Re: The entire current rules for Ultimate Frisbee are built on top of a lie and a misguided assumption

EARLIER POSTS:

1) Jonestown??? It's Flavor Aid you dumbass. Please get your cult
facts straight.

This, from Wiki:
The idiomatic expression, "drinking the Kool-Aid", was originally a
reference to the Merry Pranksters, a group of people associated with
novelist Ken Kesey who, in the early 1960s, travelled around the
United
States and held events called "Acid Tests", where LSD-laced Kool-Aid
was
passed out to the public (LSD was legal at that time). Those who drank
the
"Kool-Aid" passed the "Acid Test". "Drinking the Kool-Aid" in that
context
meant accepting the LSD drug culture, and the Pranksters' "turned on"
point
of view. These events were described in Tom Wolfe's 1968 classic, The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.[4]
It is also now closely associated with the 1978 cult suicide in
Jonestown,
Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, convinced his
followers
to move to Jonestown. Late in the year, he then ordered his flock to
commit
suicide by drinking grape-flavored Flavor Aid laced with potassium
cyanide.
In what is now commonly called the "Jonestown Massacre," a large
majority of
the 913 people later found dead drank the brew. (The discrepancy
between the
idiom and the actual occurrence is likely due to Flavor Aid's relative
obscurity, compared to the easily recognizable Kool-Aid.) The precise
expression can be attested in usage at least as early as 1987[4]. One
lasting legacy of the Jonestown tragedy is the saying, "Don't drink
the
Kool-Aid." This has come to mean, "Don't trust any group you find to
be a
little on the kooky side," or "Whatever they tell you, don't believe
it too
strongly."[5]

NEW POST:
For the record, there are survivors of Jonestown who claim that while
some cult members drank the poisoned (with cyanide) Flavor Aid
voluntarily, other members were forced to drink it at gunpoint by Jim
Jones' thug enforcers. In other words, they were murdered. Also, the
infants, incapable of consenting to their demise, had the cyanide
sprayed into their mouths from syringes, without the benefit of having
the poison diluted with Flavor Aid.

It is interesting that in the wake of Jonestown, the phrase "drinking
the Kool-Aid" has come to mean voluntarily and blindly following an
irrational leader and/or their message. The story of those who
initially resisted drinking the Kool-Aid (yeah, really Flavor Aid) at
Jonestown has largely been forgotten. If this is not a phenomenon
specific to the time and circumstances of Jonestown, but rather part
of a pattern in the ways in which we form collective understandings of
the past, then when the history of early 21st century Ultimate is
later reflected upon, Frank himself may be incorrectly remembered as a
blind follower of the UPA. Oh, the delicious irony.

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