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**I don't know if Chuck Pahlaniuk was ever homeless but i'll give him a pass because unlike the many people i've heard quote his lines like mantras, I am at least reasonably sure he didn't write it as any sort of design for living. So just because someone has read Fight Club or memorized the lines in the movie doesn't mean they know dick about "hitting_bottom" or losing_everything unless and until it as actually happened to them.
**i've spoken to and hung out with various ministers and clerics, yet at no time have i felt any compulsion to lead a service, hear confessions, perform weddings or fondle altar boys
**i've read Shakespeare, but have no delusions about my ability (or lack thereof) as a poet, much less a playwright
**I took a session with a shrink once, so where's my copy of Freud's Field guide to Nutjobs and my Carl Jung Junior diagnosis kit?
**does my ownership of a printed copy of the Bhagavad Gita (As It Is) make me a Hindu? I wonder.
** can i still stridently insist that people recognize my uniqueness if i become the same trite, cliched sterotype as everyone around me?
** if at least three different people who have never met each other all hate me for the same reasons, is it more likely that they are crazy or should i entertain the idea that my behavior may well be the common denominator?
** When the angry customer at a particular fast food restaurant cut me off in line to complain to the kid at the counter that he found a hair in his taco, was it too far out of line that i said "hey, some of us kind of like them that way?"
(hunts for false Buddhas by the side of the road)
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