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1.Types of cults that existed thousands of years ago
2.Cults VS. Marketing scheme
3.Why start a cult?


Welcome back to Geek Time advanced. I'm Brad.
Hi, Brad.
How's it going Lulu?
Yeah. I'm good. I'm ready to talk more about cult.
All right. So we're gonna talk a little bit about some of the early cults before like thousands of years ago those types of cults. Oftentimes, cults were considered to be part of like minor religions .
So just like pagan beliefs.
Definitely, like smaller groups of people having different ideas when the movies we often see them as cannibalistic or something like that really sinister kind of like the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and ripping hearts out of your body, stealing your soul kind of thing.
Honestly, I think in terms of Indiana Jones, if you don't mind me saying it, it is a little bit of racial prejudice and it's like mystifying or even vilifying cultures that you don't know perhaps.
Yeah, they have those...now one of the actual cults that was kind of like it was almost a runner up to early Christianity was called mithraism.
Mithraism.
Mithraism yeah. Now that was in the Roman empire. You could see they had these underground places where they would worship and mithraism was kind of like... it was an astrological type of cult, they worshipped space and that type of... it wasn't a particular god or anything like that they worshipped, it was the closest thing to a god you could see was like the Taurus, the bull
Almost sounds like the earlier definition of cult is basically just outside of the mainstream. It doesn't have that destructive element.
Yeah. Some of them did, some of them had like they might have had sacrifices, although some people think that those sacrifices may not have actually been people they killed, they may have been people that have just died.
And so it's kind of hard to see where it actually happened. It could just be that the bigger religions were trying to vilify them as mentioned earlier, but that's something that was actually this mithraism was actually quite common. They found over 400 sites around Rome where they did worship.
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