I am positively terrified of Waco, although your presence there seems to indicate that there may be some sort of underground vein of rationalism in the area...
Heh, I keep telling the folks here the same thing, that they’re overestimating the latent rationalists in the area. For my part, I’m only even here because I got a good job offer a while back and haven’t done much to find other jobs/cities since.
The primary sources of latent rationalists would be:
The Unitarian Universalist church that I visited last Sunday
White-collar employees at the two aerospace employers (yes, Waco has an aerospace industry), L-3 Communications and SpaceX (yes, SpaceX has operations in Waco)
The Baylor and community college students that aren’t gung-ho churchgoers
Anyway, in the future, maybe the Texas LWers could meet in College Station, which would put the meetup about equidistant from Dallas, Waco, Austin, and Houston. Bonus points for you if you make it to this one, but that is quite a ways to travel.
I don’t think I’ll be making the trek out to those parts of the world anytime soon but College Station may be do-able. It is good to know that the UU has survived in Waco, I generally make it a point to stop by there whenever I’m in town (if only to annoy my extremely southern Baptist family). But anyway, keep fighting the good fight and keep Texan rationalism alive (or at least not picked over by the vultures and other scavengers).
Awesome! Good to see another LW Texan!
Heh, I keep telling the folks here the same thing, that they’re overestimating the latent rationalists in the area. For my part, I’m only even here because I got a good job offer a while back and haven’t done much to find other jobs/cities since.
The primary sources of latent rationalists would be:
The Unitarian Universalist church that I visited last Sunday
White-collar employees at the two aerospace employers (yes, Waco has an aerospace industry), L-3 Communications and SpaceX (yes, SpaceX has operations in Waco)
The Baylor and community college students that aren’t gung-ho churchgoers
Anyway, in the future, maybe the Texas LWers could meet in College Station, which would put the meetup about equidistant from Dallas, Waco, Austin, and Houston. Bonus points for you if you make it to this one, but that is quite a ways to travel.
I don’t think I’ll be making the trek out to those parts of the world anytime soon but College Station may be do-able. It is good to know that the UU has survived in Waco, I generally make it a point to stop by there whenever I’m in town (if only to annoy my extremely southern Baptist family). But anyway, keep fighting the good fight and keep Texan rationalism alive (or at least not picked over by the vultures and other scavengers).