Unable to join curves

No. Joins in Rhino need to be “manifold”, that means that curves can be joined only by their endpoints and no more than two curves can share a common endpoint; surfaces must be joined by open edges and no more than two surfaces can share a common edge.

There are actually a couple of exceptions in the case of surfaces that allow you to have “non-manifold” structures (not recommended), but that’s not the case with curves.

–Mitch