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cults: remember Jim "Jimbob" Jones Cool-Aid of 197

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...just imagine a paki or arab jim jones with loads of cash and you will UNDERSTAND everything THAT has being going on very clearly... on how hundreds of weak souls, poor kids and crackheads turned muslims have become lethal human bombs readying themselves for mass suicide, just think those somali wouldbe clown so called bombers as jim jones biitches who this time instead of being fed cyanide-laced cool-Aid, that would have implied some brains on these clowns, rather they were given backpacks full of explosives Embarassed
the only question remains how many Jonestowns are these paki and arab terrorists running? and where are they located and are they any more stupid somalis sitting at the table reading to drink that cyanide cool-aid or maybe they will tell them it is zamzam water? Embarassed

Otali

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James Warren "Jimbob" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the cult the Peoples Temple. On 18 November 1978, Jones and most of the Peoples Temple's members, more than 900, committed collective suicide in their intentional community called Jonestown, located in the jungle of Guyana.

Jones was born in Crete, Indiana, near Lynn, Indiana and was the son of James Thurman Jones and Lynetta. He became a preacher in 1950s and founded a church with the name Wings of deliverance that he renamed into People's Temple Full Gospel Church, located in Indianapolis. He gained respectibility when he became an ordained minister in 1964 in the mainstream christian denomination Disciples of Christ. The church was exceptional for its equal treatment of African Americans and many of them became members of the church. He started a struggle for racial equality and social justice, which he dubbed "apostolic socialism". He claimed to be an incarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, the Buddha, Lenin, and Father Divine and performed fake miracle healings to attract new members. Members of Jones' Peoples Temple called Jones Dad and believed that their movement was the solution to the problems of society and many did not distinguish Jones from the movement.

The groups gradually moved away from a mainstream Christian to a group that mainly advocated social justice.

Jones was arrested in Los Angeles on December 13, 1973, and charged with soliciting an undercover police officer for sex in an area of MacArthur Park known for homosexual activity at the time. He was on record as telling his followers that he was "the only true heterosexual," but at least one account exists of his sexually abusing a member of his congregation in front of the followers, ostensibly to prove that man's own gay tendencies.

One of his sources of inspiration was the controversial cult leader Father Divine. He borrowed the concept of "revolutionary suicide" from black panther leader Huey Newton who had argued the slow suicide of life in the ghetto ought to be replaced by revolutionary suicide that would end only in victory or death.

George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco appointed Reverend Jim Jones to the city's Housing Commission.

Jones founded Jonestown in Guyana; In the summer of 1977 the bulk of the cult members including Jones moved to the town that was a closed society of Jones' followers. It has been argued that Jones' authority waned after he moved to the isolated commune, because there he was not needed anymore for recruitment and he could not hide his drug addiction from rank and file members. 1 Consequently he lost some his power to inner-circle members.

Thirteen followers left Jonestown with a reporter. In 1978, all the remaining inhabitants of Jonestown committed suicide that Jones called "revolutionary suicide" or murder on Jones's instructions by drinking cyanide-laced Flavor Aid, by cyanide injection, or by shooting. Jones was found dead with a shot in the head, sitting in a deck chair. The autopsy on his body showed levels of medicine that are lethal to humans who have not developed physiological tolerance.

Jones was married to Marceline Jones. They had one biological son, Stephan Jones, who survived the mass suicide. He claimed to be the biological father of John Victor Stoen, who was the legal son of Grace Stoen and her husband Timothy Stoen. The custody dispute about John Victor Stoen had great symbolic value for the Peoples Temple.
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