Being a gay man, I have often been sorrounded by glitz and glamour and have a box full of jewelry myself, and being a bit of a goth, though my clothes tend to be black/grey, they are hardly ordinary. However simplicity is one of the most attractive Quaker Testimonies for me, as I have witnessed a great deal of tension and global destruction due to the quest for status and greed, exemplified by our consummerist society and the image we neeeeed to portray. A return to a more simple and plain/quiet life seems only sensible to me and though the usual Quaker approach is to focus on the inner ward journey, it seems to me that the inner is most perfectly exemplified in our outward lives. Though the 'New Plain' is often identified with the Conservative Quaker Tradition, I myself being European am of the Liberal Quaker Tradition and I'm interested to hear of other Quakers and their story as they try to implement a more ecologcial and less consummerist lifestyle, how difficult you may have found it? and how you actualy go about implementing such an approach?
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