Culture From Cranium

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mid-nineteenth century. The community
was based on the radical religious beliefs, and biblical interpretations of
John Humphrey Noyes.
Noyes grew up in a well to do household in Vermont. He Graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830 with high honors. Up to that point he had
been cynically agnostic. But in 1831 he attended a revival with his mother
lead by Charles Finney, the leader of a large religious movement in the
northeast. Deeply moved he decided to enter the ministry. Noyes attended
the Andover Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School. It was at Yale
that he started developing his controversial views, which then prevented
him from being ordained. He decided that when one accepted Jesus that they
were then totally without sin and had achieved a state of spiritual
perfection. He also became convinced, as he wrote in a letter to a friend,
that he was God's agent on Earth. Returning to Vermont, Noyes assembled a
core group of 32 followers, consisting of his family and some ...

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However, if two people wished to
live together they first had to attain each other's consent through a third
person. If two people were seen to be developing an exclusive relationship
they would be separated. It was believed that in Heaven "every dish is free
to every guest." And that what was true in Heaven would now be true on
Earth.
Mail Continence was a technique that allowed a man not to ejaculate
durring of after sexual intercourse. This served many purposes. The
Onidians did not believe in contraceptives, so this was a good method of
preventing unwanted births, in which respect it was actually quite
effective. An unwanted, unplanned pregnancy was not only avoided because ...

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