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"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thought nor measure words, but pouring out them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away." - Shoshone |
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The concept of a community means many different things to many different people. For most of us in the civilized world, it's an area where we happen to life near a bunch of other people that we ignore most of the time. A true community is much more than this. It is a social system whose members give their support to the community while receiving support back from the community. It functions very much like a large extended family where no one is more or less important than anyone else, and if one person is hungry, then everyone is hungry. A community works collectively for the benefit of its members. Since a community depends on it's personal and familial bonds, groups over a certain size will not function as a community. The optimum size is variable, but tends to range anywhere from 20 - 300 humans depending on their available resources and lifestyle.
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