Music Banter - Reports of the death of this forum are premature and exaggerated

https://mudrashram.com/the-boyd-cult-scale-2/

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The 10 Factors of the Boyd Cult Scale

Rate each from 1 to 10. A rule of thumb that you may wish to use is that a group whose cumulative score is above 60 is probably a cult, with those above 50 being borderline.

Factor 1 Information Control — to what degree are followers not allowed to read materials regarded as group scriptures, texts or literature?

10. Moderators hold the elusive John Cage writings in the Mod Cave. rostasi is the only regular member to have laid eyes on them. The old mods had it beat out of them.

Factor 2 Devotion for the leader — to what degree does the group encourage love and devotion to the leader of the group?

1. King Frownland is a very chill guy and lets users choose how devoted they are to me.

Factor 3 Dependence — to what degree is the followers’ behavior specified and directed by group doctrine and leader commandments, so that this guides followers’ decisions?

10. WWWP broke jwb's legs and let him survive on the forum to serve as an example to rulebreakers.

Factor 4 Coercion — to what degree are followers manipulated to enter the group and to remain in the group by instilling fear, shame or guilt, by humiliation or public embarrassment, or by threats or emotional blackmail?

10. I'm not sure if the inherently embarrassing nature of leaving the forum is on us though.

Factor 5 Mystification — to what degree do followers learn a special language and interpretation of symbols that creates an alternate mindset from which they view reality?

10. If you don't abide by the mindset, you get sent to the tulip farm.

Factor 6 Dissociation — to what degree are followers asked to remain in an altered state of awareness outside of their grounded state of awareness, affecting their ability to function normally in their personalities?

10. We encourage members to interrogate their family members in the ongoing efforts to capture Dirty.

Factor 7 Identification — to what degree do followers identify themselves with an element of the Superconscious Mind (the spirit, their ensouling entity or a nucleus of identity) and detach from identification with their ego and self?

10. It's the most interesting aspect of most members but again, that's more on them than us.

Factor 8 Isolation — to what degree does the group cut followers off from relating to family and friends outside the group, and limit contact with society outside the group?

1. We are too infectious, every outsider who discovers the place is doomed to be a part of the group forever.

Factor 9 Cognitive Restructuring — to what degree does indoctrination from the group change followers’ beliefs about themselves and their relationships with other people, their moral values and their cosmological world view?

1. You're not going to be able to change anyone's mind around here.

Factor 10 Nexus of motivation — to what degree do followers’ goals and dreams shift from a personal focus to a spiritual focus, so that personal goals are postponed or abandoned altogether in favor of spiritual aspirations and group mission?

10. Notions of personally focused goals are just a mind trap to get us to automate our exploitation, so you can ****ing have em.

Score is 73, so we're a cult, but just barely according to the stupid scale.