[All] Fwd: Fwd: Kevin Thomason updated his status: "After a gruelling climb up through rain, wind, snow, stomach ill...

Tue Apr 10 16:39:52 EDT 2012

Greners,

FYI

RM

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> From: Robert Milligan <mill at continuum.org>
> Date: April 10, 2012 4:27:39 PM GMT-04:00
> To:
> Subject: Re: [All] Fwd: Kevin Thomason updated his status: "After a  
> gruelling climb up through rain, wind, snow, stomach ill...
>
> Better to be a good person -- like you, I & Kevin -- who is at least  
> a good critic! (I couldn't help but notice an obvious faux pas on  
> your part here re: moi-meme ! )
>
> Don't forget that I was the one who recommended Kevin to be our VP  
> and have  known him for longer than most of you (20 years +). I have  
> very high regard for him as a person, for his great hi-tech  
> entrepreneurial skills, his dedication to the environment, etc. And  
> he is trying to do good work within the CPC but that is almost an  
> impossible job. My criticism here is obviously not of Kevin but of  
> Harper and the shameful party that he controls which is destroying  
> both Canada in a multitude of ways and not unrelated, our image in  
> the World.
>
> And in case you didn't notice, I did sincerely express concern about  
> his safety (and had a discussion with him about it).
>
> I hope that you are in no way even slightly implying -- even by  
> Kevin's association with him -- that Harper is a "good man"?
>
> Robert
>
>
> On 10-Apr-12, at 3:20 PM, ,,, wrote:
>
>>
>> Kevin spent years championing the environmental causes in council  
>> chambers. I know because (...) . He has done excellent work and I  
>> for one, appreciate his contribution.
>>
>> It takes a wide diversity of (good) individuals to form (a  
>> sustainable) society and in my view a good man is a good man no  
>> matter where he walks in life.Good folks are needed all over the  
>> place. Better to be one than to judge one.
>>
>> ..... ......
>>
>>
>> From: Robert Milligan <mill at continuum.org>
>> To: * GREN <all at gren.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:58:52 PM
>> Subject: [All] Fwd: Kevin Thomason updated his status: "After a  
>> gruelling climb up through rain, wind, snow, stomach ill...
>>
>> Hi Greners,
>>
>> I did suggest some time before Kevin left that he was too important  
>> a person to the environmental cause to so risk his life. On the  
>> other hand, there he will experience the extraordinary heights of  
>> reality and have temporary respite from the entrenched confines of  
>> a mean-spirited ideology (that he swims in by choice). Then when he  
>> safely comes down from the mountain -- as he likely will -- he may  
>> be in a better position to influence a federal Conservative Party  
>> to see and appreciate the greatness of Nature.
>>
>> But I have my doubts. Even if Kevin returned with an 11th  
>> commandment from God that requires Humanity to both live in harmony  
>> with Nature and learn from Nature, would he -- even so "armed" with  
>> God's authority -- be able to penetrate the defense system of a  
>> hardened almost-extremist ideology?
>>
>> I'm afraid Canada's 4 year journey to environmental and societal --  
>> even economic -- hell is pretty much guaranteed as Bad King Stephen  
>> (once looked out on the toxic tar sands, there he saw Alberta and  
>> Conservative wealth & power, but better the destruction of Ontario  
>> & democracy, ... ) gradually turns up the devolutionary heat on the  
>> Canadian pot.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be wonderful if citizen-frogs would jump out of this  
>> pot becoming "princes" of transformational action, and Kevin became  
>> an effective Trojan Horse of persuasive righteousness within the  
>> CPC to an even greater degree?
>>
>> Time to wake from my wishful-dream and be a little more serious. To  
>> wit, I just discovered this momentous new book in a Stratford  
>> bookstore on Sunday, "Design in Nature", http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/book-review-the-design-in-nature/ 
>> .
>>
>> From the above review: "Reading his work,  pondering it long after  
>> you’ve shut the book (or shut the book off, if you’re part of the e- 
>> reading world),  sometimes yields the feeling that an elemental  
>> paradigm-shift is being born,  that underlying assumptions about  
>> the physical world that have been held since Aristotle are on the  
>> verge of giving way to entirely new understandings."
>>
>> Maybe Kevin could persuade Harper's evangelical minister to present  
>> this book to him as "proof"  of Intelligent Design? As he wishes  
>> "no reply" to his below Facebook report, I'll send him a copy of  
>> this "great advice" email when he returns.
>>
>> In the spirit of serious play,
>> Robert M
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> From: "Facebook" <notification+kjdmuup5m37m at facebookmail.com>
>>> Date: April 10, 2012 4:41:38 AM GMT-04:00
>>> To: Robert Milligan <mill at continuum.org>
>>> Subject: Kevin Thomason updated his status: "After a gruelling  
>>> climb up through rain, wind, snow, stomach ill...
>>> Reply-To: noreply <noreply at facebookmail.com>
>>>
>>> facebook
>>> 	
>>> Kevin Thomason
>>> Kevin Thomason updated his status: "After a gruelling climb up  
>>> through rain, wind, snow, stomach illness and some of the most  
>>> spectacular scenery imagineable we are now at 14,200 feet in Nepal  
>>> and just two days from Everest Base Camp. Will keep you posted...."
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