Characteristics of a cult

Originally posted by FMF
Yes I know that companies like Apple and Manchester United and Bayer are corporations. That isn't in dispute. I was talking about a "corporate entity" where the word "corporate" means 'pertaining to a united group, as of persons' and 'united or combined into one body or collective'.

Correct you made up your own definition. According to you a football crowd would be considered a corporate entity, or marathon runners, or people sunbathing on a beach. Give it up, you are havering ol bean.

Originally posted by FMF
The word "cult" is a 'damaged' word. It is mostly used to express a gut feeling that a group is perceived negatively or with some suspicion and circumspection, or at least unsympathetically.

Whether a group is perceived this way depends on how its members and their purpose fare in the face of biased or subjective scrutiny of [1] their dogma, [2] their carefu ...[text shortened]... [2] and [3], aside from how it reveals the hostile gut feelings of the person who uses the word.

I think the ICSA would disagree with you.

http://www.icsahome.com/

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Correct you made up your own definition.

No. I am using the word in its conventional sense.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/corporate
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/corporate
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporate
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/corporate

It would seem you've learnt something new.

Originally posted by Suzianne
I think the ICSA would disagree with you.

http://www.icsahome.com/

I have no doubt they do. I am not speaking on anyone or anything's behalf, apart from myself. I wish the ICSA all the best as it seeks to help the victims of groups it calls cults. It is important work.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Correct you made up your own definition. According to you a football crowd would be considered a corporate entity, or marathon runners, or people sunbathing on a beach. Give it up, you are havering ol bean.

If you think my six posts on page 1 of this thread might have been about marathon runners or people sunbathing on a beach, then good for you.

Originally posted by FMF
If you think my six posts on page 1 of this thread might have been about marathon runners or people sunbathing on a beach, then good for you.

yes your text is nonsense, according to your definition a shoal of fish is a cult it being a collective, so is a flock of birds, a swarm of bees etc etc here is your text again,

cult = corporate entity
corporate entity = collective
collective = shoal of fish
therfore
shoal of fish = a cult

bwahahaha! with such tomfoolery we could be friends yet FMF 😵

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yes your text is nonsense, according to your definition a shoal of fish is a cult it being a collective, so is a flock of birds, a swarm of bees etc etc

If you don't understand (or you're pretending not to understand) what I was saying when I suggested that analyzing the corporate and individual behaviour of groups and their members ~ specifically those which some would denounce as "cults" ~ is more apropos than worrying too much about whether or not to apply the label (which is now largely a subjective one, anyway) then it's OK. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter whether you engage the point or not.