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Hi--<BR>
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Another evocative piece from Christopher Alexander:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">It is their presence in the whole, and the fact that they are helping the life of the whole, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><I>which gives them their individual life</I></FONT>...<FONT COLOR="#000000">.Italics in original. Christopher Alexander, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><I>The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000">, p 431</FONT><BR>
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What I am seeing here as an inside-out truth, is that in a group we do not lend the group our individual life, it goes somewhat the other way round about. What gives us our individual existence and life is our presence in the group, our helping of the group; in turn the others helping the group give us life. We intensify each other.<BR>
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Can this be true?<BR>
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:- Doug.
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