Gregory Heller has accurately conveyed the spirit of the thing, and I am thankful to him for this.
I would draw particular attention to: "By no means am i following lion in an unquestioning and servile manner, but i believe in his vision for saturday house, and I am willing to do what i can to support it." This is a key point. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Gregory Heller <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am reminded of a proverb: he who tries to bring everyone to the top of > the mountain will never reach it himself. He who chooses his path and > takes it will surely succeed. > > I believe that Lion is clearly outlining what his intention is, and > anyone who want to join in, is welcome, but if you don't, or if you want > to substantially modify his intention, well, your on your own finding > your way to the top of the mountain. > > Lion has chosen his path, and he is going to take it. There are people > willing to follow and support that journey, and offer guidance and > advise on the way up, but if you don't want to get to the same mountain > peak, by the similar means, well, this trek is not for you. > > At least that is what i am hearing. By no means am i following lion in > an unquestioning and servile manner, but i believe in his vision for > saturday house, and I am willing to do what i can to support it. > > I am not going to obey lion as if he is a cult leader, but when it comes > to saturday house, this is a vision he has outlined and I am willing to > support it. > > -gregory > > > Lion Kimbro wrote: >> I have a job, and I really need to work at it. >> >> I shouldn't have written this email. However, I have, and here it is. >> >> ... >> >> I wish I could describe my perspective right now; What Saturday House >> has been, visions of Spiriata, countless memories from Damanhur, >> flashes of Bral Talej cards, Mars Hill, Clearwater, Twin Oaks; What's >> in my head, and what's here in the mailing list are dancing around one >> another. >> >> This is clearly what the Damanhurian's call a Synchronic moment. >> Clearly, too, Saturday House needs direction. >> >> Further, I need to get home, so that I can go to bed. >> >> I have doubts about the vision that I have spoken so far, and clearly, >> the list is in need of healing. >> >> Saturday House will be neither what it has been, nor will it be what I >> have imagined it to be, up to this moment. It will be something >> better. >> >> >> 1. I am captain of this ship. Rule 6 simply means that people >> recognize that I am captain of the ship. If I say "No," it means, >> "We're not doing that." If I say "I need you to do this," it >> means that you should do it. Punctuality is very important, >> otherwise these things won't work. >> >> I can see a path where -- if we exert a lot of effort, we can >> establish a very different kind of governance in our future, >> reflective of the kind of governance we would like to see in the >> world at large. But we will need to get there. >> >> 1 1/2. A bit of clarification, in case anyone is confused: We are >> explicitly NOT plotting overthrows of the government, or >> anything like that. Participation in Saturday House has >> ALWAYS been, and always WILL be purely voluntary. >> >> 2. A question: >> >> Is the reaction against the law a reaction against the CONTENTS of >> the law: "we don't speak against high ideals" -- or rather, is it >> a reaction against the idea of rules at Saturday House all? >> >> If Saturday House is to be bent according to a vision, then I need >> to be able to make some hammer marks on it. High ideals is part >> of this. >> >> 3. This "new vision" is not actually very new; It is only *slightly* >> different than Saturday House's original vision. The strategy, >> however, is radically different, and based in things learned in >> the last 2 years. Bring your projects, your ambitions, your >> interests; But not only these- also, your hearts, and your sincere >> presence. >> >> 4. Mike Begley is right about projects and work items. >> We'll start with: >> 1. Finding Saturday House locations to use on Saturday. >> 2. Communication of Vision. >> 3. Experiment with different ways of structuring our Saturdays, >> based on feedback and ideas from everybody. Remember: Many >> failures will come, but we will find what works. >> 4. Remaking the website to reflect our change. Artwork, text, >> the page structures, and web serving. >> 5. Establishing dues. They will be light, to begin with. Dues >> are proportional to the degree of participation someone wishes >> to engage. And if you have no money, of course, you shouldn't >> pay anything. Visitors and people investigating are requested >> NOT to pay dues. Regulars who are not involved in running >> Saturday House will have a *light* dues request. >> 6. Collecting posters, books, even comics that are representative >> of what we hold in our hearts. Please, bring what is dear to >> you. (*) >> >> 5. THERE ARE NO PROFESSIONALS HERE. I am a captain, but don't >> mistake my "captaining" for professionalism. I don't know that >> there even *is* a profession for what I am doing. We need to hear >> many ideas, and try many things. We will develop understandings, >> over time, from our experiments -- this is good. We will fail >> many times, I am sure. But it will be exciting; An adventure. >> >> Do you feel that knot in your stomach? >> >> It means that we're going to do something very, very different. >> >> >> (*) Some people who's quotes are important to me, off the top of my >> head, in no particular order, that we can seed ourselves with: >> >> Walt Disney http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney >> GK Chesterton >> George MacDonald >> CS Lewis >> Madeline LeEngle >> Ursula K Leguin >> Paul Twitchell >> Kirphal Singh >> Ghandi >> Michael Turner >> Osamu Tezuka >> Frank Herbert >> Leiji Matsumoto >> Masamune Shirow >> Kousuke Fujishima >> Oberto Airaudi >> Teilhard De Chardin >> >> > >> >> > > -- > ---- > Gregory Heller > http://www.GregoryHeller.com > http://delicious.com/GregoryHeller > http://twitter.com/gregoryheller > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
