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back in 1993 there was a small religious community in Waco led by a man named David Koresh I think he was pious I
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really do believe that he believed but I also know that he knew how to manipulate
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people he was a very keen observer of human behavior when you're marginalized and always watching and studying people
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you would develop street smarts you figure out what what sort of button pushes that person and what makes this
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person unstable you can manipulate people if you make them feel unsettled and then you make them feel settled and
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so you make them feel off balance and then you rescue them and then off balance and rescue them and I just think
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you just kept pushing it and pushing it and pushing it by doing things like sleep deprivation overworking
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threatening with expulsion but what's the obedience with the children and the adults inside the compound a result of
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the reverence they felt for him or the fear they had for him people who are really good at creating these
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environments sort of people that end up as quote cult leaders they use fear but they use also connectedness they use
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connection and and rejection so the fear ultimately becomes the fear that David won't love me the fear that David won't
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include me based on your conversations with all of these kids what were they willing to do for David Koresh oh
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they're willing to do anything die for David Koresh they were willing and actually anxious to serve as his bride
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if you were a young girl or serve as his soldiers for David if you were looking at camera and telling what you
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think about it who's treated you good then of course when the fire takes place David had told them this would happen
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which made david koresh even more powerful in their eyes and so the fulfillment of prophecy is one of the
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most powerful things that you can experience as a human being that some person told you the future and they were
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absolutely right and he is God [Music]