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So many obvious questions were left out


The whole series was very well made, but I kept wondering why they left out so many obvious things of the story, like:

1. We never really got to see just what it was that Bhagwan was actually preaching! There's just endless accounts of people saying he's supposedly oh so great, but the series never really tries to make us understand what made people so crazy about him. What was it that he actually said that was so revolutionary? This is such a major flaw, that it kinda breaks the whole premise before it even starts.

2. They never explain why everyone was wearing red. It's a major detail throughout the whole show, and it would have been extremely easy to just have a short sentence explaining it, so I found it extremely strange that they left it out.

3. They never actually confronted Sheela with anything! Every time there was a huge revelation, like the poisoning, the assassination attempts, the wire-tapping, or the secret basement, I was dying to hear what Sheela had to say about it. But they never asked her about any of it.

4. They never ask any of the Christians if they see the irony of claiming their own religion is the one true way.

I'm sure there were more stuff too...

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Yes, exactly! I have little idea of what he was preaching. Just posted a thread asking that very question. What was the appeal??

It's a very well done documentary, but I'm getting the sense it was made by people who assume its audience already knows a lot about Rajsheesh and his followers, and I don't.

They started out wearing orange, then switched to red, and I don't know why they were so attached to either color, or a color.

Would have loved to have seen Sheela be confronted! The other woman too. Jane something. And the lawyer. None of them were confronted.

Ha! Yes, at least that guy at the end noted that the Christian youth camp was like a cult too. He said they weren't perfect either, but better than Bhagwan and his followers.

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I was wondering the same thing the entire time (WTF was so "magnetic" about Osho??). And my other question I kept asking myself was where was all the money coming from??? They were out in the middle of nowhere so it's not like everyone could go out and work a 9-5 and then bring their money back to the commune. Who was financing all of that real estate acquisition/building & all of those Rolls Royces?

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