Not Quite a motss.con xi (via Zoom)

On Saturday, December 24, 2022, the soc.motss.con bunch had another Zoom call.

We had 17 people over the course of the not quite two hours or so I was there. I had fun catching up, and it seemed like others did too. Discussion topics (as I wrote them down, but not necessarily in chronological order) included: Getting Zoom working Religious beliefs, people's image of God or gods, Christianity Vatican II and de-saitifying St. Christopher Supernatural woo, Buddhism, and other religious history Philosophy and the belief in the transcendental (whether personified or not) Community and the Church's role in creating it Religion in history and on television Predestination versus free will Language Meditation, hypnosis, dissociation, stress, and anxiety Weighted blankets and recalls Narcolepsy, comas, auras, migraines, and other medical fun and excitement Food and meetings COVID and quarrantine Horses, boats, and shopping Understanding of literature when climate change affects things Shopping for a loaf of bread, gallon of milk, and cigarettes Stigma and changes over time FBI records and tracking People's interactions with the government Spying (domestically and not) Disappearing in foreign countries Ballet and the arts