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I'm back.

No, I didn't have a great time. I didn't even have a good time. Although this was partially due to my period arriving and hence making me rather braindead and miserable.

The only fun bit was the go-karting we did on the first day. The Sunday morning event was *cancelled* so people could watch the *football*. That kind of tells you about the rest of it, really. People being distressingly normal and just sitting around talking about boys and clothes, or football, or knitting and sewing, or gossiping about other people, depending on which group I was with. I spent quite a lot of the time playing with the kiddies' bead thingamies, and reading. I read two books, and they weren't small ones either.

I'm... disappointed. Very disappointed.

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Date: 2002-06-06 05:45 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com
Well, it shows that football is more important to us than church attendance, which isn't quite the same thing, though it's presumably highly correlated.

More precisely (and more usefully in this situation), though, it shows that that particular instance of football is more important to us that that particular instance of church attendance. You can imagine that someone could go to the evening service instead of the morning service if England were in the World Cup final on the Sunday morning, which would show that priority([World Cup 2002 final]) > priority([Sunday morning service on day X]) but not that ∀f ∙ f ∈ football: ∀c ∙ c ∈ church attendance: priority(f) > priority(c)

Football is also not one of my temptations.

Re: <hugs>

Date: 2002-06-06 06:23 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] passage.livejournal.com
My word, LJ is breaking that comment impressively ...

Anyway, we'll make a mathmo of you yet Thomas ;-).

We discussed this in Dean's breakfast and concluded that it was no big deal if you'd decided to go to one service on Sunday and hence made it the evening one, but it was a big deal if you'd been plannning to go to both (or there was no evening service), but you'd changed your plans for meeting with God to fit football in.

Neil

Re: <hugs>

Date: 2002-06-06 06:25 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com
Yes. Except that I go to church to meet with other Christians and discuss and learn about what God's doing in the world, not to meet with God. I can do that anywhere (even, I suppose, at a football match).

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