Replies to post #6476 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

This extended exegesis is extremely extraneous, not expecting to exacerbate the exercise in this excruciating experience I exhort all extended examination be expunged.

[AndrewL]

"Save your breath. As a heathen I tend to grow tired of the religious debate. I just thank my luck stars that I never became a trappist monk which I thought I had a desire to become when a youth "

Ah, but trappist monks have made a great contribution to civilization: world class ales!

OT-- Red Sox pop psych quiz (pick one):

a) This is the year the Sox go all the way!
b) That young Theo Epstein could be just what the Dr. ordered...who knows (then again, he is a Jew...could be a homo too...hmmm, best not think about it).
c) Another season, another let down.

[jbennett53]

SoxFan, Neat wardrobe, but probably gets old after the glow of youth fades.
(Prayer of Thomas Merton)
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think that I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.

And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this
you will lead me by the right road
though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always
though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.