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Episode 397: Heaven's Gate Part I - A Cabo or a Wabo

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The Rise and Fall of Heaven's Gate

Heaven's Gate was made up of people who were disillusioned by the failure of 1960s idealism. The majority of the people who took their lives in 1997 had been members of Applewhite's cult since the 70s. But do you think because it was such a high tech cult or at least a sci-fi cult that if they lived to 2020, they actually would have been in the world they wanted? No. They would actually hate this world more than the world of the 90s.

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