As an atheist this really intrigues me... and the place sounds kind of pleasant minus the crazy religiousness of it. But it's no different from Mormons or any other religion.
I like the sustainable living, community aspect of it. But it's really illustrative just how sheep-like most people are. And the reality is that in order to build a community like that you would have to dupe a bunch of idiots to pull it off. Sure would be nice if you could lead the ignorant masses with reason and intellect, but they prefer magic and religion (and Nascar).
Well he has the look. I think I should get a white robe while I travel through Africa, looking like Jesus might just help me out
You look at bullshit like this and start to wonder if Stalin didn't have the right idea after all. On their own idiot humans resort to this sort of nonsense. In the end what is the greater evil?
Actually, that whole religeous thing sounds more USa than Russia. Here, this is more what would seem like Russia:
Funny you should mention that. I went to a funeral at a predominantly black church last year and I begged the guy there to sell me their portrait of the black Jesus. What made it so funny was that the facial features/structure was virtually identical to all of the pictures of Jesus we've all grown up seeing. Other than the skin color it didn't look African or Middle Eastern at all. It was obvious that someone had simply Photoshopped a white Jesus and was marketing the portraits to black churches.
A picture I took today: edit: fucking thing wont let me upload or even link to pictures... so this http://i.imgur.com/UWGeO.jpg
nah, Fiddy looks less like a white jayzuzz and more like a guy I used to get stoned with. i happened into some awesome qualudes (rorer 714) one day and turned him onto a few. He road his 10 speed down rollercoaster hills ( as menacingly steep as ity sounds). he made it just fine over the first whoopty-doo. But ate it bigtime going down the second set of hills. He landed tits-up burried thirty feet deep in blackberry brambles. We almost gave up trying to get his bike out. Poor dude......looked like he'd been sortin' wildcats.