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Nice subject header eh! No, it is definitely not ours. It belongs to LA Weekly who decided to run an interview that was conducted with Rio DiAngelo, the sole survivor of the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide on March 22, 1997.

Most of us shudder to remember it, as I believe the largest mass suicide on United States soil. Aside from the obvious, it further drove the serious study of unidentified flying objects into the realm's of the crazy in the eyes of the mainstream world.

So what does Rio DiAngelo have to say 10 years after the horrific mass suicide where cult followers believed that they were going to join a mothership tailing behind comet Hale-Bopp:

“I am alive not because I rejected anything about Heaven’s Gate.

“I am alive because I have discovered something so extraordinarily important to the world that it needs to pass on to you in its most true and accurate form from ME.”

And what did he discover:

“It doesn’t make sense to give up everything. Unless... you know. Unless you know what they knew. And what I know.” Which is? “That DO was the second coming of Jesus Christ. That’s what I’m here to help people understand.”

DO in fact was the lunatic cult leader who inspired the mass suicide. No better than Jim Jones, amongst others who through their own craziness destroy others lives.

Am I surprised by this..well no.

What I am surprised with is why LA Weekly chose to give this person a voice, considering the amount of copy cat suicides that occurred at the time, and perhaps will be inspired by this nutter again.

Your thoughts?