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Welcome to WHAT IF Wednesday!
WHAT IF... you gave up religion?
Should you continue to celebrate the holidays like you used to, or is that hypocritical?
After all, Christmas is only 129 days away!
I gave up religion, officially, in grade school. I was precocious and an early reader, and my analysis of the logic in the first book of the Bible in our Lutheran Sunday School class got me a talk with my father which ended with me deciding that if it was my choice, I wouldn't be going anymore. So I did not.
But I kept up with the Christian holidays for years. When my children were small in the early 1990's, I decorated the daylights out of our house, tree and mantle and sparkly garlands around door jambs.
We had an Easter Egg hunt each spring and I invited all the kids in the families of our friends. A few years we had a yard full of kids. It was sweet and memorable.
But once my girls became adults and moved out into the world, I stopped doing all of it. For a long while I was conflicted about this, but I've come to enjoy my winters free from the crazy commercial chaos which is the pre-Christmas season. I no longer make apologies for my lack of "Christmas Spirit", after all, I am not a Christian.
So this winter I'll spend my days saying, "Happy Holidays" to those who say it to me. To those who wish me "Merry Christmas", I will return the favor and wish them a "Merry Christmas", too. It costs me nothing and makes them happy. Who needs to be Scrooge and spoil someone else's happy moment? Not me!
I won't be attending any church services or reflecting on the status of my soul, which I doubt I have, either. But I will reflect on my actions of the past year and look for ways to be better, to do better and to hope for better for everyone on Earth.
Because peace isn't owned by religion. Even atheists can believe in peace.
And I do.
How about you?
Yes, I know it's a crazy topic for the sweltering dog days of August. But when it's hot and humid all I dream of is cool, cool snow.
:-)
as always...
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Saturday, August 29th
Boston Kos Meet-up
TIME: TBD, early evening
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Latest diary: BosKos - End of August Meetup
Announcing Asheville, North Carolina as the location
for our next Regional Event! 9.26.15
Asheville, N.C. is the destination for September 26, 2015! DKos Asheville, the In-Real-Life group under the leadership of randallt, has been setting the example for other IRL groups across the nation regarding registering people to vote, getting out the vote, having a state open thread and setting up strategy conferences for their region. Because of this impressive leadership we've asked randallt to be the State Leader for all of North Carolina. We've got important work to do on the ground there and randallt has shown he's the person to make that happen.
All states are welcome to attend this event and if you do you can expect to meet Markos Moulitsas in person, as well as some of the Daily Kos staff. More details regarding this regional event will be shared in the future so please stay tuned to Connect! Unite! Act!
For now, SAVE THE DATE and spread the word!
by navajo ♥ for Connect! Unite! Act!
Outstanding leadership in Colorado forced Daily Kos to make a personal appearance.
We had a terrific event in Denver on Sunday, July 26th with 50 readers of Daily Kos. Read the details about it
here.
A special thanks to Leftcandid and ColoTim for leading the Daily Kos Denver group! Leftcandid spent several hours after the event inputting all the email addresses collected. These two are determined and that's why we made this trip happen!
If you'd like to join Denver Kos, please kosmail Leftcandid.
The following evening, Monday, July 27th, we had 30 readers attend. Read the details about it
here.
Another very successful event, great food, drink and conversation! We both gots lots of hearty handshakes and thank yous.
If you'd like to join Pikes Peak Region Kos, please kosmail thanatokephaloides.
Durango, which is 314 miles from Colorado Springs, was our final destination. Our early evening venue was the beautiful home of
nzanne and her husband. It was very generous of them to host. We had 32 Durangotangs attend.
What a pleasure to visit beautiful Durango! A special thanks to Thinking Fella for setting such a great example of leadership by winning a seat with his local Democratic Party Executive Committee! Yes! Go Local!
Durango had the largest collection of readers with user names:
L-R: Thinking Fella, mnguitar, COMTNGRL, Meteor Blades, nzanne,
Gary Norton, navajo, Merry Light and Warkman
If you'd like to join Four Corners Kos, please kosmail Thinking Fella.
The entire state of Colorado has almost 50,000 subscribers to our Daily Kos emails. We can't wait to tap into that more. We've got a lot of organizing ahead of us for Colorado. Leaders, please step up!
We've declared this road trip a great success and look forward to doing some more around the country. It's important to unite entire states in addition to cities and towns. I hope you'll contribute in some way to this effort.
by AndyT ♥ for Dallas Kossacks
AndyT had his largest event ever, 28 people in Dallas! Here's one photo:
Please visit AndyT's diary for many MORE photos! Enjoy! You can still REC it. You can join Dallas Kossacks by sending a Kosmail to AndyT.
by ZenTrainer ♥ for Nashville KosKats
Clockwise from bottom right: Anonymous L, Anonymous M,
Patrick is Lucky, Zen Trainer's water, Jon Sitzman, Al Fondy
You can join Nashville KosKats by sending a Kosmail to ZenTrainer.
by GreyHawk ♥ for Boston Kossacks
Mad Mary, CwV, a snapshot via his blog of gmoke, GreyHawk, HawkWife, Knockbally
You can join Boston Kossacks by sending a Kosmail to GreyHawk.
by Sara R ♥ for Koscadia
L-R: ozsea1, also mom of 5 (hiding), winglion, Faye, pdxteacher, quill, Sara R & AK Bear
You can join Koscadia by sending a Kosmail to Sara R.
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