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Yoneq must have passed away if new people are recruiting. To recruit you would HAVE to know the theology to convince others that their theology was wrong. It also makes it allot easier to join when the person recruiting you has been there for 20 years.
I know how the twelve tribes works down to just exactly how much toilet paper is allowed per person and new people are immediately sent to a permanent installation off of the tour. I know because that happened to me. You can scream about them spanking with balloon sticks all day long and I would be your biggest cheerleader, that is part of the reason why I left. Complain about brainwashing till the day is long , because they do that, about open rebukes and arranged marriages and "apprentice programs" for kids under 13 , please complain away. There is enough bad about the TT to fill volumes so please stick to the facts. You do not have to gin up garbage that simply is not true . Got Spelt? I still cannot bring myself to eat that stuff and yeah the turkey and cheese melt at the common ground is AMAZING
Rainbow Family has no theology other than a group oham at main circle, there would be no means of recruitment due to the way things are set up. There is no prophet and nothing to teach other than the principles of barter and leave nothing behind but footprints(trivia question, which member of the grateful dead put out those bumper stickers?) The only thing the family offers is 3 meals a day and cigarettes from the nice folks at nick at night and free coffee from cowboy. They have committees that are argument fests and a kids play area. Shantasina lets everyone know when 6^ is comin down the trail and A camp which is not even part of the actual rainbow family where alcohol is consumed because alcohol is not allowed into the gathering.I was raised this way GDF, I know it inside and out, even the trolls from A camp that station themselves along main trail in order to try to get people to give away camping equipment or money. I now stay at places like the westin when I go to shows sir and I no longer attend gatherings because my daughter has her own interests that do not reflect mine and at 40 I am simply tired of buying floor space for 5 bucks from someone and sleeping on the floor. I do know one thing though GDF tour has not changed for the young. Be it phish and I have seen them a couple of hundred times too , or the dead or panic or any of the other jam bands out there , the day remains the same , vendor setup is at 7:30 am people come to the show from 9 am on and all the craziness and all of the fun and all of the not so fun goes on all day long. If you get injured you go see the TT to get patched up, if you run out of money you ask a t shirt salesman fort a job and leave your belongings as collateral and hope the cops are not in a bad mood that day.
and yes I thought my view on this was quite clear , as for mr doe , that is widely believed in the community to be a complete ruse and this story has been circulating around the parking lots before 1995