[Dialogue] What Happens If You Give the God Lecture Today?

[jlepps at pc.jaring.my]

Indeed it does, Gordon, and he hits an 
existential target with great precision. If I had 
to suggest an amendment, it would not be in his 
depicting technology as an escape mechanism from 
coming to terms with the reality of death. That’s 
good. But there’s another issue with technology: 
our failure to push our imaginations to invent 
the genuinely new that’s now possible. For 
example, now that we’re all connected, how can we 
get genuine participation into the governing of 
our corporate life? Since we’re in a time of 
technology, there are positive and negative ways 
to deal with it. It’s the positive that I missed 
in his talk – but I agree that you can’t do it 
all in 15 minutes! It took RS-1 44 hours! It's a 
great talk, and thanks for sending it.

John


At 02:04 AM 8/24/2013, Gordon Harper wrote:
>Well --
>
>In this case, the poor soul here in Seattle who 
>tried it (no, twas not I) got roundly booed and 
>some people in his sizable audience tried hard 
>to shut him down before he was through it.
>
>I'd heard about David Guterson's experience 
>delivering the commencement address this year at 
>his former Seattle high school.   Only recently, 
>however, did a friend send me a copy of it to 
>read myself.  (You may recognize Guterson's name 
>as the author of the novel, Snow Falling on 
>Cedars.)  I found his talk so deliciously 
>outrageous as a graduation speech that I have to share it.
>
>Those who were most outraged and expressed it so 
>vocally were in the parents and family members 
>section; it seems the graduates were at least 
>polite and attentive during it.  Its ending is 
>weak (IMHO), and of course there was no 
>following Christ lecture the next 
>morning.  Still, if one ever wanted a current 
>rendering of our Friday night event, this might come close --
>
>Gordon
>
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