Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Terror( now what happened to the LUG forum?)
From: "SonC (Sonny Carter)" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:52:47 -0500
References: <200109132138.RAA18703@newman.concentric.net>

Did the LUGForum already collapse?

Please kids, go play outside.

Regards,
Sonny


- ----- 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 Owarą 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
>
>
>

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