Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Two dinner meetings

The morning got started with a trip to the TCC Fitness Center where I walked three miles. I did a few reps on the abs machine, also. I came home and mowed the front yard, took a shower, and then it was on to the White River Fish Market. On the way we stopped at Barbara's apartment and gave her a ride to White River.

The traffic on North Sheridan was down to one lane in places due to road construction. We went back another way. There were four of us there: Barbara, Larry, J and myself. The placed was packed. You would have thought they were giving away fish dinners. I had a bowl of red beans and rice. J had the same, except she had a cup inside of a bowl. The man in front of me in line ordered over a hundred dollars in food. He had included lobster tails in his order.

Afterwards, we came home, and I took a nap. At 7 pm we arrived at The Brook in Brookside for the June Mid-Month Social of Tulsa Atheists Meetup. The Brook used to be a movie theater. There were 15 people there for this social gathering. There are always new people to be met at these gatherings. Tonight the guy sitting on my left was a former Christian who had worked at Christian radio station KXOJ. I asked him what caused the change in his life. He said he kept asking questions which others could not satisfactorily answer. The coup de grace was reading the Bible -- not just the cherry-picked verses you hear over and over, but all of it, even the gory parts of the Old Testament. That led to his de-conversion.

Bill talked about his recent experience at the annual convention of the American Humanist Association. He met some interesting people at the convention, one of whom said he would be willing to pay the costs for having a billboard erected in Tulsa with a FFRF message on it.

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