Right here is the refutation of us belonging to a cult. The freedom to come and go as we please and think and act as we please without shame or ridicule by or from anyone else in the editors' room, aka, our private channel in Slack, where those of whose nature it is to speak our minds, do so freely, and often times there is much disagreement within the group, and with DMY. Pranchu you and I have debated a bit publicly, and after several rounds, we agreed to disagree. The readers may enjoy our spirited debate over whether Tolstoy should be credited with a pearl of wisdom that Socrates spoke first and the meaning of a translation of an Arabic poem, which may or may not have borrowed from Confucius. https://medium.com/technical-excellence/ive-been-thinking-about-this-thread-of-ours-6c16e4c4426. Coming and going as we please and allowed to have our own ideas without shame or ridicule is much more than one can say about belonging to many groups on Facebook, or working for any number of companies these days. This story on such cults by Markus Scorelius is a great read. https://medium.com/illumination/which-cults-do-you-belong-to-ce565c0fcb35.