@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-09-01 04:59:16
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-09-01 04:59:16
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-09-02 02:00:16
Blocked yet another tech person I looked up to because they drank the AI scam cool-aid and are now hopelessly entangled in their web of lies.
The “arguments” these people have about why they’re supposedly right literally always boil down to “you’re not seeing the light” type of personal attacks.
It’s a cult, I don’t know what else to say.
Sad that more and more people fall for it.
@Defiance@sfba.social2025-10-27 20:46:35
I'd go to see Death Cult, but no interest in seeing The Cult. Those guys suck! 😆
#music
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-01 00:48:25
Authoritarianism of the kind that Americans are used to condemning abroad has become increasingly normal in the United States.
The cult of personality was apparent as Donald Trump’s cabinet convened on Wednesday in a marathon session that could have embarrassed even a seasoned strongman, providing for three hours and 17 minutes of fawning television coverage.
There was Steve Witkoff, the president’s top envoy and negotiator, standing up in the increasingly gilded Cabinet Room, of…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-01 23:22:52
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 DEATH CULT ZOMBIE
#GenesisOwusu
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-08-30 22:16:54
Content warning:
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Dionysos mingles in the wine new powers,
Sending high adventure to the thoughts of men."
Bacchylides, fragment "For Alexander son of Amyntas", from a 1st century papyrus
🏛 Roman bronze figure of Dionysos, dated 1st century CE, now in private collection
@…
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-09-22 04:23:22
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-10-13 13:55:07
There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-25 14:47:31
The very little I know (•very• little! grain of salt!) about getting people out of a cult is that arguing with them just makes them dig in — but gentle, persistent questioning that leads to ever-increasing cumulative cognitive dissonance can actually help them find their way out of the psychological maze. Repeated •questions• — just questions — sustained over time. Make the constructed reality require more and more work to maintain. Make the pile of nagging doubts get larger and larger. Be patient and be persistent.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-26 00:26:20
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Cult:
🎵 She Sells Sanctuary
#TheCult
https://djjorgearaujo.bandcamp.com/track/the-cult-she-sells-sanctuary-jorge-araujo-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qLZ866ZfaK0B0R5FIqXLG
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-08-16 13:16:12
The exit manual: How to leave the free energy cult and still get tenure https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391807467_The_Exit_Manual_How_to_Leave_the_Free_Energy_Cult_and_Still_Get_Tenure "When a theory…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-28 13:02:46
TFW you combine two cults together in some sort of mega-cult
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/28/patrick-gelsinger-christian-ai-gloo-silicon-valley
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-31 00:24:49
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Genesis Owusu:
🎵 Death Cult Zombie
#GenesisOwusu
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://ourness.bandcamp.com/track/death-cult-zombie
https://open.spotify.com/track/0g4pzcUAVSUBUGYzSOXmCd
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-31 04:29:49
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-10-25 16:08:04
Entirely true.
However, it is important from a strategic standpoint to maintain the argument that today's GOP is an aberrant degenerate personality cult rather than a real political organization with a rational view of the world.
The GOP is a zombie political party disconnected from its past and reduced to a mechanism for blocking sound government which might impede one man's lust for power.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-25 13:48:20
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/living-colour-cult-of-personality-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-08-23 21:16:27
Indirect CW: religious abuse, divorce
Just finished "Visitations" by Corey Egbert, a really powerful fictionalized graphic autobiography about a kid growing up in a cult-adjacent situation. It's more about his specific parent than the Mormon Church, but of course his mom's problems are symbiotic with and amplified through faith.
Spoilers:
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Has a positive ending, thank goodness.
#AmReading
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-10 15:42:15
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Cult:
🎵 She Sells Sanctuary
#NowPlaying #TheCult
https://djjorgearaujo.bandcamp.com/track/the-cult-she-sells-sanctuary-jorge-araujo-remix
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@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-08-03 21:09:17
27 Behind the Scenes Polaroid Snapshots From the Making of the 1995 Cult Classic “Hackers”
https://www.vintag.es/2025/07/hackers-polaroids.html
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-18 05:27:13
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-18 08:21:20
Vishap stelae as cult dedicated prehistoric monuments of Armenian Highlands: data analysis and interpretation
Vahe Gurzadyan, Arsen Bobokhyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11324 ht…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-30 13:11:53
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam:
🎵 I Wonder If I Take You Home (feat. Full Force)
#LisaLisa #CultJam
https://4thetraxx.bandcamp.com/track/lisa-lisa-cult-jam-i-wonder-if-i-take-you-home-with-full-force
https://open.spotify.com/track/3T2EHbivF5iEO9C9I2tDAJ
@axbom@axbom.me2025-08-17 18:20:03
People who would never pay an iota of attention to horoscopes are asking AI to describe their personality and sharing these texts with a straight face saying it’s so spot on… 🤷
The cult vibes are strong.
@bici@mastodon.social2025-10-19 15:41:58
My email JUNK folder is filled with Cult Propaganda !
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NEED YOUR IMMEDIATE ACTION RIGHT NOW! ⬇️
CONFIRM NOW if you are still a MAGA PATRIOT!
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I have no words ...
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-08-24 10:27:43
Content warning:
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And there grew up from the watery wave this island, and great Helios who begets the fierce rays of the sun, holds her in his dominion, that ruler of the horses breathing fire.
There long ago he lay with Rhodes and begot seve…
@smashtie@mas.to2025-10-18 18:32:15
Careful, she'll draw you into her cult with dirty sodas. 🤣 #strictly
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-10-16 04:35:44
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-08-17 21:23:20
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-31 12:06:53
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Blue Öyster Cult:
🎵 Godzilla
#BlueÖysterCult
https://childrenofthesonictemple.bandcamp.com/track/a-tribute-to-blue-oyster-cult-godzilla
https://open.spotify.com/track/6N0AnkdDFZUetw8KAGHV7e
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6PDmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-09-10 08:42:05
from my link log —
Revisiting Loop Recognition in C ... in Rust.
https://blomqu.ist/posts/2025/loop-recognition/
saved 2025-05-30
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-09-12 14:36:50
Can the beige-ers see us yet, or can we carry on being rude about them while they're all stuck in their own private cult Fediverse?
#beige #BeigeParty
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-15 20:50:35
I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-10 23:32:48
New : French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#
@compfu@mograph.social2025-08-14 21:21:52
Content warning: NY Times on how ChatGPT causes delusions
This is yet another article that chronicles an LLM's bad effects on the psyche of a vulnerable person.
I hate the LLM's "Yes, great thought! Should we explore this more?" flattery. Every quote in that article feels alien in its tone - or obviously cult-like - to me.
But pride comes before the fall. So I'll rather not use the sycophantic brain-rot machine lest I risk getting drawn into delusions myself...
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-09-05 18:35:38
Just curious - my incoming spam load has gone up by at least an order of magnitude since El Cheeto came to power this past January.
I think the presidential cult of lawlessness is a factor.
@davej@dice.camp2025-09-06 02:40:17
Content warning: CW: auspol, cult.
Depaywalled link: http://archive.today/2025.09.05-224419/https://www.theage.com.au/national/i-m-glad-we-didn-t-win-liberal-campaigners-feared-brethren-fuelled-dutton-vic…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-04 19:05:52
The Conservative Media Ecosystem Is Coddling Amy Coney Barrett (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/legal-culture/amy-coney-barrett-book-tour-conservative-media-free-press-bari-weiss/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p87#a250904p87
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-13 00:29:45
The president of the United States is invading multiple US cities and liberal strongholds, in troop deployments that are now the primary component of his vast, lawless, smash-and-grab efforts to shred the nation’s constitutional and democratic order, all in the service of his personality cult.
And his enthusiasm for doing so is partially, and meaningfully, fueled by how mad he gets while binge-watching hours and hours of TV, current and former Trump advisers tell Zeteo.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-08-14 15:16:52
4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay https://www.404media.co/4k-blu-ray-of-22-year-old-master-and-commander-is-sold-out-everywhere-being-scalped-on-ebay/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-08 16:13:41
Glad this did not turn into a Waco situation. In fact, it doesn't look like it was even close to that. But Didulo is obviously completely off her rocker and knows how to manipulate people for money and influence in whatever scheme she dreams up.
I'm glad she's essentially the face of the Sovereign Citizen movement... making it clear it’s not a place for responsible people.
#Cult #Canada #RomanaDidulo #QueenofCanada #SovereignCitizen #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/queen-of-canada-romana-didulo-cult-leader-bail-hearing-court-1.7627417
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-16 08:24:42
Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)
@smashtie@mas.to2025-08-08 21:12:53
Wouldn't mind a bit of Cult. #totp
@arXiv_physicshistph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-18 10:21:36
Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.hist-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.hist-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Vishap stelae as cult dedicated prehistoric monuments of Armenian Highlands: data analysis and in...
Vahe Gurzadyan, Arsen Bobokhyan
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-26 04:17:14
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-11 11:44:24
Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-11 00:00:54
@kendallyb.bsky.social shows us how trump uses the
white house official social media pages to try
to bully content creators and kids who post opinions that don't reflect his views.
https://bsky.app/profile/maplemama20.bsky.social/post/3lw3bcpsurs2u
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-09-06 09:33:05
Content warning:
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Proklos attributed aesthetic qualities of the dithyramb and nome to the characters of the gods addressed: orgiastic melody, words and rhythms for Dionysos, dignity for Apollon."
Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period by William Furley, 2021
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-27 09:12:59
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://djgizmo1.bandcamp.com/track/living-colour-cult-of-personality-dj-gizmo-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-09-20 23:47:03
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-10-22 04:48:27
Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-13 06:40:25
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-17 08:03:50
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Cult of Fire:
🎵 अस्तित्व की चिता पर
#CultofFire
https://cultoffire.bandcamp.com/track/on-the-funeral-pyre-of-existence-2
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-14 09:38:42
We all know Trumpism is an illusion, a facade, a game. His cult is breaking down as they continue to be confronted with the ever widening divergence between their perceived reality and his claims. I feel as though Dawn of Everything provides a useful lens through which to both understand this and to dismantle the ritual violence this cult is carrying out. Perhaps we can even extend this to ourselves to disentangle ourselves from the cultish elements of capitalist modernity.
Authoritarianism itself is ultimately a complex illusion, thus this analysis, the recognition and dismantling of illusion, should inform all elements of those who wish to express anti-authoritarian resistance.
#USPol #50501 #NoKingsDay #Portland
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-09-16 04:39:39
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-08 01:21:56
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-08 19:14:30
Short video of Didulo exiting the RCMP transport to go into her bail hearing. (She was granted bail but ordered to stay in Regina)
But I thought the most interesting thing was the very short exchange she had with someone, presumably an Indigenous person, off camera.
Off Camera Person (OFP): “Chief George Cody told you and your people to stay off Treaty 4 lands”
Didulo: “Colonial System!”
OFP: “When are you going to leave Treaty 4”
"Didulo: “Under Natural Law there is no colonial system”
OFP: “Sorry! Natural Law is Treaty Law!”
Indeed!
(I would be shocked if Didulo didn't skip town and probably try to cross the border in the middle of Montana or something… 'secure the royal puppies!’)
#Cult #Canada #RomanaDidulo #QueenofCanada #SovereignCitizen #CanPoli #CdnPoli
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-10-12 23:57:05
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-13 05:44:45
Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-05 04:13:41
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Personality Cult:
🎵 Not Ready
#PersonalityCult
https://dirtnaprecords.bandcamp.com/track/not-ready
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HEpoMSTX3lyRGda1ZPs1s
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-10-14 00:23:11
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-06 07:55:13
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-10-13 04:19:13
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-13 03:33:33
Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-12 05:02:08
Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-11 05:24:48
The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-09 15:44:45
Justice for Survivors – Help Us Break the Silence
For decades, the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult, led by Robert Spatz, harmed children and families across Europe under the guise of Tibetan Buddhism. Survivors have fought for years to bring the truth to light.
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-08-08 21:11:27
Justice for Survivors – Help Us Break the Silence
For decades, the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult, led by Robert Spatz, harmed children and families across Europe under the guise of Tibetan Buddhism. Survivors have fought for years to bring the truth to light.