Posted on 11/16/2008 4:27:46 AM PST by CE2949BB
OAKLAND — Convinced Jim Jones was God, Garrett Lambrev was the first person to join Peoples Temple in Ukiah in 1966 after the group moved from Indiana. Ten years later — two years before the Jonestown tragedy — he was part of a wave of defectors, shaken to the core by tales of torture and wanting nothing to do with a god who could sanction such things. He was reviled as a traitor and lived in fear for his life.
Yet as Lambrev reflects on the enigma of Peoples Temple, his thoughts settle not just on the horrors of the final days.
"The media images — so many of them dwell on the piles of bodies, the rotting human beings in the jungle of Guyana," said Lambrev, a librarian who is semiretired from the Oakland Public Library, looking every bit the part with his glasses, white hair and goatee, and surrounded by stacks of books in his Oakland home.
"Without trying to reduce the impact of (Jim Jones') degeneration, because he was indeed a classic dictator gone mad, there was still a lot of significance to Peoples Temple that history overlooks," he said. "It spoke of hope. Of connection. All these races and cultures living and working together, very successfully for the most part.
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Veirtel mean quarter. In this case, a quarter hour. Basically, classes at German universities (and apparently Dutch and Scandanavian as well) start fifteen minutes after the time published in the schedule. There are various explanations, but the most popular is academic laxity.
I never heard of that. I know when I was in Switzerland, things were on time. Italy was very on time as well (trains, boats, etc.) Middle eastern countries not so. Greeks, not so. The French - oy! On any given day, there could be a strike - it could last minutes, hours, days. Se la vie.
Hitler made the trains run on time to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibior and Belzec.
Yeah, in the documentary his son was telling about how Jones was screaming over the phone for his son to return.
“Not to worry, selective blindness works wonders.”
Doesn’t it just?
Watch toward the end of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rROWX3aQwuY&NR=1
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