Cult of Reason

know what one is, despite the threats some hold to innocent human beings. Cults. We must strive to raise awareness of harmful cults in our society. Harmful cults have the ability to take away basic human rights and brainwash people to such an extent that they begin to believe what they are doing will make them a better person and improve their lives. Everyone would like a chance at a new life, right?, so if a harmful cult offers a shot at a new one, it's near impossible to turn it down. This is…

Cults can be formed around a variety of satanic beliefs, which cause an illusion of justification with violent and horrendous acts, such as the ones done by the four members of The Chicago Rippers cult, and the members of The Vampire Clan. Psychological aspects of cults include indoctrination, groupthink, and obedience. The Chicago Rippers were a group of four men, identified as Robin Gecht (the leader), Edward Spreitzer, and brothers Andrew Kokoraleis and Thomas Kokoraleis (Murderpedia).…

provocative, scholarly article, Lee. J. Richmond observes the correlation between religious cults and the effects of which these institutions have on adolescents. Lee J. Richmond, a licensed psychologist and professor of Education at Loyola College, highlights specific cults and their destructive nature on the youth. Based on his experiences, he warns school counselors how to effectively deal with the pressures of cult recruitment and the interference on the lives of adolescents. Many…

People are not always who they seem to be. Scarlett is a sixteen-year-old girl who has been captured by a cult called Eternal Light. Eternal light believes that if they sacrifice Scarlett, it will give them a path into the afterlife. Noah is another teenager who is part of Eternal Light; he tricks Scarlett into being captured by finding a way into her heart. When Scarlett notices what is happening, she feels betrayed by Noah and cannot even look him in the eyes without her heart tearing into…

Innumerable methods were attempted, including prayer, sacrifice, cult-based ritual, dream interpretation (as in the case of Joseph), folk magic, and more. Most often, these endeavors did not work: no revelations occurred, despite the feverish attempts to incur one—but once in a great while, these tactics were successful…

specifically to different cases, I believe that Aristotle has the more preferable view point on wisdom. Anyone can develop a theory about something and use hypothetical reasons to support that claim. In my opinion, practicality makes it easier to make sense of things and see facts more clearly. Both philosophers use satisfactory methods to reason, but more realistically, Aristotle’s practical reasoning is…

irrationality. It is also clear that the Brethren of Purity favor the king of the Jinn over the two other major characters, the humans and animals. Although it is not explicitly written in the text, the king of the Jinn is seen as the voice of order and reason. Obviously, the authors in this case would not have put the king of Jinn in such great favor if they did not have any sort of favoritism towards it. Both the author and the king of Jinn both want hard, concrete proofs and arguments. It is…

thousands of years of new technology, societal trends, political issues, and every other thing that is constantly changing, that could allow our world and human civilization remain the same through the entire history of time. There are the most obvious reasons, “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book” (Cicero). But, it can go much deeper than this. The most…

Reason is not necessarily the means to the better life, or towards procuring ‘the good,’ from the view of these latter thinkers. It seems that Nietzsche would problematize the allegory of the den, in this respect, to no end. From a Nietzschean perspective, the relativity of our values, and the ways they merely reflect the power dynamics and social and political undercurrents of our age, begs the question of their effect on our reason (Nietzsche, 1989, p.46-47). The supposed ‘good’ or ‘moral…

A young boy runs screaming down a long dark hall; afraid of the monster that he just witnessed coming from his room. As he runs towards his parents room he thinks of the his mother telling him that there is “no such thing as monsters”, however the fear overshadowing him right now tells him that his mother’s words were clearly false, and as he opens the door to their room he screams “Monster! Monster!”. Calmly the boy’s mother takes him down the dark hall, back into the room where he first…