religious outing

hehe... tomoro i'm off...
so i agreed miss C to go with her for an outing...
well... let's just say that i went in with different expectations from what i got...
the "advertisement" was that this would be a "******* Fellowship" where people of other religions were invited. and also that food? would be provided, and that this would be at an ex-lecturer's house...
so the image in my head was that of some kind of catered food thingy with maybe some religious talk at some point... and then some time to get to meet juniors, ex-lecturers...

well... i won't go into the details, but... i guess i can say the "meeting" was slightly more "religious" than what i expected... hehe, which actually made for a more interesting evening...

but anyways... i observed a few things that struck me about how it feels like to go for another religion's meeting, that i think maybe others may feel if they go for my "religion's" meetings (christian)

1) when you go for "religious" events... don't expect things to be unreligious... in fact, whether christian or otherwise... we try to give invitee's as secular an idea as possible to "draw" people, but most of the time admittedly in christian meetings i've observed that we dish out more religion than was promised...
2) anyone involved in doing anything in the "meeting" is kinda assumed to be a "religious" expert...
3) invitee's try to keep as low a profile as possible... introductions are SCARY... because it IS a strange situation...
4) if you're not of that same religion... or maybe even if you are... or maybe it's just me... i start "comparing" religions...
5) there WILL be jargon or strange ceremonies done that will provoke awkwardness and "don't-know-what-to-do-now" feelings...

but anyway... it made for an interesting and thought provoking evening... not least because i observed that in ******* religion, they have been observing and learning from christian practices alot... church and christians were brought up quite a few times during the talk... in fact, most of the things that were done or discussed were very reminiscent of what we christian's do (but maybe that's just the whole religion thing where all religions run in this "standard format")

which brings me to the thing that struck me the most
6)what makes us different from the rest?