Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Coho & Spirit

[Valerie Stuart (vstuart]

Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!! Yahoo, I like your (sick) sense of humor and most 
importantly, the powerful punchline.  Yep, if we keep being so 
intolerant, picky, judgmental we will end up in our perfect community
of.............one!  (maybe two).  Nicely put.  Thanks for posting it.
Valerie Stuart, Eugene, OR

On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Buzz & Denise wrote:

> Zev wrote:
> 
> > I can't wait to see what the planning group comes up with at the next
> > conference and who gets their buttons pushed then.
> 
> I thought of this eventuality myself.  I can hardly wait either!
> 
> 1997 Seattle:  The Closing Ceremony consists of the entire conference jointly
> reviewing a Budget Spreadsheet.
> The Cohousing List is buried for weeks with arguments between the Free Market
> adherents and the Keynesian theorists.  The socialists are so pissed they quit
> the List in protest.
> 
> 1999 Boston:  The Closing Ceremony consists of 200 people trying to decide 
> when
> the next meeting will be.
> I don't need to tell you what this would be like.
> 
> 2002 (couldn't all agree on a date in 2001) Tuscon:  The Closing Ceremony
> consists of 300 people designing a Common House kitchen layout.
> 
> 2004 Boulder:  The Conference returns to Boulder, New Age capital of the 
> planet.
> Left brainers boycott, right brainers have the time of thier lives, as Jean 
> Luc
> Picard is the keynote speaker.  Closing Ceremony consists of group recital of
> "To boldly go where no one has gone before..."
> 
> 2004 Vancouver:  Due to protests over the use of old growth trees for lumber 
> in
> the conference hall, the conference takes place outdoors.  The Closing 
> Ceremony
> consists of everybody scraping the mud off of each others' shoes.  About 30% 
> of
> the attendees refuse to touch someone else's feet, saying they don't believe 
> in
> tribal rituals.  Another 30% refuse to do it, saying mud is natural and should
> be left alone.  30% just do it, and have fun, while 10% of the people there
> really get into it and go home insisting mud cleaning be performed at every
> group meeting.
> 
> 2006 Cyberspace:  Because of continually wastefull energy and building
> practices, the price of fuel is now $20/gallon.  No one can afford to move, so
> the Conference is held virutally over the Internet.  Attendance soars;  no one
> has to hug, touch, or look at anyone else's eyes.  Cohousing has finally hit 
> the
> mainstream.
> 
> Buzz Burrell
> 72252.2101 [at] compuserve.com
> Paonia, CO
> 
> 
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