Adrianna TanMany Asian vegan restaurant chains have cultic roots (here’s the founder of Loving Hut)
Joel Kin@skinnylatte is it all Ching Hai and Chinmoy or are there more?
@foon More in Asia. Random stall market stalls are also run by other cult followers.
@skinnylatte fascinating! The vegan restaurant cult thing has always been so morbidly interesting to me, but it didn’t occur to me that the whole notion could be “franchised”. Like… how is there a big enough audience? Or do you suppose it’s all about the money laundering?
@foon She doesn’t really need huge followers in the west but she needs to find a way to send money there, where she has properties as her ‘Celestia da Lamour’ persona in florida.
There’s a bunch of Taiwanese UFO cults but doomers and end of world types aren’t interested in making money in business if the world is ending, so i guess they’ve got a different model
@skinnylatte apocalyptic Christian cults in the US seem fairly interested in making money but I take your point!
@foon Apocalyptic Christians (I grew up among them) believe that when the world ends, they alone get raptured into heaven *with their stuff*
@skinnylatte what about that whole eye of a needle business?? I dunno, I grew up Jewish, but I am seeing some contradictions.
All there is is here@skinnylatte @foon can you name some of these ufo cults? I’m very interested in this component of end-times cultures. I teach East Asian societies, specifically Japan and there’s a lot to say about cults in that context!