Talk:Marshall Applewhite

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Someone should put up that weird picture of him with the "cult-like" eyes on this page as *the* picture for his entry. Anyone who saw the news story at the time would know what I'm talking about.

[edit] Herff?

If this blurb from the Bonnie Nettles page is to be believed, then this page should be the redirect instead of Herff Applewhite:

"Bonnie Nettles was co-leader of a group with Herff Applewhite, (Herff never went by the name "Marshall" according to friends and family) and became the leader of what turned into the Heaven's Gate cult after Nettles death."

Either that, or the Bonnie Nettles page should be changed to note the un-cited information.

On the other hand, it might make as much sense to link it to Do or Peep. Since any group that commits mass suicide is insane by definition (either they're insane, or we all are, and we outnumber them), perhaps it's just as well that Wikipedia doesn't call the guy by his preferred name. --Robertb-dc 23:52, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archive of his ramblings

Too lazy/underqualified to post this [1]

Creepy though, his username? Doe. Everybody mocked him.

[edit] article not quite right

The news story given as citation 2 says applewhite pretended to his sister that he was in hospital for heart problems, when in fact the admission was psychiatric, there he met Bonnie. The article then repeats that he was admitted for heart problems? Sounds wrong.Merkinsmum 13:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Hang on, I always heard he was against the castration, but permitted it as a way of making it easier to abstain from sex.