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...Though allegations that Scientology bleeds members dry is neither new nor limited to France, some outside observers may agree with Gounord's claims of French intolerance toward religion. France's 1996 list of dangerous cults, for example, contains 172 groups, including Jehovah's Witnesses, Hare Krishnas, the Worldwide Church of God, the Unification Church and even transcendental meditationists - all of whom have largely shed their cult status...
...latter (and largest) search engine keeps improving and adding to its functions. It is far too early to tell whether Microsoft can pick up new users even if its product is 99% as good as Google in the eyes of most people who look for things online. A cult has developed around Google - including the company and the product - just as it has around Apple (AAPL) and its Mac and iPhone products. Loyalty is not always a by-product of function, though function often creates loyalty...
...Over the following decades, Prabhakaran honed his movement into a cult of personality that glorified violence. "Armed struggle is the only way out for the emancipation of our oppressed people," he said in 1984. The LTTE steadily acquired massive caches of conventional weapons but also pioneered two of the most brutal tactics of modern guerrilla warfare: child recruitment and suicide bombing. Children as young as 10 were used to kill women and children in remote rural villages, according to a 1996 U.N. report. In combat in the 1990s, between 40% and 60% of the dead Tiger fighters in Sri Lanka...
...often viewed as eccentrics and how you became both embarrassed and defensive about being associated with them. If you decide to get into Esperanto, that means you're not listening to all the people who say, "Why not learn a real language?" or "Isn't that the crazy utopian-cult thing?" So there's an element of eccentricity in that, but also an element of toughness. You can stand up to the judgment and negative reactions and do it anyway. There's something admirable in that...
...have a very intense fan base. What is your relationship like with the Cult? Around 10 years ago, three people came to a reading in New York and asked if they could be the official fan site. They said, "We don't need anything from you - you'll just know we're out there." I sort of shrugged and said, "Yeah, go for it." And since then it has become so enormous. I contribute critiques and lectures about aspects of writing. They send me six or eight stories each month and I go through them and I offer my feedback...