Dilley is a dipshit.
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Let's offer the fundamental characteristics of a cult: blind obedience to cult dogma and worldview; discouragement to questioning and independent inquiry, using coercion and force, if necessary; an inability to walk away without adverse consequences.
We are anonymous. No one controls us. No one tells us what to think. Independent thought and research is positively encouraged, if not mandatory to participate. We can walk away at any time, without consequences.
Now some folks indulge in a little too much hero worship here, but that’s understandable to some degree, given that many of us have been ploughing this furrow alone for a decade or more.
But a cult? Do me a fucking favor. We are an anti-cult.
Those at the apex know. Their foot soldiers don’t want to know. They’re forbidden from knowing. At present, the only weapon is ridicule. But we are impervious to their attacks.
Tom Hanks = Tucson? Beware the traps laid for us.