Pana Wavers are ...

[Taro Toporific]

Pana Wavers are on the move ... grab your tinfoil hats 'cause the world ends May 15!
Cult leader waving eviction papers
Tokyo keeps wary eye on white-robed doomsday cult
May 6 2003 / The Sydney Morning Herald

Doomsday cult makes waves in Japan
Tuesday May 6, 2003 / The Guardian, UK
...any sympathy this might have generated was destroyed by a statement from the group that said: "People without the ears to hear will all face death."
The Japanese media said the cult released a pamphlet last year urging members to "exterminate all humankind" if their leader died.

Cult decamps, issues bizarre statement about Tama-chan
Japan Today, Tuesday, May 6, 2003 at 09:31 JST
GIFU -- About 50 members of the Panawave Laboratory, a cult known for its white attire... in a bizarre development issued a statement about Japan's celebrity seal Tama-chan... a memo in the name of its leader calling for the protection of the bearded seal, which has been spotted in rivers around Tokyo since last year and has drawn much attention in Japan.
...Panawave was "driven to carry out" the feeding of Tama-chan, a popular seal that has been spotted in rivers around Tokyo since last year. Panawave appears to be linked to a group that attempted to capture Tama-chan in March in Yokohama, but failed.

[Gestalt]

I'm not taking any chances. I'm wearing a white shirt to work today..

[Big Booger]

Loons,
I wonder how these cults begin.. how do loonies bond? Is there some kind of look convention where the deranged meet up and decide to form these clubs of conviction?

[GomiGirl]

Loons,
I wonder how these cults begin.. how do loonies bond? Is there some kind of look convention where the deranged meet up and decide to form these clubs of conviction?

Internet message forums!!

[ramchop]

Loons,
I wonder how these cults begin.. how do loonies bond? Is there some kind of look convention where the deranged meet up and decide to form these clubs of conviction?

Seems to me to always come down to one charismatic individual. In this case it's the Great Queen. Not a very successful cult. I don't suppose it'll last long (maybe only 10 more days! ), certainly not the 2000 years of another cult led by a charismatic individual that springs to mind. :P

[kamome]

These guys are almost as weird as the Raelians (sp?), those guys who formed CloneAid and claimed to clone human babies. They're out of the news since they couldn't produce evidence that they had actually cloned a child. But panawave scares me in a different way--they actually have called for extermination of mankind (or something to that effect).

[DJEB]

I suspect that the members of these wacked out Japanese cults are full of the people that were on the receiving end of severe bullying. I have no evidence to back this whatsoever - it's just a pondering.

At any rate, if the world was going to end in 9 days, would you dress in white, wrap trees in cloth and threaten everyone on the planet? Me neither.

[DJEB]

Just for fun, take some food, wrap it in white cloth, then stick it in the microwave and cook it for 2 minutes. See what happens. You get hot food.

[Taro Toporific]

Loons,
I wonder how these cults begin.. how do loonies bond? Is there some kind of look convention where the deranged meet up and decide to form these clubs of conviction?

Bruised academic fatally collapses at white cult HQ
MDN Aug 9
FUKUI -- An academic at a top Fukuoka university died in hospital after he was transferred from the Fukui headquarters of the all-white Panawave cult, police said.
The man, Satoshi Chigusa, an assistant professor at Fukuoka University of Education...Doctors found numerous bruises on the 40-year-old man's back ...Coroners announced Friday that they were unable to determine the cause of his death, although the most likely reason for his demise was the combination of heatstroke and shock related to his external injuries. The temperature in Fukui hit 35.2 degree Celsius on Thursday.

[den4]

mebbe when he didn't see the white light after being struck by the rods they had to keep hitting him until the stars went completely out...