How do you define Nomadic?

[I am working through Heidegger's Building Dwelling Thinking. Will post on it soon. In the meantime here is a conversation I had with my friend Chris]

Chris

nahh i snoop on ur blog, not ur FB

lol, curious to see what u post

4:17pmJessica

yeah about my blog. . lol i need to post something soon

4:18pmChris

yeahh

4:18pmJessica

i am working on going through heidegger's paper 'building dwelling thinking' now

4:18pmChris

ur 5 days over due

what is that about?

like what to consider when building?

4:18pmJessica

which will be the starting point for my understanding/definition of dwell

understanding what a dwelling is, how it is created, where it originates from.. our need for it

ect

4:19pmChris

ahh ok

i always just considered it natural.. since if u look at most animals, they all do dwellings of some sort

4:19pmJessica

i have just been busy.. and lazy.. lol

4:20pmChris

haha that's normal

4:20pmJessica

right. it is a very natural thing..

but if you are going to make decisions on something you have to have some sort of basis for how it is defined

4:20pmChris

yeahh

u can talk about time, how went from nomadic, to semi nomadic, to permanent settlements

dunno if that relates at all

4:21pmJessica

well it does

completely

4:21pmChris

cuz when i imagine tent camps, i would imagine more of a semi nomadic style

4:22pmJessica

exactly

and then you have to define nomadic

which isn't nearly as simple as you would presume

4:22pmChris

yeahh

4:22pmJessica

because if you think about it a nomad is considered to move from place to place, typically with seasons. . where the food is, where the weather is good ect

right? that is the conventional idea?

4:22pmChris

right

4:23pmJessica

but on the other hand someone who stays in one location endures various seasons

4:23pmChris

well i would put that with the semi nomadic if you say by seasons

4:23pmJessica

their environment is constantly changing because they are stationary

4:23pmChris

right

4:23pmJessica

while the environment of the 'nomad' is constant because they are moving with the environment

so, then, who is the true nomad?

4:24pmChris

i think they both are, just that one may be further advanced than the other

4:24pmJessica

how so?

4:24pmChris

cuz one has to be more advanced to deal with the constant changes in envrironment

4:24pmJessica

so then everyone is a nomad?

4:24pmChris

and food shortages and such

umm no

4:25pmJessica

who is not?

4:25pmChris

because we have established settlements

4:25pmJessica

right

but those settlements endure a constantly changing environment

4:25pmChris

i would say he who used to be a nomad and settles down in one area permanently is like in between

in between the nomad, and the settler

cuz it's when he can settle and sustain himself, that societies form around him

4:26pmJessica

can there be an in between? aren't you either one or the other. ? settled or nomadic?