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Generations of Cornish and American miners believe in the Tommyknockers, small gnome-like men who live inside mines. Sometimes they favor the miners, and other times knocking on timbers to make them collapse. It was considered very bad luck not to leave cake for them at the end of the day.
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Kit Kats in Japan are associated with the phrase Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ), translated as “You will surely win”, and thus a good luck charm for students. Katsudon (pork cutlet rice bowl) is also known as a good luck food, so people would eat it the night before important events like exams, interviews, etc.
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You can hardly take a step in any direction without running into another documentary or podcast series about cults lately.
But what are the cultish things that are a little less obvious that are also among us?
What’s something that’s not a cult, but feels like a cult? from AskReddit
Get ready to become a true believer with these Reddit folks.
No, I don’t want to build a community, go hiking or join a hundred online classes to learn the basics.
Make a couple of well-explained, to-the-point training videos ffs
– Grace534448
WHY ARE THEY SO OBSESSED WITH PELOTON?!?
– Pretty-Supermarket55
One girl in my year started telling us about her religion around healing crystals which her mum happened to own (and we could buy) and one boy said ‘sounds like a pyramid scheme’ and you would not believe how offended she got
– TytonidaeOwl
I keep telling everyone how great they are and how life changing getting an air fryer is.
Then they get one and love it and repeat the cycle. But seriously, air fryers are awesome
– Frankyboy07
Having participated in them, as well as studied them, I feel comfortable in saying they’re not cults. Some individual groups can behave like them, however.
Some ‘cult-like’ experiences in a safe refuge from a life-threatening mode of behaviour can have positive impacts on the well-being of individuals for a period of time. Finding a ‘new home’, a ‘new family’, and a ‘new way of living’ can save lives. In that regard, I believe it’s important to take into consideration the ‘positive’ meaning of the word ‘cult’: “a system of religious (or spiritual) beliefs and its body of adherents”.
On the other hand, peer-support for recovery needs to be a part of — not the entirety of — a recovery plan that involves plenty of other forms of support, especially professional help.
There are also non-religious/non-spiritual peer support groups available for those embarking on the journey of recovery.
r/stopdrinking has some excellent resources for anyone in need of help now.
– -o0_0o-
Basically any twitch streamer with a decent following.
Mob mentality and echo chambers are crazy things.
– trawd
There’s a guy in my office who drives a Tesla, has a Tesla jacket, spent thousands on getting Tesla solar panels for his house, his phone case has the Tesla T on the back and his lock screen picture is an Elon portrait of him smoking that joint on Rogan’s podcast.
Say something bad about Elon like how Elon’s hairline is fake and watch him lose his sh*t.
– gizmosbutu
Way too many people treat politics as team sports.
They’ve picked their side and everything that side does is great and everything the other side does is awful.
That’s as much thought as they ever put into it.
– sharrrper
my brother’s mother in law literally bought him all the Harry Potter audio books on audible for his birthday because she believes that ever person needed to read the books.
Thing is, my brother has already read the books before but now that his wife is making him listen to them he’s starting to get creepily sucked into them and won’t shut about how fantastic of books they are
– SolarSummons
Don’t DARE to point out how processed and studio tweaked all the big groups are, especially on their albums.
Also never try to get them to use room mics rather than individual ones…oooo boy.
They won’t listen to a sound guy, someone with more experience, or (especially) the bass.
God forbid you are a straight male who likes it either…
So many catty inside jokes, diva f*cking singers, and politics.
– CowboyFleeborg
I’ve had a few jobs like that where the manager brings us into a room and gives us a talk about how we’re all a big family here, and I’m looking at the wall and it’s covered in sh*tty motivational art and “The best employee is a happy employee” type sh*t.
I’m just sitting there, wondering wtf I’m doing with my life and how low I must have fallen to end up here, thinking “Listen b*tch, I’m giving you 40 hours a week of my time, and in return I want you to pay me minimum wage, it’s that simple”.
That kinda talk just translates in my mind to “We have mandatory overtime policies here, and also you’ll get fired if you don’t add your boss to Facebook, or if you don’t have Facebook”.
– darth-canid
I do it for the exercise too but all the wishy-washy stuff that comes along with it is so annoying. It’s one of the reasons it took me so long to try yoga and meditation in general, I didn’t want to be associated with the air-fairy nut jobs that make the whole thing into a lifestyle centered around crystals, astrology and auras.
It’s a great exercise and it’s good for your mental health and I can see why people who are more spiritual are attracted to it, but I hate that public perception of it has been tainted by this.
– ShreddedKnees
When Walmart bought a British supermarket chain they tried to introduce a company chant.
After the UK executives had finished laughing it was politely explained that there was no way that British employees would do that.
– Razakel
Huel Black, Chocolate Flavor (and I use that term extremely loosely) is the single worst substance I’ve ever purposely consumed.
If half the posts on the subreddit are about how to make it not taste like sh*t and how to actually make it dissolve instead of clump, you’ve got a garbage product on your hands, folks.
– barriekansai
Whoa there brother.
Your amino acid levels are looking dangerously low
– TytonidaeOwl
These cultish comparisons are the opinions of individual Reddit users and do not necessarily reflect the views of this website.
There, I think we’re covered.
What else would you add to this list?
Tell us in the comments.
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In the Middle Ages there was a belief animals understood the concept of morality and possessed rationality. They were summoned to court, put on trial for a variety of offenses, and given the same punishments as humans. Lawyers defended pigs, rats, and sheep. Even flies and slugs faced judgement.
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Between the 1840’s and 1940’s there was an idea that couples did better to sleep in separate beds. People thought if couples slept together the sleeper who was weaker in some way (such as older) would absorb vitality from the sleeper who was stronger in some way.
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The founder of Celestial Seasonings, maker of the wildly popular Sleepytime Tea, is the leader of a New Age cult that believes we live on “Urantia” and that pale aliens named Adam and Eve came to Earth to “purify” the planet of the inferior races, including gigantic green and orange people. According to Urantia’s text, […]
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The fork was once considered immoral, unhygienic and a tool of the devil. The first dining forks were used by the ruling class in the Middle East and the Byzantine Empire. In 1004, Maria Argyropoulina, niece of the Byzantine emperors Basil II and Constantine VIII, was married to the son of the Doge of Venice. […]
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There is a thing called the “sweater curse.” Some knitters believe that knitting a sweater for a signifcant other and giving it to them as a gift will result in a breakup. A 2005 poll found that 15% of knitters have experienced it firsthand.
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Triclavianism is the belief that three nails were used to crucify Jesus. The issue of whether three or four nails were used has been a matter for a centuries-old theological debate.
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Sometimes in life, you have just have a feeling about something and you KNOW it’s true, even though you have absolutely no evidence or facts to back it up.
I guess some call it faith and others would call it ignorance, but each person is definitely different in this respect.
And I think it’s safe to say that some of these beliefs are harmless and some can be extremely dangerous, especially when it comes to conspiracy theories and politics…
AskReddit users sounded off about what they believe to be true even though they have nothing to back it up.
“Casey Anthony killed her daughter and her parents know it too!
The justice system failed that poor baby.
And to me, what’s worse is last year she apparently said she wants another child/children.”
“That my last boss secretly hated me even though we had, on the surface, a very positive relationship.”
“The Truman show was made to make me think the entire world watching my every move was a ridiculous notion.
But I know better…”
“That the key to happiness is low expectations.”
“There’s a travel agency that’s been around in my town for as long as I can remember.
I wholeheartedly believe it’s a front for the mob.”
“That a LOT more famous actors than we realize are secretly the children of other famous actors from the previous generation.
I call it the Hollywood B*stard Theory.”
“George R R Martin will never finish the last Game of Thrones book.”
“I’m convinced I watched Flight 93 go down.
I would never share that in real life because it’s grim and no one would believe me (the geography of the reports are off ). I saw it clear as day from Kent State’s main campus in Ohio.
I didn’t know what I was seeing other than I remember thinking “that plane is way way too low (we had a aviation college so planes were common) and too big and it’s jerking around like how a toddler drives a power wheels truck….”.
Continued on to class. You don’t wanna be late even at a liberal college.”
“Flat Earthers are just doing it for attention.
They really don’t think the Earth is flat.”
“Gut bacterial imbalance can change a person fundamentally — physically, mentally, emotionally.
One day they’re going to cure some impossibly vexing diseases and conditions when they figure out that it’s all connected to what lives in your guts.”
“That actual, proper snuff films exist.
There’s too much depravity and perversion in the world for that not to be the case.”
“That Andy Dufresne was guilty in the Shawshank Redemption.
It’s never actually proven that he didn’t kill his wife and her lover. We just have his word and a story made up by an inmate that wanted to be liked by Andy and his friends.
Also what are the chances that his wife and lover were murdered the same night that Andy was going to kill them himself, before he changed his mind?”
“There is some Godzilla sh*t at the bottom of our oceans.
Deep sea gigantism will not fail me.”
“Back when I was 18 I got my first tattoo, the Squaresoft logo on my upper arm. It was 2001 and I was also on my own in a new state.
I was and still am a huge RPG fan and it’s the height of my geekdom. Well, I sent in a picture of me and my tattoo with a short letter about me and my favorite games to Official PlayStation Magazine.
They published my letter and photo along with the caption “We don’t know whether to be impressed or frightened.”
The very next month they started a “Tattoo of the Month” section and I am absolutely sure 100% that I either started that or was the story that proved the concept, the test.
Unless someone can come from that team’s time and tell me I’m not, I’ll always believe I was the start of that.”
Do you have any extremely strong beliefs like this?
If so, please share them in the comments.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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