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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:16 PM
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Russian cult members barricaded in cave 'to blow themselves up before end of world'
Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 12:19 PM by emad
Source: Daily Mail

At least 30 members of a Russian doomsday cult have barricaded themselves in a remote cave to await the end of the world and are threatening to commit suicide if police intervene, officials said today.

The cult members, who include 29 adults and four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia.

"They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up," an official in the local prosecutor's office said.

They threaten to detonate a gas tank and blow themselves up."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=494252&in_page_id=1811&ct=5


Branch Davidian outpost?
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:18 PM
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1. Self-induced genetic culling
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:24 PM
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2. Sounds like Applewhite



http://www.wave.net/upg/gate/
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Stuckinthebush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:29 PM
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3. Get the kids out
The adults can blow themselves up if they wish, but the kids shouldn't have to be victims of their parent's delusions.
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pegleg Donating Member (788 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:34 PM
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4. they are just like us
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mainer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:44 PM
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5. They'll come out on their own
Just let them get hungry enough. They'll start to feud among themselves and they'll probably emerge looking sheepish.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:50 PM
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6. Why won't Tom Cruise just come out of the closet?
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 12:56 PM
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7. Cruise or Holmes? "Hubble Zooms In On Heart Of Mystery Comet -- Comet Holmes"
Edited on Thu Nov-15-07 12:56 PM by emad
Don't these mystery comet appearances trigger Waco stuff?

"ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2007) — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a million-fold in a 24-hour period beginning October 23, 2007"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071115093122.htm
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 01:59 PM
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8. So, what do they do when life goes on without them?
As they look sheepishly about.

And all those credit cards still need to be paid off.....
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Plucketeer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 03:10 PM
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9. Hunh!
I didn't know FUAX NEWS was available over there. Poor dupes!
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 03:25 PM
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10. Any reason why they can't just sit there and wait?
Other than the kids missing school, for instance?
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 03:26 PM
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11. Just think of it as
evolution in action.
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 04:02 PM
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12. is the darwin award given out to groups? nt
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Yavapai Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 04:44 PM
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13. Another positive adjustment of the gene pool.

To bad they couldn't convert Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Peter Popoff, John Hagee, Benny Hinn, Robert Tilton, Morris Cerullo, Jack Van Impe, Kenneth Copeland, Richard Roberts, Ted Haggard, and Chuck Colson, to be their apostles and to be with them.
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 06:09 PM
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14. Stupid is as...


Welcome to DU Forrest! Love the nick. :hi:
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PSPS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 07:04 PM
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15. I heard on the radio that the "cult leader" was not in the cave with them.
Note to cultists: If your leader isn't in the cave with you, there's something very, very wrong.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 07:10 PM
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16. a 33-person darwin group award in the offing...
how often does it happen in those numbers...?
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