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Yeah...I saw the thing about the culinary swan and got all sad about killing a goose. I'd finally started to get over it, then the swan thing comes up.
There are birds massing outside my office window. What does that mean? They're all staring at me!!!
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Actually, familiarity with geese would give cause for concern in and of itself. Bob obviously hasn't had too much contact with geese or he wouldn't feel so bad.
At the best of times, they are aggressive, constantly pooping, ill-tempered, noisy flocks of feathered vermin.
Did I mention they are aggressive and ill-tempered?
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There were *tons* of geese that wandered around the campus where I went to seminary. One day during opening prayer for a class the woman leading the prayer went into a long, rambling thing about God “helping us to see ways to help people who are hungry and homeless, like maybe a way we could slaughter all the geese and use them to feed families who are hungry” . . . and on and on. The vegetarian members of the class were outraged, and even those of us who eat meat thought it was a pretty weird prayer. Posts: 9866 | Registered: Apr 2002
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It is so hard to stay in any sort of worship mode with long rambly prayers. I've heard some doozies in my time but nothing that tops your geese story!
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The scary thought is that this was just the idea she figured was okay to share in public. She hadn't even gotten to what she wants to do with Animal Shelters and orphanages.
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btw dkw, I have been meaning to comment on your sermon. I don't think you used the exact same language in the second service, but I know you used the term "dazzling darkness" in the first service.
There is a Madeline L'Engle book, A Ring of Endless Light, that talks about that. It quotes some famous poet or philosopher using that term and the theme runs throughout the book. Did you think of all of that when you were writing your sermon? And if so, who was that poet because I should read more of him.
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Tom -- what happened to that pic I saw you take of Karen with all the little RPG figurines in the foreground? I don't see that one up. I thought it would look real cool.
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That has to be one of the worste photos of me in existance. Thank you so much for sharing it with the world.
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I was planning on finding the book and looking it up, but my bookshelves are in such disarray at the moment it is hard to find stuff. I will be extremely happy when we get the library finished.
Though, right now with the weather being good we've started on the outside again.
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Hey everybody! I had a great time in Iowa, and enjoyed meeting everyone there! It was a lot of fun! I hope to see some more of you in Chicago later as well. It was good seeing all of you and learning about all the people my mother talks to all the time!
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Hey! Thanks! Well, hopefully I can pop in once in awhile, but I can't be around too much. Especially since I have to go to school again. Oh well. Plus I promised my mom I wouldn't be too nosy! Posts: 156 | Registered: Feb 2004
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