UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND
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Fargo ND – Awetheism Pt. 3: It’s Explosive! – Awe as a Tool
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesIn this explosive service, JD explores how awe can be manipulated for better and worse, in recreation, politics, education, and war. We will probe the boundary between awe and horror, and consider things that snap, crackle, pop, and echo through culverts, saxophones, and history. Note: Starts at 12 PM Eastern Time.
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Fargo ND – Awetheism Pt 2: Awe, Science, and Meaningful Well-Being
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesIn this sequel to Part 1, waterfalls cascade us deeper into the science of awe, including: the wonderful word “eudaemonia”; the gifts of people who are pre-disposed to experience awe; and the relations between awe, wonder, spirituality, and ambiguity. Stream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89205628451Note: Starts at 12 PM Eastern Time.
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Fargo-Morehead UU – Awe 2 (or election-related)
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesVirtual EventIn this sequel to Part 1, waterfalls cascade us deeper into the science of awe, including: the wonderful word “eudaemonia”; the gifts of people who are pre-disposed to experience awe; and the relations between awe, wonder, spirituality, and ambiguity. Note: the title and topic may change if election chaos erupts. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83556015876
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Fargo-Morehead UU – Awetheism Part 1: The Promise and Power of Awe
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesVirtual EventNew research into the experience of awe reveals that awe makes us feel small but deeply connected, and how this in turn makes us better people. With help from some well-timed lightning strikes (and no help from Siri or Alexa), we’ll explore what’s known about awe’s effects on us, and how it can benefit humanity. […]
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Fargo-Morehead UU – One Song–the Science of Unity
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesVirtual EventFor millennia mystics and poets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything from human bodies to […]
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Fargo-Morehead UU – Fiddling While Rome Burns
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesVirtual EventWhen the entire planet is engulfed in flames (climate change, nuclear arms, fascism, extinction, mass migration), isn’t full-time activism the only reasonable activity? Isn’t everything else a kind of indulgence? What if activism just isn’t your thing? What if your talents and passions lie in something like fiddling? JD shares his own wrestlings with this […]
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Fargo-Morehead UU – Active Love, An Antidote to Anthropocene Angst
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesVirtual EventThat humans are having major impacts on the planet is now quite clear, and some of those impacts may be evident millions of years from now. Are we a cancer on the biosphere, a plague? Would it be better if we had remained blissfully in the stone age? Our angst about such matters may be […]
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Fargo – Building a New Way—DIY
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesHybrid EventJD describes lessons learned from his do-it-yourselfer father and grandfathers, and how those lessons might be applied to building a new way for our increasingly precarious global society. What kind of world do we want for our grandchildren, and for their grandchildren? Are we behaving accordingly? Building is not easy or comfortable—are we willing to […]
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Fargo-TBA
UU Church of Fargo-Morehead ND 121 9th Street S, Fargo, ND, United StatesHybrid EventTBA
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