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After dinner last night, I took a break and watched the first half of the Frontline special, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero. Of the many powerful statements made in the show, Rabbi Irwin Kula’s reflections on the nature of God really struck me:

“For me, that there’s something ‘out there,’ and that I’m here, no longer meant anything, because every time I thought there was something ‘out there,’ it turns into inevitably something opposed to me. Something I have to define myself against, whether that’s God, or whether that’s a Christian, or whether that’s a Muslim, or whether that’s a Buddhist. And that’s not my experience. My genuine experience of life is that there is nothing ‘out there.’ This is all there is. And when you see the seamlessness of it all, that’s what I mean by ‘God.’

“Every tradition has that. Every morning, three times a day since I’m five or six years old, I’ve been saying, ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.’ Right? It’s one of our few creedal statements, the Shema. Three times a day, since I’m six years old. If you ask what 9/11 really did, it made me understand the truth of that. The truth of that, ‘Everything is one.’ Not that there’s some guy hanging out there who has it all together, who we call ‘One,’ but that it is all one. We all know it deep down. We’ve all had those experiences, whether it’s looking at our child in a crib or whether it’s looking at our lover or looking at a mountaintop, or looking at a sunset. Right? We’ve all had those experiences. And we recognize, ‘Whoa. I’m much more connected here.’ That’s what those firemen had. They recognized — they didn’t have time to think about it, right? Because actually, if you think about it, you begin to create separations. They didn’t think about it. All they knew is we’re absolutely connected… That’s what we mean when we say ‘God.’…”

I’m going to watch the rest of the show tonight.

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As part of my preparation for the Web Services session at Seybold on 9/11, I created a little Tool for editing the home page of a Manila site using BBEdit and Manila’s XML-RPC interface. It made good sense for something to demo, since Manila’s RPC interface is — you guessed it: a web serivce.

Since it’s so simple, I decided to release it for begining Radio UserLand developers to take look at. Let me know what you think.

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One week ago, I released some code Lawrence wrote to enable Radio to generate Monthly Archive pages for your Radio weblog. Today I released some parts, also by Lawrence, that let you do Weekly Archives. Here’s my weekly archive for this week — week 35 of the year 2002.

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