Re: OT: Response to Richard Corbett's comments about New Orleans

Thank you Harry Smart! I too am extremely offended by this
statement, and am delurking to say so. This smacks of the remarks
made by the so-called religious right about post 9/11 NYC--that
those people somehow brought it on themselves because of their
lifestyles. Both observations are most un-Christian. New Orleans
has more spirit and soul than nearly any other city I've been to, and
deserves nothing less than our most fervent prayers and/or best
secular thoughts, and donations as each can afford.

Linda Briscoe Myers
Austin

>Richard, I'm not sure quite what you mean by this, but it's a phrase with
>biblical connotations, and many people would assume from such a stark remark
>that you are suggesting the disaster that has befallen New Orleans and the
>area around it is some sort of judgment. If you are making that suggestion
>in the belief that it has some biblical or Christian warrant, then you
>should be aware that you are wrong; and not only wrong, but offensive. The
>kind of crude historicism your (implied) view represents is quite explicitly
>rejected in the gospels by Christ himself .. look at Luke 13, for instance,
>and the reference to those killed by the tower at Siloam. 'Do you think they
>were any worse sinners than ..' No. Any normal human being, Christian or
>otherwise, who looks at what has happened to New Orleans feels nothing other
>than immense sorrow, and sympathy for those who have lost their loved ones,
>their livelihoods, their homes. Shame on you for your remarks.
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>Harry Smart
>Scotland
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Richard Corbett
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:17 PM
>Subject: Re: Just realized something about New Orleans...
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>What you sow, so shall you reap.
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>Richard
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Sandy King
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:35 AM
>Subject: RE: Just realized something about New Orleans...
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>The city of New Orleans is currently being flooded to the level of Lake
>Ponchitrain, which is higher than about 80-90% of the city. The French
>Quarter is in one of the highest areas of the city (but still barely above
>sea level) and will not see flood waters as deep as in other parts of the
>city, some of which are now under twenty feet of water.
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>The mayor of New Orleans has described the city as in "total devastation."
>At this moment water is still flooding the city, and most of the pumps are
>out of operation. It seems likely that it will be many days, if not weeks,
>before the water will be pumped out of the city.
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>DEAR CHRIS,
> Rumors abound in the news about the condition of the French Quarter.
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>say flooded, some say only a few inches of water. Does anyone have specific
>info on how badly it was damaged or flooded?
> My wife and I met the lovely people at A Gallery for Fine Photography
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>we went to the New Orleans Jazz fest in, I think, 2003. As a result of my
>posting, someone on this list (was it you) told me to go there.
> CHEERS!
> BOB
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> Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Lovenguth [mailto:chris@chrisportfolio.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:43 PM
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Just realized something about New Orleans...
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>Even though it doesn't compare to lives changing (I have 4 very close
>friends who are all safe and out of the city, but don't know if they can
>ever go back), lives lost or maybe soon to be lost and a whole city that
>will change forever, I just realized today that A Gallery is in the French
>Quarter. What a vital (and I would say the most accessible to the pubic)
>collection! It sounds impersonal to worry about something like that, but at
>the same time, what a loss if anything happens to that collection.
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>What a loss of a cultural and important city. I personally believe New
>Orleans is more important then I think most people know since most Americans
>really only think of drunken times in the tourist sections, but of the many
>many places I have visited in this country, New Orleans really was rare in
>that it had kept so much of it's own identity in times like this. I will
>miss Old New Orleans, it will be rebuilt and good might come from all this,
>but, it will never be the same.
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>-Chris
Received on Thu Sep 1 08:24:36 2005