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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thanks, Tim!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Timothy Wegner via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, March 18, 2018 at 2:12 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>, Colleague ICA Dialogue list <Dialogue@wedgeblade.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Timothy Wegner <tim@tswegner.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oe List ...] Tim Wegner said: "We experienced an unintended conseq"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jim wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background:white">Just to say, this message describes a significant portion of my/our journey(ies), a portion that seems to grow day by day.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background:white">and Jo wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background:white">Some of these unintended consequences are delightful, some are just curious, and some are disastrous. Complexity is so interesting!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background:white">Glad to see my oe/dialogue mailing list adventures have triggered some of my colleagues' sharp wit or deep profundity (or both)!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;background:white">I can say beyond a shadow of doubt (but expressing more of an existential stance than a belief) that the lists have in the last 48 hours experienced a painful, miserable death
but then experienced glorious resurrection! Beyond that, your mostly humble list administrator has learned a few things, and further, has figured out some ways to back up the lists so that if the mystery similarly strikes again, we can recover without divine
intervention. This optimistic claim must be tempered with the lucidity that the mystery always wins in the end. </span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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