Jim Jones berates Jonestown community in Guyana [People's Temple Recordings]

Q 994
recorded late winter 1978 (beginning of 78')
Jim Jones berates Jonestown community in Guyana [People's Temple Recordings]

[@nratliff1]

It's easy to talk trash when you've got bodyguards standing behind you with shotguns! lol.

[@tucate]

he talk the Truth

[@doggoandyeet1608]

@@tucate yep you would drink the kool aid

[@omegaman1409]

People were trapped the moment they got there. Miles of jungle and armed men. Add to that no future.

[@theweakestlink2278]

They wanted to turn out to be socialists and communists like none other than the one and only Jim Jones. Thank ya Dad!

[@tucate]

@@theweakestlink2278 yeah

[@qg9454]

I did a 4000 word essay on Jim Jones. I had watched and read everything on Jim Jones. I was so into it i started having dreams i was in Jonestown myself.

[@wanderingfondest4037]

@Q G.i used to wear the dark sunglasses and pretend I was Jim Jones,I would mimic the lines from the movie with Powers boothe.i think it was by far the best one ever done of Jim up till now.i even read seductive poison from a survivors standpoint.Now I was only pretending when I thought I was him,it was only that I was caught up by some of the ideals of those times.Mainly in 2001 I was overtaken by the madness.But don't get me wrong,Jim Jones was obviously an evil man and not worth celebrating.Sometimes things of the past hardly seem real,like they never happened.So that's where the pretending begins.listening to this recording,he was a foul mouthed bad spirited insane idiot.Truly disturbing

[@Aquaboogie68]

I was 10 when this tragedy took place. My parents were glued to the TV for weeks. My parents knew of Jones, and some members of our church fellowshiped with the People's Temple in L.A. My mother knew of someone who died in Jonestown. My parents never explained to me what really happened there. They acted as though they were hiding something from me (maybe because of my age). For all I knew, It was a church group that dranked poisoned punch and died in the middle of the jungle.... thats all I knew ! It just didnt make sense to me! Therefore I was always intrigued by it! When I was 12, I decided to do a book report on People's Temple and Jonestown. I read the book "Six Years With God" by Jeanne Mills. It scared the living daylights out of me!!!! It was shocking, brutal, and the most scariest thing I have ever read in my life! I would put myself in the place of the kids, and wonder what I would have done if I were there. Would I hide underneath a cottage? or slip past the guards and hide in the jungle? .Would I pretend to drink the poison, spit it out, and play dead?....etc The scariest question of all was....What if my parents decided for my family to join the People's Temple? So I understand what you mean! I was deeply affected by it , and had nightmares for many many years after that!!!

[@Aquaboogie68]

@@cavalcade2184 Same here! I had many nightmares from the Guyana Tragedy movie as well!

[@msrain1235]

I've had 4 dreams, of being in a death cult, but I always escape before the murdering starts.

[@jessihawkins9116]

@@msrain1235 that’s great I wish I had such an imagination 😆

[@georgeharris529]

That fool was CRAZY!!!

[@TonyMichaels166]

Listen to how different his cadence and speech pattern is from his earlier amphetamine-fueled tirades. He’s now consuming lethal amounts of pentobarbital on a daily basis along with attack-level doses of four other powerful pharmaceuticals. He’s floating around Jonestown at this point.

[@Nintendoman851]

and in the "death tape", he's definitely slurring the absolute FUCK out of his words....he doesn't even finish sentences or thoughts during some of the tape.

[@barneshomestead1240]

@@Nintendoman851 Absolute discombobulation.

[@matthewackermanaski9687]

​@@Nintendoman851Probably it's also the audio from the microphone being close to his mouth so there's a lot of plosives and the audio gets distorted (I'm just guessing, could also be the tape quality being bad.).

[@Loudes012]

Didn't J.J. know or see the commercial. "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Do you have any questions" Pastor drug man!

[@Kylefassbinderful]

"i dont give a continental shit" lol im gonna steal that one

[@georgeharris529]

😂

[@Dr.DankensteinM.D.]

When I heard “I’ve heard a lot of sleazy shit tonight. Too much sleazy shit.” I said that as well. Thanks koolaid man!

[@joeysanguine3596]

How about “ One hot shit”?

[@Sturgeon54]

This is so pure an example of psychological projection that it should be in a psychology textbook - literally every accusation is a twisted confession of his own flaws.

[@eej1983able]

He's so bizarre. It's all so sad.

[@jaybling3189]

Preachers usually don’t go gangster on ya unless their insane.

[@svenerikjohansson8130]

I think he was, and I think his mind was also sadly blurred by a drug addiction.

[@svenerikjohansson8130]

@@sheroyal9326 He openly spoke for atheism,

[@bigturboweenie]

*they're

[@svenerikjohansson8130]

Jim Jones message was atheist if one listens to what he actually said.

[@caseyalex4676]

Do these people actually understand what he's mumbling about or are they just agreeing out of fear

[@benditoemmanuel8614]

I think they agreed out of fear.

[@johnerickson4064]

They're like the democrats today, they don't listen, just blindly follow some idiot because they think they're better than everyone else

[@marcodevries4481]

Blind followers to a man who blabbers and makes no sense, acting on fear (news)… taking forced injections. Now how does that sound familiar!?

[@Matt92Machine]

Fear. They have no way out. Hundreds of miles from civilization. Sure a lot of them were completely bought into his BS, but many were scared out of their minds.

[@lukerutter2045]

Terrified, lonely scared people. It's so soul crushing. He's a devil

[@mrsgritoli1]

"Mother, Mother, pleeease. " Chilling

[@anthonysworld1384]

I still can't understand how no one realized that he was insane and how he was able to lead these 900+ people into death, into living in Guyana for so long and the way he cusses is just an indication that he was not as innocent as a man so devoted to god and religion. He just wanted to take a vacation in the jungle full of drugs and sex until he got scared when his goon squad killed the people at the airstrip.

[@allison6452]

They were sleep deprived, hungry, dehydrated, and overworked. Not to mention many of them were POC and conditions during that time in the US for POC weren’t great so they thought returning would hurt them. Jones was constantly telling them mercenaries were coming to attack and kill them and torture their children. He had his own men walking around the premises with guns and he’d taken everyone’s passports and even medication. Now imagine being in that scenario. Maybe you’d feel like death wouldn’t be so bad either. Keep in mind many of them were shot and forcefully given the poison.

[@frankpensanti8294]

There is so much to diagnose here. We have Stockholm Syndrome.....Bystander Effect phenomenon......all the dynamics of domestic abuse.. The people collectively in unison lost their autonomy , this was evident the day they each left for Guyana. Many people are made this way.... many aren't.

[@frankpensanti8294]

You have an instinct to preserve your autonomy..... imagine if you didn't....

[@asleepbydawn137]

@@frankpensanti8294 stfu and stop diagnosing dead people. You don't know what you're talking about, Dr. Google.

[@coreyamond7480]

​@@allison6452you can say all u want I heard the tape of the parents watching their kids die as they gave them poison. And continued to do so. U gotta shoot me. I also heard a tape of a mother saying she'd shoot her son herself. They had to convince her not to. Lol u a trip with this victim shyt

[@MENFUSSMIKE]

Jimmy was feeling it that night

[@Manuel-mx5pz]

Yeah R.i.P.

[@jonnyfavors7585]

Oh yea he was feeling it alright...all the drugs and narcissistic self righteousness one fake ass wannabe preacher can handle..

[@johnerickson4064]

Thank you dad

[@barneshomestead1240]

Just horrible. What I've listened to over time shows a steady decline & is clearly reflected in his language & treatment of those around him. What a bitter tormented deceived individual and I remember how somber my classmates were when the story broke around Thanksgiving. We couldn't get over how these folks and their children followed this man to their deaths.

[@philipdefibaugh5683]

This monster Jones looked for any reason to cuss out his "community".

[@nurvedasimbawak]

Sellfish

[@bigturboweenie]

Cussing = honesty. He was about as REAL as any fake politician/minister wasn't. No wonder they followed him.

[@angelarandle848]

How could they follow this MADMAN! A preacher that talks this way? Insane!

[@NeverCanTell]

He didn't always talk this way to them. They were groomed

[@True-crime-junkie]

One step at a time. For many years he was very committed to the wellbeing of his followers….I mean he always victimized them to some degree but at least he attempted to keep it unseen.

[@KaceyIlliot]

They knew he wasn't a preacher..most had him figured out by the time he started the worst of it all, BUT..Most were there for each other in the end, not him..He was their capture and they knew it..They knew Jim was crazy.

[@eej1983able]

@@True-crime-junkie brainwashing for sure. Plus they ended up in an area that was so remote it was almost impossible to escape

[@EyeMemoryLane]

And some of them where afraid of him

[@Suri-o7w]

WOW !!!! Jones was some kinda foul mouthed preacher!!! Oh my God 😢😓😥😭😮‍💨 had I'd been in one of his services/sermons where he talked like that... I would have hauled ASS immediately outta there!!!!!

[@madisoncarter421]

I think thts one of many reasons ppl did like him cause he spoke like a normal person maybe a bit more foul than average but none the less

[@love7236]

He didn't believe in god....communist are atheist, he was a Marxist preaching socialism...he believed he was their God. Sickness....alot like today's marxist....it's a CULT!!!!

[@asleepbydawn137]

Riiiightt

[@sayitloudblcknproud]

Same! I can’t understand how they believed this man!

[@Thomas116-m2n]

He wasn't a preacher. He admitted to his wife early in their marriage that he didn't believe in God. He was a socialist/atheist. In some speeches, he made fun of God, calling him a "Sky God."

[@vickikay25]

I swear to God, I cannot fathom what the hell happened to create such evil in this man.

[@bibblyboing]

Childhood trauma, a lust for power and wayyy too much pentobarbital

[@bigptheman2441]

Drugs and paranoia

[@Dal576]

Satan and his demons

[@millers3888]

He was killing animals and having their funerals as kid. He was obsessed with Hitler during WWII. I don’t think he knew necessarily this is how his church/group would end up at the beginning, but based on his past it seemed pretty damn well pre-determined. The man was a psycho in his youth.

[@Manuel-mx5pz]

Just shut up

[@danielorlando8172]

In the 1970s my own father began to dress and act just like Jim Jones. He would declare himself God because he was my father. But just like Jim Jones he would die broken, alone and deeply hated by his entire family

[@moegreen7023]

"When you see that shotgun, them voices stop"

[@johnerickson4064]

The 70s were friggin weird

[@binslick1000]

Jim Jones was an intelligent man. He could have done great things had he not let his ego take over his personality. The ego is self-destructive.

[@Englishsea24]

Most psychopaths are highly intelligent and often gifted, especially in the art of deception, that's what makes them so scary

[@binslick1000]

@@Englishsea24 Of course. Intelligence for harm.

[@dyslexicbatnam1350]

He could have been a democrat politician.

[@binslick1000]

@@dyslexicbatnam1350 Any politician.

[@Matt92Machine]

He was able to convince a thousand people to follow him into a jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. You have to have some charisma to be able to do that.

[@johnerickson4064]

Keep your hands off your toes in this meeting, i don't give a damn that's arrogance

[@larkpraise]

What an evil man! He invited demons into his life. He was the stupid one.

[@jonnyfavors7585]

Who's more stupid though?...jim Jones? Or his followers?

[@TraitofSiNN727]

his words are more frightening than a modern day horror story. the late and talented Powers Boothe played Rev Jim Jones extraordinary well. "..To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.." - Rev Jim Jones.

[@johnerickson4064]

"It's living that's treacherous"

[@Loudes012]

Kim Jung Jones! Political power comes from the barrel of a gun! This father had his "Pyongyang" in South America! He had 1 meal a day and talked the rest of the day.

[@dionmarbury]

I wonder how long this berating happened before the massacre took plce.

[@RichardG0linsky]

I love to swear but if you're supposed to put your point across it cheapens that

[@TheWaitingRoomTWR]

this easily could of been avoided if they read the bible, they were bible illiterate, they would of known this man is a wolf in sheeps clothing and he is not a man of god.

[@Janice360]

Not everyone is a Christian and believes in the Bible. Furthermore, you don't have to be a Christian to know that there was something seriously wrong with Jim Jones. There were plenty of atheists, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. who knew to stay tf away from Peoples Temple. But, as the saying goes, "Different strokes for different folks." We weren't living in those people's shoes to possibly know what drove them to follow Jim Jones. And FYI...there are plenty of lunatic Christian cults too.

[@TheWaitingRoomTWR]

@@Janice360 he started a christian church im san fran and thats how he got his followers........ I don't think you understand either the story or how my comment was connected to it

[@ActiveAussie2024]

​@The Waiting Room he was nothing but a communist and a Marxist. This had nothing to do with religion in reality. It was just smokescreen.

[@Kempmaurice]

Why can’t the bible be written so everyone can understand it without the need to be bible literate?

[@TheWaitingRoomTWR]

@@Kempmaurice right past your head whoooooooshhhhhhh

[@genesis8284]

I feel bad for the person who was picking their toes. Let them pick their toes Jim, you’re annoying 😂

[@johnstork6141]

Ole Jim was not a happy man..

[@kennethcharles1386]

Evil comes in many disguises, but false preacher's are definitely at the top of the list. Yahshua warned us about this practice; "he said many will come in my name, but they are not of me. " But the weak in spirit will always be tempted by such anti- Christ ministries practicing false teachings and all kinds of ungodly perversions.......

[@cristianm7097]

Pure lunacy.

[@feliz3175]

Shut up

[@frankpensanti8294]

Did he use the "N" word.....i expect he did

[@gerhardschelbi8742]

Yes the N-Wort! Daygo.

[@jonnyfavors7585]

Oh yea, more than a few other times...

[@johnerickson4064]

He literally believed he was black, also claimed to be Indian... out of his flipping mind

[@jonnyfavors7585]

@@johnerickson4064 I can see the indian in him but black?...yea, he was out of his flippin mind..

[@girlanonymous]

@@jonnyfavors7585has nothing to do with looks…he probably felt he was black because he felt “one” with black folks…you can see the way he speaks as foul mouthed as he is.

[@girlanonymous]

Jim Jones spoke like he was “down” (as we say in the hood lol), like a coolness almost. He spoke like an uncle or a neighbor with a foul mouth. So many of them was okay with it and didn’t care about credentials and formality. I gravitate towards people with foul mouths myself (cursing or swearing that is). It’s not alarming in itself. What’s alarming to me is the constant talk of suicide and we all having to die for a cause??? Hell no! Overtly sexual talk is another thing that would raise alarm bells. The suicide and apocalyptic talk and sex talk and abuse is what would send alarm bells.

[@Steven-cx5zk]

NUTS!!!

[@jermainesingh]

Lol This is how you get when you live in Guyana. Guyanese is like this but not the killing part 😂

[@asleepbydawn137]

Wtf are you even talking about? The majority of his time he was in the US. He fled to Guyana because the feds were on him and investigating him. JFC stfu. This would've happened no matter where they built the compound.

[@chriswick7987]

If you didn’t know the sad situation those people were in and the disaster that was coming, Jim Jones says some funny things

[@richardfuchs3690]

The beliefs and teaching of Jones sound remarkably like modern Democratic and progressive ideas. Curious.

[@gwenjackson8583]

Yeah, it’s eerily similar.

[@sonofcornette7317]

Yeah, that's a very cult like remark yourself

[@yankees29]

It’s the same thing. He was a far left wacko just like modern progressives.

[@markwhittaker6321]

Demented.

[@CALLAHAN19]

It's crazy to think social media would have him shut down within days.. Back then rumors got around much slower,, all he needed was to start with 20 dumb people, by 3 yrs its hundreds... I blame his followers.. Nobody can be that stupid to believe heeling powers...

[@pacmancdi]

Social media would have helped him gain more followers if anything. Never underestimate how dumb Americans can be

[@hobartw9770]

Haven't heard so much incoherent rambling since Trump came along.

[@11baggio11111]

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life John 3v16

[@Luke156KJV]

Greetings to you, sir. I noticed that you used “scripture “ from a different (Bible). The word of God is preserved directly in the King James Version. How you can know this for sure, is the fact that the King James Bible is the ONLY Bible that isn’t copyrighted. God’s Word CANNOT be copyrighted. If you have any Biblical questions concerning this matter, I’m here for you 🤲

[@610LaurelStreet]

@@Luke156KJVlol no

[@bigturboweenie]

LMAO! He literally talks like TRUMP WITHOUT the cursing! Followers love it...i find it fascinating how 1/2 the peeps responding call this guy out and ya'll are Trump supporters who listen to a same demagogue talking the SAME S***, just with without all the foul language. You people are delusional!

[@bribengal1968]

It's amazing there are recordings. Jim was a visionary. Imagine what he could have done with TicTock! Crazy. That's a lot of word salad though, he just rambles. I guess he'd have plenty of followers. Like and Share. I can hear him saying it..

[@deejaye2647]

Is this for real?

[@asleepbydawn137]

Are you a teenager??

[@SBGNatureandCoffeeChannel]

Probably another dumb, ignorant, millennial.

[@susancox3550]

Yes

[@Manuel-mx5pz]

Great

[@Sarastarlight100]

How can these people sit there and let jones berate them?

[@robertrakestraw6386]

Lmao ...i had no idea Big Jim talked so raunchy!....😆😆

[@matchpoint14]

robert, I have heard of some worse tapes, where he talks about having sex with someone across the ocean because they were over seas, it was kind of funny

[@ralex3697]

Foul mouthed pervert

[@alew1133]

I want to rebel already !

[@deejaye2647]

Wasn't he an elitist?

[@johnerickson4064]

The definition of elitist, he was a walking contradiction

[@KeepMeLord05]

People are eternal beings, is there any wonder God created a prison called Hell. Jones belongs there.. (((( Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth shall descend into it.))))

[@adam631]

A master manipulator who preyed upon the weak minded. They would do anything he said and believed everything he said, and he knew it.

[@joeysanguine3596]

How did he get away with this mortal sin for so long? I thought this act of Anarchy ended when Hitler died.

[@Meka581]

Did it ever occur to you that he is a "plant" playing a role? Put in place by a "powerful" entity whose only goal is to steal, kill, and destroy? Do you and all the ignorant really believe that ONE MAN "orchestrated" such mavolence 😂? Or is it denial?

[@robertdipaola3447]

For a so- called Minister of God, he had quite the potty mouth, but then again ,that was the least of his followers problems

[@deejaye2647]

Pied piper

[@jonah1976]

Jones 2024!

[@steveherrmann456]

He was NO Reverend! Such horrible language! I'm always amazed how easily people get brainwashed. Hitler, Pol Pot etc. It was a HORRIBLE tragedy at Jonestown. I'm sure that Jim has his just reward now! Christ ALWAYS triumphs over Satan. Always!

[@love7236]

Marxist cult much like the Democrat party today....

[@thiscorrosion900]

Trump. All the same pieces of shit.

[@ericshinkle417]

I dontmind little ladies language is on fire that are launched enjoy your toes

[@electrolytics]

This guy sounds exactly like Joe Biden.

[@jakeplumber1373]

You're an !diot. Trump basically copy's and pastes him

[@ojaftertoothpaste7174]

You are literally in the orange Jesus cult.

[@Strokes1983]

No body else thinks he sounds like Donald trump??

[@fredrikthorvaldsen9692]

His speech patterns kinda resemble Trump. The message is pretty much the same as most neoliberal ideologues, people like Obama, AOC, Van Jones (another Mao lover), Stacey Abrams, etc, braindead worship of equality and other nonsense

[@calinasagilitypartner4444]

​@@fredrikthorvaldsen9692you're wrong about the message.

[@calinasagilitypartner4444]

​@@fredrikthorvaldsen9692Trump supporters are braindead!

[@Galidorquest]

It's ironic how you haters are more obsessed with him than his own supporters, even when he's not in the White House.

[@johnerickson4064]

He was a liberal democrat wet dream

[@johannesswillery7855]

Sounds so much like the new religion Climate Change.

[@ianjohnson7646]

No, sounds like what is is. A Christian derived cult

[@love7236]

Bingo! It's a marxist cult!!!

[@calinasagilitypartner4444]

Are you freaking kidding me? Climate change isn't a religion. Climate change is real. They've known since the 40's or 50's about climate change. I'm sick of you assholes who refuse to take care of this planet!

[@calinasagilitypartner4444]

BTW, you are in a cult

[@sharondasykes2101]

​@@ianjohnson7646Christians don't do this

[@pedextrian398]

wtf😂

[@brettrosenberg]

This reminds me of the 3 hr "briefings" Trump would do during deep Covid

[@pc7135]

Trump before Trump😂😂

[@yankees29]

The complete opposite….this is modern progressive programming, brainwashing and propaganda on full display.

[@johnerickson4064]

He was the democrats golden boy back then... try again

[@sixteeschyl]

The semi-psychotic rantings of a narcissist that loves the sound of his own voice

[@latieraqueen7Pacheco]

Just like that.. he took over 😢