--- In [email protected], "gullible fool" <ffl...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: > > > > On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:00 PM, lurkernomore20002000 wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], fflmod@ wrote: > > > > > > snip > > > > > >> I remember the evening in the late 1980s when Doug gave an exciting > > >> talk about Veda Land to a packed dome. Easily one of the most > > >> exciting nights at MUM I had experienced. > > > > I remember seeing a tape of that talk (or something > > very similar, where Doug was talking about VL) and > > remember thinking, even then, that the claims were > > so grandiose and vague that it was difficult to believe > > anything would ever come of them. > > > > > > > That's what the movement was. That's what kept us going. That's > > > why so may of us devoted years of our lives at poverty levels. But > > > what were we embracing? - visions that never got past the talking > > > stage. And you remember those times fondly? I don't regret my time > > > spent in the movement. In fact I am grateful for much of it. But > > > looking back om evemts like you described, one after another, where > > > nothing came of them? I view them now from a more jaded lens. > > > I certainly don't blame Doug for such a grandious talk, because I believe he was totally sold on the belief that Veda Land was going to come about.
Great, I hope he feels the trade off was worth it. What he gave up career wise, and what he bought into, for what he got in return. > > I do remember those months of CCP fondly. >
