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So . . . how long have you been a Jim Jones fan? Or is it an obsession?

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Never a Jim Jones fan, though I did do a term paper about him in College. It makes it easier today for me to recognize frauds and charlatans who take advantage of the weak minded and desperately needy.

People who follow flakes tend to be the lonely type or mentally ill people who think that God is talking to them or through them. These glassy-eyed followers will defend their leader no matter how obviously evil the leader is.

Some of these poor, pathetic, weak people want to believe that they are special too, some of the followers even start to make the same claims as the leader, like they’re talking to or through God, “keeping up with the Jones’s” if you’ll excuse the pun.

Some followers seek out these types of leaders as regular religion isn’t filling their void in life, they need a God on earth, a living God or prophet that they can speak to, touch, and converse with. These people think they are the special and the most holy because instead of just going to Church and practicing their religion like normal folks they are the CHOSEN. It must be destiny that I came in contact with this living God or prophet.

These followers become rabid and loyal to their new God or prophet. They will say if you don’t believe in their leader or prophet that you don’t believe in God, or that you don’t believe in prophecy.

Mostly, the followers are just the weakest links in society, the most gullible. People that the more fantastic the claim of the leader of the group, the more likely they will believe. By making outrageous claims, the leader assures that most all who follow him will only be the most easily manipulated suckers on the planet. As more follow, the leader becomes more brazen, comparing himself or welcoming comparisons of him to Christ.

No matter how outrageous the claims of the leaders, there will always be a supply of mentally ill or weak-minded people who will believe the leader has special powers. Lonely, vulnerable people looking for meaning in their life. People who always believed they were special but somehow their life is just ordinary, so they build fantasy lives where they are on the “inside” receiving secret and special knowledge that no one else is privileged to or could even understand.

These weak, lonely, damaged people are prey to the leader and his cult. Someone who was a nerd or a loser all his life is now suddenly on the forefront of the great spiritual war, or in tight with the living breathing second coming of the Lord. Instead of at the bottom, the follower is now at the top, he speaks to the Lord, he dines with the Lord.

I hope that answers your questions about Jim Jones.