empty bowls and joco
G: Shaun
Klein stayed with us a few days. We had fun.
On Saturday I helped out at the Empty Bowls event. I made a pot of
vegan red lentil stew at home, took it there, took tickets at the door
for an hour, got to taste someone else's soup (a yummy squash leek
apple puree) and hang out with friends for about an hour, monitored the
bowl tables for the last hour, then helped clean up. I got lots of
compliments on my soup. Everyone had a wonderful time, and we raised
over $5,000 for Help By Phone!
After that we headed over to TV Tom's to hang out and play games. We
brought Katy with us, and Shaun came, Dorian and Amethyst were there,
and John and Anja, and Dave Chalker came too. Rich showed up later. We
had some wine and some people played games. When it got down to the
poker playing bunch, I decided to join in a game. Just as we were about
to get started on a game of Hold'em, Dave had to leave—family
emergency. So it was me, Shaun, Tom, Rich, and John. And I won! I
won $5! Yay.
Sunday John and I drove to
Jammin'
Java in Vienna for a concert by
Paul and Storm and
Jonathan Coulton. I
went there to see P&S but came away a Coulton fan. You may have
heard some of his stuff before, like popular fan videos on youtube made
to Coulton's songs
Re:Your
Brains and
Code
Monkey.
John and I enjoyed ourselves so much that we are planning on going to
another
show in
Annapolis. They will also be in Baltimore soon.
throwing christians to the lions
Even if I weren't a godless infidel I might get a
good chuckle out of
this
piece of news.
Radical proposals to reunite Anglicans with the Roman
Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope are to be
published this year, The Times has learnt.
The proposals have been agreed by senior bishops of both churches.
In a 42-page statement prepared by an international commission of both
churches, Anglicans and Roman Catholics are urged to explore how they
might reunite under the Pope.
The statement, leaked to The Times, is being considered by the Vatican,
where Catholic bishops are preparing a formal response.
It comes as the archbishops who lead the 38 provinces of the Anglican
Communion meet in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in an attempt to avoid
schism
over gay ordination and other liberal doctrines that have taken hold in
parts of the Western Church.
I guess it's not so odd that Anglicans are practicing this kind of
ecumenism; after all, they are the Borg of Christianity. If the Borg
assimilates in the other direction, back
into the Catholic
Church, they're going to have to refine some basic beliefs (e.g.
divorce is bad,
transubstantiation
is real, da pope is da man).
But here's the real kicker-- when it comes to gay priests, don't the
homophobic Anglican leaders realize they're walking into the lion's
den? Conservative estimates put the
percentage of gay
Catholic priests somewhere around 15%.
Silly humans. Any Generic Omnipotent Delusion who makes
lesbian
koalas,
hermaphrodites,
and a
haploid
messiah has got to be
way tolerant of sexual orientations.
Your god is somewhat queer, or at least queer curious. Get over it.