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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Actually the Mormon thing might work given its a priest I’m talking with. Thank you!
ah, he'd understand people then? Heavy on the slipping into cultishness then
She’s like the vicar of dibley so this is really quite funny when you think about it.
I tried to think of a smaller cult that's still pretty well-known or influential but kept coming up with Heaven's Gate or the Branch Davidians.
Scientology would seem like the obvious one, then.
Peoples Temple?
I was trying to think of one that didn't end in a mass murder/suicide/conflagration-of-violence though.
There are a couple 19th century ones that fit and didn’t go lethal. The New Motive Power guys would be the best match imo.