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   Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:31:16 JST Bill

   • Deep Mud

   @deepmud Gnostics have a bent on superstition also. I celebrate the Solstice in Winter at a local Universalist Unitarian church. The celebration is secular, but they have their own "'services" You may wish to look there.

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     D. B. Stuck (mywoolymastadon@toot.community)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:44:15 JST D. B. Stuck

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     @bmacDonald94 @deepmud

     Hahaha. If you dig deeper you may find that not all Universalist Unitarian churches practice the same. Different congregations will come up with rituals and traditions that suit them and them alone. One old church in Chicago uses an anvil as symbology simply because the founding members were blacksmiths.

     What little I know is that they all like to think for themselves and explore the possibilities.

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     Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 07:47:13 JST Bill

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     @MyWoolyMastadon Aha ~ This local group are largely astronomers. They are always gracious and they came up with the idea for the celebration. We all disclose what we have done the past year to improve ourselves. The are also great for keeping us on track. Several of us are vulnerable, so they set up a zoom conference during the pandemic and still provide.

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     Bill Ricker (bricker@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:39:37 JST Bill Ricker

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     • Deep Mud

     @MyWoolyMastadon @bmacDonald94 @deepmud
     Yes. UU is a very big tent, non-credal. With variation within a congregation, between congregations, and between regions.
     Ranging from full Atheist to Christian just without dogmatic trinitarianchristology, with pockets of Eastern mysteries, neopagan/earthmother, neosynctretic, ... .
     (A fun preacher here was her own neosyncrethesis: her uncle was an Ashram Guru, her mother a patron of Mother Theresa, and she a grad of Harvard Divinity as UU. )

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     Bill (bmacdonald94@hostux.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:42:48 JST Bill

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     • Deep Mud

     @BRicker @MyWoolyMastadon @deepmud ~ I was smiling until I read mother theresa. A horrible abomination of the past century and poses the catholic church well as they declare her a "saint" The UU church has been gracious to me and my group.

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     Bill Ricker (bricker@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 01:20:42 JST Bill Ricker

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     @bmacDonald94 @MyWoolyMastadon @deepmud
     I hear you on that. Mother T was a Milkshake Duck prequel.

     The Mother Theresa that Rev Shuma's mother knew was caring for the poor; she didn't see the rumored dark depths that we now hear about. An ideal, not a real person.

     As I said, an interesting, unique personal synthesis.
     (It must be over 20 years since Rev Shuma was at 1st Parish here. How time flies.)