Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
by jstatus on Saturday November 08, 2014 @04:23PM
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Fun fact -- the shelters in Montana shown on alpinesurvival.com are from a new-age survivalist cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphant...). I know this because I grew up in it, and actually lived on the street shown in the photo. Everybody sunk their life savings into them and racked up the credit card debt in the late 80s. Yes, connected to the cold war, but for larger "karmic" reasons of course. You should thank them though, it was only through their prayers that nuclear war was averted! Needless to say, most people didn't believe that, and membership collapsed after the Berlin Wall fell. The shelter at CUT's headquarters reportedly was able to have hundreds of people live for decades, and was the largest private shelter in the US. A whole new level of crazy, folks.
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Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
by arca_vorago on Saturday November 08, 2014 @04:52PM
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Was it really that crazy considering all the "we were about to press the button but didn't" stories that have surfaced about that era since? It was a very real possibility.
Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 09, 2014 @12:31PM
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>Was it really that crazy
'it' being what? Preparing for fallout is not crazy. Joining a cult is crazy.
Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
by sitkack on Sunday November 09, 2014 @02:20AM
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Just because it "turned out well" doesn't mean that they were wrong. It also doesn't mean they weren't crazy.
Re:Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact
by waterlesscloud on Sunday November 09, 2014 @11:10AM
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One of my friends spent his teen years building those shelters. His mom was in the cult. Makes for a great story, in any case!