The End of The World Cult Pt.3

Formerly a sailor called Wayne Bent, Michael Travesser is the leader of a cult in New Mexico called Strong City.

His 56 followers - men, women and children - hang on his every word, serving him with absolute and unquestioning devotion. They say they are all preparing for death, to go to a better place as Michael claims his days on earth are numbered.

With unprecedented access, this compelling film takes viewers into an undiscovered world, into the heart of a cult whose members are preparing to meet their maker. Film-maker Ben Anthony discovers just how a cult operates and how a leader like Michael exerts his influence.

Sixty-six-year-old Travesser has a mesmerizing hold over the members of the cult. Anthony hears teenage girls talking about wanting a sexual consummation with their Leader, discovers that this consummation extended to Travesser's own son's wife and meets parents who are desperately trying to pry their children from his grip.

Strong City have also come to the attention of the FBI, who are keeping a close watch over the group. As the program delves deeper in to the world of Strong City, it asks whether Michael Travesser is about to lead his cult to a tragedy of Jonestown or Waco proportions and ultimately whether he's really a master manipulator: an expert spin doctor who brainwashes his followers simply to serve his own ends?

He claims that 31 October 2007 is Doomsday and at midnight on that date there will be an event of apocalyptic proportions, marking the end of the world.

What happens to Strong City and their Messiah on 31 October? The countdown to Doomsday has begun.

Well it's now August of 2008 so we know the end of the world never happened and probably never will. This is a very interesting and disturbing documentary, a must see.

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[cet1905]

i hope this sick fucker will rotten behind the bars

[TheSpecialangels]

@LaFemmeCelena They grow their own in co-op bud building.

Smoken 'weed fer jesus! Because they no longer read their bibles, only read what the old pervert writes, they're now using the bible pages to roll their bad ass joints!

Even Cheech Marlin is impressed!

The reason they don't get caught, the dirt road tells someones comin for miles.

Take pot sniffing dogs and POLYGRAPH the old pedophile as well as every single adult living out there!

They're all demented

If he gets out, then many WILL die!

[TheSpecialangels]

@1989jolle NEITHER is insane. They're demon possessed!

As were other cult leaders who ended up suffering a tragic death.

Bent WILL end up in same condition when satan is finished using him/them.

When Bent boldly claims @ 3:43 min "I am the embodiment of God" you can hear violent thundering in heavens above.

Proving even the skies give testimony of Gods displeasure over mere mortal claiming they are god.

If the honest to Gods truth be told, which it won't, Bent had intercourse with underaged.

[whatismyname5151]

@CroMarduk What law is broken? This is freedom of speech, freedom of religion.

[1989jolle]

Who is more insane, a man who thinks he's son of god or a man who believes him.

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@chesko697

are you an idiot? he was born there, he grew up there.

obviously that's what he believes in. and who cares if he is a homosexual? that has nothing to do with anything. he's not a loser, this is what he's grown up with. he knows no different. you are a fucking TWIT.

[teleshaka]

6:30 that boy sounds like a scared beaten woman

[LaFemmeCelena]

@webba0000000069 ?

[K3z4r]

Religion at its finest. As long as it doesnt hurt grown up people fine let them belive in whatever bogus they want to BUT for crying out loud take their kids by force and put them with some sane people. If they keep on makin babies then castrate em by force child abuse like this is NOT ok :P

[CroMarduk]

how is this legal