This is real.
Posted on 10/26/2019 11:51:51 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It is no secret that America is polarized. This is a fact that is manifested in so many different ways. Traveling down the highway to Chicago, for example, I came upon two successive billboards that I thought were striking examples of our divided culture.
The first billboard caught me by surprise: it consisted of an electrocardiogram of a heart that suddenly stops beating. The caption read: When you die, you will meet God.
As we were passing through the snowy night, I was unable to catch more details of this billboard. I do not know who put it out or what I was expected to do. It really did not matter because for a brief moment I thought about what the Catholic Church calls the “Four Last Things” – Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. Think of these things, Scriptures says, and you will not be lost eternally. The simple phrase served to trigger in me a gentle yet fleeting reflection upon the meaning of life. I am sure I was not the only one to make this quick reflection.
The billboard is clearly polarizing since it is directed toward that strong vein inside the American public that is turned toward things religious, spiritual and eternal. It is a sector of the American public that lives amid the fast, superficial and materialistic aspects of our pop culture yet is not entirely comfortable with them. These Americans are drawn by God, family, honor and country. On the other hand, this billboard would not appeal to other Americans who would tend to disparage the message as backward and unenlightened.
The second billboard came immediately afterwards and struck me by how contrary it was to the former. It consisted of a massive BBQ sandwich with the caption: Happiness is a double BBQ sandwich.
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An oldie but a goodie.
Well, its just two parts of the same story. Eat a lot of barbeque sandwiches, your heart will stop and you’ll meet God. No contradiction at all.
The good old USA is polarized more than ever thanks to Berry obama, the media and academia.
Eat no barbeque sandwiches, your heart will stop and you’ll meet God.
Some people just don’t recognize heaven on earth.
Sure. Spend your life eating tofu and seaweed, and die of Alzheimer’s at 95.
LOL!
The only meaning life has is what you give it.
That’s hallucinatory.
As Tom Lehrer’s friend Hen3ry (the 3 is silent) put it: “Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends entirely on what you put into it.”
This is real.
Between 1990 and 2007, 114 people died while lifting weights. In the same time period, only one case is recorded of dying while eating a donut.
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