tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post6257658286304340138..comments2024-03-28T18:59:21.172-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Intermission: early 2010s medley of 100+ song clipsagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-53888353529783008992018-08-14T15:54:36.091-04:002018-08-14T15:54:36.091-04:00Cultic activity most likely during the manic highs...Cultic activity most likely during the manic highs. For instance, the founding of the Rajneeshporum community in Oregon from 1981-1984:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneeshpuram<br /><br /><br />the L.E.T.S.(Local exchange trading system) cult in Vancouver in the early 80s(wanted to return to bartering goods). That cult fizzled out in the late 80s.<br /><br />"In the early 1980s, a similar system ran on Vancouver Island. Known as L.E.T.S. (Local Exchange Trading System), the system ran on the moneyless principle of exchanges of services (Boxall 2006). People did not have to directly swap services or goods"<br /><br />https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter18-work-and-the-economy/<br /><br /><br />the "Heaven's Gate" cult who believed the Haile-Bopp comet was a spacecraft, and committed mass suicide in 1997:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)<br /><br /><br />the "Jonestown" suicides in 1978:<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown<br /><br /><br />Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-19003149440546880792018-07-09T14:42:32.443-04:002018-07-09T14:42:32.443-04:00I've been trying to find 5-year cycles in reli...I've been trying to find 5-year cycles in religions or cultures. The only thing I can come up with is that Hindus worship three main gods - Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma - each of whom symbolizes a different phase in a growth cycle: Creation, Preservation, and Destruction. Might be useful.<br /><br />Only other thing was that the ancient Romans had a measure of time called "indiction" that lasted 15-years.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndictionCurtisnoreply@blogger.com