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"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
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rshow55
- 11:16pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (#
17641 of 17644) Can we do a better job of finding
truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have
done and worked for on this thread.
The poems Chain Breakers http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/618
Secular Redemption http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/619
and Learning to Stand http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/662
have been used, again and again, on this board.
Learning to Stand http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/662
is a tribute to lchic , the most valuable mind
I've ever encountered. We share hopes that C.P Snow and many
others have expressed http://www.mrshowalter.net/a_md4000s/md4125.htm
We're working to make clearer, more practical, ideas of
what hope looks like. Often, in a world where so much
is hard to sort out - hope looks like a clear, sharp,
condensation that fits - and guides our thoughts and feelings
in sharp, useful, graceful ways. Lchic is superb at finding
those condensations.
Lchic and I talk most days. She asked that I post
these poems here today.
"Hope" is a thing with feathers .... by Emily
Dickenson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,
.
.
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
. . . . .
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
.
.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Lchic's been building dreams - and grounding them -
and spending a lot of time being a grand mother for a baby -
who is growing, and sorting things out.
She cares about what hope means - for that baby - and for
all children.
" What happens to the children?"
is the question, I think, that she asks most often _ asks
first - in everything she does.
wrcooper
- 11:24pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (#
17642 of 17644)
Showalter:
You're completely out to lunch.
For my part, this will be my last post on this forum.
But I will not personally tolerate seeing you export this
crap to any other board at the NYT, and I will report any
posts of yours I see to the moderators and will encourage them
to begin deleting them rourtinely.
I have been informed that the moderators will not accept a
Showalter Forum II, another discussion board spoiled by your
rambling, off-topic, hypergraphic, disturbing rodomontade.
They will begin removing your posts. Count on it.
So shape up or ship out, buddy. Come down to earth and act
like a responsible poster or move on.
That's the bottom line.
Farewell.
bluestar23
- 11:40pm Nov 13, 2003 EST (#
17643 of 17644)
"or ship out, buddy."
SpaceCraft have not yet reached the level of sophistication
to take Showalter farther from Earth than he already is....
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