Originally posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 10:52 PM. Some paragraphs have been added or modified. When filling a box up with valuable stones, if you fail to take out the small granite pebbles, then they limit the stones that matter from filling the box. That is why so many cult lists fail. The anti-cultist is so busy trying to catch cults in his figurative cult box with a bunch of identifiers that he forgets about what is not a dangerous or destructive cult so that the non-cults get caught in the box. Thus, in order to identify what is a cult, we must first take out the inconsequential pebbles by identifying what is not a cult. In each cult identifier post, we will be considering the differences between what is reasonable and unreasonable and possible areas in between. Each post will clearly identify the effects of the related traits under discussion, whether positive or negative, or both. Some may seem to have a negative impact at first blush, but actually have a net positive re...