Posted by shar on October 29, 2000, at 1:00:02
In reply to Is this a tribe?? » shar, posted by Dasypodidae on October 28, 2000, at 22:42:27
I grew up as an Air Force brat. One time in my counseling group I said my life felt nomadic; which would be ok, if your tribe was ok (because you always moved with your tribe). My tribe was abusive.
This (PB/PSB) is like a tribe to me.
I hadn't really verbalized the notion of tribe here until Pullmarine talked about liking to trick us, and I thought every tribe has its trickster. And it does.
How soon did it seem that way? .....I felt close to some people after being here 2-3 months.
Do the feelings change with your personal ups and downs and with the changes in poster population? .....Not really to the first question, yes to the second if I don't know the poster(s).
Do you think you would like the same people in person as you do on the board? .....I really don't know.
I'm sick (bid for sympathy).
Sympathy: I'm very sorry to hear you are sick. I hope you feel better soon, because it's just awful to be sick.Shar
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> Shar, Why do you call it a tribe? I've often wondered how the people who post here think of it in their minds. Some people have referred to it as a family. I think sometimes it seems like a group of people trapped in an elevator in a medical building or talking in a waiting room. Sometimes it seems like a group session and sometimes it seems like a school cafeteria with the new people waiting for someone to sit by them and with cliques forming and re-forming. Sometimes it seems like everyone is sitting in a cold basement in Chicago in the dark and waiting for the lights to come back on. And sometimes it just seems like writing on the wall and waiting. Does it really seem like a tribe to you or like a family? How soon did it seem that way? Do the feelings change with your personal ups and downs and with the changes in poster population? Do you think you would like the same people in person as you do on the board? I'm sick (bid for sympathy).
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> > Shar
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> > > I really enjoy misleading you guys into (at the very least) opening my posted prose and poetry. But I'll try to make an effort. Maybe.
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> > > JOHN
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> > > > If anybody is willing, I would really appreciate it if folks posting poetry/prose could indicate same in the subject of the e-mail. Like Poem: The Raven. or something. Or, putting the subject in quotes like "Breathing Underwater" or something.
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> > > > Since I can't order anyone around, and don't want to, this is only a request from one of the members of the tribe here. But I would be really appreciative.
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> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Shar
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