{"items": [{"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387507501276502", "anchor": "fb-387507501276502", "service": "fb", "text": "Clearly the sign needs more. The label needs to be what it is. However, there can be something added, like \"Join us every Sunday at 10:00 for our Quaker service.\"
I'm a UU myself, but I like a lot of what the Quakers do. F'instance, there's no preacher (I understand), but each congregant speaks as they are so moved. However, there is a Quaker suggestion to \"Make sure that what you say is an improvement on the silence.\"", "timestamp": "1329314686"}, {"author": "Paul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387532071274045", "anchor": "fb-387532071274045", "service": "fb", "text": "Is the sign on a Red Tent?", "timestamp": "1329316038"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387563057937613", "anchor": "fb-387563057937613", "service": "fb", "text": "Okay, betraying a bit of ignorance, here: what's the reason for the \"monthly\"?", "timestamp": "1329317805"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387585107935408", "anchor": "fb-387585107935408", "service": "fb", "text": "The \"monthly\" describes how often the group has business meetings [1]. A monthly (local) meeting is part of a quarterly (area) meeting, which is part of a yearly (regional) meeting. So my meeting is \"Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting\", which belongs to \"Salem Quarterly Meeting\", which belongs to \"New England Yearly Meeting\". If you want weekly services you go to a monthly meeting; the higher levels are organizational.
[1] sorry, \"meetings for worship with attention to business\"", "timestamp": "1329319456"}, {"author": "Holly", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387589344601651", "anchor": "fb-387589344601651", "service": "fb", "text": "I think putting \"monthly\" on a sign is weird, but \"Friends\" is OK. I agree with Walker about adding the weekly meeting times. I also like using the term \"Religious Society of Friends\" (although I grant that it has overtones of an obscure cult).
Probably in a rural area, the sign isn't going to get many passers-by anyway. The larger problem is in Friends' general reticence to tell people that we exist, why we exist, and why it would be a good idea to check us out.", "timestamp": "1329319845"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387595281267724", "anchor": "fb-387595281267724", "service": "fb", "text": "@Walker, @Holly: the building was labeled with other things too, including that they meet every Sunday at 10am. These were the big words, though.
@Holly: it was in the middle of a town in upstate New York; rural area but still many people passing.", "timestamp": "1329320325"}, {"author": "Paul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387611654599420", "anchor": "fb-387611654599420", "service": "fb", "text": "Jeff: Was it the Farmington Friend Meeting, outside of Rochester? I used to attend years ago.", "timestamp": "1329321513"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387614547932464", "anchor": "fb-387614547932464", "service": "fb", "text": "@Paul: I didn't include their name because I don't want this post to be \"X Meeting Has A Stupid Sign\". If you're curious where in upstate NY I was recently, you could look at: http://www.jefftk.com/past.html", "timestamp": "1329321740"}, {"author": "Paul", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/387499951277257?comment_id=387616217932297", "anchor": "fb-387616217932297", "service": "fb", "text": "Not my old meeting, then.", "timestamp": "1329321886"}, {"author": "John", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/107538053067746902173", "anchor": "gp-1329371550676", "service": "gp", "text": "A group of friends wanted to give there campground a nice Italian name. They looked up \"group of friends\" in an Italian-English dictionary and found \"Quacheri\" so that's what they used. Later they found out that it didn't mean \"group of friends\" but rather \"Society of Friends\": Quakers.", "timestamp": 1329371550}]}