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Cult or Just Weird
by Cult Or Just Weird
Join Chris & Kayla on their journeys of humor, discovery, and the absurd as they try to answer the question...is it a cult, or just weird?
Episodes
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S6E23 - The Mindset
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. -William Gibson Chris & Kayla finally land the plane on this whole TESCREAL situation. --- *Search Categories*...
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S6E22 - The Germ Makers (Eugenics, pt2)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- POV: the Serenity Prayer, but with shoulds instead of cans. Chris & Kayla attempt to tie the knot between Transhumanism and Eugenics. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Anthropological; Destructive…
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S6E21 - The Germ Makers (Eugenics)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- No idiot knows that he is an idiot. As a rule, those of small intellectual equipment are so sure of themselves that they are eager to make the race over in their own image. -Clarence Darrow Chris & Kayla enjoy dunking on...
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S6E20 - The Final Boss(es) (Effective Altruism & Longtermism)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. -Nelson Mandela Last week was context... this week we get juicy. --- *Search Categories* Business;...
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S6E19 - The Final Boss(es) (Effective Altruism & Longtermism)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson We tackle the final three letters of the TESCREAL acronym, and fight about the future. --- *Search Categories*...
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S6E18 - The Resurrection (Cosmism)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. - Eden Ahbez Two episodes in one to grapple with the origins of a cosmic concept, and its future among the stars. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience...
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S6E17 - The Immortalists' Conclusions (Church of Perpetual Life)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Time isn't the only thing the FDA is killing. - ACT UP slogan Chris & Kayla grapple with the intense nuance presented by the Church of Perpetual Life and the Life Extension Foundation. --- *Search Categories*...
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S6E16 - The Immortalists' Founder (Church of Perpetual Life)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- How could I enjoy a yacht if I know we're all going to die and disappear? - Bill Faloon Chris & Kayla head back to Church to learn more about the man behind the curtain. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science /...
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S6E15 - The Immortalists' Church (Church of Perpetual Life)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Aging and Death can be Optional...We Choose Life & Health. Chris & Kayla head to church to learn how the Creator wants us to live forever. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest…
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S6E14 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- 🎵 it's like 10^58 motes 🎵 when all you neeeed is a torture 🎵 Chris & Kayla discuss the third & final piece of Émile Torres's interview. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest…
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S6E13 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Making predictions is tough, especially about the future. -Niels Bohr Chris & Kayla put the L in TESCREAL. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom; Internet Culture ---...
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S6E12 - The Future of Humanity: TESCREAL
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies. - Sam Altman Chris & Kayla talk about the future of humanity, in the long term. --- *Search Categories*...
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S6E11 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- This podcast is Bayesd. Chris & Kayla update all of their priors about LessWrong and decide if it's a cult, or just weird. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom;...
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S6E10 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- The Territory is not The Map. Chris & Kayla fall out of a coconut tree and continue their discussion of LessWrong. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom; Internet...
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S6E9 - The Future of Humanity: Rationalists
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Have not you read The Sequences? Chris & Kayla do their first ever CoJW topic revisit and discuss an online community dedicated to Rationalism. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common...
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S6E8 - The Future of Humanity: Plus
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- What would you say you... do... here? Chris dunks on a doofy website for 40 minutes straight; it is also possible we learn some things about Transhumanism along the way. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science /...
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S6E7 - The Future of Humanity: Prelude
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human? - David Zindell Chris and Kayla take the next steps on the path of the unfolding season...and the unfolding of humanity's future. --- *Search Categories*...
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S6E6 - The Terror (Terror Management Theory)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. - Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death Chris and Kayla talk about a theory that underpins everything we'll...
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S6E5 - The Cryonauts: Conclusion
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- The act of freezing a dead body and storing it indefinitely on the chance that some future generation may restore it to life is an act of faith, not science. - The Society for Cryobiology, official statement The chilling...
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S6E4 - The Cryonauts: Interview
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Being cryopreserved after death is the second-worst thing that could happen. The worst thing is dying without being cryopreserved. - Ben Best Kayla dives deeper into the world of cryonics by talking to an actual…
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S6E3 - The Cryonauts: Guide
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- You're not dead til you're warm and dead. Chris & Kayla finish their cryonics facility visit with the help of a VIP "tour guide." --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic...
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S6E2 - The Cryonauts: Tour
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- I am the mediocre architect of my afterlife. - Glen Nesbitt Chris & Kayla take a tour of the very cool place they were headed to last episode. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom ---...
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S6E1 - The Cryonauts: Expedition
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- If a man die, shall he live again? - Book of Job 14:14 Chris and Kayla hotfoot it to a cold storage facility. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Cryonics ---...
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S5-and-a-half: Patreon Discussion of Season 5
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Chris & Kayla recap the experience of experiencing things for Season 5 of Cult or Just Weird. (previously published on CoJW's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/season-5-bonus-95443966) --- *Patreon Credits* Michaela...
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S5E11 - The Full Circle (Death Cafes)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. -Albert Camus Chris and Kayla contemplate that one thing that joins us all. --- *Search Categories* Common interest / Fandom…
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S5E10 - The Secret Knowledge (Theosophy)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself. -Plato Chris and Kayla attend class at another small local group... whose presence & influence is worldwide & ubiquitous. --- *Search Categories* New Religious Movement…
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S5E9 - The Criminals (Hare Krishnas, pt2)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible." -David Brin Chris and Kayla explore the nature of power and learn some shocking stories about the group du jour in this...
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S5E8 - The Chanters (Hare Krishnas, pt 1)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces." - Martha Graham Chris and Kayla go to a restaurant. Kind of. Don't worry, we'll repeat ourselves. --- *Search Categories* New Religious Movement; Anthropological...
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S5E7 - The Gambler's Meritocracy (American State-run Lotteries)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- It's hard to detect good luck--it looks so much like something you've earned. - Frank A. Clark Chris and Kayla visit a liquor store to try and resurrect the American dream. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;...
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S5E6 - The Hams & Their Eggs (the LA Breakfast Club)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- FVNEM? FVNEX? Kayla and Chris get up at the crack of dawn to try and solve a cryptogram from 1925. --- *Search Categories* Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* The Los Angeles Breakfast Club --- *Further Reading*...
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S5E5 - The Collective's Legacy (Objectivism's reception & effects)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. - Theodor Adorno Chris tries to land this Ayn Rand plane in an objectively satisfying manner. --- *Search Categories*...
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S5E4 - The Collective's Architect (Ayn Rand's life)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Who is Ayn Rand? Chris and Kayla try to answer this ocean of a question, exploring the many rivers and tributaries that feed it. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler*...
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S5E3 - The Collective's Dogma (Objectivist beliefs)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- I am evolving and it's so damn beautiful. -Anonymous Chris ponders the philosophical orb with Kayla, and finally comes out as a cultist himself. Objectively speaking. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Common...
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S5E2 - The Ecstatics & their DJ (Ecstatic Dance)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- The body says what words cannot. --Martha Graham Kayla and Chris explore the roots of human bonding...set to music. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; New Religious Movement; Common interest / Fandom --- *Topic...
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S5E1 - The Wives & Their Father (the Source Family)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Experience is the teacher of all things. - Julius Caesar Kayla and Chris kick off Season 5 by going to a cult within a cult... culturducken. --- *Search Categories* New Age; New Religious Movement --- *Topic Spoiler* The...
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S4E20 - The Religious Service (The Aetherius Society)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. Clarke Kayla and Chris end the season on a topic with a twist unlike many others covered on this show....
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S4E19 - The Magic Eyes (EMDR)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there.'" - Randall Munroe Keep an eye on this one- Chris talks to Kayla about a…
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S4E18 - The Heavy Weight (Fat Liberation & Acceptance)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." -Audre Lorde Kayla & Chris have a healing conversation about a topic that weighs heavily on all of…
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S4E17 - The Keening (Midsommar)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed- or erased by some exceptionalist point of view. -Ari Aster Chris & Kayla mix things up a bit by analyzing a cult that doesn't even exist. --- *Search...
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S4E16 - The Fandom (Furries & Fur Science)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food. -Dean Ornish Kayla & Chris explore a much-maligned fandom on the internet, and learn a little bit about themselves and...
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S4E15 - The Basics (Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. - Russell Lynes Chris & Kayla partake of an ancient (relatively speaking) autumnal ritual. --- *Search Categories*…
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S4E14 - The Bean Counters (Pythagoreanism)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- All is Number. Chris helps Kayla square her understanding of a well known but little understood historical character. --- *Search Categories* New Religious Movement; Science/Pseudoscience; Anthropological --- *Topic...
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S4E13 - The Partners (Starbucks Workers Unions)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible." -Howard Schultz Grab your favorite iced, sugary, coffee-adjacent beverage, because Kayla and Chris have…
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S4E12 - The Dirt (Black Oxygen Organics takedown)
"Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things." - Vernor Vinge Kayla and Chris tell another side of the classic MLM story - the downfall. And we've got a special interview here to give us all the dirt. --- *Search Categories* MLM; Internet culture; Business; Science/Pseudoscience; Alt...
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S4E11 - The Antidote (suicidality & Teal Swan)
"Human connection is the suicide killer." Chris and Kayla revisit a former topic that's reared its head in mainstream culture again to talk about why this person continues to amass power...and what the other options are. --- *Search Categories* New Age; Internet culture --- *Topic Spoiler* Teal...
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S4E10 - I Didn't Know it Was Wrong[tm]! (how abusers react to accountability)
Kayla and Chris are on vacation this week! But we still want to bring you some sweet sweet content, so here is a bonus episode from the CoJW patreon last season, where we discuss how weird it is that abusers from disparate communities all use the same refrain when facing accountability: "I didn't...
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S4E9 - The Vibes (Empty Spaces)
"Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form." - Jean Luc Godard Kayla and Chris fall down the dollhole into an online world of unstable meaning and multilayered storytelling. --- *Search Categories* Internet culture; Common interest/Fandom --- *Topic Spoiler* Empty Spaces --- *Further...
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S4E8 - The Magic Formula (Long Term Capital Management)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you." - Larry Kersten Chris takes us back to the 90s... a decade of neon green baseball hats, Crystal Pepsi, Michael Jordan, Alanis...
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S4E7 - The Abortion Conversation
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair." - Mariame Kaba With the tragic June 24th reversal of Roe v Wade, Chris & Kayla eschew the usual format and lean hard into talking about helpers. --- *Search...
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S4E6 - The Scheme (B&B Worm Farm Ponzi)
Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord! --- "The worm is not to be trusted" - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Chris & Kayla "dig in" to an unlikely but prolific Ponzi scheme in this week's episode. --- *Search Categories* Business; MLM --- *Topic…
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