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    26 May '16 09:392 edits
    Originally posted by FMF
    Yes I know that companies like Apple and Manchester United and Bayer are corporations. That isn't in dispute. I was talking about a "corporate entity" where the word "corporate" means 'pertaining to a united group, as of persons' and 'united or combined into one body or collective'.
    Correct you made up your own definition. According to you a football crowd would be considered a corporate entity, or marathon runners, or people sunbathing on a beach. Give it up, you are havering ol bean.
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    26 May '16 09:44
    Originally posted by FMF
    The word "cult" is a 'damaged' word. It is mostly used to express a gut feeling that a group is perceived negatively or with some suspicion and circumspection, or at least unsympathetically.

    Whether a group is perceived this way depends on how its members and their purpose fare in the face of biased or subjective scrutiny of [1] their dogma, [2] their carefu ...[text shortened]... [2] and [3], aside from how it reveals the hostile gut feelings of the person who uses the word.
    I think the ICSA would disagree with you.

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    26 May '16 09:45
    Originally posted by robbie carrobie
    Correct you made up your own definition.
    No. I am using the word in its conventional sense.

    http://www.dictionary.com/browse/corporate
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/corporate
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporate
    http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/corporate

    It would seem you've learnt something new.
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    26 May '16 09:48
    Originally posted by Suzianne
    I think the ICSA would disagree with you.

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    I have no doubt they do. I am not speaking on anyone or anything's behalf, apart from myself. I wish the ICSA all the best as it seeks to help the victims of groups it calls cults. It is important work.
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    26 May '16 10:02
    Originally posted by robbie carrobie
    Correct you made up your own definition. According to you a football crowd would be considered a corporate entity, or marathon runners, or people sunbathing on a beach. Give it up, you are havering ol bean.
    If you think my six posts on page 1 of this thread might have been about marathon runners or people sunbathing on a beach, then good for you.
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    26 May '16 10:412 edits
    Originally posted by FMF
    If you think my six posts on page 1 of this thread might have been about marathon runners or people sunbathing on a beach, then good for you.
    yes your text is nonsense, according to your definition a shoal of fish is a cult it being a collective, so is a flock of birds, a swarm of bees etc etc here is your text again,

    cult = corporate entity
    corporate entity = collective
    collective = shoal of fish
    therfore
    shoal of fish = a cult

    bwahahaha! with such tomfoolery we could be friends yet FMF 😵
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    26 May '16 11:08
    Originally posted by robbie carrobie
    yes your text is nonsense, according to your definition a shoal of fish is a cult it being a collective, so is a flock of birds, a swarm of bees etc etc
    If you don't understand (or you're pretending not to understand) what I was saying when I suggested that analyzing the corporate and individual behaviour of groups and their members ~ specifically those which some would denounce as "cults" ~ is more apropos than worrying too much about whether or not to apply the label (which is now largely a subjective one, anyway) then it's OK. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter whether you engage the point or not.
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