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

Sun Aug 25 04:36:14 PDT 2013

Guterson did say that you can "die now so that you do not have to die later" but, yes, he only managed a fourth of a whole product.

Meanwhile, John, you sent me a copy of the Social Process once, which, given the two computer crashes I've gone through, are nowhere to be found.  Might you, or anyone in this listserv who is able, send me a high resolution copy?

Thanks.

j'aime la vie

Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all, Celebrate!

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Indeed it does, Gordon, and he hits an existential target with greatprecision. If I had to suggest an amendment, it would not be in hisdepicting technology as an escape mechanism from coming to terms with thereality of death. That’s good. But there’s another issue with technology:our failure to push our imaginations to invent the genuinely new that’snow possible. For example, now that we’re all connected, how can we getgenuine participation into the governing of our corporate life? Sincewe’re in a time of technology, there are positive and negative ways todeal with it. It’s the positive that I missed in his talk – but I agreethat you can’t do it all in 15 minutes! It took RS-1 44 hours! It's agreat 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 toshut him down before he was through it.

I'd heard about David Guterson's experience delivering the commencementaddress this year at his former Seattle high school.   Onlyrecently, however, did a friend send me a copy of it to readmyself.  (You may recognize Guterson's name as the author of thenovel, Snow Falling on Cedars.)  I found his talk sodeliciously outrageous as a graduation speech that I have to share it.

Those who were most outraged and expressed it so vocally were in theparents and family members section; it seems the graduates were at leastpolite and attentive during it.  Its ending is weak (IMHO), and ofcourse 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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