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“Don’t cry, Tyler,” he said. “I’m happy.” “Happy?” “Everyone’s stood by me. Friends and family. Total strangers. Makes me cry when I think about it. But it’s happy crying.”
Arcadia was a safe, tidy town
Not in my experience
Maybe Jesus was all right with me too?
I raised my hand. “And anyone can go to heaven? No matter what you’ve done?” “Yes.” “So even Hitler could go to heaven?” “Yes, Hitler would be in heaven if at one point he accepted Christ as his Lard and Savior.”
I had the exact same conversation LMAO
If God is only love, is he the norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine released during romantic attraction? Is he also the oxytocin and vasopressin that are a part of family bonding and friendships?
I started the Fourth of July tape in which Lakshmi stated at the outset that the Declaration of Independence was a “divinely inspired document.” I knew Jefferson would have a problem with that since he was a deist who did not believe in divine intervention. And he would not want to share credit for the founding documents of the United States with an entity he refused to call God.
I did not need this book in my life. What I did need was to let Manna from Heaven know that a third of our clients wanted Mexican food.
The dessert was the flan I had made, but Gene renamed it crème renversée when he wrote out the menu on the chalkboard for the drivers.
“As a Jew, I resent you’re telling me that the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust because of their past crimes — that they brought it on themselves.”
WOAH
The other thing Clayman tells gay men is that they manifested this virus to correct their promiscuity.
Geez
with ever-longer prayers, sometimes as long as thirty minutes. That annoyed me as it meant the food was getting cold.
“We were writing it together but she’s taken it over. Everything we worked on she would erase in the morning and then rewrite. So I got out of her way.”
Everything’s fine.” “Everything’s fine?” I repeated. “Fine. One hundred percent. Now what did Derrick tell you?”
Welcome. Everything is fine.
I wouldn’t have called it an assault — he had slobbered on me — but I wondered if Lakshmi did have good reason to fire him.
You don’t have to call it that, but that’s the word for it
And, to come clean on something, I would be lying if I said that when someone’s shapely bottom appealed to me and I was friendly with the guy, I mightn’t give it a grab.
Oh!
“We’ll keep an eye on him,” Jonnie said. “But if someone has come here out of love, we don’t want to turn them away.”
Volunteers get away with so much
When we got home, I saw a grocery bag at the front door. Manna from Heaven had delivered lunch to us.
AWWW
But what really annoyed me was what Lakshmi had said about the virus, something that was an echo of Eloise Clayman’s bullshit: HIV had been sent by God as a means of bringing us closer to him, of helping our better natures to emerge. That was a God who could go fuck himself, I thought.
Jeremy and I would not be the only ones who had problems with a float for Lakshmi.
Really getting tired of these sentences
“That’s a lot of calories, Tyler,” she said. “Even if they’re imaginary. What else have you got?”
God I hate this woman
“He won’t but I will,” said Ruth of the Jewish Mom’s Brigade. “With my fractured hip I can’t march but I’m offended I wasn’t even invited to.”
Get her Ruth
Sign-ups for the float committee were still pretty meager and made up mostly of Lakshmi’s most dedicated followers.
I think if you’re marching you have to help
The day of the big event would also be the day that a magazine would finally hit the newsstands with an article about a “new age guru in New York and California,” a piece that would send her into a rage.
Well don’t tell me that
“Of course they’re depressing!” Damien shouted. “They’re people with AIDS! AIDS is depressing! That was the idea, Lakshmi, to remind people of who we’re helping!”
Lakshmi’s Ouija board said ‘yes.’
Has this been a thing this whole time or just a couple mentions
“Listen,” he said, getting everyone’s attention. “Gene just told me, ‘It’s Jews like you who make me think Hitler was right.’”
Geez dude
“I... I was just... kidding,” he said through nervous laughter as he picked up his knife and sliced a bean. I was stunned — that’s all he was going to say? Bryce looked at me and shook his head in disbelief.
GEEZ DUDE
And I shouldn’t have to tell either of you that I haven’t got an anti-Semitic bone in my body.”
Well! I would, maybe, disagree
After paying a voluntary ten dollars
They do seem to spend a lot of excess money for people living nonexistent-paycheck to nonexistent-paycheck
Everybody smiled at me, a new face, and wished me welcome, the typical “love bombing” that happens when a newbie checks out a cult.
Have you ever been in public
Not that this isn't a cult but sometimes people are just friendly LOL
“Gary and Gary have loved each other for so long,”
okay Brent and Brant
“If you don’t look inward, somebody has to.
Sick line I’ll give you that
She did write a brilliant allegorical series that exploited the dynamics of going to a new school, finding your identity and celebrating your otherness.
Sorry author but we love her still?? In 2024?? What rock do you live under? (This is JK Rowling, known TERF)
As for being an apartment manager, well, that was what really exploded. I started managing another building, and then three more after that as well as some vacation rentals in Hawaii, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.
Oh so you’re a landlord. Cool.
I also enjoy making people think and pissing them off when I show them the God they believe in is the biggest fame whore of all. That God did not create a safe, happy humanity free from death and suffering. That God is needy — someone who demands recognition and must be worshipped before he ends a bloody and unjust war, cures a child’s cancer or frees us of the “ego addiction” that brings so much pain. That God is infamously jealous of other gods and he always has been.
You're not wrong necessarily but do we not hear the smugness? You don't care any more about people you just like being right.
