What Is a #Cult? Some Warning Signs
Absolute #authoritarianism without accountability
Zero tolerance for #criticism or questions
Lack of meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget
#Unreasonable fears about the outside world that often involve evil conspiracies and persecutions
A belief that the leader is right at all times
A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation
What Is a #Cult? Some Warning Signs
Absolute #authoritarianism without accountability
Zero tolerance for #criticism or questions
Lack of meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget
#Unreasonable fears about the outside world that often involve evil conspiracies and persecutions
A belief that the leader is right at all times
A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation
Tutoring job offer:
$15/hour for calculus.
Student says it is their second time taking class and that they struggle to retain information.
$15/hour
Less than minimum salary. Want to take the class a third time???
#Clarke's three laws
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 
states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.
Isaac #Asimov 
1959
"It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_C._Clarke_1965.jpg
Years ago, I was looking for a word/concept that summed up everything, but really everything. Practically my personal word of the decade.
It is not "42" but: "ABSURD".
no matter what news, local or geo-political I hear & read this year.... "ABSURD" still applies in full!
#ABSURD
#absurd, #antinomic, #irrational, #crazy, #confused, #illogical, #nonsensical, #unreasonable
