New York Quarterly Meeting

New York Quarterly Meeting minute - Peace with the Earth itself!

Think New York YEARLY Meeting is screwed up? How about New York QUARTERLY Meeting – awash in more money than it knows what to do with. NYQM probably has as much money as Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Inevitably then, NYQM poseurs do a perennial soft shoe around the big pot o’ money that Harry Helmsley set up for them – before they disowned him in the 1970s. (So like Samuel Caldwell said, Quakers can inherit as much money as they want, but they're not allowed to actually make it.)

Of course New York YEARLY Meeting is also one of those constantly circling for a big handout – to continue its unattached, unaccountable existence. See how ludicrous New York Quarterly Meeting has become when it approved a minute brought forward by the East Village Radical – the once flagship group – the 15^th Street Monthly Meeting.

http://nyqm.org/docs/QM-MinutesJuly14-2007.pdf

New York Quarterly Meeting (New York City Friends) has issued another minute recently which says that Friends Seminary, the $30,000 per year, movie-star alma mater posh downtown elitist, formerly Quaker institution, will be divested from Friends’ ownership, as well as detached from its physical foundation and moved directly across town to a submerged footing under the East River.

In other words, it will be built as if it were Atlantis (see above article on IFC) – because no matter how many minutes we approve on Global Warming – and all the hours and hours of meaningless wordsmithing we accomplish in our 6 hour Quarterly Meetings about the need to escape the dangerous Alpha rays – these feel-good-for-the-16-same-old-same-olds-attending, wastes-of-time, won’t change what is going to happen anyway. Most people know that anything under the 4th floor in Manhattan within 50 years will be underwater anyway.

Friends also heard and approved a proposal and plan to utilize the moon’s tides (4+ knots at maximum ebb or flood) to drive reversible underwater turbines for electricity, and for water and air purification. The turbines would also power the pods bringing children, teachers, administrators and Chinese food deliveries to the school – which should enter a very Quietest inward-looking period once submerged.