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Picture this: Your very own picture-perfect life. Image waking up every day doing the same routine over and over. You know what you will aspire in your life: no maybe's, you just know. This would be a Shaker community. Now, imagine your life, not perfect, different everyday filled with new surprises, you don't know what you will achieve in oyur life,but know you can acheive what you want by earning it, there are maybe's, and no, you never know what will come next. Which one would you want?

In the exact words of a Shaker that lived in a world outside of the world:

I work thirteen hours in each twenty-four, Or more if necessity call; In point of distinction, I want nothing more Than just to be servant of all: I peaceable work at whatever I’ m set, From no other motive but love, To honor the gospel and keep out of debt, And lay up a treasure above.

The Shakers are one of the most successful, welll kept communities that have ever been. As the SHaker had descibed in this poem, they succeeded and lived out what they did each and every day out of love and dedication to keep the community functioning, for you cannot keep a group together with just one person. You need 100% involvement to have a stable society, and their's was owed to the religion. Under the influence of the holy spirit, they would perform goup ring dances, marches, singing and shouting, speaking in tongues, prophecy, faith-healing, miracle-working, and spiritual trances, accompanied by visions. They also believed that Christ's second coming would be as a woman. They didn't doubt that Mother Ann would represent the second coming, the founder of the Shakers, because of her enthusiasm, and that her visions "clearly marked her as a prophet." As a result of pleasing and serving God, they cared and took their time making furniture, architecture, and decorative arts. Their values consisted of simplicity, utility and fine craftsmanship. While they hand-crafted everything and made one basket with so much intensity and dedication to make it perfect, we can have thousands of baskets mass-produced throughout millions of factories in, say, the 20 minutes that it took to make that one basket. Not only this,but in our society, the whole U.S. we have such diverse religions and have so many ways of expressing our beliefs.

Even if you wanted to compare the way our communities look, the houses in the Shaker community were all the same: THe houses are painted the same: the floors are a yellow color, the woodwork was blue, the beds were always green and the cases were red. Compare this to our modern society: We have dozens of wood types, such as cherry, maple, mahoganyhickory,you name it, tile with crazy patterns, rugs, wallpaper with every thing you can think of decorated on it.There are so many things that an architect can even get puzzled with what he should use in a house. Also, each shaker had a specific job to train for when you can go to college now and have a billion jobs to choose from, each making different amounts of money, which leads to the rankings for low,middle,and high classes, where as the shakers made the same amount of money. The Shakers did not believe that money was a big deal,but in our community, money is basically everything. []

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Would you like to have this kind of life? Maybe if you like to have things perfect, which nothing really is, no designers, no say in what you would want to be? Would you sacrifice all the pleasures we have in our society for your Christianic belief..... or would you want to live in this world, one where you can achieve almost anything,while still having your beliefs, enjoy what this world has to offer, and never know what could happen next.......what would you want to be........a shaker, or you?