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.The deputy, and the sound of her own cry, had jolted Margaret out of herecstasy, and she stared, fearful again as she waited.Ngunda's grin softenedto a smile, and reaching the rope, he stepped over it.Her eyes were fixed onhim; she could feel herself trembling, vibrating.A long black hand reachedtoward her as if in blessing.His words did not seem loud, but they were firm, and somehow they carried."Stand up and walk," he said.Again she was swept with rapture; her body almost burning with it.Unwrappingthe blanket from her wasted legs, she threw it off with such strength thatElyse, who'd bent to help, backed away.Then, with hands on the arms of thechair, MargaretColletti raised herself to her feet for the first time in half a year.Forjust an instant she wavered, but before Elyse could help her, she took atottering step, then another and another toward Ngunda Aran, each stepstronger.He was backing away, pushing the rope back, not retreating butencouraging, making her walk.At the same time holding out his hands, invitingher to follow.She kept coming, then screaming clutched his wrists, and heembraced her."It was you and God who did it," he said quietly."I was simply theinstrument."After a moment she found herself turning, and no longer tottering, walked backto her wheelchair, lowering herself onto it unaided.I can walk!she told herself, I can walk!But I won't overdo it.My legs are still weak.Page 54ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html* * *It was Elyse who pushed the wheelchair back to the terminal.Her husband wasweeping too hard to steer.Meanwhile the crowd, which had watched silently,began to cheer.A TV camera followed, recording it all: the woman, the wheelchair, the guru,and her brother's face, tears streaming.It would be on the news all over thecountry, the world.* * *The Mescalero's crowded cabin was loud with the sound of engine and rotors.Thoughts, images, memories filled Cochran's mind.Briefly he'd felt certainthat thewheelchair was an assassin's ploy.When it became clear that it wasn't, he'djumped to another assumption, that the healing was faked, a Millennium setup.Either that or a phenomenon he'd learned about in elementarypsychology hysterical"healing," in which a disabled person, gripped by religious fervor, couldsometimes briefly rise above their condition.Cochran watched it again later, on the television in his room, while strippingoff his clothes.After a shower, he collapsed for an unbroken twelve hours ofsleep.Back Next|Contents20Arlie Ross: You spoke of loving our enemies.That's a lot easier said than done.Howwould you propose we go about it?Aran: First let me say that the Tao does not insist on anyone's concept ofperfection.It is infinitely understanding, infinitely accepting, infinitelyloving.As for your question.By the word "loving," I refer to a spectrum ofemotions, a gradient scale of relating to things.At the upper end is what theancient Greeks called agapé: loving without imposing conditions ofeligibility, and without expecting anything in return.Hope, yes, but notexpectations.Requiring performance of any sort falls well short of agapé.At the lower end is violent hostility, and equally low, the hypocrisy ofsaying, "I love them, I love them," while despising them or treating them asinferior, usually accompanied by demands that they change.Some clergy havebeen at that end.And how can we get from the lower end to the upper? The first step, should youchoose to take it, is to abstain from physically assaulting people youdisagree with.The next is to abstain from assaulting them verbally.Thenputting up with them grudgingly, though perhaps avoiding them so far aspossible.Then learning to tolerate them philosophically.And next, respectingand even admiring them, except perhaps for some who are just too much, andwhom, for the time being, you can at best tolerate.That is a majoraccomplishment, one you can be proud of.Loving, truly loving one's enemies is the final step.Don't think of yourselfas evil if you fall short of it.But you might want to choose agapé as aneventual goal and make progress toward it.From Collected Conversations with Ngunda Elija AranHeadline NewsOct.25, 6:00 p.m.Today the Senate voted 57 to 44 against withdrawing from the United Nations.Page 55ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlThe withdrawal bill was not expected to pass, but the vote was expected to becloser.This was the largest Republican crossover vote during the Metzgeradministration.The House Rules Committee declined to pass on to the full House an AmericaParty proposal to establish a guiding principle for all legislation.Thiswould be: "God's injunction to man to be fruitful and multiply, and fill theearth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over thebirds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."Rules Committee Chairman Bill Staszik, Centrist from Ohio, commented afterwardthat while Hebrew folklore contained much valuable wisdom and inspiration,twenty-first-century Americans needed to evaluate it in the light oftwenty-first-century conditions.He also pointed out that the proposal waswildly unconstitutional.In a particularly bizarre incident, another executive of a major corporationwas targeted by terrorist assassins today.Roy C.Wallace, the leading star ofmergerdom, was attacked moments after leaving his midtown Manhattan offices.Wallace is the founder and CEO of Carley Jane Management Enterprises.Explosives and firebombs were thrown at his armored limousine, stopping it andengulfing it in flame.At the same time, automatic weapons fire was directedat it from windows.Despite wearing flak jackets, Wallace's chauffeur and bothhis bodyguards died at the scene.Eight bystanders were killed.Seventeenothers were injured and taken to hospitals, eleven in serious or criticalcondition.Wallace was rushed by helicopter to the CornellUniversity Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.He had been released from Merlyndale Hospital less than two weeks ago, afterrecuperating from bullet wounds received in August.* * * * * *A CNN News Feature Summary, November 1Five years ago this month, the Newcastle Four were convicted of felonycomputer sabotage.That they were uncovered and a compelling case made musthave shocked crackers.While the severity of their sentences, and the SupremeCourt's refusal to review the case, were sobering on the one hand, they wereassuring on the other.That and technological innovations in computer security shrank computersabotage virtually out of existence.The almost invariable requirement ofreparations can, in severe instances, strip the computer criminal ofeverything he owns, while appropriate amends to society can require productiveservitude for years, even life.Computer security specialists, however, have insisted all along that it wasonly a respite.Yesterday's so-called "Black Plague" virus proved them right.The virus crashed ICL, the International Computerized Library, whose opening,early last year, was heralded as the greatest single advance in thecommunication of knowledge since invention of the transistor.The ICL storedand gave access to virtually every existing public document except the mostconfidential.It was heavily used by researchers and students of every kind,as well as the simply curious.So far the FBI is saying nothing about the investigation.However, librarypersonnel believe the virus was written and inserted by someone with intimateknowledge, presumably inside knowledge, of the ICL programs [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.The deputy, and the sound of her own cry, had jolted Margaret out of herecstasy, and she stared, fearful again as she waited.Ngunda's grin softenedto a smile, and reaching the rope, he stepped over it.Her eyes were fixed onhim; she could feel herself trembling, vibrating.A long black hand reachedtoward her as if in blessing.His words did not seem loud, but they were firm, and somehow they carried."Stand up and walk," he said.Again she was swept with rapture; her body almost burning with it.Unwrappingthe blanket from her wasted legs, she threw it off with such strength thatElyse, who'd bent to help, backed away.Then, with hands on the arms of thechair, MargaretColletti raised herself to her feet for the first time in half a year.Forjust an instant she wavered, but before Elyse could help her, she took atottering step, then another and another toward Ngunda Aran, each stepstronger.He was backing away, pushing the rope back, not retreating butencouraging, making her walk.At the same time holding out his hands, invitingher to follow.She kept coming, then screaming clutched his wrists, and heembraced her."It was you and God who did it," he said quietly."I was simply theinstrument."After a moment she found herself turning, and no longer tottering, walked backto her wheelchair, lowering herself onto it unaided.I can walk!she told herself, I can walk!But I won't overdo it.My legs are still weak.Page 54ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html* * *It was Elyse who pushed the wheelchair back to the terminal.Her husband wasweeping too hard to steer.Meanwhile the crowd, which had watched silently,began to cheer.A TV camera followed, recording it all: the woman, the wheelchair, the guru,and her brother's face, tears streaming.It would be on the news all over thecountry, the world.* * *The Mescalero's crowded cabin was loud with the sound of engine and rotors.Thoughts, images, memories filled Cochran's mind.Briefly he'd felt certainthat thewheelchair was an assassin's ploy.When it became clear that it wasn't, he'djumped to another assumption, that the healing was faked, a Millennium setup.Either that or a phenomenon he'd learned about in elementarypsychology hysterical"healing," in which a disabled person, gripped by religious fervor, couldsometimes briefly rise above their condition.Cochran watched it again later, on the television in his room, while strippingoff his clothes.After a shower, he collapsed for an unbroken twelve hours ofsleep.Back Next|Contents20Arlie Ross: You spoke of loving our enemies.That's a lot easier said than done.Howwould you propose we go about it?Aran: First let me say that the Tao does not insist on anyone's concept ofperfection.It is infinitely understanding, infinitely accepting, infinitelyloving.As for your question.By the word "loving," I refer to a spectrum ofemotions, a gradient scale of relating to things.At the upper end is what theancient Greeks called agapé: loving without imposing conditions ofeligibility, and without expecting anything in return.Hope, yes, but notexpectations.Requiring performance of any sort falls well short of agapé.At the lower end is violent hostility, and equally low, the hypocrisy ofsaying, "I love them, I love them," while despising them or treating them asinferior, usually accompanied by demands that they change.Some clergy havebeen at that end.And how can we get from the lower end to the upper? The first step, should youchoose to take it, is to abstain from physically assaulting people youdisagree with.The next is to abstain from assaulting them verbally.Thenputting up with them grudgingly, though perhaps avoiding them so far aspossible.Then learning to tolerate them philosophically.And next, respectingand even admiring them, except perhaps for some who are just too much, andwhom, for the time being, you can at best tolerate.That is a majoraccomplishment, one you can be proud of.Loving, truly loving one's enemies is the final step.Don't think of yourselfas evil if you fall short of it.But you might want to choose agapé as aneventual goal and make progress toward it.From Collected Conversations with Ngunda Elija AranHeadline NewsOct.25, 6:00 p.m.Today the Senate voted 57 to 44 against withdrawing from the United Nations.Page 55ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlThe withdrawal bill was not expected to pass, but the vote was expected to becloser.This was the largest Republican crossover vote during the Metzgeradministration.The House Rules Committee declined to pass on to the full House an AmericaParty proposal to establish a guiding principle for all legislation.Thiswould be: "God's injunction to man to be fruitful and multiply, and fill theearth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over thebirds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."Rules Committee Chairman Bill Staszik, Centrist from Ohio, commented afterwardthat while Hebrew folklore contained much valuable wisdom and inspiration,twenty-first-century Americans needed to evaluate it in the light oftwenty-first-century conditions.He also pointed out that the proposal waswildly unconstitutional.In a particularly bizarre incident, another executive of a major corporationwas targeted by terrorist assassins today.Roy C.Wallace, the leading star ofmergerdom, was attacked moments after leaving his midtown Manhattan offices.Wallace is the founder and CEO of Carley Jane Management Enterprises.Explosives and firebombs were thrown at his armored limousine, stopping it andengulfing it in flame.At the same time, automatic weapons fire was directedat it from windows.Despite wearing flak jackets, Wallace's chauffeur and bothhis bodyguards died at the scene.Eight bystanders were killed.Seventeenothers were injured and taken to hospitals, eleven in serious or criticalcondition.Wallace was rushed by helicopter to the CornellUniversity Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.He had been released from Merlyndale Hospital less than two weeks ago, afterrecuperating from bullet wounds received in August.* * * * * *A CNN News Feature Summary, November 1Five years ago this month, the Newcastle Four were convicted of felonycomputer sabotage.That they were uncovered and a compelling case made musthave shocked crackers.While the severity of their sentences, and the SupremeCourt's refusal to review the case, were sobering on the one hand, they wereassuring on the other.That and technological innovations in computer security shrank computersabotage virtually out of existence.The almost invariable requirement ofreparations can, in severe instances, strip the computer criminal ofeverything he owns, while appropriate amends to society can require productiveservitude for years, even life.Computer security specialists, however, have insisted all along that it wasonly a respite.Yesterday's so-called "Black Plague" virus proved them right.The virus crashed ICL, the International Computerized Library, whose opening,early last year, was heralded as the greatest single advance in thecommunication of knowledge since invention of the transistor.The ICL storedand gave access to virtually every existing public document except the mostconfidential.It was heavily used by researchers and students of every kind,as well as the simply curious.So far the FBI is saying nothing about the investigation.However, librarypersonnel believe the virus was written and inserted by someone with intimateknowledge, presumably inside knowledge, of the ICL programs [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]