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Doomsday Cults?
In the late fifties, leon festinger and two colleagues infiltrated a doomsday cult in which a woman whom called marian keach predicted that the world would end on december 20 first of that year. Now what they found was, so when they joined the group, they were pretending to, pretendingto be believers, pretending to be believers. So there were several people, there were many people, who believed the world was going to come to an end. You could sit quietly in your house and wait for the world to end, or you could proselytize. All right? Mustn't invent orat what's the matter with you? All right?
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