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janmaru

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September 26, 2020 - 8:07 pm

Ricky Gervais said, in one of his shows, about fat people:

Obesity is a disease. No, it’s not.

Is it you, just you like eating? Don’t you dare…

But it’s a disease! 

Oh well, I said: what’s the disease? 

She said: everything tastes good!

Everything? Yeah, not salads! It’s not a disease!

Leprosy is a disease.

Can you imagine Jesus in the temple and people shuffling up to him?

Oh Jesus my face is falling off! 

I can’t stop now! 

I am a fat chick on a third pie.”

 

J. Watson, Nobel laureate “for his discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material,” suggested there is a biochemical link between exposure to sunlight and sexual urges. 

“That’s why you have Latin lovers,” Watson said. “You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.”

In a lecture in Berkeley, in front of hundreds of students and faculty members, Watson claimed that thin people are miserable but determined and showed a slide with a sad Kate Moss to support his proposition. 

“Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them.

 

Christians who struggle with their weight all their life wonder if their goal should be gaining holiness, not losing pounds.

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September 27, 2020 - 3:03 pm

About 40 years ago, American Self-identified Christians started getting much larger.

Nobody knows why. Here some ideas on the matter:

  • Since Christians love food, food becomes an idol to worship. They also love God, but whom of the two makes them feel really good?
  • A healthy diet is not the ultimate solution to global hungerFacebook Prayer Groups along with cookies are.
  • The judgment of others simply does not matter. But the judgment of fat people counts twice.
  • Weight loss and physical training don’t count when you divorce or die.
  • Plumpness and Godliness both can sit -in Church- on the same bench. It’s a miracle.
  • Anyone who searches for God finds a recipe. It was on Google.
  • Christians’ diets suggest entering churches doing the scene of the guy who has the wrong address: ” Oh my! Not a grocery?”
  • Any Christian who tries to fight plumpness from the inside is full of himself.
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