joboo
10th March 2013, 05:08 PM
Whoa...never knew this guy existed.
The two immediate red flags for me is first they grab your passport, and meat is forbidden. I kept getting the sinking feeling it could turn into into an Albert Hitchcock, or Stephen King script at any moment...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Cv5hZfOmk
http://www.albertburger.com/vissarion%202.jpg
"Vissarion (a Russian boy's name) means, say "he who gives new life" ~ it is from the Greek Bessarion and of uncertain origin ~ Bessarion is also the name of a 2nd century (?) saint who lived as a hermit in the Egyptian desert, and is still greatly venerated in the Orthodox Church ~ another Bessarion was a Byzantine humanist (1395?-1472), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who favored ending the schism between East and West"
https://lh3.ggpht.com/_qpE5hNwi618/TBaVD3zn2QI/AAAAAAAAHaI/tURKqvke4Tg/s1600/vissarion.jpg
"Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop--who has come to be known as Vissarion, the Teacher, and the Messiah by his followers--established the Church of the Last Testament after a revelation in which he claims that he discovered that he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Around 4000 of Vissarion's followers live together in a community in the town of Petropavlovka in the Siberian taiga, where they lead simple lives purified of alcohol, tobacco, meat, and swearing.
The Vissarionites embrace a very patriarchal family dynamic in which wives are expected to serve as their husbands' "assistants"; during the teenage years, boys typically join the monastery to prepare for their careers in the community, and girls attend school to learn how to be good wives."
https://lh3.ggpht.com/-LN8XIFGqYpQ/UE7UX-1tmwI/AAAAAAAAABA/MV75Qb6LLWQ/s1600/vissarion.jpg
"Vissarion claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_claimed_to_be_Jesus). He teaches reincarnation, veganism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan), the impending end of the world (or at least of civilization as we know it), and the belief of aliens. On August 18, 1990, when he was 29, Vissarion claims that he had a revelation that he was the reincarnation of Christ.
He first spoke publicly in Minusinsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minusinsk) on 18 August 1991. He founded the "Church of the Last Testament" (Церковь Последнего Завета Tserkov Poslednego Zaveta), also known as "Community of Unified Faith"."
http://www.thecenters.org/images/groups_photos/VissarionPortrait1.jpg
http://vissarion.eu/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vissarion
The two immediate red flags for me is first they grab your passport, and meat is forbidden. I kept getting the sinking feeling it could turn into into an Albert Hitchcock, or Stephen King script at any moment...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Cv5hZfOmk
http://www.albertburger.com/vissarion%202.jpg
"Vissarion (a Russian boy's name) means, say "he who gives new life" ~ it is from the Greek Bessarion and of uncertain origin ~ Bessarion is also the name of a 2nd century (?) saint who lived as a hermit in the Egyptian desert, and is still greatly venerated in the Orthodox Church ~ another Bessarion was a Byzantine humanist (1395?-1472), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who favored ending the schism between East and West"
https://lh3.ggpht.com/_qpE5hNwi618/TBaVD3zn2QI/AAAAAAAAHaI/tURKqvke4Tg/s1600/vissarion.jpg
"Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop--who has come to be known as Vissarion, the Teacher, and the Messiah by his followers--established the Church of the Last Testament after a revelation in which he claims that he discovered that he is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Around 4000 of Vissarion's followers live together in a community in the town of Petropavlovka in the Siberian taiga, where they lead simple lives purified of alcohol, tobacco, meat, and swearing.
The Vissarionites embrace a very patriarchal family dynamic in which wives are expected to serve as their husbands' "assistants"; during the teenage years, boys typically join the monastery to prepare for their careers in the community, and girls attend school to learn how to be good wives."
https://lh3.ggpht.com/-LN8XIFGqYpQ/UE7UX-1tmwI/AAAAAAAAABA/MV75Qb6LLWQ/s1600/vissarion.jpg
"Vissarion claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_claimed_to_be_Jesus). He teaches reincarnation, veganism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan), the impending end of the world (or at least of civilization as we know it), and the belief of aliens. On August 18, 1990, when he was 29, Vissarion claims that he had a revelation that he was the reincarnation of Christ.
He first spoke publicly in Minusinsk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minusinsk) on 18 August 1991. He founded the "Church of the Last Testament" (Церковь Последнего Завета Tserkov Poslednego Zaveta), also known as "Community of Unified Faith"."
http://www.thecenters.org/images/groups_photos/VissarionPortrait1.jpg
http://vissarion.eu/en/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vissarion