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To experience real community, you must do these things:
- Understand that you live in a jungle and are surrounded by hostiles who want to eat you (pick your grapes, slaughter your children).
- Understand that you are wandering alone in that jungle, that you are not a part of any village.
- Understand that the many fake villages that you see are actually traps designed to capture you.
- Understand how to distinguish a real village from a fake trap village.
- Understand that a real village is a coalition defined by a "way of life" comprised of gender and other roles, moral rules, rituals, traditions, and shared beliefs.
- Understand that to win at the game of life presented by the jungle, the people of a village must fill their roles and perform their duties faithfully, with courage, focused on winning as a community rather than as individuals.
- Find such communities and seek information about each of them.
- Present yourself, asking to be accepted into the village.