Posted by Dasypodidae on October 29, 2000, at 10:19:39
In reply to Re: Is this a tribe??, posted by shar on October 29, 2000, at 1:00:02
Thanks for replying. I wonder if having a transient childhood makes most people form bonds more quickly. It seems like it might sometimes have the opposite effect. The idea that you see PB as a tribe is probably a big comfort to you. I don't mean that to be as condescending as it sounds. But isn't the tribe just your personal tribe and not all of PB? A tribe you can choose is less a tribe than a circle of "friends" which might overlap with other peoples' circles but is just your creation. A tribe would exist outside of the individual and not depend on the individual's choice. Or do you consider everyone that posts (or reads) PB one of the tribe whether you choose them or not?Does every tribe have its trickster? Or are there whole tribes of tricksters too? And who defines the roles? It seems like everything on the board (at least the majority ) is submitted by people who are not who they say. Besides the pseudonyms they post under, doesn't just writing move it into the realm of artifice if not fiction. I know the same thing happens in f2f communications but not to this extent I would think. And isn't fiction often closer to the truth than a selective recitation of the facts? And isn't labeling something fiction sometimes just a way to achieve maximum deniability while telling a truth?
The world is a strange place for naive and trusting people.
Thanks for the sympathy. I feel better this morning.
Dasypodidae
> 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.
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> This (PB/PSB) is like a tribe to me.
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> 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.
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> How soon did it seem that way? .....I felt close to some people after being here 2-3 months.
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> 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).
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> Do you think you would like the same people in person as you do on the board? .....I really don't know.
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> 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.
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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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> > > I suppose every tribe has its trickster.
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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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