[at-l] What's an Outsider Anyway?

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 12:42 PM 12/30/2005 -0800, Sloetoe wrote:
>--- Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> > At 09:11 AM 12/30/2005 -0800, Sloetoe wrote:
> > >### Trust Sauntererererererrrrrs observations here. Much
> > wisdom for the unfamiliar. ...clippage...
> > >
> > >Bottom line?
> > >### Being an Outsider will come naturally, as long as other
> > >people have a need to be exclusive.
> >
> > I hate to disagree with someone who has suggested that I am
> > wise but it isn't that simple. Rural and small town America
>(and I'm sure other places as well) developed their 'culture'
>over several generations of stagnancy ...
>
>### OK, I missed something. Saunterer ("Spatior" for the
>church-inclined) states he disagrees, then reinforces the point
>three or four more times. I *did* miss something, right?
>
>nitortoe

You missed that it isn't about being exclusive. It's about not knowing how 
to cope with things outside their experience.