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April 19, 2013 – Friday 12:15, The Briar's Restaurant, Briarcliff Manor Rotary ClubTODAY IN HISTORY: 1775: The start of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.MEETING LEADER – President - Kris. ChitturPLEDGE – Sy Yuter PATRIOTIC SONG – Sy Yuter PRAYER - Bishop John HerzogHAPPY THOUGHTS AND BUCKS: Anne Cargill went to the bar mitzvah of Scott Lanoff's son and was impressed with his achievment;Scott Lanoff happy about his son's bar mitzvah; Sy's birthday, he was 39 again; Zen is having a tag sale at his house.ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood drive at Fire House via Rachel. The Bangalore Rotary Club will be at the Mt. Kisco Rotary meeting at the Holiday Inn in Mr. Kisco on June 5, a Wednesday, so there will be no meeting at The Briar's on Friday, June 7. Instead our club will meet at the Holiday Inn on Wednesday noon, June 5.ROTARIANS PRESENT - 18 Rotarians present.GUESTS – Deborah Pangle, Tom Laurenson and Peter Callaghan, a friend of Ernie.SPEAKER AND SUBJECT – Why Nothing is Important – Tom LaurensonSUMMARY OF TALKNothing is really important. The Romans had no concept of zero. The idea of nothing was not known then. Zero was the last number invented but politicians have no concept of zero. The Mayans were the first people to come up with the zero. If the Devil is more important than nothing and God is greater than nothing and the Devil is greater than God, which makes no sense at all. So nothing can make no sense. In our binary system the numbers are represented by ones and zeros and the zeros are nothing, so nothing is important. Space in the Universe is made up mostly of nothing as is the particles of an electron, so nothing is important. There is more of nothing than anything else. When meditating you try to empty your mind, which is at rest. Conciousness does not exist and cannot be touched so it is nothing.Friday -- Nepal Projects by Ms. Khusba AdhikarElinor Yuter, ReporterRachel Leihbacher, Expediter
