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Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults [View all]
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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