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"I Escaped a Red Pill Cult" (with Coleman Watts)

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The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What's the "red pill?" Ex-cult member Coleman Watts explains the term and tells his deconstruction story.

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Okay, here we got to stand by.

0:02.0

Three, two, one.

0:05.0

The thinking atheist, it's not a person.

0:08.0

It's a symbol.

0:09.0

An idea.

0:10.0

The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.

0:14.0

Rejecting faith.

0:15.0

Percilling knowledge, challenging the sacred.

0:19.0

If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth,

0:22.0

not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.

0:25.0

And working together for a more Russian world.

0:29.0

Take the risk of thinking for yourself.

0:31.0

Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

0:35.0

Assume nothing. Question everything and start thinking.

0:42.0

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast hosted by Seth Andrews. The word cult refers to a group of people with

1:06.4

somewhat unusual beliefs who exist in relative isolation from the rest of the world.

1:12.2

They often centralize around an authority

1:15.6

figure of some kind of cult leader and that authority figure will set the rules.

1:22.0

What to think, what to say, how to behave. The word

1:26.7

cult comes from the Latin cult us. It's defined as adoration, education, cultivation.

1:33.8

There were doomsday cults, there are sex cults, political cults,

1:38.2

I mentioned religious cults.

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