Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House Use Proposal

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

Hi Naomi and CoHo,

Ah, good question. Data? Surely you jest. Just how would one go about 
gathering "data" on such a phenomenon? Laura Nader, Margaret Mead, and scads 
of anthropologists have studied communities rather thoroughly, but I have no 
idea how one reduces human behavior to numbers. I am, however, getting real 
nervous about the responses relating troubles, "troubles right here in CoHo 
City." There is a fair amount of work in psychology, and seven decades or so 
of personal experience.

"True" might be an even bigger problem to "back up." "Sure?" Certainty is a 
realm of perfection that has (thank goodness!) thus far eluded me. I'm sorry 
to hear that your life has taught you to fear "anarchy," but both experience 
and education has left me with the impression that we suffer far more from 
the control of others than the freedom to adjust to changing environments. 
Various psychopathologies surround us, and either case can be made from 
these "data."

WT

"The [German] people followed Hitler because he was CERTAIN! --Jacob 
Bronowski


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Naomi Anderegg" <naomi_anderegg [at] yahoo.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Common House Use Proposal


> Hi Wayne,
>
> You state that "most people in law-free situations tend to do more, rather 
> than
> less". Do you have any data, stats or studies to back this statement up? 
> This
> hasn't been my personal experience (outside of cohousing), so I'm a bit
> skeptical. Are you sure that this is true?
>
> Naomi
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Wayne Tyson <landrest [at] cox.net>
> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 12:44:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Common House Use Proposal
>
>
> Coho:
>
> In the alternative, what about lightening up and just asking the 
> occasional
> person who is not pulling his or her weight how life is going for them? 
> Most
> people in law-free situations tend to more, rather than less, and the
> exceptions often have a reason, like health for example, that they don't
> want to talk about, but will if you try getting close to them first, you
> might find that you have increased the community bond rather than bonded 
> the
> community.
>
> WT
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Goldberg" <johngoldberg [at] hotmail.com>
> To: "Cohousing dot org Listserv" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 6:03 AM
> Subject: [C-L]_ Common House Use Proposal
>
>
> > I would like to know what cohousers think of the following common house
> > use proposal:
> >
> >
> > 1. Nonresident owners can reserve common house only if they have
> >
> > participated in a work day within previous 6 months or have done
> >
> > 4+ hours of work for the community in past 6 months. They are encouraged
> > to
> >
> > make a $ donation to cohousing for use of the common house too.
> > Nonresident
> >
> > owners will be scheduled at a lower priority than resident's events.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. Coho residents can reserve common house only if they have participated
> > in
> >
> > a work day within previous 6 months or have done 4+ hours of
> >
> > work for the community in past 6 months.
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. No commercial events, meaning the primary purpose of the event is
> > selling
> >
> > something.
> >
> >
> >
> > 4. Lessons or classes are OK if the student (or at least 1 student in a
> >
> > group class) is a  coho resident and the lesson/ class is held in c.h. 
> > for
> >
> > student's convenience.
> >
> >
> >
> > 5. Spontaneous events by residents are encouraged and there is no formal
> >
> > process for them.
> >
> >
> >
> > 6. Only those on a cook team who regularly cook can sign up for meals.
> >
> >
> >
> > 7. All events will leave c.h. at least as clean as they found it 
> > including
> >
> > doing all laundry, putting away all clean laundry and dishes, and mopping
> >
> > floors.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much for your thoughts about the above common house use
> > proposal,
> >
> > John Goldberg
> >
> >
> >
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