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Aside from Gloriavale, what other weird/fringe groups do we have in New Zealand? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by ciaocibai@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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I always read stories about what’s going on in Gloriavale, and I quite enjoy videos of random communities abroad as well. Other than Gloriavale what other fringe communities exist in NZ?

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[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do Exclusive Brethren count? I worked for one of their companies as a teen, they were weird

[–] SamC@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Big doners to the National party.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know it’s autocomplete, but I can’t help thinking of big kebabs now.

[–] SamC@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

whoops 🤣

[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they count.

Exclusive Brethren houses are designed to have a special windowless sound-proof room for locking their children in when they need to be punished. I know an architect.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well that’s horrifying

[–] kglitch@kglitch.social 3 points 1 year ago

There's going to be some Roman Catholic Church level of abuse uncovered one day, pretty sure. When you're baking oppression into ya blueprints you're deeply into it.