You Were Worried About Your Weight

Description: Quite possibly the craziest cult ever, Heavens Gate was founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles. Heaven's Gate members believed that the planet Earth was about to be recycled (wiped clean, renewed, refurbished and rejuvenated), and that the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately. While the group was formally against suicide, they defined "suicide" in their own context to mean "to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered," and believed that their "human" bodies were only vessels meant to help them on their journey. In conversation, when referring to a person or a person's body, they routinely used the word "vehicle". This documentary investigates an incident in 1997, where thirty-nine members of the San Diego-based cult "Heaven's Gate" committed mass suicide. They intended to reach an alien spacecraft which they believed to be following Comet Hale-Bopp, which was at that time brightly visible in the nighttime sky.

Lot Of 'Clinton Kool-Aid Drinkers' In The Media!

Some of you will keep pretending we're crazy, or putting this language in people's mouths - like when the "Obama Cult" talk started - but no, the repeated phrases that indicate a Democratic Party inthralled with cultish thinking keeps popping up in the mouths of others, and we've merely made it our job to catch it when it appears. Of course, it affirms the very point of this blog, so we'll leave it up to you to determine if everyone who brings it up is crazy - like when James Taranto just called Obama supporters "delusional". What say you? Is it us or is it him? Or maybe Bill Whittle? (Those are two men lauded for their sanity, intelligence, and clear-eyed view of things, no?) Or maybe the crazies are anyone else who sees it in passing but loses the thread whenever the next news cycle comes around? Yea, yea - we know:

Anyone who grasps an understanding of the NewAge culture that keeps producing our Charlie Manson's, David Koresh's, Marshall Applewhite's, and others is nuts - because you say so.

Yes, the rest of you are totally aware of the situation - though you never stop it until somebody gets hurt, or killed, and sometimes not even then - because that's the way you like it.

It's your sure sign of a healthy society.

Dissecting The New Age Movement, Part III: What's The Indicator A Person Is A Cultist?

This is the image most people have when they hear the words "cult" or "cultists" - but we know most cultists aren't that obvious - so what's the indicator a person is a cultist?

Let's take a look at a few of the most well-known cultists and see if you can spot it:

David Koresh

Oprah Winfrey

Marshall Applewhite

Charlie Manson

Jim Jones

J.Z. Knight

Shirley MacLaine

Rev. Sun Myung Moon (and wife)

So, the question was:

What's The Indicator A Person Is A Cultist?

And the correct answer is:

The ideas they claim to believe.

I Don't Know: He DID Mention "Recycling" (And He Said I Had A Gift,...) Such A Really Nice Man