I thank you for your reply and will ask no more - unless it's over a
shared drink
cheers
rob


--- In intentionalcommunityvictoria@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Stretton
<andrewpstretton@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> Thank you for asking, most people don't. Why don't they ask?
Perhaps the great philosopher Herman Hesse put it best:
>
> "He who travels far will often see things far removed from what he
thought was the truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home,
he is often accused of lying, for the obdurate people will not
believe. Ignorance, I believe, will give little credence to my song."
>
> It wasn't just Ballarat. It was the board rooms of Japan, of
Australia, of the USA. It was the hallowed halls of Canberra, the
dining room of the NSW Parliament and the whistleblower meeting rooms
of the ACCC. It was the needless loss of 800 Australian manufacturing
jobs and the stacking of two Local Council elections and it was the
shafting of numerous 'small town' folk.
>
> It was a common denominator that kept rearing its ugly head,
equally prevalent in those 'hallowed' places as it was in the
Local 'Progress / Community' committees of small townships like
Talbot, (200 people), Clunes (1400 people) and Maryborough (8000
people), small towns in 'the middle of nowhere'.
>
> It led to an understanding far removed from what I believed was the
truth.
>
> Which is why I don't talk about it in the fields at home.
>
> Kindest Regards
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Rob Windt <meridian_power@...>
> To: intentionalcommunityvictoria@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2009 3:21:38 PM
> Subject: [intentionalcommunityvictoria] Re: Choice, the Best Sauce
>
>
> I seem to be missing the (obvious to you) link here.
>
> Does membership of a chamber of commerce infer evil intentions,
> besides the usual pro-growth nonsense?
>
> Does your experience at one of our largest inland cities translate
to
> similar doings in a small town in the middle of nowhere?
>
> What the &^@# happened in Ballarat to provoke this reaction?
>
> Yours in curiousity
> Rob
>
> --- In intentionalcommunit yvictoria@ yahoogroups. com, Andrew
Stretton
> <andrewpstretton@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > "I think you misjudge Lloyd as he was, in part, skewering the
> unreal
> > expectations of the sea/tree changers that are flooding this area"
> >
> > Hmmm, no I don't Rob, between 2000 and 2002 I was the CEO of the
> Ballarat Chamber of Commerce!
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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