Thanks, Christine ~ Bringing Chris' post back to mind again this morning helps me see another piece. You said:
> I have found the OST community to be a powerful spiritual community. > Chris > reminded us of http://www.cluetrain.com and pointed us to the Fast Company > interview with David Weinberger and his theses: > > 1. On the Web fame is local. > 2. The Web is all about groups > 3. Knowledge on the Web is a social activity > 4. The Web returns us to ourselves > 5. The Web will have it's deepest effect as an idea. All of this points to the dynamic interaction that happens on the web. It's very verb-like, active, dynamic, moving, changing. That energy combined with the intensity of the events surrounding September 11 created an interplay of sharing unlike anything I've ever experienced before. One of the reasons I want to pull that together and print it into a document (very concrete, unchanging and noun-like) is because the vast majority of people I know didn't experience what we experienced here. They weren't part of this community and they weren't part of any other community that was anything like this. In a few short months, the world will turn its attention back to September 11, 2001. What will all of us, the world-collective-Buddha-self, say? I guess I was thinking that what was shared here might be worth sharing out there, that what happened here would be something positive to add to the collective voice out there. If that isn't a good idea for all kinds of reasons, then at least I want to print out a copy for myself, and put it on the table in my living room, so perhaps my husband or kids or friends might pick it up and enter into the collective energy that has been created here. What happened here was inspiring. I think it's worth sharing. Julie * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
