Things I don't want to re-live on cable or anywhere tonight or ever:

[UTUSN]

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	Monica'n'Bill
	11 (92%)
	Scientology
	0 (0%)
	JONEStown
	1 (8%)
	Mr & Mrs SMITH (thank Zeus they've broken up!1 )
	0 (0%)
	(Misc. not on cable tonight: ) Anything Vietnam, the KENNEDYs, and forever-NEVER-shitler
	0 (0%)
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[Pachamama]

1. 9/11 and the destruction of the twin towers

[Squinch]

4. To this day I have to turn it off or leave the room. Can't watch it.

Every time I see it, I am right back there on a Bronx roof watching it happen.

[NurseJackie]

23. Yep.

And the jumpers. Horrifying.

[hlthe2b]

2. Sarah Palin...

[Squinch]

3. I voted Monica and Bill because, really, who gives a shit? But there is something

really fascinating to me about Scientology. It's like the FLDS. I can't get enough of them. I don't doubt that, with the right stimulus, all of us could be susceptible to a cult. I just can't figure out how it happens.

[UTUSN]

5. Interesting comment: we're all susceptible to something. Due to age, maturity, the times... yep

[Rhiannon12866]

7. I've never understood the appeal of cults

I know young people joined the moonies back in the day, but I remember some showed up at my school and no one even spoke to them. They seemed silly to most of us at the time.

[UTUSN]

9. Thank Zeus it wasn't MANSON

[Rhiannon12866]

12. That was a little before my time away at school, but I doubt he'd be popular either

I remember an Army recruiter lady set up in the lobby of the main building and everyone just ignored her. I had a class there and when class got out we all went over to chat with her because we felt sorry for her.

[Squinch]

11. But some, like the FLDS members and some Scientologists, are born into it. It gives them a

completely different reality than the one you and I live with.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. That is true. Those born into these isolated cults know no other way.

But with the moonies, young people were known for leaving home to join them. A guy who worked for my Dad had a son who went off and joined and the Dad was heartbroken. At the time I didn't get it and I still don't. One of them came to my dorm room, knocked on the door because he was selling books. I was quite startled, had no idea what to make of him, took me a minute to figure out it was a young guy since he was wearing a long orange robe, but also a parka since it was winter.

[Squinch]

17. Do you remember that giant wedding they had in Madison Square Garden?

All of them just meeting each other at the ceremony? Talk about Handmaid's Tale!

[Rhiannon12866]

18. Yes! I do remember hearing about that!

Seemed bizarre to me at the time, let alone now! Who would choose to do that??

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Close friend, lawyer, educated, smart, etc, was one at one time

and worked in the celebrity center.

I think what hooked him was if these celebs want this, surely I must.

He no longer is part of it but if I bring it up he defends them. Another friend assures me they are not only a cult but have much violence in their history.

[Initech]

8. All of the above!

[UTUSN]

10. Thank you!

[Iggo]

13. Who are the Mr and Mrs Smith referred to in the poll?

Honestly, I'm drawing a blank.

(Unless it's that Brangelina movie. Which I also never need to see again, ever.)

[UTUSN]

14. It's the Brangelina movie, plus their "real" life!1

[Iggo]

15. Oh, dear gawd!

[Rhiannon12866]

19. There was an old movie with that title starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery

That I remember seeing on AMC back in the day. It was pretty funny, but whenever I see the title in the listings now, it's that stupid remake.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Election night 2016

It seriously can cause PTSD and that’s not an exaggeration.

[UTUSN]

21. "not an exaggeration" - for sure

[Laffy Kat]

22. So true. I honestly don't think I'll ever be the same.

Psychologically traumatizing and I'm still having trouble sleeping.