And then I started watching and reading everything I could about cults from all over the world and to my surprise it’s often the opposite, a lot of these people are well educated and well adjusted people until they get sucked in by just the right kind of indoctrination. Not so much the horror of it but the psychological aspect, I find it fascinating that a persons mind can be dominated to the point where they’ll commit the most vile acts when told to, give up all their possessions and hopes and dreams and even their personality.Īnd you’d think these people would be stupid as well, you think “how stupid do you have to be to join a cult?”, I know I did. Yeah that’s the thing about cults, it’s normally fucking horrific but at the same time I find them just downright fascinating. So you avoid other people and stay with the abuser while things get worse and worse. It's like an abusive relationship-it creeps in and you don't realize your situation is so bad because the abuser tells you it's great and other people are the ones who suck. Not Jonestown level but still technically a cult). You're only one person.Īnd I'm not so certain learning about cults keeps you out of them (having grown up in a cult. You can't be responsible for the sorrow of evil in the world. that doesn't mean I don't know these things happened (I'm not ignorant) but I choose to largely focus on positives when I consume media so I can keep myself in the "meh" territory rather than walking around as a constantly sad adult. I can't afford to be constantly bummed out by sad movies and historical documents. My brain is very meh, frequently dipping into the "sad/bad" territory and with almost zero upticks into happy. The irony is that the more Jones kept "testing" them with the fake suicides, the more likely it was for members to assume he wasn't actually going to kill everyone and was just trying to keep them scared and/or alert to "enemies." Even the dead nurse got up and started laughing. I don't remember who laughed first, but after a while even Jones was laughing, and that was about the end of it. It might not sound real funny now, but it was like she was reading the goddamn telephone book, a mile a minute, without even breathing, and after a while you just couldn't keep a straight face. Well, she started going on naming damn near everybody in Jonestown. But, then he got to this one teenage girl, and she said she'd do it just like the rest of them, but she wanted to say goodbye to all her friends first. I mean I'm no medical expert, but I never heard of any poison that takes a person as quick as that.Ī lot of were crying and you could see how hard it was on them but eventually they'd all say they'd do it if that's what decided we had to do. Well, right then I stopped being worried. she took one sip out of this bottle and just kind of keeled over and crumpled up. sent one of the nurses to the medical tent and told us she was going to get the poison, and we were going to do it right then and there. Latest Discussions The Super Mario Bros Movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves John Wick: Chapter 4 Renfield Keanu Reeves Tobey MaguireĪs someone writing an article on Jones, a book I'm citing quotes survivor Odell Rhodes recalling one such drill:
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