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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hexmage-EN" data-source="post: 8313204" data-attributes="member: 79428">To expand on my previous post, here's an example from that Wikipedia list I linked about a group in the 1600's called the Diggers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers" target="_blank">Diggers</a><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> The Diggers tried to reform the existing social order with an agrarian lifestyle based on their ideas for the creation of small, rural communities. They were one of a number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around this time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Diggers' beliefs were informed by writings which envisioned an ecological interrelationship between humans and nature, acknowledging the inherent connections between people and their surroundings; "true freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth".</li> </ul>Unfortunately for the Diggers, authorities in England at the time weren't about to respect the independence of their communes.There were apparently a number of dissenting groups in England at the time that seem interesting, such as the Ranters.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranter" target="_blank">Ranters</a><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> They held that believers are free from all traditional restraints and that sin is a product only of the imagination.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">“...for indeed sin hath its conception only in the imagination; therefore; so long as the act was in God, or nakedly produced by God, it was as holy as God...”</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They denied the authority of the church, of accepted religious practice and of scripture. In fact, they denied the power of any authority in general.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A leader of the Diggers commented on Ranter principles by denoting them as "a general lack of moral values or restraint in worldly pleasures".</li> </ul>So the Diggers sound like they trend more closely to Chaotic Good, with the Ranters being perhaps more prone to Chaotic Evil.</blockquote>

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