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Re: Becoming 'whole'
Did you know that the words healthy, healing, whole and holy all come from the same root?
Jeroen
Re: Technical Thread for NB Members
@lobster said:
Why are people binned or banned?
Some people were interesting, had alternative perspectives, and presented them colorfully.
Steve_B
Re: Becoming 'whole'
I would have interpreted it a different way, that both health and holiness came from being whole.
Jeroen
Re: Community
Community
Thus is my experience
When social groups form close-knit communities they all have something in common...a communistic goal
My experience is as follows. In every genuine community I have been part of, whether a family, a sports team, or a neighbourhood, I have seen the same principle at work. There is an unwritten, communistic logic where people contribute what they can and support each other based on need, not on keeping a ledger. This is not the grand political ideology of Communism, but the practical, small "c" communism that is the essential glue of any group. It shows that the words community and communism are not just linguistic cousins. They describe the same fundamental human impulse to create and protect what is common.of community is as follows.
Bearing in mind, both terms come from the same old Latin root word, communis, which just means "common" or "shared by all".
If we dig a little deeper, we find that as a community, we are all, on some level, small-"c" communists....
I know that to call some Americans the "C" word is seen as blasphemous 
Shoshin1
Re: Community
@person said:
I've been thinking about community lately. What is it exactly, what are the pros and cons, who's included, who says, etc.?
I've been wrestling with this question for 20 years and wrote about it in 2020.
The word is unfortunately "loaded" — it means many things to many people. Whenever I've tried to create a tight definition, I've gotten vehement pushback from people that believe their model counts as community too, even though I disagree. The digital world has challenged us by creating so many novel ways of interacting but not giving us the words to capture the nuance.
More recently, I've written down five beliefs I have about community. They're not meant to say "your definition isn't real", but rather to draw a line in the sand about what I'm pursuing when I talk about it in the context of software.
Linc