JagR

Believe everything you read? It's an opinion.

cooker

It's an analogy.

JagR

It's Lutz's opinion. Not to mention a competitor

I-Like-To-Bike

Note that two of the articles are not about the Tesla car nor owners of Tesla cars, but rather are financial opinion piecesd about the price of Tesla stock and people who are willing to pay high prices for the stock of a money losing company led by a master huckster.

But that is what happens when you do a Google search with a couple of words and don't bother to read the product.

Mobile 155

I am still not clear how any of this raises to the point of the majority being a cult, at least traditionally. I am also not sure that in any work place, social gathering, school setting or church meeting have I ever noticed people commenting on how someone got to the function. They might only know you took the bus, train, walked or cycled rather than drove only because the one doing so broached the subject. And once the preferred mode of transportation was mentioned it was simply dropped as not being important to anyone that chose a different form of transportation. In my experience the majority doing anything considers themselves normal and so doesn't bother with what others do. I never do anyway. I only once thought of a fellow employee's transportation when he tried to get permission to fly a ultra light Para-glider to work. The company said no and I am not sure the city would have given him air space.

I-Like-To-Bike

Neither traditional thought nor traditional definitions of words are necessary or even desirable in the alternate reality imagined by the imaginative thinkers of BF brand LCF.

cooker

You should know by now I always check the links. Wolfchild said Tesla was cultish, then said he was being silly. In fact, as the varied links show, a lot of people have described both the company structure and the investor and customer fan base as cult-like. It's an analogy, figure of speech, metaphor. Most people get that.

McBTC

I get it. LCF fundies are cult-like...

Machka 

I've been away ... have we decided that LCF fundamentalism is like a cult yet?

MikeOK

Yes, they are a cult. I have decided so and that's all that needs to be said. By the way, I've been around here longer than you, if you are ever away how do you have time to post nearly 50,000 times and I have under a thousand?

Machka 

70 wpm typing speed. I can produce all sorts of posts in 5 minutes here and there.

steve-in-kville 

This thread makes my head hurt. I just wanna ride my bike to work. We're all nerds, cult or no cult.

'nuff said.

MikeOK

Lol I was just joshing you.

I-Like-To-Bike

Speaking of joshing, perhaps that was the intent of the OP, just joshing, while imagining himself as the reincarnation of brave and heroic Snake Plissken in an P&R/Fooish updated screenplay based on the plot of the sci-fi thriller Escape from New York.

McBTC

LCF is to Commuting as Heaven's Gate is to Christianity...

MikeOK

I have no clue what that means.

steve-in-kville 

I think that was the mass suicide that took place in the mid/late 90's. They wore new Nike sneakers?

MikeOK

Maybe there's a Nike cult?

McBTC

true, a UFO religious group, the founder called Do had been a soldier and a professor and was the son of a Presbyterian minister and the members of the group lived together and even earned money on the side selling computer services. Their home was an expensive house in Rancho Sante Fe, an expensive community in San Diego and they all resolved to off themselves by pulling plastic bags over their faces and meet up again on the dark side of the comet Hale-Bopp. They lived in the real world but wasted their lives absorbed in the idea of life in an alternative reality... which is sort of like what the ideology of the LCF movement is to the real world possibilities of commuting by bicycle.

MikeOK

LCF people are definately a cult then. Also, everywhere they go they are stinky. So regular people don't want to hang around them and the only people that will hang around are other stinky people. So after a while since they only want to hang around others who stink they brainwash each other into believing their way is the only way.

wolfchild

This is what it means...LCF fundamentalists believe that, LCF is the highest form of spiritual enlightenment that any human can achieve. When a person gives up their car they enter another dimension, a god-like state that is only possible to attain without a car.

cooker

Give it a rest, guys.

McBTC

Stink'n think'n...?

JagR

Looks like some are responding w/good intentions and others to be smart asses. I don't understand why people respond when they have ZERO interest in the thread topic.

steve-in-kville 

We're off topic big time, sure no one cares at this point, though.

What mass suicide was it where they drank spiked punch or something?? I'm too lazy to google it....