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PoopNxggaHitler69studios Kill/yt Illiterate  1yr ago (en.wikipedia.org) 295 thread views #129706

Shout out to this underated indian dramanaut in h/erstory who started the largest bio terror attack in US history. Also involved in a plot to assasinate the US attorney general

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I thought it was the lady that planned that stuff. Bogwan was too busy fricking bitches and driving Rolls Royces

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I was there at the time (even met Sheela herself in person) and while I was too young to remember, I do have some insight into what was going on back then. Basically everything you hear about this has been heavily filtered to place all the blame on her as the scapegoat and pretend that the Bhagwan, the rest of the cultists, and their sympathizers in the Oregon government bear no responsibility for what happened.

It's bullshit. The Bhagwan was running everything. The hippies who joined the drug & orgy cult knew this was a bad decision to make. The government officials who let them run rampant were cowards only concerned with covering their own asses.

Why is everything so distorted? The cult was allowed to just pack up and leave so they still exist today and they've been relentless in using their money to pay for whitewashes of their history. And the political machine running Oregon today is still the same one that was operating in the 1980s.

It's remarkably similar to how Tonya Harding is considered a victim now by everyone in the world who wasn't living in Oregon back then and knows just how fricking guilty she was.

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Have you seen that Netflix documentary? I liked it but I also got the vibe that it was lowkey and ad for the cult or at least that the people who made this thought it was kinda cool.

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I haven't watched it because I know I'd go apeshit. I watched a "documentary" that Oregon Public Broadcasting did about it around 5-10 years ago and was surprised at how soft they were being. Then I got to the credits and I saw it had been funded by the "Osho Foundation", the new name for the cult. OPB put on a "documentary" about how the cult wasn't so bad made by the actual fricking cultists.

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From the Wikipedia article:

Criticism

An article published in The New Republic criticized Wild Wild Country for leaving out critical information regarding the activities of the Rajneesh followers, particularly regarding sexual assault of women and children as well as possible intent to unleash an AIDS epidemic. In the same article, journ*list Win McCormack wrote that "Where the filmmakers have fallen down on the job is in the area of interpretation. They have not addressed squarely some of the more important issues raised by their film, and have left others out completely. The latter category includes a few of the cult’s most odious practices, as well as the true extent of the threat it posed not only to its immediate neighbors in Oregon, but to the entire world."

Jane Stork, one of the main sources for this documentary, reported in her autobiography Breaking the Spell: My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom (2009) that her own children were sexually abused during her time in Rajneeshpuram. This was not included in the documentary.

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The only other thing in the world that's ever happened that's comparable is the Aum Shinrikyo nerve gas attacks in Japan, so if someone is failing to "interpret" it properly, that's more than a matter of artistic taste to me.

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Woah, did you live on the compound? That’s be so cool to hear the story of what it was like.

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No, just ran into her at the mall when she was shopping. She went in with her entourage and started ordering around everyone and buying up half the shit in the store.

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I don't have enough spoons to read this shit

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