[Oe List ...] Remember Kenneth Boulding?

[Gail West]

Thanks for the trip back in time - 55+ years.  During that trip Boulding
came to the CU Med Center where I was working and he did a presentation and
held a dialogue.  He was an amazing and memorable presence!
Gail




On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 10:04 PM Shankland, Sherwood via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> I was at the University of Colorado 1965 to 1969 where I was majoring in
> skiing and minoring in engineering 😊.  Kenneth Boulding spoke on campus
> at an anti-Vietnam war rally outdoors at the student center. His passionate
> context about the senseless loss of life on both sides, jolted my awareness
> of the conflict and gave me reason to resist and to refuse to serve
> although my draft lottery number had already been called up. I managed to
> qualify for a series of deferments: student, marriage, defense industry
> job, and then a religious deferment as prior responsible for 15 members of
> the Order Ecumenical living in the Cleveland Religious House. Forever
> grateful to Don and Claudia Cramer, Cleveland House Priors, for strategy
> building conversations and to Frank Hilliard who wrote a letter to the
> Draft Board requesting a deferment on religious grounds.
>
> Praying for Peace in Ukraine and Gaza. / Sherwood
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> *From:* OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> *On Behalf Of *Milan
> Hamilton via OE
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 16, 2023 1:58 AM
> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Cc:* Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Remember Kenneth Boulding?
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> I remember having the opportunity to have a conversation with him in a
> small group of Quakers, when i was living in Nebraska. It was in the
> mid-1960s. I just remember this soft spoken man with long flowing white
> hair who seemed to be wise, sitting in a circle with us and sharing in
> conversation about nonviolent demonstrations and the peace movement. Milan
> H.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Dec 15, 2023, at 2:26 PM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
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> Don't we all?  Hard to let go of
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> Jim Wiegel
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> “…the long work
> of turning their lives
> into a celebration
> is not easy. Come and let us talk“.
>
> The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
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> On Dec 15, 2023, at 3:10 PM, carletonstock at aol.com wrote:
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> Seems like Trump instinctively knows this (and uses it for his own
> promotion and defense)!
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> Carleton Stock
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> St. Louis
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> On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 11:08:51 PM CST, Nancy Trask via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> A long and fearsome/fascinating article.
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> Thanks,
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> Nancy Trask
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> On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:33 PM James Wiegel via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> "What this means is that for any individual organism or organization,
> there are no such things as "facts." There are
>
> only messages filtered through a changeable value system. This statement
> may sound rather startling."
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> This from the paper we used in the 1969 version of the Imaginal Education
> Colloquy . . .
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> See below an article on the history of "the fact"
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> An obituary for the fact
> <https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact>
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> An obituary for the fact
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> Farewell to a friend of social harmony (1500–2000)
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> Jim Wiegel
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> “…the long work
> of turning their lives
> into a celebration
> is not easy. Come and let us talk“.
>
> The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
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