Conversation between two women behind me at Laemmele's in Encino

“As if there was a way to, or through, a painless catharsis."
"A free lunch, so to speak."
"Exactly! As if Joe or Jenny SixPack could actually just stroll in off the street into your garden-variety strip mall church---"
"---or the Sistine Chapel for that matter."
"Exactly! And shed a few Pavlovian tears as they recite the sinner's prayer..."
"...and Voila!"
" Zap!"
"Kuh-ching! Hit the cosmospiritual jackpot! Dive headlong into some sort of magically painless wormhole."
"Slip right through the cervix of the universe, the crucible of existence!"
"Slide right on into 'God-consciousness.'"
"And just completely circumvent, by the way, that pesky yin-yang, karmaic, for-every-action-there-is-an-equal-and-opposite-reaction physical law….thing….”
"Exactly!"