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A vision of hope, dashed by madness and death
Oakland Tribune ^
| 11/15/2008
| Angela Hill
Posted on 11/16/2008 4:27:46 AM PST by CE2949BB
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To: drzz
In the first sentence, the obvious analogy just screams out.
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posted on
11/16/2008 6:48:27 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
To: CE2949BB
JIm Jones and other cult leaders are popular because people can rely on them to do the thinking that they can’t face doing themselves.
For some people, the real world with all it’s complexities is ‘too much’ for some people to deal with and when someone comes along and promises to take care of them and sort things out for them, they (people, followers) usually end up being completely controlled, usually to the point where they end up dead.
I saw two documentaries and in one it mentioned how Jones was going down mentally and he was ready to take them (followers) with him.
Followers usually follow them to death because they have invested their entire psych and self in that person that they willingly go with them.
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posted on
11/16/2008 6:49:33 AM PST
by
Niuhuru
(Fine, I'm A Racist and Proud Of It!)
To: Freedom Dignity n Honor
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posted on
11/16/2008 6:53:05 AM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: GOP_Party_Animal
No, that was Mussolini. Hitler was the one whos vas a badt man, shure, but at least he luft docs undt schildern.
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posted on
11/16/2008 6:54:27 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
To: Paved Paradise
Germans are big on precision. Thats why they make so many clocks there (Switzerland too). And, yes you are right; the trains ran on time. Certainly the ones that went to Auschwitz.
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posted on
11/16/2008 6:55:52 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: Mojave
Iwould not believe Snopes if they said water was wet.
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posted on
11/16/2008 6:56:27 AM PST
by
sport
To: Paved Paradise
I guess you are unfamilar with “das akademische Viertel”?
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posted on
11/16/2008 7:04:15 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
To: CE2949BB
Would Zero have the same powers on people that old Jim had?
I dare say, he probably could.
To: CE2949BB
As I have posted before, Jim Jones’ utopia was merely socialism in a snow-globe, a miniaturized 20th Century delusion.
Until it is broadly recognized that the only purpose of state power is its own aggrandizement, at whatever human cost, we are condemned to endless mass murders.
On the bright side, none of these tyrannies last forever. ;^)
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posted on
11/16/2008 7:53:21 AM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I thought it was the "Helsinki Syndrome."
Guess I watched Die Hard once too often.
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posted on
11/16/2008 7:56:22 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Free Brightside!)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
You are right but I don’t know why I am supposed to be familiar with it or why you are posting this to me.
To: dfwgator
I am presently reading “Children of the Flames.” I wish our children were made to study the holocaust more in depth. I was taught very little and I believe children today know far more about Woodstock than they do of the holocaust.
To: CE2949BB
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posted on
11/16/2008 8:30:32 AM PST
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
To: Niuhuru
I saw two documentaries and in one it mentioned how Jones was going down mentally and he was ready to take them (followers) with him. It kind of reminds one of that beast Hitler in the last days in his bunker.
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posted on
11/16/2008 8:59:35 AM PST
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: Paved Paradise
I was taught very little and I believe children today know far more about Woodstock than they do of the holocaust. The followers of totalitarianism want people to be ignorant so history can be repeated.
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posted on
11/16/2008 9:01:47 AM PST
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: Paved Paradise
Because it belies the German reputation for punctuality.
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posted on
11/16/2008 9:05:32 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
To: Wilhelm Tell
It kind of reminds one of that beast Hitler in the last days in his bunker.
Reminds me of the studio cafeteria scene in "Blazing Saddles."
"Hey Joey, how's it going?" (to a fellow actor in a Hitler costume)
"They lose me right after the bunker scene."
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posted on
11/16/2008 9:08:15 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: Mojave
I know it’s false it just that slogan applied to Mussolini
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Okay, so what does the academy teach and what dies viertel mean?
To: BallyBill
I could only imagine Shemp Smith and Geraldo picking through piles of bodies. Trying to find a way to blame Republicans.
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posted on
11/16/2008 11:57:41 AM PST
by
Mojave
(http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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