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#15 - God’s Socialist, pt. 5: The Wounded King

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The Temple and the Narcissism of Jim Jones

Many of the activists coming intot temple were people just like that weatherman, susan stern. For people like that, if they find something that gives them a little taste, they will put up with a lot rather than give that identity back and risk being backed a square. The narcissism wasn't an affliction jim jones suffered alone. One one of jim's most devoted female followers, sharon amos, fled her home when her skits affront mother tried to strangle her with the leash of the family dog. A young girl named jeannette kearns came into the temple around the summer of 71. She was a surfer from florida

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