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jrowen ◴[] No.43993002[source]
Very cool. Interesting bit about Heaven's Gate. I was young when it happened and have a vague memory of reading a Time magazine article with a cross-sectional drawing of the building with people in beds in different rooms.

Reading up on Wikipedia, I don't understand how they got from "sleeping in tents and sleeping bags and begging in the streets" in 1975, to "stopped recruiting and became reclusive" in 1976, to purchasing land, renting a $7000 house with cash, and operating a cutting-edge web design firm in the mid-90s.

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1. pavlov ◴[] No.43993075[source]
Maybe they came into money in 1976: somebody got an inheritance, they recruited a whale, etc.

That would explain why they suddenly became reclusive: the leader doesn’t want the people with the money exposed to the outside world.