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This is a religious based commune that fell apart in about a decade, something that has happened again and again. The difference is that religious communes star
by boomboomsubban 4y ago
This is a religious based commune that fell apart in about a decade, something that has happened again and again. The difference is that religious communes started earlier, so we've forgotten most of the numerous failed attempts.
Comparatively we can meet people who lived in failed hippy communes, but the successful ones aren't likely to interact with you.
- jrumbut 4y agoYeah, I would strongly challenge the premise of the question. Is a temporary commune even a failure? Is a long lived one necessarily a success? Are there 50 year old hippie communes we haven't heard of?
- boomboomsubban 4y ago>Are there 50 year old hippie communes we haven't heard of? Yes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee) There are probably others too.
- danielvf 4y agoThe Farm only lasted 12 years as a commune, before switching over to people earning their own income and paying rent. Still perhaps comparable to the amish though.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoIt still calls itself a commune.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoTwin Oaks (VA) is probably the other prime example. And then of course, the kibbutzim in Israel, though almost all of them have radically transformed themselves since they were founded.
- emodendroket 4y agoWell if your commune is a runaway success I guess you just become a communist country.
- Natsu 4y ago> This is a religious based commune that fell apart in about a decade They didn't fall apart, exactly. They're still living as Amish and they're moving to be closer to their families: > “We wanted there to be an Amish community here, but seems like everybody Amish is more from Ohio or Pennsylvania, where there are more trees,” Rudy Borntreger, the community’s bishop, or elder, explained. “I think it's so open, nobody wants to join us. Now more people decided to move back to Iowa and Minnesota, so kind of for unity's sake.”
- shellfishgene 4y agoThe article mentions the main reason people left may be Rudy himself.