Posts Tagged ‘Cults’

Heaven’s Gate

October 18, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Note: I wrote this a year ago and never posted it. I felt haunted for many days after watching too many Heaven’s Gate videos and didn’t want to subject anyone else to it.  What may have haunted me most is that I actually agree with some of their worldview. I would never worship a Christ-figure [...]

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Terry Jones: Cult Leader

September 10, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

I haven’t really been able to get it up with outrage over the Koran-burning preacher. An idiot preacher burning things is nothing new.  And the media’s reaction to it is totally unsurprising and inevitable. One of these days, this media obsession is going to focus on something important, rather than stupid, so I don’t necessarily [...]

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Sign of the Times

March 31, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Discovered Sott.net via a Facebook posting by Evolver.net. A nice lengthy dissection of Alex Jones that echoes what I’ve been thinking. As I wrote on Facebook:
RA Wilson calls some conspiracy theorists “adrenaline addicts.” Think that describes AJ. He wants there to be a conspiracy more than he wants there [...]

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Operation Planetary Calm

March 14, 2010Henry Baum 1 Comment »

Very interesting expose of Scientology from people who went inside with hidden cameras. I haven’t seen the testing procedures outlined like this before. That said, I kind of hate this style of journalism. It’s so slanted that it loses credibility. I could imagine being on the other side of it with a subject I’m [...]

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