I got a giggle out of Dahlia Lithwick's comment on that case, Todd. [link]
Let's stipulate: Summum is weird. First off, having been founded in 1975, it violates my own base-line spiritual rule: "Never believe in any faith younger than you are." With its pyramids, and mummification, and nectars, and hairless blue aliens, Summum is an existential stew of transcendental Gnosticism and particle physics: Isaac Luria meets Star Trek Voyager. But, as my husband would be quick to point out, yours truly has been known to fly into a panic when a meat fork touches her milk sink, shrieking and driving the offending utensil deep into the dirt of the kitchen avocado plant and then waiting the ritual interval until its kosherness is mystically restored. All of which merely illuminates the First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
Matt & Beverly - I am so sorry for the losses your family's have suffered. Peace to you all.
{{{Beverly}}
{{{Matt}}}
Much peach for you and your families. I am so sorry.
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{{{{{Matt}}}}} I'm so sorry for your loss. Much peace~ma for your whole family.
{{{Matt}}} I'm so sorry for the loss to you and your family. Peace to all of you.
I'm not being a baby for making an appointment to get my sore throat checked out, not if it was so painful to swallow through the night that I had trouble sleeping, right?
Beverly, I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope your trip is restful and peaceful.
Matt, so sorry for your loss. What a tragedy.
Windsparrow, hell no you are not being a baby. You need to rule out strep or a number of really nasty things, that it is probably not but might be.
Also, even if nothing serious, pain strong enough to interfere with sleep or any other important aspect of life needs treatment.
