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Post by Brian on Feb 7, 2009 18:55:11 GMT -8
Brian, sometime soon, perhaps you could teach me how to make those nice quote boxes...I just might be teachable. This might be easier in person, but let me give it a shot and let me know if you have any questions, Jeanne. I assume you know how to cut, copy and paste on your laptop. Because I don't! Everything's easier with a mouse, which you can plug into your laptop, especially reading and scrolling. They only cost a few dollars. One method is to click on "quote" at the top of the post. That will open a reply window with all of the copy from the post to which you are responding. Then you can cut out whatever portions you want. You'll have a box with the original poster's name and the time stamp, as I did above. Take care not to erase the quote brackets ([]) when cutting or adding your words. When you're in Post Reply, click on the Tag on the bottom row, second from the right, above the Smilies -- Insert Quote. You can have two windows open simultaneously: one with the post you're quoting, the other with your reply. Set your cursor between the quote brackets and copy the portions you want from the original screen, as many times as you like. Do you ever use the Preview option? With that you can see what it looks like before you post. Maybe you'd like to practice first, perhaps in this thread, and avoid trying it when you have something wonderful to write, as you did last night.
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Post by Jeanne on Feb 8, 2009 18:32:38 GMT -8
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Post by anni on Feb 8, 2009 18:35:23 GMT -8
You're more than halfway there, Jeanne. You can modify your post if you want:
[ quote ]Put the words you're quoting in here.[ /quote ]
Put the words between the sets of "quote" and "unquote" brackets -- that's the best way I can put it in writing, because real commands won't show up as copy.
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Post by Paige on Feb 12, 2009 8:00:06 GMT -8
Hi all –
I loved Jeanne’s thoughts and will try to add to them.
When we think of how Jesus’ message spread we need to look back further than the Crusades. It’s true that in that period of time, once the state coopted Christianity and claimed G-d on its side –all manner of horrible things were justified in the name of Christ. (Mark Kurlansky’s book has a number of insightful things to say about this.) However, back in the beginning, Christianity spread through small cell groups who heard and believed a message of inclusive love that transcended the status-bound Roman culture. They heard and believed in a God greater than the statues and stories around them, and they heard and believed in a message of peace that went far beyond the order imposed by an empire intent on power and profitable trade.
So they existed in small house churches that met in secret (depending on the level of paranoia of the current Emperor) and nurtured these radical ideas of the upside down kingdom of God. And when they WERE caught and thrown to the lions or burned as torches at the Coliseum, they amazed the bloodthirsty spectators with their lack of terror and prayerful – even exultant – acceptance of death/martyrdom.
It is not by chance or birth or apathy or laziness that people of faith, when faced by violence, find in themselves the resources to resist the ways of Empire. It is through the careful nurturing of the imago dei (image of God) soul within us that we find that strength and courage – to walk into bulldogs and firehoses (and morally humiliate the firemen), to lay down in front of horses (and morally humiliate the British army), to keep plowing with guns trained on your back (and morally humiliate a mob of white farmers).
On the corner and in the peace group we have enjoyed nurturing one another, not least through practicing peacemaking. We have found strength in not yelling obscenities across the street ☺ and each of us has at some point practiced reframing a conversation with a friend or relative who tries to “convince” us with boorish Rush Limbaugh-esque speeches. Many of us have walked in peace marches with fully-armed SWAT teams standing by. I don’t know, yet, who I will be when the guns or bulldogs are trained on me, but I do know who I want to be in that moment.
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Post by anni on Feb 12, 2009 18:24:07 GMT -8
I am humbled and inspired with your spirit filled words, Pastor Paige. Thank you...
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Post by Brian on Feb 19, 2009 0:05:28 GMT -8
It doesn't seem that Andrew is coming back, but I have to thank him for inspiring some great posts. It is not by chance or birth or apathy or laziness that people of faith, when faced by violence, find in themselves the resources to resist the ways of Empire. It is through the careful nurturing of the imago dei (image of God) soul within us that we find that strength and courage – to walk into bulldogs and firehoses (and morally humiliate the firemen), to lay down in front of horses (and morally humiliate the British army), to keep plowing with guns trained on your back (and morally humiliate a mob of white farmers). I'm not particularly religious, but I acknowledge Paige's concept of "the careful nuturing of the image of God" when I view it as an inner acceptance or surrender to the feeling of the connectedness of man and all living spirit. I found strength -- though not in the heroic or violent circumstances Paige cites -- when I got arrested four times in Nevada at the Nuclear Test Site for trespassing from 1987-92. You have more power, for lack of a better term, when you're in someone's custody for a higher cause. And it's the best natural high I've ever felt. Wow. Thank you, Paige. Anyway, this thread -- as well as the entire message board -- is open to everybody's ideas and comments. Or, please, just say "Hi!'
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Post by Brian on Feb 28, 2009 0:38:46 GMT -8
Everybody can post here -- and guests are invited. Just click on "reply" in purple borders on this page. You'll have to type a little security code to prove you're not a robot.
Just say "hi." Or say anything you like.
Welcome to the Montrose Peace Vigil message board!
Brian (pretending to be a guest)
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Post by Bill on Mar 9, 2009 1:11:35 GMT -8
I'm back, by luck guessed my password Still haven't got back most of my old PC, but the new one rocks . BTW, I saw Roberta talking about a Beatles tribute on another thread, just go to Coachlla(sp); Paul's gona be there this year.
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Post by anni on Mar 10, 2009 14:12:49 GMT -8
I know I should grow up, but, eeyyywwww Paully?
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Post by Brian on Mar 13, 2009 6:45:49 GMT -8
I'm back, by luck guessed my password Still haven't got back most of my old PC, but the new one rocks . BTW, I saw Roberta talking about a Beatles tribute on another thread, just go to Coachlla(sp); Paul's gonna be there this year. Bill, you are such a tease. Where are you now? Every time I see Sir Paul on television, he's singing something like "I Saw her Standing There." He has become the leader of the world's foremost Beatles tribute band.
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