== Discussion at [[Sol 2009]] ==
=== Participants ===
* [[Lion Kimbro]]
* [[Brandon CS Sanders]]
* [[Ben Sibelman]]
* [[Brenna Waxter]]
* [[Bonnie Sanders]]
=== Discussion ===
* [[Spiriata]] may be defined by strong leadership such that you "either love it or run away screaming"
* [[Brandon]]: By contrast, [[SolSeedMovement]]'s goal is to awaken more and more people to [[possibilities]]
* [[Brenna]]: Lots of people have no families who love them quasi-unconditionally and make them feel radiant
* Across-style management get's more employee buy-in than top-down
* However, input from all [[SolSeedMovement]] members shouldn't ever remove the core idea of [[TheDestiny|spreading life throughout the galaxy]]
** Hopefully it will serve as inspiration for projects in the present, such as traveling to another country to [[Bringing life|bring life]] by working on a [[CleanDrinkingWater|water project]]
** But [[Brenna]] doesn't buy into the same method of going to space
*** While the Second Coming may seem absurd to us, space colonization seems absurd to her
*** There may come a time when people learn to live in perfect community
*** But maybe Jesus had space travel in mind?
**** "We were created to create"
* [[Bonnie]] sees [[SolSeedMovement]] as a way for members to encourage each other's dreams
* Make sure the language of the [[starfarers|starfaring]] story is inclusive rather than "[[otherizing]]"
** [[Bonnie]]: Provide the safety to try uncomfortable things
** [[Brenna]]: Examples include not bashing people's politics
** [[Brandon]]: By contrast, [[Lion Kimbro]]'s "what makes me feel radiant" speech described a super-strong attachment to a particular way of seeing the world
*** This distracts from any "building-up" contribution to the group that the message may contain (vs. "tearing-down")
*** We should practice being open and not so attached to our specific way of seeing the world
*** The diversity of worldviews within the [[SolSeedMovement]] creates greater [[possibilities]]
** '''Possible policy:'''
*** Stop some conversations if they can't be done in inclusive ways
*** Proscribe "[[otherizing]]" and "[[wrong-making]]"