[Oe List ...] Salmon: I wasn't going to get involved. . .

[Sunny Walker]

Speaking of not getting involved - that next line is: Decide and act. Full
song below.

 

Just saw "Across the Universe" (13-year-old granddaughter bought it and
loaned it - Go Beatles! Yes, we all live in a yellow submarine.don't we?)


RESPONSIBILITY


Tune: Yellow Submarine

 

Refrain:

Free men live in responsibility, duty bound and free in relativity.

Free men live in responsibility, whoever they may be, their deeds are
history.

 

Observe and judge the given facts. Weigh up the values; decide and act. 

You're alone, completely free, leave the judgment to history.

 

To no principle, no law, to no authority can you withdraw. 

You decide it all alone, right from right and wrong from wrong.

 

Obligation is the call; to God and neighbor surrender all. 

The free venture is the deed rendered up to meet the need.

 

Sunny

Sunny Walker

303-671-0704

Cell: 303-587-3017

sunwalker at comcast.net 

 

Opening windows that fresh ideas may revive us and our lives have meaning

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of William Salmon
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 5:32 PM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: [Oe List ...] Salmon: I wasn't going to get involved. . .

 

Living in the tension between the imperitive and the indicative: 

 

    Didn't one of our Saints give us the answer to this riddle. Yes, I think
he did. The Responsible Person is one who lives in the tension between the
Obedient Response and the response of the Irresponsible Genius. It seems to
me that that we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. . . so what the
hell------- 

    Then there is the song, 

    Observe and judge the given facts, 

    Weigh up the values. . . 

            What was the rest of it. . . . ?" Ah, well, its more fun to 

    Observe and judge the given facts,

    Weight up the values. .  . . . 

            

       Wasn't there a ancient prophet--around the turn of the paradigm--that
called us to live the Awakened life; one who said we fulfilled our intended
creation by living the humane and gracious life while working for Justice
and Mercy. 

        Later gaters!. 

        Bill 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: KarenBueno at aol.com 

To: oe at wedgeblade.net 

Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:54 PM

Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Very close to the indicative is the imperative

 

Right on, George!

 

Karen Bueno

 

In a message dated 11/27/2010 8:43:05 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
m.george.walters at verizon.net writes:

Fundamentally, I believe only a few are going to act on behalf of the many
and they need a way to get as close to an objective picture of the realities
they are dealing with as possible so their care is not frustrated by
academic debate, however informative it may be. The question is the same -
will you act with what you believe you know, however imperfect your
knowledge, and live with the consequences and probability that you will know
more later? Evil will most likely adapt to the change you create and offer
you a new contradiction tomorrow.


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