Usually I find myself searching almost seemingly random topics daily, ranging from the Crusades and earlier wars with muskets, Plato's unfinished Critias, Antarctica, the evolution of spiders, etc. those are a few examples I can see in my recent internet history.
But this past entire week I've been interested in the People's Temple and Jonestown, having watched 3 entire documentaries on it and reading articles written by Stephan Jones (Jim Jones' biological son which is still alive today) and to me it's just fascinating how one man had talked people into killing themselves (except for a handful of survivors of course).
While it is tragic, especially for those survivors having lost nearly entire families due to this incident, it's at the same time fascinating. Jim Jones, a drug-abusing psycho, could do all of this, and it was mostly on his own, those that helped him were his followers, he convinced them to help them. He brainwashed 913 people into killing themselves. It's almost unbelievable, but as I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I will not deny that it did.
And honestly I'm quite surprised that there hasn't been people that had tried to revive this religion, while if someone tried I'd see them as really ridiculous, I'm surprised that nobody has.
Why? Because today, in this messed up world, it's hard to find organizations, even the most wicked ones, that people do not try to revive. I've even seen some self proclaimed Aztec revivalists, on Google it's not hard to find websites that talk about reviving Sumerian polytheism, and everyone knows there are people who are walking around calling themselves Neo-Nazi's and are fond of Hitler's work in Germany. Hell, on yahoo answers, I can recall meeting a person saying the Berlin Wall was a good thing. But yet, there hasn't been a single person who came on the internet and listed their religion as "People's Temple"
To be honest, I would've seen People's Temple to have an easy chance at resurrecting, its sole basis was of Socialism, which is a very popular philosophy in modern times.
Again, not saying it SHOULD be revived, just saying that to me, it's surprising nobody has been crazy enough to try to call themselves a member of that religion or trying to bring the religion back, not even small evidence of a troll saying that they are trying to. To me, that's no where near as crazy as, like I said, Aztec revivalism, and if I remember correctly, I met this "aztec revivalist" on THESE forums (though they were inactive at the time I encountered them).
And another thing, the main thing actually, that I wanted to discuss: It wasn't too long ago that the events of People's Temple took place. Was anyone here alive during those times and have heard about it? What did you think about it before the mass murder-suicice? Did you know it was crazy from the start, perhaps some ideas of the Temple caught your interest? Perhaps, even, someone here was effected by it?
But this past entire week I've been interested in the People's Temple and Jonestown, having watched 3 entire documentaries on it and reading articles written by Stephan Jones (Jim Jones' biological son which is still alive today) and to me it's just fascinating how one man had talked people into killing themselves (except for a handful of survivors of course).
While it is tragic, especially for those survivors having lost nearly entire families due to this incident, it's at the same time fascinating. Jim Jones, a drug-abusing psycho, could do all of this, and it was mostly on his own, those that helped him were his followers, he convinced them to help them. He brainwashed 913 people into killing themselves. It's almost unbelievable, but as I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I will not deny that it did.
And honestly I'm quite surprised that there hasn't been people that had tried to revive this religion, while if someone tried I'd see them as really ridiculous, I'm surprised that nobody has.
Why? Because today, in this messed up world, it's hard to find organizations, even the most wicked ones, that people do not try to revive. I've even seen some self proclaimed Aztec revivalists, on Google it's not hard to find websites that talk about reviving Sumerian polytheism, and everyone knows there are people who are walking around calling themselves Neo-Nazi's and are fond of Hitler's work in Germany. Hell, on yahoo answers, I can recall meeting a person saying the Berlin Wall was a good thing. But yet, there hasn't been a single person who came on the internet and listed their religion as "People's Temple"
To be honest, I would've seen People's Temple to have an easy chance at resurrecting, its sole basis was of Socialism, which is a very popular philosophy in modern times.
Again, not saying it SHOULD be revived, just saying that to me, it's surprising nobody has been crazy enough to try to call themselves a member of that religion or trying to bring the religion back, not even small evidence of a troll saying that they are trying to. To me, that's no where near as crazy as, like I said, Aztec revivalism, and if I remember correctly, I met this "aztec revivalist" on THESE forums (though they were inactive at the time I encountered them).
And another thing, the main thing actually, that I wanted to discuss: It wasn't too long ago that the events of People's Temple took place. Was anyone here alive during those times and have heard about it? What did you think about it before the mass murder-suicice? Did you know it was crazy from the start, perhaps some ideas of the Temple caught your interest? Perhaps, even, someone here was effected by it?
