(March 24, 2018 at 8:16 am)Little lunch Wrote: I'm taking a schizophrenic couple to church tomorrow night.

I'm quite curious to see how it goes.

I just have to ask:

Under what circumstances is an atheist escorting a schizophrenic couple to religious services?

Funny it being a chess club. Most people seeing you going to a church on a week night will assume you're a 12 Stepper.

tee hee !!

(March 24, 2018 at 8:23 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:

(March 24, 2018 at 8:16 am)Little lunch Wrote: I'm taking a schizophrenic couple to church tomorrow night.

I'm quite curious to see how it goes.

I just have to ask:

Under what circumstances is an atheist escorting a schizophrenic couple to religious services?

I'm one of their support workers.
In this case I'm just the transporter but I figure it may be fun to see what transpires inside rather than wait in the car.
If you think x-tians have some wacky ideas, the lady of this couple is a goddess and is still considering whether to be in the bible or not.
One of her followers is Luke Skywalker, not the actor, the real Luke Skywalker. :-)

I saw VNV Nation in a repurposed church. Why the hell not? Churches can be really pretty buildings.

(March 24, 2018 at 6:18 am)vulcanlogician Wrote:

(March 23, 2018 at 11:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Practice the words of grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch.  Upon losing a match he climbed on a table and shouted "How can I lose to this idiot."



I rather imagine that Hillary Clinton had the same sensation.

Y'know, I've been there. I hate losing a match to a player I perceive as dull-witted or unimaginative. It's like ten times worse than losing to an artful and talented player. That's chess, though. 

And, unfortunately, that's politics.

Losing a chess match does not get the whole fucking world blown up, though.

I've been to many 12 Stepper meetings (many of them gay) in church basements over the years.

Frankly, churches desperate to offer space for outside and unrelated groups tend to be the ones in some financial difficulties. Not all, but I've attended meetings that had to move for a church closure more than once.

The hospice group I volunteered for wasn't a Catholic mission of any sort, but they did provide free space with only one stipulation, no condom hand outs on church property. I don't recall any restrictions on brochures containing 'sensitive' information. It was free space, we took the condom restriction in stride, no choice really. We had a support group too. I don't think the local church people there had ANY idea how scary some of the attendees were. Maybe they did, Idunno. I wasn't worried at the time, in hindsight, mebbee I should have been. Scariest one there was my assignment for a while. Worst thing she did as smoke cigarettes in my car, and once, only once, she had me drive her to a scary scary house so she could get heroin. Last thing I ever did for her. She knew she had effed up real bad when she got back in the car. I was reassigned, and I made sure the higher ups in our organization knew why.

We eventually left the Catholic facilities when we received enough grant money to cover rent on an office in a strip mall. And then we passed out condoms.

We never used any Catholic facility as an address for obvious reasons. From day one we had a Post Office box and it worked fine till we moved into the strip mall.

(March 23, 2018 at 11:08 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: Upon the advice of my therapist, I've joined the Hamilton City Chess Club. It meets Friday evenings at Emmanuel United Church. I drew today's game.

So it looks like I'll be going to church every Friday now. I hope this doesn't get me made fun of on AF.

You are not going to burst into flames going. But don't let them sell you any old mythology either. If they leave it at playing chess, that's fine. I used to attend a Unitarian Church as an atheist. They had every major religion, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and a few atheists too. I enjoyed it, but I was still skeptical of their mythology.

My mom was a former Catholic, she didn't go that much, but if she asked me for a ride to Church, I didn't hesitate to drop her off there.

I heard jesus was a shitty chess player.

(March 24, 2018 at 6:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

(March 24, 2018 at 6:18 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Y'know, I've been there. I hate losing a match to a player I perceive as dull-witted or unimaginative. It's like ten times worse than losing to an artful and talented player. That's chess, though. 

And, unfortunately, that's politics.

Losing a chess match does not get the whole fucking world blown up, though.

It would be AWESOME if Christians, Muslims and Jews would settle their differences with chess matches, but that would be a long shot.

The last church I attended was a U/U church. They told me that a lot of their members were atheists. I felt very welcome but the whole spiritualist thing is just not my bag. I hope your chess thingy helps you.