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Cult Podcast

Ep. 29 Aum Shinrikyo Part 3: Extreme DIY

Cult Podcast

Paige Wesley & Armando Torres

History, True Crime, Comedy

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We're joined by Robert Timothy of The Science Faction Podcast/The Degenerate Podcast to talk about Aum Shinrikyo's penchant for weapons and Harumageddon.   Sources: Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, from the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami

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organizations that rally behind an entity or leader who espouse beliefs outside the norm.

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Organizations that require monetary or physical sacrifices as a condition of membership.

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Organizations in which the doctrines followed by the leaders are different than that of the followers.

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Organization in which isolation is encouraged either by commune living or by a policy of disconnection from outside relationships.

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And organizations that actively recruit new members.

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All cults might have some or all of these traits, and as always,

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these are our opinions.

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Thank you for tuning into cult podcast.

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I'm Paige Wesley.

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I'm Marie Bella.

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We've got Mondo with us and Robert Timothy.

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Nice to meet all of you, except of course for Paige, who I've known for a while, we're both stand-up comics.

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I'm actually a science comedian.

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I'm a scientist during the day, a comedian at night, and I tell a lot of science jokes.

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And I have a science podcast called Science Faction, which you can find on Podbean, in which myself, a comedian and a rotating guest scientists, look at the weekly published science articles, and we tell Dick jokes about them. So we like to think it's the easiest way to stay scientifically

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