Sentences with phrase «living in communes»

During the 1960s a number of young persons in the United States tried their hand at living in communes, where — like the early Christian church — «They had all things in common.»

Everything: Live in a commune, create a magazine, buy a nightclub, breed budgerigars, build a recording studio, start a business, crash that business, build a train company, launch a space - tourism company, start a racing team, create a cosmetics line, travel around the world in a hot air balloon and live on a private island.

And while we are at it if you really believed your new testament then you'd be a socialist who sold everything they had and lived in a commune and praised god every day while taking care of the weak.

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

Part verité, part freakout fantasy, it follows a group living in a commune house as they must decide whether to marry into the very society from which they have rebelled, or else just to disappear in a puff of smoke along with the end of their era.

The Commune is partially drawn from Vinterberg's childhood experience of living in a commune.

During the hippie days of the late sixties and early seventies some people tried a different way of live in communes as did the utopian communities in the 19th century.

Six years later he graduated with honors from Reed College and soon thereafter plunged into the sixties counterculture like a dog into surf; he wrote for an «alternative» weekly called The Portland Scribe, lived in communes, worked in restaurants, wrote obscure, experimental fiction, and quit his job often in order to hit the road and have adventures.

She once lived in a commune with a rock band, and has worked as an exhibiting artist.

Living in the commune did not help Linda at all, and did little for Linda's parents.

Yes when I lived in a commune one woman spoke lovingly of the births of her children & had photo's of the birth.

During his residency Maxime will be exploring the forms and modes of living in a commune.

That's not to say we should all live in communes, in cramped, shared quarters.

The polygamists live in a commune - style compound outside of Lister.

Not exact matches

After living on a commune in Oregon, he and his wife, Judy, moved to Burlington in 1970, joining so many other back - to - the - landers looking to flee their harried urban existences.

Jo Freeman spent much of the 1960s living with her activist peers on communes — including a stint as part of a women's liberation collective in which everyone had equal say and stature.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who once lived in a vegetarian commune, is wary of Wall Street.

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.

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 calls the disciple to live, at least part of the time, as if he or she were already in the next world, a world where all share freely and constantly commune with God — in short, a life of love.

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

And it is apparent in the recurrent themes of returning to the natural, to the soil, to simpler forms of life, and to the elemental experiences of common people, that manifest themselves in folk music, communes, handicrafting, and classes in organic gardening.

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.

Many of the early Christians lived in what are essentially communes.

Today, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an American Lourdes: a pilgrimage site where the living come to commune with the dead and to reckon with war and their own mortality in the medium of the mirror that is the Wall.

«Creation is dignified in die first moments of its spawning by the decree of the Incarnation, redeemed by the living communing of the same Son of God»

That experiment was repeated in the back - in to - nature communes of the 1960s and»70s, which were inspired in part by people like Scott and Helen Nearing who had pioneered the simple life of rural homesteading decades earlier.

Participating in the life of this totem is a way of communing with the sacred.

I don't mean living on a commune, but being involved in each other's lives on a regular basis.

Human life has evolved to a stage of development that enables the human being to commune with the source of life, to stand in awe of it, to feel both alienated or out of touch with it, and in communion with it, and that is worship.

My children will have approximately 1 / 7th greater life experiences because they won't be wasting a day trying to commune with a non-existent all - powerful being with pathological tendencies, if you base his existence on what you read in the various religious texts some men (no women) wrote several thousand years ago.

An excuse to talk about my running list of things that make me want to exit normal society and go live in an off - the - grid commune!

About living in the country and communing with nature and how tired we were of the concrete jungle.

Rohan spent time living in his father's sprawling home on Hope Road in Kingston, a place described in Timothy White's 1983 biography of Bob, Catch a Fire, as «a religious hippie commune, with an abundance of food, herb, children, music and casual sex.»

By Ann Brown, Parenting Coach Those of you in my classes and parenting groups have heard me start many sentences with, «after the revolution, when I am in charge of the world and we all live on communes in peace and harmony....»

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

However, «eco» doesn't mean living on a commune somewhere in the hills.

If you live in a naturist commune or a home with dirt or straw floors, you might get away with wearing nothing at all.

SJuan76 according to a book I read Aosta Valley was virtually 100 % francophone when it was annexed in 1868 and was only 4 % italian speaking in 1914 at Great War outbreak (most Italians lived in Aosta city itself - the rest of the valley being exclusively francophone)(with the exception of 3 communes with some sort of Germannic settlement).

Personally, I think that Cameron is at his strongest when he identifies quality of life as a major dirving force; the largest single component of this is freedom - the freedom to choose to work long hours in an investment bank or sit in a hippy commune strumming a guitar.

Commune with bizarre life - forms deep below your feet, or simply gape in morbid fascination at the fecal microbes that are currently having a party on your pillow and TV screen?

Bratman, who himself had a food fixation while living on a commune in upstate New York, chose the prefix «ortho» — which in Greek means straight, correct, true — to reflect the obsession with maintaining a perfect diet.

As you will read, Eliezer lives among cults, throws himself into workshops, visits hippie communes, enrolls in personal transformation trainings — and all the while, cites the inconsistencies and flaws in the various ideologies of each scene.

It follows Agnes and Honey, two young friends living in a religious commune called Mount Blessing.

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.

I lived on a commune in my early twenties, got married there barefoot and pregnant on my due date and had my 3 young uns at home with midwives.

I have seen the classic artist, some of them no longer here, I traveled the roads in 1969, I have lived on a commune and I have lived the life.

Likes to bow - hunt, fish, camp, and hike in the great outdoors, and commune with the Great Spirit and live life to the fullest.

It's a striking combination of analysis and creative innovation that communes with the past and present, uniting them as a beautiful, absurdist tone poem about the struggles facing those dealt less fortunate hands in life.

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.