278 - Sex, Silverware, and Immortality: The Oneida Community Cult

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Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that Oneida, the largest flatware company in the United States in the 20th century, started out as a sex cult in the 19th century? John Humphrey Noyes started a group love compound in Oneida, NY in 1848 built on some of the craziest notions of how to achieve immortality you will ever hear.

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0:00.0	from a community born out of principles of utopian socialism, biblical communism, and so so much
0:06.5	sex between any and all members ages 14 and older and probably younger than 14 sometimes.
0:11.9	One of the largest 20th century flower and find colorary companies in the world was born.
0:17.3	Uh huh.
0:18.3	That's where we're at this week.
0:19.8	Community founder John Humphrey noise was an odd duct, say the least.
0:23.3	He seemed to truly believe that lots and lots of sex could literally lead to immortality.
0:28.0	He was so passionate about his belief that he convinced over 300 people to join him
0:32.2	and a utopian socialist community.
0:34.4	A cult compound as I see it built on that very principle in upstate New York, roughly
0:39.1	30 miles east of Syracuse.
0:41.2	As he sought hyper promiscuous interlocked contact, aka lots of vaginal sex between men
0:46.9	and women in the form of a polyamory scheme.
0:49.8	He called complex marriage could generate enough spiritual energy to literally propel the
0:55.3	human race into an electrically powered, divinely connected eternal life.
1:00.9	Confusing?
1:01.9	Allow me to explain.
1:03.4	Picture Dr. Frankenstein, harnessing electricity to make his monster come to life and now replace
1:07.8	Dr. Frankenstein with John Humphrey noise and then substitute a lot of penises, hundreds
1:13.4	or thousands or maybe millions for the corpse of Frankenstein's monster and then replace
1:18.4	the lightning with a lot of a genus.
1:20.7	And finally, instead of bringing one corpse back to life from one lightning strike, you
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