Do I Live In a CULT? | GOOGLE Thinks I Do
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- When people search the community I live in on Google, the first result in the dropdown has always shown my community as a cult. In this video, I'll examine the characteristics experts use to determine if a group is a cult and see how my community measures up.
Do I live in a cult? Does my community meet the criteria to be a cult, or is Google misleading everyone who searches for my community?
Chapters:
0:00 My community
1:26 Google thinks I live in a cult
1:59 Definition of a cult
3:22 Do we have a charismatic leader?
6:03 Do we think the world is ending?
7:02 Can we think for ourselves?
9:35 Are we forced to conform?
11:55 Are we socially isolated from society?
13:39 Do we think our community is superior?
15:27 Does the community demand all our time and money?
17:40 Do I live in a cult?
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So sad that this needs to be explained, but bravo for doing such an excellent job of it. Very much looking forward to bringing my family to visit one day.
I'm glad you liked the video. I spent a lot of time making it. Hope you make it to visit soon.
Dan, thank you very much for the time you put into making this excellent video.
⭐Dan, your channel is great. Congrats⭐
Thank you!
I've been to Dancing Rabbit, last summer, in fact. Definitely not a cult and absolutely a place where you can expand your preconceived notions about the planet and what you can do to help it, how you can live with others instead of by yourself and experience incalculable joy in the process.
Hi Kevin, thanks for supporting my channel and giving your takeaway from your experience at DR.
Thankyou. Takecare & look after yourself. 🎉🎉🎉
Join Council public meetings. Standup to them. 😃👌🎉🎉🎉
unfortunately, when I tried - the first suggestion was "Abuse" (cult was 4th)- which is also a load of crap. Unfortunately, resident's family members and the community at large are probably searching these terms. For example, I have an aunt that definitely thought I was in a cult when I lived at DR. I have been no-contact for her for many, many years, so I couldn't do much to combat that and also had zero f's to give about what she thought.. I'm not sure how you would structure a campaign to have so many people search other terms like "Dancing Rabbit Sustainability" that you deprioritize the unfortunate suggestions... but it's worth a try. And HI DAN! Hi to everyone!
Yep, and it's different for everyone who does a search based on their previous search history. Mine no longer puts cult first, but if I do an incognito window, cult is first. I don't know how to change this besides some crafty SEO.
How are you Brent? Are you still in Nicaragua? I was chatting with a guy a couple months ago about a retreat center in San Juan del Sur area called Costa Dulce where he's trying to set up an ecovillage. I might go down there to visit sometime since I haven't been to Nicaragua since the mid-90s.
@@HardcoreSustainable I'm in Puebla, México now (for about a year now). Got tired of lots of things I'm not allowed to talk about if I ever want to visit again.. I'm so glad to be in a place where I don't have to reserve 2 extra travel days on either end..
@@HardcoreSustainable hey -just noticed you can report these predictions. In google desktop, click in the search bar and in the lower right hand corner of the resulting megamenu, you get a link to report inappropriate search suggestions. I just reported.. we'll see if it has an effect. I reported as hateful toward groups and explained that this search suggestion fuels the false narrative that DR is a cult.
Meh, don’t worry about what people think. Do what you know is right.
I was laughing at that one hair sticking straight out on the left side of your head :D
Yes, my makeup artist failed me on that one. There's always a spot that sticks up no matter what I do.
@@HardcoreSustainable your cowlick is so cute tho. cowlicks are the cutest thing especially on short hair.
Bright Blessings, Thank you for creating this informative message allowing us to get to know you and the eco village. Sometimes people fear what they don't understand. Personally, this place is growing on me more and more. See you all soon possibly, take care, keep growing!🌱
Karaoke, yas! Haha
🎙️🪩👨🎤
Very good explanation. You did a video awhile back on making Roman shades. Can you send that video.
I'm not entirely sure which one you mean. I did a video about keeping your house cool without AC and talked about my thermal curtains in that one. I think I did another one in the spring a couple years ago where I was fixing my curtains. One of the first videos I did was a tour of my house and I talked about the curtains in a section of that. I don't think I've made one that focuses on how to make the thermal curtains. Here's the link to the first one tho:
czcams.com/video/lZvxazcQ9Rg/video.html
The only thing that does seem a little isolating is the limits on cars. Love the stars & nature sounds, though
Yes, I guess it limits your ability to just jump in a car for a road trip, but most of what people need to do they can do easily with the vehicle co-op. There's not a lot near us, but if you need to sign one out to go to the nearest town, it's pretty easy.
To be fair, cults are often abusive, and not being able to drive a car to leave could be considered abusive behavior. That's like in the handbook of what to watch out for in relation to red flags in partners.
I wouldn't mind joining a place like this, but limiting freedom and opportunity is a huge risk. I agree with the concept of people helping one another in communities, however, becoming dependent on them, or having all of your work and time go toward them instead of your own goals isn't ideal. We should be helping each other, but I wouldn't want people relying on me or vice-versa in a codependent way.
It would be nice to live in a "neighborhood" where everyone owns their own property and houses but there are community gardens and some other shared resources.
You can drive a car. We have a vehicle co-op and you can drive as much and wherever you want if there is a vehicle available. Some people refrain from doing that because they don't want to drive a lot for environmental reasons or because they don't want to spend the money on using the car all the time. If people don't like not being able to use a personal vehicle, they decide not to live in the village. Cults control people so they can't leave and members have to follow the rules set by a cult leader. None of these things are true of our village. It sounds like you just don't like not having the luxury of a personal vehicle and the ability to own it and not have anyone else use it.
There's nothing about our village that requires members to neglect their own lives in favor of the group. In fact, currently I think the village is suffering because people are taking advantage of the shared resources but not doing enough to maintain them. We can't find a person to do maintenance for our tractor co-op, but people using the tractor all the time complain that the tractor is not working. These same people have never taken a turn at being the maintenance person. In this situation I think we need to start requiring everyone to take a turn if they are going to reap the benefits of use of a tractor.
There are plenty of neighborhoods in the world of the kind you talk about. I've lived in them. They are not the same as living in an intentional community, but it sounds like you like your individuality.
Thank you for the break down. There are HOA's out there that could be described as cultish totalitarian regimes! Dancing rabbit is awesome. I love all the cob houses and solar panels.
Yes, HOAs tend to be kind of fascist and restrictive/controlling. I would never want to be a part of one. At DR we all have input to our decision making bodies instead of top down as in HOAs.
This all looks amazing. Just one big question. What if you do already have your own car or want your own car?
It is possible to own a car and live here, but you just can't use it for trips under 100 miles one way and you have to store it at least 10 miles away once you become a member. As well, if you are a resident, who is someone still in the "checking it out" status of living here, you still have to follow the rules that say you can't drive a personal vehicle unless it's a trip over 100 miles, however you can store your vehicle in the village parking lot while a resident.
The purpose of these rules is to deter people from using personal vehicles while living at DR. If your car isn't close, you are less likely to be tempted to use it. We also have the vehicle co-op to provide for any vehicle needs. It's not like you don't have any options without a personal vehicle.
Not owning a vehicle actually saves you a lot of money because in the vehicle co-op you are only charged for the time you are using the vehicle, whereas when you own a car, you are paying for it whether you use it or not.
@@HardcoreSustainable thank you for responding. That logic makes total sense, but my anxiety wouldn't let me not have easy access to my own personal car. I still want to come check you guys out. I just totally love the idea. Maybe I can get something similar going in my area.
@@HardcoreSustainable So what if you suddenly in the night wanted to go somewhere or there was a medical/family emergency? I am assume since its still party of the village that it must be working for a majority of the people there. I was explaining to my fiance about ecovillages and Dancing Rabbit as an example. She couldn't imagine not being able to get up and go. ( if under 100 miles like you said). I am very interested in this way of living as we moved out of the city into the country to get away from people but now I at least feel very isolated.
@@ethereal_arcana We have a hospital 13 miles away and the vehicles in our vehicle co-op serve for most trips like this. We also do have a backup emergency vehicle in case all the vehicles in the co-op are in use. In a community you have the added benefit of being able to ask someone else to drive you somewhere if its an emergency.
@@HardcoreSustainable wow that is really close. I live out in the country in Upstate NY and its 30-40 mins away to the nearest hospital. I was expecting to hear that everything would be far away. I have learned that at least in my living situation that being 20-30 minutes outside of a city is difficult. For me its mostly medical reasons. Thanks to the info I found about Ecovillages/Intentional Communities it gives me hope that myself and my fiance may find a community we can do the things we wanted to when we moved here.
Why did all of the founding members leave?
They left for various reasons at different times, just like others that have lived in the village. Some stayed longer than others. I'd guess for some it was something they were into at a time in their life and then they wanted something different. They were all pretty young when they started the community...college age.
I’ve visited. It’s a wonderful place.
over the coming decades ecovillages are set to explode in numbers. some say the increase in population could be close to 5-10% per decade. So 10 years from now it might approach 55 people.
Hi Dan. 😃👌🎶🙄 I'm still thinking. Council. Talk to your CEO for Environment & Health. Yep. They get most off your info from the IT guy at the Computer Shop.
It certainly sounds like a commune. That's okay. But it is an intentional community.
A commune is income sharing. No one owns anything themselves in a commune. They own everything together. We own the land collectively, but are on our own for income and we can own any improvements on land we rent. So I own my house. That wouldn't be possible in a commune. We are just like any other town or city in terms of how we provide our own income.
Acts 24:14, the apostles and disciples also were accused of being a part of a cult. As you say you are a group of people gathered with a particular intent. That is the very definition of an Ecclesia, which is the Greek word mistranslated as Church in the New Testament of the Bible
Most religions did start as cults, with followers following someone they considered a Messiah. Back at the beginning of Christianity, apocalyptic messiahs with followings were a dime a dozen. A group of people gathered with an intent isn't a cult by the modern definition. By that definition a book reading group or a concert would be a cult. Cults have these characteristics covered in the video, but mostly the charismatic leader with a lot of control over followers is what makes a cult.
it's like denmark if denmark was less based
(not derogatory)
[lol it's honestly more like christania without the drugs]
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@@HardcoreSustainable well christania is this place in denmark where a bunch of people went together and built houses out of junkyard stuff and they are these eco friendly people
then some bike riding bands (basically the danish mafia) just got a hold of some of their territory and started selling drugs
so now christania is known for their drugs instead of the rich art culture and grassroots shops
which is sad but the christanians are just some friendly people
Who is the leader?
Watch the video.
Literally all of these points could be used to describe the government 😅
I'd love to hear you explain your rationale for thinking that. I don't think you could begin to back it up. Trump was the only recent leader we've had that resembled a cult leader. And most Americans didn't even vote for him.
@@HardcoreSustainable czcams.com/video/o3IWTfcks4k/video.htmlsi=9LElw6sadajAD_zO
Yes, AI will portrait dancing rabbit as a cult. AI wants to destroy all humanity.
You are probably right about AI destroying the human meat bags (this is how AI sees us), but I think Google puts it in the top spot because that's what people search the most.
Lol AI just told me I should look into ecovillages as an alternative lifestyle.
Welp if you file taxes there's questions about being in a co-OP and the portion you owe the IRS.
The IRS defines everything
As does the county assessor
You better self define before they do it for you
Everything is set up legally and our entities are incorporated.
Great! Got it straight here too here because some depts don't appreciate all that darn vegetable growing. Really.
Many of your line of thinking call Christians cult members.
Kinda ironic.
Well, most cults are based in religion and a lot of them are Christian-based. I don't think you understand what ironic means.
@@HardcoreSustainable I do not believe that your eco community is a cult.
I really like many of your ideas as well.
You are pretty fun to fire up.
Basically everyone is displaying Dunning-Kruger bias.
We will never be able to outdo the negatives, even with mass numbers.
You guys drive 4 cars, but there are people blasting rockets off all the time, full blown military drills burning unfathomable amounts of fuel and a school system that burns petrol like there's no tomorrow.
How will we overcome?
I get it, there is no balance.
Eventually, it boils down to a small percentage of disgruntled concerned people talking about how the rest of the population needs to not be in existence.
If this depopulation discussion has not been of your participation, then it checks out.
But, if you think that yourself, along with others should control peoples rights to progeny by means of force or through passive w@rfare, then it would definitely count as a cult.
There is way too much land, and so much improvement that could be terraformed into it.
Earth could hold billions more
@@HardcoreSustainable it's like rain on your wedding day, or a free ride, when you've already paid, and good advice that you just didn't take.
@@thedomestead3546 Actually, that song doesn't know what ironic means.
@@HardcoreSustainable it figures
(climate) scientism is a religion. :)
just sayin...
It's actually the opposite because it's based on science and evidence. You could not be more wrong and obviously have no understanding of what science or religion is. I'm surprised you survive without using all the products science has given you, such as the computer you're writing you arrogant comment on. Just sayin'.
I like how you threw in Trump w the cult leader pics... the way people follow him despite the crazy and alarming stuff he's done, seems accurate
🪨 I would like to build a community too. Building a community is one of the finest thing a person could do with their life.
That's great. I agree with you there.