tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16840352.post899355256862330524..comments2023-10-29T01:27:09.083-06:00Comments on the odd neighbor: Wearing the Uniform~http://www.blogger.com/profile/13196599750651448251noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16840352.post-82105730772884529952009-02-13T18:05:00.000-07:002009-02-13T18:05:00.000-07:00I don't think you talk too much. I agree with a l...I don't think you talk too much. I agree with a lot of what you say - especially that we're social animals in some fundamental respect.<BR/><BR/>Although I'd have to say that it has only been on very rare occasions that I felt "a part of" a group or tribe.<BR/><BR/>Very rare.Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05147416487171740144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16840352.post-45045653486025920452009-02-13T14:10:00.000-07:002009-02-13T14:10:00.000-07:00My husband and his schoolmates had their own langu...My husband and his schoolmates had their own language back in the early seventies. Do you know that the kids in that town are speaking it? It's hilarious, but it also tickles him no end.<BR/><BR/>I made the grade when I understood his lingo from day one. I still use it as if I went to high school with him even though we were in our twenties when we met and thirties when we married. <BR/><BR/>Being in some kind of group like that can be comforting. I like those harmless groups.<BR/><BR/>And I don't think you talk too much. I just think you have a lot to say and I personally love it!<BR/><BR/>XXstudio lolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363808478293833466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16840352.post-62283468596364323812009-02-13T12:47:00.000-07:002009-02-13T12:47:00.000-07:00i think this is mostly addressed to iso: humans ar...i think this is mostly addressed to iso: <BR/><BR/>humans are social animals. it's how we've survived as a species. and unless raised in dysfunction, we're happiest belonging to a some group or another. full participation...even if only for short periods...that's what makes fully-healthy human beings less stressed. <BR/><BR/>[what follows is just my opinion]<BR/><BR/>sadly, many of our cultures haven't been healthy for a very long time. for example, here in the USA, we're taught that the individual is more important than the family or clan. abrahamic, authoritarian religions and capitalism have seen to that. <BR/><BR/>alcoholism...pedophilia...violence...our culture lives for this stuff now. (men like to say they abhor pedophiles, and yet it is they who control our judicial system, one that allows pedophiles to roam our streets; it is they who control our tv and magazine ads...which celebrate prepubescent bodies; and it is they who exploit young girls, sexualizing them long before they're ready (i mean, have you seen the crap they market to little girls, these days???). <BR/><BR/>all for profit. <BR/><BR/>personally, i'm mixed on group v. loner...i don't socialize much, but when i've worked in groups...like the military or nursing, i've excelled - found myself delighted to participate, to contribute. <BR/><BR/>but for the job, only...that's probably why i prefer shoptalk to small talk. <BR/><BR/>i think i might be looking for the work, 'dichotomy.' <BR/><BR/>i was socialized in the military...raised watching men, all wearing the same uniform, working in teams, one big fucking team. and at the same time, i was raised in a severely dysfunctional family...not as bad as some, but soooo very <I>not</I> healthy...and children raised in such an environment aren't given the proper skills to ever be truly comfortable in social settings. <BR/><BR/>[/just my opinion] <BR/><BR/>renee and art: i talk too much!Catnappinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15112190511038404999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16840352.post-27032234610723723612009-02-12T14:57:00.000-07:002009-02-12T14:57:00.000-07:00Funny, I never cared for that kind of thing-- mayb...Funny, I never cared for that kind of thing-- maybe the introvert in me. Nowadays though, I don't mind belonging to some groups. Just never only one, and never all the time. Part of being brought up by my Creole mother in the outback of Ohio?Isonomisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09453935939171338581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16840352.post-55127082672861493182009-02-12T11:05:00.000-07:002009-02-12T11:05:00.000-07:00Brilliant.You teach me so much, because this is so...Brilliant.<BR/><BR/>You teach me so much, because this is so true, but I never ever gave it a thought.<BR/><BR/>Love ReneeReneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785932958464359112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16840352.post-39924290535571075792009-02-11T19:20:00.000-07:002009-02-11T19:20:00.000-07:00You make me miss it, and I never had it!You make me miss it, and I never had it!Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05147416487171740144noreply@blogger.com