{"id":60691,"date":"2014-07-05T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T22:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=60691"},"modified":"2023-07-11T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:01:42","slug":"annotated-transcript-q966","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=60691","title":{"rendered":"Annotated Transcript Q966"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jones:<\/b> \u2013anywhere. (clears throat) All over.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You\u2019da been healed of diabetes, oughta uh, make a note, (clears throat) and a special s\u2013 thing that could\u2013 you could do for the cause. (Pause) Those that\u2019ve been healed of some kind of crippling disease, arthritis or some other crippling disease, necks broke, backs broke, here I see on the front row three that had broken bones, neck broke, back broke, arm broke, crippling diseases. Have many had had someone healed of sickle cell anemia? (Pause) That\u2019s rare disease, that\u2019s why I ask. I see uh, about 15 hands that I can see (clears throat) (Pause) Hmm. How many been told <\/em>a warning about an accident and you\u2019ve been spared by warning?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Scattered voices<\/p>\n

Male in Congregation:<\/b> Over and over.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> S\u2019 all right. And I say over and over again, yes, our brother said back here, our pilot for that plane we want to get us to heaven. We <\/em>going to heaven by an airplane, a jet.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Say you gonna bud wings and fly. Shee-it.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) I was a child, I guess there was a lot of things meant for me to happen, I was a little child, poor, no one would heal me, no one would help me, I was starvin\u2019 to death. (clears throat) Had to go out and help dig up graves. And I had a whole bunch of \u2018em come over there and they wanted to dig up this grave, they said they wanted it close together, so when Jesus come, they wanted \u2018em all together. They said they wanted Momma and Daddy, and they wanted \u2018em all to be in the same place when Jesus come. I knew damn well then, I was just a knee\u2013 just knee-high to a grasshopper, just a little shaver, and I knew where they was digging for some jewels. And\u2013 But one old lady, she didn\u2019t know what she doing, she said, oh, it\u2019ll be wonderful when Jesus comes, and they\u2019re digging down there, and liftin\u2019 that\u2013 (clears throat) that body up, you know, said they\u2019re gonna come up out of the grave. They\u2019d lifted this thing up and hoisted it up. The damn thing fell right there, broke. And there was a bone and hair, old yellow hair, rotted and rusty hair, clear down\u2013 The hair grows even afterwards. Old fingernails. I remember those old cake-y things. And the bones fell here and the bones fell there. And part of the par\u2013 part of the lower parts had been gone, and the gravedigger said, them damn gophers, they\u2019re always carrying away the bones. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) And I looked up at that old lady, and I said, well, how\u2019s Jesus gonna get all them folk\u2013 all that bones together. She says, you don\u2019t ask no questions like that. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I said, you mean to tell me, Jesus is gonna put skin on them bones and gonna put hair\u2013 good hair on that bones. He gonna put new body in that\u2013 in that mess? She said, yessir, the Bible tells me so. Bible said they\u2019re gonna come up out of the grave, and they\u2019re gonna have new <\/em>flesh. And it\u2019s gonna be nice, if you can find \u2018em. But I was in that graveyard, and I had to make a livin\u2019, and there was only way I could get any help, \u2018cause we were starvin\u2019, and I dug up grave after grave, and I\u2019m telling you, honey, they\u2019re going to have to work hard to find some of their ass bones, \u2018cause the gophers got \u2018em ten miles down the road. (clears throat) <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter and applause, dies to stirring<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You say I\u2013 (pause) Now\u2013 You say, well, what are you gonna save us from? Save you from this<\/em> mess. (Pause) And I won\u2019t preach this long. There\u2019ll be a time coming before very long<\/em>, that there won\u2019t be much of this kind of preaching. So you that get<\/em> it will be grateful one day. \u2018Cause it\u2019ll be changed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Stirs<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Then I\u2019ll speak only in parables. Only in allegories, only in comparisons. (Pause) I\u2019m trying to keep you alive<\/em>. I\u2019m trying to cause you to raise your energy field, to raise your vibrations by love, so that your mind can be lifted to another planet. It\u2019s the only way it can be lifted, \u2018cause your bones ain\u2019t gonna get together. You\u2019re not gonna get granddaddy\u2019s bones together, \u2018cause the gophers and all those varmints and the weasels and the\u2013 even other animals and the\u2013 all the earthworms, they\u2019ve got the bones so tore up that you couldn\u2019t get \u2018em together. (clears throat) (Pause) Said Jesus can do everything. Yeah, I know, I been hearing \u2018bout that for a long while. But he can\u2019t feed any\u2013 one hungry child. I been hearing about what your God\u2019s gone do, he\u2019s gonna come down in the twinkling of an eye, and the dead in Christ are gonna rise and gonna jump up through the grave (1 Corinthians 15:51-53, \u201cBehold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.\u201d)<\/span>, but I haven\u2019t seen nothing done about our ghettoes in Chicago or St. Louis or Los Angeles or San Francisco. I ain\u2019t seen a thing done. (clears throat) <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Ain\u2019t nobody gonna lift up\u2013 (Pause) They\u2019re not gonna come <\/em>that way. I\u2019ve got a theory that\u2019s been proven by a phenomenon. Ask him. He knows about it. I\u2019m not going into it tonight. Been proven<\/em> that we have a dimension that we can reach to another planet. We can reach out of this earthbound state. But you won\u2019t do it unless you become loving and caring, like I am. That\u2019s the only way out. The only way out. And you\u2019re not gone do it by bones, it\u2019s gonna be mind. Mind <\/em>is the only thing they can weigh, the energy field around the mind. When you die, you weigh one-fourth of a pound more than you do after you die. But<\/em> (clears throat) I wouldn\u2019t count on anything<\/em> I don\u2019t see. That\u2019s why I\u2019m trying to get you to eat right<\/em>, trying to get you to get your flu shots<\/em>. (Pause) I remember her, she said, uh, what did you say about the grave? You sayin\u2019, when I brought you back from the dead and bro\u2013 took that cast off of you. What was that song you sang, \u2018bout not wanting to die? <\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> No, no, Sister Nabors, there\u2019s some uh, little tune to it. (clears throat) <\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Feel like staying the\u2013<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> Do I have to (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Yeah. Feel like staying here.<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> (Sings) I feel like staying there, and I feel like staying here.\/ I been (unintelligible), and I feel like staying there.\/ Well, I ain\u2019t going up or down<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Shh! Listen! Listen to it.<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> I (unintelligible word) gonna hang around<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> She not going to go up or do\u2013<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> Because I don\u2019t find no pleasure at all,\/ Six feet under the ground.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Now let\u2019s sing that again. Sing that again. (Sings) I ain\u2019t going\u2013<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> Feel like staying here<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I feel like staying here<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> I feel like staying here, I been this (unintelligible word) find no fault, and I feel like staying here.<\/p>\n

Jones & Nabors:<\/b> Well, I ain\u2019t going up or down<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I feel like staying around<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> I\u2019m just gonna hang around<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Just gonna hang around<\/p>\n

Nabors:<\/b> Because I don\u2019t find no pleasure at all,\/ Six feet under the ground.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (clears throat) (Sings) I ain\u2019t going up or down, I feel like hangin\u2019 around, for I don\u2019t find any pleasure at all, Six feet under the ground. (Speaks) That\u2019s what she said. True. (Pause) Now don\u2019t you know, with my healing ministry, if I\u2019d shut up, I could bring tens and tens of thousands here. (clears throat) I\u2019d have a golden Cadillac. That\u2019s what you oughta know, those preachers don\u2019t believe what they preach. Why is it they gotta have all these jewels and anniversaries? Why do they have to have the Cadillacs and the Rolls Royce. If they\u2019re going to heaven<\/em>, why do they have to have<\/em> all that? (clears throat) \u2018Cause they don\u2019t believe<\/em> in no heaven, that\u2019s why. (Pause) They don\u2019t believe it. (Pause) Now folks, we\u2019ve<\/em> got to build our hope here<\/em>. (Pause) Our hope here. Shift\u2013 shift yourself. (Pause)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Stirs<\/p>\n

Nearby voice:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I do, I do, but uh\u2013<\/p>\n

Nearby voice:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Well, I gotta take an offering. (tape edit) (Pause) (clears throat) Now\u2019s <\/em>the time when anybody can agree with what I have to do. Now\u2019s the time they can do anything <\/em>that I\u2013 (Pause) Nobody can dig\u2013 disagree with what I do when I heal<\/em>, because they said all good <\/em>things come from God. Nobody has to tell me that. \u2018Cause I know all good things are good<\/em>, that\u2019s why I believe in them, just good is good. And I\u2019m good (James 1:17, \u201cEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Delayed applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) I wish everybody was as good as I am.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Stirs. Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) There ought to be witnesses at the door. Bad uh, bad aneurism going out there. The woman\u2019s gonna have a stroke. (Pause) There ought to be witnesses. People ought to know what they\u2019re walking out on. (Pause) Fisher. Hands clasped. (clears throat) (Pause) Now folks, I uh, preach, proving my honesty with the lowest <\/em>offering\u2019s ever been taken on Sunday morning. You may relax your\u2013 (tape edit)<\/p>\n

(Short unknown sound)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Said somebody come back and told <\/em>you. No, no, I\u2019ve raised all kinda people here, and all they said they heard was my voice, calling them. Even they were out in the funnel, way out in the dark. Nobody saw any angels. How many people have I raised from the dead, in this room. (Pause) Stand up. Any of you see any angels?<\/p>\n

Scattered:<\/b> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Any of you see any pearly white city?<\/p>\n

Scattered: <\/b> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Ain\u2019t seen nothing, no. He didn\u2019t see nothing. He was the one that was shot a few days ago, uh, three times. Told him to stay in for 14 days, he stayed in for 13. Nobody heard any angels sing, (sings) \u201cCome on home\u201d?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> None of you saw grandma?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter and stirring<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Saint Peter? Say, I saw s\u2013 Grandma when I got low. You saw her because you loved her, that\u2019s why you saw her. You don\u2019t want to count on something you haven\u2019t seen. But I can make this world a place for you that you\u2019ll be happy in, if you\u2019ll just work with me. But we sure ain\u2019t working at it now. We\u2019re not working at it like we ought to. (clears throat) It touched me deeply to see a woman out here in her <\/em>years, selling peanut brittle. Right out here in the alley. By God, she had \u2018em blocked. The cars come by, buy my peanut brittle.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Scattered laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> That\u2019s smart woman. That\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna have to do. (clears throat) Young man came up to me, that I saved him from the dead, raised from the dead, and I loved that young\u2013 Where\u2019s Ron? (Pause) He was shot, and I saved him. Where\u2019s Ron? Where\u2019s Ron at? Did he come this\u2013 He was in San Francisco when he said this. Did Ron come?<\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> What? <\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> He\u2019s a handsome<\/em> young black boy, he used to be a d\u2013 dope pusher. And he was handsome enough, he could get things done. He came up to me so sweetly, and he said uh\u2013 What is the word you used? I\u2019d\u2013 I\u2013 I\u2019ll never forget it. He said, Father, people don\u2019t care. (Pause) They don\u2019t care, but he said, uh\u2013 what do you\u2013 what do you call a man that sells his body? Gigolo, but that isn\u2019t it. <\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> No. (clears throat) Pimp. No, those are mean, they use women. They\u2019re like God, they s\u2013 God sent his only son, the pimp sends his women.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Scattered laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> That\u2019s right, I don\u2019t like pimps. That right, pimp. I don\u2019t like your ass. You\u2019re lazy.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I\u2019d have to get God\u2013 I\u2019d be God, I\u2019ve got people threatening to kill me every day. That\u2019s what one of the notes was, someone out there, uh, they\u2019d been threaten to kill me once. Well, he better\u2013 he better not try it today, \u2018cause I\u2019ll whip his ass all over the aisle. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) I won\u2019t need <\/em>any guards today. I\u2019m in one of the cycles of perfection, I won\u2019t need any guard. You want to fi\u2013 have a damn fight? You just start with your knife and your gun, and you just see who come out on top tonight.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I mean, don\u2019t mess with me, because for an hour and a half, I\u2019ve had to pee, and when I have to pee for an hour and a half, I\u2019m mean. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (calls out) Aren\u2019t you glad? Aren\u2019t you glad?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Somebody lost? (aside) Go help them people. Go help them people. Go help them. Go help \u2018em. (back to microphone) Testify to them, they\u2019re gonna walk out on life <\/em>here. (Pause) Peace. (Pause) Some folk tryin\u2019 to get all their people gathered, \u2018cause they don\u2019t want \u2018em to get any more truth. (Pause) It\u2019s too bad. If your people got what I\u2019m tellin\u2019, you won\u2019t be able to use<\/em> them anymore. One preacher said, I wouldn\u2019t come over <\/em>there to Jones\u2019. I want to get healed, but I\u2013 he\u2013 he\u2013 a Good Shepherd Baptist, he said, I wouldn\u2019t \u2013 yeah, I\u2019ll tell on him \u2013 he said I wouldn\u2019t come over here with my people. He said, I want to get healed, but I don\u2019t want those people to hear what you got to say, \u2018cause I won\u2019t get an offering again<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Stirs<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> He wouldn\u2019t. When you come around me, you\u2019re finished.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Delayed applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> The fact is, that I\u2019m as gentle as a lamb. Never hurt anybody. Don\u2019t even hurt the little animals. Never killed anything in my life. But I want to say this, that uh, (Pause) this young man said, he wasn\u2019t a pimp, \u2018cause I don\u2019t like the way pimps do women. He said, cruise. He\u2019s a nice <\/em>boy, clean<\/em> boy, he said, Father<\/em>, they won\u2019t save<\/em> us, they\u2019re going to come and take the black people, they\u2019re gonna put us in concentration camps<\/a>. He said, let me cruise. He said, I\u2019ll turn all the money over to you. (Pause) I said, I wouldn\u2019t have it for anything in the world. And I thought, isn\u2019t that something. A young boy, willing to cruise. (Pause) Another woman came to me, coupla weeks ago, very beautiful woman, she said (clears throat) I was used by a preacher. I was a pimp before I knew you. I was a p\u2013 prostitute used by a pimp before I knew you. She said, a preacher had a whole group of us. And she said, I did it for him. She said, please let me do it for this cause. I said, Oh no, oh no. I come to save <\/em>you from that<\/em> mess. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Stirs<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I came to save you from having to sell your body. (clears throat) <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> But it\u2019s something to consider, that people love that much. Ron said to me with such determination, he meant that, he wasn\u2019t trying to be silly, he said, I know <\/em>I can make money, \u2018cause I have before I knew you. He was on drugs. He was on hard <\/em>drugs. He was a pusher<\/em>. But he got converted. And he said, why<\/em> don\u2019t the people help? Why<\/em> won\u2019t the people help? And it is a good question, you know. What do we need? We need land<\/em>. (Pause) We\u2019ve got to get land out of this country<\/em>. We\u2019ve got to get a plane. We got a jet, they\u2019re starting training. If you want training as a jet pilot, start\u2013 If you\u2019ve got any money that can afford it, we\u2019d appreciate getting the assistance, but we\u2019d like to know the best <\/em>qualified. If there\u2019s any here that have any credentials as pilots, we\u2019d like to know it. We\u2019re starting a program as soon as we can. Say, why<\/em>? Because we don\u2019t intend to be sittin\u2019 here like the Jews were, God\u2019s chosen, uh\u2013 They were the Jews<\/em>, the\u2013 God\u2019s chosen people. Dr. [Richard] Tropp lost all of his people. They said, well, we\u2019re God\u2019s chosen<\/em>, nothing gonna happen to us, but they killed every Jew.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Stirs<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> They wiped \u2018em out. And that Holy Land over there today, the Jews and the Arabs in a fight over a holy cities, and they\u2019re about to kill each other. Wouldn\u2019t be surprised there won\u2019t be much left to pick up before it\u2019s over with. That\u2019s what religion does. Fightin\u2019 over foolishness. (clears throat) Yes, it is.<\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> What\u2019re we gonna do to get some money? I told you, I was talkin\u2019 from my heart. What\u2019re we gonna do<\/em> to get some money? (Pause) Are we gonna depend upon sisters like this that was crippled and healed of cancer to raise up in her seventies to sell peanut bre\u2013 brittle. If they can do it, surely<\/em> to God, some of the younger <\/em>people can find a way. We haven\u2019t got enough money to even pay these buses. Some of these people think\u2013 somebody told Sister Davis, said, we had to announce today that you don\u2019t get any of the money. She said somebody says you\u2019ve got a pile of money. Why, I\u2019d like to see<\/em> \u2018em. I\u2019d like to see <\/em>the one said that. I\u2019d make him eat \u2018em. I\u2019d make him eat those damn words. What do you mean, in three years, when I\u2019ve got a children\u2019s home, four senior citizen homes, four college dormitories, forty acres, 25 acres in food. (Pause) I missed some of it. Community center. Animal shelter. All in the people\u2019s name. This church, in your name. Go down and look at the county. Then you got the nerve to say I got money? I haven\u2019t taken no money from you. Hell, I couldna been taking money from you and do what I done, \u2018cause these offerings are sick<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You\u2019ve so\u2013 show me a church that\u2019s paid off. You say, why\u2019d you pay it off? Because if Depression came, I wanted a kitchen in here, and I put the finest kitchen in here, so if a Depression came, we could all eat in here. Hell, there\u2019s enough room, we could all sleep. We\u2019ll not go hungry, \u2018cause I got the food. If we couldn\u2019t move y\u2019all to Redwood Valley right away, we\u2019d be able to feed people here until we were able to move them. I want our churches paid for. And in one <\/em>year\u2013 this church is one year old. One year old. And every damn brick, and every n\u2013 nail, and every pane of glass has been paid for, and a whole new modern kitchen, so don\u2019t you talk to me about taking money. Hell, I\u2019m sweating<\/em> to get money to build and to help the people. (clears throat)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> It\u2019s ridiculous. I\u2019ve got no more than I had when I started. (Pause) (Sighs) Oh, my. But today, I want to know one thing. I want to put people\u2019s names down in my red book that I\u2019m never without. You never see me use<\/em> it, but I got it, \u2018cause that book come from another planet. That\u2019s what I <\/em>believe. It dropped down out of nowhere<\/em>. And I got some names<\/em> in it, and I put people\u2019s names down there that help me every now and then, build this cause. (Pause) And I meditate and think over their names and their lives in a very <\/em>special way. Say, I don\u2019t have any money today. All right, you\u2019ll get there. But if you\u2019ve got money today and you want to get in this<\/em> red book \u2013 I call it the Book of Life \u2013 if you want to get in this book today, help me help you. You\u2019re not giving it to me. I won\u2019t get a cent of this. Nobody else here, not an organist, not a pianist, nobody. Help me. Now yesterday, we had healings, healings, healings. I walked down the center of these aisles, I walked on the backs of these benches, I touched everybody, I called out many, many people, every kind of healing, c\u2013 cancers passed, growths spit up, one growth went right down the woman\u2019s throat, just went down, immediately, back there in the aisle. (clears throat) Just a touch of this true hand.<\/p>\n

Male voice in Congregation:<\/b> Oh, yes. <\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Now who in the hell\u2019s gonna help us today? And I\u2019m talking this way, and I never talk like this in offering before, who in the hell<\/em> is gonna help us today to do something about it? Is there anybody here\u2019s gonna get a thousand dollars to this cause? (tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013(unintelligible word as tape comes back in), but I\u2019m not gonna go to anybody\u2019s funeral. I wouldn\u2019t go to my own, when somebody\u2019s in jail.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Delayed applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Uh, did you hear what I said? (Pause) Last week, another sister that passed, I went to hers because, even though I told her to get away from her husband that was killing her, I told <\/em>her to get away from him\u2013<\/p>\n

Male voice in Congregation:<\/b> Yes, you did. <\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013she finally said, I can\u2019t do it. Stood right here at this altar, said I can\u2019t. Said to take me on to that plane\u2013 that planet where you go, take<\/em> me on. I did. (clears throat) I took her out.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Scattered applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2018Cause she couldn\u2019t get away from that. She was miserable, and miserable than hell, being beat on all the time. But I stopped the funeral <\/em>procession, and I\u2019d stop it again. People were critical<\/em> in this <\/em>room, and I don\u2019t give a damn, you can be <\/em>critical, but I stopped it for a little dog that\u2019d been hit, and he had distemper, but that dog \u2013 the picture disappeared \u2013 and that dog was healed, and the woman that was taking care of him, her numbness in her arms was healed, and the picture disappeared. I did <\/em>stop the funeral procession in Los Angeles, and I\u2019ll stop it any damn time I get ready. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) \u2018Cause I know that\u2019s what she\u2019d want. And here was Kathleen Ellis, setting here\u2013 Wasn\u2019t it Ellis?<\/p>\n

Male voice in Congregation:<\/b> Yes, it was. <\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Voice climbs) Setting here with twenty<\/em> thousand dollars that a white woman gets. Now that\u2019s a shame<\/em>. She didn\u2019t have to die. She was sittin\u2019 right, she said, oh, I\u2019ve gotta do my little thing, I\u2019m gonna\u2013 yeah, I\u2019ve got a little gift, I\u2019m gonna use my<\/em> gift. She\u2019d come to church when she felt like it, and stay at home <\/em>when she felt like it, bring a little food in here, thinking she was doing me a service (John 16:2, \u201cThey shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.\u201d),<\/span> and she left twenty thousand dollars to some Alaskan white woman that (unintelligible word) wouldna give a damn, wouldna spit\u2013 She<\/em> didn\u2019t come to her grave. (Pause) (clears throat) I\u2019m talkin\u2019 straighter than I\u2019ve ever talked, but why do you do<\/em> that? Why do you take<\/em> money? She\u2019d be alive today, a young woman<\/em>. Some of you are gonna die with your money, and somebody gonna take <\/em>your damn money, and you worked for it, you worked to build a better world of light, you wanted some happiness. I can give you a home, I can give you guarantees <\/em>of security in your golden years, that you\u2019ll never be lonely, and you keep your damn money when you can help. It\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n

Male voice in Congregation:<\/b> That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Delayed applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) Say, I don\u2019t have any. I\u2019m not talking to you. I\u2019m not talkin\u2019 to anybody doesn\u2019t have it. (Pause) But I know who\u2019ll give it, the ones who\u2019ll give it\u2019ll be the ones that have to fight to give it, that\u2019s the way it\u2019ll be. Is there anybody here who\u2019ll fight to give a thousand dollars? (Pause) Yes. (tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> \u2013tires on one week, I remember, 22<\/em> tires were bought. What do they cost, Marvin?<\/p>\n

Voice in Congregation:<\/b> too soft<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> What? Yes, a hundred and fifty, because we get the best and get them discounted, \u2018cause I don\u2019t put my people on things that are not safe. Twenty-two tires. They eat those tires up. I won\u2019t keep an unsafe tire on that bus, \u2018cause you\u2019re the most precious thing on earth, and I ain\u2019t trusting no Skygod to save your ass. I know what\u2019ll save your ass is good rubber. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) (voice builds) He put you on no wheels, send you down on the\u2013 on these highways without good protection. Um-um [no]. You\u2019re too precious to me. (Pause) You don\u2019t like my cussin\u2019, you better tell her, you better tell the woman back there, you better tell \u2018em, by God, that I\u2019ve never had anybody die on a highway. I had this week<\/em> all kinds of people, our choir director [Jack Beam] rolled over in a truck, rolled over in a truck, truck all tore up, he didn\u2019t get a scratch. Brother Phillips [likely Danny Phillips], the one of our guard, he and the Cobbs, all their car tore up, just like prophecy said, not a scratch. Little boy<\/em> knows enough, little Joey over there knows enough what to do. He <\/em>don\u2019t get bothered by my cussing. Little Joe\u2019s<\/em> got more sense than uh\u2013 than you<\/em>. Some of you big adults, little Joe\u2019s just knee high to a grasshopper, he said, Jim, get me outta all this metal, and he got out without a scratch.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (clears throat) I\u2019m talkin\u2019 about this week. Cars that rolled over five<\/em> times, and not a scratch. Sister Pamela Bradshaw, the Phillips, Cobbs, uh, our choir director settin\u2019 back here someplace, Jack Beam. Truck went off, rolled over three times, not a scratch, that young man over there, five times, (stumbles over words) and they\u2013 they called my name, it was rolling and rolling, rolling, they said, \u201cStop it, Jim.\u201d All ten of them. The same car right next to it, two<\/em> people were killed, the car wasn\u2019t even damaged. Their car was tore up like somebody\u2019d run it through a steam <\/em>roller. And not one of them gets any damage at all. By\u2013 By God, I\u2019ve got a right to talk the way I please.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Quietens) All right. (clears throat) (Pause) Now relax, relax now, take care of little of that pee that\u2019s bothering you. Now relax, just relax. \u2018Cause I just did it for me<\/em>, and I\u2019ll do it for you. And honey, if you could take care of my bladder, I could take care of anybody\u2019s<\/em> bladder.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Light applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> How many felt such a strong urge to pee and you don\u2019t feel it now?<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Light applause, scattered laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Oh, good. (Pause) Shh. Mother, you cracked my whole<\/em> program here. Ninety-eight\u2013 (laughs) She\u2019s 98, though, I\u2019ll\u2013 I\u2019ll let her take a pee. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) In fact, I\u2019ll let any one of you, but just\u2013 We move on with this. I\u2019m serious<\/em>. How many will help us today that\u2019ll come up with a thousand dollars. We need it more desperately than we\u2019ve ever needed it. (tape edit)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Voice builds) \u2013all this crash comes. You see who\u2019s gonna catch it. Black people\u2019re gonna have to be able to take care of themselves then, or they\u2019re gonna be in real <\/em>trouble. (Pause) I\u2019ve got government authorities that can give you the proof of that. Just ask for it back there. (Pause) My God, don\u2019t\u2013 don\u2019t laugh at it until you know what I\u2019m dealing with, \u2018cause I know<\/em> what I\u2019m dealing with. Ask that Jewish sister over there whose son I saved from prison. She can tell you what it is to see loved ones lost, loved ones killed and the relati\u2013 all their relatives destroyed. Ask Dr. Tropp, walking around through here, that lost all of his relatives. Ask Dr. Kleinast. They can tell you about what it is to see all the p\u2013 their people killed. They were Jews<\/em>. They were white<\/em>. You know what the hell\u2019s gonna happen to us. But it ain\u2019t <\/em>gonna happen<\/em> to us, \u2018cause we\u2019re gonna\u2013 While those dumb asses are waiting for their angels to\u2013 wings to buzz, we\u2019re gonna go voom.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) Shit, we\u2019re\u2013 we\u2019re praying for jets<\/em>, not wi\u2013 not an\u2013 not angel wings. (Pause) Say, where you goin\u2019<\/em>? We<\/em> know. I got us a nice place, and I\u2019ll show you some pictures, (stumbles over words) we\u2019re\u2013 we\u2019re having to get the thing all lined up \u2018fore we show you. We want to know what we\u2019re talkin\u2019 about before we show you, but hell, (unintelligible word) baby, we got\u2013 we got something put heaven to shame<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Stirs<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> No damn streets of gold, who in the hell wants slide ass round on streets of gold, I don\u2019t know (Revelation 21:21, \u201cAnd the twelve gates were twelve pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Beaches clean, till you could see a hundred feet down to the water. Isn\u2019t that lovely, lovely? Every place a beach. Coconuts droppin\u2019 everywhere, bananas. Honey, that\u2019s the stuff we\u2019re<\/em> looking for. (Pause) And you say, I don\u2019t like it down here. At least, we\u2019re\u2013 we\u2019re\u2013 we\u2019ve cleaned up a part of this shitheap. (Pause) We took a hold <\/em>of this dunghill. That\u2019s why I said, I don\u2019t want to find out who made it, just because you\u2019re here\u2013 Say, I\u2019m here, I know God made me. So what? I\u2019m here, and I know my daddy did, but he was a no-good son<\/em>-of-a-bitch, too.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calls out) When you folks start smilin\u2019 <\/em>down there, I\u2019ll quit cussin\u2019, because, goddamn your ass, you\u2019re gonna go out and talk<\/em> about me, and you\u2019re settin\u2019 there smilin\u2019 like a damn Chessie [Cheshire] cat. You just smile\u2013 You just keep on smilin\u2019. And just sit there like you\u2019re a damn hypocrite. If you don\u2019t like it, why don\u2019t you walk out? Why don\u2019t you just walk out? \u2018Cause you know damn well, I\u2019m the one who\u2019ll heal you when you need to get healed.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> You horse\u2019s ass. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) I know people. Damn their ass, they\u2019ll sit here and n\u2013 nod or look just like they\u2019re about to shit or go blind, they\u2013 they\u2019re\u2013 they\u2019re just\u2013 just sittin\u2019 around, just waitin\u2019 so they can get outside. You\u2013 you forget<\/em> uh, little sister that walked up, that her head was being eaten up. You forget<\/em> this little sister. It was me <\/em>that did this, I been cussin\u2019 for 50 years, and goddamn it, I\u2019m not gonna quit <\/em>till I get goddamn good and ready.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Moderates, but intense) Have whole ships <\/em>capsize, and I\u2019ve saved them. Had our people drowning and I\u2019ve saved them. Forty-some people in the fire, and I saved them. My God, bring Lorraine Smith, right there standing, bring her through a (unintelligible word) window, when the place is baking like a hot oven, everything in it\u2019s burned to ashes. Don\u2019t <\/em>you tell me how to talk your\u2013 goddamn your ass. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Climbs throughout) Say, what are you trying\u2019 to do? I\u2019m trying to drive out all those people, hell, that people got that Christian religion that\u2019s sold us out, took us over here on slave ships, this damn King James, all he\u2019s done to us, that\u2019s why we\u2019re in slavery<\/em>. That\u2019s why we were brought <\/em>here. His damn lies. I want to get rid of all those people, all those silent Christians that never said anything when our people were suffering, while we were in slave chains, while we were being lynched by angry mobs and never got a jail sentence, you didn\u2019t mind calling yourself a Christian, well, goddamn your ass, I don\u2019t need you anyway.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I\u2019m gonna come runnin\u2019 up through that damn balcony and raise hell, too, some of you don\u2019t get on your <\/em>feet.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I want you to know<\/em> me, because if you know me<\/em>, I can give you life. If you really know what I\u2019m all about, and get the honesty of me<\/em> in you<\/em>, and get the spirit of me in you<\/em>, you\u2019ll be saved <\/em>from all this shit that\u2019s about to come on the earth, you\u2019ll be saved <\/em>out of all this shit. I\u2019ll be a savior<\/em>, I\u2019ll save<\/em> you to the uttermost and lift you out <\/em>of all this shit (Hebrews 7:25, \u201cWherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Voice moderates, then climbs throughout) And where all these damn words come from, I tell you. (Pause) You said the Holy Spirit spoke through someone. Well, the Spirit of Truth is making me do this<\/em>, \u2019cause I don\u2019t even want to do it, and I\u2019m having to do it, and it\u2019s healing people, it\u2019s gonna bring deliverance to people, and I keep on doin\u2019 it, and I don\u2019t want to do it, and I don\u2019t want to p\u2013 preach anymore, I wanna go pee, but goddamn it to hell, I can\u2019t<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) Come back here, Henry, goddamn your ass, you <\/em>don\u2019t have to piss.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Peace. (Pause) (Laughs) You said God works in mysterious ways, so he sure as shit is today, I\u2019ll telling you (Isaiah 45:15 [New King James version] \u201cTruly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in mysterious ways\u201d; [King James version] \u201cVerily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) If you just shift yourself, you\u2019ll find yourself gettin\u2019 healed right along<\/em>, goddamn your ass. Shift <\/em>it. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Calls out) Hey!<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Hey! Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Quietens) You can be seated. (Pause) Now if we can just take this offering. (Pause) I\u2013 I want to get you, my sweet\u2013 sweethearts\u2013 It just keeps comin\u2019, I don\u2019t know. (Pause) There it come now, I see another, goddamn it to hell.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Calls and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) (Pause) And you be sure you (stumbles over words)\u2013 uh, make him, if he\u2019s going out the door, you have to walk all the way round through the pisspot, that\u2019s the way (unintelligible). (Pause) Last time I looked at it, there no window through it, so he have to come back. (Pause) Oh, I don\u2019t like to have to talk like this. (Pause) I do exactly what I feel instructed to do. You may come for three months and not hear me say even \u201cdarn.\u201d (Pause) Don\u2019t you worry one damn thing about it, it\u2019s all right. Don\u2019t you worry about it, just breathe deep, just breathe deep, just breathe deep. I see four. I see four. I see four. Hell, she not gone die, shit. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and calls<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) That\u2019s it. Just lift her up. Just lift her up. That\u2019s all right. She can\u2019t die. I be goddamned<\/em> if I\u2019ll let her. Son of a bitch.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> They just walkin\u2019 around. It\u2019s all right. They put up four that she\u2019s dyin\u2019, and I\u2019ve got her on her feet. I wouldn\u2019t do that ordinarily, but I know goddamn, I\u2019m in control<\/em>, son of a bitch if I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I never walk anybody down that they can\u2019t get no heartbeat. I never walk nobody <\/em>down the steps. I don\u2019t tell \u2018em to walk \u2018em out of there. I know goddamn who\u2019s in control<\/em>, you sonsabitches. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) And you can plaster your ass with that<\/em>, if you will. (Pause) Sit down. (Pause) You see what that is\u2013 You see what those red\u2013 those nurses, they lift their hand because she dyin\u2019.<\/em> I said, to goddamn, if she\u2019s dyin\u2019. (Pause) I sent her out walkin\u2019<\/em>. I never <\/em>sent anybody out walkin\u2019, I always let them rest, \u2018cause I know there so few people that believe <\/em>in me, but right now, I know <\/em>who\u2019s in command. You say, well, the devil can do all this. Well, I\u2019m a mighty good devil, if I\u2019m a devil.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> That bullshit too, you go home and read Matthew 24 and Mark 13, and you\u2019ll see that all that stuff about false signs and wonders and false Christ, it had to take place in one generation. Said, before this generation pass, all these things would be done. So it didn\u2019t even keep its promise. King James lied. It didn\u2019t\u2013 The moon was supposed to stop giving us light, which it didn\u2019t have in the first place, the sun was supposed to go out, and the stars were supposed to fall on the earth within 20 years. You read Mark 13, the whole chapter, and Matthew 24, and nobody\u2019ll be able to call me a false Christ. In the first place, I ain\u2019t come in nobody\u2019s name. They said, he\u2019s come in Christ\u2019s name. The shit <\/em>I have. (Matthew 24 and Mark 13)<\/span><\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I come in my own <\/em>goddamn name, I\u2019ll have you know.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I\u2019m traveling on my own<\/em> speed. (Pause) Don\u2019t accuse me of coming in nobody\u2019s name that take a year\u2019s wages and waste it on somebody\u2019s feet. No sir. I take every penny\u2013 I\u2019m so concerned to see that everything\u2019s saved, I go around here in the night, four or five o\u2019clock in the morning, turn the lights off, gettin\u2019 people to save this and save that, \u2018cause I want you to have everything you need. So don\u2019t you accuse me of come in nobody\u2019s goddamn name, I come in my own name, and I can do more in my own goddamn name than anybody else did in their own shit name.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> I just let\u2013 just let any of my other sweet darlings\u2013 Just let any other little sweethearts try to die in here right now, by God, and I\u2019ll get you off your ass and tell you to walk, too. You can\u2019t die right now, goddamn you.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) You know why she got <\/em>in that state, don\u2019t you? You know why she got in that state? She was shoutin\u2019 a while ago, rollin\u2019, but I got to cussin\u2019. (Pause) See, I was after her in the first place. I wanted her to di\u2013 I wanted her to get a little bit of understanding, and goddamn, I nearly killed<\/em> her giving it to her, but I told her, get on her ass and walk.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> And I got folk here, a hundred and five, sittin\u2019 over there, they\u2019re not having any trouble. They\u2019re gettin\u2019 along. Sister over there supposed to have a pace maker, she doin\u2019 real well. And she didn\u2019t have to have the pacemaker, I took it out, she didn\u2019t have to have it. She wavin\u2019 her hand back and forth. Shit, don\u2019t talk to me, honey, (stumbles over words) shit, this\u2013 uh\u2013 <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (undertone, unintelligible) (Pause) I\u00ac\u2013 I only say, I have never ever talked like this<\/em>\u2013 So much of this, I have never\u2013 and it\u2019s for some reason. I know why, \u2018cause I\u2019ll bet you goddamn I won\u2019t see some people screamin\u2019 and hollerin\u2019 and jumpin\u2019 up and down and goin\u2019 hootchie hootchie hootchie now.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> (Laughs) And go to hell if it\u2019s not so. (Laughs) Both those nurses raised up their hands, Sister Sneed and Sister Morris, that means death<\/em>. And I said, the shit it is. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Soft laughter<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> And then she hadn\u2019t\u2013 if she had not been worried about what I was talking about, and it kept her mind, and then she down here rollin\u2019 while ago, she was rollin\u2019 while ago when she thought I was just a healer, but she died when she thought I was a cusser. Well, I\u2019m both<\/em>. I\u2019m a goddamn cussin\u2019 healer, that\u2019s what I am. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Clap your hands, choir, or I\u2019ll lay you on your ass. Come on.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Well, come on, folk, in the name of Jim Jones, let\u2019s get this damned offering taken. (Laughs) (Pause) (Quiet) Blessed. (Pause) Now you saw anybody else so when a registered nurse says somebody\u2019s dying, say walk \u2018em. Get \u2018em up and walk their ass, they can\u2019t die. You <\/em>show me anybody. You <\/em>show me all those people that talk in that sweet talk, runnin\u2019 around preachers\u2013 they run around with their preachers, uh\u2013 run around with your wife, carrying on with young women, aha, you just see how much they trust their Jesus. Somebody starts dyin\u2019 in their midst, you won\u2019t see \u2018em say, take them on a walk, goddamn \u2018em, they can\u2019t die. Shit<\/em>, you won\u2019t see nothing like that.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> How you doin\u2019, Sister White? (Laughs) She doin\u2019 all right. Sister White\u2019s all right, she don\u2019t care. I got her out of the wheelchair she was in five years, she don\u2019t care if I shit or go blind, she don\u2019t care. (Laughs) She says, whatever pleases him. You used to say, God could do anything, just as it please him. It pleases me to cuss<\/em>. And I don\u2019t know why, \u2018cause I don\u2019t want to, but goddamnit to hell, I\u2019m gonna get it out till I get rid of everybody I was supposed<\/em> to.<\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Come on, (unintelligible word), come on. Praises, praises. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Rejoice, goddamn it to hell, rejoice. <\/p>\n

Congregation:<\/b> Cheers and applause<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b> Yea-hah! (Pause) Now, down you go. Down you go. It\u2019s sweet. Anybody else that\u2013<\/p>\n

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End of tape<\/p>\n

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