Re: I'm delighted at the existence of this list!

["Tim Gwinn" <***>]

Judith,

A great post for starting off this list! Thanks!

I hope that we will be able to further promote and disseminate the ideas of
Robert Rosen, and hopefully make some strides forward, using his ideas as a
solid platform from which to move ahead.

We are indeed fortunate to have Judith here to grant us insights that cannot
be found directly in his books. I've always felt that there is something
about knowing *how* someone thinks, rather than only *what* they think, that
leads toward being able to better understand the basis for the ideas
produced, and perhaps as importantly, how one might continue to think along
those lines so as to continue the work.

I, too, want to maintain a "flame-free" environment here, and I will take
the administrative actions necessary to keep it that way. Hopefully, though,
a pervasive air of congeniality on the list will synergistically keep such
issues to a minimum.

Tim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROSEN Discussion [mailto:*** Behalf Of
> Judith Rosen
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:01 PM
> To: ***
> Subject: I'm delighted at the existence of this list!
>
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is Judith Rosen. Robert Rosen was my father and my friend.
>
> Having just subscribed, I would like to thank Tim Gwinn for going
> to all the
> trouble of hosting a discussion list that encourages free and civilized
> discussion of my father's work. I hope that a sense of discovery and
> comradery will prevail here, and that this will be a list where
> differences
> of opinion can be accepted and honored, where participants will exercise
> good humor and respect for all points of view, and where discourtesy will
> not be tolerated by any of us. My honest opinion is that while we may be
> separated by space and time, there are many commonalities that
> are shared by
> any group of people who would be interested enough in the ideas of one man
> to subscribe to a discussion list devoted to exploring and
> developing those
> ideas.
>
> My purpose here is to share what I know from having the great good fortune
> to have been raised by Robert Rosen, to have developed a wonderful
> friendship and a sense of kindred spirits over the 38 years I had
> with him,
> and the insights I developed while travelling with him and discussing his
> ideas-- both privately and in the company of his colleagues. I also would
> like to add to the understanding of the man behind the ideas, so that
> posterity will remember him as the extraordinary human being that he was,
> with the enormous range of intelligence, humor, decency, and even
> the quirks
> and foibles that made him real and whole. In the parlance of his
> theoretical
> framework: It is not possible to try and reduce Robert Rosen down to being
> merely a scientist and hope to understand his ideas. I may not be a
> scientist, a physicist, a doctor,  or a mathematician...  I am a
> writer and
> an artist.  But I am also one of the very few, perhaps the only,
> person on
> this planet who knew him really well and understood both the
> person and the
> work he was creating. I welcome questions and I promise to be both honest
> and fair.
>
> Let the discussion begin!
>
>
> Website address: http://www.rosen-enterprises.com/