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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 09/21/2009 : 23:08:14
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What on Earth? #68: Cult Town
This small town was founded by cultists.
One point for each question:
1. What's its name?
2. Where is it located?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 09/22/2009 : 10:25:40 [Permalink]
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| Is it the Mandarom, founded by members of the Aumist cult in Southern France? |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/22/2009 : 13:43:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Is it the Mandarom, founded by members of the Aumist cult in Southern France?
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It is not.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/22/2009 : 18:39:29 [Permalink]
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Hint # 1: Years after its founding in the late 1960's, even the community's central temple's golden dome is unfinished, though the grandiose "master plan" for this Utopian community looks like this:
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/22/2009 21:04:25 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/22/2009 : 21:36:56 [Permalink]
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Hint # 2: This community was founded by The Mother.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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steinhenge
Skeptic Friend
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2009 : 07:09:43 [Permalink]
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1) Auroville
2) Tamil Nadu, India |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/23/2009 : 15:04:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by steinhenge
1) Auroville
2) Tamil Nadu, India
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You nailed both questions for two points. Congrats, steinhenge!
Here's an article on Auroville, and Wiki's less critical take.
The standings:- Hal, 16 points
- steinhenge, 8 points
- Hawks, 5.5 points
- lorddix, 4 points
- Randy, 3 points
- sailinsoul, 3 points
- bngbuck, 2 points
- Simon, 2 points
- Dave W., 1 point
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/23/2009 15:54:18 |
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WoE # 68: Cult Town
