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[Editor’s Note: These meditations written by Lynetta Jones were quoted by Terry Carter Jones in a letter to Jim Jones, Summer 1978.]
Meditation Nov. 3, 1972
Perhaps it does support some comfort to the victim of a nagging conscience to seem to have had a reason, however false, to testify in some small way the evil wrought against his fellow men. Thus evasion leads to obsession and the outward manifestation is [illegible word] to downgrade those who have done (him or her) no harm.
It is unwise to sponsor “peace” while promoting discord such as “watch Jim, she is up to no good” and when the listener protests that he has seen no dirty work being done by so & so (Jones) the pacemaker counsels, sagely “wait and see – So & so will undermine you just like she did me.” Time passes, sometimes years of time and the prophecy remains unfulfilled. Who could blame “So & so,” then, if the warned “watching the author of the warning only to find that it was she who was doing the dirty work she had been accusing so & so of doing and that so & so had not undermined her in the first place.
I have never seen love, favor, friendship, condition or things or members of persuaders with which I would not dare to differ in defense of “Right.”
I could not quarrel with the color of person, animal or thing for I have gazed too long upon the sweet enchantment of God’s universal decor and listened too well to the wail of the abandoned and the oppressed whose color, often, did not match mine, but whose pain was no less for all that.
And color: reminds me, tonight, of the bastard word, “nigger,” spun off from the word “niggard,” which rolls so glibly from the terms of the ignorant and the uncaring. ‘Tis strange that all the niggardly I have met have been “white.”
Meditation Nov. 4, 1972
Wonder why some folk think I am “not aware” of their part in the late contact on James and the churchmen or that I would have been too stupid to have documented my findings all along. Lurid story tho about the big “Buck Nigger” moving up to challenge her in the driveway of this so-called well armed hideaway (after midnight) as she innocently rode with the bellwether of the (so-called questionable flock and was no doubt
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