>>Stan Goff is running a Bible Study group:
>>http://www.insurgentamerican.net/2009/01/14/apocalypse-now-small-group-introduction/
>>
>>That's actually kind of cool.
>
>No it's not. It's depressing.
No kidding. The quote below from the site reminds of this that Doug posts now and again--- Only intellectuals love poverty. Poor people love luxury" (from a Brazilian samba)
>This study, during Lent which traditionally
>emphasizes penitence and reflection on mortality
> hopes to develop among its participants a
>shared basis of understanding of the experience
>of our own culture, the experience of the
>culture of the early church, and how this
>emphasis on mortality and penitence came into
>the world as a direct response to conditions of
>actual and intense extremity. This is important
>to us, in particular, because our daily lives in
>our own suburban culture have in so many ways
>been insulated from real austerity and
>extremity. Like Lent, extremity of circumstance often demands renunciations.