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For those who are interested. Just before this attack Asahara tried to see if their Sarin Gas worked, so they unleashed it into a suburb in outskirts Tokyo. Hiroshi Morita was on the front lines treating the wounded. He studied the gas and when thousands of people affected that day in Tokyo, he was Japan's leading expert on sarin gas. Within the space of an hour he rang every single Hospital in Tokyo and provided detailed instructions on how to prevent death in the case of coming into contact with sarin. Sarin can take hours to fully kill a human so all the Hospitals had time to put his plan into action. Morita saved around 20,000 to 30,000 lives.

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

Also the Sarin Gas they used wasn't pure. If they have perfected the production of high-quality sarin then the results would be severe and more deaths would have happened.

@zackpumpkinhead8882

Жыл бұрын

Chad moment

@hangoutwithme346

Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a documentary on this story. What an amazing human!

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

@@Kemns_Art I think he was referring to Hiroshi Morita

@WhoTFVotedBiden

Жыл бұрын

@Black Lesbian Poet … ok and?

There is a book by Haruki Murakami called Underground, In that book he interviews the victims as well as the members of Aum Shinrikyo, and it provides a very detailed description of the day the attack happened from multiple point of views. It's very riveting and frightening to read the accounts as that time Japan never experienced a terrorist attack before so most of the passer-by think nothing of it and didn't bother to help the sarin gas victims.

@bigjumbo9479

Жыл бұрын

Is it free cause I'm not paying someone for it.

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

I saw in a documentary about the victims. I feel very sorry for them. Especially for the lady who is sad to say a literal vegetable. She's blind, deaf, mute, and has multiple health problems, She's incapacitated.

@oscaraiken5484

Жыл бұрын

Great read! Written by one of Japan's most famous and esteemed authors! I love how he even got a hold of one of the few foreign victims of the attack, an Irish guy no less!

@Choppa267

Жыл бұрын

Wrong Japan definitely experienced a terrorist attack just ask America

@karthickjayaraman2090

Жыл бұрын

Was searching for this comment. I have that book.

And this became the sole reason why: traveling as tourist , you are left wondering why Japan does not have any public trash cans. I really thought it was overblown when I first heard it while traveling. But after seeing this docu; I kind of understand why the Japanese became traumatized enough to ban public trash cans. (Seriously , not even in public restrooms - outside major metropolitan area)

@dannysart3990

Жыл бұрын

I know, I had to carry my trash in my backpack, but a Japanese Starbucks worker told me. "you have lots of trash cans in America but it's still dirtie"

@noirekuroraigami2270

Жыл бұрын

@@dannysart3990 lol we are dirty. They literally f* their cousins. Id rather live in a piss town. Than a place that lets cousins marry

@Kellycreator

Жыл бұрын

@@dannysart3990 so true.

My father was on the same train that day, but he got on the train a few earlier and didn't get involved in the incident. In that area, There was a warning to stay in the buildings, and my father watched the situation from the office window. In the 90s, there were a lot of conspiracy theories that caught people's attention. And cults became a place for people who couldn't fit into capitalism society as the economy grew. Cults are still exciting in Japan but most are decreasing and have less power. After ex-preminister Abe got shoot, some politicians are trying to dismantling. So I cheer for them.

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

your father was lucky. I'm glad the Japanese parliament finally took action in dismantling cults. In the Philippines on the other hand, the politicians are in bed with them.

@metothemoon1227

Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed reading your comment dear friend. Just to make you laugh, I think you know that "Conspiracy theory" was defined by Karl Popper in 1949, who was a socialist and freemason like his father.

@silverjeyjey4054

Жыл бұрын

So did the Japanese like Abe? Was Abe really into cults?

@ringostar5535

Жыл бұрын

@@silverjeyjey4054 His grandfather brought a cult from Korea to Japan, but we don't know how strong power Abe had.

@mangosbarango9548

11 ай бұрын

@@metothemoon1227 Karl Popper was an anti socialist and one of the main figures of classic liberalism. It's true however that his father was a freemason, but there are no proofs he was one too.

I work in an emergency room, and we use that attack as a case study on how hospitals respond to chemical and biological attacks and what we need to do to handle mass casualties. If you watch videos, hospitals were overrun with patients.

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

do you wash patients with water and some form of detergent/soap to remove chemical compounds on the patients body? I know you remove their clothes but what about the exposed parts of the body? or parts that was soaked with it?

@hamsterdam.

4 ай бұрын

As i Know, they use a "spécial shower" for "washing" patient.

This is what I subscribed to Vice for. Glad to see that these kind of content in the channel. Keep it up.

@rinjinnoko

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but not very original. Many channels have covered this brilliantly. Old vice covered crazy original stories most people had never heard of.

My mother is from Matumoto city, Nagano pref, which is one of the places terror attack took place. She told me that she saw a lot of names that she can recognize on a newspaper that day...they were her friends and neighbors. This cult is still very infamous in Japan, and I guess it's part of the reasons why we are not very "religious". When we hear about "religion",the first thing we think of is WW Ⅱ and this cult.

@SolomonsNightmare

Жыл бұрын

I don't think we can say that we are not a very religious country. The two old religions (Buddhism and Shintoism) still are very present in Japan, and a lot of Japanese people who consider themself as non believer would practice activities that would be considered as religious from other countries. (The death ceremony is often conducted by a monk, a lot of people go pray to a shrine for new year/important events). And we also have some new cults with a lot of influences too. (Soka, Happy Science, the Unification church)

@exudeku

Жыл бұрын

@@SolomonsNightmare I remember a local friend told me that the Japanese are born Buddhist, raised Shintō, and wed in Catholic.

@halfevilhalfgood2206

Жыл бұрын

Islam & Communism made 1.5 billion people rest in peace.

@admiralcoffeemaker6310

Жыл бұрын

​@@SolomonsNightmaremost people don't consider Buddhism and Shintoism to be religions.

@jovpal5685

Жыл бұрын

@@exudeku pretty much since a Buddhist or Shinto wedding isn't as "grad" as a catholic one

A good rule of thumb is to question anyone that claims that only they know what to do or only they have the plan.

@KitsGravity

Жыл бұрын

True. When you ask them to elaborate everything about it, they usually dodge the questions. That's how you know they are fake.

@mouwersor

Жыл бұрын

By that rule no one can come up with a better plan for society than what we have now...

@bradleysmith9431

Жыл бұрын

Apply your statement to itself. It's self defeating. Claiming there is no truth, or that no one knows the truth, is that statement true itself? Your statement can't be true if that statement is claiming there is no truth. But Truth can be known, truth is discovered, not created.

I only learned about this Cult from taking a Psychology of Religious Violence course. What amazed me about Shoko Asahara was that he was a syncretist. Having learned multiple religious systems enough to appropriate them is still quite brilliant despite him using these ideas for harm

@CorbCorbin

Жыл бұрын

It’s the same thing many cult leaders do. The Catholic Church did this. They used the existing Jewish texts and messiah prophecy, then absorbed many pagan rituals, and beliefs, into it as the empire conquered, or made arrangements with other monarchies to become part of it. From religious groups, such as the Egyptians, pre Judaism, or Zoroastrianism, which was pre Christianity, and has a very similar ideology and story, then greek myths about the underworld, beliefs found in cults of Apollo, etc. Not to mention the Roman setup, which closely resembled the Greek, as Alexander had conquered Italy, and the first Emperors were Greek descendants. Through to people like the Scandinavians, and taking the pagan Winter Solstice rituals, and using it to make the birth of Christ, even though it actually had nothing to do with it, nor did the rituals of spring, have anything to do with the resurrection. Asahara is one of many, too many, cult leaders, who have conned certain people, then used those people to gain more followers, based on trusting the people, then the cult leader named the new member feel special, using one or many of a number of techniques, and then repeating this, over and over. He is infamous because of the terrorist acts, done by his cult. There are so many, that just have compounds, houses, or other setups, who aren’t interested in the world knowing them, or anyone not being initiated, out there doing very horrible things. In countries like Japan or Korea, even Christianity, is very different. As many people practice a blend of beliefs and ritual, based on folklore and traditions going back far before any Christian was known of, with the dogma of whichever sect of Christianity one is in. Buddhism had the same thing happen, once people brought it east. Different men, made different Buddhist sects. When I went to high school, I couldn’t believe how many other teenagers my age, and even adults, some teachers, who thought Buddhism came from a Tibetan, Chinese, or other wrong country’s culture, and had no idea it was from India. Just in basic college sociology class, we talked about how this cult mentality happens, and how difficult it is for one who is born into them, to break free, of not just the physical place, but the conditioning from birth, and knowing that abuse at the hands of anyone within the cult, is wrong. Because, just as with Scientology, Jehovah’s Witness and Mormonism in general, the elders are usually taught to be infallible, and often sexual acts, and other forms of abuse, physical and psychological, are part of the controls, used to break someone down, and have them brainwashed.

@Musaafir-ln6feet

Жыл бұрын

explain your views on hinduism. please

@SecretEyeSpot

Жыл бұрын

@@Musaafir-ln6feet first. Hinduism is a misnomer. It is a word the West uses to describe South Asian belief systems, but there is no such thing as Hinduism because while one group may say they worship Siva or Krishna it doesnt mean they share practices or theological views with others who worship the same deity. Instead in order to understand the Brahmins of the Hindu Pantheon one must understand the region-specific mythologies that they use to conduct their temples which are moreso related to the historical significance of the region than it does some denominational perspective of a deity being worshipped

@SecretEyeSpot

Жыл бұрын

@@CorbCorbin id argue that it wasn't the Catholic Church. Rather it was the Ecumenical Councils of Rome that was instructed to assist in building the Universal City, for which the term 'Catholic' was born. Constantine and then ultimately Theodosius was tasked as Emperor to consolidate the Roman Pantheon into the Christian myth during 325 AD. The difference here is that while the theological consolidation was a task based on the full reach of the Roman Empire in terms of the libraries it has conquered in other lands. Whereas Theodosius only wanted to calm the rebellion against the Pantheon in the name of this threatening Monotheism. Calling Christianity a Cult post the Ecumenical councils is a categorical mistake. Sure it was in its origins because there were hundreds of Christianities that had hundreds of perspectives about God, and some of which had no Jesus as a central figure. This would come to an end after the alleged letters of Paul, and the canonization of the 'Christian Bible'

@01subject

Жыл бұрын

@@CorbCorbin minor complaint but Alexander never conquered Italy and Rome was a small city state at the time, whose eventual rise and leaders took heavy societal/ religious inspiration from Greece but were not directly related to them

I was in kindergarten in Japan when the attack happened. Though I didn’t see this on the news then, I know the Oum Shinrikyo was always on the news in Japan back in late 90’s. This video just brought back such creepy vibes…

I remember seeing a documentary about the cult leader's daughter, who spent years trying to contact her father in prison but was always denied visitation rights by the Japanese government. She believes her father was killed in prison long before the official date on record

@animock3051

Жыл бұрын

Also a Vice video

@jr_san

Жыл бұрын

Well, boo hoo for her, she can get hers too if she wants.

@ayameisastar

Жыл бұрын

He had a few kids. The one who tried to see Asahara is the leader of the new version of the cult. There was a big court case battle over his remains. The Japanese government wanted to give his ashes to his daughter who hates him and wanted to toss him in the ocean without ceremony. Unfortunately the one leading the rebranded cult got his ashes so I'm sure they're on a shrine somewhere being worshiped.

Wrote a paper on them last year for a uni course. If anyone's interested, Robert J. Lifton's book "Destroying the World to Save It" is a disturbing yet interesting read. Asahara was nothing short of a lunatic, to say the least. What's even stranger is that he still has devotees this very day.

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

did you include in your paper about Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) who gave up Tsutsumi Sakamoto to the cult that resulted to the entire family being killed including an infant baby

@michaelk4896

Жыл бұрын

@@Martyn737 I have briefly mentioned it in the events leading up to the gas attacks, but primarily focused on the Aum ideology (and its influences), Asahara's life experiences which led to the creation of Aum. I also did a comparative analysis of Aum and the Branch Davidians.

@yolousee

Жыл бұрын

Any recommendations to where to watch if this was turned into movie 👋👍👍

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

@@yolousee There isn't any featured or inspired film aside from documentary films. The closest one is from a manga and its live action adaptation called "Bloody Monday" part 1. a terrorist group that is heavily inspired on Aum Shinrikyo and its deadly biological weapons and sleeper agents. The sleeper agent part is actually true in real life as there were informants from the Japanese police, military and parliament who gives information and aid to the terror group.

@yolousee

Жыл бұрын

@@Martyn737 thank you

I watched the documentary on this at Sundance called AUM: The Cult At The End Of The World and it was amazing. Met the director afterwards.

When Shoko Asahara exhausted all his legal appeals, he lost all interest and will to live. For years he kept quiet, he refused to bathe himself and refused to use the toilet. He soiled himself that forced prison guards to clean him up, daily. He uttered no words before he was executed and was glad he spent years rotting in his cell.

@Aliyah_666

Жыл бұрын

I mean... He is a monster and did awful things, but damn. Gotta respect his resolve at least.

@Gadget-Walkmen

Жыл бұрын

Good. He deserved worse and should have been executed WAY sooner.

See I love learning about different cultures

In 1995, a senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult named Hideo Murai, who was rumored to be close to being arrested, was stabbed to death by a member of the yakuza in front of 200 journalists gathered outside the cult's headquarters. Murai was responsible for the cult's scientific division. The truth behind his murder remains unclear to this day. With any possible testimony he could have provided lost due to his death, the investigation into the incident became even more difficult.

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

so the conspiracies theory is 1. Yakuza is somewhat connected to Aum through murai and is cleaning up the mess by a Korean born hired assassin for the yakuza. 2. Someone in the government is trying to hide his connection to murai and had the yakuza do the dirty job.

@HashknightGaming

Жыл бұрын

Yakuza probably seen the cult as bringing dishonor to Japan, I know how strange that sounds seeing as they're a criminal organization but honor is that important in Japan they have a code of conduct a lot like the samurai of their past.

@metothemoon1227

Жыл бұрын

@Martin Mitsutada Hi, "Conspiracy theory" was defined by Karl Popper in 1949, who was a socialist and freemason like his father.

@metothemoon1227

Жыл бұрын

@Martin Mitsutada Don't trust the media to tell you the whole truth dear Martin. The media show you only one side of a story. And especially don't trust Vice. Vice will try to polarize you into left wing thinking, mainstream thinking, industries of all sectors, capitalism, wokism, feminism extremist, LGBT, digital capitalism, government propaganda. Vice never show us the deaths caused by the government, industries of all sectors, secret societies, kings of oil, bankster/ kings of finance, owners of the all financial system.

@Chiefmiest

Жыл бұрын

@@HashknightGaming No ones going to catch a life sentence because a group of people are dishonorable to their country

Recommending checking zero hour documentary on it. They describe the event minute by minute and reenactment is great

@josephbolton5199

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's really good

@hangoutwithme346

Жыл бұрын

Is this a youtube channel? Having a hard time finding it

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

@@hangoutwithme346 Its a documentary series in national geographic i think. It was old but I think you could still find it in vimeo or dailymotion

@glock_gorwhoosh1116

Жыл бұрын

@@hangoutwithme346 Just type "Zero Hour Japan" it should be the first video ✌🏽

@nanapabi

Жыл бұрын

@@hangoutwithme346 kzread.info/dash/bejne/lnt9l86Fac_cZdI.html

This atrocity was surpassed by another case in terms of fatality a few years ago, the "Kyoto Animation arson attack", which also is the deadliest attack after WW2 in Japan.

@KitsGravity

Жыл бұрын

That case got big a few years back I remember. It was somebody I think whose ideas were not accepted by KyoAni. Need to read up on it more.

@andrewli6606

Жыл бұрын

@@KitsGravity That guy was delusional. He claimed KyoAni had plagiarized an idea he had sent in. He had sent in a draft novel for their writing contests, but it never even got past the first round.

@KitsGravity

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewli6606 yeah, I read up on it. If only Japan focused even a little bit on mental health, this could have been prevented. Delusional is an understatement.

Good vibrations 🤞 So this is where that idea from oyasumi punpun come from

Gotta love that store at 1:18 that's called "Junior Poisoning"

The thing that stuns me most about this documentary is that Japan still has the death penalty. I did not know that.

@thedrewster0408

Жыл бұрын

And still in several states of the United States, especially in the South, still have the death penalty put into place. Namely the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore are the only developed nations that still retain the death penalty.

Not sure why it wasn't mentioned in the report but the attacks were triggered near to or at kasumigaseki station incase anyone watching this knows Tokyo.

I heard about this. Wow it has been a while now

Wow never knew any of this. Hanging in 2018 is current. And can’t believe I haven’t heard about this before

@GrigRP

Жыл бұрын

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@rowan6207

Жыл бұрын

@@GrigRP your mums a bot

@GrigRP

Жыл бұрын

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@rowan6207

Жыл бұрын

@@GrigRP your mums mad

@ash-mp6ob

Жыл бұрын

​@@GrigRP hey allahu akbar boooom.

This is so traumatic 💔😓🎚️

Y'all need to do a longer video about the Happy Science cult. Especially since Ryuho Okawa just died.

@SolomonsNightmare

Жыл бұрын

I think the Happy Science cult, although similar to Omu in many points, would die eventually. I think the Unification Church and Soka Gakkai are way more dangerous, especially considering their political power and ties to the governing party.

3:04 are we just going to skip right past what was on that person’s head?

I remembered that happened. I was high school student. Video game Hitman Oybek Nabazov is inspired by the Shoko Asahara.

Highly recommend the book "Destroying the world to save it" by Robert j lifton. Great book on Aum

Just had to do a presentation and research paper on the Aum and it was fucking crazy.

The Aum game for PC made by 1 person is even crazier.

Nothing changes even after 30 years later.

I remember this. I would've been a kid att.

I love vice videod with news and Celebrities

Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

@dennis_duran

Жыл бұрын

Thought you were saying Jonestown for a sec.

@viktorcheng2061

Жыл бұрын

Cults are making a comeback, stop drinking the Kool-aid

I'm a party lover in Japan and have heard their batch of LSD was very good.

I remember this as a kid watching a breaking news story of this in channel news asia (I think). I didn't know what nerve gas is. I thought it was some sort of propane gas. A few years later I've watch Zero hour on cable TV and I suddenly remember the footage of it.

Very well documented❤

They moved to rural West Australia, weirdly

Little factoid about Japanese capital punishment: Those on death row are only given about an hr's notice before execution. Well deserved case of the Mondays in this instance though.

Highly suggest Underground by Murakami

First time ive been remotely interested in a vice video this year and its 7 minutes. Cheers.

the deadliest attack was the kyoani arson attack, although they might be in different categories

Lazy Masquerade spoke on this.

I remember it, horrifying.

“Even a fool has at least one talent.” - Japanese Proverb

I heard about this cult by watching Most Evil.

kinda wild this was brought to my attention on march 20th 2023 & occurred on march 20th 1995 😳

I learned about this cult from horror movie SAW 2. Where the tape mention Tokyo subway attacks.Then it was the documentary television show Zero Hour the Discovery Channel

The band Seether had their breakout in South Africa and used to be called saron gas - when they got signed to the states they had to change their name

@B_COOPER

Жыл бұрын

That’s interesting!

@jizim8947

Жыл бұрын

Good that was a very stupid name anyways

@papa_pt

Жыл бұрын

Uhhhh what about the band Anthrax? 😂 what does the original spelling saron refer to?

How have I never heard of this? Wth...

@Endrin911

Жыл бұрын

It happened years ago.

SIde Note: They are a big reason why trash cans don't exist anymore in japan subways/railways

Interesting

Crazy stuff

Because of this incident, cults often appeared in the Anime of the 90s.

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

Chief among them is Bible Black

Reminds me a lot of Joseph Seed from Far Cry 5

The one of the daughters of Shoko Asahara wrote a book about her father and had faught to get him out of the death penalty on the bases of mental health reasons.

Vice never disappoints. This documentary is well directed and written.

@GrigRP

Жыл бұрын

Vice paid for this bot 🤡

@GrigRP

Жыл бұрын

@@cowmath77 a bot criticizing someone who it thinks is a bot criticizing a bot. Meta.

@houseplant1016

Жыл бұрын

​@@cowmath77A bot commenting about how a bot criticized a bot? Ultra meta.

@BonShula

Жыл бұрын

Except when they show trans/black/gay stuff that triggers right wingers

@metothemoon1227

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately vice always do the left wing propaganda. And vice never talk about the number of deaths caused by: the government and its wars of interests for the west, banks, the industries of all sectors, the holders of the monetary system, the secret societies, the kings of oil.

Sounds like a sacred games plot🤣

Who here reads Oyasumi Punpun? This reminds me of Pegasus.

recién vi el documental 🤕

In a cool side story Ontia of FMW was super hot at the time in Japan and he wanted Tarzan Goto to dress like Chizuo Matsumoto/ Shoko Asahara and form a cult. This cause Goto to leave the group and FMW was never the same.

Isn't this the event that inspired that kdrama Hometown?

Rip to the old vice

a lot of guru use the war is coming thing, like in wako for exemple.

You know the video is good when all the comments are more than 2 lines long!!

Happy Happiests!!!

Excellent work "Justice for the people" ❤❤❤ ( 06-01-24 ) Saturday

Hanging?! My god..

I watched an old Zero Hour documentary on this years ago and i probably think about it once every few months

Can't believe he has his own anime

@davidl4992

Жыл бұрын

That’s just cult propaganda to get followers

Why is noone talking about the timestamps

*Where's the Yakuza when you need them!*

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

They killed one of the members on live broadcast when he was on his way to the police. Shoved a long blade on the guy's abdomen.

2:00 is that michael reeves?

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” ― Malala Yousafzai

@arun4781

Жыл бұрын

biggest joke of the millenium

@japoc

Жыл бұрын

Most of the cult members were highly educated individuals, this quote is bad... Did you even watch the video?

@metothemoon1227

Жыл бұрын

@Run Po Hi indeed, but i'm asking you this question: Who created terrorism since decade?

@metothemoon1227

Жыл бұрын

@Jace Apoc Hi, I know the story, but when vice posts a video, i have always doubts, be aware of vice and their propaganda of the left wing. Propaganda of mainstream thinking, wokism, feminism extremist, war, LGBT, government, industries. And ask yourself this question: Why Vice never talk about corruption of USA government, industries of all sector, digital capitalism, capitalism, secret societies.

@metothemoon1227

Жыл бұрын

@Run Po I thought Biden was the biggest joke of the USA history, I was wrong ....

0:35 : " This is the deadliest terror attack carried out on Japanese soil " . Huge Cap.

A Heavens Gate type cult but with the addition of public threat

yoo baby vice is bacc

@japoc

Жыл бұрын

cringe

So like did they make the nerve agent, buy it or steal it?

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

They made it themselves. Aum had a manpower pool and brain pool. They have engineers, scientist, doctors, people with doctorate degrees, computer experts and agents/people working in the government. They have their own R&D branch, and their unlucky test subjects are those members who tried to flee, physically weak, or aum's political and religious enemies. their first use of sarin was against the judges who is presiding a court dispute. they failed to kill the judges but it injured a lot of residents in the area.

Legends say they would cook their own LSD !!!

Good vibrations... Punpun

Aleph is a great album if you like filthy dark techno.

You have to be careful with these kind of reports from VICE. This is the second time I've watched one of their news stories and have caught a little lie about what they are reporting. Specifically, the part where this reporter says that Aleph re-branded themselves in 2007 to the "Circle of Rainbow Light," or in Japanese, "Hikari no Wa." In fact, this is not true. One of the members of Aum Shinrikyo, Fumihiro Joyu, started Hikari no Wa. He didn't want to have anything to do with Aleph (or so he said). Joyu Fumihiro was one of the top leaders in the Aum Shinrikyo, and arguably the only one of the top brass who avoided getting any kind of significant jail time. Anyway, Aleph had nothing to do with Hikari no Wa, unless you want to make the case that Joyu was sort of involved with Aleph for awhile. I think it's extremely important to factually report, instead of trying to create a report with ominous music playing in the background and then play with the facts of what you're reporting on. Be careful with VICE... they are not much better than these type of cults who also play around with facts. And seriously VICE, what happened to you? I remember when I actually thought you were getting things right with the reporting. Those days are long gone, aren't they?

good content

“I’m god, I need more money”……all “Religions” 🤣

@Martyn737

Жыл бұрын

"He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!” ― George Carlin

I'm not sure this was Japan's deadliest terrorist attack...

The show Zero Hour had a fantastic episode about this

Looks like Bobby Lee in 4 1/2 yrs.

When I went through cbrn training for the marines we heard all about these people

@marine102192

Жыл бұрын

Yup, I did a week-long CBRN course in 2014 for the 11th MEU and this attack was mentioned.

I guess that's why the Japanese are skeptical of religion

@FactStorm

Жыл бұрын

They're one of the smarter demographics..unfortunately, the same can't be said about the vast majority of cultures because they engage in wretched and unsettling rituals..namely christianity and islam the world's most prominent cults.

@FrantzVissarionovitch

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no, thats because they are smart

That cult is still active

When you wanna be an anime villain in real life

They have their own cartoon.

Good to see an update on Aum but there are far better and more in-depth videos about them available on KZread. Likely the only cult ever to produce its own anime propaganda 😆

@Martyn737

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count dankula anime jesus

@thedrewster0408

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Namely, Akidearist did a pretty insightful video on the cult in her “Detective Aki” series.

In L&O big story in nyc

"A cult is a business, a religious kind of business. It has a religious jargon. It has no experience. Yes, once somewhere in the past there may have been a flower, but it is gone. Centuries have passed, and since then the priest goes on pretending that he is the representative of that fragrance. Nobody can represent fragrance: it comes with the flower and goes with the flower. But the priest can create a plastic flower, can even put French perfume on it. And that's what he has been doing in all the religions. Religion is rebellious, is bound to be so, because religion starts saying things which the tradition will oppose, because only one of these two can exist: either the mass, unintelligent crowd - mind which makes the tradition, or a man like jesus or Buddha or Mahavira. They are alone. And what they are saying can be understood only by the chosen few. What they bring to the world is something so otherworldly, that unless you can have a heart to heart contact with them, there is no way of understanding them - you will misunderstand. jesus is misunderstood. Socrates is misunderstood. Al-Hillaj Mansoor is misunderstood. Whenever you find a religious man, it will be simply ascertained that all around him there will be misunderstanding. But once he dies, things settle down. Once he dies the priesthood makes a new business." - OSHO

The 29th anniversary of the attack were four days ago

Am i the only one here who found out about them through akidearest true crime videos?

@Martyn737

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I know Akidearest and its nice of her to focus on the victims rather than the perpetrators.

Crazy