| The Church of What's Happening Now |
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When you think about it, what is the point of a society without some type of religion? The mere
connotation of the label "society" reeks of some type of cult like status. We figure, any good cult revolves
around some weird religion? So, in March of 2007 our new religion was formed.
Like much of what we do around here, the religion was formed as we thought of things to toss in. This
lazy man's concept has worked very well for us due to the fact that no real plan or concepts are unveil
until we think of them. Kind of cuts down on the stress level of having to be vastly creative.
We started simple with just a quote, "...And the Lord said to John, come forth and ye shall receive eternal
life, instead John came in fifth and won a toaster." But we lacked a name so we held a contest and Mark
Shaw of Ocean City, Maryland submitted "The Church of What's Happening Now" and we started to feel
whole. Not like asshole, just whole. For his efforts, Mark was rewarded with recognizing his Ocean City
Marathon as our mecca event. The marathon event is now defunct - ooops, our bad.
Like any good religion we needed a toast. So we started at the beginning and honored King Edward VII
who had the Olympic Marathon distance extended 385 yards forcing the event to finish in front of his
royal box. We decided that after a race or training run, or really any social setting where a toast might be
applied, we could raise our glasses in the following manner: "To Eddie, you stupid bastard. Amen."
Our religion isn't perfect and more than likely not very helpful so we look for guidance and ideas. Do you
have one? Hook us up with an e-mail.
connotation of the label "society" reeks of some type of cult like status. We figure, any good cult revolves
around some weird religion? So, in March of 2007 our new religion was formed.
Like much of what we do around here, the religion was formed as we thought of things to toss in. This
lazy man's concept has worked very well for us due to the fact that no real plan or concepts are unveil
until we think of them. Kind of cuts down on the stress level of having to be vastly creative.
We started simple with just a quote, "...And the Lord said to John, come forth and ye shall receive eternal
life, instead John came in fifth and won a toaster." But we lacked a name so we held a contest and Mark
Shaw of Ocean City, Maryland submitted "The Church of What's Happening Now" and we started to feel
whole. Not like asshole, just whole. For his efforts, Mark was rewarded with recognizing his Ocean City
Marathon as our mecca event. The marathon event is now defunct - ooops, our bad.
Like any good religion we needed a toast. So we started at the beginning and honored King Edward VII
who had the Olympic Marathon distance extended 385 yards forcing the event to finish in front of his
royal box. We decided that after a race or training run, or really any social setting where a toast might be
applied, we could raise our glasses in the following manner: "To Eddie, you stupid bastard. Amen."
Our religion isn't perfect and more than likely not very helpful so we look for guidance and ideas. Do you
have one? Hook us up with an e-mail.