Ya I know the blog is suffering and the reason is me, the blogger, and here are my excuses:
1) I took a two day vacation which sets me back at least four days.
2) I don't have much to blog about and don't want rambling nonsense to creep in.
3) My lack of organization and responsibility make me a very inconsistent blogger.
Excuses out of the way I have a blog for you: I was in Buffalo, downtown walking around and I passed a church.
Being a student of organized religion(not a participant) I always admire churches for their architectural value and
whatever message they have attached to their church. Well this church was an old, big old, stone church that had
obvious been there a while with a small plaque on the front reading: "This church is a nuclear weapons free zone".
I read that passing by and stopped in awe. What in sam hill was that supposed to mean?? I says to myself and
my pal. I looked for clues but all I could find was evidence of a very healthy congregation, meaning to me that it
was somewhat mainstream. The name of place is the "Church of the Unitarian Universalists", which creates a
question in and of itself. The whole deal bothered me throughout the time I was on vacation and here is what I
found out:
With its historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion --
that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times
and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in
religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves.
We are a "non-creedal" religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed.
Our congregations are self-governing. Authority and responsibility are vested in the membership of the
congregation. Each Unitarian Universalist congregation is involved in many kinds of programs. Worship is
held regularly, the insights of the past and the present are shared with those who will create the future,
service to the community is undertaken, and friendships are made. A visitor to a UU congregation will very
likely find events and activities such as church school, day-care centers, lectures and forums, support
groups, poetry festivals, family events, adult education classes and study groups.
That is the offical explanation from the horses mouth with really doesn't explain the nuclear weapons plaque at all.
I guess that churches should be free of nuclear weapons in general............
Good story from my vacation: one of the main events of the my break was a concert by Gregg Allman and
Friends. Being a big Allman Brothers Band fan I was pretty excited and brang my old concert going buddies along
for the ride. We also met up with some beautiful wild women and started throwing a party at the Seneca Niagara
Casino in Ny. After arriving at the show a little late we did some power drinking and went to our seats. As I
expected this show was all sit down, no drinking allowed inside the showroom, very uptight for the Allman Brothers
scene. With in five minutes of trying to sit down the people behind us got mad and told us to sit down. Sit down?
At a rock and roll concert? Not happening so we just got up and went to the back and danced. After about an
hour and ten minutes the band stopped and we went to the bar for what we expected was an intermission. First
we started doing some more drinking and by that time our whole crew was getting tuned. Things got kinda foggy
but what I recall is that we had ten big security guards who had corralled the wildest of our bunch for intoxicated
behavior. Just like that casino TV show with James Cann the security people had watched every one of us and
knew how much we had to drink(down to the number and brand of shots). They explained the policy and said that
we all had to leave. We started to hum and haw with them, got out the Native American Indian and US Military
cards, and were stopped quickly with: "There are two cars out front waiting for you, a taxi and a NY State Trooper,
you got one minute to choose." Unanimously we chose the taxi and had to go home for the remainder of the night.
Outlaws eh????
Don't forget live music this Friday by "Bumper Sticker", who come highly acclaimed from the Geneseo/Rochester
area............show starts at 9pm hope to see you round......
1) I took a two day vacation which sets me back at least four days.
2) I don't have much to blog about and don't want rambling nonsense to creep in.
3) My lack of organization and responsibility make me a very inconsistent blogger.
Excuses out of the way I have a blog for you: I was in Buffalo, downtown walking around and I passed a church.
Being a student of organized religion(not a participant) I always admire churches for their architectural value and
whatever message they have attached to their church. Well this church was an old, big old, stone church that had
obvious been there a while with a small plaque on the front reading: "This church is a nuclear weapons free zone".
I read that passing by and stopped in awe. What in sam hill was that supposed to mean?? I says to myself and
my pal. I looked for clues but all I could find was evidence of a very healthy congregation, meaning to me that it
was somewhat mainstream. The name of place is the "Church of the Unitarian Universalists", which creates a
question in and of itself. The whole deal bothered me throughout the time I was on vacation and here is what I
found out:
With its historical roots in the Jewish and Christian traditions, Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion --
that is, a religion that keeps an open mind to the religious questions people have struggled with in all times
and places. We believe that personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in
religion, and that in the end religious authority lies not in a book or person or institution, but in ourselves.
We are a "non-creedal" religion: we do not ask anyone to subscribe to a creed.
Our congregations are self-governing. Authority and responsibility are vested in the membership of the
congregation. Each Unitarian Universalist congregation is involved in many kinds of programs. Worship is
held regularly, the insights of the past and the present are shared with those who will create the future,
service to the community is undertaken, and friendships are made. A visitor to a UU congregation will very
likely find events and activities such as church school, day-care centers, lectures and forums, support
groups, poetry festivals, family events, adult education classes and study groups.
That is the offical explanation from the horses mouth with really doesn't explain the nuclear weapons plaque at all.
I guess that churches should be free of nuclear weapons in general............
Good story from my vacation: one of the main events of the my break was a concert by Gregg Allman and
Friends. Being a big Allman Brothers Band fan I was pretty excited and brang my old concert going buddies along
for the ride. We also met up with some beautiful wild women and started throwing a party at the Seneca Niagara
Casino in Ny. After arriving at the show a little late we did some power drinking and went to our seats. As I
expected this show was all sit down, no drinking allowed inside the showroom, very uptight for the Allman Brothers
scene. With in five minutes of trying to sit down the people behind us got mad and told us to sit down. Sit down?
At a rock and roll concert? Not happening so we just got up and went to the back and danced. After about an
hour and ten minutes the band stopped and we went to the bar for what we expected was an intermission. First
we started doing some more drinking and by that time our whole crew was getting tuned. Things got kinda foggy
but what I recall is that we had ten big security guards who had corralled the wildest of our bunch for intoxicated
behavior. Just like that casino TV show with James Cann the security people had watched every one of us and
knew how much we had to drink(down to the number and brand of shots). They explained the policy and said that
we all had to leave. We started to hum and haw with them, got out the Native American Indian and US Military
cards, and were stopped quickly with: "There are two cars out front waiting for you, a taxi and a NY State Trooper,
you got one minute to choose." Unanimously we chose the taxi and had to go home for the remainder of the night.
Outlaws eh????
Don't forget live music this Friday by "Bumper Sticker", who come highly acclaimed from the Geneseo/Rochester
area............show starts at 9pm hope to see you round......
