8/10/07 – Today was cold and rainy so not much was going on outdoors. I went out to lunch with Kenny and Teddy to a place on Main Street called Common Ground. It is operated by members of a commune who work there without pay in exchange for room and board at their communal facility. I talked with one of the members named Tallyhoo (they all had weird names) for quite a while and learned that they were part of a religious organization called the Twelve Tribes. Since they are all volunteers, they can make very small children work in their various business endeavors without fear of breaking child labor laws so the members bring their kids to work. They told me that the kids are free to leave the society whenever they turn eighteen but I couldn’t help but think that there are very few opportunities for them with nothing but the weird commune home schooling that they receive. Everyone working there seemed to be in a trance so it was just very creepy. I will not be patronizing that restaurant again.
I went out to my boat to clean it up a bit and then came back to Max’s house. I borrowed his truck and drove to the Barnstable Municipal Airport to pick up my uncle Luke who was flying in. He got there and we stopped at a Brazilian restaurant in Hyannis. The servers walked around with ton of different types of meat on sticks and cut off a piece whenever you wanted one. It was delicious and we both got a stomach ache from eating too much. We drove back to Max’s house and dropped his truck off and then walked to the yacht club pier and took Max’s dinghy out to my boat to sleep.
2 comments:
you would be suprised to find the children when they reach 18 are masters in their own right... talented artists, musicians and craftsmen... they are some of the kindest , most polite and helpfull people you will ever meet..
i have known the twelve tribes for over 10 years... stayed in their communities on more than one occasion... lived and worked with them...
these are hard working , god fearing people... they are just and kind... they are working towards self sustaining... growing their own food... generating their own biodiesel and electricity... they take responsibility for this earth as they are the caretakers of it...
while this sort of 'education' may not play well in the hands of greedy capitalists that rule the world today... these children are learning what is most important... how to live a life that is sustainable... and even more so learning the skills to do so...
I stand by my observations and opinions about the Twelve Tribes.
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