A Blogellation of Bloglets

Here are a few bloglets that I have come up recently. It's been busy and I haven't had the chance to blog much.

Last week I went to SUUSI, that wonderful Unitarian Universalist camp and conference in the Blue Ridge mountains, in Hokieland, where anything seems possible. I wrote a song about giving my love a green flower, in a songwriting workshop given by singer johnsmith. I have not finished it yet, but like "Dancing under the Rainbow", this one is about a woman friend of mine, and like with Rainbow, I will let you guess who it is, except that the two women are different. The service on Friday with its dancing Jewish rabbi was one of the best I have attended. I feel that you need to move around to feel religious or spiritual things; there is more religion in dancing to "Brick House" than in all of the Catholic liturgies in the world.

My most favorite quote from SUUSI 2004: "The God that I am talking about is not the God that you don't believe in." This indicates that the speaker, when he says "God", is not referring to the Jehovah or God of the Christian Bible, but to a higher-order concept. To me this is a miscommunication on the part of both speaker and listener. The speaker makes the unwarranted assumption that he knows what the God of the listener is like. The listener makes the unwarranted assumption that the God that the speaker is talking about is the Christian God, which I sometimes now call the Blue God, after Ken Wilber's hierarchy. (The Allah of Islam is also the Blue God.)  What Unitarian Universalists need is a course in interpersonal communication.

Ouch! I know that mirages can be deceiving,  but sometimes they can be smashing, as some pelicans in the Arizona desert found.