Community Definition #1

A community is a bunch of people with implicit and explicit agreements about shared values.

A value is just something that is important to them.

Their only agreement may be that this thing is important.

A community is a bunch of people who agree that something is important.

COMMUNITY PEOPLE AGREE IMPORTANT

{I like boiling things down sometimes…}


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8 Comments

  1. Posted September 27, 2007 at 1:05 pm | Permalink

    so what do the members of your community agree is important?

    1. mutual respect in spite of differences of opinion
    2. openness to alternative interpretation of mutual experience (sociocultural)
    3. humour/fun/music (Joy) (”Don’t take error too seriously” — The Gospel of Truth)

  2. Posted September 27, 2007 at 1:36 pm | Permalink

    I like where you’re going, but I think we can streamline it:

    1. Respect
    2. Experience
    3. Abundance

    All of which should be mutual. This gives me a good base. I will think about this more at lunch!

  3. Posted September 27, 2007 at 4:22 pm | Permalink

    I can see that, but I think the subject of #2 to me was the Openness aspect. Experience should definitely be in there, though; maybe a #4?

  4. Posted September 27, 2007 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

    Why should we focus on the differences among interpretations and opinions though? Focusing on differences reinforces differences.

  5. Posted September 27, 2007 at 6:35 pm | Permalink

    ? Mutual respect for similarities of interpretation or opinion?

  6. Posted September 27, 2007 at 6:51 pm | Permalink

    What??

  7. Posted September 28, 2007 at 10:35 am | Permalink

    well one of the things we value as far as i can tell is that we all make attempts to understand one another even though we don’t all interface with reality the same way. if you don’t want to include ‘differences,’ then why not have it be similarities?

    how about ‘value multiple perspectives.’ or heck, if you wanna cut to the chase, how about “Value” as something we value?

  8. Posted September 28, 2007 at 11:06 am | Permalink

    I like the words translation and understanding here

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