Rotary Bulletin - "There is No Answer" Meeting of 5-3-12
Rotary Meeting of 5-3–12 - There is No Answer
A Pledge, A Thought, and we were on our way.
Introduction
We had a visitor who was checking us out as a possible member. His name was _______ (I can’t find his business card) and he is a Financial Advisor…like Tom and Dean and maybe even Jim McLees. I should probably talk to him about my vast wealth. I am thinking of going to Las Vegas and either putting it on a hard 8 (great long odds) or play it safe and just sit at the Black Jack tables for 3 hours drinking for free and going home broke, but happy, and alone for a few hours, or perhaps the rest of my life
Our Program was provided by Clair Sinnett. And the program (more later) was to be given by Rev. George Honn (favorite ice cream is chocolate). He brought along a couple of his followers – Cheryl Stump (French Vanilla) and Frank Fisher (Neapolitan). They filmed his presentation. So Joe, I ask you (because you study these things) …”what does it mean by the various ice cream choices we make”. Is it psychological, pathological, sexual, or other. There really is deep meaning to your choices. I checked it out on the internet so it must be true. (Go here to find out what your favorite ice cream means: FAVORITE ICE CREAM.)
The site talks about compatibility between various Ice Cream favorites and the personalities of those who choose. You may have to reevaluate your choice of a mate. There may be those in the club that will have a natural affinity for each other because of their choices. (I hope Tom and I don’t have that). I think Elyse started this in depth questioning of visitors. She was looking for some complex questions to ask, and that’s what she came up with. Her second question was “do you need your locks changed”.
Speaking of Elyse, she was the “Fine Master” today. This was a spot she was given when Michelle purchased the honor for her a few weeks ago, and like some Viper she turns on Michelle and tries to fine her $25 for something…anything. Apparently Michelle was not “somewhere” where Elyse thought she should be and Elyse fined her and asked her where she was. Michelle, (quite nimble with the repartee I must say) said she was at church praying for Elyse. Elyse decided to pay that fine herself not taking a chance that God might not be looking on our meeting that particular day. (He watches our meeting every time…Nancy I use the word “He” for the sake of clarity, God could be a woman ("fat chance" of that says Tom).
Elyse is still pretty young (by no means close to the youngest in the club which at one time made her quite proud…(i.e. being the youngest and only female). She is still female as far as we know, although she has taken a lot of “vacations” in the last year or so to foreign countries where “those operations” are not all that uncommon, but that’s another story.
Actually her and I had a brief Spontaneous Fellowship Event (SFE) in the corner when I received my birthday card and I had a great hug and a kiss, and there was lingering to it that…well... I assure you as of now she is still very much a female.
Program
The Reverend Honn’s topic pretty much was about “The Answer”. The Answer is…there is no Answer”. I might disagree with that. He held up the bestselling book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, which has sold millions of copies around the world. It is a very nice simple read that gives one positive affirmations that will make your life happier and fuller. It is called the Law of Attraction and it is kinda neat. I have a copy and I like it, but there really is nothing new about it. It is not Religion. You just need to be reminded about certain things. If you are happy and fun and caring you will attract the same kind of people to yourself. (i.e. You are a Rotarian).
If you are miserable, complaining, whining etc., then you will attract people like yourself (Kiwanis) and you will surely be miserable until you become a Rotarian and return to Joy. It is that easy. And some day we all go off to heaven and there is a big Rotary meeting up there, every day actually. And it will be good.
Reverand Honn has his own church. I think it is called the Center for Spiritual Living and is connected to the “Church of Religious Science” by Ernest Holmes. I have always “studied” Religions and find them all of interest.
Rotary rarely talks of Religion in it’s meetings and all are welcome. I talk a little of it now because it was our program, but this fella was not at all recruiting any of us, he was just sharing his experiences. Our personal Religion may come upon us in many ways.
I was confirmed a Lutheran because all my buddies were of that church. They joined the choir and so did I. I quit when my brother saw me in a Choir Robe and he couldn’t stop laughing at me in the church. (I have pictures of me in the Choir Robe…I was really hot). I quit the church and the choir and haven’t sang since. I married a Catholic and go with Mary when time permits (like Christmas and Easter). Mary came upon her Religion because of the 4 generations before her. She is happy in it, and I am happy she is happy. Peace in the home is a good thing. I am tolerant of all kind Religions, especially the kind ones. My God is a friendly God, and he is funny, and yes he may be a She ;)
The Church of Religious Science is a kind Religion and has a lot of that “new age” kind of thinking to it; although it was established in the 1920’s and much of the thinking is of a Philosophical nature and similar to much of what Ralph Waldo Emerson and the boys wrote about when they were hanging out at that Pond name Walden(that is where that line comes from about “He dances to the beat of a different drummer” or something like it”
Note: "If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away. "
They were Transcendentalists and that was in the mid 1800’s. That is all I am going to say about Religion.