Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'cult'
July 2, 2008
The Legend of the Hermit Is it just a whisper on the wind that strange people, resembling a bizarre cult, once inhabited Philly and became known as the Wissahickon Cult? The cult is considered the first of such Doomsday worshipers and is said to have formed in the 1600s. Is there any truth in the murky legend that such a group also became known as The Society of the Woman of the Wilderness, a peculiar......
Continue Reading "Philadelphia Weirdness"March 28, 2008
Life is better on a Mac. Air is sweeter, food tastes better, and music sounds musicer. Some people (we’ll call them PC users) have a natural disgust for all things Apple—they disparage the products as being over hyped and overpriced; they leer at you from behind inferior laptops in coffeehouses; they roll their eyes in disgust as you casually check the internet on your iPhone, they mock your devotion to a collection of machines as......
Continue Reading "Apple Comes to Cherry Hill"