To: MHGinTN
Oneida has dropped the socialism and has gone corporate, kind of a reverse Marx procedure. Shakers were around 180 years or so, died out due to lack of popular appeal; times change, people lost interest. They were doing okay, though, economically and seemed happy enough.
19 posted on
05/21/2003 12:54:11 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: RightWhale
The shakers practiced total seperation of the sexes ... they wanted and practiced --- extinction (( "avoid the end times trouble" )) !
23 posted on
05/21/2003 1:44:51 PM PDT by
f.Christian
(( apocalypsis, from Gr. apokalypsis, from apokalyptein to uncover, from apo- + kalyptein to cover))
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