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"You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade, and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth," Dellinger told the judge. "And the fact is, I am not prepared to do that."
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Posted by: doclalor on Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 01:55 AM  
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I'm Brendan Lalor, the one who runs there it is . org. In recent weeks I moved from Oklahoma City to Manchester Center, VT, and in the process the website went down a few times, and email communcations went hay-wire for periods of days. I thought I lost everything, and so posted this:
ImpermanenceThe Buddha implored us not just to talk about impermanence, but to use it as an instrument to help us penetrate deeply into reality and obtain liberating insight. We may be tempted to say that because things are impermanent, there is suffering. But the Buddha encouraged us to look again. Without impermanence, life is not possible. How can we transform our suffering if things are not impermanent? ... How can the situation in the world improve? We need impermanence for social justice and for hope. If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent. When a flower dies, you don't suffer much, because you understand that flowers are impermanent. But you cannot accept the impermanence of your beloved one, and you suffer deeply when she passes away. If you look deeply into impermanence, you will do your best to make her happy right now. Aware of impermanence, you become positive, loving and wise. Impermanence is good news. Without impermanence, nothing would be possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation. -- Thich Nhat HanhImpermanence and there it is . org In late August, 2006, there it is . org lost functionality and lots of content (hundreds of articles) representing an immense investment of energy, time, and heart when its web hosting company disappeared without a trace. Impermanence! I thought I had a full backup of the database so I could restore the site; but I was wrong. My backup did not contain essential data. I am now deciding whether to rebuild the site's functionality and attempt to recover the content of the most recent 200+ articles that were not preserved in my most recent backup. (I am currently running a program to regather some of the articles, which I might then put in an on-site "museum" as a tribute to the past!) But perhaps it's best just to move on, investing energy in the future rather than in saving past achievements. There it is . org remains my hub on the net; but expect its nature to change over time. --Brendan Lalor It turns out the hosting company came back online at least long enough for me to recover my database.
I apologize for any inconvenience any of this might have caused. There are a few lessons, some grand (about impermanence), some less so (always double-check your back-ups).
Peace,
--Brendan
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by jmbzinedotcom on Sep 10, 2006 - 03:19 PM
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I'm glad to see your blog wasn't lost to the abyss. I've had the same kind of scare before and it truly does make you learn a lot, but frankly it also taught me that enlightenment is sometimes overrated and the process of getting there frankly sucks ;-)
On another note though, if you feel comfortable doing so, I think it would be super cool if you blogged some about your new life in VT. I know I would enjoy reading about it.
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On this day in history ... |
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1758
First Indian Reservation established.
1833
Britain passes the Factory Act, limiting child labor, the U.S. Supreme Court will continue to find such laws unconstitutional in America for the next hundred years.
1949
Soviet Union explodes an atomic bomb, breaking U.S. monopoly.
1970
Three die in East Los Angeles when an anti-war march turns into a riot during Chicano National Moratorium. Thousands of Chicanos gather at Laguna Park in East LA to protest disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano soldiers in Vietnam. LAPD attack. One shot, fired into Silver Dollar Bar, kills Ruben Salazar, LA Times columnist and commentator on KMEX TV (accused by LAPD of inciting the Chicano community).
1973
Judge Sirica orders President Nixon to turn over tape recordings made in the White House, Nixon refuses.
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