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Miguel Cortez, Small Business Owner
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Heaven's Gate Mel Brooks and Herman Wouk celebrate the April 24 birthdays of Barbra Streisand and Shirley MacLaine.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso, Tibetan Monk
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Heaven is in fact a stifling of spirit, wallowing in equality, contentment and servitude while the passion of those within its gates is consumed.
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Athena Mondale, Spiritual Consultant
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While the Heaven's Gate cult members undoubtedly were further out on the continuum, many people have a limited belief in the ability of the stars to portend the future or otherwise attach significance to celestial cycles and events.
Heaven's Gate - Who can forget those wild and crazy Trekkies who offed themselves so they could ride on a UFO travelling in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet and achieve eternal grokness?
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Richard Hosking, Paranormal Investigator
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Heaven's Gate flourished in the Southwest, where UFO sightings have been common since the postwar boom in aviation and the government's use of the region for nuclear testing.
The Heaven's Gate cult seized on a typical Internet story, this one about a "mothership" companion to the Hale-Bopp comet and believed it, even after telescopes the group bought refused to reveal the mothership.
When the 'Heaven's Gate' followers took their own lives so that their souls could go to the flying saucer behind the comet, the other religionists said they were crazy.
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Jake Farley, Truck Driver
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Heaven's Gate members must load them with endless dusty cardboard boxes of gear and lovingly clean the ships with soap and water when they return.
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Khalid Binalshibh, Taxi Driver
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These gates are the entry into this realm for those who reside in the chaos beyond, in the unlimited, unconditioned regions of the heavens; those regions which have not, as yet, come under the aegis of any creator.
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Mark Harris, Priest
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The gates of hell cannot prevail against the ongoing march of victory of the Christ to whom all power in heaven and on earth is given.
Heaven's Gate: The still extant group experience 39 suicides on the same day is based on writings in the book of Revelations.
Heaven seems to be opening her gates to receive another servant of Christ.
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