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I found out why my bunk was still available the first time I had the midwatch and I was trying to get some sleep the next day and the table beside me became the Divisional Office.
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In this discussion, it might be meritorious if we reverted to using the term Papist instead of Catholic. But with the stipulation that it be divorced from the negative connotations
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In the broadest of senses, Roman Catholicism is the closest contemporary version of Christendom, as it existed as an institution before the Reformation. It was on a Catholic door
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I wonder sometimes if the Rapture will reach the International Space Station. If it did, how much of an issue would that be to those left behind on the station? What about airline
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I've mentioned before that when I was being inculcated with religion, I always thought we, the Christians, were intent on preventing the anti-christ. Not doing our best to bring it
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That the sniper knew that I could see him says to me that he didn't consider me a threat. I probably wouldn't have been until I noticed who his targets were. Collateral damage they
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The only rights you have are the rights the moment affords you. I had somehow gone from innocent bystander to having just, most likely, killed 2 combat geared Federal agents with a
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In a sense, the tides rising for her, rose our boats as well. We might not have wanted to see that but it was true. We might not have her unique setup but where we could, we caught
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at what could or should have been. At some point our ideas of how it would have been diverged from each other in some deep and fundamental way. Her success hadn't diminished me in
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It was a matter of availability. Who had what where they were. We just happened to have an abandoned town full of high powered munitions for the taking. They had warehouses full of
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The wine will have to tide us over until the liquor arrives in force. There's a cluster over by the dividing wall working their way through a bottle of mezcal. But otherwise, wine
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Priority looked so dashing in his walnut shell tuxedo rental. I had had qualms about the choice of pastels but I got to admit they pulled it off. Cousin David had to be himself by
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Exceptionalism takes a back seat in this narrative as well. There is no need to value this statement anymore than the next. Priority for emerging 1st holds no water in this scene.
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I get the melting pot aspect of American cheese. It plays up our supposed aspirational beckoning. Come melt into the American Experiment. Individualism has to take a back seat on
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My only complaint, if you want to call it that, is that the cheese could have been more exciting. I understand comfort foods but why the most boring cheese is American baffles me.
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Not that I am complaining. I am. But the decor has gotten my interest and that the first thing of interest for me in a long time. It is good to not be constrained to pairs or evens
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Oh no. I forgot to get the offered pain reliever. I knew I was going to need it at some point and that point is now. The only remedy at hand is to go deeper into the rabbit hole.
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The asteroid peddlers complained that they couldn’t bare the cost of shipping us the part we needed to repair our pre-Code biosphere. They were pushing us to buy a new, more profit
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it's third transition. He saw me as well and nodded towards a back booth where he joined me toting a couple skinny lattes. Even as props his choice was impeccable. "Wossup," he poi
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My friends insisted that having a neck caved in by necrosis worked for me. It brought out my bone structure, they said. My mom complained that I was costing her enough in concealer