Comment by lazide

4 days ago

Have you heard of Heavens Gate? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_g...].

There are at least a dozen I can think of, including the ‘drink the koolaid’ Jonestown massacre.

People be crazy, yo.

7 comments

lazide

Of course, Jim Jones and L Ron Hubbard, David Kersh. I realize there have always been people that are coocoo for cocoa puffs. But so many as there appear to be now?

tuesdaynight 4 days ago
Internet made possible to know global news all the time. I think that there have always been a lot of people with very crazy and extremist views, but we only knew about the ones closer to us. Now it's possible to know about crazy people from the other side of the planet, so it looks like there's a lot more of them than before.
- lazide 4 days ago
  
  Yup. Like previously, westerners could have gone their whole lives with no clue the Hindutva existed [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva] - Hindu Nazis, basically. Which if you know Hinduism at all, is a bit like saying Buddhist Nazis. Say what?
  Which actually kinda exised/exists too? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichirenism], right down to an attempted coup and a bunch of assassinations [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Blood_Incident].
  Now you know. People be whack.

geoffeg 4 days ago

Just a note that the Heaven's Gate website is still up. It's a wonderful snapshot of 90s web design. https://www.heavensgate.com/

jameslk 4 days ago

I was curious who's keeping that website alive, and allegedly it's two former members of the cult: Mark and Sarah King
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-suicide-cults-surviving-me...
ants_everywhere 4 days ago
what a wild set of SEO keywords
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- lazide 4 days ago
  
  It’s the aliens to yoga ratio that really gets me. Yogis got really shortchanged here.