Living Near an Intentional Community

officerripley

officerripley

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Does anyone here on SF live near an intentional community? I have a feeling that one might be moving in to the house across the street that just sold. We've had one intentional community here in town for about 20 years but it's tucked away way on the other side of town with a lot of land around it.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
I didn't know what an "intentional community" was. I had to look it up. From the definition, it seems that the members "share" everything.. I guess those communities all border on cults.
Let us know.
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They certainly seem to (the ones I have heard about anyway). I thought at first that maybe a group home/shelter was going in there, but supposedly, this neighborhood's not zoned for that. It's odd: everyone I've seen over there so far is young adults, all appear to be about 30-40 age group, not one single kid or middle-aged or elderly looking person; so doesn't seem to be a family, even a multi-generational one. Oh, and they all drive great big, new-looking SUVs and fancy, club-cab pickups; when I looked over there about 7 this morning, there were 7 vehicles like that parked there. (It appears that they're turning the garage into a fifth bedroom.) Odd; I'll keep you all posted.

Oh, and thanks, Aunt Bea; I had checked that directory you posted and it only shows the one IC that's been here for a while; I'm going to keep checking it, though. (Depending on what's going on, maybe I can finally talk Huzz into moving out of this neighborhood; you never know.)
 
Becky1951 said:
Paco Dennis lives in an intentional community.
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Oh, I didn't know that. Well, you know, several years ago, my late brother worked for, I guess it was an intentional community, not sure what they called it then. What happened was, brother was an electronics technician in the big city, a guy he'd worked with at another company previously contacted him, said he was going to start his own technical company and it would be up in the northern part of the state in a resort area and asked bro. to come work for him. And the pay and benefits were more than bro. was making at the time, the cost-of-living would be less, and it would be closer to where both I and our still-alive-at-the-time, elderly parents were living, so he took the job. I'm not sure if I'm remembering right and bro. died last year so I can't check with him but I think he told me that they were kind of a spiritual community--in other words, IMO, probably a cult--but I can't remember if they asked bro. if he wanted to join the "spiritual" part and he declined but got the job anyway or if he told 'em right up front he wasn't interested in the spiritual stuff and worked for 'em for a coupla years with no trouble.
 
officerripley said:
Does anyone here on SF live near an intentional community? I have a feeling that one might be moving in to the house across the street that just sold. We've had one intentional community here in town for about 20 years but it's tucked away way on the other side of town with a lot of land around it.
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Unless that house is the size of Windsor Castle, wouldn't it be more like cooperative roommates than a "community?" Or am I missing something?
 
StarSong said:
Unless that house is the size of Windsor Castle, wouldn't it be more like cooperative roommates than a "community?" Or am I missing something?
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You're right, co-op roommates is more correct than a community since it's only a 4-bedroom house. (Although it appears the garage might be being turned into a 5th bedroom and there's been an excavator doing something in the backyard and it's a 1-acre lot, so not sure what's going on.)
 
Over the years, I have visited a few. None of them were cults.
They each had valid reasons.

If they are spiritual or not, doesn't necessarily mean something like a cult, either. And does not tell , whether they'd be good neighbors or not.

They might turn out to be the best of neighbors, and I hope so.
And of course, we don't know them, so maybe not.
 
The group that formed this community started in 1975. The founder had been teaching Integral Yoga in Columbia and had quite a few ( 20 ) people that wanted to live a simple lifestyle, somewhere in the country. They applied with the State and were granted a "Church" status. It has bylaws and the whole shootin' match. Paraphrased it's objective as stated is something like " Formed to study and practice Vedantan/Buddhist philosophy/psychology, and an educational institution for horticulture, economics, forestry, construction and repair of property, and the spiritual history of mankind". It remains an income sharing community, and we have a handful of personal possessions ( I have a guitar ). Our Dentist has been on the Board of Directors for 30 years and provided the monks with free dental care. The Chair of the whole Psychology Dept. at MU also has been a Board member for about as long. One of our long term projects was to refurbish computers and give them to poor people. We had meetings with inmates at two prisons nearby and shared info about meditation and eastern philosophy/psychology. The same with bi-monthly meetings at the Columbia Library that was free and open to the public. We invited the public to Spring water balloon festivals, and many potluck gatherings.
As with everything in life some people loved what we were/are and others....not so much. :)
 
StarSong said:
It might also be a group home for disabled people who cannot live on their own, a sober living house, a transitional home for parolees, or an assisted living group home for seniors. Have you seen or spoken with the people who are moving in, @officerripley?
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No I haven’t spoken to any, but as I said above this area is supposedly not zoned for group homes of any kind. The more I think about it, I think the only thing going in over there that would bother me very much would be an fbi safe house lol.
 
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