42\u00a0 bar falls 30.10 3mph WNW dewpoint 22 Spring<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last quarter Moon of Growing<\/p>\n
Into St. Paul today.\u00a0 Preached (sort 0f) at Groveland.\u00a0 I say sort of because the presentation consisted of me telling jokes about Unitarian-Universalists and the group discussing their meaning as it relates to UU\u00a0identity.\u00a0 This comes from a technique dredged up from those long ago years in anthropology.\u00a0 Joking behavior, according to anthropologists, helps determine group boundaries.\u00a0 And so it did.<\/p>\n
The discussion that ensued was better than I could have hoped.\u00a0 It was heartfelt, honest, sometimes bordering on painful.\u00a0 The latter emerged during a discussion of UU discomfort with faith, with the act of vulnerability.\u00a0 This leaves UU’s, as the discussion went, with a blank spot when confronted with grief, crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the way home I stopped at Cheapo on Snelling and loaded up on mindless action films, the kind I prefer to watch when I’m working out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During lunch I finished Princess Mononoke again.\u00a0 It is a wonderful, complex and beautiful work that gives pause.\u00a0 It would be perfect to show at the same as Lord of the Rings because both Tolkein and Mizasashi are deeply skeptical of industrialization and technology, yet also unflinching in representing the contradictions and\u00a0trade-offs as not black or white.\u00a0 Tolkein seems more either\/or than Mizasashi, so I prefer Mizasashi’s take on thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
42\u00a0 bar falls 30.10 3mph WNW dewpoint 22 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last quarter Moon of Growing Into St. Paul today.\u00a0 Preached (sort 0f) at Groveland.\u00a0 I say sort of because the presentation consisted of me telling jokes about Unitarian-Universalists and the group discussing their meaning as it relates to UU\u00a0identity.\u00a0 This comes from a technique dredged … Continue reading Deeply Skeptical of Industrializaton and Technology<\/span>