[ggc-urantialist] Re: Golden Gate Circle (SF Bay Area) Weekend Bulletin 2/16/13

From: Bohohwymus@xxxxxxx
To: ggc-urantialist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ggc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, socadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:44:41 -0500 (EST)

GOLDEN GATE CIRCLE
WEEKEND BULLETIN:
February 16, 2013

Mustard Fields in Spring, Sonoma County

Upcoming Local and U.S. Events
The 2013 Vancouver Island Urantia Friends Campout
Campout at Miracle Beach! August 5 - 9, 2013. Miracle Beach is located
on the east coast of Vancouver Island. This is a beautiful space and the
ocean here is spectacular! For further information contact
_nebadon373@hotmail.com_ (mailto:nebadon373@xxxxxxxxxxx) .
The Urantia Book Fellowship IC ‘14
Join us from July 23-27, 2014, at University of Massachusetts – Amherst,
for an International Conference to activate and celebrate our personal
journeys toward God as revealed in the Urantia Book.
The theme of IC'14 is "Grow Godward," and the program celebrates our
many approaches to spiritual growth. IC'14 is designed as a fellowship of
believers from around the world and across generations: parents and children,
grandparents and grandchildren, young adults and teenagers, longtime
readers of The Urantia Book and curious friends and relatives. Learn lots
more
at _ic14.org_
(http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001EQ-PKGD3r1K0KIIZ2IuRC6wwGL86GAi7cHwfpnAmzQZfIxm-_pJpona2WDWZto9rQZEC3VpkCQwgpNGHVkqqGTmW47mMQgpe)
and to
submit a workshop or activity submit a proposal by January 1, 2014.
Get up-to-the-minute info by linking the IC'14 Facebook page.
Info about registration, pricing packages, and scholarships will be
available this summer. Conferences can be expensive, so we are working up as
many
options as possible to make IC'14 affordable.
Keep checking the website for exciting updates on our flexible new
conference program, our YouTube Film Festival, the awesome Truthseekers
program,
participation by all the societies, our special social day on Sunday and
lots more!
There is a great team working to create a dynamic, relevant, fun,
eye-opening, and powerful conference for all. Contact Angela Thurston,
conference
chair, at _chair@ic14.org_ (mailto:chair@xxxxxxxx) to get in touch.
Pictures from the General Council Meeting, Los Angeles CA:
(Cece,Stephen)
Thomas Orjala, Charlene Morrow, Kailas Orjala
Leadership Opportunity with Golden Gate Circle UB Society
Please contact me know if you would like to fulfill a leadership role with
Golden Gate Circle Urantia Fellowship Society. You can reply to me at email
_bohohwymus@aol.com_ (mailto:bohohwymus@xxxxxxx) , or call 925-689-2228.
The office of President is open beginning spring of next year.

Why are the Chinese so sad?
They are four times richer than they were 20 years ago, yet they find
their lives lack meaning and direction
by Mitch Moxley on Monday, February 4, 2013 (from Maclean’s magazine,
excerpted)
The Chinese have an expression to describe coping with hardship: chi ku—to
eat bitterness. … It’s been more than 30 years since Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping opened the country and the Communist party embraced the mantra “to
get rich is glorious.” … But despite China’s economic miracle, recent
studies suggest Chinese aren’t any happier than they were in the early 1990s—
the result of an income-inequality gap that has grown to a chasm … While
getting rich is still glorious in China today, officials are busy trying to
appease a dissatisfied populace by belatedly addressing corruption and the
country’s growing list of social and environmental maladies. …
China’s government has taken note of the people’s melancholy, making
happiness a key part of the next five-year development plan and promising to
tackle non-economic quality-of-life factors such as health care, education,
housing and the environment. … Hu [Xingdou, economics professor] argues that
China has lost its spiritual centre—Confucianism, especially, is a
conservative philosophy that guides an individual’s ethical behaviour within a
community—and that the quest for wealth has filled the void. “Chinese people
don’t believe in anything,” Hu says. “Money worship dominates, and this is
the biggest factor contributing to corruption.”
Chinese born after 1990, in particular, are learning that life is about
more than just earning a buck. “Post-’90s Chinese care more about their
quality of life, leisure time and work-life balance rather than money,” Gao
[Wei, sociology professor] says. “This is a good trend.” Many Chinese are
also looking for spiritual meaning beyond the pursuit of wealth and material
possessions. Confucianism and Taoism have both undergone revivals here in
recent years and a growing number of Chinese are turning to Buddhism, which
has an estimated 300 million followers in China, for spiritual guidance.
_http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/04/why-are-the-chinese-so-sad/_
(http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/02/04/why-are-the-chinese-so-sad/)
"We go to the river's edge for comfort, spiritual renewal, meditation,
solitude; we go to the river to feel and know the continuance of life." -
Henry David Thoreau
i thank You God for most this amazing
by e. e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Thanks for tuning in and reading our news. And please -- Stay tuned!
Dave Holt, Communications Chair for GGC

[ggc-urantialist] Re: Golden Gate Circle (SF Bay Area) Weekend Bulletin 2/16/13

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