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What's an example of a hobby or social group where if you try to tell others about it to see if they want to join, it always sounds like you're trying to recruit them into a cult? (hexbear.net)
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For me, it's social dancing, specifically West Coast Swing. Because while there is just social dancing, and some who only do it, there's a bit of a culture of competition, and it has its own governing body for determining where you place in competitions, and when it does sound like a cult when described.

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[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

All of them, but also hobbies don't have the support networks to take care of vulnerable people as a hook, so it's just the negative parts of cultish aesthetics (e.g. 40k players don't provide much housing or affirmations in order to draw people into 40k)

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