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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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Subject: Re: [VoID] a new low on the personals tip...
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:13:32 -0400
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I know it's not the popular choice for a lot of people, but I'd
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suggest, um, church. :-). Like Woody Allen said, 90% of life is
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showing up, right?
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Almost anyone can find a church where the sermons don't make you bust
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out laughing, and you're set. I, for instance, am a Unitarian, which,
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as someone once observed, is merely a decompression chamber between a
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real church and a golf course. (ObUUJokes: Mid 70's bumper-sticker:
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"Honk if you're not sure"; Lenny Bruce: "Did you hear about how the
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Klan burned a question mark on the Unitarian's lawn?"; "Unitarians
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would rather go to a discussion group about heaven than to heaven
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itself."; "Unitarians pray 'to whom it may concern'"; etc...)
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But, seriously, folks, my teenage-adopted denomination (I'm, um,
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lapsed, on several fronts, a Dutch-Reformed-turned-atheist father and
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an agnostic mother who used to be a southern Baptist of some stripe
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or another) and frankly limousine liberal secular-humanist
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congregation is about as orthogonal to my present
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congenital-Republican small-l libertarian turned anarchocapitalist
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politics as it is possible to be (except for the secular-humanist
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bit...), and I still go pretty regularly, though not as much as I
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used to. Heck, the older I get the less of the divine I believe in.
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I'm asymptotically approaching my father's atheism, these days, and I
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show up at least once a month. Nice folks though, when I can keep a
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civil tongue in my head -- smart too, when I can't and end up arguing
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with them. :-).
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Anyway, if *I* can end up hitched, anyone can. Talk about orthogonal.
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I met my practically-socialist state-education-bureaucrat wife one
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year after I started, moved in with her 6 weeks later :-), married
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her 2 years after that, and I wasn't even trying meet women. I was
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just looking to make friends as I was new in town.
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The trick to the church thing is, whatever denomination/congregation
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you end up in, expect to end up with a mate, not a date. I mean, some
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guys manage to stay single, but most, like me, don't. You can
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practically see the laser-sights light up when you walk into a
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room...
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That's because, of course, most churches are *run* by women. Most
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regular attendants are women. Hell, 65% of all new *ministers*, in
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protestant denominations, at least, are women. No matter your age,
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looks, intelligence, whatever, you'll end up surrounded by women.
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You'll be outnumbered, even several to one -- some of whom are at
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least better looking than you are. :-). The only place where there
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are *more* women running things is in grass-roots Republican politics
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- -- but I won't go there, I promise.
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If I may make a presumption here, since you brought it up, I figure
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that between the sophistication and diversity of the subcontinent's
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religions, and the ubiquity of Indians in various stages of
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assimilation in So/NoCal, you can find some place to hang out near
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you, Rohit. You probably don't even have to go, um, native, like I
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did -- backsliding on my own ostensibly rational godless upbringing
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and becoming, horrors, a Unitarian...
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Cheers,
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RAH
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