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Whereas I grew up in a town of approximately 6000 people and we barely talked to our neighbors.
Heh.
-Arrian
Heh.
-Arrian
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Originally posted by Arrian
Whereas I grew up in a town of approximately 6000 people and we barely talked to our neighbors.
Heh.
-Arrian
well its not like my parents were on speaking terms with everyone
anyway thats all gone. Two career families, profusion of media, seem to have killed it, AFAICT (not that ive checked every part of Brooklyn, and my old block has changed in other ways)
My only point was that "urban villages" were less uncommon than one might think, and I suspect much of what has killed them has hurt smaller places as well.
Plenty of kind people left, though."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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I'm gonna have to go with LotM. People in the Big City can be very friendly, helpful and hospitable and also vice versa. There's a reason why Deliverance scares so many people.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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It shows.Originally posted by Odin
QFT.
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