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A first: Hindu prayer to start a City Council meeting
By adamg on Wed, 01/14/2015 - 6:14pm
Singh leads prayer as councilors Linehan and Yancey listen.
City councilors take turns inviting a local clergy member to start regular council sessions with a prayer. Over the years, the council has been led in prayer by priests, ministers, rabbis and imams. Today, Councilor Charles Yancey invited a member of a local Hindu congregation to lead the council - for the the first time that Yancey said he could remember in his 31 years on the council.
Padma Singh began with "Om" and ended with "Om, shanti, shanti, shanti."
Yancey said Singh is working with the city to identify land for what would be Boston's first Hindu temple.
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I can only imagine the comments about this today
On Boston.com or Herald.com
I bet 90% are objecting to having Muslims praying in city hall and calling for Yancey's head.
Do you ever get tired
of your shtick? Do you ever get down off your high horse?
I traded the high horse years ago.
Got myself a ford.
What kind of ford?
A Mustang perhaps?
An automatic transmission Ford
He got tired of his shtick.
Please adjust replicator settings
dumb jokes need no repetition!
(Adam please expunge!)
There will be no comments
Given that neither the Globe nor the Herald covered the meeting (at least not in person; I suppose reporters could have been watching on TV).
Prayer in Hinduism
Prayer in Hinduism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_in_Hinduism
First?
Woundnt be first Hindu temple. Oldest on Comm Ave in Back Bay.
www.pluralism.org/profiles/view/75987
Hare Krishnas, though
As opposed, I guess, to something such as the Sri Lakshmi temple in Ashland.
Great temple.
I've visited with a friend. A very lively temple; people praying at various altars and before different gods. Gave me a sense of a dynamic system of religious belief. Very different from the frozen chosen or the genuflect gyrations of high church Christians or the Calvinistic lecturing damnation of Protestant sermons; or even of the sweetened versions of Jesus loves ya from the Protestants who have rejected the fire and brimstone of style of churching.
If there is a God I can see it as being much more Hindu in its various incarnations. Much more dynamic, varied and far more energetic. That from a person who considers himself a monotheist of Christian tradition (it's a fancy card trick I admit - how to identify as Christian in heritage without the falderal of Trinitarian mechanics).
But religions must have their particulars.
I think the question we all have is
Will somebody request the stenographic transcript of this meeting, so we can all read the prayer?
Somebody?
Is there anyone out there who is interested in the stenographic transcript of Boston City Council meetings?
How to receive today's Stenographic Record by email...
Receive today's Stenographic Record by email by sending "Please send the Stenograph Record of the January 14, 2015 Public Meeting of Boston City Council." at
http://www.cityofboston.gov/contact/?id=138
If posted, other folks can submit feedback, comment, suggestions, questions with the respective City Councilors' remarks!
It's that simple?
Golly!
Stenographic file. January 14, 2015 City Council meeting.
cc01142015.txt formatted stenographic file from the January 14, 2015 City Council meeting
http://anopenbostoncitycouncil.blogspot.com/
M. Feeney is Clerk for Boston City Council...
M. Feeney is Clerk for Boston City Council.
Two different Stenographers compile two different Plain text Stenographic Records. Budgeted for with public funds the City Stenographer sits in the Council Chamber during the Public Meeting. WGBH Media Access Group compiles a Full Text file of Captions
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/
Captions are useful for hard of hearing folks, tinnitis ringing in the ears, deaf, ESL English as a Second Language folks, concussion recovery, stroke recovery folks, folks with cognitive difficulty, dyslexic, ADD attention deficit, elderly, folks in city neighborhoods far afield of City Hall, Hyde Park folks, Mattapan folks, Orient Heights folks, folks with difficulty to tolerate hard aggravating public seats of the Council Chamber sidelined for lack of access to the Stenographic Record, civic participation, the Public Meetings of Boston City Council.
Compare the two different Stenographic Records! Stenographers record in shorthand phonemes, the sounds of the words pronounced. In the old days journalists like Mark Twain learned shorthand.
I'm so glad you asked! It has
I'm so glad you asked! It has really been bothering me!
By Matt Stroud. The dream and the myth of the paperless city
By Matt Stroud
The dream and the myth of the paperless city
In Chicago, one government finds it's not ready for an all-digital future
http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/6/3723712/myth-dream-paperless-city-chicago
For the details about Boston contact Boston City Archives, and check out the Library/Archives at Boston City Council and Government Documents at Boston Public Library!
Honestly, I'm not trying to Butter You Up or anything, but:
Your headline rocks, Sir.
What are the odds
That Linehan called her the n-word?
I don't get it
Which N-word?
Nincompoop
Apparently, Will was at the meeting, too.
Don't worry, Will. Not everyone thinks you are a "n-word" And you can feel free to keep on using that word to describe yourself.
Will sees the world in black and white
Linehan may not be perfect, but, please, he's no Jimmy Kelly.
Great...more religions in the
Great...more religions in the public sphere. As current events have shown us, religion has no place outside someone's head. Sorry - if you need to worship some invisible being(s) to get by, more power to you, but please spare us thinking people.
You're right.
The City Council has no business inviting any religious participation in civic affairs, regardless of the denomination. I feel the same way about the chaplains in the U.S. Congress or any level of government. I don't care how much they water down the prayers, invoking a generic "creator" is just as inappropriate as praying specifically to "God" or "Jesus" or "Krishna" or whoever Scientologists pray to.
Happy New Year, reddit! A
Happy New Year, reddit! A fedora tip to all
I'll volunteer to open a
I'll volunteer to open a council meeting with a ceremonial reading from Gödel, Escher, Bach, or Harry Potter. Or maybe the First Amendment.
Really?
Contact your district councilor and ask to open the meeting then.
de Broglie reading to open the Boston City Council meeting...
See also Slide 24
Gas Statistics and de Broglie‘s Matter
Waves: Roots of Wave Mechanics
Quantum orbits as a resonance phenomenon
http://static.sif.it:8080/SIF/resources/public/files/congr09/mc/renn.pdf
Why?
Keep prayer private.
Waiting for
I'm waiting for when they do a Jedi prayer.
Of course for balance that will have to be followed by a Sith prayer.
Incumbents and known challengers for Boston City Council?
Where do you get the same kind of information about incumbents and known challengers for Boston City Council?... as at
http://cambridgecivic.com/?p=3904