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  • From: Lee Flier <leeflier@comcast.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] the gardener's shadow falls both ways
  • Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:00:42 -0500

fdnokes@hotmail.com wrote:
P.P.S. I reread my post as it came in, and edited does not create community to does not necessarily create community, but community is never a guarantee, is it? It's always rather complex, like a square inch of soil!

Yes exactly.

In a PDC setting there's also quite a high likelihood that people of all different cultures will be there, and will be taking what they learn back to their own, existing communities. So that's why it becomes important not to alienate anyone, regardless whether it creates a sense of community among the students or not. But as I say... just because nothing explicitly spiritual is mentioned doesn't mean a sense of a community *doesn't* develop, either. There are plenty of ways and opportunities to become a community without encroaching on anybody's spiritual "space" or lack thereof.

It's hard enough to challenge people's cultural assumptions even when you can repeatably demonstrate better alternatives!




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