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Jones
Jonestown
suicide
temple
quickie
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
(We also speculated that Seth might refer to what may be called the “Jonestown Affair,” or something like it. This had erupted in a mass suicide, involving over 400 Americans, in the community of Jonestown in what was formerly British Guyana, in South America. A US congressman was also murdered, along with media network people, etc. The sect, called the People’s Temple, had been created by Jim Jones, a charismatic fundamentalist who had eventually been hounded out of the U.S. for many reasons, to then set up his town for his devoted religious followers in Guyana. The whole thing had a weird unbelievability about it, as Jane and I watched the TV reports and read—and saved – the newspaper accounts.
[... 13 paragraphs ...]
The fact that these were Americans is indeed a shock, and a shock that will make religious Americans question the nature of their own beliefs.
[... 14 paragraphs ...]
