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Just curious what people think of this Gawker article: http://gawker.com/this-is-the-williamsburg-of-your-city-a-map-of-hip-ame-1460243062

Father Dan washed the windows of his lonely old church when a young girl skipped by. He didn't recognize her, but he hardly recognized anyone anymore. No one was interested in religion these days and Fr. Dan had been doing masses for continually smaller groups until people stopped showing up at all. Regardless, he cheerfully greeted the girl with a friendly hello. She instantly stopped. Clearly curious, she called out to him, “You’re the one He hates right? The one He says is holding this whole town back?”

Startled, the priest brushed off the bizarre question and lightly chuckled a response, "Well, I don’t know my dear, who said that to you?”

She immediately answered,“Y’know, Lucifer. The

Yes, this will be his living hell,

Love - only realized post death knell.

This man now missed his wife,

Yet here she’ll haunt all his life.

He hears her familiar calls,

Echoing down their home's halls,

Showing her face in his mirror.

Tells himself "I did not see her."

But the truth is plain

For she does remain.

Her ghost wallows, akin to his love.

The spirit endures for the sole sake of,

That fateful night he drank too much,

Struck his fair wife--breath ended as such.

Later freed by a jury where concealment hid guilt,

Her ghost punishes him in this house they'd built.

What no religion tells you is that you get to see how you die; right after your last breath you get an out of body experience and you watch what just happened like a play.

While I was dying I was scared, naturally. I knew my internal organs were destroyed and assumed it was from the car accident my wife just accidentally caused. What I learned after passing was that my wife pushed the scrapped metal into my abdomen deeper, deeper, deeper...until I stopped breathing.

What no religion tells you is that you have to see how you die. Over and over again. Forever.

Hi all, I searched this sub and couldn't find anything pertinent, so sorry if this has been asked before. Anyway, I'm trying to find a relatively mainstream and readable account of modern Japanese history (19th and 20th centuries). Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Bush v Gore in Florida, 'Dewey Defeats Truman', and a shady Nixon destroying an honorable McGovern in an electoral landslide all come to mind but I'm sure folks here have much better instances and anecdotes than this. So please share!