Hastings Justice: Ethical Outings in Hastings

Paul Crosland
The in-depth Buddhist reflection on the OCCUPY movement - the main page is:http://theidproject.org/media
and the talk I'm currently finding insightful is:
http://theidproject.org/media/podcast-ethan-nichtern-david-loy-and-michael-stone-discuss-occupy-wall-street-part-01
"My main fear is that people won't dream big enough" - what a quote!
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Paul Crosland The basic choice we most often face in the important things in life is between Love & Fear. I pray that I choose love, however great my fears I putting out there dreams such as the ribbon on the new pier being cut by those who burned it down.
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Paul Crosland ‎"I putting out" should read "of putting out". (An I for an I, making the whole world blonde, as Gandhi wrote in his delirium from, like me, not having fresh food.)
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like asking Hastings/St Leonard's what the pier (in it's present state) symbolises for you.
Before I tell you others' answers, could you reflect a moment on yours and share it please?
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Patsy Solanki both hope and change for the future
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Lozzerella Boo Sad
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Lorna Mcdougall-boud It symbolises the state of the town x
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Chris Gidlow It is a symbol of Hastings stretching out like Michelangelo's Adam to the infinite beyond. And of the utter failure of our state to provide anything approximating to justice.
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Patsy Solanki i stood and watched that fire on the night, with members of the old save the pier committee. I can only say i thought it was the best thing to happen, for all the right reasons. It meant it had to be stripped and started again, AND it brought the town out of a dreary fog and into a much clearer picture; do something right now! I strongly believe that everything happens for the best, even though we might not see the bigger picture picture at that time. This fire has rallied the town like nothing else could, a great thing to come out of it. Fire is a cleansing element too.
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Antony Martin John May For me the pier in its current state symbolizes how far this country has gone downhill in recent years. It symbolizes how community has become fragmented and uncaring and it symbolizes people like me - the unemployed and unemployable 'old guard' who still believe in England being England and that the E.U. will be the death of us all in the end...
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Chris Gidlow Hastings is an unusual symbol for England successfully resisting continental expansion....
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Paul Crosland Thank you all for playing the "symbolism" game. This helps greatly with my script-writing for the play "Ethical Outings in Hastings" to be performed on Friday 5th October 2012 at the Southwater Community Centre and staring Anthony May as Dr Ambedkar. (Do put that date - the 2nd anniversary in your diary and book your seat NOW!). Further info about the coming together of the play -and maybe something about the splitting up of the EU in the wake of the growth of India & China (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a68lTjIpnMI) at http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/
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Paul Crosland Story line: In Hastings, the town that is the last bastion against the invasion, the pier burns down and, though two individuals who jumped off the burning pier are apprehended, no one is charged. In charges Paul Crosland and his angel friends with some wacky ideas about how justice could be done, once we've engaged in more dialogue about the ethics of "outing" people and making life more wonderful for all.
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Patsy Solanki outing people? what a curious concept. I thought people were better outing themselves. I wonder how the world would be if we all started outing people - regardless of its ethical stance....
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Patsy Solanki you can judge people ethically, you can criticise them in that vein too, all in the name of 'better' but isnt that forcing someone out? Maybe to be a stronger person one would be the change they wanted to see and wait for others to see that it was too a good way. Is it our job to out anyone? One comes out as you put it when they feel ready to do so, to face the world in their new garb or guise, or lack of guise. Is this a 'shame' game you're thinking of Paul?
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Paul Crosland No shame game. I'll post an example of the abhorrent opposite of 'outing' sometime; a gang on a South London Estate leafleting to threaten anyone who would give the police information about a murder. Please give me a more
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Paul Crosland in-depth consideration of the dynamics of 'outing'; they are not 'cut and dry' but a complex judgement call worthy of a TV film; which is what I'm now making: http://ethicaloutings.blogspot.com/p/links.html
Ethical Outings in Hastings & St Leonards: Links to provide an overview of Paul's work in Mediation,
ethicaloutings.blogspot.com
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