Have you ever seen one of these progressive “in this house” yard signs, in the wild? Poll below,
Have you seen one of these yard signs around your neighborhood or elsewhere in real life?
This is 100% new to me, but then I don’t visit liberal neighborhoods much.
Basically, people are moving inane bumper stickers to their front lawns. There is something disturbing about this. It screams dangerous, irrational mob. It also screams political ideology made into a religion. It screams intolerance and so, hypocrisy—embraced as an identity.
It's like a screaming protest. Why? Well, what other than deep passionate, intolerant contempt for your political opponents could motivate such signs? You might scream at some people, too, if you had such contempt. The sign demonstrates your intolerance.
That such signs would do absolutely nothing to improve your neighbor's benighted attitudes—that it shows your irrationality.

It's crass virtue signaling, nothing more, and that is always irrational.

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I’m sooo looking forward to the day masks start working!
I’m told this is a bad take! How embarrassing! Sorry!
OK, OK: I’m sooo glad that masks started working. What a glorious day for science and kindness! Which is why everybody knows that was...when and where was that, now?
Wait, wait...masks are working now? They *are*?
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Are you eating lots of vitamin C daily? I do. Since I started a few years ago, I’ve basically never gotten sick. I got sick 5+ times a year before that.

There’s no downside. Uncle Larry says “do it.”
BTW I do not endorse all the other stuff people say they are putting in their bodies. Like, whatever, dudez.

But C? It's proven. Was proven *decades* ago. Also, in many countries outside the U.S., this is well-known. And it works extremely well for me.
And no, it doesn't give me or my family any diarrhea or stomach issues. :-)
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Church poll, question #1:
Are you going to church today?
1 Yes
2 Yes, but only sort of (explain)
3 Not this time
4 I never go / I stopped going before 2020
Question #2
How has your church attendance changed this year?
1 Never stopped going
2 Stopped, curtailed, and/or changed quite a bit this year
3 I started/increased this year
4 Never yet went this year
#3 If you were a “church-goer” of a particular church last January, how do you feel about the current health of *that* church?
1 Never better
2 Same as last January
3 Severely hurting or trying bravely to recover
4 Down for the count, or dead
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While we may and should be grateful for what we have, still—is life on earth, as the Preacher of Ecclesiastes says, “vanity” (an inconsequential vapor)?
Ecclesiastes 1:2 KJV
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”

He meant it, too.
Such a completely anti-21st century sentiment. We are such boasters, narcissists, working on our “personal brands,” compromising our principles for things that ultimately matter little, genuinely impressed by mere show.

Not all of us of course.
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1/ I am thankful for our present peace, such as it is, despite the hyperventilating, hysterical attitude toward the election frankly on both sides (admit it).
2/ Ours is a remarkable time: one side is deeply suspicious of the other, the leaders of which they believe to be thoroughly corrupt and criminal; while the other side utterly loathes and despises their opponents’ rank and file as well as the leadership...
3/ ...so much so that one suspects a common attitude at some level: “we’d *better* be cheating and we’d better win, or it will be the most horrible disaster ever!”

We have peace because each side hopes it will prevail.

I’m still grateful for that peace.
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It's a thing
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