Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Did the LUGForum already collapse? >Please kids, go play outside. >Regards, >Sonny Sonny, Why the condescension? Guy >----- Original Message ----- >From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist@concentric.net> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 4:38 PM >Subject: RE: [Leica] Terror > > >> darkroom@ix.netcom.com (Austin Franklin)9/13/014:39 PM >> >> > How, in the hell, do you propose doing that? >> > >> > What "action" does your proposal entail? >> >> These questions would require very long answers. But briefly >> So far: >> 1. I have and will continue to put forth my thoughts of >> peaceful non-violent solutions. >> 2. I have begun to organize a group of professional artists >> who, will hopefully speak eloquently to the issues of peaceful >> nnon-vioelent solutions. >> 3. I will refresh my studies from such sources as: >> >> GHANDI: >> In a century that witnessed unprecedented violence, Mohandas K. >> Ghandi demonstrated nonviolence could be revolutionary. A devote >> Hindu, he drew inspiration from a range of sources that included >> Jesus, Leo Tolstoy and Henry David Thoreau, and violent >> discrimination he faced while practicing law in South Africa. >> Ghandi, also called Mahatma or Great Soul, helped end British >> colonial rule of India with boycotts of British schools, >> institutions and goods and refusal to pay taxes. With >> demonstrators being beaten and sometimes massacred, not everyone >> adopted his tactics, leading to several armed revolts until India >> and Pakistan gained independence in 1947. Ghandi pleaded with >> Hindus and Muslims to live together in peace, sometimes fasting >> to the brink of death to stop religious violence. On Jan 30, 1948 >> he was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. >> -- Gannett News Service >> >> Ghandi has much to say: >> "It is open to a war resister to judge between two combatants and >> wish success to the one who has justice on his side." >> "The science of war leads one to dictatorship pure and simple. >> The science of non-violence can alone lead one to pure >> democracy." >> "The end of non-violent Owar' is always an agreement, never >> dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent." >> 4. I will awaken every morning with your questions on my >> mind, and each day attempt to answer them with non-violent >> action. >> >> > What are you going to do, call them names? >> >> This thoughtless question does not deserve an answer. >> >> George >> >> >> > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html