Posted on 11/13/2008 10:56:48 AM PST by autumnraine
The key to understanding the tragedy that was Jonestown lies in the oratory skills of the Peoples Temple founder, Jim Jones.
"He was very charismatic," Leslie Wagner-Wilson, a Jonestown survivor, says of the Rev. Jim Jones.
With the cadence and fervor of a Baptist preacher, the charm and folksiness of a country storyteller and the zeal and fury of a maniacal dictator, Jones exhorted his followers to a fever pitch, audiotapes recovered from Jonestown reveal.
As he spoke, they applauded, shouted, cheered. One follower who survived the "revolutionary suicide" at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, said that Jones was the most dynamic speaker he had ever heard.
Like all powerful speakers, Jones' greatest asset was his ability to determine what listeners wanted to hear and give it to them in simple language that appealed to them on an almost instinctual level.
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Great post
I recently saw a special on the History Channel on cults, with special mention for Jim Jones. I was shocked beyond belief that they admitted his dictatorship arose out of his socialistic ideals! The other striking thing I noted is that all these charismatic cult leaders shared many historical commonalities with Obama: Manson, Jones, Hitler, and Koresh (I believe), all had absent or abusive fathers and nearly all had absent mothers. It was more than a little creepy to watch. And the section on Jonestown was simply heartbreaking!
Can You Imagine the poor Cool aid salesman the company expected him to meet that same sales quota the next year and he couldn’t make it and lost his JOB!!
Can You Imagine the poor Cool aid salesman the company expected him to meet that same sales quota the next year and he couldn’t make it and lost his JOB!!
The ones you know are the minority because it's the young people along with the blacks that sent Hussein over the top.
Somewhere I have a Nation Of Islam newspaper and Elizah Muhammad (now dead) is on the cover with Jim Jones praising the work of Jones in the poor communites.
The timing and subject matter is very interesting.
I’ll guess that CNN/Soledad o’brien are more interested to programming the audience that there is NO resemblance to Jim Jones and any one from the modern era. She is a big rev. wright/obama supporter.
The ones you know are the minority; it's the young people along with the blacks that sent Hussein over the top.
The ones you know are the minority; it's the young people along with the blacks that sent Hussein over the top
Beware....
You know what is really strange.....I was just talking about this whole Jim Jones thing to my 14 year old son - we really do have to look to history to remind ourselves, and educate the younger generation. Lord knows, the schools won’t.
This was from CNN?
A few weeks ago, Rush was talking about this. Henoted that there was always a reverb from the sound system. I remember reading about Jim Jones and he had a similar reverb when he bloviated. In the article, it said that the reverb had am effect on certain portions of the brain whereas if you listened to his droning long enough, one would become “hypnotized” or “brain-conditioned” and easier to control. While I am no doctor, the end result speaks for itself. Look what happened in Jonestown.
Adolph Hitler had the reverb in his emotings. Look at what happened in Nazi Germany.
The Messiah does seem to use that reverb in his speeches. And as I said, the results speak for themselves. The USA is is BIG trouble because of him. I’m not saying that he will lead a lot of people to drink the Kool-Aid and die like Jones did. I am saying that The 0ne is dangerous. How stupid could the voting public be to elect this clown?
He reminds me of a tee shirt I used to have.
I am NOT drinking the koolaid and that’s that!
He reminds me of a tee shirt I used to have.
They're always portrayed as just members of some church. Their ideology was political, not theological.
The other thing about them that ticks off the Kraft Food Company to this day is that they didn't drink poisoned Kool-Aid®, instead it was Wyler's 'Flavor-Ade®' from a UK distributor.
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