Twin Oaks
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Please enjoy the latest video by American Mojo Productions documenting our visit to Twin Oaks community in Louisa, VA. Stay tuned for future productions which will include more in depth footage from Twin Oaks as well as footage we've since gathered from Birmingham, AL and Athens, GA and much more!
Find out more about Twin Oaks and the great products they sell (including the last handmade hammocks in America and delicious tofu) at:
twinoaks.org
As always, we'd love to hear from you! Please email us:
americas.mojo@yahoo.com
And keep checking our website, which will be up any minute:
www.americas-mojo.com
Have you traveled to the U.S then? If you did, surely you would have noticed that people are generally more distant and less friendly. I have been to a few different european countries and I saw a great difference. I haven't been to the netherlands though, so maybe it's different there.
Best summary of Twin Oaks. Add the previous comment for deeper understanding of living in community. -TT ex member
@Ardalla555, why don't you make a video explaining the other side of twin oaks?
I'm hoping someone can show us the negatives and reasons behind the high turn over rates, but otherwise this is a very facinating concept that I hope I can expierence one day.
@My Account this is such an old comment, but i just anted to clarify that no one person owns the land, they are very transparent about that. Knowing a few people who have lived there and still say it was amazing, the reason they left was to be closer to family here in the northeast and hopefully start a similar community here. They attract people from allover so those people eventually wanting to be closer to home is definitely a big factor.
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Some people live there, for their whole lives, but others come in and out for short periods all the time. I wonder if they're as concerned as they should be about pedophiles and other weirdos who would do harm to their kids? They don't have any policies or anything about that on their website.
I don't think you need a policy against pedophilia. Most people dont do it and it is still illegal
@@cdb48340 I meant policies to check people's backgrounds and references to make sure they know who they're dealing with, to always report abuse to the police, and to keeps kids and adults out of tricky situations, such as how daycare centers are required to always keep their bathroom doors opened, for example.
@@Melissa0774 makes sense. I was think child rapists going to do what they do no matter what the policy is. But background checks and the things you suggest makes sense.
I think they do. I saw a video about another intentional community and they do a lot of checking before even allowing a person to visit
I want to live there!
To a large extent, everyone has their own reasons for leaving/staying. If you want to do something with your life other than what the community can/will support, you may decide to leave. It could be relationship issues, food, career, culture, isolation, family, children, travel, housing, clothing ... any of those and a hundred more.
I stayed for three weeks in the year 2000. I was 55 and was informed that there was an age discrimination policy in as much that over 55's were not given the opportunity to join the community as a whole, due to the commities policy to prevent too many elderly peoplebecomming a burden on the community as a whole. Is the age discrimination Policy still active? Kind Regards.
@Rachellewms Sorry for the long delay in replying. No video from me. I don't have a webcam and no desire to buy one. If you think your life would be better at TO than what you can create on the outside then go for it. I suspect you are already living there and disagree with my assessment. It's enough to say there IS another side to TO as witnessed by the high turnover rate they have had since forever. Someone might want to do a blog or vlog and go into all the details. That someone is not me.
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From what I've seen about it, it's a working commune. It makes sense that they wouldn't want a bunch of elderly folks moving in, using up their resources, and not contributing anything. You might want to look in your local yellow pages for a retirement community and stop flinging around words like discrimination.
Now, if you actually lived there for 40 years, contributing the whole while, and were then kicked out because you could no longer work... THAT would be grounds for the big "d" word.
those elders are the ceo's just think about it lol
There are degrees of "elderly". On the one hand there are 70yo's who are fitness nuts and 40yo's who'd have a heart attack trying to change a spare tire.
@Ardalla555 - well... how about it? Why don't you make a video explaining the other side of Twin Oaks? ??????
You think I live in TO? Assessment Failure.... No, I don't live in TO, nor do I want to. I was just asking a questions.
Americans don't share? lmao, isn't the United States the most philanthropic country in history? They give more money than almost all countries combined, no?
There is no such thing as Utopia. Things which we might find "Utopian" may hold the next generation back. With that said, the technology to provide us with 20 hour work weeks is here. The problem is with the system itself. Resources are still horded on a nationalist level and we still subscribe to the monetary / barter economic system instead of moving towards a Resource Based Economy. Unil we move away from a money system we'll never reach the full tech potential our species can provide.
Very inspiring! Though I'm wondering why you chose to interview 4 men and 1 woman in a feminist community (except for in the parenting segment)? Either way, I'm even more interested in visiting now, thanks for posting.
@LexiRoseStudio lmao. I was actually born and raised in the United States before moving to "europe." I'm sorry, maybe it was through tourist glasses, but you are quite off. Try again.
Brook Farm - H.D. Thoreau wouldn't approve...!!! ;)
What the hell are you talking about?
Does Twin Oaks still have an age discrimination policy............
+Naropa Ananda Twin Oaks is less of a commune per-say; more of a college of education to those too whom are lost in the search for their normality. Therefore the origin of the initial concept for Twin Oak has been lost and converted surreptitiously by those who, through their adamant behaviour, corrupted the initial concept of the communal base of central purse living. Further; from what I understand; it has a euthanasia program once you reach the age of senility, put out to grass !
+Naropa Ananda He said in the video there are about 2,000 communities in the U.S. how come no one ever here's about them?
+Naropa Ananda And I'm not challenging that they don't exist I'm just curious.
o good lord, that's total nonsense lol
@The Sleeper Has Awakened Check out the Intentional Communities (IC) website. They have all of 'em!
@LexiRoseStudio LMAO, Europe is a continent not a country... It isn't one culture... And I live in the Netherlands. Better luck next time.
I don't want to live there. I want to start my own community and be the dictator. Does that sound bad?
The hammocks don't look that comfortable. Tofu is controversial? It takes alotta hands to farm. The cows look happy enuf.It's pretty Caucasian.