
#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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The Vidios of the Cult of Paradise
The videos of the cult members are really a foundly strange and unnerving when you see just how sanguine they are about their whole project. Most of these people had been part of this cult since the mid seventies, and this it was in 19 97 that they killed themselves. They all wore identical, terrible hair cuts, and all had androgenous clothing that they buttoned up to the neck. I believe they they shared all their clothing in common, including underwear. So they had a a dogma of non attachment that was operating here that led to a kind of self effacement at the level of their presentation. You struggle to detect in their faces and in their deliveries some clue
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