Before we offer suggestions, it would be helpful to know what you're trying to start, exactly. I'm not trying to be a smart ass here (well, maybe...
Two good points, Greenhornet. First, the Zendik slogan of “Stop bitching, start a revolution” might sound good on the surface, but it’s really...
FTNW: In my day, the Zendiks tolerated smoking among the very newest people, but once you were a resident for awhile, you were expected to quit,...
I guess my point was, sure, I had some good times at the Farm, but it seems like I had those good times despite the Farm (behind the Farm's back,...
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"For one to be a revolutionary doctor or to be a revolutionary at all, there must first be a revolution. Isolated individual endeavor, for all...
As far as the “tragic waste” issue goes that Red Lentil brought up...if you ask me, the clearest example of this would be their fanatical...
This icky little detail about Nez seems to me a manifestation of normalcy on poor Nez’s part (at least according to the Freudian perspective,...
It sounds, Red Lentil, like the Farm was a bit more hardcore in your day (no days off, making people run, toilet paper rationing). On the other...
Just thinking about chucking hay bails makes my back hurt. This task should be an event in one of those “World’s Strongest Man” competitions that...
I wouldn't say that the Zendiks kick people out for no reason...there are always definite reasons, just reasons that sometimes make sense only...
I’m not sure what you’re asking me, exactly. It’s hard to say whether or not they practice what they preach, because what they preach in terms of...
Remember the scene in Star Wars where Obi-Wan Kenobi teaches Luke Skywalker about The Force? (“The Force is what surrounds us and binds us” and so...
Red Lentil: Don't mean to nitpick, but I'd disagree strongly with your characterization of the average Zendik as "educated." I suppose they're...
Living at the Farm was definitely a complex and memorable experience, and so it’s impossible, for me at least, to simply be "pro-Zendik" or...
Others (esp. Red Lentil) have talked a lot about what life on the Farm is like on a daily basis, and my experience wasn’t all that different. As...
By the way, as far as the issue of the 16-year-old girl getting a faster response from the Zendiks goes...well, this seems to have been an...
I was just about penniless when I showed up at the Farm (and I was literally penniless when I left the Farm a year later). They asked me for a...
Just to prevent misunderstanding...in my previous post, I was trying to articulate the logic of the Zendik cop-out, and reject it precisely as a...
The Wal-Mart issue is worth mulling over, because it opens up a number of questions as to how the Zendiks think about the world. (In my past...
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