A documentary on the Black Bear Ranch Commune, an alternative living community founded in 1968 in the remote North Californian wilderness.A documentary on the Black Bear Ranch Commune, an alternative living community founded in 1968 in the remote North Californian wilderness.A documentary on the Black Bear Ranch Commune, an alternative living community founded in 1968 in the remote North Californian wilderness.
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- GoofsIn the news reports in the film, it is said that the Vietnam War has just finished, which occurred in 1975. However, Pol Pot is mentioned several times in the news before this announcement. Pol Pot did not become leader of Cambodia until October 1976, and he was largely unknown in Europe at the time that the Vietnam War ended.
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Himself - Black Bear Resident: I wish I had know I was dying 50 years ago
[chuckles]
Himself - Black Bear Resident: ... because, you know, I might have paid more attention to some of the things that I kind of brushed aside.
- ConnectionsFeatures Feel My Pulse (1928)
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Without Boundaries
I just watched this documentary and found it to be against what I consider to be right living. Basically, all the people were/are lost. They really hadn't found a thing except the great need for boundaries within all areas of life.
Real freedom MUST be coupled with virtue and it is not virtuous to have intercourse with whomever or to allow one's child to go and do as he/she pleases, even to leave the family for far off lands with strangers.
These people found no absolute truths. They live(d) without accountability to God, refuse(d) His ways --if they knew them at all, were without a moral standard, knew nothing of real love which includes a desire to depart from sin, and entirely void of the concept of eternity.
There is a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof is the way of death. Pleasure that is the broadest doorway into a separation from God.
Real freedom MUST be coupled with virtue and it is not virtuous to have intercourse with whomever or to allow one's child to go and do as he/she pleases, even to leave the family for far off lands with strangers.
These people found no absolute truths. They live(d) without accountability to God, refuse(d) His ways --if they knew them at all, were without a moral standard, knew nothing of real love which includes a desire to depart from sin, and entirely void of the concept of eternity.
There is a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof is the way of death. Pleasure that is the broadest doorway into a separation from God.
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- dbrayshaw
- Jul 6, 2014
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- $41,715
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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