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Brainstormy

(2,428 posts)
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 04:05 PM Jul 2017

cake for thought

So I’ve just made a spectacular birthday cake for my sister and I’m smiling as I take my bowl of leftover buttercream frosting to my lovely stainless steel sink and begin to use tons of dishwashing soup and gallons of water to run the stuff down my state-of-the-art garbage disposal to go somewhere I never think about, and then suddenly I AM thinking.

I’m thinking about all the women in the world who can’t bake a fancy cake. About those who struggle to even feed their families. About all the women in the world who don’t even have clean water. And I’m not smiling anymore. And I realize, again, why I can’t believe in anybody’s God.

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cake for thought (Original Post) Brainstormy Jul 2017 OP
The biggest sin was not licking the bowl Warpy Jul 2017 #1
They (and their babies) must be sinners and don't deserve anything but crap. BigmanPigman Jul 2017 #2
yeah, that's got to be it. Brainstormy Jul 2017 #3

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
1. The biggest sin was not licking the bowl
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 04:09 PM
Jul 2017

or sticking it in the fridge for somebody else to lick.

And yeah, I don't believe a word of it, either.

Brainstormy

(2,428 posts)
3. yeah, that's got to be it.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 04:58 PM
Jul 2017

unless. it isn't. Hard to think about how theists justify life's inequities. But Lordy, they do try, don't they?

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