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#7 — Through the Eyes of a Cult

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Greatest Mass Suicide in Us

This was a rather horrifying and peculiar news item, i think, it remains the largest mass suicide in us. History. Although i recall my reaction to it at the time was a little bit less than reverential. I remember sitting on my couch watching this first footage that came out of this s of everyone in their bunk beds with their nikes,. And in their freezer they had nothing but quart after quart of starbuck's java chip ice cream. So so i guess we all draw from certain tragedyis the lessons we need at the time. But these were people wo o were really aware of how inscrutable their behaviour was going to seem to their loved ones and to the rest of

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