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To preface, I know firsthand how easy it is to grow disillusioned with spirituality. Keeping my audience in mind, you needn't fear I'm about to launch into some self-righteous diatribe full of scriptural references and assorted God talk. That would be quickest way for me to make many people on this site deeply uncomfortable and in doing so, almost certainly encourage several caustic remarks from...
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Quote of the Day:

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to".- Dorothy Parker

In unrelated news:

Transcribed directly from the invitation:

10 Year Class Reunion- Class of 1999
Theme: "Let's Party Like It's 1999!"

Saturday, August 8, 2009
7:00-11:00 pm

$75 per person. (Children not recommended) Date or guests invited for the additional...
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Dear Six-Word Memoirist,

You're getting this email because we're working on our next book of Six-Word Memoirs, and we like [at least one of] yours a lot.

Thanks for sharing your stories!
-Rachel Fershleiser
(six-word memoir co-editor)
www.SMITHmag.net

________________

Yahooooo! *does happy dance*

As I may have alluded to in previous blog posts, I've just returned from five months spent in DC. Reconciling my life there with my life back here has been difficult. A very blue, affluent, educated, youthful city is absolutely nothing like returning to red state America. Up there, I wore my self-assigned uniform of black wool pea coat willingly, eager to assimilate for the...
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We said it too soon, or at least I did. The irony being that only a couple days before, I referred to her as "my love" in casual conversation. I was attempting to find another term of endearment to punctuate romantic encounters, lest all the time-honored ones I'd been using grow stale with overuse. She grimaced and pushed back from me.

Let's not use that...
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Sorry for the low resolution. I wish I could claim I did it on purpose for some aesthetic reason. At least the audio quality is decent.

Generational differences astound me. I never thought I'd observe it here, but the shift from those of us angsty, depressive, fatalistic Gen Xers have given way to the new optimism and innocent joy of the Gen Ys. When I was last on this site, four years ago, an attitude of extreme pessimism and morbid interest in self-destructive tendencies reigned supreme, and in my absence, I...
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Have you ever noticed that atheists can be extremely dogmatic in their rhetoric and exceptionally complicated in their own anti-theology theology? File under irony.

So many of them I've known are still processing negative Christian/religious experiences and in full out angry vent mode. I used to be inclined in that sort of direction myself, but I've found with good health and stable company I have...
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It's hard for me to be profound until I've had at least two cups of coffee, so I will spare the four of you who actually read this an attempt at being meaningful.

Returning home from an extended trip somewhere else is often a jarring thing. For example, every time I go back to my parent's house for Christmas I revert back to being the...
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I reactivated this account with no small trepidation. Perhaps you have read through journals written when you were in a different phase of life and felt embarrassed at what you discovered. If I wasn't so horrified at the blatant honesty and self-important banter that characterized my blog posts back then, I'd wish to keep them there as a testament to how I was then and...
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