Is Chronogrl psychic?

[newb]

She made a thread a couple of days ago about the apocalypse.....and now this is in the news.

Psychic?...........maybe


MOSCOW (Nov. 15) - At least 30 members of a Russian doomsday cult have barricaded themselves in a remote cave to await the end of the world and are threatening to commit suicide if police intervene, officials and media said Thursday.

"They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up," an official in the local prosecutor's office told Reuters by telephone. "They threaten to detonate a gas tank and blow themselves up."

The cult members, who include 29 adults and four children, are hidden inside a snow-covered hillside in the Penza region of central Russia. A Penza police spokeswoman said they had moved into the dug-out on November 7.

"No one wants to take on the responsibility of provoking them ... because our information is that there are children among them," said the official.

They are thought to have taken food and fuel supplies in with them and Russian television pictures from the scene showed smoke or steam coming out of a hole in the snow-covered ravine where it was built.

A police patrol was guarding the area to prevent anyone provoking them.

"They are simple Christians," a local priest, Father Georgy, told NTV television station. "They say: 'The church is doing a bad job, the end of the world is coming soon and we are all saving ourselves'."

Media reports said the cult members believed the world would end sometime in May next year. Police expected them to emerge when their supplies ran out.

After decades of state-enforced atheism under Soviet rule, many Russians and other ex-Soviet nationals have come under the influence of homegrown and foreign sects.

Many Russians have refused new passports and taxpayers' personal identification numbers, saying the figures contained "satanic" combinations of numbers.

Izvestia newspaper said the leader of the cult, Pyotr Kuznetsov, had been detained by police. It said he was a 43-year-old who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that in the last few months he had been sleeping in a coffin.

Police took Kuznetsov to the cave to persuade his followers to come out but without success, said the newspaper.

[_____V_____]

She might be one of em...sitting inside there with a laptop and an internet connection tapped from central Siberia...


:D

[ferretchucker]

dun dun duuuuuuuuun

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

She might be one of em...sitting inside there with a laptop and an internet connection tapped from central Siberia...


:D

Exactly.

What makes you think I'm not sitting in a cave in Moscow?

We moved into the cave on the 7th. I joined the forum on the 8th... Hey, gotta get the word out somehow.

Originally Posted by newb

Media reports said the cult members believed the world would end sometime in May next year. Police expected them to emerge when their supplies ran out.

If they think that the world will end in May, wouldn't they also plan as such to make sure that supplies wouldn't run out?

Originally Posted by newb

Police took Kuznetsov to the cave to persuade his followers to come out but without success, said the newspaper.

LET US SIT IN OUR CAVE!

[Disease]

If they want to avoid the apocalypse then why would they wont to blow themselfs up... the seem rather moronic.... let them live in the Cave it they are stupid enough.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by Disease

If they want to avoid the apocalypse then why would they wont to blow themselfs up... the seem rather moronic.... let them live in the Cave it they are stupid enough.

Well, their chosen Leader is a 43-year-old man diagnosed with schizophrenia who has spent the the last few months sleeping in a coffin.

Obviously intellectual clarity isn't a factor here. :p

And, anyway... If a group of people wants to hole themselves in a cave... I would feel absolutely no responsibility to stop them from doing so. As long as they're staying out of my hair.

If I was avoiding the impending apocalypse, I'd probably go underground. Wonder if this is an underground cave.

[Disease]

Maybe it leads to the center of the earth...

[newb]

I just find it mind-boggling that people would join these cults and follow the leader to their deaths if necesarry. I vividly remember the whole Jim Jones cult and seeing the bodies in the paper. Over 900 people..........thats some serious mind fucking going on.

[ChronoGrl]

Originally Posted by newb

I just find it mind-boggling that people would join these cults and follow the leader to their deaths if necesarry. I vividly remember the whole Jim Jones cult and seeing the bodies in the paper. Over 900 people..........thats some serious mind fucking going on.

This is why I'd be a loner if I survived the apocalypse... The chances of the Social Contract giving way to vapid groups of cult rule is just much, MUCH too high.

[newb]

Originally Posted by Disease

Maybe it leads to the center of the earth...

screw that....there's dinosaurs down there.