{"id":2107,"date":"2008-03-12T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2008-03-12T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:17:00","slug":"second-life-looking-for-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2107","title":{"rendered":"Second Life; Looking for land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for Land<\/a> <\/h1>\n

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Still thinking about the IC in Second Life<\/a>. It is a common thing that groups looking to set up an Intentional Community start looking for land at an early stage. I don\u2019t know why \u2013 maybe because they want to get going quickly \u2013 or maybe because they think if they find the right land the rest will fall into place.<\/p>\n

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My real life community<\/a> did this. But we always found a reason why it was not right. We had not got the finance clear and we didn\u2019t have an idea of what we really wanted to do \u2013 but we looked for land. We heard of a group of vegetarians who started looking for somewhere they could grow food together so they could live as vegetarians when they were pensioners \u2013 they were afraid the old folks\u2019 home would not serve decent vegetarian food. That was way back in the 80s. According to my friend, they are still looking. They couldn\u2019t find anything they liked. After a while we realized we should reevaluate \u2013 define what we were looking for and why. We should look into vision, finance and rules and criteria \u2013 and agree.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Second life is fun to search for land in \u2013 you can fly around and see it all from the air! So much you feel you would like to do \u2013 create a place of beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flying looking for land 003B<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anyway. This is my idea of the main elements of an intentional community in Second Life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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IC in SL<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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PUBLIC AREA A Very Beautiful Place<\/span><\/p>\n

Just an area of natural beauty with a lake, a beach, forests, water falls etc to walk around in and chill out \u2013 maybe walk with a loved one or a friend to have a chat. An open air dance area and large area for public meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n

COMMERCIAL MARKET PLACE<\/span><\/p>\n

Stalls selling things to do with IC \u2013 like books, contacts to trainers, facilitators, courses etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

INFO AREA<\/span><\/p>\n

An exhibition on what IC is all about.<\/span><\/p>\n

MEETING AND TRAINING FACILITY<\/span><\/p>\n

The main function would be to run IC information and training. Could also be sued for large meetings of the IC. I envisage facilities like a DVD screen and screens for showing Powerpoints and performances.<\/span><\/p>\n

MEETING CIRCLES<\/span><\/p>\n

If they wanted to , ICs in formation could meet here in a circle to make important decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n

FIELD OF DREAMS<\/span><\/p>\n

Modelled on the RL FINDHORN<\/a> communitiy. We portion off land so residents can build their own houses close to our activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking for Land Still thinking about the IC in Second Life. It is a common thing that groups looking to set up an Intentional Community start looking for land at an early stage. I don\u2019t know why \u2013 maybe because they want to get going quickly \u2013 or maybe because they think if they find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envisioning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}