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The African-American woman in this clip was with Heaven's Gate for LESS THAN SIX MONTHS before she was persuaded to "exit the vehicle" and board the heavenly spacecraft that "Ti" was piloting. The day after this was filmed, she was dead.
Six months! THAT is how powerful these cult-leader personalities are! THAT is how malignant this psychological phenomenon is, this thing that some describe as the "Snapping" experience.
If OA told the "inner cadre" at TFI he was Elijah returned and that Norman Grubb was soon coming in his mystical Vimana vehicle so that they may escape the coming apocalypse:
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...and to take them to heaven, then I'll betcha there are the loyal "true believers" at TFI who would be [i:e39b196876]grateful[/i:e39b196876] to OA for allowing them to "evacuate" with him.
Shoot, PE and HG dress like members of Heaven's Gate anyway! Some of them even typically [i:e39b196876]dress just like OA![/i:e39b196876]
Heaven's Gate is at an extreme end of a continuum that TFI is not at (yet).
But the potential, the seeds, so to speak, are there.
The assertion that TFI is not a "cult" to me is as irritating as it is condescending. Hell, if TFI is not a cult, then tell me what is. I don't have to be a PhD to know that.