Looks a-peelin-ing.
Posted on 09/18/2022 3:52:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The cult group’s believers peel vegetables at the farmhouse.
Scores of parents in Cambodia have urged the government to help bring back their children camping at a farmhouse owned by a politician-turned-doomsday prophet amid concerns they had been indoctrinated.
Khem Veasna, head of the League for Democracy Party (LDP), claimed a devastating flood could wipe out humanity on Aug 30, and called on his supporters to take refuge at his mountainside plantation in Siem Reap province.
More than 20,000 followers, including teenagers and Cambodians working in Thailand and Japan, returned to Cambodia and flocked to the estate to escape the impending disaster. Veasna’s prediction, however, failed spectacularly. It prompted most of his adherents, who consider him to be Brahma, the Hindu god of creation, to leave the facility.
But worried parents said their children still had not returned home, despite officials ordering them to vacate the property over the weekend.
Authorities also accused Veasna of coaxing the youngsters to renounce their families and confining them to his countryside retreat.
Eam Voeun, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade his son to come home, said the latter had developed suicidal thoughts.
“My son was threatening to kill himself for asking him to leave the farm. Let me tell you, if my kid kills himself there, I will sue Khem Veasna because I am disappointed with my son,” he told the Khmer Times . “He has never done such foolish things in his life.”
Siem Reap police chief Teng Channath said he had received complaints about children being not allowed to exit the compound.
The cult group’s leader rejected the accusations, saying “it is their desire to stay at the farmhouse and we are powerless to change them”.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Veasna was using his followers to gain political mileage. He added many people had sold their valuables to travel to the farmstead and that Veasna’s sway over his followers had led to friction between family members.
“He’s already making a career move from faith to politics. I ask those loyal to me to please not fall into Veasna’s trap,” Hun Sen told reporters last week.
Veasna, whose LDP is yet to win a parliamentary seat, has shrugged off the controversy and stepped up his apocalyptic propaganda on Facebook by posting news and photos of floods happening in other parts of the world.
The interior ministry had asked authorities in Siem Reap to raise awareness about cults among Veasna’s supporters to prevent them from getting radicalised.
Looks a-peelin-ing.
I think I saw this movie in 1979, it didn’t have a happy ending.
Is he unfamiliar with why God gave us the rainbow?
Everyone needs something to believe in, but some people will very quickly become dependant on that belief and under any condition or development. To varying degrees, any country or community on earth will have such people within it, prone to blind and slavish obedience, no matter what.
Wonderful country and people, but every country has their idiots.
Hope the rest can get out and be reunited in their families. It’s a big deal for the teens to renounce. For many of them, once that was said to the parents, forget any loving parents or prodigal son story, your family straight rejects you.
Jim Jones? November, ‘78. He only got 909, the Piker.
Climate Change Hysteria will break all records 1,000 times over if not defeated.
Why peel the veggies, other than there not being much else to do? I’ve always heard the skin or peel is where the most vitamins are. “Eating or drinking banana, is going to be the very next thing” said someone.
You mean Jonestown?
LOL-first thing I thought was “Jim Jones” when I read the word “cult” and “take refuge at mountainside plantation”-wonder if this guy will have any politicians killed before he passes out the purple koolaid...
Donovan?
You guessed it. The Scotsman from Glasgow.
Is this any worse that the brain dead dems we have all over the place?
Not really, I’m sorry to say.
Those roundish green things they are peeling are a sort of eggplant (they have several types there, including the one we call Thai eggplant). The skin of this one can be tough and bitter. So they peel them.
Like a playback of Jim Jones’ People’s Temple,
or the Order of the Solar Temple,
or the Heaven’s Gate cults,
who were ordered to commit suicide, usually when the leader realized the jig was up.
Not to mention 1954.
"When Prophecy Fails":
Oh, I see. Well in that case, they should continue. I love sautee’d or roasted eggplant. I don’t bother to peel it, but I make sure the peel is fully cooked, or it plays games with my stomach lining the next day.
Conveniently we brought along enough fentanyl for a million and a half people. It mixes great and is not bitter like cyanide.
“Is this any worse that the brain dead dems we have all over the place?”
No. ...and this gives me an idea.
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