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.

So I'll probably be interviewing for two jobs in the Mountain View office. My indecision may resolve itself if I actually ever get a job offer.

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.

Decongestants might be a whole other kettle of fish, yeah.

Did we know about the LOLcat Bible translation?

On a long car ride one time, one of our BFFs read LOLcat Genesis to us, and I'm amazed we didn't crash the car from laughing so hard.

Allergies are arguments against a benevolent deity and intelligent design.

So are sinuses and lower backs.

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." ― James Thurber

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!

Ooh, that is a good cast!

I am sorry for all of you allergy sufferers.