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# 21 / 40 – July 2007

Be Here Now!
 

A
Religion-Outside-The-Box
Event.

You are invited!

  • Who:     You.
  • Where:  Here.
  • When:    Now, right now!
Be right where you are, right now.
  • You don’t need to bring anything.
  • Just be with reality as it is.

With love,


Rabbi Brian


If you care to, click here to see this post on the StreetProphets site, where it went up last week and received some comments.

A web version of this article is available here.

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The 77% Weekly: The Religion-Outside-The-Box Newsletter
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Why 77%? Two reasons: 1) 40/52 = 0.76923 and 2) in school 77% was a passing grade and ROTB wants to remind you that life isn’t graded, it’s pass/fail.


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