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From: stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens)
Subject: Re: THE PURPOSE OF LIFE Defined
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In <30DEC94.10615334.0081@ESAMATC.LIB.MATC.EDU> Raven <JSINGLE@MUSIC.LIB.MATC.EDU> writes:
>stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Greg Stevens) writes:
>|roose@ix.netcom.com (Richard Roose) writes:

>|>What the F*** is a community?
>|
>|A group of people interacting.

>Like the Axis and Allied armies were a community,
>because they sure interacted.

Ha ha.  Good call.  True, I was being short and probably leaving out some
criteria -- however, some people WOULD view them as a community because the
behaviors of one group effected the behaviors of the other.  They would 
have been considered a split community.  I was thinking of "community" in
the social science sense, rather than the socio-political or "emotional"
sense of "people who get along and work towards their own collective
self-interest," although this is often a property of communities.

Greg Stevens

stevens@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu

