I'd be tempted to call the bank and see if it was a phishing scam, shrift.

Well, it's literally down the street and the phone number checks out, otherwise I'd be with you. I'm just wondering what kicked off that call from the Financial Advisor.

The Universalists believed that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross redeemed all sinners. All of them--past, present, and future, believers and non. Mother Theresa and Hitler. Hell's empty, except for maybe a handful of demons who like the climate. I like Universalists. The story was that Universalists thought God was too good to damn people eternally, and Unitarians thought people were too good to be damned, so they decided to merge in the early 20th c and call it even.

Protip: you can take the "once-daily" antihistamines, like Claritin, Zyrtec, or Allegra, twice a day if your allergies are really bad. Don't do it forever, but a couple of weeks of twice-daily Claritin is fine.

Not if you take the D, though, according to the advice of my doctor friend. I'm on Claritin-D, benedryl, flonase, some kind of cough medicine and just finished a course of prednisone to try to rid me of the wretched night cough I have. It didn't work that well although I pretty much finally slept through the night w/out waking myself up coughing for the first time in weeks last night.

I'm sitting up in my 10th floor window seat with a view of the river and a glass of wine right now. Sweet! Also, am looking down on preparations for filming for a movie starring some people who, if I happen to see them in person, will make me lose my shit with excitement! [link]

I'm just wondering what kicked off that call from the Financial Advisor.

Do you at least have an account there?

Is it a PNC bank? I got one of those calls a week or two ago.

Stephen Fry pretty much elucidates my stance on belief. Oddly, like Sophia, I don't find it difficult at all to believe in the Rainbow Bridge. If people could go there in the afterlife, I'd quite happily do so. I have friends there.

Relatedly, I was in a gift shop in Kernersville, NC one afternoon, and the person minding the store had talk radio on. Imagine if you will, a quaint shop filled with stuffed animals, cute painted breadboards, embroidered aprons, and hand-lettered plaques with Bible verses on them, and aural assault by a hysterical rant about the thought of pets going to heaven was blasphemy! Pets are *animals*, they have no place in the *house*, let alone in *heaven*!

I decided right there I'd rather spend the afterlife with pets I have known and have yet to meet than with humans of the radio preacher's ilk.

(Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to use the word, "ilk" in a sentence)

Hil, it wasn't, but maybe it is the season for banks to call people and ask them to consider investing?

Do you at least have an account there?

I do bank there. It wasn't completely random.

I'm glad I don't have a land line anymore and most organizations don't have my cell number.

Did we know about the LOLcat Bible translation?

I was raised Presbyterian and I don't recall a single sermon about predestination or the Elect while growing up.... Except that we sometimes had bagpipe players at a special service

I got predestination and no bagpipes. I call foul.

Was your church a Cumberland Presbyterian Church? Rejection of predestination was one of the factors behind its formation. I should note that one of the things Presbyterians are best at is schisming.

Allergies are arguments against a benevolent deity and intelligent design.