Vulgar words in Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult (Page 1)

This book at a glance

asshole x 4
fuck off x 1
fucking x 1
make love x 2
piss x 1
            
whore x 2
            

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"I'll process the bad energy for you--though it will probably make me ill." Then, adding humiliation to guilt, he dubbed us "assholes of the mountains."

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Rama--who preferred the term "having sex" to "making love"--occasionally softened his position on sexuality and invited followers to relax, accept their human nature, and do whatever worked for them.

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"She either looks like a witch or a whore."

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I am fucking her."

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I missed the disciples whom Rama had dubbed "assholes of the mountains."

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Another entry for June reads, "What really pisses me off is that Rama changes everything he says, contradicts himself, turns a situation around completely--so you never have a handle on him."

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Three, this boy is an asshole."

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I wrote, "Asshole," and drew a circle around the word.

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Push them away--anything to get them to fuck off."

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The past, people's thoughts about me, my thoughts about me--are all like Nately's Whore, in Catch-22; only she misses, and i jump... " About a week later, Dana called me with a "Warrior's task."

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I rejected society ages ago, and came back to it because it seemed like an interesting thing to do... "I began to hear rumors that well, I was--I don't know what I was doing--I haven't listened to much of the rumors but I guess, umm, I don't know, that I was making love to millions of women, or something like that, uhh, I don't know.

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