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Title: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: SmokinLoon on November 18, 2013, 08:16:56 PM
35 years ago today it happened.  I was five and remember my parents discussing it w other adults.

Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: saggs on November 18, 2013, 08:56:08 PM
Have you ever listened to the audio tapes?     chilling stuff.

As for don't drink the Kool Aid... many were forced to drink against their will (children, infants, elderly) or if they refused were taken out and shot, and of course the congressman and his party gunned down at the airfield.
 

Jones offed himself with a handgun to the head, didn't want the agony of poison I guess.... 
Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 18, 2013, 09:00:14 PM
I remember seeing it on the news when it happened but being only 8 at the time, had no idea what they were talking about.  It wasn't until I was a little older that I understood what had happened.

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Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: SmokinLoon on November 18, 2013, 10:01:42 PM
Have you ever listened to the audio tapes?     chilling stuff.

As for don't drink the Kool Aid... many were forced to drink against their will (children, infants, elderly) or if they refused were taken out and shot, and of course the congressman and his party gunned down at the airfield.
 

Jones offed himself with a handgun to the head, didn't want the agony of poison I guess.... 


Yeah, I have heard the audio and it is sad.  "Drink the kool aid!!!"
Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: guncrasher on November 18, 2013, 10:38:31 PM
i dont think the message was "dont drink the kool aid" but rather dont follow the idiots.



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Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: SmokinLoon on November 19, 2013, 07:39:56 AM
i dont think the message was "dont drink the kool aid" but rather dont follow the idiots.
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If you listen closely at the political conventions... you'll here that haunting order.  (Drink the kool-aid!!!)
Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: gyrene81 on November 19, 2013, 09:37:31 AM
If you listen closely at the political conventions... you'll here that haunting order.  (Drink the kool-aid!!!)
in human society there will always be large number of the population that are darwin award recipients willing to drink the kool-aid in hopes a leprechaun somewhere will share his lucky charms...whether it's jones, moon, hubbard, koresh, the pope or el presidente.
Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: Wildcatdad on November 19, 2013, 05:10:37 PM
Pardon me, but what happened? :salute
Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: GScholz on November 19, 2013, 05:34:13 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown#Deaths_in_Jonestown
Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: SmokinLoon on November 19, 2013, 11:52:44 PM
Pardon me, but what happened? :salute

Hunt for the audio tapes.  You'll hear the bellowing command to "drink the kool-aid!", the screaming of the victims and those watching/hesitating to follow through.  I think in one audio example I heard there were gunshots too.

This goes hand in hand with any subject that people follow or believe blindly.  There are some people who are so ignorant and so focused on 1 specific thing they forget reality and the larger picture.  Hence joshing someone about "drinking the kool-aid" when they are absolute about something.

Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: mbailey on November 20, 2013, 05:17:05 AM
Actually it was Flavor-aid , but Kool aid man got the rap     :(
 

This is actually one of the first news reports i remember as a kid.....remember mom and dad watching it on the news and me asking all kinds of questions.....I was raised going to church every Sunday (my grandfather was a minister) and didnt understand how a minister could do this to people....very sad




Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: guncrasher on November 20, 2013, 10:05:12 AM
in human society there will always be large number of the population that are darwin award recipients willing to drink the kool-aid in hopes a leprechaun somewhere will share his lucky charms...whether it's jones, moon, hubbard, koresh, the pope or el presidente.

everyone follows and drinks kool aid at one time or another.  if you think you aren't is probably because you are following somebody who told you you aren't.  that or your patents abandoned you in the forest at birth.


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Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: Wildcatdad on November 20, 2013, 04:21:02 PM
Alright thanks. :salute
And thats messed up by the way.
Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: f15sim on November 20, 2013, 04:31:40 PM
Did you hear the one about Jim Jones?

Yeah, I haven't either.  The punch line was too long.


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Title: Re: Don't Drink the Kool Aid!!!
Post by: SlidingHorn on November 20, 2013, 05:52:41 PM
Did you hear the one about Jim Jones?

Yeah, I haven't either.  The punch line was too long.


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