I still wake up everyday and I'm just like "Damn, Donald Trump is out there doing President **** right now". It's inspiring and depressing at the same time.
Liberal Religion is Getting a "Trump Bump"
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green
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How do you like Corvallis? We've almost moved there a bunch of times. We will decide exactly where this weekend. We are looking at Brookings and Astoria. Coastal towns. Time to live the coast life for a couple years.
The music is certainly all over the place compared to the LDS church experience. African American Slave spirituals are pretty common. After a sermon that included a pretty significant lesson the history of 16th Century europe (you probably had to be there) they used a song that was largely Hungarian. They are definitely going for variety.
I would sincerely recommend it. I was very reluctant. My wife had to go a couple times without me and sort of give me the recaps afterwards. I eventually decided that it sounded like a jerk-free zone. Certainly it is the parking lot most full of electric vehicles that I've ever seen in Arizona.
I think about this every day. I remember living in Brigham City, Utah and legitimately knowing all the neighbors and some basic facts about their lives. A big portion of that was because everyone had kids, they all went to the same public school, and they all went to the same church. That's probably not realistic outside of really small and insular communities like that one. But it does make me realize that we've essentially opted out of most of the social structures that make us understand that everyone around us isn't a monster.
This was the first year that I have been a homeowner and my favorite day for it was Halloween because it was socially acceptable for all the neighbors to just walk up and talk to us. A sudden shift like that makes you realize how rarely we all talk to each other even in a nice neighborhood with no crime issues to speak of. Sad!
Because I'm old and that would mostly be embarrassing. Calling the UU a church really only makes sense because of the structure of meeting for an hour on a Sunday with some optional stuff after (a huge proportion of people in their 40s went to a bar afterwards last week). It's really good citizen club for a bunch of people who want to have excuses to talk to each other.
MVP
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How old are you?
We have tons of senior leagues and clubs. I play in +45 mens soccer league and +35 basketball league. Some people get together for hiking, snowshoeing, card games, darts, bowling, billiard, etc. There is plenty of fun activities for middle age and older folks.
Paging colton 
Bowling is good. It's so uncool, it's almost cool
back to the church, if you ever have kids, the Unitarians typically have a great Sunday school program that gently teaches a lot of philosophical stuff and encourages kids to think through the "big questions"
DutchJazzer
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Just got an email from my local UU church about "T-Shirt Sunday" inviting attendees to wear a T-shirt that expresses part of your personal identity that others may not know about you. They will be exploring diversity and the multiplicity/complexity of personal identities. Now that's my idea of church!