Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I did not mean it to sound like condescension. "Please kids, go play outside, " is Southern idiom for "not here please." It just looked like the discussion was spilling back over into the LUG. I see that it has not, and I apologized. Regards, Sonny - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Bennett" <gbennett@lainet.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Terror( now what happened to the LUG forum?) > >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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html