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October 2006
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community, happiness, ubuntu
How to build ubuntu
The Journey has it nailed: “. . .aiming for community is a bit like aiming for happiness. It’s not a goal in itself. We find happiness as an incidental by-product of pursuing love, justice, hospitality, and generosity. When you aim at happiness, you are bound to miss it. Likewise with community. It’s not our goal. […]
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ubuntu
Is ubuntu enough? (Part two in ubuntu series)
10.11.06 | Permalink | 9 CommentsTo push further on my last post, is ubuntu enough? If not, what is it we need that isn’t ubuntu?
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ubuntu, UU
Becoming the people the world needs (Part one in ubuntu series)
10.10.06 | Permalink | 11 CommentsI’m still enamored by Doug Muder’s suggestion earlier this year of a UU mission statement: becoming the people the world needs. It leads to the question: who does the world need? Notice we’re not asking what the world needs; that too easily leads to an empty causism. The question is: who do we need to […]
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church, remant, UU
Remnant is fun!
10.09.06 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIt’s fun to be right. Being right as often as I am, I am, of course, well aware of this. But even more fun than being right is being right when others aren’t even aware of just how right you are. They should, of course, know just how right you are. They would be much […]
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altoids, christoterrorist, fred-phelps, hookas, jesus, macacawitz, middle-east
Scribe Jamboree: 10/06/2006
10.06.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Scribe Jamboree: 10/06/2006Whole lot of linky goodness this week from the folk at The Daily Scribe: Macacawitz-gate: Democrat fired for calling Sen. George “don’t cast aspersions” Allen an “anti-semitic” name. (jspot) A history of the Middle East in 90 seconds. (Jewschool) Altoids have been nerfed—no more curiously strong peppermint oil. (Yet Another UU) Fellow Atlantan Cleave rises […]
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family-guy, jesus
Dancing Jesus
10.03.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Dancing JesusTurns out his abilities might have been exaggerated a bit. (Hat tip to Jenn.)
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