• maol@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    …no?!? ETA: you could get the “learning small skills” benefit this LessWrongie claims to have gotten by, I dunno, learning how to play chess. Without having to enter a Scientology org. And they wanted to do more courses with the Scientology public speaking course???

    It’s not a cult folks, it’s definitely not a cult…

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      I know journos are looking again, finally, but like Peoples Temple was taken down that way.

      (also I really recommend reading Raven or the PBS documentary on Jonestown).

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        In secondary school we were doing a unit on religion and one day when the teacher was out we watched a documentary about Jonestown, pretty horrible. Ended with the Jonestown tapes. It became clear at the end that most of the other girls in my class had never heard of Jonestown and were really shocked by how it all ended. I don’t know if I can go back and look at it all again. Interesting though if only for their relationship to SF politics.