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what's your tribe?
#26

what's your tribe?
In order of importance to me:

Gossett family member
Musician
Freethinker
Veteran
Disabled person

I try, however, to keep this verse in mind:

Donne Wrote:No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

The lesson I get from this verse is that I should always work to expand my tribe.
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#27

what's your tribe?
The legendary Incontinent Ninja. Silent and deadly.
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#28

what's your tribe?
(07-16-2021, 05:06 PM)Deesse23 Wrote: Weird mix of cynicism and naivety.

Staying innocent takes a lot of work, doesn't it?
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#29

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(07-16-2021, 07:16 PM)Alan V Wrote:
(07-16-2021, 06:51 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Yeah, but Dom you don't have Ninja.  I've heard stories about that cat.  One time he ja;lidjf a;lsleej

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Just last night, my wife got me out of bed right after I retired for the day to help her clean the poop off the cat's butt.   Confused

That kind of thing....

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I'm laughing too hard to think of a reply to that!
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#30

what's your tribe?
Well, in no particular order.....

A bit of a nut
Impractical and creative
Dancing fool  (been taking Argentine Tango lessons for the last two months)
Theatre nerd
People person
Progressive  
Good natured (mostly)
Skeptic
Atheist
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#31

what's your tribe?
I'll commit to freethinker.
Consider
Although, the word itself seems almost anti-tribal or at least, non-tribal.
I mean, isn't it a disqualification or, at least an oxymoron, for a freethinker to seek the company of those of a like mind?
Cat herding, anyone? Dunno

Well, I've never been a joiner.
To quote Groucho ~ I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Tribalism as a thing ... not my thing. Dodgy
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(07-17-2021, 04:16 PM)Kim Wrote: I'll commit to freethinker.  
Consider
Although, the word itself seems almost anti-tribal or at least, non-tribal.
I mean, isn't it a disqualification or, at least an oxymoron, for a freethinker to seek the company of those of a like mind?
Cat herding, anyone?   Dunno

Well, I've never been a joiner.
To quote Groucho ~ I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.  

Tribalism as a thing ... not my thing.   Dodgy

It is the conundrum, but the pleasure I feel when I meet a fellow freethinker signifies to me that that's an important self-identifier for myself.

Now, whether they welcome me into the club or not ... that's pure conjecture at this point. Big Grin
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#33

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I'm not much of a joiner or even social person, but I do relate better to people I have something in common with, and fellow freethinkers do make me feel right at home.
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#34

what's your tribe?
I'm the tribeless rogue.

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#35

what's your tribe?
I'm a creationist;   I believe that man created God.
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#36

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Musician
Astronomer
Writer
Artist
"City Mouse"
Stoic
Atheist
Humanist
Medical professional
Science nerd
Gardener
Crazy Cat Lady (recovered)
Archmage
Minimalist
Interior designer
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#37

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(07-16-2021, 12:13 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Pretty much as established an objective fact about human nature as any is that an individual seeks and develops tribal relationships.  So, how big or small, in your mind, is your tribe?  With what groups, if any, do you identify?  I think we can all rule out "Family and close friends" first as our tribe, you get a call in the middle of the night needing your help, you help without asking too many questions because it's the most nuclear unit.  (I shouldn't need to explain exceptions, of course this dad or that sister who is a demonstrated cunt/psychopath/neglect etc isn't in the tribe).

work hard, 
earn ones keep, 
one is responsible, 
and help when one can
liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people
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#38

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(07-18-2021, 01:39 AM)Phaedrus Wrote: I'm the tribeless rogue.

There are others who think they're tribeless rogues too.  Tongue
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” -Carl Sagan.
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#39

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(08-02-2021, 09:16 PM)GenesisNemesis Wrote:
(07-18-2021, 01:39 AM)Phaedrus Wrote: I'm the tribeless rogue.

There are others who think they're tribeless rogues too.  Tongue

Let's organize ourselves into a tribeless tribe!
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#40

what's your tribe?
Oh... tribalism?

Unfortunately, I read that as tribadism, and had to ask a mate what it meant.    Whistling
I'm a creationist;   I believe that man created God.
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#41

what's your tribe?
Atheist

Transhumanist

Post-humanist

Misanthrope
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#42

what's your tribe?
Working class.
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#43

what's your tribe?
farm lad at heart
the polar opposite of city mouse
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#44

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(12-26-2021, 12:28 PM)Thingymebob Wrote: Working class.

I bet you think you're so clever and classless and free but you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see Angel

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Though I'm really *really* partial to this:

"You see I spy for a living and I specialise in revenge
On taking the things I know will cause you pain.
I can't help it, I was dragged up.
My favourite park's a car park, grass is something you smoke,
birds is something you shag.
Take your year in Provence and shove it right up your arse."

(I just love Pulp. Sue me Modest )
“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?” 
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#45

what's your tribe?
I think if any one of us went back three or four generations we'd find we came from farmers.     My grandfather was a country dentist but he had a walnut farm in California.  He preferred farming over dentistry.
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#46

what's your tribe?
I'm classless. wait. That's not what I meant.
Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.


Vivekananda
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#47

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I don't have to go back that far. I was just there Big Grin
my tribe was born of practicality. We did not pay others to fix our things, we took them apart, ruined a few and fixed more.
That was the farmer mantra, fix it, make do, adapt.
It has taken decades to un-learn much of it, to delegate.
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#48

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(12-26-2021, 04:47 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: I think if any one of us went back three or four generations we'd find we came from farmers. 

I believe it was three generations for me.  My mother still had relatives who were farmers when she grew up.  She learned to make dresses, quilts, pickles, jams, and applesauce from her mother, so those skills hadn't died out yet.
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#49

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I am in a tribe of one. The culture that I share all traits with is very restrictive.
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#50

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(12-26-2021, 04:47 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: I think if any one of us went back three or four generations we'd find we came from farmers.     My grandfather was a country dentist but he had a walnut farm in California.  He preferred farming over dentistry.

I heard that my grandfather was a bit of an arse. That info came from my mother so is probably unreliable.
He might have been a farmer, who knows.
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