The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19463   Message #198041
Posted By: Amos
20-Mar-00 - 09:40 AM
Thread Name: Uganda mass suicide/Such Is The God
Subject: RE: Uganda mass suicide/Such Is The God
Let's not get argumentative...the song is the gem it is because Sham wrote it. The cultists took their lives because...I don't know -- every now and then one of these events comes along -- Jim Jones, the Encinitas comet-riders, -- a mass belief gets rolling and the next thing you know they're drinking the KoolAid. I can appreciate what Roger is looking at. I would have to say that individually they were riding their own trail and could have steered off it anytime before the mudslide...