tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post110126569967142628..comments2023-09-23T07:46:55.137-04:00Comments on the ashram: Whosoever would be a man.........geoff and sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1101529396222900262004-11-26T23:23:00.000-05:002004-11-26T23:23:00.000-05:00Thanks to Geoff, Will, and James for the feedback ...Thanks to Geoff, Will, and James for the feedback on this post. Its definitely a confusing time to be alive, and I'm not quite sure about the best way forward for our society. But I am pretty confident that it doesn't involve continuing to endlessly pursue pleasures and products that we really don't need. However, at the same time, I do recognize that people need jobs and a poor economy billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08869740559280036839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1101485447396376122004-11-26T11:10:00.000-05:002004-11-26T11:10:00.000-05:00me again...thanks for your post billy. it is a ke...me again...thanks for your post billy. it is a keen observation and i enjoyed the reflections from will and james. clinton and lisa are out today (friday...the day after thanksgiving) celebrating 'buy nothing day' by riding the bus to various retail hot-spots and speaking with people about alternatives to the shopping frenzy and offering new ways of giving/receiving. there is a great front geoff and sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1101433280786270302004-11-25T20:41:00.000-05:002004-11-25T20:41:00.000-05:00here's something that just occured to me....isn't ...here's something that just occured to me....isn't it somewhat ironic that 'black friday' is the biggest shopping day of the year. the day after Thanksgiving - the holiday that celebrates gratitude and contentment as virtues - is a spending frenzy where we act out our discontentment, our 'need' for things. here's to the holy-days where we learn to receive the Christian virtue of contentment. geoff and sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1101304330825866392004-11-24T08:52:00.000-05:002004-11-24T08:52:00.000-05:00I've become increasing interested each year in obs...I've become increasing interested each year in observing the Holy-days in the context of the Church calander. <br />Although I'm Canadian and our Thanksgiving comes toward the beggining of Oct. we always celebrated American T'giving in my house. <br />But it comes at an apropriate time. As we finish the Church year, we give thanks to Christ the King (the last Sunday of the Church Calandar), and jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00348235610160221274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1101272055008563242004-11-23T23:54:00.000-05:002004-11-23T23:54:00.000-05:00I couldn't agree more. There is little commercial ...I couldn't agree more. There is little commercial value in Thanksgiving (Thankgiving presents?) so the stores seem to have decided to move from Halloween to Christmas. How sad.<br /><br />I really resonated with your statement about tendencies toward ingratitudes. This is something I have been very conscious of in my own life lately. I have so much but my wealth cannot be measured in stuff boughtWillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474668842668408006noreply@blogger.com