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[guillermo_]

In light of recent downer livejournal entries... I thought I would like to make a positive contribution to our public forum... that or make a bitchy one disguised as a positive one.... We'll see where this goes. Ask yourself. Are you pissed because someone else is in a perfect relationship (they dont exist but lets pretend)? Are you pissed

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Re: But am I really part of this community?

[guillermo_]

hey alexis. It wasnt necessarily pointed at you, it was only really kind of inspired by you... I've been feeling pretty shitty myself and feel like this "community" is very broken and needy and I wanted to write something encouraging both to me and others and something that would require me to live up to my own standards. I also had been doing some serious thinking about community and wanted to share some thoughts and ideas. I DO NOT think this place works as it should and that is why I wrote it... I guess what I'm saying is that I essentially agree with you... about all of our failings... including my own...

[charliesseraphs]

I would have to agree. There is a Newburgh-Claypool community that just seems to be inclusive. It's not necessarily that they don't like other people but it's just seems like it might be a cult sometimes. I will be the only person in Bloomington not going to the wedding because I am from Ohio. I am nas still.

And for the record, I sometimes care less about the dirt: I only don't like the bugs in the kitchen and I don't like coming home from a $h!tty day at work to have to hear band practice. That's what I bitch about. I could care less if there is dirt on the floor, if there are dead bodies in the sink. I love the shows that are here and I love the music. It's nas...

You are nas.

[guillermo_]

I guess since I am responding to everyone... Feel free to bitch, I do it all the time and would never be mad at you for it considering I myself am a serious bitch.

[charliesseraphs]

We are all bitches deep inside. I'm a mega-bitch. It's just cloaked by the Christian atmosphere.

[thepledge]

Will, I really like this post. I just wish I were smart enough to think of it. Why do you have to be so clever? Seriously though, I hear you on the egocentric/community thing. And to the Saint and Mark, I've long felt like an outsider being in YL and not being from Newburgh, or living at 816 and not either being from Claypool or have gone to what the guys fondly refer to as "retard camp" before their frosh year. My roommates and the YL crew seriously make up 95% of my social life. Sometimes it sucks to not really feel a part of that. But I've found that as soon as I begin to sincerely love these people, they begin to sincerely love me, and that's really what it comes down to, regardless of feeling a part of any specific group. I will never be from Claypool or Newburgh and I would never want to be. No matter how many times Tim will try to convince me otherwise, Columbus is a great place and I would never trade where I came from. The Newburghians and Claypoolians, they can't change where they came from, they can't change the fact that

[guillermo_]

Seth your wittiness adds to my self worth...

[charliesseraphs]

I mean I don't lose sleep at night because I'm not from Newburgh or Claypool. I sometimes could honestly care less, and I was just noting that the positions the two groups hold is a bit exclusive.

[senraku]

dude good points.

i've talked with my dad recently on the topic of how we as americans read, interpret, and try to apply the teachings of the bible though a westernized filter of indivuality...
he was saying that back in the day, people defined themself by their role in culture(family, job, religion) first.
now we all try to be islands.

well it makes sense. you don't understand how proud i am to have such great friends sometimes. mikes singing and your drumming make us all feel like part of something. like we're part of your band and you couldn't do it without us, and we wouldn't be complete without you.

even though i'm not really a steady part of your group, i know what you're talking about.

good post :)

[guillermo_]

thanks mike... move to bloomington