Posted by AuntieMel on February 18, 2005, at 8:51:11
In reply to Re: I:A/M » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on February 18, 2005, at 0:13:10
I might not be saying it quite the way Dinah means it, but to me a coral colony:
1) is made up of individual living things - no two quite alike
2) the individual can not live without the colony
3) the colony can not live without the individuals
We are all individuals with our own virtues, faults and personalities. No two alike.
On many levels we depend on the babble colony to live. The feedback, the support, the humor, the seriousness. Even supporting other people fulfills a need in us. Babble provides *all* of us with *something* we are lacking elsewhere.
But without us, the babble colony wouldn't live either.
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It is a whole, made up of the sum of the parts. It is not just an internet service that can be reproduced at any time. And it isn't a service like a restaraunt where people (customers) are interchangable.
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