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For the record, this isn't about Mr. Ballin' so if you came here for that you can go head and hit the back button. (Although Dipset is like a cult
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Alright. There's a lot I want to say, but I'm not going to risk writing a long and not one person read it.
But every once in a while, I'll do some research on a topic that I'm not that familiar with. If you don't wanna read this whole post I'llunderstand but there's a few comments that I'll highlight at the end.
Today I decided to look into the Jim Jones guy. I'll admit, all I knew in the past is that he rounded up a bunch of crazy people, and convinced them todrink purple kool-aid. I'll also admit that I let my own ignorance convince me that these people were white, without even having any knowledge on thepeople.
Well when I found out that the majority of his congregation/followers were black, I couldn't believe it. I guess I let the Waco TX, and the Heaven'sgate stigma stay in my brain.
So I asked myself, what in the hell would make all of these Blacks follow a lunatic like Jones.
After a little more research, I started to realize that poverty was the catalyst that led people to believe in Jones Ideals.
He had these people believing that they would be living in an egalitarian society where their needs would be forever met.
It made me think that the conditions in America were partially to blame. True enough this was the true definition of deviant behavior, but sometimes it takesdeviant behavior to make the general population realize something is terribly wrong.
But I'm really trying to understand how intelligent people can be brainwashed by a lisping, conning, drug addict like thisman.
I listened to the last speech that Jones gave his followers. I guess this is known as the Death Tape. He was talking straightnon-sense, and only one person stood up and said that she did not want to die. Not that she was afraid to die, but that she wasn't ready to die. She wasshunned by the rest of the people, and I guess she eventually gave up.
The Death Speech
Lastly, I'm wondering, if you all refer to this as a Mass-Suicide, or a Mass-Murder? The children were the first ones todrink the poison, and in the video you can here them crying and screaming. That's murder to me.
Alright. There's a lot I want to say, but I'm not going to risk writing a long and not one person read it.
But every once in a while, I'll do some research on a topic that I'm not that familiar with. If you don't wanna read this whole post I'llunderstand but there's a few comments that I'll highlight at the end.
Today I decided to look into the Jim Jones guy. I'll admit, all I knew in the past is that he rounded up a bunch of crazy people, and convinced them todrink purple kool-aid. I'll also admit that I let my own ignorance convince me that these people were white, without even having any knowledge on thepeople.
Well when I found out that the majority of his congregation/followers were black, I couldn't believe it. I guess I let the Waco TX, and the Heaven'sgate stigma stay in my brain.
So I asked myself, what in the hell would make all of these Blacks follow a lunatic like Jones.
After a little more research, I started to realize that poverty was the catalyst that led people to believe in Jones Ideals.
He had these people believing that they would be living in an egalitarian society where their needs would be forever met.
It made me think that the conditions in America were partially to blame. True enough this was the true definition of deviant behavior, but sometimes it takesdeviant behavior to make the general population realize something is terribly wrong.
But I'm really trying to understand how intelligent people can be brainwashed by a lisping, conning, drug addict like thisman.
I listened to the last speech that Jones gave his followers. I guess this is known as the Death Tape. He was talking straightnon-sense, and only one person stood up and said that she did not want to die. Not that she was afraid to die, but that she wasn't ready to die. She wasshunned by the rest of the people, and I guess she eventually gave up.
The Death Speech
Lastly, I'm wondering, if you all refer to this as a Mass-Suicide, or a Mass-Murder? The children were the first ones todrink the poison, and in the video you can here them crying and screaming. That's murder to me.