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there doing stuff that we'd consider normal the moment the label cult is applied things get a
bit weird but not every cult is created equal and some are very much more bizarre than others
number 10. the coconut cult the world produces about 62 million metric tons of coconut
every year it's safe to say that it's a pretty popular food item but basing an entire cult around
them seems well sketchy at best nevertheless german nudist and cult leader august engelhart
was devoted to the coconut and went far out of his way to make it central to his belief system
engelhardt being a nudist was a fan of being out in the sun so he decided to set up a community of
like-minded individuals in papua new guinea for 18 years engelhart stayed on the island eating
almost nothing but coconuts engelhardt had become convinced that the sun was the source of all life
and the coconut because it grew at the top of palm trees closer to the sun than any other food was
clearly the best food in the world makes perfect sense using money from an inheritance engelhardt
published literature about his beliefs he wanted to develop an order of the sun so that followers
could come and worship the sun with him and it worked especially since he was using his money
to ship people there at its peak the colt had 30 members but their bad habit of dying
illness and accident plagued the cult which was not surprising given that they had no doctors and
ate almost nothing but coconuts on a tropical island that was known for tropical disease near
the end of his life engelhardt was in horrible physical condition he couldn't walk was severely
malnourished and he was afflicted with ulcers he weighed under a hundred pounds and was having
seizures all thanks to a diet of non-stop coconut and generally poor living conditions 9. realism
cosmic orgasms raelians are one of the few ufo cults that have achieved mainstream
media attention for some years and still have not imploded or faded into obscurity the cult known
formally as the international raelian movement dates all the way back to 1974. at its core
realism teaches that mankind was created by an alien race and is very much concerned with sex
in fact part of the church involves what is called the order of rails angels women who are meant to
be sexual partners for the aliens when they come back to earth they're not supposed to have sex
with any humans there is an exception of course as the women can have sex with each other and they'll
be taught how to please the aliens by rail himself a 75 year old frenchman named claude veron of
course these women are all hand-picked by rail for their beauty all aliens are encouraged to engage
in various sensual practices with one another they have regular essential meditation workshops in the
wilderness toward the goal of attaining something called the cosmic orgasm you can see how this
might entice some new members in fact there are well over a hundred thousand raelians worldwide
number eight no soap and no sex the movement for the restoration of the ten commandments of god was
a coal founded in uganda in the 1980s what at first seemed like an eccentric and maybe even
goofy take on christianity quickly and tragically escalated into an absolute nightmare the end of
the cult is one of the most shocking stories ever and it's a painful reminder of just how
far people can take beliefs the coal was founded after two men believed they had a vision of the
virgin mary they founded their group under the guise of following the teachings of christ and
were by their own understanding adhering to the ten commandments as a part of their
curious interpretation of scripture members were not allowed to have sex or bathe with soap even
talking was forbidden lest someone break the ninth commandment of bearing false witness many members
learned how to use sign language as a result which was somehow considered to be a loophole call
members lived an agrarian lifestyle growing things like beans and potatoes despite this fasting was
also a ritual and on mondays and fridays they were only permitted a single meal members were
also required to sell their possessions including their homes and give the money to the cult again
of course they were for many being worked like a slave malnourished and stressed took its toll
the end game was the apocalypse members had been assured that armageddon was approaching
on new year in the year 2000 when that didn't happen things took a dark turn people who sold
everything wanted their money back cult members quit on mass and wanted answers the apocalypse
was pushed back to march and a massive party was held there they slaughtered everyone
the building held over 500 people they sealed the windows and the doors and they blew it up when
police investigated they found hundreds more dead at different locations many stabbed or poisoned
as much as three weeks earlier 7. eating trash the brethren is the unofficial name of a cult
started by former marine jimmy roberts the main motivation behind the group is to shun material
things which means in the eyes of most cult members are simply homeless vagrants they don't
own property they don't have anything more than the clothes on their backs when they need things
they're permitted to do random jobs to make money but part of their survival methods may include
eating out of the trash this netted the group the name garbage eaters in some places the cult so far
sounds remarkably eccentric but relatively harmless however that was not necessarily the case
roberts was the absolute ruler of the cult and he had strict rules men and women had to be separated
no images were allowed on anything and those that existed were to be covered children were not
allowed to play new converts had to give up all of their earthly possessions and accept that they
were in the end times members were divided up into smaller subgroups with no knowledge of the other
groups roberts died in 2015 and little information is available of what became of his followers
6. the true way cowboys known as chen dao the true way cult is a ufo cult from taiwan their central
belief system was one of those confusing ufo ones about how the world is trillions of years old our
souls have existed for almost as long and god sent her visits us on a ufo they achieved some
infamy in the world large thanks to their misfire apocalypse plans in the late 1990s many members of
the group moved to garland texas allegedly this was only because garland sounds like godland
once in texas members were encouraged to dress like all white cowboys complete with
white cowboy hats again this just seemed to be a when in texas situation over 150 members moved
into the same community to wait for god to return to the house of their founder in march 1998.
surprise surprise god didn't show up many members returned to taiwan and a few of them
stuck together and moved to new york where they continued to wear cowboy hats and away god's
return pushing back the date of the apocalypse every time it failed to materialize number five
comparmism piracy the church of coppamism plays a little fast and loose with the definition of
cult but it's apparently a recognized church in sweden so even if it's something of a joke it's a
very well structured one while things like talking while things like taking the sacrament are sacred
to catholics taking files is sacred to copper mists basically it's a religion based around file
sharing and or piracy on the internet the church has long denied any relation to the pirate bay
another swedish group dedicated to anti-copyright laws and bar sharing the copy and paste symbols
are sacred and the only real tenet is that all information should be freely copied and shared
so basically you should pirate things like games movies books and music in their parlance it's
fundamental to communication and the spirit of information that is freely accessible to all
number four a serious society prayer batteries another ufo called the aetherius society dates
back to 1955. not nearly as apocalyptic as far too many other cults a series began when its founder
george king was contacted by aliens who told him he was supposed to lead an interplanetary
parliament this began his relationship with aetherius venusian who contrary to what you might
think lived on saturn basically ethereans believed that there are planetary masters out there beings
who worked in a kind of intergalactic government these masters are masters in a spiritual sense and
people like jesus and buddha were also in their ranks the goal just to make the universe a better
place so that's not so bad part of their belief is that spiritual energy can be harnessed and stored
and used for good that means we could prevent natural disasters and other bad things like war
so group members get together and they pray and they direct those prayers into spiritual batteries
the batteries collect the prayer power and it can be let out as needed to prevent bad things
now this may sound goofy to many of us but keep in mind this seems to be as extreme as the aetherius
society gets compared to most other groups they seem relatively harmless and well-intentioned
3. jon from military parades cargo cults date back to world war ii and a strange phenomena to
consider the people in melanesia places like vanatu and new guinean thereabouts had very
limited contact with the outside world at the time during the war allies were arriving on the islands
often with a lot of gear in the form of airdrops so try to imagine you were living your life and
some group of people far more advanced than you dropped their technology on you from the sky
what would you think well for the cargo cults it began a fascinating culture of religious worship
soldiers would interact with islanders and trade with them offering the kinds of things
that islanders had never dreamed of it must have been a lot like the idea of humans and vulcans
first meeting in star trek after the war all the soldiers left but the islanders really had no idea
why or where they went so they started engaging in rituals that they hoped would bring them back on
the island of tanner locos i met a man named john frum and he became central to their belief system
they fashioned their own military uniforms and led parades to try and bring him back believing from
would bring gifts and abundance from above some believe there was never a real jon frum he was
a delusion or even a local pretending to be a westerner but whatever the truths of the matter
the fact is the locals built airstrips and more to bring him back each february the 15th known
as jonfrunday they hold parades and ceremonies in the hopes that from will return with things like
televisions medicine and coca-cola number two the foot readers dating back to 1987 the japanese cult
name is honohana variant of feat leader hogan [ __ ] naga could read your fortune based on your
feet or well so he claimed more importantly if he didn't read your fortune things could go bad
really quickly members of the cult needed their feet inspected or else they risked death also a
foot reading would cost 900 or so apparently some people paid him nearly a million dollars
members were encouraged to spend on scrolls and other healing items that dropped thousands on
five day seminars and other wastes of money meant to heal or otherwise improve their lives
fukunaga himself would read feet as would other high-ranking members at some point people began
to suspect that this was a bit shady and the man was just taking the money and spending it
on frivolous items he was eventually sued for fraud in order to pay back millions number one
freedomite pacifist nude bombings if you really want your cult to stand out consider basing it in
some fundamentally contradictory ideals originally from russia the freedomites were a group who had
fled russian intolerance and persecution for the freedom and good times of saskatchewan canada in
the early 1900s they then set about blowing things up and espousing a belief in anarchy
all of which they did in the nude one of the group's central tenets is pacifism which combined
with anarchism somehow led to various acts of arson from the 1920s to the 1960s in 1958 two
of the members were killed by their own bombs they bombed schools and the local rail bridge
and all of that was done in the nude as well they were very much against materialism and government
interference in everyday life and also apparently clothing nearly everything the group did
reflected that in some way so i really hope you found this video interesting if you did please
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