Apocalyptic Gadgetology includes faith in prophecy and revelation. Followers of this current believe in the end of the world and salvation at the behest of the Lightbringer. This is a fun one.

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Medium.com: https://medium.com/@thefandome/gadget-hackwrench-religion-or-how-a-fandom-reborn-into-a-cult-c66050342d64

United Squid: https://unitedsquid.com/why-are-russian-cult-followers-worshipping-gadget-hackwrench/

Fodors.com: https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/arson-blood-rituals-and-disney-characters-around-the-world-in-10-cults

The Rescue Rangers Cola Cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YjebD-Hw8I&t=292s

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

The Amazonian town of Altamira received a sudden increase of reports of missing children. Not having clear clues about the disappearances, the authorities couldn’t do anything about it. The reports rose to 19 missing children from 8 to 13 years old, with no trace or a clue to find them. By that time the bodies of five children were found dead with signs of torture and castration. It was determined that these murders were connected to the medical guild because the castrations seemed to be made by a medical expert.  The plot thickens...

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamira_child_emasculations

Culturalcolectiva: https://culturacolectiva.com/history/superior-universal-alignment-ufo-cult-murders/

Cult Education: https://www.culteducation.com/group/1169-superior-universal-alignment.html

The Cult Site: https://en.lineamiento.com.ar

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

James Orsen Bakker is an American televangelist and convicted fraudster. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL...  The Nice cult starts a pledge program in honor of all televangelists. 

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker

Jim Bakker Show: https://jimbakkershow.com

NY Post: https://nypost.com/2021/06/24/televangelist-jim-bakker-to-pay-156k-for-false-covid-19-cure-claims/

Upside Down Creative Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywSm7Lug4k&t=22s

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

Ryan Crafts joins The Nice Cult to discuss The Freedomite movement.  This movement consists of a split-off of the Doukhobors, a community of Spiritual Christians who had emigrated from Russia to Canada in the late 1800s. The Freedomite movement first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, and later in the Kootenay and Boundary Districts of British Columbia. 

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedomites

Doukhobor: https://doukhobor.org/the-origin-of-the-freedomite-movement/

Thrillist: https://www.thrillist.com/culture/the-10-craziest-cults-you-ve-never-heard-of-obscure-religious-sects-and-societies

Culinary Crafts: https://www.culinarycrafts.com

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

Nate Pyfer and Jason Lloyd from the Weekly Deep Dive podcast join us as we cover Monty Python And The Holy Grail and how it relates to Christianity.  We are all over the place like a holy hand grenade in this episode.   

This film has effected much of comedy and as such we could not pass up the opportunity to discuss it. Holy Grail was selected as the second-best comedy of all time in the ABC special Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time. and viewers in a Channel 4 poll placed it sixth.

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python

Weekly Deep Dive: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weekly-deep-dive/id1548181357

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

The Order of the Solar Temple (French: Ordre du Temple solaire, OTS) and the International Chivalric Organization of the Solar Tradition, or simply The Solar Temple, is a cult and religious sect[1] that claims to be based upon the ideals of the Knights Templar. OTS was founded by Joseph di Mambro and Luc Jouret in 1984 in Geneva, as l'Ordre International Chevaleresque de Tradition Solaire (OICTS), and later it was renamed Ordre du Temple Solaire. It is associated with a series of murders and mass suicides that claimed several dozen lives in France, Switzerland, and Canada in 1994 and 1995.[2]

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple#Structure

Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Order-of-the-Solar-Temple

Bizarrepedia: https://www.bizarrepedia.com/order-of-the-solar-temple-cult/  

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

Sharon Gans Horn started an “innocent” group in Manhattan to study the works of Russian philosopher George Gurdjelf. Her and her husband recruited among members of New York and Boston’s high society, intellectuals, and wealthy. What started as Odyssey Study Group became a cult around one single figure Sharon Gans. She demanded 100% loyalty, monthly membership dues, and exerted unbelievable control over the lives of the groups members. This control included demands of some members to divorce their spouse and marry another, orders to have an affair, and even to adopt another member’s children.

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George Gurdjelf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff

Odyssey Study Group: https://culteducation.com/group/1190-odyssey-study-group-osg-fourth-way-school.html

General Info about Sharon Gans;  https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/odyssey-study-group-cult-still-going-strong-after-sharon-gans-death/

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians

History.com: https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-branch-davidians-after-waco

Popsugar: https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/waco-what-did-branch-davidians-believe-in-47438978

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

We talk about each episode from season 3.  You find out a few hidden secrets that only a cult member would know about.  Check the calendar at thenicecult.com for the upcoming July 4th parade in Provo, UT so that you can see our independence celebrated the Renaldo way. 

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The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com

The Family is in control of the government.  Gunnar finds out that conspiracies are a reality.  Gunnar also promises to keep his sexual escapades secret.

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_%28Christian_organization%29

Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Family-international-religious-movement

The Nice Cult: https://thenicecult.com