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Category Archive for 'Philosophy & Religion'

Fate and Finis

Good morning
Guess what! I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a very old man. And lately I’ve been feeling my age.
I read that the Czech novelist, Franz Kafka, wrote that the meaning of life is that it ends. Well, as I near that end, I’ve been looking back at the various periods of my [...]

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View of Life After Death

Presented at  HUU Meeting
January 7, 1990
By James J. Geary
Wade asked me to talk, for not more than seven minutes, on my view of life after death. To do it justice I think I would need to go into my whole philosophy of being, and there is not time for that. But I’ll make a stab [...]

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Survival Security

A talk delivered by James J. Geary
before the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist congregation
15 November 1998
Good morning again, survivors! And congratulations!
We are all survivors, are we not?
(Story – not sure what was read)
So he didn’t survive. But we have — at least so far. Survival and security is the topic of this [...]

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Stay With Me Beauty

Talk Delivered by James J. Geary before the Harrisonburg Unitarian
Universalist Church
Sunday, April 1, 2001
Centering time II (spiritual music)
[As I turned on the music, I said "April Fool." It was What a Beautiful World by Louis Armstrong  When it finished, I remarked that it was not April Fool after all; that the quot;Satchmo" really [...]

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Philosophy of a Lifetime

(Prepared for delivery before the Harrisonburg
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
29 March 1992)
By James J. Geary
When Beryl Lawson called me at the end of January and asked if I would put on a program March 22, and I agreed, she then asked me for a title, I was about to leave on an extended trip out-of-state, so off [...]

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A discourse delivered by James J. Geary
before the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist congregation
18 June 1995
Twice before, as some of you recall, I’ve talked to this group about my philosophy. The first talk was more than five years ago, the second some three years ago. Today I will talk about morality.
What? you might ask, is this old [...]

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