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I just sent this link around in an email as follows:
Article I am sending out to people to whom I have shown blogging/weblogging, either my email, my blog, or in person. feel free to forward on and by all means, get back to me with any questions, comments, your own blogs, etc.
All of you have experiences, insights concerning Church and such, along with some familiarity with who I am as a "theoblog" (ie. One who blogs, writes about it as an application ripe for churches and such, and have been for years ----- except for the blogging part----which now adds more "features to the fire" to "light the fuse" that can set off some sparks which lead to explosions. )
http://www.msnbc.com/news/795156.asp?cp1=1
I'm already in my email editor, and it won't let me go back to find all the people on the Website committee that I also want to add to this--- so Lauren, could you forward this to them one more time, and I promise I will make an address book entry for that group in my Address book. Thanks! Please send comments.
8:53:15 AM 
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Tony Campolo (in his audio speech: Christianity after Sept.11) suggests that the ones urging caution are the ones with war experience with Iraq, and the ones urging "pre-emptive strike" are the ones without.
"Split over Iraq grows more public By John Diamond, USA TODAY WASHINGTON â014 A rift over Iraq has emerged among senior advisers in the Bush administration who helped wage the first Persian Gulf War and now face the possibility of a second. On one side are hard-liners such as Pentagon adviser Richard Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. They urge the ouster of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein now, with force if necessary. They say it's too dangerous to wait until he has weapons of mass destruction pointed at the United States and its allies. On the other side are those such as Secretary of State Colin Powell and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, who advise caution and warn of the consequences of war."
7:00:20 AM
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From xian. reminds me of some of the disconnect I've been sensing from people I know....maybe not for the same resaons, but there is some "not for me" kind of stance, that perhaps the level of discourse is seen as too trivial or too heated (again, based on little or no looking for the "right levels", sometimes because they don't know how, sometimes because they don't take the time to look, and depend instead on articles they read (in those print things they read that complainabout the level of discourse on the Net)
Fear of an Internet Planet. Suladog, a Livejournal friend of mine who's a film writer, told a little story about the mixed feelings some of her peers have about embracing the potential of community through the Internet:
... two very close friends...one is the creator of a couple of hit TV series .. the other is a journalist for national magazines ... we were talking about the internet and I mentioned all the journaling that's out there ... and how I have online friends ... and how people talk and debate and argue and laugh and share about all sorts of things online ... and I was getting blank stares.
Turns out these two never venture online, short of research or ebay. The idea of writing posts or letters and getting to know people online made their jaws drop. .............. These were two people obsessed with their age, and complaining about a culture that they felt they were being left out of, when in fact they'd locked the door on the inside. Read it all: Fear of an Internet Planet from [suladog] via [Christian Crumlish (xian): metablog]
6:36:33 AM
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