Russia sect holes up in cave to await end of world

by Bryan 7 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  Bryan

  Children with no choice, once again.

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071115/ts_nm/russia_cult_dc_1

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 30 members of a Russian doomsday cult have barricaded themselves in a remote cave to await the end of the world and are threatening to commit suicide if police intervene, officials and media said on Thursday.

  "They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up," an official in the local prosecutor's office told Reuters by telephone. "They threaten to detonate a gas tank and blow themselves up."

  The cult members, who include 29 adults and four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia. A Penza police spokeswoman said they had moved into the dug-out on November 7.
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  Gopher

  Wow, I didn't hear of that before. It sounds like Jonestown, Russian-style.
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  dogisgod

  Jonestownski
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  blueviceroy

  Would you care for some kool-aid comrad?
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  Grammy

  That is so sad....Religious delusion is arguably the most prevalent and potentially dangerous form of mental illness to have ever plagued humanity.
  
  From burning people at the stake, to flying planes into buildings, to these ridiculous 'Doomsday' cults, filled with ignorant and superstitious fanatics.
  
  I weep for their children who clearly have no choice in the matter and have to follow their fanatical parents with their made up religion....just as my sons did when I was a JW
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  R.Crusoe

  That is spot on Grammy. It is amazing how so many can all believe the same thing till you think about nationalism - then it is not so amazing - like Hitler's Germany. It is as though everyone human has an innate tendency to follow any leader with enough conviction to convince people he is divinely inspired. The set of rules are almost secondary. I always believed we as a species were more intelligent than to be over ruled by our own subconsciously evolved instincts but I'm more convinced that we are than by any other theories I hear, with the exception of love, which is why I hang onto it like a single barrel on a high sea!
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  Witness 007

  We should send in a crack commando Jehovah's Witness team to flush them out with Watchtowers and public talks...{Knocking on the cave door..."Were not home, go away!"}
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  anewme

  Sad