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David Wise, a former pastor in the Peoples Temple,
went up against Jim Jones – causing him to live 25 years as a fugitive due to
death threats and an alleged contract hit on his life. Powerfully Written New
Article Click Here A liberating voice
showing us When Society Becomes a Cult Coming Soon . . . Click the links below to hear Pastor
Dave preaching: Pastor Dave on various radio
broadcasts: While
News Director of Kansas radio station KANS with radio name Thomas Johnson
(1999) From
his radio show "Maine Health Show" on WREM with radio name Thomas
Johnson (1996) Sample
of Pastor Dave's "6 Minute Reports" aired by Poll Data
Communications (1984) __________ More Coming Soon . . . Words, phrases,
and tactics Jim Jones copied from Father Divine |
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The mass suicide at Jonestown, rated second in
international news impact to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, until it was bumped
to third place by 9-11. World-class questions remain. What really happened? What
does it all mean? With a dedication toward a better world, how is it that
almost a thousand well-intending souls laid their bodies down in the jungle
of Guyana ... victims of who ... or what? Hello, and welcome to my website. I am David Wise. A historically
famous madman named Jim Jones tried his best to destroy my life. I did not
let him do it. It would be easy for me to demonize the madman now, but it
takes much more character to be objectively truthful. In this site I will
present Peoples Temple as a study tool in a modern-day look at social,
economic and cultural improvement. I will also highlight "cult think" in
our everyday lives. I went up against Jim Jones when he took a turn into
mental illness. I was hunted down, assaulted and told that there was a contract on my life.
Twenty-four years later an FBI investigation forced me to come forward to
tell my story. In my case you will likely find that fact is far stranger than
any fiction. With most of the insiders long dead, how can we figure out
what really formed this tragic event in history? I have some answers, and
this is why I have put up this website and am writing a book, Jonestown Legacy: When Society Becomes A Cult. -- David Wise Former pastor of the LA branch of Peoples Temple,
currently the pastor of Heaven On Earth Broadcasting New - Pastor Dave's Critical Review of the
new Jonestown Documentary Survivors Click on each song title below to hear
Pastor Dave singing: One of
history's most maniacal copycats is a lesson for us all! We must begin to recognize that a cult is not just a
demonized variation from the mainstream, but that cult-think and cult tactics
can find their way into the mainstream itself, in churches, in business, in
the military and even in our public schools. It is easy to demonize Jim
Jones, but he was actually an uncanny copycat of our larger
society, our business, our churches and our politics. He used destructive
methods that are still being used in mainstream society. His odd story
encapsulizes our modern contradictions and offers a lens to look at ourselves
so that as a society we might avoid a horrible fate such as Nazi Germany or
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WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? Antiwar Comment from Pastor Dave (Coming Soon!) BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT FEATHER
The following comment was copied from a discussion group
in the "The Lost Forum" at Asylumnation.com under the topic
"mind control cults" [link
here]. [Barbie:] “I cant tell for sure, but
Pastor Dave sounds like he still has a little Jim Jones preacher in him.” Since Pastor Dave is not a member of that discussion
group, he has chosen to respond here: Pastor Dave: It sounds like you may be saying; “the apple does not fall
far from the tree.” I left Peoples
Temple because I was not an apple from that tree. I was not a
bird of that feather. In fact I joined because of the good and left because
of the bad. You simply cannot paint the situation with a broad
over-generalizing brush. I paid a greater price than most any human you can
find for going up against and for getting away from a cult. I am not a
Peoples Temple apologist, these people tried to get me in trouble with the
law falsely, they hunted me down, caught me a couple of times, beat me up,
and claimed to have put a contract on my life. Yet, the secret to healthy mind
and emotion is to pick the good and to steer away from the bad, to accentuate
the positive and eliminate the negative. We must separate the wheat from the
chaff, the good from the bad. If you cannot do this you may be guilty of
“us-them”, or “all or nothing” cult-think. Broad-brush demonizations
are even more dangerous in the larger cult of society than in smaller cults
but are no less cult-like. As for me I have learned some good things from
my experiences with the Peoples Temple and some good things from the larger
society but I refuse to be a cult member (or leader) of either. If a
madman in our society commits a murder with a sharpened toothbrush we would
be foolish to all stop brushing our teeth. I refuse to stop singing because
Jim Jones was a singer. I refuse to stop preaching dynamically because Jim
Jones used a dynamic speaking style. A hammer has no volition or will of its
own. It can be used to commit a homicide or used to build a house for the
homeless. Even though a manipulative, deluded Jones walked on two legs, it is
nonetheless in our best interest to persist in ambulating as bipeds. If you
want to throw the baby out with the bathwater then you are using cult-think.
This is not healthy. And worse, the production line for manufacturing fruitcake
people seems to be running round the clock these days. It is incumbent on each of us to continue
to do our best in the world and to make a positive contribution with our
lives irrespective of the seemingly endless supply of mad men or women around
us. Thank you for visiting my site. This site is being erected as a world class guide for recognizing cult thinkingand cult behavior in society, in government, in business– and even in your personal life! WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION |
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Action-Reaction-Solution Adaptation Addictive thinking Agencies as cults Bait and Switch Bernays Mind Control Bohemian Grove, blackmail and compromise Bush as Jim Jones By any means necessary and the Apostle Paul Carrot or the Stick
Cause and effect escalation Cognitive dissonance Cognitive distortions Conspiracy theories and paralysis Crab Effect Creating what you fear Cults of personality Destroying the village to save it Diversion and Distraction Double-Speak and Double-Think Drugging our nation's youth End justifies the means End justifies the means and the Apostle Paul Euphemisms, loaded words, and fog factor Evangelicals for War and Death Expansionism Fear tactics Flying a false flag
Freudian Fatalism Girl in the box Government as Cult |
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Lemming Effect Machiavellian thinking Malthusian thinking Manifest Destiny Media info glut of superfluous info and disinformation Milgram Experiment Misanthropic behavior Moral compromise and attrition Numbing up and dumbing down Political propaganda as cult brainwashing Power Trips and Humiliation Tactics Repetition Repetition and Ceremony School of the Americas Slow-Boiled Frog Stanford experiment State of siege mentality Stockholm Syndrome Suicide as a homicidal wish Trauma and Shock "Us versus Them" and the victim mentality "Us"
versus "Them" and the Holocaust Us-Them and nationalization Us-Them demonization Self-fulfilling prophets of doom Suicide for social change The protection racket The "not me" myth Trauma to brainwash U.S.-backed dictatorships Victim complex War as religion |
To free ourselves from Cult Thinking it is important to define
basic concepts and to examine how these concepts are twisted to mean
something else:
RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS POLITICAL CONCEPTS
Liberation
Theology Fascism Communism Apostolic
Socialism Democracy Socialism Apocalypse
and Armageddon Republicanism Sacrifice
system of both Islam and Judaism Quote of the Week from Pastor Dave Jesus
said, "Have mercy not sacrifice." He never intended to
replace the Jewish system of animal sacrifices with himself as a
continued animal-like sacrifice. When the great Christian martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer was waiting to
be executed by the Nazis he wrote about "cheap grace." He
understood that Jesus wants a changed heart. Neither Jesus' death on the
cross nor the concept of Grace were ever intended as a way to escape
doing what is right. (posted 1-08-07) JonestownLegacy is copyrighted 2005-2006 by David Wise |
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