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The late Gene Siskel used to say that there's no point in arguing about Comedy or Pornography; it either works for you or it doesn't. I think we should add religion to that group. For some people religion makes them feel better. Personally, it doesn't make me feel any better to pretend there's meaning to the pointless drudgery of working for the man and waiting to die.
In fact, the lyrics of Pink Floyd always gave me warmth at night:
All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
everyone you meet
All that you slight
everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
I don't know how you take that, but to me it means that it doesn't matter how many hookers I get, how many poor children I refuse to send money to feed, how much liquor or illegal drugs I consume, or how many other bad things I do. A fucking tsunami can wipe out 100,000 people overnight. My pornography addiction seems pretty insignificant next to something like that.
Hey, as long as religious folk aren't firebombing my home, taking my money, drafting me into a holy crusade or preventing me from getting a six-pack and a hooker, I've no problem with them.
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You know something, I don't think the sun even... exists... in this place. 'Cause I've been up for hours, and hours, and hours, and the night never ends here.
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