The Reverend Jim Jones

[TonyClifton]

Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.

Over 200 children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of whom were forcibly made to ingest cyanide by the elite Temple members.

http://petersaintclair.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/jimjones-e13008179734695.jpg

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

Reverend James Warren "Jim" Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip.

Over 200 children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of whom were forcibly made to ingest cyanide by the elite Temple members.

http://petersaintclair.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/jimjones-e13008179734695.jpg

My hero....giving religious nut jobs what they asked for, a meeting with the ever loving and super nice guy god.

 

[hobbit.]

what song does the line..

"and you'd take a drink from the reverend jimmy jones"

come from?

 

[Adre]

Not a total loss. We got " don't drink the Kool-Aid" out of that event, right?

 

[hobbit.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-i6yQCJOs

 

[hobbit.]

I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few
I cracked a can and so did you, we're going to change the world
The ghetto kings of downside town-the estates and parks of our hallowed ground
Doing anything that we found, and on the river flowed
You'd take a drink from Rev. Jimmy Jones
You'd cross the street on the path the gunman roams
Thrown aside and left to waste, that was you - you knew your place
Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed


On and on the river flow - we are the undertow


On and on the river flow - we are the undertow


I don't know how you made it through all the smoke and brew you do
It sure has left its mark on you but you're still with us today
Life goes on and round we go and words can kill these things I know
Sometimes you cut deeply so, but on the river flows
You'd set the table for barber Sweeney Todd
You'd clip the wings of any rising god
But man can't live on hope alone, it can be cut all that is grown
Broke your spirit but not your bones and on the river flows


CHORUS


You're working now - forced to the race
I know it left a bitter taste
But the rising tide had covered your face
Nothing you could do
But I still remember the day you said
That the river flowing through my head
Would take me far or leave me dead
And all you said was true

 

[about_average]

I'm sure there's a point to this thread, but I'm totally missing it.
But yeah, I remember 11-18-78.

 

[shewantsmore]

I'm sure there's a point to this thread, but I'm totally missing it.
But yeah, I remember 11-18-78.

was it really that long ago,surprised its not happened again somewhere