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Heaven's Gate Cult


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Have been reading about it for my final essay, you know, this isn't fun man... Serious business. A guy just manages to convince 40 people to take their own lives.

Guess people older than me know about it because I can't imagine the media didn't jump on this like a bunch of crazy guinea pigs (yes, I did watch the South Park episode about crazy (sized) guinea pigs last evening). But, how do you guys suppose something like this can happen? I mean...

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Those guys probably have mental problems. If not, then they are either super gullible or plain stupid.

Fear is the key.

These guys also did mock death set-up/drills, where the leader would routinely give them a drink of 'pretend' poison, and make them lie on the floor in a pattern.

Eventually the drink was real poison, so nobody was none the wiser.

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