by james_woods 26 Replies latest jw experiences
I remember it, but I was not a witness at the time...
A lady I worked with would often tell me about going to Jim Jones's church...I'm not sure where, seems like it was in Indianapolis, IN.
She didn't go to Guyana...
I wish I had paid more attention, may have kept me from getting involved with the witness...
Cas
I was a kid at the time, but I remember it. We lived in Northern California at the time, so it was fairly close to home; in fact I think my mom had a very distant cousin who was one of the Jonestown victims.
I believe they pre-empted the Service Meeting agenda the week that it happened to give a talk about the dangers of cults or something; I don't remember specifics. Jonestown's been popping up in my head a lot lately.
Wow pseattle2 - a JW special meeting on the "dangers of cults".
I will have to remember that the next time I get asked for an example of an Oxymoron.
Just like it was yesterday. November 1978. We had a brand new baby girl at home and I was just entering my serious doubting phase. I could not escape the blood transfusion/ kool aid drinking similarities. It stayed with me all through my transition and dishonorable discharge.
I was very young when it happened, so I don't remember any JW reactions. But I do bring it up a lot in conversations now, just to see what my JW friends/family will say.
The reaction is almost universal... something along the lines of:
"That's what happens when people put their faith in men"
I just want to shake them when they say that. Why can't hey step back and listen to their own words. They just don't get it.
I was 10 years old when it happened and I remember it vividly. The scene: hundreds of people lying dead. From the air they looked like confetti. I don't remember the reactions in my congregation, but at home was pure shock.
come on guys...you always look at the negative.....think how fertile those fields are..........(disclaimer....ninja is talking pish as usual)
I was just 19 and baptized for about a month. I remember thinking that the JW's essentially were asking the same thing of it's members with the blood issue. Also, at that time the witnesses were loosing their lives and families undergoing horrific persecution in Malawi. I could see simularities with Jim Jones and the Watchtower however, I put it in the back of my mind and went on in the "lie" for almost another 25 years. This just shows how people can be swept along in a dangerous cult.
NewYork44M, are you from Lynn? I've driven by Jim Jones' childhood home in Lynn many a time.
NewYork44M, I just looked at the bio and he graduated from Richmond High. I lived in Richmond when I met my husband. We were married in a Lutheran Church in Richmond, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran out on W. Main, across from the radio station.
Small world!
