Bring it so the adults can begin.
Litter? Well, hardly.
Just watched a documentary about Peoples Temple. In the 1960s, this one man, Jim Jones, built up this whole Socialist church of his own. In 1978, he killed them off.
909 people.
I don’t know what to feel about this. It’s just so so twisted. Very very very very disturbing, but very amazing as well.
To think one man made himself so powerful that all his followers listened and obeyed him so willingly. That he could build this town in Guyana, made these people leave their families with no explanation and go there with him. That they would just kill themselves because he believed that was the best way out for them.
How does this whole brainwashing thing work? How can just one person make so many become so irrational? Learned submission. His voice was played over speakers 24/7. No one was allowed to leave the town, they were self-substantial there was no need to go out for food. No one came from the outside world, and the only time someone did, within 24 hours everyone in the town had to die.
They all believed in it. Even in their last moments they are praising him, praising this whole damn twisted movement and being so… submissive.
“We’re all ready to go. If you tell us we have to give our lives now, we’re ready–all the rest of the sisters and brothers are with me.”
The tape is very disturbing. You hear how Jones’s speech becomes slurred and sometimes incoherent, you here people offering poison to others (“Take some.”), you hear kids screaming, then you hear Jones telling them to stop.
“So be patient. Be patient. Death is–I tell you, I don’t care how many screams you hear. I don’t care how many anguished cries. Death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life. If you knew what was ahead of you–if you knew what was ahead of you, you’d be glad to be stepping over tonight.”
Preaching to the very last minute. Twisted, twisted man.
Watch What I Watched
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Google Video)
With previously unseen footage and interviews with former members of the Peoples Church, this documentary explores the events leading up to the Jonestown Massacre in 1978. A cult which developed a large following in the 1970s, the Peoples Church was led by Jim Jones, who brought his congregation to an idyllic community in Guyana before inciting them to mass suicide.
More?
Jonestown Death Tape - audio recording of Jim Jones breaking his final idea to the town, their reactions and towards the end… the kids getting the dose of poison and the screaming. Oh, the screaming. :’( (Transcript)
November 28, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I can´t belive that this happened!
A men like that have to burn in the hell!