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Do you remember the religious cult, Heaven's Gate?

Those are those crazy folks who believe that a spaceship was traveling in the wake of

the hell-bop comment that would be passing by Earth to pick them up in order to ascend

to the next level, to some higher being.

On January 30, 1997, the cult's leader, Marshal Apple White and a disciple named John

Craig went down to the ocean-side photo and telescope store and bought a $3,645 computerized

telescope so that they could see the flying saucer behind the hell-bop comment.

A week later, they went back to the store demanding a refund.

When the manager asked why, they complained that the refrigerator-sized telescope was defective.

They said it couldn't see the spaceship following the comment.

Two months later, 39 people and their newly purchased black and white Nike's put plastic

bags over their heads to shed their earthly containers and they killed themselves.

Nothing, not even direct visual proof, was going to convince them against their belief.

Crazy, right?

Well, you are just as crazy too.

But you say, I wouldn't believe something that would kill me, well, let's take people

who smoke, for example.

They have been shown the repeated evidence that it causes cancer, contributes to various

other chronic health conditions, but smokers often rationalize their smoking by saying they

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