What Makes a Strong Community?

T.REX TALK

T.REX ARMS

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We in the "Gun Community" talk about community a lot, and it's time to dig into that on this podcast once more! This episode compares on-line and real-life community groups, and discusses six community building blocks (in no particular order):

Shared Mission
Shared Experiences
Shared Growth
Shared Hardships
Shared Resources
Shared Proximity

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered if you are part of a strong community? Well, wonder no more, because this episode will answer that definitively.
0:11.4	Welcome back to another T-Rex talk. We've talked in the past about different aspects to community. And communities need a
0:23.6	backbone. They need a shared mission. But I was having a conversation with somebody in my community
0:29.0	on Sunday and we fleshed out a few more things that communities really need. And the reason why
0:35.1	talking about communities in general, vague, generic internet-type
0:38.5	terms is often not super helpful, just because there is no shared vocabulary. And this guy that I was
0:46.3	talking to also suggested a perfect litmus test for a strong community, which I will get to in a little bit. But first of all,
0:56.2	I think there are a few things that communities should really have. In order for a community
1:03.3	to be strong, there needs to be a shared mission, which we talked about, I think the episode
1:09.5	was called the backbone of the community.
1:11.9	There need to be shared experiences. There also needs to be shared growth. People need to be
1:17.9	growing together to some extent. There need to be shared hardships. And there need to be shared
1:23.9	resources. That kind of goes together. but voluntarily shared resources. If you have a
1:29.3	communistic system where the resources are shared mandatorily, then you're not building community bonds.
1:36.7	You're not able to grow in selflessness and taking care of other people if you are forced to do it
1:42.8	in the barrel of a gun. And you can't be grateful
1:45.1	for somebody else's shared resources if they were forced to give them to you. In order for communities
1:51.3	to grow closer together with these shared resources, those shared resources need to be voluntarily
1:57.3	given. There needs to be selflessness from the giver and gratitude from the recipient.
2:02.6	And that doesn't happen when the federal government is the middleman.
2:05.6	And it doesn't happen when the Soviet government is the middleman, etc.
2:09.6	And those shared resources and shared hardships kind of go together, but they are separate things.
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