The Church of Us
Message From Atai [REPLY]
>Hey, it's me again.
>This church is, uh.
>So I heard it was a cult?
>And then I went there and it seemed like...
>Not. That.
>They said their main objective was preventing suicide.
>That.
>It's noble.
>But is it true?
>Is the Church of Us a cult?
Re:The Church of Us
Message from WaTaKaTa [REPLY]
>No.
>It really is what it claims to be.
>The claims of "cult" status come from extreme antireligious sentiment on the behalf of a few deserters
>Which frankly is astonishing since it's not even particularly religious?
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Dante [REPLY]
>Bullshit.
>They're just very good at hiding it.
>You showed up, right, and you're obviously not a potential cultist
>So they gave you the public line.
>They're shrewd operators.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Heyase [REPLY]
>Can confirm that they are like
>100 percent a cult
>It's not even funny.
>I've seen some of the shit they do and woweee is it fucking awful.
>(I am talking about waterboarding among others).
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Ora^2 [REPLY]
>Oh wow sock puppetting.
>That's original.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Tall Mud (Administrator) [REPLY]
>Ad hominiem attacks will not be tolerated on this website.
>Understand?
Re:The Church of Us
Message from WaTaKaTa [REPLY]
>I'm actually in the Church.
>It's a really mellow place to be totally honest.
>Atai I know you want it to be a cult so you have some windmill to tilt against to get your friend back
>and like I get it, you don't want to lose him, but sometimes these things just happen
>this is how people /grow/.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Princess PewPew [REPLY]
>I had a friend in the Church!
>Regular Baptist before his conversion so not like antireligious or anything like Watakata claimed.
>And yeah it's a cult.
>Major cult.
>They were gonna have him sell his body for new recruits
>Which incidentally is how I found out about it and got him out.
>He would not have made it by himself.
>If you have a friend in the group (I can only assume we're talking about Glass here)
>You need to evacuate them immediately.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Waga-Domo (Moderator) [REPLY]
>I think it's possible that there's different branches of the Church
>Some of which are crazy cults and some of which are not?
>It's not like every Baptist sect is the WBC right?
>Do they have a strong central leader ala The Cult Who Shall Not Be Named or Catholicism?
>(Watakata your input would be appreciated).
Re:The Church of Us
Message from WaTaKaTa [REPLY]
>There's not really a central group, no.
>Basically we sort of grow in a place when a member decides to move from their existing community somewhere else.
>For instance, I head up the Kyoto group
>Since I moved after joining the one in Oakland
>So whatever the Kyoto group does is obviously going to be influenced by the group from Oakland since that's where I learned everything.
>But at the same time there's nothing stopping the Oakland group from going crazy cult
>Nothing compelling me to go crazy cult if they do.
>It's pretty decentralized.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Waga-Domo (Moderator) [REPLY]
>There you have it.
>It's very much probable that the sect your friend joined is just what it claims to be.
>I'm sure you could investigate further if you'd like.
>But accept that it's likely not going to get you anything.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Dante [REPLY]
>Wow, which one of us is astroturfing now?
>Asshole.
>you have the illusion of consensus but it doesn't exist
>This place is a pit of fucking vipers and I'm /sure/ there's an invisible fucking hand behind it all.
>Just because it hasn't been found yet doesn't mean it doesn't exist
>
>Atai don't trust any of these fuckers with the suspiciously similar usernames.
>If that doesn't scream "CULT" I swear to reacted
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Heyase [REPLY]
>Yeah nice try Wa*
>the dirt I have is fucking universal
>Bet if you break into the one in Chicago or whereever the fuck you guys live now you'll see like
>Torture stuff
>...Maybe they've gotten smarter and started using more innocuous torture material but if you're digging around you'll fucking find it or my name's not Heyase.
>(It's not but you get the fucking point dont you)
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Tall Mud (Administrator) [REPLY]
>Please do not advocate crime.
>/Again/.
>Heyase you might or might not have a good point but if you keep doing that I have no qualms about throwing you out.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Princess PewPew [REPLY]
>I've spoken to other survivors who all have their own redacteddamn horrorstories.
>I'm sure it's not like
>Confined to some antireligious establishment.
>You're as bad as people who claim that relativity is a lie invented to disprove Christ
>Or whatever.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Ora^2 [REPLY]
>This is all pretty much hearsay.
>on both sides tbh
>but I mean.
>let's just asume it's not a cult?
>Put the burden of proof on the accuser
>Heyase do you actually have that data?
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Heyase [REPLY]
>no because my fucking computer was destroyed by vandals shortly thereafter.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from WaTaKaTa [REPLY]
>Convienient.
Re:The Church of Us
Message from Heyase [REPLY]
>For you.
Re:Re:The Church of Us
Message from Atai [REPLY]
>All this is telling me is that I reall need to take a second look.
>Thanks guys.
>Pew, Heyase.
>I was about to lose hope again, I guess.
>And if I'm chasing fairy fire or whatever I guess I can deal with that when it becomes apparent.
>But I'm getting to the redacteddamn bottom of this.
>For Glass's sake.