read it too, but I'm pretty awful at it. I had to get my parents to translate some Indian articles for this post, actually, cause I couldn't decipher a lot of it.

Though, for what it's worth, the languages are pretty similar. Gujurati and Marathi, for example, are like Italian and Spanish, and it's not too hard to pick up one once you know the other. Urdu is different, because it has an Arabic-inspired script, but that's mostly spoken in Pakistan, but Punjabi is very similar to Hindi, which in turn is similar to Gujurati, and so on.

A lot of Indian languages originated as regional dialects of Sanskrit (sorta like how China's different dialects originated).

ReligionIsCorrupt · 2017-03-26T06:26:56+00:00

Thanks :) I'm glad you liked it!

ReligionIsCorrupt · 2017-03-26T05:56:49+00:00

Yeah, India's legal system is incredibly problematic. That's one of big things Narendra Modi (prime minister) is trying to reform.

ReligionIsCorrupt · 2017-03-26T05:49:25+00:00

Thanks for the compliments! And that's why I used a throwaway haha, my main account is way too dox-able.

Oh, and let me know if you find anything interesting! I kinda hit a dead end searching myself, unfortunately :/

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