September 5, 2013

The "quasi-Christian" sect — the Twelve Tribes — that proselytizes at Dylan concerts.

Are Dylan disciples ripe picking for a group that "requires forsaking all material goods, living communally, and working without pay in one of the group’s cafés, stores, farms, or construction companies scattered across the United States"?

They travel around in a cute "two-tone, double-decker bus called the Peacemaker" and hand out a brochure titled "Dylan: What Are You Thinking?" which leverages lyrics from old Dylan songs to make a pitch that I would think close attention to Dylan lyrics would inoculate you against.

You’re gonna have to serve somebody... so why not serve lattes at our café?

4 comments:

Crunchy Frog said...

I thought that was Scientology?

I kid, I kid.

Diamondhead said...

I saw them outside the last Dylan show I went to, which was in Tulsa. Someone handed me a brochure or tract...they seemed like relatively harmless nutjobs. Perhaps they're not so harmless.

Smilin' Jack said...

...I would think close attention to Dylan lyrics would inoculate you against.

The people who attend Dylan concerts are unlikely to have paid close attention to Dylan lyrics.

Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) said...

These "Twelve Tribes" people are evidently so dangerous that German authorities seized 40 children in Bavaria.

Not long after they seized all the children of a different Christian family who dared home-school their children.

Germans reverting to being Germans -- East Germans or 1937 Germans, I don't know -- once again. Jawol!