Back on-grid but not for very long. Upstate, today, some Jehovah's Witnesses (isn't Jehovah technically spelled with a Y? Whatever, this is the sort of questioning that leads to things like the climactic scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark) came by the house to spread the meaning of life as they so understand it.
And those two people were freezing their asses off, going around rural New York engaging in what are probably, on the whole, a series of borderline-stressful interactions, in the name of something they believed in. And it got me thinking. That's rare. At the very least, those two people are trying.
About Me
- De.Corday
- Charlote de Corday, a figure of the French Revolution, was a rebel against the rebellion, an individual in a war of sides. Charlotte de Corday has thus become my nom de guerre as an individual caught up in a world that speaks in borders rather than content. I am quite simply a student of philosophy and theories of government, a musician and a coffee addict, returned to my native urban New Jersey to find a place rapidly gentrifying, changing, growing--whatever you want to call it, only to move to Brooklyn and act as the other side of that coin. I am trying to make art after four years of academy, trying to feel for an ever elusive home... also trying to keep my car running. Trying to live and work and create in a way that each is copacetic to the other two. I currently write freelance and work for a newspaper in Lower Manhattan.
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The Last Crusade?
Iehovah
(H.O.V.A.)
coincidentally, came across a couple blogs today from people part of a fairly recent quaker movement called Convergent Friends. worth checking out a little for the ideas and book recommendations:
http://robinmsf.blogspot.com/
http://godthat.blogspot.com/
from a commenter: "Evangelism with integrity, rooted in deep, meditative study of the Bible, made credible by a commitment to honesty, fueled by a sense of urgency of the Lamb's war against all oppression, guided by a mutually respectful division of labor within the meeting (one that recognizes that we're not all called to this ministry) and made fun and lively by creativity."
If only more questions lead to the climactic last scene in Last Crusade.
I always found Witnesses to be very, very non-pushy. And generally nice people.
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