[Oe List ...] Salmon:. . . in gratitude

[William Salmon]

Oh-h-h-, the irony of it all. 
    Thanks, Sunny. Gurgle, gurgle! Damned near drowned, didn't I. Such a great message using a great little ditty to do it, didn't they, and we?
    Bill 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sunny Walker 
  To: 'Order Ecumenical Community' 
  Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: I wasn't going to get involved. . .


  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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