Misc.

Pope Francis is unclear, ambiguous, and why won't he answer the Dubia! His imprecise vague wording diabolically leaves room for wild interpretations and, and, and--

Inadmissible.

Oh, he's going too far!

LOL.

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I'm pretty sure at this point that having an opinion is basically egotism and vanity. But seeking the truth costs you yourself. So if you're sick of yourself - hey, there it is. Just saying.

As Mike Haduck is so often fond of saying, "Those guys in the old days, they didn't use no footers, they didn't use no flashing, they didn't use no rebar, and those castles and churches, they're still standing." So true.

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Red-purple figs and lizard green figs. The bees fall asleep on the sunflowers when the sun starts going down.

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My brother-in-law leant me Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life and I stopped halfway through rule 2 and started reading The Lord of the Rings (for the eighth or ninth time) and never looked back.

I don't need Peterson's 12 rules, and The Lord of the Rings is the greatest novel of all time.

Truth be told, this latest reading was the best, the most enthralling, the most...oh Lord, so many aspects came jumping out, characters came alive in a new way; the hard-bitten here-and-now infringing of the deep past into the present; the naked, raw power of that moment on Mount Doom, and all of it, it was just shattering.

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Peterson will end up becoming Prime Minister.

Trump will not get impeached.

Trump will get elected for a second term come twenty.

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So how exactly do you justify a "Free Market Capitalism" in which "laissez faire" has become the blessing bestowed on a raging porn industry, among a host of other destroyers of the common good?