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Anyone here old enough to remember the Jonestown 'massacre'?

  • 18-11-2016 8:54pm
    #1
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    Today is the anniversary, if I'm not mistaken (I'm not...I just want to sound modest) but is there anyone here who actually remembers the news as it broke? I grew up hearing about it and reading about it but damn, that was seriously fvcked up.


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  • #2
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    I am the right age to remember the Brian Jonestown Massacre.


  • #3
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users Posts: 12,380 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    No, what type of band were they?


  • #4
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Just considered it some religious sect whack jobs, in a place thousands of miles away had topped themselves because their 'spiritual leader' told them to.

    Never really altered that view, down the years.


  • #5
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    it's where we get the lovely saying drinking the kool aid


  • #6
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    machiavellianme wrote: »
    No, what type of band were they?

    Psychedelic rock.


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  • #7
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Don't remember it but I've read up on it and watched a few documentaries....some crazy sh*t went on down there.


  • #8
    buried
    Registered Users Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭buried


    F**king great band

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



  • #9
    nhunter100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭nhunter100


    I was 7 at the time, remember seeing it covered on the news. Not everyone willingly took their own lives.


  • #10
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    I got a job working construction
    for the jonestown company


  • #11
    Mena Mitty
    Registered Users Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭Mena Mitty


    I was in school and spent a lot of time in the library. Read about it in Paris Match along with the Gary Gilmore story and the Patty Hearst saga. I should say me and my French/English dictionary.Got the jist of the stories helped by the photographs.

    It was GUBU before Gubu was fashionable.


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  • #12
    Marshall Juicy Munchies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Marshall Juicy Munchies


    I remember it. 1978 and,to be honest, it wasn't wall to wall all day coverage like it would be today. We hadn't as much media bombardment as today and Ireland had it's own troubles then.
    I had three young kids at the time and was too busy to give it more than a second glance at the time.


  • #13
    Yara Prehistoric Cone
    Posts: 0 ✭ Yara Prehistoric Cone


    I don't remember it as a newsflash or anything...but I remember it being considered topical, which could have been any time in 79 or 80..,


  • #14
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    No, before my time. I vaguely remember Waco 15 years later though.


  • #15
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    I remember that but dident take much interest in it.


  • #16
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭Stigura


    I remember when My Lai started surfacing. Talk about the death of innocence! F**k me; To this day, I don't want to see those photo's. Not the 'Before' :(


    Whaco? Only 'surprising' thing about that was that they were using an actual tank against civilians. But, then; Those civilians were some sort of 'religious' nut job cult, so ..... But, still ...


    Today? The irony is just absolutely f**king delicious.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Before my time but I have listened to sections of the audio recording of the suicide, harrowing to say the least hearing children screaming while being fed cyanide by their deluded mothers with crackhead Jim Jones speaking his doomsday cultish nonsense for the duration. Made my stomach turn.

    Word of caution for anyone who listens to it.


  • #18
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I remember the news alright. Didn't begin to sink in at the time, as these things generally won't for kids. But yeah I do remember it quite clearly as an "event" in my memory.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #19
    Trent Houseboat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Trent Houseboat


    I wasn't alive at the time. The only reason I know about it iS from the expression to drink the koolaid


  • #20
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Saw documentaries about it, just thought why would anyone follow that twat Jones, a total self-absorbed bellend, typical Taurus.


  • #21
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Flimpson wrote: »
    No, before my time. I vaguely remember Waco 15 years later though.

    Now that I remember very well. Very drawn out as they were holed up in their compound for what seemed like a month or more before the final assault by the authorities.


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  • #22
    Luis Creamy Interpreter
    Posts: 0 ✭ Luis Creamy Interpreter


    machiavellianme wrote: »
    No, what type of band were they?

    The 'one good track per album' type


  • #23
    Means Of Escape
    Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    "Hurry ,hurry.Mother mother bring your child forward"


  • #24
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,853 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I don't remember it as a newsflash or anything...,

    Remember when a NEWSFLASH came. That banner that used to rotate across the TV.


    You were proper **** scared!!!


  • #25
    magick
    Registered Users Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


    I remember hearing the audio from Jonestown was horrifying


  • #26
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian




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