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To: sten

I can take or leave electronic church bells, but 3 times a day and then for every Sunday mass starting at 7:30 am sounds like a lot. And at a loud volume? Doesn't sound like a good neighbor to me.

Our local Catholic church (the only one with bells) chimes its "bells" at noon and 5. No different on Sunday. Plays seasonal songs.

Funny note: The Catholic college I went to (and work at now) got a bell thingy, (electronic) when I was a student. It "rang" at noon with the bell song whose name eludes me now, followed by 12 'gongs'. Well I had a micro-economics class in the building with this thing, actually located right below it. Class met from 11:30 - 12:20, so three days a week professor had to stop and we all hummed the bell song and gonged along with it. It was impossible to hear yourself think, let alone hear him lecture while it was "chiming". It didn't last past the first semester.


37 posted on 12/01/2006 8:28:36 AM PST by YankeeGirl
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To: YankeeGirl
good neighbor? the church was already there... the neighbors moved in, not the other way around. (guessing here, Reston area is pretty old and had a healthy Christian population prior to '92.. although it has grow a lot since then).

if you move in, you cannot expect those already there to bow to your wishes. if you didn't like it, you should not have bought the house.

43 posted on 12/01/2006 8:32:10 AM PST by sten
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That's a big thing. I do not want to be woken up before 8am unless I am getting up. It's not just the noise factor, it's the time factor. If they were ringing the bells at 11 or 12 only, it would be a different case for me. Forcing all in the neighborhood to get woken up at 7:30 AM is not fair to the neighbors. You have atheists, jews, christian scientists etc who live in that neighborhood and Sunday is not their church day. If somebody started a religion that met at 2am every night Sunday through Thursday that insisted on ringing their gongs at 60 db, would that be ok?


69 posted on 12/01/2006 8:55:11 AM PST by dogbyte12
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