Apparently realizing that you can't kill a United States congressman, even on foreign soil, without being found out and hunted down, Jim Jones ordered the death of his entire community. On November 18, 1978, nine hundred people drank a mixture of Kool-aid and cyanide. A few, including Jon...
" Brian says. "That just means you are perfect for CrossFit. That's the kind of person who really excels. Sounds like you drank the Kool-Aid!" The Kool-Aid joke is never far away with these guys. I wonder if members of real cults use it too. Like,Look at sister wife Erma over...
Jones urged his more than 900 followers in Jonestown that they had to commit suicide or else the Guyanese military will come in and take their children away. From a vat, his people drank the cyanide-laced punch, which birthed the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid,” referring to those who b...
In our society today, we hear the wordcultused to describe dangerous groups like the People’s Temple whose members drank poisoned Kool-Aid in a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, forty years ago this year. Do all cults end up like that? No, Jonestown is an extreme example. Many other ...
A few months into intense counseling, I began to realize that most of what I’d been taught by the cult leader [Gothard] had been lies. The shock and pain was overwhelming. Suddenly I had to question everything I knew. I didn’t know how to function anymore. I felt like I lost my...