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A lot of the really scary ones don't have a real net presence, or not much of one. These are the ones that don't look like cults at first -- they look like new-agey self-improvement seminars. But they're built on the scientology model, in that once they've got you in, they try to control you, sometimes by means that aren't pretty. I've run across a few of those. They look normal from the outside, until you start asking questions (at which point, you better run).
Cults are never funny. Most of us have enough sense of ourselves not to let someone else to move in and control our lives because, they say, they can make us better (for lots of cash, of course). But nearly everybody is emotionally vulnerable at some point in their lives, and some people are just fragile, period. These are the people that the cults hunt like wolves. They are predators and nothing but, hunting for people who they can control and use.
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