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Mon Oct 25, 2021, 01:07 PM Oct 2021

Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons Episode 2: Religion... TO THE EXTREME!!!

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Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons Episode 2: Religion… TO THE EXTREME!!!

Hi folks, OK we are not good. We had this taped and ready to go, yet forgot to air it. So here it is a day late and yes, a dollar short! I guess that's what happens when you try to get a new series off the ground. But that said, the people responsible for this have been sacked. And the people responsible for sacking the people who need to be sacked, have been sacked.

Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! I hope y’all are doing well and I hope that you have a copy of our Good Book opened because we are going to explore followers of the good LAWRD JAYSUS and how far their beliefs can take them this week. This is episode 2 of Holy Shit: The Sunday Sermons! I hope you enjoyed last week’s feature as much as we did. We hit a bit of a snag though as the Top 10 was canceled this week but that won’t stop us from airing episode 2. This week’s theme for this episode is called “Religion… TO THE EXTREME!!!” and we are going to explore just how far religious beliefs can go. The first we are going to examine how far religion can go in a group context with the Pray Vote Stand festival. And believe me they say some crazy shit there! And yes, we are allowed to swear in my church! So go ahead, let it fly my fair brothers and sisters! Then we are going to explore how far one man can take his beliefs in the form of North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. Because this guy says a lot of batshit crazy stuff and we wonder where it is all coming from? And also if he believes it or not? And of course finally we will answer your prayers from the Holy Shit Hotline To Heaven! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!

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My fair congregation! We of course love to check in from time to time what our brothers and sisters on the right are up to. And last weekend was no exception. For it was one of their annual festivals. Last week was one such gathering called the “Pray Vote Stand Festival” which was formerly known as the Values Voters Summit. And we went to Pray Vote Stand Festival to bring you some of the juiciest highlights, because that’s what we get to do now that we have our very own spinoff show! So what did we find at the Pray Vote Stand Festival? Well it’s basically the same crap with a new hat. And in fact it really shows just how far right wing religion can and has been circling the drain. Because what these people want is certainly *NOT* what the good LAWRD JAYSUS would have had in mind now is it? Well now let’s start with what’s behind door number one shall we?

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann was among those who spoke during the first session of the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand” conference Wednesday night. Following her remarks, Bachmann was interviewed backstage on Facebook Live by FRC’s Marjorie Jackson, who asked Bachmann what sort of battles she foresees for the nation in the years ahead.

Bachmann, who is currently dean of the school of government at Pat Robertson’s Regent University, responded by declaring that the United States’ government has been overthrown in a fascist coup, claiming that we are now living in the “absolute worst times” in this nation’s history.

“It’s tough to get much more draconian than we are right now,” Bachmann said. “Quite literally, the government has turned to fascism. That’s what we’re in. I believe we’re in a coup right now—which is an illegal hostile takeover of government—and I believe that that’s what we’re in the middle of.”

“When you have government forcing private businesses to fire people because the people aren’t complying with what government says, then you’re denying people the right to earn a living,” she continued. “In the book of Ecclesiastes, it says when you deny someone the right to their living, it’s the same as murder, and so our government is engaging in probably some of the most horrific actions we have ever seen. If you take all the bad actions of government throughout the entire history of the United States and you put them all together, they pale in comparison to what we’re seeing now. This is a very unique time, so people shouldn’t think they’re crazy when they’re looking at current events and wondering what’s going on. This really is the absolute worst times.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/michele-bachmann-says-we-are-living-in-the-absolute-worst-times-in-american-history/




I’m not sure you have that interpreted correctly there. So what is so bad about having to get a shot in the arm so you don’t die of a deadly virus? Just the sheer insanity of these lunatics knows no boundaries, and neither does their hatred of the government. But really if it’s that hard to get a simple little vaccine then I don’t really have a lot of sympathy for your complaints! Now let’s see what’s behind door number 2, shall we?

Organizers of the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand” conference for religious-right activists invited Kenneth Blackwell, who actively promoted former President Donald Trump’s false stolen-election claims after the 2020 election, to discuss “election reform.” Blackwell praised states that have passed restrictive voting laws this year while condemning federal voting rights legislation pending in Congress.

FRC Action Vice President Brent Keilen interviewed Blackwell on stage, framing the topic of conversation as “election integrity,” the right-wing buzzword favored by so-called Stop the Steal activists and Republican legislators who use false claims of voter fraud to justify passing more restrictive voting laws. Blackwell urged activists to demand that every state impose photo ID requirements for voters, and he called for dramatic restrictions on early voting.

After the 2020 election, Blackwell aggressively promoted Trump’s false claims that he won the election. Blackwell signed a Dec. 10 open letter from right-wing leaders that declared, “There is no doubt President Donald J. Trump is the lawful winner of the presidential election. Joe Biden is not president elect.” The letter called on legislatures in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan to override the election results and appoint pro-Trump electors.

Blackwell signed another open letter at the end of December, urging Senate Republicans to contest the electoral votes from five battleground states won by Biden. FRC President Tony Perkins also signed both letters.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stop-the-steal-activist-ken-blackwell-backs-state-voter-suppression-slams-federal-voting-rights-legislation-at-religious-right-activist-conference/




Of course they are, Reverend! That’s what this entire festival is for! But imagine what it takes to not only stand up at a podium and say something this batshit insane, but to also believe it! I mean I really wonder how these people sleep at night, like if they think what they are doing really suits the LAWRD JAYSUS? I mean they support a man so foul that his name dare not be spoken in my church! But next up – did you know that Marxism is apparently the mark of the beast? Well neither did we!

E.W. Jackson, a right-wing pastor who was the Republican Party’s nominee for Virginia lieutenant governor in 2013, told religious-right activists at the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand” conference Thursday that Marxism, socialism, “transgenderism,” homosexuality, and abortion are works of the devil, and that “God wants to intervene in the rotten here and now and bring us out of this mess that we are in.”

Jackson, whose radio show is broadcast on the American Family Association’s radio network, told attendees that “the problem that we have in America is ultimately not political and ultimately not cultural. It is spiritual.”

The United States, he said, is a “providential” nation and “a gift from Almighty God”:

Patriotism comes from the word “pater,” meaning love of or honor of the father. And it’s not just about our Founding Fathers; it’s about the Father God who gave us this nation. And if you really believe that this nation is the gift that God gave to you, to your children, and to your grandchildren, then you ought to be willing to say, “I’m not going to let some bunch of Marxists and socialists and communists take this nation away and rob my posterity of the great gift that God has given us.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/e-w-jackson-tells-religious-right-activists-they-will-defeat-marxism-homosexuality-and-other-works-of-the-devil/




That is a good question because I don’t know either! And what makes these people think they are fighting for good when really what they stand for is everything that the good LAWRD JAYSUS doesn’t stand for? Jesus stood to love your fellow man, not think that everything contains the mark of the beast, now does he? And the only thing on earth that I can think of that accurately contains the mark of the beast is the Iron Maiden album The Number Of The Beast. But that’s about it! Last but not least we have George Barna who says that Christians must indoctrinate other people’s children into a Biblical world view, because that sort of thing always works out well doesn’t it?

While right-wing groups are mobilizing angry mobs to yell at school board members that parents have the right to control what their children are taught, evangelical pollster George Barna told religious-right activists at the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand” summit Thursday that it is their duty to try to indoctrinate other people’s children into a “biblical worldview.”

Barna, one of the first senior fellows at FRC’s recently established Center for Biblical Worldview, specializes in studying what he calls “SAGE Cons”—Spiritually Active Governance Engaged Conservative Christians. What is most striking about FRC and Barna’s “worldview” project is how few people—and how few conservative evangelicals—measure up to their right-wing “biblical worldview” standard.

When the Center for Biblical Worldview launched in May, FRC President Tony Perkins said that a biblical worldview “is only achieved when a person believes that the Bible is true, authoritative, and then taught how it is applicable to every area of life, which enables them to live out those beliefs.”

Barna told “Pray Vote Stand” attendees that only 6 percent of American adults measure up to that standard of a biblical worldview—and only one out of five people who attend an evangelical church.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-christians-must-indoctrinate-other-peoples-children-into-a-biblical-worldview-says-frcs-george-barna/






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My fair congregation! In the world of extreme religion, one can never be too extreme. And if you want a preview of what America would look like under a religious fascist totalitarian regime, look no further than the great state of North Carolina. There, there is a man who has got a lot of very unwanted attention because of his Christian extremism. And before we go any further, I just want to preface – look, we make fun of Christianity a lot on this program. But we make fun of all religions on this program, and if it feels like we single out Christianity, it’s because Christian nationalists deserve every bit of shit that we throw at them. And don’t think you will get off lightly, Madison Cawthorn, you’re next! Anyway now that I got that off my chest, I want to introduce you to Mark Robinson. So what kind of man is Mark Robinson? Now well I will let you know what kind of man he is with just one story. For he is a bigot of the highest caliber. That’s not what the good LAWRD JAYSUS would want now, is it?

North Carolina’s Christian nationalist Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is under fire after Right Wing Watch posted a clip of him speaking Asbury Baptist Church in Seagrove, North Carolina, ranting that Christians must take control of public schools because children are being abused by being taught “filth.”

“There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,” Robinson said during his remarks in June.

In August, Robinson spoke at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina, a church that is run by Bishop Patrick Wooden, a vehemently anti-gay right-wing pastor who once claimed that gay men have to wear diapers because they routinely insert cellphones, baseball bats, and animals into their anuses.

Not surprisingly, Robinson felt so at home in Wooden’s church that he spent nearly five minutes ranting that the transgender rights movement is “demonic” and “full of the Antichrist spirit.”

“Here’s something else I’m not supposed to say: Ain’t but two genders,” Robinson declared. “You can go to the doctor and get cut up, you can go down to the dress shop and get made up, you can go down there and get drugged up, but at the end of the day, you are just a drugged-up, dressed-up, made-up, cut-up man or woman. You ain’t changed what God put in you, that DNA. You can’t transcend God’s creation; I don’t care how hard you try. The transgender movement in this country—if there’s a movement in this country that is demonic and that is full of the spirit of Antichrist, it is the transgender movement.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/nc-lt-gov-mark-robinson-says-transgender-rights-movement-is-demonic-and-full-of-the-antichrist-spirit/




Now that devil is the one standing at the podium in this case! Now you’d think this was an isolated incident, now wouldn’t you? But no! In fact it’s part of a pattern of bigotry and in fact. Mr. Robinson is part of a growing movement of Christian nationalists, like Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin, who don’t worry, we will get to next week! And what is the right wing obsession with drag queens? They are obsessed with this stuff. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a few mini skirts in their closet. But this is what happens when you put Christian nationalism on full display!

North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was among members of Congress, state legislators, various candidates for office, and radical religious-right activists who gathered at Temple Baptist Church in Mount Airy, North Carolina, last weekend for the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Salt & Light Conference.”

Robinson, who closed out the event on Saturday, is a regular participant in “pastor gatherings” organized by the American Renewal Project, an organization run by Christian nationalist political operative David Lane. As Lane recently explained, “the aim and purpose” of such gatherings is “to recruit pastors and spiritual leaders to run for local office—city council, school board, county commissioner, parks and recreation, etc.—in 2022, 2024, 2026 and thereafter, in an attempt to neutralize and overcome the assault by cultural Marxism.”

Based on the speech Robinson delivered at the Salt & Light Conference, it is easy to see why he has been a featured speaker at so many of Lane’s events. The ardent strain of Christian nationalism that fueled his remarks would have been extreme coming from a radical right-wing pastor; it was even more alarming coming from a high-ranking elected official.

Robinson opened his remarks by declaring that the United States has been, is, and always will be a “Christian nation” and that anyone who doesn’t like it is free to leave:
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/north-carolinas-republican-lt-gov-mark-robinson-puts-his-christian-nationalism-on-full-display/




Oh but in Mark Robinson’s church there is! And by the way you know what’s not mentioned in the Bible? Guns! But that’s not in the twisted worldview of Mark Robinson and people who think like him and vote for him. I will never understand the gun cabal because they are not what the good LAWRD JAYSUS would have wanted now is it? But in the eyes of people like him, they somehow equate the 2nd Amendment with JAYSUS worship. That to me is quite literally insane!

Last week, we published a piece about a speech delivered by North Carolina’s Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson at a right-wing Christian conference in which Robinson was unabashed in promoting his radical Christian nationalist worldview. The shocking nature of Robinson’s remarks prompted us to start looking at other speeches Robinson has delivered, many of which, we discovered, were equally extreme.

In June, Robinson spoke at Asbury Baptist Church in Seagrove, North Carolina, where he ranted that Christians must take control of public schools because children are being abused by being taught “filth.”

During that same speech, Robinson also claimed that guns are a gift from God given to humans so they can protect themselves, just as garden slugs produce certain enzymes that prevent them from being eaten by predators.

“To every animal, God has given the ability to defend yourself,” Robinson said. “God didn’t even leave the garden slug out. Garden slugs have little enzymes in it that make it unappealing for folks to eat. Certainly we wouldn’t want to eat them. But even some animals look at garden slugs and find them unappealing because there’s an enzyme in them that gives off something that drives creatures away. And there’s even an inside enzyme in some of them that if creatures eat them, they automatically spit them out.”

“God gave the garden slug a way to defend itself,” he continued. “Now, if God gave the garden slug a way to defend themselves, what makes you think he didn’t give man, who he created in his own image, a way to defend himself? Those AR-15s and Glock 9mms and .45 calibers; where do you think they came from? Who do you think inspired them? God knew the world he was putting us into, so he formed in our mind the ability for us to be able to defend ourselves from anybody who may threaten us.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/north-carolina-lt-gov-mark-robinson-says-guns-are-a-gift-from-god/




Come on, Brother Mark. I have read the Bible, I don’t remember guns mentioned anywhere. And what are you defending yourself from? You live in the suburbs, you’re not defending anyone from anything and you know it! And by the way in case you’re wondering whether or not anyone actually votes for an extremist like this, you might want to consider your local pastor. There’s a reason why he purposefully checked that box for the unholy Dark One! And no, Reverend, the only one here who’s lost their minds is you, and you might want to look in the mirror!

Bishop Patrick Wooden of North Carolina is a viciously anti-LGBTQ right-wing pastor who has claimed, among other things, that gay men have to wear diapers because they routinely insert cellphones, baseball bats, and animals into their anuses.

Naturally, Wooden is close allies with North Carolina’s Christian nationalist Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is likewise vehemently opposed to efforts to promote LGBTQ rights and equality. With Robinson under fire over a clip Right Wing Watch posted of him ranting that Christians must take control of public schools because “there’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth,” Wooden is predictably coming to Robinson’s defense.

On Thursday, Wooden posted a video on his YouTube channel in which he praised Robinson’s comments, asserted that those who have criticized Robinson are racist, dismissed local LGBTQ leaders as “losers,” and reported that Robinson’s right-wing supporters had gathered with him Wednesday to hold “a big prayer meeting” amid the controversy.

“Many in North Carolina have lost their minds,” Wooden said. “We have a tremendous lieutenant governor—Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a history-making lieutenant governor, the only African American lieutenant governor in the history of this here great state—and the man is doing a fantastic job.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/i-thank-god-for-him-right-wing-pastor-patrick-wooden-defends-nc-lt-gov-mark-robinsons-bigoted-comments/





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Welcome back to the Holy Shit Hotline To Heaven! This of course is the free form discussion room where we get to discuss anything as long as it’s related to religion. And I must preface that it can be anything you want to talk about – something in the news, something a right wing politician said or did, or anything else you can dream of! No subject is too taboo or off the table for us. Except of course for the unholy, ungodly Dark One – you know him. The man who is so disgusting, depraved, vile, and evil that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! That said let’s check the voice mails and Tweets left on our Hotline To Heaven! That’s right, we’re a bit more high tech than your standard church is!

Mike S. from Jackson Hole, Wyoming writes:

“Heavenly Father,

Why has there been an increase in anti-Semitism lately? Didn’t we fight an entire war on this sort of thing back in the 1940s?”


Well, my son, if there’s anything that we have learned from the former administration, and He Who Shall Not Be Named, it’s that Facebook and internet activity has made people more racist. And we’re not joking about this.


For more than five years, I begged Republicans to reject the creeping anti-Semitism Donald Trump brought to the party, noting on the eve of the 2016 election that “when a demagogue begins to identify scapegoats, the Jews are never far behind.”

But I never expected I would see in my lifetime, in the United States of America, what occurred on the floor of the House this week. One hundred ninety-nine Republican members of Congress rallied to the defense of a vile, unapologetic anti-Semite in their ranks who calls for assassination of her opponents.

This is more than a Republican problem; it’s an American problem. You don’t have to be a scholar of 20th-century Europe to know what happens when the elected leaders of a democracy condone violence as a political tool and blame the country’s ills on the Jews.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who is quickly becoming the de facto face of the Republican Party, has suggested that the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, where white supremacists chanted “Jews will not replace us,” was actually an “inside job” to “further the agenda of the elites.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/199-house-republicans-have-embraced-anti-semitism-violence/




Yeah probably! And with representative s like this at the helm, who needs enemies? Next up:

Stephanie P. from San Diego, California writes:

“Heavenly Father,

I looked at my uber-religious cousin’s Facebook page. It’s filled with vicious anti-vaccine memes and other hateful rhetoric aimed at democrats. Is there any reason for that?”


So there’s no direct reason for that. But thanks to our good friends over at r/HermanCainAwards, we have been tracking some of the vicious stuff that’s being said and it’s quite appalling. But when pastors and other church leaders start spewing this nonsense, we can’t be surprised when their flock follows suit. And with pastors like these, we’re really not surprised that people are getting more hateful.









My god is it any wonder why I haven’t taken a sledge hammer to my computer yet? But as our Good Book points out – violence doesn’t really solve anything, that’s not what the good LAWRD JAYSUS would want now is it? Next up we have:

Jason N. from Henderson, NV writes:

Heavenly Father,

Why do my fellow Christians fall for scams and hucksters and conspiracy theories every single time?”


Well, brother Jason, I would suspect that it has something to do with their gatherings. You invite someone up on stage enough and if they repeat the lie long enough, people will eventually start to believe it! And believe me when I say that they’ve said some pretty crazy shit over the years. Even though our Good Book instructs that “thou shalt not lie”, that hasn’t stopped our brothers and sisters on the right from arguing in a crowd in front of a stage!

For the last several months, Clay Clark, a business consultant who hosts a podcast called “Thrivetime,” has been leading a “ReAwaken America Tour” in venues around the country. As Right Wing Watch reported in June, Clark himself is a radical anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, and so it is no surprise that he has crammed his events full of right-wing election, COVID-19, and QAnon conspiracy theorists.

In December, Clark will be taking his tour to Elevate Live Church in Frisco, Texas, and he’s filled the speaking slots with the usual allotment of MAGA activists and conspiracy theorists, such as Michael Flynn, Greg Locke, Scott McKay, Ann Vandersteel, Mark Sherwood, Gene Ho, Patrick Byrne, Stella Immanuel, Jackson Lahmeyer, Leon Benjamin, Mark Burns, and dozens more.

Joining this motley crew in Dallas, according to Clark, will be Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Appearing on “The Todd Coconato Show” Friday, Clark revealed that Paxton will be participating in the December event, as will religious-right activist Sean Feucht and Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-to-appear-at-election-covid-19-qanon-conspiracy-theory-conference-in-december/




Oh come on. Re-Awaken America. Last thing we need is turning more people in favor of the unholy, ungodly Dark One! I of course speak of a man so foul, depraved, sinful, and disgusting that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church, thus you will be banished to the further reaches of the place where fire, torture and brimstone are common! Finally this week, our final prayer comes to us from:

“Lisa Q. from Tuscon, Arizona writes:

“Heavenly Father,

I am new to this church. Who is this “Dark One” that you speak of and why are we not allowed to mention his name during your sermons?”


Well, my fair sister Lisa, the Dark One refers to the man who was our 45th president. And the reason why we don’t say his name here is because, as I have repeated multiple times, he is so foul, so vile, so evil, and so depraved and sinful that he breaks every sin known to man in our “Good Book”. And our brothers and sisters on the right have been thinking of him in the same way as they think of our good LAWRD JAYSUS! I will not stand idly by while they allow such filth to be compared to the Holy Lord! He does not stand for good. He stands for all that is evil and wrong with the world! The religious right’s undying support of this foul creature goes against every moral fiber in my body and the morals and values that I was taught growing up!

Right-wing radio host Eric Metaxas is an adamant election conspiracy theorist who was booted from YouTube earlier this year for relentlessly pushing the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

Metaxas, who conveniently ignores every bit of information that debunks his false narrative, appeared on the “FlashPoint” program, which airs on Kenneth Copeland’s The Victory Channel, Tuesday night, where he called the election of President Joe Biden a “satanic usurpation” and vowed never to accept the results, likening it someone having “raped and killed somebody I love.”

“Should we just give up on the election?” host Gene Bailey facetiously asked. “Is that what you think?”

“You know, if somebody raped and killed somebody I love, I’m not the kind of guy that says, ‘You know what? Hey, we all make mistakes. Let it go,'” Metaxas replied. “Once that person is in jail, I might go and pray with that person. But I will not sleep until that person is found and put behind bars.”

“I believe [the election] was stolen,” he continued. “But let’s say it wasn’t. I want to know, I want to be convinced, and I want every American to be convinced that our election processes are absolutely transparent. And when people tell you to, ‘Shut up, move along,’ that is a big red flag [that] they’re hiding something.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/election-conspiracy-theorist-eric-metaxas-says-bidens-election-was-a-satanic-usurpation/





Thank you my fair congregation! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! We will return on 11/7 with episode 3!

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That's a whole lot of thinking... sanatanadharma Oct 2021 #3

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3. That's a whole lot of thinking...
Mon Oct 25, 2021, 05:55 PM
Oct 2021

My Guru once said to me, "The idea, Son, is to get out of your head!"

Contrary to common scriptural misunderstanding, the 'yoga sutras' do not say 'empty the mind'.
Rather the message is to let the thoughts come and go as they will, unseen, ignored, unattached in the knowledge that 'I am not my thoughts"
Descartes was wrong.

I am the "knower" of thoughts and thoughtlessness.
I know what I know. I know what I don't know. It is almost like being all-knowing.

Those who think to know Gods' purposes, thoughtlessly manifest not-knowing-thinking.
I am, whether I think or not. I am told I was before I thought, talked and walked.
Time for dinner.


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