In my bathroom yes, but it’s not the time of day to look at myself (wink).

Art.

That system was laid out too late into human development, though it’s still possible it just needs to be given time. Though that won’t stop me from using my own system.

Either too much or too little depending on who we’re talking about. You have the people who will amass a protest in the thousands because one person was mistreated and sometimes only a single person who will react at all when a thousand are mistreated. And people wonder why sociopathy exists.

I bet they’d find that extremely helpful.

Or Wizardology.

What do you mean?

One could say I believe in what amounts to a few simultaneously (it’s “complicated”), and they all imply rules that adherents shouldn’t impose. I have a friend who identifies as a Baha’i (and another who has a history of Scientology in his family if not also identifying as a Buddhist) and they impose more than I do.

It depends on the form of strike. Are they outside with “Krusty Krab Is Funfair” signs? Are they sitting at home playing solitaire? Did they join the rival business?

I was thinking more along the lines of original Star Trek, where you had aliens posing as Greek gods, disembodied immaterial Galactus hands stretching out from planets, and parallel universes where evil versions of the characters can cross over from, and yet where at the end of the day, the characters can nod their heads and give a toast to “the godless universe”.

It was very much like Doctor Who if Doctor Who didn’t just explain everything with a simple “it’s all wibbly wobbly”.

Even the people who revere God but not “no matter what”?

How would you define a cult?

The most concise way to think about it is to think Freemasonry combined with Star Trek.

Everyone thinks they need an opinion on everything until they order a sub from Subway and the server asks if they want 25 or 26 sesame seeds on their buns.

That my parents passed away.

What do you mean?

What were you doing to end up with a program that was interrupted like that by the minute?

I don’t read as much as many people strive to, and that’s by design. Growing up, books were all the rage, and in some ways still are. Reading one book a week was the kind of thing people bragged about. There’s like this aura to books where people think they’re these precious things which at most can be “imperfect” (cue flashbacks of school book report assignments), and what they don’t tell you is how prone to being junk they can be depending on who someone is. How does someone think something like, say, the complete L Ron Hubbard collection is going to influence the experience? I read to map out the rabbit hole, not just because words exist, though the medium doesn’t matter.

Was it through streaming, cable, or some other digital thing?

I don’t see advertising as straying away from being a sub-conversation of intellectual property. If a service emphasizes its usage, I’m either going to honor it all the way through or switch to an alternate medium.

In some ways I feel like I’m already going through something like that.