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Anon looks into cults
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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The guy pictured, Marshall Applewhite, wanted to fuck dudes and was ashamed of it so he got castrated. Then, after his best friend and cult's co-founder died, he convinced a bunch of people that the world was going to end and the only way they could survive was by committing suicide so that their souls could leave on an alien spaceship hidden behind Hale-Bopp comet as it passed by. Nobody can know what he was thinking but I'd wager he was just depressed and didn't want to die alone.
EDIT: Originally said it was Hailey's comet.
Fun fact, their website is still up https://www.heavensgate.com/
Ah yes. Just seen it was the Hale-Bopp comet, not Hailey's.
They were intentionally left behind to continue the mission/maintain the website. Lots of people have talked to them, they’re pretty easy to find interviews with.
so internalized homophobia is what got them all killed
I think an array of mental illness and drug abuse is more likely.
I'm more interested in wtf everyone else was thinking.
Iirc, a lot of them were forced to drink it.