I think you’re approaching “ faith” in an amazing way. I commend your efforts and there’s no biblical support for confession etc....all man made up stuff to get people to support institutional religion. I’m Protestant raising a Catholic child ( ex husband was Catholic but still dabbled in extra marital fornication )…

I love the Tridentine Latin mass as well, but I’m a devout Catholic (who is also ultra-progressive and absolutely fucking furious at the Church right now... the cognitive dissonance is real). Whoever is asking you why you didn’t receive is being incredibly rude! Please tell those questioners that your reasons are…

I went to England for the first time a couple of years ago and was STUNNED how clean their trains are, even the transit ones in the cities. As a Bay Area resident, it was almost a foreign (heh) concept to be in a clean public train.

I recently took Amtrak for the first time returning home from central IL to east TX. It’s an 11-12 hour drive, a 4-6 hour flight with a connection (or a considerably larger ask for a friend on the other end to come pick me up in DFW), and a ~17-hour train ride. The train actually takes me right to the small town I…

The train doesn’t get stuck in painful traffic of I-95. Seats are (much) more comfortable than the bus (especially if you’re tall). You can get up and walk around the train. The bathroom is of decent size on the train relative to the bus. The train ride is less herky-jerky, so you could work without getting sick.

When mine were young, we’d always hit up a BBQ joint (food already cooked), a Mexican place (chips & salsa) or a place that put bread or rolls on the table right when seated. We weren’t above feeding them before we went out to eat, either.

Could you please watch your language? I brought my children to this comment section.

Their second point it fair.  Don’t bring your kids to a bar.

So, when you send your texts, do you pull over and send it? I’m going to guess you don’t.

I’ll slow down all day if you tailgate me. Gotta compensate for your dumb ass. Back off or pass!

And your punk-ass ITG would be wrong. If you want to go faster than me, I let you by. I always prefer a rabbit ahead of me to light up police radars and take the ticket.  I’m more than happy to let your dumbass take an economic hit.

Agreed 100%. I never shoot texts while driving, well a part of it is because my Iphone screen is cracked and too lazy to fix it, but man that shit irks me because I enjoy driving and hate being delayed even by 5-10 seconds by some asshole whose paying attention to their phone.  In regards to the speed limit, meh I…

Then, kindly, please, with a cherry on top, get off the road. If you want to “push a button” so you can send a damn text, then you don’t need to be driving a car, because you, as soon as you got in the car, are already programmed to be distracted, and want the ability to NOT be in control of the car when it is…

Dibs on her oars! Oh, wait...

Over the past two years, I’ve seen three close family members die “natural” deaths and the last few days/weeks of pain and semi/unconsciousness were clearly not pleasant for them or the family. Morphine doesn’t help once cancer spreads to the bones and they’re crying out in pain every time you have to turn them. As…

On the rare occasion that I have reason to be in my childhood hometown, I’ll always pull by my house to see what disasters various new owners have inflicted upon it. A dumb new paint color, covering my old sandbox, stupid use of the garden, etc. But eventually I feel better, and smile and drive away. It does my heart…

Definitely don’t leave an expensive sex toy wrapped up in that pile of sheets or you’ll have to talk to management, who will then go into another room and ask the staff if they found said item, in which case you will hear shrieks of laughter and tittering in Spanish, and then the manager will return with the expensive…

Evil makes people ugly, but it keeps them alive.

“Conclusion: Stop harshing my buzz, and ESPECIALLY stop trying to tax it when it does no harm to anyone else. Looking at you, Seattle.”

I can guarantee you there’s loads of examples of people that lived how they wanted, eating whatever they wanted, and dying early. There’s probably also loads of examples of people trying to be healthy who end up living long lives. And there’s probably examples of loads of people trying to be healthy but dying early…