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Offline BEG

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Jonestown Paradise Lost
« on: October 02, 2010, 09:09:03 PM »
It's playing right now on the history channel. I can't help but think of the progressives while watching this.
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2010, 09:47:33 AM »
Quote from: BEG on October 02, 2010, 09:09:03 PM
It's playing right now on the history channel. I can't help but think of the progressives while watching this.

Considering his stated goals when founding Georgetown, it's almost TOO creepy.
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2010, 03:47:21 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on October 03, 2010, 09:47:33 AM
Considering his stated goals when founding Georgetown, it's almost TOO creepy.

I googled him after the show. I am surprised how many democrats supported this crazy man. Harvey Milk even wrote letters supporting him.
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2010, 04:05:44 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on October 03, 2010, 09:47:33 AM
Considering his stated goals when founding Georgetown, it's almost TOO creepy.

I use to have a paperback book on that in the bookcase.  Scary stuff. 
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2010, 04:19:48 PM »
Jones was a big admirer of Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Couple that with a messiah complex/serious cocaine addiction and you've got a recipe for mass murder/instigation of suicide.
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2010, 04:46:44 PM »
Quote from: Odin's Hand on October 03, 2010, 04:19:48 PM
Jones was a big admirer of Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Couple that with a messiah complex/serious cocaine addiction and you've got a recipe for mass murder/instigation of suicide.

Sort of reminds me of someone I know....can't seem to place him right now.... think his name starts with an "O"....Odell, O-hell...Opie....Dopie.....
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2010, 06:14:24 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on October 03, 2010, 04:46:44 PM
Sort of reminds me of someone I know....can't seem to place him right now.... think his name starts with an "O"....Odell, O-hell...Opie....Dopie.....

This thread may have to be moved but I thought of the same thing but more of his sheeple type followers that thought the ocean was going to actually lower and the world was going to change by electing one man.  I guarantee, in 2008, more than 1000 followers would have followed him to the ends of the earth to find their Utopia, that is if their travel and food was covered.   
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2010, 07:41:53 PM »
What a creepy man! I got chills watching that....and yes I can totally see the DUmmies.
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Re: Jonestown Paradise Lost
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2010, 08:22:17 PM »
Jim Jones was a hard core Stalinist. He wanted to go to the Soviet Union. That guy is the personification of evil.
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