Sentences with phrase «in a commune for»

I would speculate that growing up in a commune for this individual was not a positive thing.

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Everyone in the commune was responsible for collectively cooking dinner and lunch.

As for me, I want to know and commune with a being that, in my belief system, created me and died for me.

I first heard of homeschooling as a child growing up in a college town in New England, when the only people who homeschooled their children were hippies living on communes in the country or academics and political activists protesting against the regimented and regimenting education «the system» provided for its own repressive purposes.

Today, we accept, sometimes even admire, communes, divorcées, and spinsters — and make provision for them in our laws of taxation, property, and zoning as well as in our pastoral, diaconal, and pedagogical ministries.

You wouldn't be fixing cars or be a lawyer, detist or work in a grocery unless it was so you could provide food for yourself and everyone else you lived with in that commune.

It was common in the recent past for the establishment to look askance on the commune but approvingly on the community home, to look churlishly at the divorcée but charitably on the widow, to look suspiciously on the spinster but benevolently on the spurned.

How was life in the communes turning out for the children?

He had been a committed Christian for several years, and he introduced me to his friends who lived with him in a commune.

In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» togetheIn sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» togethein drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» together.

Despite an inadequate development of neighbourly relationship between the communes, Buber feels that the Jewish communes are of central significance in the struggle for a structurally new society in which individual groups will be given the greatest possible autonomy and yet will enjoy the greatest possible interrelationship with each other.

The communes themselves, moreover, have worked together in close co-operation and at the same time have left complete freedom for the constant branching off of new forms and different types of social structure, the most famous of which are the kvuza and the kibbuz.

But to suppose that one has not really communed with God until his own personality is lost in the Infinite and he is oblivious to all else is to call for an experience which, whether desirable or not, is seldom attainable.

The rapid influx of Jewish refugees into Palestine has resulted in many cases in the rise of a quasi-elite who have not been able to provide true leadership for the communes and have come into conflict with the genuine chaluzim.

A national study of commune members, for example, showed that many individuals in these settings held assumptions different from the official ideologies of their communes.11

I listen to Presbyterian preaching, commune with Catholics, pray for Mary's intercession, sing non-denominational worship music, memorize Scripture like an evangelical and teach my children how to find the love of God in all things.

8) There is a continuing decrease in the nurture and emotional support available to couples from their extended family and neighborhoods, and increased searching for substitute support systems — for example, in communes, family networks, and group marriages.

When poverty is chosen, when it is a voluntary status, undertaken for some moral or religious end, it is often a state of joy rather than of suffering, as in the case of Thoreau at Walden, the Peace Corps worker, or the inhabitant of a rural commune.

In the end each believer needs to see if the group they are meeting together with are communing with Christ, caring for the saints and ministering Christ to the community.

But you feel peace when you pray / commune with the notion of «God» in your head — for certainly you don't talk or do things together as most people in real relationships do.

Today the young left cherish their local chapters, communes, or particular factions, in which everyone has a voice and criticism is valued, like early Lenin's love for the soviets and Robespierre's exaltation of the local societies of French towns and cities.

When we commune with it, work is actually done upon our finite personality, for we are turned into new men, and consequences in the way of conduct follow in the natural world upon our regenerative change.

«It is the recollection of God, the thought of God, which in all places and circumstances makes us see him present, lets us commune respectfully and lovingly with him, and fills us with desire and affection for him....

The Full Moon is a time to gather with friends and commune, and the super romantic vibes of this Moon in particular call for some decadent hazelnut butter and coffee meringues or fresh strawberries dipped in melted raw chocolate.

• Sited in the commune of Decines - Charpieu, 10 km east of central Lyon, the stadium is part of a complex spanning over 50 hectares and featuring a training ground for OL as well as hotels and office buildings.

For many years, «green» people were hippies living on communes in the middle of nowhere, farming without chemicals and recycling waste.

This is LA, and at every baby shower I attended numbers were being traded for celebrity midwives and birthing tub delivery services and places to buy custom baby slings woven by a commune of socialist vegan grandmas in Bolivia.

Fishing, in my book, is not simply a sport for adults who want to relax and commune with nature.

SUMMERTOWN, Tennessee - Last week, representatives from both sides of the midwife debate in Alabama traveled to Tennessee to visit The Farm, a legendary commune long known for its midwifery center and support of natural birth practices.

We met during college when we both volunteered at a commune in Georgia, the place Habitat for Humanity grew out of.

Perfect for the political junkie in your house / family / commune / chain gang / etc.

For one thing, it's possible if a bunch of people LIKE the idea and choose to form a commune in a form of such corporation voluntarily (ala Kapitalist Kibbutz, or Google:)

Others believe in telepathy, have communed with fluorescent raccoons, and championed vitamin C as a cure for cancer.

For instance, all female subjects from the mountain commune of San Basilio, Sardinia, were placed in their original village (inset).

Virgin Galactic's suborbital tourism flights may not make it to the launchpad in time for this year's summer vacation, but there are plenty of places to commune with the cosmos from the comfort of Earth (and for less than $ 200,000).

moved to a hippie commune in 2011 and made a lot of new friends and gained some new rainbow family.found myself and who I am.learned to be a better person love people for who they are.want to travel to rainbow gatherings as well as other such events.hope to find someone to share that life with.

It looks like as though this group has the solidarity that would protect them from a breakup, but the success of one of their troupe leads to envy by the others and, given that the winner of an audition by a Saturday Night Live type TV program called «Weekend Live» is the two strongest performer in the Commune, things start to look bleak for the other five.

Raised in a commune outside of Paris, Dujardin worked for his family's construction company after high school.

Documentary on L'Arche, a commune for the developmentally disabled outside Paris, begun in the 1960s by Jean Vanier.

As Jack, an dying ex-hippie and environmentalist living in isolation with a daughter (Camilla Belle) who's developed a secret, incestuous love for him, Day - Lewis exudes both a gentleness and a sense of loss, speaking of a former commune with a wistfulness that suggests someone who never really gave up the dream of the «60s even as he watched it die.

Wanderlust (R for profanity, sexuality, drug use and graphic nudity) Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd co-star in this midlife crisis comedy about a married couple who move from Manhattan to a free love, hippie commune in the country after the husband loses his high - paying job.

In the film Stewart plays an American in Paris who divides her time between picking up high fashion for her ultra demanding boss and mourning the loss of her brother by attempting to psychically commune with his ghosIn the film Stewart plays an American in Paris who divides her time between picking up high fashion for her ultra demanding boss and mourning the loss of her brother by attempting to psychically commune with his ghosin Paris who divides her time between picking up high fashion for her ultra demanding boss and mourning the loss of her brother by attempting to psychically commune with his ghost.

That's where Frank the Bastard finds itself, since despite having a mysterious title and a mysterious premise (a young woman confronts her past when she returns to the creepy commune she grew up in), the movie just spins its wheels as it looks for the dullest way to finally admit the pitiful details of its mystery plot.

Stranding a Manhattan couple (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) in a hippie commune in rural Georgia provides some clear opportunities for fish - out - of - water comedy, but Wain and his cast never go for the obvious joke, and they're willing to push the material in eccentric directions.

Worse than that is when McCarten tries for mawkishness, as in a sequence of Churchill communing with the common man.

While del Toro is always geeky charming, and there were plenty of questions for Channing Tatum, especially one alluding to his best asset being his «visual» ones and not necessarily his voice, the real charmer was director Gutierrez who spoke with childlike enthusiasm about his childhood in Mexico and his deep connection with Dia De Los Muertos, a day when the dead are honored and believed to commune with the living.

«Martha Marcy May Marlene» (Fox), about a young woman who escapes a commune - turned - cult but remains haunted by the legacy, earned three Independent Spirit Award nominations: for Best First Feature, Best Actress (Elizabeth Olsen, in an acclaimed performance) and Best Supporting Actors (John Hawkes).

Happiness Runs (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama about a neglected kid (Mark L. Young) raised on a polygamous hippie commune in Malibu who becomes wise enough to start looking for another path than his parents» one which was marked by promiscuity, drugs and a slavish devotion to an exploitative guru (Rutger Hauer).

Trine Dyrholm as «Anna» in The Commune She won Best Actress in Berlinale a year ago for this new film from Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, The Hunt, Far From the Madding Crowd).

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