My freshman year was almost 60 pounds ago, and I still am not what you'd call fat- it's that I was rail-thin in ugrad. I have no idea where those pants are right now.
That is kind of my point. Why focus on religion, unless religion was a proven motivation for a crime? We can look up the religious affiliation of every criminal on the planet, and it would all be pretty meaningless unless you segregate the data to provide for religious beliefs as a prime motivation.
No, I need to reiterate that the analogy to Confession is not exercise. It's Prilosec, waist-shaping elastic, buying a bigger belt and holding one's stomach in until the cute woman turns the corner. The bolded just reminded me of some things I've seen come across my FB feed. One was about a woman who wants to lose weight for her HS reunion. She's been married for several years now. I bring that up because I find it amusing (and somewhat pathetic) that someone could slag off exercise and dieting and striving toward health and attractiveness for the one person on Earth who gives them 100% of themselves, but they'll be steady trying to lose pounds to impress that dumb sorority clique t6hey used to run with or hate on.
Somehow your analogy does not work for me.. In theory you repent, do penitence and promise to be good from now on... Yeah, somehow your sins are all washed away, but when you confess, you actually want the pounds to disappear.. Because down deep she still hopes to impress her HS crush and she is really unhappy in her marriage, despite the smiling pictures and status updates? I don't know man, I'll just be happy to see that I have less wrinkles and less white hair than my classmates, so I don't know her motivations..
...and then go right back and do the same shit, knowing the Confession booth is just a hop/skip/jump away. "Yeah, when I fling my contacts across the room, one or the other keeps getting lost. I really need to quit <grabs handful of contact lenses from a wicker basket on the eye doc's desk>... " It makes more sense not to categorize everything that's fun as a sin. We'd sin less that way, if at all. All the same. You can ask forgiveness, but if 1) you're asking it of another human (that's bad enough), and 2) you're not really asking it if you did willingly whatever the "sin" was and you plan to "fall back into the same pattern" again soon. Fewer wrinkles. Less hair. Fewer strands. Her HS crush knows she'll stop trying as soon as she marries him. That's why he's a crush and not her hubby. Seriously, I saw that post on FB and I was like, "You got a man who seems on face to be a decent dude, but you won't shrink that gut for him. You want to wait until your reunion and try to shrink it for a bunch of girls that don't look any better than you do once the clothes come off. Why front?"
Because the hubby is only a trophy to show off in front of the bunch of girls. But that's an old trophy. The weight loss is the new front in the ever-ending competition with the girls.
Catholic Jesus - a loving but stern father who knows you'll screw up from time to time (Confession is there to remind you) but insists that you should do your best to fly straight. Evangelical Jay-sis - a loving and permissive bachelor uncle who'll buy you beer & weed and laughs when you crack up his car for the twelfth time. You just have to make a public display of how much you love him & everything's cool.
Breaking: investigators find #ISIS link to #sanbernardino shooting, wife pledged allegiance to #albaghdadi on FB during attack - sources— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) December 4, 2015 If this is true, I feel bad for Syrian refuges, they will face more obstacles to come to this country. ISIS keeps fvcking them over.
I read on twitter that the landlord has opened up the couple's apartment to reporters and they are rifling thru it like vultures after the hyenas are done. As they say on the social medias, smdh
(bump) Our electric stations are now under attack. Yet to be proven if it's Y'all Qaeda but odds are high. An individual opened fire near a Duke Energy facility at Wateree Hydro Station in Ridgeway, South Carolina, on Wednesday, CBS News has learned. According to multiple sources, the individual pulled up in a truck outside the facility around 5:30 p.m. ET before opening fire, using what appeared to be a long gun, and then speeding away. Several Duke Energy employees witnessed the event. No one was injured. It was not immediately clear how many people were in the truck. A law enforcement official confirmed to CBS News that shots were apparently fired. In a statement to CBS News, Duke Energy said it is working "closely" with the FBI to investigate the issue. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooting-duke-energy-station-south-carolina-wateree-hydro-station/
2nd time in a week domestic terrorists have gone after power stations after those substations in NC were shot up.
This is paraphrasing something I read on Something Awful, and it's cheered me up. On January 6, the scum had weeks to prepare, allies in the Pentagon, and a sitting president in control of the executive branch, including law enforcement, justice and defense. They had their chance, and they blew it. They're not going to replicate Mao. They're not even going to be the Red Brigades. Their ceiling now is the Symbionese Liberation Army. It will suck for any innocent bystanders who these dirtbags happen to injure or kill, but they can always be rehabilitated Ashli Babbitt-style.
I've said this before in the 1/6 thread, but an attack on the seat of power should've been met with overwhelming force. Give the chucklefvcks a 5 minute warning to disperse and then blast & squash them with tanks. Our NG murdered protesting yoots at Kent State for crissakes.
Let's hope none of those ********ers learn how to use the internet for anything beyond getting Q-anon updates on their listservs.
I hope their bomb making expertise matches those of Weather Underground members in Greenwich Village.
And Jackson State. Conservatives have no right to exist in a moral environment. Why can't we make Ashli Babbits of them all?