youth workers

There has been no photoshoping of this picture.... Notice the party hat.
Mary Lambert has somehow managed to avoid having pictures like this taken of her,at least to my knowledge. If someone might happen to have a picture of Mary similar to this, please let me know.

Wednseday Eve

Linda Herbert wrote "A great big thanks to everyone for last night! What a hoot we all had!! The food was fantastic, the music was just right and the games made everyone laugh and sorry they ate so much!! So, thanks to you all for your commitment and willingness to serve."

More games and fun are being planned for next week.

I'm just glad the session didn't have to participate in the clothes race. We had a "meeting". Although if we had participated we would have dominated... maybe.

Wednseday Night Fellowship

It's here. Wed night fellowship! Tonight we get to build our own baked Potato with all sorts of toppings. What Presbyterian in their right mind could resist that?! Seriously! Dinner starts at 6pm. Come and get your Carb fix. After dinner we've got a program for kids and families- singing games and fun.

Neil Postman

It is uncanny how this adresses our culture.

Forward to Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death:

“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.
But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxleys and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appétite for distractions” In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave new World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us, Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right”