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SimonBolivar

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  1. Why does Jimmy Swaggart look like Will Farrell playing Jimmy Swaggart on SNL?
  2. I've been to their campus. I get it.
  3. I mean, I'd believe it.
  4. All of them that I've attended both public and private, including Baylor (hah), when looking at the history of religion in the United States. It's pretty undeniable that Mormonism was considered an outsider religion that was unacceptable to American society. Americans were not tolerant of other religions, like Catholicism, but not to the extent that Mormanism was to where its adherents were pushed further and further away from "polite society". It's also taught as a way to understand the Americanization of the figure of Jesus (like in Prothero's American Jesus) to where Americans remade Jesus to be more in their image and their ideals with it being an original American invention. Obviously with the expansion of religious pluralism in the United States it has become much more acceptable to non-Mormons to where nobody cares if you're Mormon in 2025. The cultural history and current makeup of Mormonism and its traditions are still based upon that outsider image and the struggles they faced for centuries here.
  5. If you study cults at the college level in the United States, then Mormonism is usually one of the main topics for the semester. Cult has a negative connotation, but it really just means a group of people that live outside of the norms of society especially religiously.
  6. Liberty can fix him!
  7. I really like oysters, but I'm not gonna sit in this thread and lie. You could give me a gulf coast and tell me it's a Blue Point and I wouldn't know the difference.
  8. Nobody is set up to win National Titles in the Stephen Miller Era like BYU. They're going to feast.
  9. One of Lopez, Capela or Kornet should be available to fill that back-up role and hopefully be enough to get over the playoff hump. Hell I wouldn't even be upset with a play-in appearance with the core being young and getting their feet wet. Sort of like the 2015 Astros.
  10. Why do you think God invented Staten Island? It wasn't because he thought it was cool.
  11. Our society, as it currently stands, can accept anything with the exception of boredom. Anything that isn't silly or fantastical in the political realm is boring.
  12. About the same odds as Eugene Debs finally winning.
  13. Always nice when a supreme court ruling is interpreted as being "unclear" in its function. I'm sure that's the point from the majority.
  14. I love this headline from a local paper. Real headline should read, "State rep pretends to need more information on topic that he felt confident enough to vote on, but now smells which way the wind is blowing in his party's power structure."
  15. I want to be Akram when I grow up
  16. And how am I going to make any money off of this?
  17. Well the other option is using that damn Mexican J!
  18. SimonBolivar

    High

    Celebrating the veto tonight with about 5mg of a D9 edible. That's quite a bit for my lightweight ass, fuck Dan Patrick
  19. I bet he doesn't sign it in the next hour and then just washes his hands of it and say its Dan's fault if needed.
  20. If this is your first time at CUN then be sure and talk to nobody when you leave the terminal. Straight ahead until you're outside and the CARM guy will be there with your name on the board. The scammers inside will say "they're trying to help you find your driver", but most of the time they aren't.
  21. Driving back from Colorado one time we decided to go a route we'd never taken before and go east from Denver and stopping at Sand Creek before heading south. Well, there aren't a ton of good food option on that particular drive and my now middle-aged wife was a young impressionable 25-year-old that needed to be shown how smart and cultured I was. I pulled into the Stratford Allsups just around dinner time where I showed her the amazingness of an Allsups fried burrito. She was ravenous from a weekend of young love making and hiking so she had 3 burritos and some of those fried potatoes. 6 hours later, it's 2AM and I'm standing guard outside of a QT bathroom in Ft Worth where my wife is absolutely unloading the worst diarrhetic shit of her life and cursing my name. Life is beautiful sometimes.
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