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📚 Khobar English Book Club — Meetup #1 Every week at Khobar English Book Club, our members meet to discuss a piece of literature that we are all reading - the description for this week's meet up is below. 📖 Current Read: *Metamorphosis*, Franz Kafka This week, we’ll be discussing Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s haunting and endlessly thought-provoking novella. The story begins with one of the most famous openings in literature: Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to discover that he has transformed into a gigantic insect. What follows is a strange, unsettling, and surprisingly human exploration of identity, family, duty, isolation, and what it means to be valued by those around us. Both darkly humorous and deeply moving, Metamorphosis has captivated readers for over a century and continues to spark debate, interpretation, and reflection. Whether you read it as a psychological study, a social critique, or an existential masterpiece, there will be plenty to discuss. 🗓 Meetup Details **Date**: Saturday, 20 June at 10:30am **Reading Goal**: Before the meetup, please read the novella in full (~70 pages.) **Location**: SA'AH Cafe 🔍 Where to Find the Book The novella is widely available online as a PDF and can also be ordered online in physical format. You may also find copies at Jarir Bookstore. 💬 What to Expect This is not a super structured event, but generally we’ll chat about: • the book — parts of the story/ideas/characters/writing that we found interesting, meaningful, funny, thought-provoking etc. Also, aspects of the book that maybe we didn't like! • books, literature, reading in general. If you feel inclined, you can bring: • specific passages you liked • questions or discussion prompts • suggestions for the next book 🤝 A Quick Note on RSVPs These events are **free and informal**, but **spots are limited**. In the spirit of community and courtesy, if you’ve clicked ‘Going’ but can’t make it anymore, please switch to ‘Not Going’ so someone else can take your spot.

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📚 Khobar English Book Club — Meetup #1 Every week at Khobar English Book Club, our members meet to discuss a piece of literature that we are all reading - the description for this week's meet up is below. 📖 Current Read: *Metamorphosis*, Franz Kafka This week, we’ll be discussing Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s haunting and endlessly thought-provoking novella. The story begins with one of the most famous openings in literature: Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to discover that he has transformed into a gigantic insect. What follows is a strange, unsettling, and surprisingly human exploration of identity, family, duty, isolation, and what it means to be valued by those around us. Both darkly humorous and deeply moving, Metamorphosis has captivated readers for over a century and continues to spark debate, interpretation, and reflection. Whether you read it as a psychological study, a social critique, or an existential masterpiece, there will be plenty to discuss. 🗓 Meetup Details **Date**: Saturday, 20 June at 10:30am **Reading Goal**: Before the meetup, please read the novella in full (~70 pages.) **Location**: SA'AH Cafe 🔍 Where to Find the Book The novella is widely available online as a PDF and can also be ordered online in physical format. You may also find copies at Jarir Bookstore. 💬 What to Expect This is not a super structured event, but generally we’ll chat about: • the book — parts of the story/ideas/characters/writing that we found interesting, meaningful, funny, thought-provoking etc. Also, aspects of the book that maybe we didn't like! • books, literature, reading in general. If you feel inclined, you can bring: • specific passages you liked • questions or discussion prompts • suggestions for the next book 🤝 A Quick Note on RSVPs These events are **free and informal**, but **spots are limited**. In the spirit of community and courtesy, if you’ve clicked ‘Going’ but can’t make it anymore, please switch to ‘Not Going’ so someone else can take your spot.

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We are excited to host Guided Meditations on Sundays at 6 pm in our Ashram/Gallery/Home! !! !! Everyone wants to know what kind of God we worship and what kind of meditation we do. We worship the GOD that LOVES US! We understand that god is an energy and it lives in us as us. Our meditations guide others to actually experience that energy! xoxo We don't just talk about peace, love and affection, we experience it :) Also we are a home not a business, so we enjoy building community one friend at a time. We always build in time for people to mingle & develop friendships! xoxo Much Love, Frank Tennyson Namaste, Frank Tennyson http://photos3.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/a/f/9/9/600_447824953.jpeg

Welcome to Drunken Philosophy, a casual, curious, social discussion club. Come grab a drink and a seat at The Oracle. **Optional topic for this meetup: Where is everybody?** In 1950 the physicist Enrico Fermi was talking about aliens over lunch and asked a question that still has not gone away: if the universe is so vast and so old, and even a fraction of those billions of stars have planets, where is everyone? By the numbers the galaxy should be crowded with civilizations. Instead we look up and hear silence. That gap between "they should be everywhere" and "we see no one" is the Fermi Paradox. One of the most unsettling answers is the idea of a **Great Filter**: somewhere on the road from dead chemistry to a galaxy-spanning civilization, there is at least one step that is almost impossible to get past. Maybe the filter is behind us. Maybe life starting at all, or simple cells becoming complex, or intelligence ever evolving, is the freak accident, and we already cleared the hard part. Or maybe the filter is ahead of us, and advanced civilizations reliably wipe themselves out before they spread. Here is the part that messes with people. If we ever found life somewhere else, even pond scum on Mars, most people would call it the greatest discovery in history. But it might be the worst possible news. It would mean life is common, the early steps are easy, and the hard step is still in front of us. So the eerie silence overhead might actually be the best sign we could ask for. **Questions to wrestle with:** * Is it better to be alone? Would you rather we find alien life and learn we are not special, or find nothing and quietly improve our odds of surviving? * Where do you bet the filter sits, behind us or ahead of us, and why? * If it is ahead of us, what is it? Nuclear war, climate collapse, AI, something we cannot even picture yet? And can we do anything about a filter we cannot see coming? * Two principles pull opposite ways here. The principle of mediocrity (the Copernican principle, Sagan's "no privileged place in the universe") says we are ordinary, so what happened on Earth probably happened everywhere, which makes the silence scream louder. The anthropic principle says of course we find ourselves somewhere life was possible, since we could not observe anything else, so our being here may say almost nothing about how common life is. Which lens do you trust, and does the silence still demand an answer once you account for observer selection? * And if we did confirm life out there and had to accept we are not special, what would that do to belief in a higher power, and would shedding (or keeping) that belief help or hurt our odds of pulling together as one species? * Does any of this change how you live, or how humanity should be spending its time and money right now? As always the prompt is optional. Come for the conversation, stay for the drinks, and bring your own questions.

Rev. Steven Clevenger is an ordained spiritualist minister with over 40 years experience as a Spiritual Healer, Clairvoyant and Spiritual Teacher, educated and trained at the White Lily Chapel. Rev. Siobhan Wolf Shaffer is an ordained spiritualist minister and certified medium and healer with over 20 years experience. She began her development in 1988 in Pennsylvania and continued when she moved to Ohio in 1998 where she studied at Rays of Lights Church with Rev. Steven Clevenger. Our full worship services consist of an inspirational lecture, healing meditation, and messages from the spirit world that serve to demonstrate evidence of eternal life. Please visit our Official Church Website (http://raysoflightchurch.com) for more information.

Sleep in on Sundays. When you've had your fill of pajama-time, roll out and have some tasty brunch with your fellow Humanists!

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