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Crawl and 1OOO	Can you be isolated from yet a member of society?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 15851 (10/08/09 2:21 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Inspired by: The lesson I learned in 1985, when I was first tasting the freedom of adulthood and emerging from the safety of home and hearth, is that it's possible to achieve a state of personal isolation while remaining a member of society. Unfortunately, although the topic seems interesting to me, maybe the kick-off isn't. If you read the entire entry, the way he was a member of society while being isolated was ... keeping his dorm room open sometimes? And the way some people are not members of society is ... texting during a movie? So, apparently, it's just a build up to one of his pet topics, distracting people in a movie theater. For the question in general, it seems to me like it'd be inevitable to self-identify less as a member of society the more isolated you are from it. "Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon
wolf		#1	[-]
Posts: 28 (10/09/09 1:40 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well sure, I think that you can, mainly because I'm not convinced that you can ever really leave a society. I've always thought that people who isolate themselves are still members of the society, just very different than most of the others. Just because you don't view yourself as a member of society doesn't mean that you're not one.
Crawl and 1OOO		#2	[-]
Posts: 15851 (10/09/09 2:55 PM) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Does "being a member of society" even mean anything if it's that inclusive? Usually, descriptive terms divide things into two groups: those that are described, and those that aren't. "Of the three ways in which men think that they acquire a knowledge of things--authority, reasoning, and experience--only the last is effective and able to bring peace to the intellect." -Roger Bacon
btizubayer		#3	[-]
Posts: 329 (10/10/09 1:27 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Crawl and 1OOO wrote: For the question in general, it seems to me like it'd be inevitable to self-identify less as a member of society the more isolated you are from it. The way society is made up is how much space is covered by one person? To pick apart the advancements in technology and try to place them into the open excuses of the reason why society has changed is hard to self-identify with. There are alot of factors to deal with...but in principal I see why what Crawl wrote makes sense. Having society on your side. well... it's a big topic. Usually a "member of society" has a reputation to uphold. - or better put...that member of society is considered so because of their contributions within a community. That's what I could consider the term being meant as. But usually the term is used as loosely as knowing what is up to date..or what is going on in the news, knowing gas prices, or explaining why Kathy lost her job...out and about..scene.....and being noticeable. The notion of not being a part of society is not bettering the way it is conceived. The writer and his article have valid points... but it is not such an isolated issue. Last Edited By: btizubayer 10/10/09 1:30 AM. Edited 1 times.
wolf		#4	[-]
Posts: 28 (10/12/09 1:25 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Crawl and 1OOO wrote: Does "being a member of society" even mean anything if it's that inclusive? Usually, descriptive terms divide things into two groups: those that are described, and those that aren't. Well, I guess that depends on how you view/define society as a concept. If you define society as the sum of behaviors of individuals, then yes it does have some significance even if it is all-inclusive. So how could someone who has simply isolated himself not be considered a member of society? And if people contribute anything to society (even if they aren't what you'd consider normal members), aren't they members of society?

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