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If they aren’t well-known, we aren’t gonna know them. They show up in the news when something really wacky happens (Manson Family, Heaven’s Gate, Jonestown, etc). There are little groups here and there, they sprout up and 20-30 years later they’re gone. They’re essentially unknown to Americans till whatever henious thing happens and that event often ends them.
The only group I knew about before they really hit the news was Rajneesh momement. They were annoying a lot of people in Oregon (Portland and then Antelope/Rajneeshpuram) when I happened to live in the area. The wheels came off the movement after they committed a biological terror attack in The Dalles and the Feds came crashing down on them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh
EDIT: I should add, most cult/groups don’t get into serious trouble, and we never hear about them.
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Every MLM is basically a cult of capitalism that prays on middle aged moms looking to make a little extra money. They are extremely predatory and convinced their members they are legit. Almost all promise massive rewards at the top levels of the pyramids but in practice no one ever reaches that level. They should be illegal in my opinion.
This is like asking someone to say a word they’ve never heard before
lemurians. its some weird california shit that you dont want none of. some of them visit mount shasta up north because they think they will find the lemurian people
Grew up in the Dallas area in the 90s. I never actually saw any of them, but [an Asian “UFO cult” relocated to Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Tao_(UFO_religion)#Failed_prophecy).
They moved to Garland, a Dallas suburb, because the name sounded like “God Land”.
Their leader had prophesized that God would appear on television on a certain channel at an appointed time. When it didn’t happen, they apparently just up and left.
The [Synanon](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon) cult seems like it was well-known once but has somewhat fallen out of public knowledge. They had a property in the mountains not too far from where I am.
The AR-15 sect of the Moonies prob isn’t as well known as they should be. Rod of Iron Ministries. They make the news occasionally for weird gun weddings and such, but it’s much worse that.
The GOP has been friendly with the regular Moonies going back to Reagan, I think. They founded and still run the Washington Times. Trump, Pence and Pompeo have all spoken at their cult conferences in recent ish years.
The AR-15 sect leader wears a crown of bullets and was at the J6 insurrection. He’s tight with most of the worst MAGA lunatics, the NRA and at least one Kremlin propagandist who fled to Russia after sacking the Capitol.
They have a compound and gun factory in PA, and recently brought property in TX and TN (and maybe FL?) where they plan to have “patriot training camps”. I think Steve Bannon is involved somehow, so they’ll prob be like his failed gladiator school… except in the US and with lots of semi-auto guns. Civil war terrorist farms basically.
What could go wrong? 😬 The guy who assassinated Shinzo Abe was supposedly in this sect, so a lot prob.