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My true rejection of ellipses is that I associate overuse of ellipses with conspiracy theory-style writing (e.g. "you might think that Obama isn't a lizard-person... but you'd be wrong!"). It reads to me like overconfidence in the shock value of your insights. You might decide not to care that I think this, but I don't think I'm alone in having this association.
Here are more specific suggestions about how I would replace each of your uses of ellipses.
Delete this ellipsis.
Delete this ellipsis or replace with a period and rewrite the beginning of the next sentence.
Replace this ellipsis with a comma.
Replace this ellipsis with a comma and italicize "tomorrow."