Jonestown Cult Survivor: VC2

[Tbraves111]

I would love to stick a cruise missle up that pussies ass

[FRSFreeStateES]

I'm impressed by the people who were just able to survive Jonestown

[6gu7]

It was getting violent sometime that night. In pictures you can see carnage.... tables turned over,ect... an arrow through one of the flavoraide tanks.... probably a missed shot at someone. It was known there were people with crossbows lurking around. Point is, there was murdering goin on.....

[cheeriosinabowl]

What kind of people would have allowed themselves to get caught up in this cult?

Were they weak, stupid, looking for fun or a purpose?

[woperinoboyz]

I have a theory about why most victims were lying face down. We know that the first to die were the children. At one point in the tape Jones is heard saying that it's ok for parents to lie with their children, (he even called it "humane!!!") This leads me to believe that up to that point, someone else or more than one person were laying the children down alone as they died. The parents and others just followed suit and went face down as the kids were. Any ideas on this? I enjoy the debate.

[moseseseseses]

I CAN TELL YOU WHY ALL THIS CAME UPON THESE PEOPLE, THEY FOLLOWED A MAN, INSTEAD OF THEIR BIBLE. Jesus said: Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Ye shall know a tree by the fruit they bear. Soon as word got around that this man was sleeping with other members wives, and committing acts of homosexuality with the men, that in itself should have told everyone there what kind of sinister seduced sinner they were following. The bible says: FORSAKE THE FOOLISH AND LIVE.....

[globe255]

Dear Americans you all have to follow me, I can lead you on!

[thebrainstorm9803]

@eugeneexaminer DISGUESTING!



[SanjisGirl]

This is why I'm very weary of being heavily involved in religion. I'm not atheist. I believe that there is a god, I just want to live my life and do the best I can. But I don't want to go to a church and have people shove their beliefs and opinions on life down my throat. I will follow the ten commandments and do my best to have a good life while helping/hoping others have the same.

[imtweetydiva29]

@SanjisGirl I am also very weary of religion . I was born into the Jehovah's Witnesses cult . I had no choice. I saw alot of hypocracy growing up and doctrines that were not true.(I always questioned) when I got old enough I moved out on my own and left it behind. I read 2 books that helped me get through the brainwashing/mindcontrol :"Crisis of Conscience" and"In Search of Christian Freedom"by Raymond Franz (A former governing body of the JW's)I try to live good.

[FRSFreeState]

It might be a miracle that anyone survived Jonestown as long that Jim Jones was in charged.

[megabeaver23]

so... what was the killer flavour?

[powerliftingmama]

jws mormons and Scientology are no diffent than the people temple in  my mind

[archaenadek]

@powerliftingmama Neither is christianity or islam

[techservant]

Just another 900+ souls killed by the twisted mind of a communist leader. That is what communism does, it kills when it doesn't get its way...when it does not work...and it never does.

[mike1123able]

@techservant no-one sane would doubt the extreme manipulation used by Jim Jones, but what the hell does this have to do with communism? Come-on mate, its 2010, drop the 'red fear' crap and recognise that communism, and socialism were an ideal (an ideal that didn't work), but an ideal all the same. The relevance however, is none, although Jim Jones believed in a collective work for collective good, he was hardly communist.

[techservant]

@mike1123 no sane person? Socialism is Communism without the testerone to man the barracades. Jones by his own admission was a leftists revolutionary who studied Marxism and said God was a "trixter". God is Principle, Principle is Love, and Love is Socialism.” Jim Jones. Do your own homework. I'll suggest a starting point search; The Theology of Jim Jones

[SuperBeverly123]

If they could lived to see this day we have a black president

[emanebutouy]

@SuperBeverly123 Yes. Another messianic cult leader. Perfect. And another vat of poisoned flavor-aid to drink.

[techservant]

@SuperBeverly123 - you said; If they could lived to see this day we have a black president" It would have made no difference to Jones, he was insane and believed himself to be some sort of God. Socialism is all about making everyone equal (it does not work by the way the political class always stays rich)...and they are never happy.

[Volvonaut]

That current logo is remarkably obnoxious. Is it a mind control experiment?

[livelongutube]

how can they kill their own kids... doesnt make sense

[ed11561]

1:30 Jim Jones is so fucking stoned he can't even talk.This guy had his own motives entirely.

[scratchneck]

crazy shit ese

[TreblePop]

This description of this video is wildly inaccurate. It describes this tragedy as a "cult's 909 member mass suicide." It was mass-murder, with some drinking poison willingly to avoid being forcibly jabbed with a needle or to avoid being shot. Very very sloppy and unprofessional.

[silverandgold17]

do the People's Temple still exist today?

[silverandgold17]

Its hard to believe, and to take in, his recorded speeches...to know that you are hearing what all those victims heard, like you are among the people. It's surreal, strange, scary scary scary

[Gmancrap]

This wasn't a very good vc2, needs more info.

[193322009]

It's so sad so many brainwashed victims died.

IMO, the only way to combat the power of cults and their brainwashing techniques is to have high schools and colleges study cultism and learn how they manipulate people.

Knowledge is the most powerful way to combat this type of tragedy.

Cults, religions, politics all have similar brainwashing techniques that work on the weak minded population.

Stop watching MTV and basketball so much and get educated. Read a book ~

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

Atheism too. That's what Jim Jones' Communism advocated (aka Marxist - Leninism), the war on God -- people are ready for any lie that promises "Utopia".

In this case, prey on the hardship and needs of people, promise them heaven on earth, and everyone ends up in Hell.

As Marx said, The Happiness of the People will come with the Abolition of Religion. Well judge for yourself, how happy all those dead victims look.

[SimAlias]

Jim Jones is a fuckin coward, he can't even live life to the fullest, I've been thru shit but at least I faced it like a man, Jones deserves a place in hell.

[piratapan]

I've read about it before, really sad...

[tonkalachuga101]

he convinced everyone to kill themselves.....

wooow

[beverlycromwell4]

Back in those days the blacks shouldn't have trusted anyone exspecially the white man

[chrisatlowes]

Well that's your opinion but perhaps "the blacks" should have trusted their English teachers a little more and they would have realized that "exspecially" is not a word.

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

"...blacks shouldn't have trusted..."

See this.

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Jim Jones was a Communist, promising blacks 'love and peace'... but actions speak louder than words. Leftwing SOCIALISM has killed 100 Million in the past century.

Nazis who hate everyone -- are rightwing SOCIALISM.

Take your pick.

[trilby80]

what is the difference between Christianity and communistism? from what i heard true communistism took care of people and i also heard that it controls your life. well, i know for sure that Christianity does not care of anybody except for the Christian leaders. I found this infor out for myself. communistism do not know enough about communistism to make judgments on it. but Christianity is very evil. a lot of christians that I know do not agree with me.

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

Christianity is not "evil". The "organized" aspect you point out makes ORGANIZED RELIGION evil. Strong ruling over the weak. The very same is what makes Communism evil. Criminals like Lenin and Stalin overthrowing and manipulating power to themselves (including Hitler, a Socialist), all set up death camps to eliminate "inconvenient minorities" such as war on Judaism and Christianity.

Christianity is between a person and God alone. Communism lies, that people will simply "share the world".

[trilby80]

you are a CRAZY FUCK. you have not read that bible or paid any attention to it. if you did you wouldn't even make a comments like this. when it comes to the bible you only pay attention to want you want. this shows me how brainwashed you are. Maybe this is your only way for controlling people, especially WOMEN. Christianity gives men power over the world. black men really love that FUCKING bible. don't forget WHITE TRASH love the book to. Jim Jones did everything that bible told him to do.

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

Hey, you don't know me. You know 26 letters of the alphabet and your filthy mouth and atheist venom and hatred of mankind and senseless drivel of bigotry, hate, inner angst and venom dripping in hatred as a seering HATER -- once a fundy always a fundy -- all of it is evidenced in your spewing venom at 26 letters in an alphabet.

I was a Deist, around 20 years after rejecting the Bible after coming out of a cult (1975-1991) so blame yourself for your public embarrassment and asenine ignorance.

[trilby80]

SHUT UP NUT!!!!!!!!!

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

trilby80 wrote: "SHUT UP NUT"

Response: wow, that took all of a third grade education, and a 2 year old's mentality.... and a fundy's hatred.

You must've been raised by religious nuts, I mean zealots huh, atheist funda"mental"ist?

Once a fundy, always a hater of humanity... atheist... lose the religion. Get a life. That Atheist religion and the hatred it teaches you is making you insane.

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

Jim Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... moment for Jones in which he asked himself "how can I demonstrate my Marxism? ...

en wikipedia org/wiki/Jim_Jones

yeah, a Marxist.

Marxist, as in ATHEIST Karl Marx and his God-hating, anti-Christ lover Friedrich Engels(Ooo Atheist butcher Stalin) who wrote the Christian hating Communist Manifesto and other junk to make war on Christianity, God and it was such atheist junk that when sent to Darwin, well, Darwin didn't even the read the crap.

[blakjoyatgmail]

YOU'RE A RACIST LOSER

[SaltWaterDiatoms]

I don't know how you squeeze "racist" out my hate of seeing about 1000 minorities, including innocent babies... massacred by a LYING ATHEIST SCUMBAG, who bleated Marxist-Leninist claptrap to poor, vulnerable people.

You can't squeeze "racist" out of my hatred of corruption.

But I think you're a lying socialist here for the sole intent of LYING to people and deceiving them, just as your hero, Jim Jones lied just before ROBBING those people of all they had and handing it over to the USSR.

[terrec]

because its not true. christianity is not "about taking care of church leaders". you would have an exceedingly difficult time converying telling a non-denom christian that. speaking that there are no church leaders with them.. your assumption caves in on itself, for your lack of understanding christianity, not to assume that most do.

[fairskyze]

Horrifying, but there are still menagod out there who have created a sortof compound and work 'their' people with fear tactics. The people are brainwashed-all types of people. People of low and high estate.

[willytheekid]

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

-John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton-1887

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"

-William Pitt -1770

And yet still we allow the few so much power and control over us...and we still pretend they are incorruptible..and just

[kogababe]

And they had to kill themselves on my birthday ._.

Which is also Mickey Mouse's birthday ;D

[mattfire552]

2:45 = mark david chapman status?

[fushheads]

I think it was Stalin who said 1 death is a tragedy, 1 million is a statistic...is that why I don't feel that disraught over the deaths of 909 people?

[thompsontj177]

this is the most horrific happening to ever come about that i know.. how sick of this man to trick these poor people into hell.... its so so sad .. my heart hurts for all these people even tho it happend along time ago.. god bless everyone. and who that does not believe.. i pray u will find god soon.

[rdsoxs86]

this is why i often question religin. the cults infect the mind and alter individual judgement.

[farber207]

@rdsoxs86 - This had nothing to do with religion, the Jim Jones/People's Temple mass suicide in Guyana was a Marxist/Lenninst revolutionary act. Jones was an atheist Marxist who used religion to manipulate people. Hear it in his own words captured on audio here on YouTube, "How could I demonstrate my Marxism? The thought was, infiltrate the church." - Jim Jones

You can watch the clip by searching for:

Jim Jones & Jonestown - Devolution from Political Force to Revolutionary Suicide

[Snakessword]

There were quite a few people in the cult that didnt want to drink the poison, but they were forced to drink at gun point. To tell you the truth. I rather have died by the gun shot to the head than drink that stuff.

[Deguello321]

@Snakessword The connection between the CIA and Jim Jones from the internet:"the most mysterious connection that Jim Jones had was his childhood friend, Dan Mitrione. Mitrione later became Chief of the Richmond PD... Mitrione was later was recruited into the CIA, under State Department cover, in May of 1960, and was trained in counter-insurgency and torture techniques. Coincidentally, Mitrione had traveled to Brazil as an OPS adviser at the U.S. Consulate not long before Jones had arrived.

[pipuk3]

very sad , the kids probley didn't even understand what they were drinking

[LittleMissJuicebox]

oh man, this is crazy.

i just learned about the jonestown massacre yesterday.

some people are just freakin crazy. i don't understand how people can do such horrible things.

[rowlover]

0:42

[ZelloBrosPro]

sad

[superka70]

Sinor Jones is loco!!

[ShadowsLight15]

very intresting