On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Allen Briggs <briggs@PUMA.MACBSD.COM> wrote:
>> I'm not so sure about Shakerism - isn't is a subsect of Quakerism?
>
>Not to my knowledge, but I know very little about Shakers other than
>what I found in _Queen City Jazz_ (just finished that this past weekend).
>
Their lifestyle tends toward the simplistic (i.e. non-technological),
but their beliefs around procreation (=taboo) make them an endangered
species these days. Only tiny pockets survive, and they are generally
quite old.
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