Resonant Reading (Saturday) – How God acts – Voltaire

Resonant Reading (Saturday) - How God acts - Voltaire

When

10/19/2024    
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Where

Zoom meeting, Saturday Sacred Text

Event Type

An exploration of ideas, feelings, and our life experiences, using a different short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturdays, 4-5, and on Wednesdays, 12-1. All are wide open and you are welcome to come twice a week or once in a while.
The participants over the years have found that the approach we take, and the respectful, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse, are as important as the reading itself. While many small groups begin with a check-in, with a session only an hour long, we jump right in to the conversation. We have found that those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way.

Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.

This Saturday (10/19 at 4PM)

“Someone asked Newton one day why he walked when he wanted to, and how his arm and his hand moved at his will. He answered manfully that he had no idea. “But at least,”  his  interlocutor  said  to  him,  “you  who understand so well the gravitation of the planets will tell me  why  they  turn  in  one  direction  rather  than  in another!” And he again confessed that he had no idea. […]

Ruthlessly   trenchant   fellow,   wordy   pedagogue, meddlesome theorist, you seek the limits of your mind. They are at the end of your nose.”
“The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, who has formed all beings with extension, vegetating, sentient and  reflecting;  who  perpetuates  their  species,  who punishes crimes without cruelty, and rewards virtuous actions with kindness.
The theist does not know how God punishes, how he protects, how he pardons, for he is not reckless enough to flatter himself that he knows how God acts, but he knows that God acts and that He is just.”
—-Voltaire
Note: Probably no Sacred Texts on Saturday 10/26
Drew and Ed have plans for Saturday 10/26 that conflict with Sacred Texts. If anyone else would like to lead that day, they would be most welcome. Otherwise, our regular Zoom conversation will not happen on 10/26.
—Ed & Drew

How to join:

  • Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom.us/j/91019857324, passcode 227385
  • Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
  • Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (San Jose), Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324
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  • Phoning in, but not in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIYT

For the Wednesday Zoom link, go to the Calendar and click on a Wednesday session.

Questions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa.org.