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 14:32:33 -0500
References: <200109132138.RAA18703@newman.concentric.net> <v04011703b7cc05aa31d7@[66.81.44.171]>

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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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In reply to: Message from George Lottermoser <imagist@concentric.net> (RE: [Leica] Terror)
Message from Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> (Re: [Leica] Terror( now what happened to the LUG forum?))