Re: QR status

[kirby urner]

QR-code drinking glasses:  my fault for making QR-code so big that it curves a bit too much for actual smartphone reading. 

If I want them more readable I'd need to shrink the footprint a bit. 

However, their practical value as readable media (by machine) is less than (in value) the message we're sending that Quakers are QR-code aware, not Luddites, not any less "techie" than Mennonites down the street (primary competition given common Peace Church heritage -- most sects are self-avowedly more bloodthirsty).

I have this side banter going with Western Friend about the Letter to the Editor below.  My response is a published series of tasteful photographs featuring these stage props.  They've paid for themselves in PR value already.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/16309441767/

I've given one away already as a gift.  I'll be sure at least one makes it to the meetinghouse shortly.

Kirby

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Testimony on Alcohol

Dear Editor: Thank you for reminding us of the traditional Quaker testimony on abstinence from alcohol. It is dismaying to see it increasingly forgotten in our meetings. It is one thing to recognize that outlawing alcohol and drugs leads to violent crime and mass incarceration. It is another to conclude that the use of chemical substances is desirable or even benign. When we are laughing about the casual use of wine or pot, we might want to ponder this question: Would we make a small sacrifice to help those in need? Are we able to forego a minor indulgence for the sake of those whom disease has made powerless? Because whether we are aware of it or not, we are surrounded by people who are caught with their families in a downward spiral of addiction.

– Margaret Fisher, Herndon Friends Meeting, Herndon, VA

 

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Mary Klein <edi...@westernfriend.org> wrote:

Hi Kirby -

I think the “letters” pages in the upcoming issue of the magazine is starting to get pretty tight. That said, if you’d like to send me just a couple quick sentences addressed either to “Dear Editor” or to “Dear Friends” . . . expressing your disagreement with Friend’s history of concern over alcohol abuse . . . I would do my best to fit it in. As long as the argument isn’t merely name-calling (“retrograde”).  !!

Thanks for the work-flow suggestion below concerning your article. I’ll hang onto the v3 and revisit in early June as we both agree.

Best,

Mary

Thanks for the offer Mary!

We all probably agree Friends have a history of concern about alcohol, not in dispute. 

Friends were officially on the side of Prohibition and Prohibitionists is my understanding from this Chuck Fager Youtube:

http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2014/10/on-progressive-friends.html

Not our finest hour in other words.  Prohibition criminalized a majority of USAers and thereby weakened / corrupted the rule of law for decades to come.

The question is more:  where are Friends today?    Answer:  all over the map, as usual.

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On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:41 PM, kirby urner <kirby...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've ordered a few QR-code drinking glasses with the Multnomah Meeting QR-code.  Probably an in-kind donation to P&SC eventually, I'll work it out with the bookkeeper as I have a precise dollar amount.  Watch for them.  Probably just one or two will appear at social hall.  Any Friend is free to order such items, T-shirts, whatever.  We have a May meeting of P&SC at my house (long after the first meeting, which Debbie is scheduling) and I'll plan to have a few there.

Kirby