Heaven's Gate revisited

San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 3/18/07 | J. Harry Jones

[Anti-Bubba182]

If people want a bogus guaranty of certainty bad enough to have themselves castrated and die for it, there is no help for them.

I notice the article said:

"Applewhite and six members of the cult had been castrated in Mexico a few months earlier – another way to deal with unwanted desires."

Could it be that Applewhite woke up without his nads and thought, "Oh S@#%!, When I screw up I really screw up! I've got to get to the Mother Ship ASAP with my slaves of course.!"

[Mountain Troll]

"Evolution in Action" doesn't begin to describe this sort of behavior. Castration AND suicide? That's a Double Darwin Award!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Here's some background, a mirror of their website;

http://www.wave.net/upg/gate/heavensgate.html

[jim_trent]

These is a prominent engineer (used to be head of Public Works in the City) and his wife (a judge) whose daughter was in Heaven's Gate and one of the last ones to committ suicide (after helping the others do it). Her sister (their other daughter) was recently over in Israel to help the Palestinians and got beat up by them -- but she blamed it on Israel.

It makes me wonder how they screwed up their daughters heads so bad.

[Pyro7480]

CNN's Anderson Cooper program is doing a report on the 10-year anniversary tonight at 10 EDT.

[massgopguy]

Greasers will have to drive their chrome laden 55 Chevys into volcanoes.

[theDentist]

Yes, I remember the unopened email letter to them: "Emergency, departure delayed. Repeat, Departure Delayed. Astral tail winds in Hale-Bopp making it impossible for us to take you on this trip. We will make new arrangements soon."

[4yearlurker]

I didn't think they had the nads to do what they did.

[Anti-Bubba182]

groan!

[x]

Heaven's Gate?

It was truly HORRENDOUS!

[reagan_fanatic]

[goldstategop]

The Heaven's Gate cult were ascetic Gnostics. They denied the reality of the body and the world and they believed the True Existence lay elsewhere. Neo-Platonists on a bender.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[brivette]

Do=Doh!!

[dfwgator]

I remember the Saturday Night Live skit soon afterwards showing Marshall Applewhite with the other members cavorting on the spaceship giving an interview on TV. One reporter asked Marshall if there was anything he was surprised to have found out after getting on the spaceship. To which Marshall replied, "There was one thing, that whole castration thing, turned out we were way off on that one."