Jonestown Mass Suicide: Revisiting The Cult That Ended With The Deaths Of 900 | TODAY
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- It began as charismatic preacher Jim Jones’ attempt to build a socialist utopia, but it ended with the deaths of more than 900 people in a remote settlement in Guyana known as Jonestown. NBC’s Joe Fryer reports the second installment of TODAY’s “Cults & Crimes” series.
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Jonestown Mass Suicide: Revisiting The Cult That Ended With The Deaths Of 900 | TODAY
I am from Guyana and i also still live here, trust me when i say this.... Jonestown is now fully covered in bushes and dense jungle but the trail tracks are still there and as soon as you enter that region you can literally feel death, much like a horror film. The entire place feels like something is pulling you down to the ground. We did some surveying work there and had to stay overnight...I WILL NEVER EVER GO BACK TO THAT PLACE.
The sounds you hear in that jungle at night....your sanity says it's animals, but your realization knows it's not.
There is still the signboard at the starting point that says 'JONESTOWN' and the famous quote
'Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it'
I watched a video a few days ago of what Jonestown looks like today. It looks just as you described. As interesting as it (the video) was, I know I'd be totally creeped out if I ever went there, but with my morbid curiosity, I know I'd visit the area if I had the opportunity. I would want to plant flowers or something in honor of all who died. I was 12 when this happened (in my 50's now), and the impact I felt at that young age is still almost as strong today when I think about it or watch these youtube videos. It was an awful, awful event. God love all those people...I hope they are all resting in peace.
@@blinderII you're welcome.
Hey is it hunted I'm a TH-camr looking to visit there im also Guyanese... I was told that you can hear screaming in the night. Is that true? I love the paranormal .
Im jumping in here. I was in the Army during this time. I was Graves Registration and our section was sent there to conduct body recovery. I was one of a very few that placed the bodies in bags and move them to the collection point. One night I was walking past the pavillion where most of the dead lay in the open. I saw something dancing in amoung the dead. I looked away for a second and when I looked back it was gone. The place is the devil's playground I tell ya.
@@howardclegg6497 Yes it really is. Alot of creepy stuff still goes on there
Can we please stop calling this a "Mass Suicide" for the children were murdered, people were murdered. Thank you!
we can call it a mass murder!
Absolutely! For that is exactly what it was, a Mass Murder!!
***** some people did do that hun
amerika352 it's classified as Mass Murder/Suicide, and since there were more people who took their own lives then murdered, most consider it a mass suicide. The most notable murder was when they shot the people escaping on a plane, which killed a congressman and 2 reporters of NBC
Mass suicide and mass murder.
It’s not suicide when you have to choose between drinking poison, or being gunned down
Trump Da Stoner forced suicide is murder
Forced suicide is murder.
@Suprise, Eviction NoticeWhat does that have to do with her intelligence?
Being gunned down is the better option
Idd rather get shot than drimk pioson.
666 like
I very surprised that Hollywood still didn't made this into a movie.
South park did when all the cows commited suicide
AHS touched on it
Technically not Hollywood, but Outlast 2 is practically the same as this.
Because Hollywood won't dare make it's political party (crazy dems) look bad in a movie.
The movie, "The Sacrament" is based from this.
people like jim jones are the reason followers should steer clear of preachers who call themselves the second coming
my neighbor tania
The fact Jesus Himself said to steer clear of anyone calling themselves that is an even better reason!
my neighbor tania I was going to say the same thing. Spot on
I agree and also a good reason to read and know what is actually in the Bible. Jim Jones twisted scripture and told people of things that Jones said were in the Bible that were actually not in the Bible. Jones was a master at manipulation who brainwashed people a little at a time.
Trump seems to sound the same to me . Jones complained of "media lies" and Trump with his "fake news" comments every single day ?
Around 50 were also shot trying to escape being forced to drink cyanide. They never say that
lickitysplit roberts I didn’t know that. Tx for the info
Source?
Shot AF?
what is the reason for this mass suicide?
If I remember, they showed it in the TV movie Guyana tragedy.
I love the way he ended this video,the words he used. “I have to except the tragedy that my father caused,but he caused it not me.” That is so true. It wasn’t his fault. It was his father’s fault.
He was adopted. Id be like..well im not his true son so i can sleep well at night!
Let’s not forget his son was 18 and married at that time and very much apart of his father’s business.. he may not have put the poison in the juice and he may not have forced everyone to drink it but he didn’t try to stop it either! Jim gave off warnings early on with his test runs to see if the people would actually commit mass suicide, as well as showing signs of psychosis, kicking members out and refusing to allow them to take their children, and on many occasions not allowing people to leave, holding them hostage against their will.. so he has to accept some responsibility as he did nothing to stop it!
Jones Jr helped his father’s cause.
accept
He still stands up for his father though and is obviously still radicalised.
just found out today that my grandfather was the pilot that got those us reporters out of there alive. some of them had already been shot. this story resonates with me much deeper now and i pray for the families that are connected to it as well.
Uh huh
@noughnami 😐
Jim Jones looked like a bootleg Elvis Presley
Omg yeah he did!!!
An evil one!
He did that intentionally to look cool
Camper Van Elvis I toof on you he had a huge face!
he left the building alright
Most of the people who died did not commit suicide but were murdered. They did not willingly drink the spiked punch but were forced to do so. I do not consider it a mass suicide as so many categorize it as but a mass murder.
Youre wrong.. Majority took it willingly
Elise Fincher negative
these are adults not children so they had a choice.
ryanr20091 well a lot of them were held down and forcibly injected with cyanide, threatened by armed guards when they tried to leave so if that's them being given a choice....
Elise Fincher most of them took it willingly plus what guns are you talking about there were 3 ever theire
My grandpa told me the story once about how he was suppose to be on the bus leaving from Oakland but missed the bus 🥴
i escaped from there too... when cyanide was being served.. i told jones that i want to poo... he said yeah go... i went in to bushes.. pooed and ran away🍸🍸
@@Studyforum69 quick thinking I'm a guyanese and I'm still living in Guyana I wasn't even born yet when that took place
@@Studyforum69 wait were you actually there
@@arashjalali9661 lmao are you stupid ?
@@arashjalali9661no are you dumb he’s clearly faking it
Jim Jones Jr, referring to his father, "I have to remember, he caused it, not me". Yes, an important historical principle.
Its kinda sad that Jim Jones Jr. still believed in his father's "cause" and "proud of his upbringing" when his brother, Stephan (Jim Jones' biological son), outright says that their father was a controlling, paranoid addict whose beliefs were superficial, hypocritical and extremely manipulative--a megalomaniac and a coward. Jim Jones never believed in any of the things he preached.
Well... Cause Socialism REAL SOCIALISM is based in moral truth. Sadly ego maniacs with Capitalist fascist upbringing infiltrate and stomp it out.
@@rumblefish9 Still can't really blame him, if that was how his actual son saw Jim Jones then that just means that he used his adopted son as a mere propaganda tool. What a horrible monster.
Lol gets away with it because he's black. What young whites say about slavery
This was a mass murder not suicide
The audio tape shows that most seemed to enthusiastically agree with Jones. They cheered for the murders at the airstrip!
Suicide.
They chose to drink it knowing it was cyanide.
People are so dumb that they let god blur their vision of the real world
Pro_Rman and what about all the people who it was forcibly injected into and those who were shot?
Pro_Rman No. People are dumb when they let their idea of God blur them. God would never want this Deuteronomy 23:17 literally says, There shall be no cult among the sons and daughters of Israel. It’s not suicide when people were shot and poisoned
@@DhirC35 about 50 people got shot because they didn't wanna drink it
Wow what a coward Jones didn't even drink the punch himself
Of course not! That's a Democrat for you!
@@blunthonest1 This was about a man, not a Party. Jones left the States, so that he could control his Congregation and not have to face scrutiny that he, like many Big Church personalities (mostly right-wing Republicans) was an embezzling fraud. Democratic Cong. Ryan risked himself to rescue these people, paying for it with his life.
What are you doing? Eating Jim Bakker's slop, while listening to Trump's Coronarallies?
@@Libertyjack1 Kneel and enjoy another 4 more years of your daddy!! Trump 2020!
@@blunthonest1 Cults don't care about your political party...they rip you away from all of that and then destroy you.
X nice one, really funny
"I also have to accept the horrific tragedy that my father caused. But he caused it. Not me." Jim Jones Jr. I'm glad he survived.
Perhaps he can help spread his father's original message
@@Yugiohfans11 no, stop it
He is to be admired. (Jr.)
It was mass senseless death.
He was supposed to go there and be prepared to die also. But he defied his father. The only reason that he's alive today.
I remember my mom watching a movie about this and told her how messed up it would be if it happened it real life. She told me it did and I immediately got on my computer to watch a documentary. I was saddened and horrified that this happened and that so many people thought this was okay until it was too late. Sad..
They are lien soo hard, Jonestown was a mind control experiment that experimented on black people mostly women & children they were trying to accomplish slavery with mind control .. Most of the people at Jonestown were wards of the state! Do not believe the popular media story... it's a lie
Which documentary?
okay so it's not suicide. it was mass murder
It was both
Why not both?
@@canwereachsubwithoutanyv-yd1fs Yes both
I'd everyone to look up the def of cult......ill give it a few.....
Those that killed themselves knowingly its sucide. As for the minority that were forced it was murder
"It's better to live for a cause, than die for it."
Wow.
Yolo Swaggins That wasn't a good cause at all
Lisa Jackson at first it was. He helped so many people get off dope and housed them then something in him changed for the worst.
@@haumea420 that's pretty much how socialism works.
Wtf is your picture.
@@shanes.9016 you dont seem to know what socialism actually is.
Leo ryan was one of my grandpa's teachers in high school, he always gets real sad when he talks about him, says he was a very nice person
As a proud Guyanese, I can say this horrific tragedy has left a stain on the country. I mean as soon as I explain to someone where my parents come from, they only know “Jonestown”. 😢
I agree Rosy. Many people only know of our country because of this incident. It's a shame.
Yes.
you can make a lot of money from tourism
Imagine being a young kid, and having your parent or someone inject you or force feed you cyanide. Terrifying
Imagine being a young child roughly 5 years; and a mother who lives in a state (doesn’t matter which), either them or someone else starts to inject that child with hormones that are designed to block testosterone and change a boy to a girl as physically as possible (notice: physically)?
What an abhorrent thought! Lol bet you along all other women are cheering on democrats as they allow males to compete in women’s track. You made your bed now lay in it. You’re a woman, you’re clearly from California and you’re a communist
@@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL u need help bud
@@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL this whole comment is 2 + 2 = 17
@@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL lmao you don't actually think trans kids get injected with hormones do you? must be sad being so ignorant
@@DuncanWilliamsOFFICIAL word brother
It was murder plain and simple!!!!
Jim Jones so
Mass murder
So basically this guy tricked everyone into a no-way-out situation and everyone died and many of them knew they were about to die and were probably scared shitless. What a psychopath this "Jim Jones" was.
Did anyone notice this dudes name? 😂
@@skwerl4030 If you listen to the "death tape", they shouted down the only person resisting mass suicide. Jim Jones convinced the followers to die for the "Revolution" which the vast majority did of their own accord. The unedited recording is available for all to hear. The parallels between Jim Jones and today's socialist movement is scary. Both espouse hatred for capitalism, the rich, the white man, gun control, and promise equality. How often does this work?
This is one of the saddest tragedies in human history. RIP all victims!
I was 12 years old when that happened. I can remember the news broadcast just as vividly as if they happened yesterday.
Heh, that's a funny way to spell murder
Nah, it was suicide.
Melvin Merkelhopper at gunpoint? I’d say that’s murder
Melvin Merkelhopper WTF IS WRONG WITH U THEY WERE SHOT
Melvin Merkelhopper murder
@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 well some were willing to and some wanted out but were forced to including the children
4:53 Those people must’ve felt awkward when they found out they were cheering and waving when they were talking about the massacre
🤣😂 I'm weak
Tina Tina... wot
California is a goldmine it seems. Just think how big a following Manson could have had if he used the religious angle like Jones.
The girl in the grey hat was extremely happy and probably the most embarrassed 😭😭😭
@@williamkeltner5119 I'm pretty sure he has enough followers who admire his craft still, but I know what you mean
I'm glad Jim Jones Jr was able to move forward in his life.
Jonestown was a very beautiful place and it would've been a complete success, without the man who started it. Reverend Jones was the type of guy who builds a house, then tears it down.
In fact surviving members of People's Temple have recounted that during Jones' absence from Jonestown the atmosphere was "lightly" people dancing, music playing in the houses etc. But when Jones returned to the settlement a "dark cloud" desended and the atmosphere in Jonestown did a complete 360. Really tell people a lot about Jones' character.
"Beware of false prophets "
Prez Dimbulb
*prophets
There are no true ones.
@@abhishekpremidroch3677 Source?
Aug 21, 2019 President Trump: 'I am the chosen one'
@@Backlashed correct, he was chosen by the majority of electoral votes.
I had no idea these types of situations actually exist. The thought of something like this actually happening in our world sends chills down my spine.
The human mind is so easy to manipulate
Heavens gate happen more recently.
@@daveborn1971 wdym
@@Chilakilos
Someone said, "if given chance, they would do the same as H1tler"
Honestly , i highly believe it
Human race is disgusting.
Im glad you're that naive, I genuinely mean that. The world is very a cold and dark place if you know where to look.
Such a haunting audio. It's so much more eerie in this day and age of social media to just have the voices. Christine trying to negotiate their lives to go to Russia is heart breaking. And the children crying in the background is horrifying.
4:54 It feels weird they’re discussing such a devastating tragedy, and there’s people cheering outside in the background to be on tv lol
It is crazy what pride can do to a person. Lucifer in the Bible started out as a great angel, but pride took over as he wanted to surpass God in Heaven. In the end, too much pride is never a good thing.
Charlie Boy2 You are spreading lies
Charlie Boy2 God is real the same and with angels and Lucifer wether you want to believe it or not
@Rowan Melton really? Where's the statistics that can prove that?
@Rowan Melton not true at all actually.
Charlie Boy2 and that is fine, believe what you want to...but making a mockery of and trying to change what others believe is completely wrong
Along with Nazis this is another sad example of how easily brainwashed humans we endure.
bc they are damaged
Poor people can be targeted easily.(Example) If I give a person who is dying of thirst, small amounts of water every 2 hours and in between those hours I talk to them about a 'religion' I am starting up, then by the time that person is hydrated and doesn't need water, they will consider me a saviour and genuinely love me. It's a psychological game.
polifatts so being against racism homophobia and sexism makes you brainwashed
Ohio Girl you can be against it but you don't have to force it on any other people.
YeHoshua-Shoa Goldstein Shekulburg yeah you kind of do
nice reporting!
I remember seeing that on the news, I was a freshman in high school, it blew my mind, then later watched the movie the Guyana tragedy, story of Jim Jones, it’s so sad how people Blindly followed him, I also believe that in the very beginning, his intentions were good, but then he allowed the drugs to take over, and let his ego take over
Anyone that preaches against Christ the way he did was rotten from the dead beginning.
The photos of all the dead bodies are sickening
I almost vomited when I saw Jones’ corpse.
Why doesn't it look like 914 people, though...? If you start counting, there aren't enough. I wonder why the numbers are clearly wrong. If you've eyeballed X amount of people before, say at a venue...this doesn't look like 914.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 apparently, bodies were under others bodies, like piles. At first they say there were like 400 deaths people.
"Jim Jones Jr." Yeaa, not really a badge of honor is it? I would've changed my name as soon as I saw the footage of the bodies.
What would you have changed it to?
Probably would of changed it to some random name like “Adolf Hitler” or “Benito Mussolini”
@@jonathanlucas4848 well-played
I think he's still brainwashed and still sees J.J senior as a great leader
@@suzannescorner199 i think you could be right. de-programming can be super tough
“The story begins in America”
Because of course it does.
I love so much how they're all talking about the mass murder-suicide at the end while people on the street just wave and smile from outside 😭
Killed 900 people with one punch
Samantha Heart-Gaming badum tss
Oh no please u didnt
Lmao
Yes by a Lunatic American
the real life One Punch Man
The lesson should be: Don't follow crazy guys; find your own spirituality
AMEN!!!!!
Derek Fisher exactly
lol keep telling yourself that
Matthew Blum Find your own place and love yourself and God....
Derek Fisher Your consciousness is God, therefore you must look within to find the one that you seek. It is God, the same way a drop of water is to an ocean. Understand this. It is not a separate being.
Such a tragedy. How awful those final moments must have been.
It started off as a really beautiful endeavor. Man, did it go wrong. So many good, decent people led astray by a malignant narcissist.
4:50 "Yeah it's so sad what happened to all those children..."
People in the background: "WOOOO I'M ON TV HI MOM!"
This reminds me so much of the Branch Davidians in Waco, in the way that there were so many children that died. I feel especially badly for them as they don't even get the chance to make decisions or mistakes, for that matter.
I would be embarrassed if I was the mom
This can happen again because there are so many lost people out there who will follow anyone who offers them hope.
You even see it in politicians, but the media is watching them, but the media is not watching the street corner con artist who may be the next Jim Jones.
Are you referring to USA fake president? Just wondering.
Oh it did. With that one killing. That killed another many people in a mansion. They took poison and all layed in beds in the same position. Wearing the same clothing and stuff. The only difference between the Jonestown and this is that. The 900 people were forced to drink the poison which included kids, and babies. The killing in the mansion. They accepted it.
Fake Jesus in Siberia with 5k follower branch dividians we’ve been warned but some are still tricked
Right, they do they are called Pastors and Priests
Search for nature boy in youtube
Jonestown suicide was 6 years before I was born at the time my fiance was two, this was just heartbreaking
A lot of messed up stuff that happened in the 1960s and 1970s never gets talked about in history classes.
Multiple genocides, some spanning multiple years with deaths comparable to the mooStache man genocide.
My dad brought the bodies of the victims back to the states... USAF in a C-141 as a loadmaster ... so sad 😞... so damaging!
Katie Shaw omgoodness that had to be traumatic for your father. So sorry.
Katie Shaw An ugly,unfortunate, tragic story.With the very corrupt local government.
of the PNC under Forbes Burnham due diligence was not exercised.
The land was just sold to the People's Temple and the believers
came and settled there.No oversight of this community was planned for and/or carried out.
The congressman was poorly protected by his country's security
apparatus and the local army in Guyana.
I was in the army during this event. Graves Registration was my job. I put these bodies in body bags.
Howard Clegg I cant even begin to imagine the kind of monster it takes to commit so much murder. I am so sorry you had to look at the faces of innocent people who died at the hands of a monster.
And what’s horrible is that the bodies were decomposing due to being left out in the hot sun for days
Don't ever blindly follow another person, pure and simple!
May the soul of those innocent people rest in peace 🙏I feel so sad for them
I'm 27 years old and I'm shocked to just start finding out about this. I've never heard about this ordeal my entire life. What a shocking and frightening situation. May the victims rest in peace!
The irony of people cheering and laughing in the background.
lol
ikr
Chiyeung Lau. Its very sad the way they ended up murdered for following such a sick and twisted man. They look all happy, singing their songs, very very sad ended up the way it did!
"And children. So sad."
"HELLO Today fans!"
The last videotape showed the band singing Earth, Wind and Fire's "WAY of the world." Still see this band playing it when I hear it.
R.I.P congressman, R.I.P beloved innocent children...
and all of the adults except for Jones.
I still don’t , will never understand how people can’t let someone gain that much control over them !!! It’s mind blowing
Happened in 2020 with the covid vaccine
“Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in!”
Oh my gosh! I can’t even imagine what all the victims went through. This is such a sad part of history for any human being to endure. I am just glad that the ones who survived made something out of their experience and that his children aren’t affected in a destructive way. They chose to heal instead of letting the experience change their good nature. I applaud all the survivors and hope the families of the dead are doing well.
The fact that almost all of this was recorded..like, literally almost everything is so interesting and gives everyone a better look into the whole story.
I'm addicted to Mentos I have no sympathy for these fools
Ian Fortuna Not the 300 kids that just followed their parents?
Monir Mussanur nope I hate kids so it was less than a tragedy all together
@@ianfortuna9385 I don't like ur name
@@mikaeruu0309 cry me a River then
I remember this soooo clearly. So heinous and sad. So many, looking for love and acceptanc. A place void of racism.
R.I.P to all of the people who died. I hope that they are in heaven now.
Jone's Juniors statement that he had to live with the tragedy with his father did but then he then said he did it not me so he's basically not letting this get the best of him good for him
One of the stupidest men alive!
Heard about this through the "crimefile" podcast today. It went very indepth from Jim Jones damaging childhood to the mass suicide/murder that ended the cult.
"We're looking for love, acceptance"
As soon as you learn to love and accept yourself 100%, you don't need it from anyone else.
“It’s better to live for a cause than die for a cause”
People have not changed. Even after escaping and surviving one of the members joined yet another cult. So sad people lost their lives dealing with this evil devil.
Some people defend the cults they are in, because how it makes them feel, but love without truth is deceptive.
JJ picked people that often nobody else wanted....
I am from Guyana. I still live here. Me and my sister were just talking about this. So I came on TH-cam to see if I can find any documentary on it. Most people don't even know Guyana exist until you mention Jim Jones or Jonestown. Right now the place is just pure jungle. No one goes there to stay overnight or wants to live there.
I was born about 150 miles away from Jonestown, a year after it happened.
I remember this happening when I was a senior in high school in 1978.
Farcry 5 bois
thats not funny
that's funny
you're funny.
actaully edens gate are more sane syill insane
Cmon dude
I had never heard of this story until I learned about it in the tenth grade at school. I’m surprised more people weren’t always talking about it back then that I had to learn about in school.
I swear this Jim Jones guy had the Death Note in real life.
*LOL*
Still sends chills down my spine that people follow people who do things like this. It's why you don't treat people like Gods with your faith. Abuse of power.
the kool-aid man
*O H Y E A H*
A key to rebel town b
KING KLOUT after nearly every one was dead....*Kool-Aid man jumps out of Jim"s body* " OH YEAH!!!!
The irony is that it was actually Flavor-Aid.
Drunk the kool-aid........
“Many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He!’ and will mislead many.” Mark 13:6
I find this whole thing incredibly sad and tragic. Jones' followers were not stupid. They were good, well meaning people who wanted a better life. They thought Jones loved them and had their best interests in mind. Sadly he did not.
40 year anniversary of the Jonestown massacre will be this Sunday. My prayers go out to the families and loved ones of this terrible tragedy.
Jim Jones was worse than Charlie Manson ever thought about...
Yet Charles Manson is seemingly viewed as a personification of pure evil in North America, while Jones was just some crazy cult leader. Jones was much worse.
The people in the background completely oblivious to what they’re talking about made me chuckle
Anyone who names a town after themselves... you know there’s something wrong.
I dunno. Ramirez World has a nice ring to it.
..."it's so sad-"
"HELLO TODAY FANS"
This makes me sick. My child is so precious to me how could someone? Love and acceptance does not equal fear and death.
The worst part was so many people desperate to escape were forced to meet their deaths instead.
This needs to be a movie, a shindler's list type movie but with a terrifying ambiance of come and see and in perfect detail.
He was on a lot of hard core drugs all the way up to the last day in Guyana. That’s also why hew would wear sunglasses all the time.
That, and being completely batsh*t crazy...
Yeah a load of amphetamines, barbiturates, uppers, downers, etc
Imagine if the Bible never mentioned anything about a second coming of Jesus…
The range of manipulation in human beings is scary. From intimate partners to religious leaders to politicians. All just preying on the humanity of others
every time I see a video like this, i assume this is the most absurd event ever in the history of humanity... a while later, youtube throws at me an even worse and unbelievably ridiculous. there's no limit to what people can do :/
Although I was only 8, I remember this
I’m currently reading Jeff Guinn’s excellent book. Jones had some good ideas to start with, he passionately believed in equality, but megalomania and paranoia got the better of him. A tragic story.
Yeah but he did give the hint about suicide before he moving out to guyana with his inner circle of white dudes
and weak minds got the best of his followers.
Great book. Very well researched.
Jim Jones 1978: 900 deaths!
Coronavirus 2020: hold my Kool-Aid!
the son’s outlook on keeping his name is remarkable.
Dont drink the koolaid!!
Mandy Green too late
This event is where the saying came from fyi
It was actually Flavoraide.
Soylent green is people! don't drink soy!
I make my own kool-aid.
Jim Jones stood up and did the Bruno Mars dance
“I GOT CONDO ON MANHATTAN” 🕺🕺
I was scheduled on that flight, but my motorcycle broke down and I never made it to the airport. I've been a fan of HD motorcycles ever since.
That one grandma who's sleeping but woke up: My goals are beyond your understanding
Matthew 24: Jesus said
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Knew it was bad when they said "socialist Utopia."
Oh come on, when has socialism ever ohhhhh....
Turbo Jell-O'Z anything socialist or utopia is bad news
Idealists are one of the most dangerous people to exist.
"but that wasn't REAL socialism!"
@@oterdverg I mean, to be fair this one really wasn't lmao. Any system claiming to be a 'utopia' is by definition not Marxist
I saw a man who decided to escape the same day the congressman visited but he left his son behind and the son died
I’m still mad
Kerri D Me too! I saw that recently and the guy talked about that his 4! Year old son would be better off at at Jonestown but was fleeing himself because he knew how horrible it was there. His son died there without parents and was probably scared for life🤦🏼♀️ and honestly I’m still mad
It’s sad seeing some of the videos of the people Jonestown having fun knowing that they are dead :(