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Shermann

(8,547 posts) Sat Apr 22, 2023, 06:09 PM Apr 2023

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults

Anybody watching this on CNN? The finale is tomorrow, and we all know how it ends tragically.

The bit about castration was new to me. Wow.

It really wasn't a coercive situation where recruits were leveraged or brainwashed into accepting their beliefs. If anything, the opposite was true. Their numbers dwindled since their start in the 70's and they were not aggressively recruiting. They thinned their ranks down to the true believers.

The death of TI was very impactful. DO assumed full totalitarian control of the group, and he seemed to slowly go off the rails without her stabilizing influence.

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Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults (Original Post) Shermann Apr 2023 OP

Not been watching, but it was a horrible and fascinating story. Will have to look for a replay. emulatorloo Apr 2023 #1

I remember the fear, at the time, that other cells would commit the same suicide missions. NBachers Apr 2023 #2

My neighbor knew these people and said they were nice and normal. BigmanPigman Apr 2023 #3

emulatorloo

(45,529 posts)

1. Not been watching, but it was a horrible and fascinating story. Will have to look for a replay.

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Sat Apr 22, 2023, 06:35 PM

Apr 2023

NBachers

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2. I remember the fear, at the time, that other cells would commit the same suicide missions.

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Sat Apr 22, 2023, 08:04 PM

Apr 2023

BigmanPigman

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3. My neighbor knew these people and said they were nice and normal.

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Sat Apr 22, 2023, 08:18 PM

Apr 2023

Living in San Diego,we are familiar with this cult. They were always kind and didn't they to recruit him (he serviced their vehicles and they designed web sites).

When I first heard about the mass suicide I immediately thought it was that wild lady Ruth Norman. I was riding in a car near San Diego, around the time this happened, and when I looked at the car driving next to us it had a HUGE flying saucer on the roof and on the side it said, "Space Brothers Unite". I'm glad I had witnesses. She was the leader of the Unarians.

"The Unarius "Academy of Science" is well-known in UFOlogy as one of the few survivng institutions from the Contactee glory days of the 1950s. It was founded in 1954 by Ernest L. Norman (1904-1971) and his wife Ruth E. Norman (1900-1993, sometimes fondly known as "Spacecraft Ruthie".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unarius_Academy_of_Science

https://badufos.blogspot.com/2014/05/welcome-space-brothers-unarius-hits.html

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