Jonestown

[Glenn's take]

There is a new documentary on Hulu about it that is good. I know it's semantics but was it a mass suicide or mass murder or both. I say both. The kids being forced to drink it by the adults I say murder. Not only did Jim Jones tell them it was poison before they drank it but they mentioned that they had a "practice" where he told them they were drinking poison even though they weren't and punished those that didn't drink it.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

Didn’t they start shooting people that wouldn’t drink it?

 

[PhDcat2018]

There is a new documentary on Hulu about it that is good. I know it's semantics but was it a mass suicide or mass murder or both. I say both. The kids being forced to drink it by the adults I say murder. Not only did Jim Jones tell them it was poison before they drank it but they mentioned that they had a "practice" where he told them they were drinking poison even though they weren't and punished those that didn't.

What's it called? Jonestown is such a sad, but interesting story.

 

[J_Dee]

I was a toddler when Jonestown went down, but growing up, I heard all about Jones and his mentor William Branham constantly. A branch of my family were members of The Park, the cult of Branham's lesser-known student, Leo Mercer, much to my grandparents' dismay. All things considered, those family members got off lucky, because they could've gone with Jones just as easily as they did Mercer.

 

[Glenn's take]

What's it called? Jonestown is such a sad, but interesting story.

Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown. It's only 3 episode.

 

[ukalum1988]

Didn’t they start shooting people that wouldn’t drink it?

Yes they did. The majority drank the Kool Aid willingly, but a good number did not and had their death hastened by others.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

The question should be which flavor Kool-Aid would you choose as your last?

Obviously grape and lemonade were really good but I think I would go with orange.

 

[WildcatFan1982]

What if instead of flavorade it was fun dip?

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

I was a toddler when Jonestown went down, but growing up, I heard all about Jones and his mentor William Branham constantly. A branch of my family were members of The Park, the cult of Branham's lesser-known student, Leo Mercer, much to my grandparents' dismay. All things considered, those family members got off lucky, because they could've gone with Jones just as easily as they did Mercer.

Wait…as in the Branham church archives near Charlestown IN? The place is under 24/7 police surveillance

 

[KYExtemper]

Didn’t they start shooting people that wouldn’t drink it?

Yes. They also forcibly injected unwilling people with it.

 

[J_Dee]

Wait…as in the Branham church archives near Charlestown IN? The place is under 24/7 police surveillance

Probably. Branham was very active in Indiana. He's buried there, and that's where he met and mentored Jones (Jones actually founded Jonestown based on some of Branham's prophecies).

 

[MrHotDice]

Where “drink the kool aid” started in hip culture.

 

[*CatinIL*]

 

[PhDcat2018]

The question should be which flavor Kool-Aid would you choose as your last?

Obviously grape and lemonade were really good but I think I would go with orange.

Gtg cherry. Grape would not work with me as I'd instantly puke before any poison.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

RIP... he wasn't the best in the Dipset.. but still a member non-the-less.

 

[TucsonCat]

Didn’t they start shooting people that wouldn’t drink it?

As well as a congressman and some of his staff that had come to check on them.

 

[J_Dee]

Crazy, crazy stuff.



I wonder if Greg Locke's sheep would drink poisoned Kool-Aid if he asked.

 

[PhDcat2018]

The son on the documentary complained that people using "drink the kool-aid" "dehumanized" the victims and should stop it.

Man, you knew your dad was batshit crazy and did what to stop it? You "hated" your father but just went along with this and got lucky to not be present.

He comes across as negligent and insincere to me. Maybe I'm the only one that thinks that?