I was just reading that the Heaven's Gate cult in California mass suicide was 8 years ago today. I was reading some quotes from their so-called prophet Applegate from a videotape he had made at some point. He is talking about the end times, etc, and mentions 1975, an odd coincidence if I ever saw one. He was also heavy into astronomy of course. I wonder if he was a JW at one time, and when 1975 came and went if he went nutty?
In a subsequent video made by the cult, Applewhite moved up the timetable. But he also equivocated just a little:
"I feel that we are at the end of the age. Now, the end of the age, I'm afraid I feel is, right upon us. It's gonna come -- now, I don't want to sound like a prophet -- but my gut says, and everything else that I know points to, that it's going to come before the turn of the century. That it's going to come in the next few months, or next year or two. I could be off. I thought it -- Ti and I thought it was going to end within a few months. The age was going to end in 1975."
Wing Commander