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Date of upload: Feb 25, 2023 ^^
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What I love about this series is that they emphasis the humanity of those who fell victim to these cult leaders, which documentaries and media often gloss over.
Bringing in experts/psychologists provide insight into the minds of the followers and make it hard for viewers to just write them off by saying “they’re all just crazy.”
In short, thank you for these insightful videos. These videos wouldn’t be the same without Merle and Joice!
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Bizarrely, I'm someone who doesn't actually remember the Heaven's Gate incident, and in fact, I never even heard of the group until the following decade. Despite my age, much of this info is actually new to me. I do, however, remember (and remember seeing) comet Hale-Bopp, and I feel the need to let younger audiences know about it: not just to lighten the mood, but also to provide some context.
For those of us old enough to remember the EIGHTIES (to say nothing of the Nineties), one of the biggest letdowns of the era was when, after years of hype and merchandising, the much-touted Halley's Comet returned to Earth in 1986 . . . and was barely visible in the sky. It had lost a lot of its "tail" of icy particles, and you couldn't see it anymore without a telescope. So it offered a bit of closure when, over a decade later, the little-known Hale-Bopp comet came by and unexpectedly DID deliver some of the light show we'd been expecting before! I actually remember stepping outside of my college apartment one night with my brother, and easily seeing the comet with the naked eye. And that, my friends, is the sight that Heaven's Gate, apparently, took as a sign.
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Not gonna lie watching the old unsolved mysteries like the zodiac killer ect gives me goosebumps, I hate watching it when I'm alone but I have a ball of steel and just watch it alone, it's like the feeling when you watch unsolved mysteries of the killers and you think that there is a man watching you on the window
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100% true - One of the cult survivors (who left right before they all killed themselves) constructed the musical cremation urn I designed out of wood so I could take it to an artist for sculpting the artwork of flowers & butterflies, and then have the mold created. All I had to provide him was a drawing & measurements. Talented guy. The urns were then produced by Incolay, which sadly, is now out of business. But he could not & would not talk about his experience w/the cult. I think he'll be haunted by it until the day he dies.
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I thought I was younger than 18 when this happened? 1997? I would have been taking my gap year in the woods post high school. I was also highly religious (and a closet gay, but we didn't know that about Applewhite from the news reports?) and planning to attend Bible college in South Africa. When this story broke, I was, needless to say, deeply disturbed. It may have rattled my already shaky faith, too, that people could commit so completely and be so wrong.
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8:50 same gurl i'd shave my hair too for namjoon
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@mayaflici374
1 year ago
The clinical psychologist is so eloquent, she explains things really simply, learned a lot for this episode
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