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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/4/2016 11:29 PM, Nobody in Particular wrote:   
      
   > When we first got cable in the early 80's, i flipped through all the new   
   > channels and found a parody of TV preachers, the PTL club with Tammy   
   > Faye Bakker crying with runny mascara. I was laughing because the parody   
   > was so realistic. Then, after a while, i realized it was a serious show,   
   > not a parody. Sure had me fooled.   
      
   I rarely watched TV, but some decades ago, when I first   
   came to the US, I saw an evangelical show, which was   
   run by a husband-wife team, and the wife (in her fifties)   
   was talking about how her work (God's service) made   
   her so happy. She sounded very depressed and unhappy,   
   and the matter of what she said contrasted violently   
   with the manner in which she said it, which was flat-out   
   mournful. Like you would want to tell her: Go to see a   
   shrink this minute, don't wait a second, you're in danger.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)