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For the purposes of this podcast, we define a cult as

organizations that rally behind an entity or leader who espouse beliefs outside the norm.

Organizations that require monetary or physical sacrifices as a condition of membership.

Organizations in which the doctrines followed by the

leaders are different than that of the followers, organization in which

isolation is encouraged either by commune living or by a policy of

disconnection from outside relationships.

And organizations that actively recruit new members.

All cults might have some or all of these traits, and as always,

These are our opinions. Thank you for

joining in the cult podcast I'm Paige Wesley and I'm Armando Torres and with us we

have Andrea Gazetta! So today we are talking about the Oneida community. The spoons? Yeah, damn.

The what? Spoons. We'll get to it.

Okay.

So the sources that we're using today are the New York Times, New York History

dot com, Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as Oneida.com for fine silverware, flatware, and dinnerware,

as well as just Wikipedia, but only just for a guiding outline of times.

So the thing that's a little unique about this cult

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