Have you ever heard the term “Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid?” or "You've drunk the Kool-Aid."? Well, “Drinking the Kool-Aid” means you did something that others told you to do or did something yourself. This saying comes from the cult society led by Reverend Jim Jones, named Jonestown. Jonestown was a small community in the jungle of Guyana, South America. After learning that people had come to investigate the company, Jones committed mass suicide by poisoning Kool-Aid and giving it to the residents of Jonestown. A sectarian society is an organization that disguises itself as religion. In a sect, they normally perform rituals. There are usually a lot of people in these societies. In Jim Jones' sect, there were at least a thousand people in this community. Jim Jones was the famous leader of the Peoples Temple cult. Jones was born May 13, 1931, in Crete, Indiana. He was a self-appointed pastor of a church in the Midwest. Jim was popular for always wearing dark glasses, black suits, and slicked-back hair, which made a splendid impression on the pulpit of the churches where he preached or attended. Then, in the mid-1960s, he moved his congregation to California to, as he had wished, avoid the outbreak of nuclear war. Then, in 1974, he moved his people to Guyana after facing financial abuse, criticism and beatings in church. Guyana, South America, is the monarch of South America. It is located on the northern border of South America and is also part of the English-speaking islands. After Jones and his flock settled in this country, he founded a sect. He called it the People's Temple. They were located in the jungle of Guyana. In this community, Jones proclaimed that all men except him were homosexual. He... middle of paper...... it's already small portions of food and horrible tasks given to those who did not obey Jim Jones. Additionally, Reverend Jones clearly did not care that he was forcing over nine hundred people to commit suicide, a third of whom were children. As for me, I feel like the way Jim Jones treated these people and the way he ran this cult compound was completely wrong. I feel like Peoples Temple was a huge mistake. I am also sincerely sorry to those who lost friends and family members in this horrible event and to those who experienced this. Although it is all over, the Jim Jones Massacre will forever be remembered and will never be forgotten. Works Cited “Inside the Jonestown Massacre.” CNN.com/US. November 13, 2008. “Jim Jones Biography.” Bio.. May 15 2014