Real life AS commune signup thread--check 1st post regularly

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Listen, many of us on this board have become very close and we want to live together in a peaceful commune!

Another schill for Bridgeville:
Bridgefest 2007!
"It's time, well past time, to try out that supersecret flying saucer design you've been perfecting in the shed behind your dad's house. Yep, it's time for its debut at Bridgefest, where you can stand beside all the other saucer nuts and wing it off that lovely old bridge that anchors all things beautiful and strange in the tiny, oft-troubled little human outpost of Bridgeville.

You've read the rules; your machine is ready: Flashy? Check. Durable? Check. Flies straight and true? Check. Two cute, antennaed crew inside? Check. Poison Oak Defense Shield? Check. Operations manual? Check. Made from recycled materials? Natch.

So here's what you do: Get you and your flying rig to Bridgeville this Saturday, Aug. 18, before 12:30 p.m. to register for the Flying Saucer Contest. Maybe drink a little lemonade, hobnob with the other festies, zip your bod down the waterslide, buy some arts and crafts, listen to live music, out-pig everyone in the Watermelon-Eating Contest, perhaps put a down payment on the town. At 1p.m., don your Antennae-Hats ('s the rules, dude) for the saucer launch. Wheeeeeee! Remember, you'll lose massive points for a variety of boo-boos, including your rig landing in the poison oak, trees, river or a judge's picnic plate. The 11th annual Bridgefest, a fundraiser for the Bridgeville Community Center, is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 18. All the rules: wordsareimportant.com/bridgefest.htm. Directions: Take Highway 36 west from Highway 101, just south of Fortuna. Info and raffle ticket purchase: 777-1775."

-Heidi Walters, The Northcoast Journal

Unfortunately, I did not see the add until today and thus cannot give you a first-hand review of how the festival went.

What the HELL was that?


I feel so horrible and lazy, I can't concentrate on this anymore! I should stop taking the Celexa, or just go back down to 20 mg a day, and hopefully it won't make me too depressed. I really need to concentrate on this, or it will fall through and the idea will just die! Does anyone have any ABSOLUTELY SOLID PERFECT ideas, not just suggestions to throw around? Let's keep this simple...

Borrowed the Intentional Communities Directory from a friend O' mine (See http://www.ic.org/ for info on the latest printing).

Has a lot of essays by individuals involved in starting/maintaining/operating/being-a-member-of ICs. I'm trying to get any info from it that we may use. We have the usual situation where some info can be "borrowed" from others and other info/knowledge just needs to be learned at the "school of hard knocks".

Do believe it is very important to put into words the goals/ideals/values/purpose etc of the IC very early on. If people just want to rent an apartment together, I don't think this would be an actual IC.

Am happy to look over the directory and pass any info on to the forum that would be useful.

Will pass on info as soon as I can distill it to a usable form.

Peace,
Bruce

For starters, do we want technology like the Amish or like the astronauts?

Like the amish? Ill pretend I didnt hear that...

Pretend all you like, I am serious: do we want technology of nowadays or would we prefer to be a homeless nudist colony on the equator or somewhere else warm?

Well, why don't we just go wherever there's food, warmth, light, water, medical attention, sanitation, and peace (no war)? Just as long as we're together, it's all that counts. Let's keep it simple. We just bring all our stuff, even if we have to sleep outside... it's safe in a big group. We can build huts or whatever.

East coast of Australia is the closest your going to get to that.