The Sicarii zealots essentially pulled an Ammon Bundy Malheur national park on Masada while Israel was under Roman rule. They raided and slaughtered a few Jewish towns and then took refuge on the mountain. The Roman army responded by sending troops up the mountain to quell the rebellion

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The sicarii resisted and the Roman’s spent a few months trying to clear the obstructions the sicarii made to climb the mountain. When it became clear the Roman’s would break through, rather than be taken alive, these zealots slaughtered their wives, children and then killed themselves.
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OG family annihilators
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This story is now told, albeit with more grandiosity, in Israel as a national symbol of courage and resistance.

So our conversation on the mountain revolved around this.

Our counselor said “doesn’t it take bravery to do this? To die for your beliefs?” I was aghast. And said I thought he was nuts.
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reminds me of the simplistic story of jonestown people "drinking the kool-aid" [really flavor-aid, iirc] that omits the way caregivers inflicted this on children and elders, and the way some people were forced into it not by groupthink but by men with guns
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