Sunday Meeting at Gordon's Submitted by davel on Wed, 2005-08-17 15:35. Here's an idea for Sunday: We could have another talking circle- no specific agenda. Everyone has an equal opportunity to speak (or not), be it new introduction, response to last week's meeting, info regarding consensus, proposal for action, reciting poetry, whatever. This I believe would be simple, egalitarian, organic, appropriate and effective. I'm looking forward to the gathering, however it unfolds. Dave Lovos

O.K. now I just posted the question to seconds ago but..... Well I think that Jeffery had a good idea of talking about what the groups ideas of consensus are so I second that topic. I think that Dave is going to post something about what consensus means and how to go about working to succeed in each goal that we agree upon attempting. At first thought I was going to suggest working on coming up with a location where a community might be formed but this is a topic that on second thought I suggest we hold of on looking at. One reason is that if person (a) said lets go to bali and person (b) said your nuts I want to have a community in Creston were the top soil is 5’ thick then these two might have come up against a wall that seems insurmountable. I think we will have walls that may at first seem to be to high to get over but that upon closer examination and with more intelligent conversation those walls will dilute into a larger pool of agreed ideals and desires. When Christine said that we must recognize that from the bottom up everything is good I felt certain that she was speaking a vital truth that must not be forgotten. All of us humans function from the same components of life - Water, food, love, creation...... We are good and have so much to agree on especially when within such a like minded group such as materialized today. I remembered what I wanted to say to Jeffery. He said that he thought it important to expose our differences and see if we can live with them our agree on some sort of compromise. I agree but wish to congeal the group together while working through any differences. One thing I think might help is if we all take the time putting down things here in a forum topic that we are fairly confident will be met with consensus within the group. Even obvious things like “Peak Oil is going to have a major effect on economies around the globe� or “ living a more sustainable life is both the surest way to continue a pleasant existence and help reduce our individual burden on future generations to come� I will set up a topic called “Well Yeah!!!� were we can just put things of this nature things that when others come to see what we are about they will get a quick idea of who we are. This will also help the group become closer together. Sorry to be so unfocussed. I am trying to get some ideas to bounce off of posted here so that when anyone comes and visits they can have something to comment back on. The more we use this site the more it will function for us. If anyone has any ideas on how the site can work better please let me know. Back to what we can talk about next sunday. How about willingness to participate in______. To define, in a broad sense, some of the objectives that we want to focus on. Also it would be nice to start off with everyone making some form of commitment. I don’t mean huge things but even the smallest commitments within the group will help us be a group. A closer look at resources that individuals are willing to invest toward certain stated goals. i.e. Time, Cash, Knowledge....... My kids just woke up so.....