[Vision2020] A Change in the Weather

[Tom Hansen]

Perhaps you are right, Chas -

However, I plan on sticking around town for a bit longer.  I have never been 
known to sit on my hands or turn my back on topics (or people) of which (and 
whom) I disagree.  In my opinion nothing is worse, and less forgiveable, 
than saying "I should have done something back then."

So, in light of the mugginess in the air and the vindictive smugginess 
originating frm North Polk, I welcome . . .

"A Change in the Weather"
http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/Change_in_the_Weather.mp3

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho




>From: Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com>
>To: Vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] A Change in the Weather
>Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:03:28 -0700
>
>I like the community that is Vision2020, and I've come to consider
>many of you my friends.  However, I just can't take it any more.  The
>childish sniping and ridiculous accusations of the minority of you
>have polluted the forum, and polluted my soul, so it has come time to
>bid you all adieu.
>
>A few thoughts before I leave, for those who wish to read them.
>
>First, Doug Wilson isn't going away.  When an opponent is permanently
>ensconced (he isn't my opponent, but he is apparently the opponent of
>many of you), then the options are warfare, or a treaty.  I'm an
>ecumenical kind of guy.  I favor treaties over never-ending strife,
>even if I have fundamental disagreements with my fellow signatories.
>If Doug Wilson were Fred Phelps, or the late Richard Butler, I
>wouldn't advocate a treaty.  But Doug Wilson isn't Phelps or Butler,
>even if you want to paint him that way.
>
>If the opposition to Wilson were not so petulant, inane, and
>irrational, and if it were conducted civilly, then my heart wouldn't
>be so heavy.  I've been unkind and unproductively adversarial, which
>is part of the reason that I'm leaving.  When you start to become what
>you despise, it is time to disentangle.  I'm disentangling, with my
>apologies to everyone I've offended.
>
>Here is a quote from one of my favorite books that explains it better
>than I can:
>
>"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a 
>damp,
>drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
>pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every
>funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper
>hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me
>from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking
>people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon
>as I can."
>
>There's been a change in the weather.  I'm going to sea.
>
>When I say that I am ecumenical, I don't mean it in the sense of
>merely Christian unity, as I'm not a Christian.  I mean it in the
>broader sense of worldwide unity.  This starts with co-operation
>between groups, without unity necessarily being the goal.  Unity comes
>later, if at all.  Co-operation and understanding is a worthwhile goal
>in itself.
>
>I've conducted an interview with Douglas Wilson that I think is
>illuminating.  I'm not a Wilson fanboy, I haven't been ideologically
>seduced by him, but I am trying to do my part in hastening that
>treaty.   I'll visit Vision2020 one final time to post the URL where
>that interview can be read in its unexpurgated entirety.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chas
>
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