A Movie Recommendation, A Fond Farewell, Drinking Skeptically You Call It, And A Few Other Things..

So, Kia and I were watching a class after finals and happened upon an absolutely fantastic animated movie with skeptical undertones - Small Foot is a movie about bigfoots (bigfeet?... yetis?) who live in denial of us - the small feet. Their various credos as a society boil down to, "don't question stuff; if things appear to contradict the ancient wisdom, the truth is wrong - the ancient wisdom is always correct." It's good. Anyway, that is all.

This past Sunday, Josh Yarden led a wonderful text discussion of Genesis 22 - which I would love to subtitle here, but I feel like Josh would probably respond: Hm, interesting idea, but no, your joke inaccurately represents the text on an objective level. ...to which Lyn would then say, "Right and wrong? Isn't that a binary?" And we would all chuckle to ourselves. The Secular Text study was informational an interesting. I feel unqualified to do too much paraphrasing, but sufficed to say we went from "hineni" <here I am> to existentialism and back - see Josh's previous e-mail or ask someone for a forward if you didn't get it. It brought up the fact that Isaac doesn't really have words with Abraham anymore, which I never really questioned as a religious person but leaves me say, "Well, duh, he almost burnt him!" (Insulted? Sacrificed? AMBIGUITY!) Unfortunately, as Josh said in his e-mail, he is moving. I have given him his name tag as an unburnt offering that he may do with as he wills. We wish you safe travels and to see you again when the various primal forces of the universe throw us together. We are poorer to have lost you but richer for having known you. All the best.

Here, I would like to pose to you the next Drinking Skeptically venue - Grasshoppers game on the 22nd of June? Or, a bar night this weekend? I will not be able to make the former, as I will be in Fluffya (Philly, as the outsiders say). I wanted to leave it up to you! What do you think? Message me back and let me know!

We have a few things coming up soon! 1) We're going to need to figure out dues, and I'll get you more information about that soon! 2) We'll have more information about shelving at the Interactive Resource Center soon! 3) We're going to start doing adopt a highway again... guess when? SOON!

Much love!