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Think Of Negative Speech As Verbal Pollution. And That's What I've Been Doing: Visualizing Insults And Gossip As A Dark Cloud, Maybe One With Some Sulfur Dioxide. Once You've Belched It Out, You Can't Take It Back. As Grandma Said, If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say, Don't Say Anything At All. The Interesting This Is, The Less Often I Vocalize My Negative Thoughts, The Fewer Negative Thoughts I Cook Up In The First Place.

I Always Thought The Name Of Utah’s Major Newspaper Was Some Sort Of Weird Misspelling Of The Word “desert.” But No, Deseret Is The “land Of The Honeybee,” According To The Book Of Mormon. I Guess I Should Have Figured They Would Have Caught A Typo In The Masthead After 154 Years.

I'm All For Cafeteria Religion. I Think There's Nothing Wrong With Cafeterias - I've Had Some Great Meals At Cafeterias. I've Also Had Some Horrible Meals, So It's Important To Pick The Right Things. Take A Heaping Helping Of Compassion And Mercy, And Leave The Intolerance On The Table.

I Don't Believe That Prayers Actually Change God's Mind - If There Is A God - But I Liked Praying For People In Need. It Was Like Moral Weightlifting. I Tend To Be Self-obsessed, And It Was Nice To Get Out Of My Brain Once In A While.

I Tried The Paleo Diet, Which Is The Caveman Diet - Lots Of Meat. I Tried The Raw Food Vegan Diet. And I Tried The Calorie Restriction Diet, Which Is The Idea Is That If You Eat Very, Very Little - If You're On The Verge Of Starvation, You Will Live A Very Long Time. Whether Or Not You Want To, Of Course, Is The Idea.