Free-Ager – Free-Ageism is an earth religion, based on natural orders; a search for balance and harmony, the celebration of the seasons, and a strict code of nonviolence.[1] Free-Agers were often artists, farmers, the occasional scientist, and lots of craft workers.[2]
- One of the strongest tenets of Free-Ageism is self-expression.[3]
- Have been known to protest conspicuous consumption.[4]
- Free-Agers were strict vegans and used no animal by-products.[5]
- According to Peabody, Free-Agers rarely approved of politicians but were terrific at nonviolent protests.[6]
- Free-Agers were big on all the arts.[7]
- “... things no respectable Free-Ager would consider consuming: fat- and chemical-laden snacks, red meat substitutes, alcohol” - Free-Ager diet leaned more to organically grown fresh fruits and vegetables, soy mix, tofu, dried beans, brown rice.[8]
- Tendencies toward self-reliance and a belief in luck and fate; also a knowledge that “understanding” wasn’t always the answer but “accepting” was.[9]
- In the tenants of Free-Ageism there was no sin and penance, but imbalance and balance.[10]
- According to Phoebe, Free-Agers believed in the law. “We believe in order and balance, and of the right of the individual to pursue life and happiness without harm from others. When you stand for the law, you stand for balance, and for those individuals who have been harmed.”[11]
- Free-Agers believed in karma, though they called it cosmic balancing.[12]
- Delia Peabody, a “lapsed” Free-Ager, once stated, “Not that we ate turkey on Thanksgiving, that being considered a commercial and/or political symbol of oppression and commercialization to us Free-Agers.”[13]
- There was a whole separate schism of the Free-Agers who believe in open relationships.[14]
- Other Free-Agers in the series: Ernestine Macnamara at one time (after being a flower child, before returning to Catholicism)[15], Phoebe, Sam, Zeke Peabody, Leah Rames and her partner, Genoa, who ran a Free-Ager center and restaurant in Survivor in Death[16]
References:
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), pp. 16-17
- ↑ Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 116
- ↑ Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 117
- ↑ Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 152
- ↑ Ceremony in Death (ISBN 0-425-15762-8), p. 275
- ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 195
- ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 27
- ↑ Loyalty in Death (ISBN 0-425-17140-X), p. 34
- ↑ Loyalty in Death (ISBN 0-425-17140-X), pp. 36-38
- ↑ Seduction in Death (ISBN 0-425-18146-4), p. 115
- ↑ Reunion in Death (ISBN 0-425-18397-1), p. 33
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 32
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 115
- ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 87
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1) p. 254
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 295-296