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[Diablos]

"COME WITH US... TO THE NEXT LEVEL!!!!"

Holy crap, what a bunch of retards. I know it's not nice to talk about cult "victims" but seriously, if you are that easily convinced, I can't say I feel too bad for you. The stories that the followers were preached were HILARIOUS, a 6th grader with an imagination and too much time on his hands could have come up with something better. Do and Ti are the master aliens and they are riding behind a comet, and when they came near the earth it was the cult's time to go to THE NEXT LEVEL and watch the Earth get ruined from a SPACESHIP. :lol Then they would talk about how your body is a VEHICLE and you will be your true self when you transport to the NEXT LEVEL.

I mean, it was just amazing, watching these people sit there out in the back of their mansion and talk about how they are perfectly content with leaving this world and moving onto the next with Do and Ti in the spaceship. I remember watching the tapes on MSNBC. I couldn't fathom how these people could be so stupid. But it was scary how DEVOTED to this cause they were.

They also had alien insurance. :lol

But the thing that is perhaps the most disturbing is how they died - or, I'm sorry, left their VEHICLE and went off to the NEXT LEVEL! They all went to their beds. They drank some alcohol, took some pills and suffocated themselves. They did it in SHIFTS. Do you know how content you would have to be with your cause to do something like that? 39 people killed themselves. Over a "religion" that had a story so bad it could be entertaining.

"By now you should be aware that I have too have (sic) exited my vehicle," said one of the men. "I do not pretend to have accomplished my task of overcoming this human vehicle and gaining the degree of control I would have liked, but nonetheless, I know who I am and that I must go back with them whether I am ready or not."

"I'd rather gamble on missing the bus this time than staying on this planet and risk losing my soul."

Right.

More info:

http://www.rickross.com/reference/heavensgate/gate37.html
http://www.wave.net/upg/gate/

 

[sprsk]

good times

 

[Willco]

Okay, this news is really old.

 

[Diablos]

Okay, this news is really old.

DON'T DENY US
YOUR BODY IS A VEHICLE
JOIN ME

 

[Ollie Pooch]

they drank Kool-Aid laced with poison, wore purple robes and matching nike (i think) sneakers! unbelievable - shows how certain people can get control of someone's weak mind, really.

i always thought the cult leader looked like aaron spelling :lol

do do do do.. do do do do.. *punch punch*

 

[Diablos]

 

[Link1110]

I actually wrote my high school senior thesis on these nutjobs. Real weirdos, these guys.

 

[Diablos]

Cool, what did you learn? I'm sure there's a lot of info.

I mean how can you take this guy seriously, though.
Jesus.

 

[Link1110]

I wish I still had it. It was written in 1998. Basically these people though that the "Luciferians" were about to recycle planet Earth, and they had to go back to Pluto to save themselves, and the only way to do that was through suicide.

 

[Fresh Prince]

Science(fiction) + Religion is worse than religion by itself it seems.

 

[achilles]

Do re me fa so la Ti?

 

[sprsk]

your avatar is too big nas

 

[Fifty]

It is merely a vehicle for his online personality

 

[cloudwalking]

As weird as they were, much worse was the Peoples Temple cult.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown

 

[Ollie Pooch]

 

[Gek54]

Didnt all the guys cut their balls off?

 

[achilles]

your avatar is too big nas

It actually is off by 1px... It's 67x121... but for some reason it shows up much larger here on the forums. Help?

 

[Fifty]

avatars that aren't 90 width are automatically resized.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

Didnt all the guys cut their balls off?

yup - "Group members gave up their material possessions and the male members of the cult underwent castration. In preparation for their suicide, members of the cult drank citrus juices to ritually cleanse their body of impurities."

thankYOU wiki

also : suicide instructions;

Take the little package of pudding or applesauce and eat a couple of teaspoons. Pour the medicine in and stir it up. Eat it fairly quickly and then drink the vodka beverage. Then lay back and rest quietly.

 

[achilles]

Ah fixed. Thank you.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple

This is what terrified me about cults when I was a child.

 

[Diablos]

I wish I still had it. It was written in 1998. Basically these people though that the "Luciferians" were about to recycle planet Earth, and they had to go back to Pluto to save themselves, and the only way to do that was through suicide.

:lol

Cheesy video games have had better plots.

 

[BreakyBoy]

Why do I get the feeling that if Douglas Adams were still around and reading this, he'd be seriously thinking of starting a similar cult on the basis that aliens are going to demolish Earth to make room for an interstellar bypass...

DA: ...and remember my children, no matter what happens, Don't Panic!

 

[Escape Goat]

Lieutenant Uhura's nephew was among the cult victims.

 

[White Man]

Last I heard, some 2 years back, there were still a couple of these goofballs around. Or maybe they were apologists or something.

They don't make insane cults like this anymore. Boring, boring world we live in these days. The killing takes place in far off countries where the entire landscape is boring, boring tan. Why, back in the glory days, the killings that the media fed off of took place in more interesting, even SHOCKING locales, like high schools, eastern Europe, and in California. These days. . .jeez. It's an embarassment to our country. We used to come up with the most amusing, interesting crackpot maniacs, and today all we have our unoriginal warmongering alcoholic despots. GIVE ME THE CLINTON YEARS! BILL IN 2008!!

The Democratic Party: When they're in power, people are happier, the economy is better, sinfulness rocks the people's boxers, communism spread, and amusing maniacs stab their way into our hearts.

 

[StoOgE]

My friend (Kevin) and myself started a mock cult named Kevins gate at our high school when this happened. Got a whole day of ISS for that one.