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Thursday, 12 November 2009

Monday, 09 November 2009

Sunday, 08 November 2009

  • Church Locations...

    This morning I drove down to the new location of the church that I left back in January.  They just moved into this new location a couple weeks ago so I hadn't yet seen the finished product.  I might have just let my interest in what the finished product would wind up looking like fester but I'd been hearing about how great and beautiful it was so my curiousity grew and I had to see for myself (I wasn't finding many pictures online).

    I wasn't impressed.

    Parts of it looked like a warehouse and other parts of it looked like they were trying for a mountain lodge type atmosphere, while still other parts looked like they were trying to combine art deco and modern and post-modern stylings all in one place.  All of that in only in the large open atrium area right inside the front doors of the building.  It doesn't look too bad as long as you don't look at too much of the space at once.  Also, once you've been in there for a while you begin to get used to it and it sort of works.  So really, after the horrible first impression, it isn't too bad, though I wouldn't say that it ever became good in the hour or so that I was there.  It might have helped if I'd had some better understanding of what they were trying to do with the space as my confusion about that was influencing the rest of my perception.

    I didn't get too much of an idea about the auditorium space since there was a service in progress and it was pretty dimly lit and somewhat crowded.  I will say though that it didn't appear to be any bigger than the auditorium at the old location, though I'm sure that will change they do phase 2 of the construction (its supposed to anyway).

    I was also struck by how out of the way and hidden the church office is.  The idea of setting things up so that you have to go in the front doors and then around a corner, around an obstruction, into a hallway, through a door, around another corner and then through another door to get to the church offices just doesn't make any sense to me.  I'm sure that setup works great for much of the staff as they write sermons or do paperwork or whatever else they do that doesn't involve actually interacting with people.  I'm also sure that the path to the offices won't seem like much once you've walked it a few times.  However, I can fully see someone stopping in there during the week to drop something off or to meet with a staffer or just to get information about the church and then wandering around for a while until someone sees them and can guide them to their destination.  The guy who was giving me my tour of the facility (maintenance guy) said much the same thing himself about the office setup.

Saturday, 07 November 2009

  • Death and Memories

    I put up a pulse Tuesday afternoon mentioning that a friend's brother had died Sunday night.

    All week on facebook I've seen in my news feed or live feed that someone I know has joined one of the groups that have been created about his death.  I think I've seen at least three of them but I can't be sure.  Now I think I understand why people are creating and joining these groups but that really doesn't matter to me here.  The important thing is that all these groups and notices on facebook have gotten me thinking about things I want done after I die.

    Honestly, every time I get to thinking about death I wind up with stranger and stranger ideas of what should be done after I die.  I know I've put up at least a few posts on here over the years about various ideas for my post death doings so scroll through the archives if you're that interested.

    I've decided that I HATE the tradition of creating memorial groups on facebook.  There is very little thought put into titles of them and thus they always wind up being cliche and that is boring and stupid and I can't stand it.  When I die, I do not want any "RIP..." or "We'll Miss You..." or "You're loved..." or any groups of that sort.  No, what I want if someone insists on creating a group for me is something with a name like "Finally!  You're Dead..." or "You better not haunt me you dumbass!"  or "See you in HELL!" or pretty much anything else that is completely politically INcorrect and horrifying.  I just like putting people on edge and confusing them and I also enjoy saying things I want to say by way of some form of backwards comment and using self-deprecation.  I think it would be fitting for a group in remembrance of me have that type of title.

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