Chapter 811 The God of Grace

Anti-intellectual behavior is a kind of behavior that occurs automatically without thinking. The burning of witches in the Middle Ages and German Nazism are all anti-intellectual behaviors.

It is an undercurrent flowing in social life, and it is often exploited by others. Jim Jones, the leader and founder of the People's Temple, was a good young man with both good character and academics at the beginning. He served in the local church and was enthusiastic about

He helped the poor and opposed racial discrimination. In the American environment where racial discrimination was prevalent at that time, he was ostracized.

In 1953, Jones began to serve as his own pastor, built his own church, promoted doctrines, and at the same time did many good deeds, such as setting up free canteens, opening day care centers, opening clinics for the elderly, etc., which made his fame and influence growing, and he gradually had many

Loyal followers. It should be said that at the beginning, Jones and his gang were a relatively progressive church group.

But later, Jones began to claim to be the incarnation of God. At most, he had thousands of followers, and even the governor of California became his close friend for votes.

But when the People's Temple was developing rapidly, many scandals about Jones leaked out, such as his depriving believers of their property, forging miracles to heal believers, lynching believers indiscriminately, and the problem of female believers being raped by him. This made Jones feel deeply.

Due to pressure, he felt that the land of the United States was no longer suitable for his development, so in 1977 he led about 1,000 believers to leave the United States and migrate to Guyana, South America.

Jones promised his followers that Jonestown would be a paradise where there would never be evil in the outside world. However, in reality, his followers lived a life of isolation, poverty, confinement and surveillance there. Jones formed a private armed force.

, strictly restricts the freedom of believers, and any actions of believers must obtain their consent. In November 1978, a U.S. Congressman named "Leo Ryan" was brought in because of the murder of a former member of the People's Temple.

People came to Jonestown to investigate. Although Jones had made arrangements to make the believers met by Ryan and his party seem to be really living happily, some believers boldly approached Ryan and others and asked to follow them.

When he returned to the United States, Jones was annoyed by this incident and sent armed members to chase him. As a result, five people including Leo Ryan were shot dead and some escaped.

Realizing that he was doomed, Jones forced all believers to perform a suicide ritual. The believers had to drink strawberry juice mixed with cyanide and sedatives. Anyone who resisted would be shot and strangled. Jones finally committed suicide by drinking a bullet. One believer committed suicide.

The entire horrific process was recorded with a tape recorder: the sound contained Jones's crazy speech, the shouts and hymns of the believers, the mother pleading for mercy for her child, etc. The sound gradually weakened and eventually fell into deathly silence as the crowd screamed.

Doing good deeds is a common characteristic of good people, and Jones took advantage of this. Zodiac may also have collected "believers" through the media, and the second "replacement" may have been selected from many of his admirers.

Whether it is a taxi driver or a pregnant mother with a child, they are all different from the young couples who dated before.

After Kathleen Jones was rescued, she went to check on her car and it was set on fire. In Zodiac's twelfth letter, he admitted this, which was different from his behavior of issuing a notice before committing the murder.

Not only the army but also the navy participated in the Vietnam War. His knowledge of semaphore and astronomy may have been learned in the army.

In Vietnam, he may have enjoyed the sense of superiority brought about by race, but when he returned to the United States, he found that children in his own country were working towards equal rights, allowing blacks and whites to enjoy equal rights.

And those boys who date girls are too weak and not masculine at all. When it comes to treating victims, Zodiac is crueler to women than men, and both of the survivors are boys.

The army needs boys to fight, and keeping their lives will be useful in the future. He also wrote in the letter: "There is also a lady from the province who looks weird and never screams, and a weird girl who never kisses. I don't think she can escape.

It fell."

What does it matter to him if a girl doesn't kiss? If she wants to be a nun and won't kiss a man her whole life, should a secular man still kiss his grandma?

As for that kind of "weird dressing", his straight male aesthetic may not understand what bohemian style is. In addition to exaggerated clothes, girls in the 1970s wore many sequins and bright colors, rock-style hippies, and bohemian styles.

Mia Clothes. If you wear clothes that don’t conform to his aesthetics, he will kill you. Which woman is willing to kiss him?

He participated in the Vietnam War, thinking that he would be worshiped like a hero, but he did not win the favor of women because at that time, American hippies often held anti-war demonstrations. Their creed was: defeat all misfortunes and conflicts.

Doing so also triggered another kind of conflict. The U.S. government at the time advocated the continuation of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was an unjust war. Not only the Vietnamese people, but also Americans suffered from it. In 1970, the Ohio National Guard attacked Kent in Kent.

Four students protesting against the Vietnam War were killed at a state university. Coupled with the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, a nationwide general strike broke out, and hundreds of thousands of people poured into Washington to protest.

Zodiac may be hoping to restore some order to that chaotic society in his own way, like Jim Jones, who established a town composed of his followers in Vallijo, Mexico, and he is the king of the town.

Women should dress according to his preferences, and then wait for his blessing at any time, and happily say how happy they are.

Zodiac can't wait to die and torture those "slaves" at will. He wants to enjoy it while alive. However, no one implements his delusion. No one wears those Zodiac badges. Instead, a Swiss watch company designed a watch with that logo.

watch.

Someone will definitely buy it. Zodiac is beautiful, isn't it? But if someone nicknames it "mad cow disease", no one will want to buy it.

The police will remind girls to worry about bad guys, but they will not take away the girl's right to wear skirts.

Wearing too much will get you into trouble. Martina's clothing is relatively conservative. In the eyes of small town men, she is just like wearing nothing. The price of freedom is caution. Being a brave daredevil is not something worthy of praise.

thing.

Venetian women also used to dress very revealingly. Men protested, and women protested that it was their freedom to wear whatever they wanted.

They won in the end and could wear as much revealing clothing as they wanted, but the men's eyes turned to the nuns in the convent.

When others like to be conservative, people who wear scantily attire attract attention; when others wear scantily attire, people who dress conservatively attract attention.

Venetian women won the freedom to wear clothes, but lost the attention of men.

Sometimes, men value winning or losing in the "game" more than the love between men and women. When they look at women with rational minds, even Cleopatra could not conquer Octavian.

She conquered Caesar and Antony, and she was still beautiful because she was properly maintained, but Octavian would not let Antony give half of Rome as a gift to Cleopatra.

He was extremely sober, just like John the Baptist who was unmoved when he watched Salome perform the Dance of the Seven Veils, or like the Tang Monk in Journey to the West who never indulged in beauty no matter what female seductress he faced.

The only time Tang Seng's heart fell in love was with the king of the daughter country. She was smart and beautiful. Tang Seng said to her that if there was an afterlife...

Zodiac went crazy, he thought about using bombs to attack but didn't.

There was a madman who called a talk show to ask for help from lawyers. This may have inspired him. In the eighth letter, he wrote a letter to Melvin Bailey, who had been waiting in front of the convenience store for a long time:

Dear Melvin, I'm Zodiac and I wish you a wonderful Christmas.

The only thing I want you to do is to ask you to help me. I can't ask for help from the outside world because something inside me has overcome me. I find it difficult to control. I am afraid that I will lose control again and kill the ninth person.

Even the tenth person. Please help me, I'm dying.

Now the children are safe and will not be blown up. Because the hole needs to be dug very big, and the detonation device needs a lot of debugging to get it right. But if I go too long without killing, I will completely lose control and then detonate.

Bomb, please help me, I can't hold on anymore.

He was indeed asking for help. Melvin Bailey still expressed great enthusiasm for "Zodiac"'s request for help. He issued a statement to Zodiac through the "San Francisco Chronicle": "Since you asked me for help, then

I promise to try to get you any help you need or want. If you only want to see me, then I will go alone. If you want me to bring a priest or a psychiatrist, or someone who can

I will comply with any reporter you talk to. I will strictly comply with your request. You said you are losing control and may kill someone again. Please don't let the situation worsen, let me help you now."

However, Zodiac did not make any further response to Melvin's statement. Once again, when Melvin was not at home for something, a call happened to come to his home. The caller claimed to be Zodiac.

The caller was Melvin's housekeeper. According to Melvin afterwards, Zodiac had a pleasant chat with his housekeeper, and there was no news from Zodiac for the next three months.

After the Great Depression in the United States, Keynesianism penetrated into every corner of society during the period of government changes. The social problems at that time were serious and relied entirely on the government's macroeconomic means. In the decades after the economic crisis was resolved, the lack of education was a serious problem.

There are obstacles to the advancement of intellectuals, and there are conflicts between intellectuals and existing authorities.

In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, no matter how hard the hero warns the Vice President, it is useless. Is the Vice President a fool?

The vast majority of people would make the same choice as the Vice President just before the disaster actually strikes.

Global warming is a serious problem, but without money, people cannot survive. In terms of immediate interests and the interests of future generations, contemporary people have made their own choices - enjoy themselves now and think about future problems later. The top priority is to develop the economy.

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Only when the United States becomes no longer suitable for survival will people wake up from the "American Dream" fabricated by advertising, media, movies, and politicians. But by that time, capitalism has already revealed its claws and begun to harvest human lives.

Pomona vaguely remembered that last year she wanted to remind people to pay attention to the Yellowstone volcano. It could erupt at any time. It would be a disaster faced by all mankind, and it would be the same crisis as in 536 AD.

But that volcano may erupt the day after tomorrow, or it may erupt one hundred thousand years later. People are willing to bet on that probability. After all, humans only live a hundred years, and they give up so many benefits, degrees, houses, and dignity for an unreliable warning.

job, how is this cost-effective?

Besides, who is she? Why should she listen to the warning of an unknown person? In addition, so many things happened later, she was too lazy to say anything.

No one will listen to the warnings of the unknown. No one took Zodiac II's warning seriously at first, thinking it was a prank. It wasn't until he started killing people as in the trailer that the police and the media took him seriously.

Zodiac was lucky enough to meet Paul Avery of the San Francisco Times. He had served as a war correspondent during the Vietnam War. While serving as the chief investigative reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle, he was also a licensed journalist.

A private detective with a gun. He is a standard American, bold and opportunistic. No one is afraid of a gun. He did not put Zodiac's letter on the last few pages of the newspaper, together with the crossword puzzle. He put it on

Front page headlines.

While causing a sensation, he also found a good excuse. He did this to prevent anyone from actually getting hurt. What a great excuse, just like the United States announced that it would join the Vietnam War because it was hit by Viet Cong fish, so it was not allowed to do so.

It's just as fair and aboveboard as long as you don't fight back.

What did they do in Vietnam?

Zodiac "trained" killers like a commander training soldiers, and he felt no shame or guilt for killing four young men.

If a child is disobedient, he can be taught. If he thinks he is not good enough, everything will be destroyed. What is the standard for success? Take up arms and become a white supremacist invader?

There is something wrong if boys don’t take up arms and kill people like Rambo, and if girls don’t throw themselves into the arms of a “hero”.

Pomona doesn't have a problem with wearing bohemian clothes, nor does she have a problem with girls taking vows to become nuns and not kissing men.

Girls have gone to become nuns, no one is dating and getting married is none of her business, and there are death threats for dating boys.

As long as she wasn't dating Zodiac, she was damned in the serial killer's eyes.

There is nothing wrong with men liking young women. Being too young is a sin. Female college students are between adults and minors. "Children are safe for now." This child should be about 10 years old. His mind is immature and he is more likely to be raped.

Controlled.

But he knew that was wrong, and he was resisting. ETT might be the abbreviation of "pedophile" in some exotic language.

"Are you interested in me because I look like I'm fifteen?" Pomona asked the former Death Eater who was leaning on the bedside smoking a cigarette. He had no clothes on, showing the Dark Mark tattooed on his arm.

"No!" he said gloomily, "I have never touched any students."

Pomona was relieved when she thought of the ferocity with which he beat Ron and Harry, and the etiquette of keeping a distance from female students.

"You like older people? Do you have an Oedipus complex?"

"I swear, sooner or later I will burn those pervert-related articles you read." He said through gritted teeth as if he was furious.

"I feel like I am really an evil witch, seducing you, a moral person, into corruption." She smiled triumphantly. "That's what's interesting about you, Severus, you are a moral dark wizard."

He looked up to the sky and sighed, as if questioning Zeus painted on the ceiling, he asked, "Why did you create her?"

She threw away all the messy papers, and now she was more interested in this "lover" who was younger than her.

As for Zodiac, she kind of understood why he felt lonely.
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