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Faith Fueled through Forgetting and Waffles

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Love your waitress because happiness is in forgiving and forgetting —She'll forget. So, be prepared to forgive— May it be that forgetfulness is the secret of the stars? If it is, and you find that secret to life and existence in a waffle house book, you are most definitely not the kind of person who will remember that said secret, then furthermore, apply it, and even if you happen to break free of that stereotype, then would you not be simply, in-turn, violating the greatest secret of the stars themselves anyhow? Since we have discovered that the religious man benefits more from his sacrifices by maintaining a positively active and healthy state of mind, let us assume that our God, which we endeavor to be alike to,—indeed are even said to be made in the image of—also would benefit from a positive outlook on any negative situation he found himself in as well. Could our once and forever solitary—existing only in the void—God, momentarily aware of his exquisite loneliness in a stat...

The Only Thing I Like About Living

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     As Jim Gaffigan said on his comedy tour, and it applies to everything in adult life, " It's funny how our out look on alcohol changes during our lifetime. It starts out as something we know is wrong. As teenagers we say, 'I don't really like the taste of it, but it's kinda cool,' then it turns into something we think gives us confidence to fit in with the opposite sex during our early twenties, and by the time we reach our forties we're like, "Ya know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive ."      He roused a laugh at that statement, but only because it's true.      It's funny to think back to when we were kids and how wonderful it was to be unaccountable for our sins. I would argue that the reason alcohol, smoking, prescriptions, and illegal drugs are America's favorite past-times, has a lot to do with our desire to recapture that feeling all over again. That sense of unaccountability. Back then we were just kid...