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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I moved to Minnesota in the early 2000s and was blown away by all of the fireflies. It was magical. I’ll never forget snuggling up with someone and watching the fireflies during a thunder storm.

    The decline was unbelievably rapid. The last 6 years I was there I’d maybe see one or two the whole summer. If that.

    It’s so sad because they’re truly wondrous creatures.





  • ITT: no cult scholars. I am not one either.

    I watch a lot of Knitting Cult Lady’s content and I’ve read her book. From that I have a pretty good idea of what a cult is, which is an extreme form of group.

    So I guess the opposite of a cult would be a solitary individual.

    One point I keep seeing in these comments is religion. Religion isn’t a cult, it’s an idea. That ideology can be used by cults, but the idea itself isn’t a cult. You can believe the idea all by yourself you don’t HAVE to be part of the group.

    Yes [insert religious group you’re thinking of] is probably a cult. But it isn’t one because of the idea, it’s one because of controlling behavior and exploited labor and a bunch of other reasons.