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38. I agree. Most dogmatic religions, including the nonsensical Ayn Rand religion...

Thu Jul 4, 2019, 10:36 AM

Jul 2019

...feature hypocrisy on a grand scale, as originally noted with respect to Christianity but the contrast you make between Brady and Scalise is spot on.

I will say that on a familial scale time does not always heal all wounds; they can fester and infect everything, as was the case with my brother and me.

I am trying to think of a graceful way to let my sisters in law understand this, but from my own experience, I'm not so sure it will work.

I heard two of them using (about each other) words very much like I used decades ago, "You don't know what she said to me..."

I hope I can help them because one never wants to see the people one loves experience pain with which one has lived oneself.

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