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Jonestown mass suicide

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发表于 2015-6-27 19:44 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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本帖最后由 billzhao 于 2015-6-27 19:45 编辑 # @0 ~+ Y, P; T0 j% j) h

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% o+ B% t7 \+ p7 m# rNew documentary explores Jonestown mass suicide
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! i4 i* E9 ]1 A  |% T, |. x, ^Twenty-eight years later, what's left to say about Jonestown? Nine hundred members of a religious cult followed their fanatical leader to Guyana and willingly committed suicide by drinking a Kool-Aid-like mixture laced with cyanide. : P) y0 o5 R$ H, x8 q) _  Q% V) m" A
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What more could there be to the story? Plenty, it turns out.
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! T% n( U9 W1 c1 ?Nelson interviewed more than two dozen former members of Jim Jones' controversial Peoples Temple, including some who survived the Jonestown mass suicide -- which, by the way, looks more like mass murder now. And Nelson has unearthed dramatic video and sound recordings -- never seen or heard before that shed new light on the establishment, development and downfall of the Peoples Temple, right up until the moment Jim Jones passes out the cups.% C2 D1 w3 ?: {  p$ B

0 ?: ]* @7 N5 fThe most chilling part of the film is the audio tape of Jones urging his followers to choose death over persecution. I heard, for the first time, the emotionally-pitched debate between Jones and parishioners who would rather live than die in the South American jungle. It was like a scene out of Apocalypse Now, only this time, the killing was real.
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I also learned that Jim Jones didn't suddenly take a hard left onto the highway of darkness. He was deeply disturbed from childhood, and is even suspected of abusing animals, something many experts believe is a hallmark of an emerging psychopath.
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8 W5 n) F8 m/ ^. |0 n& G2 K8 PWhat's most tragic though is that Jones' followers don't come off as a cult of religious deviants. They were -- for the most part -- earnest people, attracted to the Peoples Temple for the sense of community they couldn't find in their own lives. It gave them a feeling of belonging, though as the years wore on and Jones' insanity escalated, membership came at an ever-increasing, and in the end, ultimate price.
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