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In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> In lugnet.general, Jeff Szklennik writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> > SNIP
> > > Particularly - what do you think the LEGO community includes? what does it
> > > exclude? • HUGE SNIP
> > > -Tim
> >
> > basically, any one that plays or works with ANY Lego building product.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Certainly anyone who does is welcome, but perhaps being a part of the
> community, or one of many 'LEGO communities' is a matter of individuals
> actively identifying with such groups...?
>
> -Tim
I don't disagree, but being a member of 'The friendliest place on the
internet', I like the idea that people 'into Lego' are automatically included
just because they are intrinsically valued as people to begin with.
Hmm...here's a thought...maybe inclusiveness is not "actively identifying with
such groups", but exclusion is actively saying in some form: "I'm NOT part of
your group".
inclusice=passive/automatic; exclusion=active/trying. I guess what I'm trying
to say is, inclusiveness, as a friendly state of existence, is automatic;
exclusion is by choice. However, I just realized I'm automatically thinking
from 'within the community'I think I am. If one doesn't realise there's a
community, how can one know that he/she is welcome to it, or already included?
Another idea just popped into my head: because a community is made of people,
& I believe people are more than matter, maybe communities don't have fringes;
perceiving fringes could be a limit of our human ability to think about some
'things' intangibly, by ascribing geometric constructs to the ideas.
WHOOO! thanks for the question!
Jeff
ooohmmmm!...ooohmmmm!...ooohmmmm!...
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