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Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!”

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Mehmet Murat Ildan is a renowned Turkish writer born on May 16, 1965. His works span various literary forms including novels, essays, and poetry, and have gained widespread popularity among readers. more

“So it is here, grouped on the beach with strangers, that voices begin to take on a touch of metal, each word a hard-edged clap, and the light, though as bright as before, is less able to illuminate . . . it's a Puritan reflex of seeking other orders behind the visible, also known as paranoia, filtering in.”

Paranoia Amen Puritans Slothrop

Book:Gravity’s Rainbow

Source: Gravity’s Rainbow

“Democracy was never anything but a contingent hodge podge of basis thoughts haphazardly slapped together in the minds of starry-eyed philosophers who infinitely outweighed the value of Mob Man's voice to that of The Genius.”

Politics Quality Democracy Genius Majority Mob Minority Last Man Mass Man

Book:The Swarm

Source: The Swarm

“The Trojan Horse Sterling had referred to reflected his belief that the truth about Jonestown had never been revealed to the American people. A belief shared by his fellow co-founders. They were certain that while there were undoubtedly suicides at Jonestown, the event could more accurately be described as a mass murder that resulted from an experiment of sorts carried out by various US agencies.”

Jim Jones Jonestown Jonestown Massacre

Book:The Orphan Factory

Source: The Orphan Factory

“Why such a massacre had occurred, the Omegans could only speculate. Some thought it may have been to stop a large-scale emigration out of America to a fabled Utopian society; others wondered if it was intended to create fear in the populace – fear of cults, fear of Communism, fear of anything foreign; and still others believed it was to create a precedence whereby any groups labelled a cult would be vilified without due diligence by the public.”

Jim Jones Jonestown Peoples Temple

Book:The Orphan Factory

Source: The Orphan Factory

“Cults tend to follow similar patterns. First, there's financial exploitation where members hand over money and assets to increase the cult's power over them and make them dependent on it. Then the sexual exploitation begins. Finally, there's physical exploitation involving confinement, punishment, and isolation from family members. If the cult's leader has become delusional enough to think they have the God-like power of life and death over their followers, they may demand the ultimate sacrifice - mass suicide.”

Exploitation Cult Indoctrination Brainwashing Cults Cult Of Personality Sect Jim Jones Jonestown Jonestown Massacre

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Just as demagogues lead their well-intentioned followers into tragedy, so the jungle inevitably reclaims it's own.”

Jim Jones Jonestown Guyana People S Temple

Author:Jeff Gunn

“I am not the first person to point out the similarities between Jones and Trump, but I highlight their overlapping oratories more as an invitation to consider the precise language forms that contributed to Trump's deceptive and violent charisma. Not to drum up fear that the man is capable of orchestrating a mass poisoning in Guiana. I doubt Trump could even name which continent Guiana is on.”

Language Trump Cults Jim Jones

Book:Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Source: Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“Some expect everything. Some expect nothing. And at the end of the day we all look at the same world - just with different colours in mind.”

World Dreams Expectations Colour Hopeful Nothing Everything Expectation Keep On Going The Same

Author:Laura Chouette

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