Tried another stint in the LGBT in Tech Slack. Wow. I really don't belong anywhere anymore.
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but that of course is down to my definition of community. For me a community is for the people. A tribe or cult demands the ppl be for it.
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ah yeah, i guess i might be on record as making unequivocal statements in support of that kind of filthy individualism
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I figure that communities are structures of mutual support. Cults are structures of control.
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i doubt you'll really find many that are just one or the other but emphasis is important i'm sure
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hmm... that's probably true, but.... no I don't think that's true. I've experienced both, they're quite distinct.
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you don't think a community is just controlling you in ways you don't mind and a cult is just supporting you in ways you don't notice?
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ironically market traders are not in competition with each other to the same degree. You get a pitch, and you're not special.
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oh i was just thinking that a fun correlative is that communities as you mean them are characterized by humility and cults by hubris
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are you allowed to do that without an associated cat pic?
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oh, good point, here, have a macro on the first cat-related image result for "synthesis cat"pic.twitter.com/tNL4q48WBm
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Do you have some kind of vast library of this stuff, with a neural interface for rapid launch like in 'firefox'?
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at this time i can neither confirm nor deny
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I largely agree, except that I don't find communities of thingness to actually be communities: they're cults
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well, let's not mind-control shame
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so when we get into "everything for the community, nothing outside the community, nothing against the community" it ain't no community
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