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May 4, 2025

I guess that's why they call them the funnies

Dennis the Menace, 5/4/25

OK, obviously I was going to object that "Sunday school was awesome today!" is possibly the least menacing thing Dennis has ever said, but then I got to the big reveal of what he learned about: the pre-existence of souls, which was very explicitly anathematized by the Second Council of Constantinople in AD 553. Last I dwelled on the question, I had decided that the Mitchells were high church Episcopalians, but apparently they've since fallen in with some kind of Origenist cult.

Hi and Lois, 5/4/25

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