[lit-ideas] Re: insomnia

 
In a message dated 7/31/2004 6:04:44 PM Central Daylight Time,  
JulieReneB@xxxxxxx writes:
Woah,  woah, there ....who said anything about evangelism?  Marlena --  we  
need to discuss our stand on proselytizing....



Dearest Goddess (or whatever we decide you are...<g>),
Well, I admit, if we create it, they will come...but I do think we can  
remake the word 'evangelism'.  (I do this all the time in my regular  
life--remake 
the words so that I can bear them ... )   When I was in  That World and I was 
expected to 'do evangelism', I did it my way--which was  just to have fun.  
They came...and it was not until I was pressured to make  people dot their 'i's 
and cross their 't's that it stopped being fun.  
 
Blue Moon Parties can be grafted onto our Handbook of Evangelism (doesn't  
every religious tradition have one of some form or another?)...I mean, I'm  
taking it from Maud-L which has about 400 women on it (and maudlers do send  
maudvibes...) and, so, just as the good ol' traditional religious souls have  
done 
for countless generations, maybe we can graft onto our way of Living and  
Moving and Having Our Being the same sorts of ceremonial celebrations.  
Besides, if we create a whole library of Handbooks and all, we'd make an  
awful lot of money and doncha want to do that?  Just think...and we could  
commission Mike Geary to write a Sunday Book of Poems for us all to use in our  
small group non-evangelical togetherness times.  (and, the more heretical  the 
better, I think, as we are just wanting to build upon whatever...though you  
are 
the one in charge of *THE* belief system...)
 
Of course, we can call 'evangelism'  something else if that word is  just too 
awful to consider.   I would regret it very deeply  if, someday, somewhere, 
someone would feel that our Blue Moon Parties,  being considered 'evangelism', 
caused either a flight mechanism to be  activated or for a sense of having to 
perform in order to be adored and  cherished and all of that.  <sigh>  This 
is, really , a bit more  complicated than I expected it to be...no wonder most 
religions have such  spiritual fallout from the (former) believers.  I do hope 
we can avoid that  so I am so so glad you are watching over Everything.  
 
I just want to have fun and to share it...<dramatic sigh>  But,  okay.  I got 
a little carried away.  What does our new religion  do when THAT happens?  I 
suppose we ought to have  safeguards?    
 
Putting on the spiritual brakes,
M


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