Christian Sect Members Wait in Russian Cave for World to End

[Ian David]

Black Collar Crime and Doomsdayery

Sect Members Wait in Russian Cave for World to End
Children among 29 barricaded inside refuge· Believers threaten to blow themselves up

To locals in the Russian village of Nikolskoye they were simply a group of eccentric Christian believers. And when 29 members of the sect abruptly vanished last week, villagers assumed they had packed up and gone on their way.

In fact, members of the religious doomsday cult had taken up residence in a remote cave. They had decided to barricade themselves inside until May 2008 - the date when their spiritual leader had told them the world was going to end.

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The sect's leader is Pyotr Kuznetsov - a divorced 43-year-old architect from Belarus. Kuznetsov travelled across Belarus and Russia, spreading his message of apocalyptic doom, before settling in the village 18 months ago, locals said.

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"They are simple Christians," a local priest, Father Georgy, told NTV television. "They say: 'The church is doing a bad job, the end of the world is coming soon and we are all saving ourselves.'"

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[saltpoint]

1. I feel like we should pitch in and send them some PopTarts or something.

[charlie]

2. Haw!

That might be the thing to drive them out. They're living on honey and jam. When they eagerly unpack a CARE package from their good friends in Bushistan to find... Pop Tarts... we'd hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth across the ocean.

6 months! They're not gonna make it. They're eating honey and jam. By candlelight. It's not freezing, but it'll never get warmer than 63 damp degrees. They've taken a vow of silence. Near total sensory deprivation, save smelling each other's farts and watching everyone turn to mildew. And stewing on the coming apocalypse. NASA ought to monitor these guys, get some good data on the mental effects of deep space travel.

[saltpoint]

3. I guess you're right. I'll unpack the PopTarts. By god, these people don't

DESERVE PopTarts! I'll eat the damn things myself before giving them to end-of-the-worlders in a cave.

The honey-and-jam-in-a-cave diet. Not sure it's going to work out. If the world doesn't end as they feel it will, they're going to feel awfully foolish. "False alarm, everybody -- let's blow this popstand and order a pizza."

[cosmik debris]

4. Is this the work of nickols_k?

Perhaps his thread will die in a cave-in.