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Old 05-10-2021, 07:13 PM   #51 (permalink)
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It's also where we exchange the erotica we write based on forum members. Writing with Trollheart as the protagonist is my fave.


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Old 05-10-2021, 09:12 PM   #52 (permalink)
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How have you not gathered by now that the mod campaigning is sarcastic

You think I actually want to devote any time and energy to that ****?!
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Old 05-11-2021, 07:56 PM   #53 (permalink)
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It's also where we exchange the erotica we write based on forum members. Writing with Trollheart as the protagonist is my fave.
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Old 05-16-2021, 01:13 PM   #54 (permalink)
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It'll be okay. A huge influx of people will put lifeblood into this forum again.
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Old 05-16-2021, 01:17 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Honestly tbh I vote to make MB even more insular and more off-putting to would-be members so that everyone can sooner be moved into an isolated brutalist labyrinth compound controlled by Marie, myself and WWWP. MK-Ultra Banter cult island
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Old 05-16-2021, 03:21 PM   #56 (permalink)
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Fortunately MB works in such a way that new members either get sucked into the vortex of insanity pretty quickly, or are spit out by it. So the ones that stick around are ready to have their souls ensnared

seriously, now I'm wondering how MB would score on a cult scale. Probably disconcertingly high
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I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.
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Old 05-16-2021, 03:44 PM   #57 (permalink)
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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.
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Old 05-16-2021, 03:54 PM   #58 (permalink)
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excellent. the path to the torture labyrinth is clear
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Old 05-16-2021, 04:06 PM   #59 (permalink)
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also we're actually at least 78 because I'd have to give factor 2 a 5 or higher. King Frownland may be chill but Marie, Queen of Thots demands complete devotion and adoration.
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Old 05-16-2021, 05:04 PM   #60 (permalink)
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Hey! What right have you to call us .... ohhhh! You said cult...
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