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farsailing · 5 months

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mmmm thinking of attending meetings after the move if my work schedule allows. i’m def not interested in returning to Christianity theistically, but i do kind of miss the community of meetings. the society of friends for my new city does unprogrammed worship (the kind my family attended) and is inclusive so i may reach out to them about attending sometimes

#i dont even remember much of my childhood meetings bc we stopped attending not long after moving back to philly #bc it (ironically) was a bit hard to make rhe logistics work #and as we got older we wanted to do our own stuff + my sister and i were staunch atheists for a while in middle school #but what i do remember is really precious to me #i have one really clear memory of the kids being taken aside for sunday school after rhe first 15 minutes of the meeting #and we learned about pacifism and collaboratively drew a big globe with people all around the world smiling and holding hands :’)#and i remember running and playing in the yard out back after meeting and getting hundreds of burrs stuck all over my clothes lol #.txt #thankfully the society of friends has a long history of non theism (and theres also a not insignificant movement of pagan Friends)#so there is also a precedent for me attending #also WACK that the vast majority of meetings are programmed?? previously id only ever heard of unprogrammed meetinfs #i think its just bc our meeting in florida was unprogrammed and the majority of meetings in the philly area are unprogrammed

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