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article details - title: Convenings, Cohorts + Communities: Notes on so-called "impact" gatherings - author: Renee Lertzman - publication: substack - date: 2024, Sept 24

coffeehouses as place of social gathering

Using Magic: The Gathering boxes for younger children and teenagers might be a more palatable way to introduce the zettelkasten method of note taking to them, particularly when it's a game in which they have a pre-existing interest.

https://www.amazon.com/mtg-deck-box/s?k=mtg+deck+box

First reference I've seen for someone suggesting using half size 3 x 5" index cards so that they could use commercially available Magic: The Gathering (MTG) boxes.

Oxford and possibly other manufacturers already make 1/2 size 3 x 5" index cards.

a couple things:

• as social creatures, human beings rely on establishing relationships with those around us. our existence begins within families, through the union of a mother and a father, and this pattern repeats throughout generations

• these communal relationships form the foundation for unity, creating a shared purpose and principles. any discord within these relationships can result in separation

• death serves as the most explicit form of separation: firstly, physical death separates the body from the spirit, and finally, spiritual death represents the separation of men from god.

• another explicit instance of separation found in the scriptures is the scattering of Israel. our current work involves gathering israel, which requires severing our ties with our brothers and sisters across the globe. this gathering process is vital in building the zion we are commanded to establish before the second coming of christ

[[the church is one body]]

"1 Corinthians 12:12-14 emphasizes the idea that all individuals, regardless of their background or status, are united as one body through the Spirit of Christ. Paul teaches the importance of unity and care for one another within this body to avoid any divisions or schisms. It also emphasizes the interconnectedness of all individuals within the body, such that if one member suffers, all members suffer, and if one member is honored, all members rejoice." - The Doctrine of Belonging - Elder D. Todd Christofferson

some thoughts i have on this:

this commandment is reminiscent of what was instructed to the nephites in moroni 6:4-5. to break it down:

in verse 4, it is indicated that three things kept the nephites on the path of their covenant and enabled them to flourish:

a) they consistently remembered and nourished themselves with the word of god

b) they actively sought opportunities for prayer

c) they highly valued the virtues of christ

these three points encompass the holy habits then listed in verse 5:

a) gathering together frequently

b) fasting

c) praying, and

d) discussing the welfare of each other's souls

the commandment to instruct and edify one another when we gather, in its apparent form, refers to attending and participating in sunday school classes and other church gatherings. but as we prepare for the Lord's second coming, we are called to build zion here on earth first. to truly accomplish that, we should engage in church-like interaction beyond just the first day of the week.

we are meant to create a community of like-minded individuals who come together as one in christ (zion). this entails supporting one another even outside of church, continuing to hold each other's hands after attending the sacrament together

[[holy habits make the covenant path sustainable]]

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1:00 What if you knew what you were put on this planet for?

John 6

"Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king. He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone." John 6:15

That's not what Jesus was here to do yet, so he goes to the mountain. The disciples get into a storm, and see Jesus walking on the water.

It's not enough to just come to the meetings. The most important thing we can do in our lives is to come to know God.

When God shifts you from a limited earthly view point to the eternal view point, you have to go fluid, like the wind, move into that dimension. Childlike wonder. Surrender to what God has already done.

What offends you in the bible, or what God has done with you? It will reveal where God wants to meet you? There's a control issue being challenged and a fear issue being revealed. Emotions are the sweat glands of the soul. You have to process them or they will become BO.

You need to practice Jesus.

Offence leads to disengagement if there is not reconciliation.

Doorways: Offence, Intrigue, Interest, Need.

Prayer:

Father. This is a company of endurers. And we are endurers. And I don't know why you want to help us so much, to realise that is in your living word, experience in the spirit, that life transformation takes place, and the circumstances we go through are actually the back-drop to discover you, and if we find you in the circumstance, the circumstance becomes something we can be grateful for, because it really doesn't matter what we went through as long as we find you. And yet we go through, we collect shame, and reproach, confusion, we have our accuser come in and tell us it's all because You're mad at us, or it's our friends…… and we get disconnected. Would you, Father, in Jesus' name, draw me and draw all of Jubilee, again, to you, Jesus. I'm asking you a fresh awakening by the Holy Spirit to draw us to the one who has the words of eternal life, who is the Christ, the high priest of our confession. I'm asking you to draw me to you. I don't know exactly what you're up to, but I want to be with you. I don't want to draw away from you, I want to draw closer to you, so that I can be with you where you are go through this as you provide for me your resource of self. Even if that frightens me, and it is frightening. Even if it offends me, and it does offend me. I want to be drawn. Draw me closer to you. Never let me go. I lay it all down again, just to hear you say that I'm your friend. In Jesus' name, Amen.

It goes passed a digital gathering. People can "gather" in person or digitally for events. Some people will even login to see what the digital audience is saying even though they are physically at the event.

Title: The Reluctant Memoirist | New Republic

Keywords: south korea, north korea, korean origin, investigative journalism, gathering information, push back, adoptive home, returned home

Summary: After six months, I returned home with 400 pages of notes and began writing.<br>Something caught my eye: Below the title—Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite—were the words, “A Memoir.”<br>I immediately emailed my editor.<br>I later learned that memoirs in general sell better than investigative journalism.<br>I tried to push back.<br>“You only wish,” my agent laughed.<br>As the only journalist to live undercover in North Korea, I had risked imprisonment to tell a story of international importance by the only means possible.<br>The content of my work was what really mattered, I told myself.<br>The evangelical organization wanted to protect its close ties to the North Korean regime and the country’s future leaders.<br>The code of ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists states that reporters should “avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information unless traditional, open methods will not yield information vital to the public.” It is hard to imagine any subject more vital to the public, or more impervious to open methods, than the secretive, nuclear North Korea; its violations against humanity, the United Nations has declared, “reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.” My greatest concern had been for my students, and I had followed well-established journalistic practices to ensure that they would not be harmed.<br>They called me “deeply dishonest” for going undercover.<br>My inbox began to be bombarded with messages from strangers: “Shame on you for putting good people in harm’s way for your gain.” One morning, I woke up to a Twitter message that read, simply: “Go fuck yourself.”<br>The ethics of her choice cast doubt on her reliability (another de facto peril of memoir), and her fear of discovery appears to have colored her impressions and descriptions with paranoia and distrust.”<br>My book was being dismissed for the very element that typically wins acclaim for narrative accounts of investigative journalism.<br>The backlash extended well beyond the media.<br>Why did people with no real experience of North Korea feel such a passionate need to dismiss my firsthand reporting and defend one of the world’s most murderous dictatorships?<br>Orientalism reigns.<br>What struck me was not whether the review was positive, but the selection of the reviewer, a former TV columnist of Korean origin, whose only past book-length nonfiction was on South Korean popular culture.<br>As an Asian female, I find that people rarely assume I’m an investigative journalist; even after I tell them, they often forget.<br>Such gender discrimination can manifest either positively or negatively.<br>“If I had written a highly detailed book about being embedded with a troop,” she said, “the magnitude of the actual legwork would have been recognized.” Yet she also believes that great literary journalism combines the heart and the brain.<br>I would like to report that I took the reaction to my book in stride, that I weathered all the accusations and dismissals with patience, that I understood their causes and effects.<br>In immigrant ghettos, I learned that in my adoptive home, my skin was considered yellow, the color of the forsythia that had bloomed around my childhood home back in South Korea.<br>This is why I risked going into North Korea undercover: because I could not be consoled while the injustice of 25 million voiceless people trapped in a modern-day gulag remains part of our society.<br>Here I am telling my story to you, the reader, essentially to beg for acknowledgment: I am an investigative journalist, please take me seriously.<br>