Do you consider any group of people a cult?
At what point does a group of friends talking ab out stuff become a cult?
1. Groupthink
2. Turning your life and will over to a god of some sort, while sacrificing your own autonomy.
3. Worshiping the founder of the group, and treating his book and writings like a bible
4. Disclosures of past wrongdoings, which have nothing to do with anything, and are nobody's MOTHERFUCKING BUSINESS.
5. Shame based tactics should someone leave the fold.
6. AN ADMISSION THAT YOU ARE POWERLESS... over your own actions, over a fabricated "disease" that has consumed you, what have you.
7. Having other members pursue and stalk you should you decide not to return.
8. No-boundaries affection and love bombing if you fall in line with everybody fucking else.
Please, if you need for me to go on, I will.
P.S. I'm drunk. Yaaaaaaaaay, hail my higher power, Jose Cuervo.