<div>From website below, an excerpt (and much more, it appears) from an introduction to the book "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller... A man who would settle for nothing less than "Christmas on Earth."</div>
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<div>"We create our fate," says Miller. And better still: "Forget, forgive, renounce, abdicate." And "scrap the past instantly." Live the good life instantly; it's now or never, and has always been.</div>
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<div>Miller is ''irresponsible" as far as officials and popular politics go, or as far as common church morality goes, and as far as literary manners go. But he is not a poseur, he has no program, yet he has a deep and pure sense of morality. I would call him a total revolutionary, the man who would settle for nothing less than "Christmas on Earth." In his remarkable study of Rimbaud, a prose poem of one hundred and fifty pages called "The Time of the Assassins," Miller discourses on the spiritual suicide of modern youth</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/6/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donovan Arnold</b> <<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com">donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>We just want to celebrate Winter Solstice, as all days he gives us, with Christ. :P</div>
<div>Inclusiveness is the better way. </div><span class="q">
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<div>Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays,</div>
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<div>Donovan Arnold<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 12/6/09, Paul <span><span><span><span><span>Rumelhart</span></span></span></span></span> <i><<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol<br>To: "Donovan Arnold" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com" target="_blank">donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>>, "Tom Hansen" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 5:33 PM
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<div>Almost as much as when they try to ruin my winter solstice :)<br><br>Paul<br><br>Donovan Arnold wrote:<br>> Don't ya just hate it when groups try to ruin your Christmas?<br>> <br>> Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays,<br>
> <br>> Donovan Arnold<br>><br>> --- On *Sun, 12/6/09, Tom Hansen /<<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>>/* wrote:<br>
><br>><br>> From: Tom Hansen <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>
> Subject: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol<br>> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>
> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:09 PM<br>><br>> “In this holiday season let us remember that kindness, charity and<br>> goodwill transcend belief, creed or religion.”<br>><br>> Courtesy of today's (December 6, 2009) Spokesman Review.<br>
><br>> ------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> Atheists want sign at Capitol<br>> Seattle group’s request coincides with tree-lighting<br>><br>> OLYMPIA – A Seattle-based atheists group asked state officials<br>
> Friday for<br>> permission to display a placard outdoors on the Capitol campus<br>> over the<br>> holidays.<br>><br>> Jerry Schiffelbein, the treasurer for Seattle Atheists and an<br>
> activist in<br>> other “free-thought” groups that advocate separation between<br>> church and<br>> state, said the sign’s message is less provocative than those that the<br>> Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation put up last year.<br>
><br>> The proposed 18-by-30-inch sign says, “In this holiday season let us<br>> remember that kindness, charity and goodwill transcend belief,<br>> creed or<br>> religion.”<br>><br>> The request to put up the sign came the day that state officials<br>
> lit up a<br>> 48-foot holiday tree inside the domed Capitol rotunda, a yearly<br>> tradition<br>> now entirely under state sponsorship. The evening event featured Gov.<br>> Chris Gregoire; Army Staff Sgt. Stephanie McDowell, who recently<br>
> returned<br>> from Iraq; and a children’s chorale.<br>><br>> The atheists’ request – just like two requests to display a Jewish<br>> menorah<br>> Thursday through Dec. 19 – will be considered under the state policy<br>
> adopted after last December’s ruckus over holiday displays inside the<br>> Capitol, Department of General Administration spokesman Steve Valandra<br>> said Friday. He expects a decision on the requests Monday.<br>
><br>> “We thought we would get more requests. There is still time,” he said.<br>><br>> Last December, the GA declared a moratorium because it had about a<br>> dozen<br>> requests from groups wanting to put up displays, and a third-floor<br>
> area<br>> for displays was getting crowded. The GA had approved a half-dozen<br>> of the<br>> requests, including a Nativity set, an atheist placard that mocked<br>> religion as superstition, Christian placards that mocked atheism,<br>
> and a<br>> 9-foot menorah.<br>><br>> Requests halted by the moratorium included a “Festivus” pole from<br>> the mock<br>> holiday celebrated on the TV show “Seinfeld,” a “flying spaghetti<br>
> monster,” and one from a Kansas church that assails homosexuality.<br>><br>> Before the controversy ended, someone stole the atheists’ placard.<br>> Thousands of complaints flooded the governor’s office and the GA<br>
> after a<br>> national television commentator condemned the state for allowing the<br>> atheists’ display near the Nativity scene.<br>><br>> The GA has approved one display request so far this year. It was<br>
> one of<br>> two submitted by Chabad Jewish Discovery Center in Olympia for a<br>> 9-foot<br>> menorah. The approved request is for Sylvester Park, a state-owned<br>> property in downtown Olympia; the other is for a menorah next to the<br>
> Tivoli Fountain on the campus lawn.<br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>><br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>><br>
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