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Funeral Thank You To Pastor Wording

utopia: utopia




People's Temple (Peoples Temple) was a sect founded in 1955 by Jim Jones. It began as one of the first U.S. multiracial congregations. Later became a utopian community in California agricultural character who enjoyed all kinds of favors. The requirement for joining was to deliver her personal possessions to the common good. In 1975, two senior members decided to leave the community leader accused of sexual abuse.
In 1974, he had paid a million dollars for the lease of ten thousand hectares of tropical jungle in Guyana to establish an experimental agricultural outpost of the Temple. In 1977 he landed large quantities of construction material in the nearby river port of Kaituma. Three hundred eighty members of the Temple requested visas and traveled to Guyana. The following year, seven hundred settlers moved to the utopia of Jones. On 18 November 1978, after opening fire on the convoy of a U.S. congressman and several dissidents, the community committed suicide en masse with a mixture of grape flavored Kool Aid, cyanide and Valium. 913 bodies were found.


Bungalows


Jonestown Jonestown was a very well-organized farming community. Had a utility area surrounded by a belt which alternated agricultural, residential and facilities.
In the central hall was an open structure with a stage at one end where they do most of the group activities. Together him were the school and library housed in 2 tents and radio room. The workshops and stores also had a central position. Southeast had 48 bungalows in 8 rows of 6. In each of them were housed 10 to 20 people. They had a porch and chairs to sit outside. To the east, along the central pavilion is situated 5 apartments, one of whom were children and other animals. The tent, kitchen, laundry and bakery were in the west with the team doctor and 6 bungalows made of woven reeds where they were staying senior members of the sect. Jim Jones and his assistants residing in the West House. Besides all this had stables, basketball court, fruit and vegetable stalls, bathrooms and showers, generators, soap and brick factories, poultry and smokehouse. Around all buildings in undeveloped areas planted to orchids, citrus, bananas, mangoes, rice, papaya, beans. cucumbers, etc. And surrounding the whole, the forest.
The arrangement of uses and buildings are best appreciated in terms listed below. Black areas represent the position of the bodies, most around the pavilion. This map was published by Newsweek in 1978 to illustrate the tragedy. here flatter.
Jonestown community was mainly composed of African Americans from California and southern U.S. states who occupied key positions in the organization of this. It took a great human effort to make it work. Documents found by the FBI show that Jonestown was organized departments where each member worked on the basis of their abilities, meaning that there was a local internal organization similar to that of a state. Studies conducted by the University of San Diego State have Jonestown as a religious utopia of racial character. more information, records and documentation here.


Newsweek Map Magazine, Volume XCII, no. 23, December 4, 1978, p. 62. Reprinted from The Assassination of Representative Leo J. Ryan and the Jonestown, Guyana Tragedy, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives (May 15, 1979), p. 421.


Audio: The Brian Jonestown Massacre
"The Ballad of Jim Jones"


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