How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Give up sex, family, name and opinion.
Members took names ending in -ody, cut their hair the same way, wore the same clothes, ate the same food at the same time, and did not choose their own tasks. Several men, Applewhite among them, were surgically castrated in the mid-1990s; the operation was elective and members sought it out.
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