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A Good Friday / Easter diversity challenge to my friends from other meta-physical (or materialist) tribes

Posted by bryanzug - 2009/04/10

Roo & Tug –

It is Good Friday / Easter weekend here in Seattle and I wanted to invite some of our neighbors to church. Not to be converted to Christianity, but to gain a deeper understanding of the the big “S” story arc that informs who we are as a people.

This seemed like as good a place as any to post it.

Much love –

Daddio

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A Good Friday / Easter diversity challenge to my friends from other meta-physical (or materialist) tribes

Amigos and Amigas –

It’s a very humbling experience when someone graciously lets me know that I don’t know what the fuck I am talking about. There is a kind of love wrapped up in that sort of exchange that runs deeper than most of the surface levels we usually connect on.

One context where that has happened to me in the past is when I’ve made drive by comments about tribes and sub-cultures that I really have never spent any substantial time interacting with or trying to understand.

Gay tribes. Muslim tribes. Online community tribes. Blue tribes. Red tribes.

You get the idea.

I’ve learned a ton and become a much more generous person by meeting and getting to know real people (with real names!) from tribes very different than my own.

And since it is Good Friday / Easter weekend, I thought I’d issue a little challenge of my own.

If you are not a Christian, go to church for a Good Friday service and an Easter service.

Most Christians agree that Easter cannot be understood if it is divorced from the horror of Good Friday. And if you have no appreciation for the horror of Good Friday, and that Christians believe that we are personally responsible for that horror, well, as they say, you don’t understand much.

So please come. Seriously. 4 hours over 1 weekend doesn’t seem like a lot to ask to me.

The Zug’s will be at our church in downtown Seattle on Friday at 7 and on Sunday at 9. Look for the geek film crew with the tripod in the front and come say hello.

Much love to you all –

Bryan

My top movies of all time

Posted by bryanzug - 2009/01/31

Roo & Tug –

Was thinking this AM that I have not written a list of my favorite movies of all time. So I thought I’d jot it down.

You can tell a lot about a person by their lists.

Much love –

Daddio

(This’ll change over time, but I think I’ll always make this the reference location.)

My top movies of all time (2009-01-31)

1. Primer
   • Great summary of why Primer has become a cult classic.
   • An interview with writer director Shane Carruth where he discusses the questions that drove him in the writing of the film.
2. A Simple Plan
3. Magnolia
4. 25th Hour
5. Pi
6. Children of Men
7. Mean Creek
8. Thank You for Smoking
9. Frailty
10. In America
11. Holes
12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
13. Fight Club
14. The Tao of Steve
15. Dexter
16. As Good As It Gets
17. Shotgun Stories
18. Do the Right Thing
19. Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
20. The Wire – Season 4
21. Finding Nemo
22. Return of the King
23. The Lion King
24. The Sopranos
25. Adaptation
26. Sideways
27. Monster’s Ball
28. Little Miss Sunshine
29. 12 Monkeys
30. Me and You and Everyone We Know
31. Mad Men

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