BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14228@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241019T170000 DTSTAMP:20241017T000609Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/sacred-text-reading-group-saturday-3-2024 -10-19/ SUMMARY:Resonant Reading (Saturday) - How God acts - Voltaire DESCRIPTION:Resonant Reading (Saturday) - How God acts - Voltaire \nAn exp loration of ideas\, feelings\, and our life experiences\, using a differen t short reading as our springboard each time. The sessions are on Saturday s\, 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.\n\nThe participants over the year s have found that the approach we take\, and the respectful\, affectionate community of inquirers in which we read and converse\, are as important a s 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 ha ve found that those who are frequently in the group get to know each other very well this way.\n\n\n\nFacilitators use a light hand\, posting the re ading in the chat and calling on whoever's Zoom hand is up. Suggestions fo r readings come from group members\, who also take turns facilitating\, if they want to try that role.\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Saturday (10/19 at 4PM)\n\n “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 n o 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 h e again confessed that he had no idea. […]\n\n\n\nRuthlessly   trenchan t   fellow\,   wordy   pedagogue\, meddlesome theorist\, you seek the l imits of your mind. They are at the end of your nose.”\n\n“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\, s entient and  reflecting\;  who  perpetuates  their  species\,  who punishes crimes without cruelty\, and rewards virtuous actions with kindne ss.\n\nThe theist does not know how God punishes\, how he protects\, how h e pardons\, for he is not reckless enough to flatter himself that he know s how God acts\, but he knows that God acts and that He is just.”\n—-V oltaire\n\nNote: Probably no Sacred Texts on Saturday 10/26\nDrew and Ed h ave plans for Saturday 10/26 that conflict with Sacred Texts. If anyone el se would like to lead that day\, they would be most welcome. Otherwise\, o ur regular Zoom conversation will not happen on 10/26.\n—Ed &\; Drew\ n\n\nHow to join:\n\n Join this class from your Web browser: https://zoom .us/j/91019857324\, passcode 227385\n Join this class using the Zoom app: Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by phone: 669 900 9128 US (S an Jose)\, Meeting ID: 910 1985 7324\n Join this class by on-tap on mobil e phones: +16699009128\,\,91019857324# US (San Jose)\n Phoning in\, but n ot in the bay area?  Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abL8clvIY T\n\nFor the Wednesday Zoom link\, go to the Calendar and click on a Wedne sday session.\n\nQuestions? Drop an e-mail to resonant-reading+owner@uucpa .org.\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.uucpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09 /Resonant-Reading.png CATEGORIES:Adult,Learning,Ongoing Events,Small Groups LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/91019857324 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR