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cults

n. (plural of cult English)

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Cults (band)

Cults is an American indie band formed in New York City in 2010. The band first came to prominence when they posted a three song EP, Cults 7", on their Bandcamp page. They are signed to Sony and In the Name Of, a record label that was set up by British singer Lily Allen.

Cults (album)

Cults is the debut album by American indie pop duo Cults. The album was released in the US on June 7, 2011 on In the Name Of, an imprint of Columbia Records. The album was recorded over the course of 2010 and early 2011. In early 2010, the band released an EP, which featured two of the songs to appear on the album; "Go Outside" and "Most Wanted". The song "Go Outside" was featured on the soundtrack of the game MLB 11: The Show on PlayStation 3.

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During his childhood, the cults in Dublin had run the range between vicious gangs and pious pacifists.

This book relates the story of a girl from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who fell through the cracks into what became one of the most bizarre sex cults of our time, the Children of God, which at its peak had eighteen thousand members.

Kent writes that the most abused and sexually manipulated people in all the cults he studied were the women of the Children of God, who were instructed to demonstrate God's love by giving sex first to the men in the group and then to the "lost" of the world.

In our cult, and in many other cults as I found out later, threesome marriages (they were usually two women and one man, but not always) turned out to be a workable solution, perhaps because it supplied more help with women's work and children and more regular sex for the husband.

Of course, Thor, at thirteen, was much too smart, and had been too indoctrinated by his father on the evils of cults, to even consider this invitation.

Researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of people from my generation have been involved with cults at some point in their lives.

For those who joined as adults, reorientation into the "world" was always difficult, but for children raised in the cults, it was traumatic.

As she grew up, she watched TV shows about cults and believed that the people in cults were brainwashed, however, when she visited me in Paris, she thought that the Family was just like a group of peace-loving hippies.

The reason we didn’t do the same was that the Jevlenese retarded Earth’s development by infiltrating agents to spread irrational belief systems and organize cults based on supersti­tion and unreason.

But then, all of the cults have got some reason for wanting JEVEX back.

So we get these cults of unreason flourishing across Jevlen, and we’re at a loss for an effective answer to them.

And it could also explain why all of the cults, regardless of their superficial bickerings and hair-splittings, are united in calling for JEVEX to be restored.

Jevlen will be freed from the threat of open strife erupting between the two major cults, and the Spiral will be left to work out its relations with the other cults in whatever way suits them.

And today, all of the cults and move­ments across Jevlen, despite their other disagreements, are unanimous in demanding that JEVEX be restored.

Or cults could break off from large organized religions to form fanatical enclaves of their own.