Corboy: there's this idea that I've been toying with lately in my mind, a hypothesis which I want to bring to this message board in order to discuss it with others, in order to develop it more fully. Here it is: My hypothesis it that certain types of serial murderers, and certain types of "cult leaders" have exactly the same psychology and are exhibiting the same pathology
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At 33:10 in the above video, Ritadhvaja Swami makes a threat. "If you want to argue about this, then you can talk to my bodyguards" is what he says, in so many words. Can you imagine a Christian clergyman talking this way? Is this a religious leader, or a Mob boss?
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23:24, 30:32...a "soft landing," you say? Then what would a "hard landing" look like?
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kithi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No evident of systemic organ harvesting in > Shakahola. > > > Mackenzie had his own ideas. > > Information about link between groups would be > useful, not speculation. No evidence of organ harvestig, you say? That's not what is says here:
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kithi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Organ harvesting? Where'd Mackenzie get that idea from, I wonder? Maybe from the "kidney cult," huh? Do ya think?
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"While starvation appears to be the main cause of death, some of the victims -- including children -- were strangled, beaten, or suffocated, according to the chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor. Court documents filed earlier this month said that some of the corpses had their organs removed, with police alleging that the suspects were engaged in forced harvesting of body parts.&quo
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Dave McKay must be feeding his people Mandrax now. Good Lord. I believe the fellow in the video is named Simon Smith. He has the typically gaunt, vacant manner that most of McKay's people present with. He's been with McKay for about twenty years, Simon has. Simon Smith is the same person that's in this video, at 3:49.
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Then I misunderstood. My mistake. They'll protest against anything they think will get them attention and legitimacy, McKay's people will. No, Mackenzie is new to me.
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As far as I know, there is no connection at all between Branhamism and the McKay group. The group which is sometimes known as the "Jesus Christians" are derived from the Children of God/Family, and not the work of William Branham. I have never even heard of this Mackenzie's church, for that matter. Dave McKay seems to be inserting himself into the MacKenzie matter in ord
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Success! "Resolution 22/09-03 Based on the ‘GBC decision regarding Lokanath Swami’ approved on July 20th, 2022, the Euro RGB body is requesting Lokanath Swami not to visit, preach or initiate in ISKCON projects and communities in Europe. This resolution is not permanent and may change, especially if the GBC body is presented with new evidence and their decision is altered, otherwise t
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"In his complaint, the victim security guard also alleged that the accused monk also threatened him getting his sacked if he divulged the event of sexual abuse on him. The victim also informed the police that previously too other staff of the temple were sexually abused, though they remained silent in face of threat."
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"According to the FIR filed at Nabadwip Police station, the victim security guard was allegedly summoned by the accused monk to his room and after that he was sexually abused by the latter. Local police sources said that although earlier too there were similar complaints of sexual abuse against the same monk, but this was the first time a formal police complaint has been filed."
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"What’s happening in the Ukraine—coming to a neighborhood near you—is the fruit of ISKCON Inc’s centralized institutional control, precisely what Srila Prabhupada warned against when he said, 'Do not centralize anything…or, everything will be spoiled.' No farms, no shelter, no food…no independence. This is a wake up call, highlighting what happens when the other varnas—especially
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"Photo taken May 4, 2023 at ISKCON Mayapur. L to R: Sikhi Mahiti, Satadhanya (child rapist), Riddha (child abuser), Subheksana (Mayapur Co-director and disciple of longest running child abuser in ISKCON's history: Anirdesya Vapu / BVP), AV Priti Vardana Swami (disciple of longest running child abuser in ISKCON's history: Anirdesya Vapu / BVP.) Subheksana (head wrap) is 1
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The following letter was forwarded to the Vedic Inquirer by someone connected to management in Mayapura. I'm posting in it the interests of public safety. If you feel so inspired please ask leaders for an immediate investigation into the grave allegations made by those who were abused. An immediate suspension of those involved is the correct course of action under the circumstances.
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Corboy: the whole time I lived at New Talavana, I could hardly wait to leave that place. That was the most depressing and distressing experience of my life, and Tapahpunja had a lot to do with it. I never would have gone there to begin with, if I'd have known he was there. But nobody told me until I was there, and was pretty much stuck. One time I made the mistake of asking him if he
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Why was Tapah not excommunicated from ISKCON for his involvement in the Sulocana murder, you may ask? The answer is simple: after he went on the lam and the law caught up with him in Malaysia in 1990, he went to prison for several years and he kept his mouth shut. He told the Feds nothing they did not already know. Then he got paroled after five years and I don't remember how he wou
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Before he was a Hare Krishna, Terry Sheldon (Tapahpujna) was a Leftist radical in the Sixties. He was NOT a hippie. He was a bomb-thrower. He was an original member of the White Panther Party, and he had a relationship with certain cadre of the Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army. He was friends with Ted Gold and Terry Robbins, who both died in the 1970 Gr
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He's basically saying "All you have is verbal accusations and hearsay. You've got nothing on me." Disgusting, it is. And this was from BEFORE Vedasara came forward. pg. 4, Allegation #10 & Decision #3: When xxdd told MGd about my actions in 2013, it was claimed that I touched her 3 or 4 times … then in the initial xxxdd/xxdd complaint to the CPO it was many times…
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There was this kid who came to New Talavana as a WWOOFER. He was anorexic, and he cottoned to the philosophy and so Tapah took him under his wing because Tapah was in charge of the WWOOFER program at the time. So Tapah starts preaching to him, and the kid (he was an adult, but still a teenager) started using the philosophy to justify his anorexia. This kid's name was Alex. Alex started s
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Here's a sort of funny story that will prove that I REALLY WAS at New Talavana. There was this one devotee named Madhavendra Puri das. He moved to New Talavana around the same time I did, and he was second-initiated shortly after coming there (late 2016). I believe he'd come from RVC, in Kansas City. Anyway, this joker used to pretend that he was crippled, so he could take it
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There is a devotee at New Talavana right now, who I have been told has been caught in possession of child pornography in his place of residence. I am not going to say his name because it's hearsay, what I am telling you now. I cannot prove it, and I have no real evidence of it, but I got this information from somebody who used to be a part of leadership there at New Talavana, somebody
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And I apologize for being heavy with you, Truth Wins. I never meant anybody any harm. I've been forced to learn to not take abuse from others personally too. I've learned that from a lot of bitter experience, years of it. You really have no idea about what I've had to live with, since I am here to talk about pedophiles in ISKCON, and not my own problems and issues. Abo
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This forum does not revolve around either one of us, or around anybody at all. We're bother former members of a cult, you and I. I'm trying to be nice here; I am trying to get along with you. Why do you insist on being so snippy? That was a rhetorical question and I don't expect you to reply. Your name, your age, your sex, your family history, nothing. I know noth
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Truth Wins, I cannot attack you personally, since I don't know you or anything much about you. I don't even know if you are a man or a woman. All I know about you is that you are a former member of Chris Butler's cult. I am here to talk about how, at its highest levels of international management and "leadership," ISKCON is little more than a well-organized an
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This thread is not about me, and I am not here to talk about myself nor (very much) my opinions about things. I am here to talk about how, at its highest levels of international management and "leadership," ISKCON is little more than a well-organized and well-funded pedophile ring that makes the Vatican look like a bunch of amateurs (in my opinion). I'm here to talk about w
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"MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE" Facebook group for discussion of GBC reform:
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At present, Tapahpunja (Terry Sheldon) is operating the Small Farm Training Center in Wheeling WV. He lives close to New Vrindavan, but I am told that he is heavily restricted there, is allowed to do no service, and can pretty much only go to the morning program. He is no longer welcome at New Talavana at all, and he's barely welcome at New Vrindavana. Tapah (his nickname) walk
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TYPO, CORRECTION: The plot came to light, and was foiled, when NS was either dumb or arrogant enough to give the temple president there at New Talavana the heads up about what they were planning. Then the temple president let GK know was was being plotted, and GK ALERTED law enforcement and then fled New Talavana.
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Here are some details which will prove my truthfulness, in terms of what I described above: Tapahpunja and a devotee I will identify by the initials "NS" were going to kill a devotee I will identify by the initials "GK" and make it look like GK was killed while trying to kill NS. In other words, they were going to kill GK and make it look like NS killed him out of self
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