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Former member of La Luz del Mundo (LLDM), Mexico’s homegrown cult movement speaks out
Both believe theirs to be the true version of Christianity, revived for the first time since the Apostles. Both have a strict, male-dominated hierarchy. Both evangelize. Both practice shunning. It’s time to compare Jehovah’s Witnesses and La Luz Del Mundo with the help of former LLDM member Emma Kihara. Check out the ex-LLDM sub-Reddit… https://www.reddit.com/r/exlldm/
Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
On a sunny morning in early 2000, Joseph Matheny woke up to find conspiracy theorists camped out on his lawn again. He was making coffee when he noticed a face peering in a ground-floor window of the small, three-story building he rented in Santa Cruz. Past the peeper, there were three other men in their early 20s loitering awkwardly. Matheny sighed and stepped outside. He already knew what they wanted. They wanted to know the truth about Ong’s Hat. They wanted the secret to interdimensional travel.
LINK: https://gizmodo.com/ongs-hat-the-early-internet-conspiracy-game-that-got-t-1832229488
Transmissions From Jonestown
Welcome to Transmissions From Jonestown. Leading up to the mass suicides in Jonestown the Peoples Temple recorded hundreds of hours of audio. Now for the first time, listen to the story of the Peoples Temple told by the people who were there. Transmission From Jonestown the original soundtrack is now available on bandcamp.
Into Darkness: Inside an American white supremacist cult.
From the “God Hates Fags” vitriol of the Westboro Baptist Church to the white supremacist and homophobic totalitarianism of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the violent neo-Nazi advocates of “racial holy war” in the Creativity Movement, examples of hate metastasizing via religious dogma abound.
The Twelve Tribes, a Christian fundamentalist cult born in the American South in the 1970s, is little-known to much of the country, and on first impression its communes and hippie-vibed restaurants and cafes can seem quaint and bucolic. But beneath the surface lies a tangle of doctrine that teaches its followers that slavery was “a marvelous opportunity” for black people, who are deemed by the Bible to be servants of whites, and that homosexuals deserve no less than death.
LINK: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/darkness
Where is the missing wife of Scientology’s ruthless leader? | 60 Minutes Australia (2019)
Shelly Miscavige is the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, the high priestess of Scientology who vanished 13 years ago. 60 Minutes investigate into the missing Queen’s whereabouts and speak to the former Scientologist’s who want answers.
Chicago Serial Killer H.H. Holmes And His Murder Castle To Star in Hulu Series Produced By DiCaprio, Scorsese
Chicago’s notoriety as the home of America’s first serial killer was highlighted in the 2003 book “The Devil In the White City,” the story of H.H. Holmes and his now-famous “Murder Castle.”
LINK: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/12/devil-in-the-white-city-hulu-show/
Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96
Lyndon LaRouche, the quixotic, apocalyptic leader of a cultlike political organization who ran for president eight times, once from a prison cell, died on Tuesday. He was 96.
