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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chas,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sure wish I could cry like the rest over your
departure, but it seems to me that you were right in the thick of all that
"childish sniping and ridiculous accusations" you accuse a nebulous minority of
committing. I can't say that I regret that the evolution of this forum
to include a broader array of views has caused you to bail out. Many
people on the left share your distaste for balance. Indeed, as Editor
Emeritus, Bill Hall of the Tribune has stated, the truest test of one's respect
for the first amendment is when it comes time to share the forum with those
with whom you disagree. Unfortunately you have failed Editor
Hall's test. never the less, I wish you luck, and perhaps a more genuine
appreciation of the first amendment, in the future.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stay cool dude,
--Tony</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=chasuk@gmail.com
href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com">Chasuk</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 23, 2006 6:06 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] A Change in the
Weather</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Chas,<BR><BR>This is most disappointing news. Thanks for all
your input on Vision 2020. <BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>_DJA<BR><BR><B><I>Chasuk
<<A href="mailto:chasuk@gmail.com">chasuk@gmail.com</A>></I></B> wrote:
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like the community that is Vision2020, and I've come to consider<BR>many of
you my friends. However, I just can't take it any more. The<BR>childish
sniping and ridiculous accusations of the minority of you<BR>have polluted
the forum, and polluted my soul, so it has come time to<BR>bid you all
adieu.<BR><BR>A few thoughts before I leave, for those who wish to read
them.<BR><BR>First, Doug Wilson isn't going away. When an opponent is
permanently<BR>ensconced (he isn't my opponent, but he is apparently the
opponent of<BR>many of you), then the options are warfare, or a treaty. I'm
an<BR>ecumenical kind of guy. I favor treaties over never-ending
strife,<BR>even if I have fundamental disagreements with my fellow
signatories.<BR>If Doug Wilson were Fred Phelps, or the late Richard Butler,
I<BR>wouldn't advocate a treaty. But Doug Wilson isn't Phelps or
Butler,<BR>even if you want to paint him that way.<BR><BR>If the opposition
to Wilson were not so petulant, inane, and<BR>irrational, and if it were
conducted civilly, then my heart wouldn't<BR>be so heavy. I've been unkind
and unproductively adversarial, which<BR>is part of the reason that I'm
leaving. When you start to become what<BR>you despise, it is time to
disentangle. I'm disentangling, with my<BR>apologies to everyone I've
offended.<BR><BR>Here is a quote from one of my favorite books that explains
it better<BR>than I can:<BR><BR>"Whenever I find myself growing grim about
the mouth; whenever it is a damp,<BR>drizzly November in my soul; whenever I
find myself involuntarily<BR>pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing
up the rear of every<BR>funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get
such an upper<BR>hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to
prevent me<BR>from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically
knocking<BR>people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as
soon<BR>as I can."<BR><BR>There's been a change in the weather. I'm going to
sea.<BR><BR>When I say that I am ecumenical, I don't mean it in the sense
of<BR>merely Christian unity, as I'm not a Christian. I mean it in
the<BR>broader sense of worldwide unity. This starts with
co-operation<BR>between groups, without unity necessarily being the goal.
Unity comes<BR>later, if at all. Co-operation and understanding is a
worthwhile goal<BR>in itself.<BR><BR>I've conducted an interview with
Douglas Wilson that I think is<BR>illuminating. I'm not a Wilson fanboy, I
haven't been ideologically<BR>seduced by him, but I am trying to do my part
in hastening that<BR>treaty. I'll visit Vision2020 one final time to post
the URL where<BR>that interview can be read in its unexpurgated
entirety.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Chas<BR><BR>=====================================================<BR>List
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