This is great. Hits smack on where my sensitivities are being rubbed raw especially by online/media life. Margaret Wheatley talks about being "distracted beyond recall" in So Far From Home. Tex Sample, in Powerful Persuasion, describes the fundamental shift in literacy from print to electronic and the task of becoming deeply literate, both in the input and output (reading and writing equivalent)And, here, is Ken Gilgren reflecting a bit on some social media and where they might fitJim Wiegel[We have] been pressed so hard towards useful work and rational calculation [that we have] all but forgotten the joy of ecstatic celebration. Harvey CoxGet ready to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the ToP Network. January 8-11, 2016. Here in Arizona. http://youtu.be/2uEoJlDC5mgUpcoming public course opportunities click hereFor online registration go to http://www.top-training.netThe AZ ToP® Community of Practice meets the 1st Friday, 1-4 pm, starting again on Sept 5th at ACYR, 648 N. 5th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85003AICP Planners: 14.5 CM for all ToP® coursesThe version of The Liberal Heresy was actually penned by Desmond Avery in a summer program for the publication there. It came from content of JWM, but was written by Desmond in his inimitable style.JohnOn Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Jack Gilles via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:This paper is an interesting read and gives an insight to what our thinking was way back in 1976! This talk was not given by JWM. My guess would be Gene Marshall, it has his style to it.It made me think that if I was giving such a talk today those would not be my points. It is not that they don’t, or didn’t, have a validity, but it is not how I experience the heresy today, if you want to call it that.My four columns would be:1. Righteous Demonization. My Facebook gets a lot of these. “If there weren’t all these selfish and stupid people causing all these problems we’d get the job done!”2. Focus on Issues, not Contradictions This shows up with a disregard for the systemic nature of life.3. Winning the argument is more important than solving the problem. Highly located in academia, but a disease possessed by many.4. Wisdom does lie in the people who live the situations that need to change. Call it “Expertise-ism”.These are just four quick ones off the top of my head. But they seem to be more in line with what I encounter than the old ones. There are also points in the ignorance of the role of spirit, symbol, etc. in the change process.Peace,JackOn Aug 25, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Frank Knutson via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:Enclosed: THE LIBERAL HERESY \I think it was given by John Epps or maybe Gene Marshall????<THE LIBERAL HERESY.docx><VIKING copy.jpeg>
"What appears to be a breaking down of civilization
may well be simply the breaking up of old forms by life itself."
~ Joyce Carol Oates_______________________________________________❤ FrankOn Aug 25, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Rod Rippel via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:Dialogue mailing listFascists and dictators (and now just about everyone) have long understood that
deviant behavior is encouraged by the fact that the media give it coverage.
For example it used to be, "Don't write about suicide" because the mere
mention of suicide might inspire someone to commit suicide in the next few days.
Now we are flooded with all kinds of deviant inspiration. We live in a time of
internet, Facebook, Twitter and adultery matchup-services.
Like the phrase sometimes used in the RS-1 'Freedom Lecture,' "All Is Known,"
literally! The inundation of 'information' has either swamped us with stress and
physical reaction or prompted a new level of defensive withdrawal from engaging.
Scriptural wisdom and "Deciding" goes by the board!
-----Original Message----- From: steve har via OE
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Subject: [Oe List ...] Breakfast News Conversations...
Also called scripture/news conversations
You remember them right?
random bits of recalled news and then a piece of scriptural wisdom
what to do about it?
These days news like trying to "drink from a fire hose"
My experience now living in the USfA now rather than Costa Rica and
listening to USA media is curious.
Feels to me like a case of news culture ADHD where nothing is
connected to anything except by more and more crisis news events, more
passionate & positional thinking more economic political and cultural
and more and more "news journalists" driving to their bank on the
stream of news.
My friend Jack Gilles, if I quote him right, says ORID conversations
no longer have a "D" now because it it is all interpretation, everyone
has an opinion, everyone is a spectator stuck in the stands watching
an unplayable game.
Now in conversations is no "D" in ORID, no one knows how to Decide or what Do.
"D" stands for Dumpster or "Don't decide" or "Despair" or just "Done".
Joe Mathews had a paper, I believe, which he called the liberal
heresy - aybe it was the conservative heresy or the reactionary
heresy.
He used some fancy theological terminology like "the immediacy of the
eschaton" which I never did understand,exactly.
Anyone remember this paper?
Wondering where IS the scripture part, the wisdom part of the
breakfast news conversation?
The Christian Science Monitor says THEY are doing two things...As days
and weeks pass, the media move on to new stories, often neglecting to
tell the “what’s possible?” stories about how the people and
communities affected by these tragedies are coping and what they’re
learning. We hear these types of stories on one-year anniversaries,
but they’re not an ongoing part of the media’s coverage the way that
the “what happened?” stories are. A growing body of research is
confirming what many have long suspected — that a steady diet of
trauma and disaster triggers stress, fear and trauma in those
consuming the stories.
What if the news media covered stories of recovery and resilience as
much as they cover stories about devastation and despair?
http://ivoh.org/restorativenarrative/
Steve
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