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Robin Edgar
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"Retired" professional photographer and "Cultural Eclipsologist" researching how eclipses, especially total solar eclipses, influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs and iconography. Look for my #Eclipsology hashtag.
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Things said about Unitarians: - just a coffee club - where atheists w kids go - for people who miss singing -mixed-religions neutral zone These are just in my personal experience. I like all of these. How people worship matters not to me, but they better not tell me what to do.

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I used to believe these things about Unitarians. Then when my kids were young and my husband was teaching in Oklahoma and being pressured to join a "church home" we figured the Unitarians were a choice we could stomach. We left because the explicit racism of middle class white people was astounding

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Please tell me more about the astounding explicit racism of middle class white people aka Unitarian Universalists.

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There was also the day the discussion group veered to several men voicing their opinion that "young Black men just want to impregnate females and commit crime" when my husband yelled "fuck you people" and walked out he was chided for being bigoted against people with different views.

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Well that's quite overt racism. Could you tell me which #UnitarianUniversalist#UU#Unitarians#UnitarianUniversalism#UUism#UUA#UUproblems

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Well I did say it was explicit racism. It was the UU church in Lawton, Oklahoma. There were more things said along a similar line and of course, on other days, these same people bemoaned the church having no Black members. In their words "no matter how welcoming we are."

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I just realized I never properly posted about my recent trip to Brú na Bóinne, esp Newgrange & Knowth. Since my notifs are already a wreck, let’s go! This site, at a bend in the Boyne River north of Dublin, was once thought to be the oldest evidence of human astronomical knowledge in Europe. 1/

A green landscape of rolling hills with field/hedge system under a grey & threatening sky. A circular, relatively flat-topped mound is visible in the middle distance.
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Each passage at Knowth has a highly decorated entrance stone & a large standing stone in front of the entrance. The decorated stones have a vertical line on them & the shadow of the standing stones cast a shadow on the line at sunrise (East) & sunset (West) on the dates of the equinoxes. 3/

Entrance & standing stone at entrance of West passage of Knowth mound. The mound is covered in grass, and the region between the standing stone & entrance is mostly covered in large rough quartz stones (white) and fewer grey rounded granite stones of similar size
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Robin Edgar
@robinedgar59.bsky.social
"Retired" professional photographer and "Cultural Eclipsologist" researching how eclipses, especially total solar eclipses, influenced ancient humanity's religious beliefs and iconography. Look for my #Eclipsology hashtag.
52 followers109 following64 posts