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me alone to look after the rich.
Q: BHAGWAN, THERE HAVE BEEN FEARS EXPRESSED, AS YOU KNOW, EVER SINCE YOU FIRST GOT TO OREGON, THAT RAJNEESHPURAM MIGHT TURN INTO ANOTHER JONESTOWN.
A: That's absurd.
Q: ARE THERE ANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN YOU AND JIM JONES?
A: There is only one thing between me and Reverend Jim Jones, and that is of absolute opposition. He was a Christian, and Christians are cowards, afraid to take the responsibility for whatsoever happened in Jonestown. From Jesus till this Pope the Polack, all are responsible for it, because Christianity is a death-oriented religion. The cross is its symbol.
There is nothing common between me and Reverend Jim Jones. Everything is opposite to him.
Q: PEOPLE THINK THE POWER YOU HAVE OVER YOUR FOLLOWERS....
A: I don't have any power. I don't have any position. I don't even know my people by their names.
Q: BUT YOU SEE THEM OUT THERE EVERY DAY AS YOU DRIVE BY.
A: I see them, but I don't even know their names. I don't relate with them personally, I don't talk with them personally.
What power? I don't have any power.
Q: YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE DEVOTED TO YOU.
A: That is their thing. I am not exploiting their devotion for any power for myself. I could have declared myself the only begotten son of God. Then it would have been a power trip. But I say I am simply an ordinary man just like you. And I emphasize it again and again so that my people can understand that if this experience can happen to me, it can happen to them, too. It is nothing special. It is absolutely natural and ordinary.
Q: SO YOU SEE NO SIMILARITY BETWEEN RAJNEESHPURAM AND JONESTOWN?
A: Not at all. But I see every similarity between Jonestown and the whole world.
Q: THAT THE WHOLE WORLD WILL END UP LIKE THAT?
A: They are trying. Seventy-five percent of their national incomes is going into making more and more weapons, nuclear weapons. Even poor countries are trying to create nuclear plants. They are all in tune with Reverend Jim Jones. Except Rajneeshpuram, the whole world has a similarity with him. This is the only place.... We are absolutely
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