Motivational thought for the day.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 10, 2018:

In Nepal the locals can look in your eyes and know whether or not you’re coming back, but who are they to kill your dreams.

Twitter News Update @johnroberts Tom Bossert @TomBossert45 resigning as WH.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 10, 2018:

It has officially been determined that Trump does not have the ability to fire Muler directly... give his temperament I think but know he would have. My source for this was NPR.

Some Republicans who are greedy and stupid.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 10, 2018:

I demand sensible gun laws, no military style weapons, waiting periods, background checks, over 21 and proper follow up of all leads for people who are a concern. My kids go to school everyday knowing what could happen and I have to send them! That’s not exceptable for any parent, child or human. Fuck the NRA!!!! And while I’m on one fuck Ted Nugent.

How do misanthropes find one another?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 13, 2018:

Do they want to?

Sounds like a sweet gig to me!

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 14, 2018:

Well we know he is leaving because it’s obvious he would loose. That’s us winning!

FIRST ALBUM (or 45 or casette or 8-track or CD) YOU EVER BOUGHT WITH YOUR OWN MONEY.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 15, 2018:

Dr. Hook and the medicine show, cover of the Rolling Stone... The Sears record department https://youtu.be/vqpK9lUTVXs

Bat-shit crazy finale of opera where an Inquisitor tries to heal a nun of demon possession and all ...

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 15, 2018:

They just don’t write them like that anymore.

We should all do this

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 15, 2018:

I’m in!

Ok my friends.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 15, 2018:

Cook a special meal, eat cake... make hr favorite dish. Kids can decorate the cake.

I've screwed up again.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 16, 2018:

Your not wrong, I found it no different from the male perspective... either they want to get Uber serious out of the gate or they are looking for a preconceived perfection that nobody could fit. I’m in the no expectations zone... I’m not here to date, actually I’ve started seeing someone and we will see how it goes... she isn’t the normal hipppie type I usually am attracted to but then in the long run that has not gone that well. I don’t cheat but have been cheated on and I’m weary and wary of it all... going with the flow and doing my best not to be attached to a particular outcome is how I plan to move forward. I’ve finally learned my happiness is my responsibility, if someone else who is already happy wants to be happy together that will be grand. I have nothing in common with the girl I’m seeing and so far that has not been a problem.

No strumming!

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 16, 2018:

That’s a really cool old parlor guitar, definitely solid wood and a spruce top, I so what someone to give one of those.. From the bridge you can tell it’s meant for steel strings, probably made somewhere between the mid 60s and early 70s... I have a 1903 Gibson L1 in the same parlour size but with an arched top, love them.

Started a new group today Police Brutality I have to say something, I can't just sit and watch ...

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 17, 2018:

Good, I like when people have had enough and do something, hopefully you are being active outside of this microcosm as well... I have several activist related twitter pages and find that to be an effective tool for drumming up support and spreading a message. I’m more focused on politics and feel a change in leadership will put people in place to address related issues such as gun control and police shootings but all fronts need representation, kudos

Things that people put in dating profiles that are pet peeves. Discuss.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 17, 2018:

I don’t have one, if someone posts things that rub me the wrong way that’s a sign of Incompatibility, it’s easier to sift the sand at the surface:)

Spontaneous Human combustion Fact or Fiction?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 18, 2018:

It’s awful hot in ?

Frozen Key Lime Pie.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 18, 2018:

Perfect solution when there are no clean forks.

Confirming @phxbillcee 's worst fears ;)

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 18, 2018:

Love lizards, they’re everywhere this far south:)

Its all about ASS

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 18, 2018:

Assume allot:)

Are introductions a thing?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 19, 2018:

Greetings and salutations.

"When life hands you demons make demonade." - Patrick Ian McCall

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 19, 2018:

I would think that’s just a nice single malt with a twist.

Exploding Ants Kill Foes, and Themselves, with a Blast of Toxic Goo... [livescience.com]

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 20, 2018:

That sounds like some hardcore evolution right there??

Should Religion Be Taught in Schools?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 21, 2018:

Not as a truth or way of life/death ... as part of sociology as it relates to history and what religion has done for art, music and architecture while being certain not to leave out the death & suffering.

Does it bother anybody when you see someone clicking, like, on all posts & comments?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 21, 2018:

I will at times click them all, I read each one and consider my click their reward for contributing, long as they have done it without pissing me off they get a like... as far as points go, remember the post you like is getting points as well, never has upset me to get more people acknowledge my post, like a nod that we have that in-common, it’s how we build a community.

Who else thinks that the point system on this site is too stringent...?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 21, 2018:

Seems ok to me, how would you like it to be different?

I am feeling this deeply right now. It is lovely. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing [youtu.be]

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 22, 2018:

The best!

Are you out?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 22, 2018:

It’s amazing that not being delusional is something that you would have to come out about when really you should be afraid to tell people you’re religious.

The colors of music. Olvera Street, Los Angeles

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 22, 2018:

I know how horrible those guitars are but the pic is cool.

Goodbye cruel world...

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 23, 2018:

I have another... can I post two, lol A fart in a space suit is bad enough but now I have just shit myself!

Burnt Bread

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 23, 2018:

Our toaster is way close to the smoke alarm. I fan it with a paper plate at least twice a week.

Evolution of homo sapiens in the future?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 23, 2018:

Funny that we call the people of the future “we” when “we” will all be dead. It’s evidence built into the language that while we as individuals can’t beat death our genes can. It’s just a shame it lives on without this versions memories and consciousness. We will have 6 toes, big heads and our genetalia will all be above average, isn’t that nice?

Would you date a person with a disability?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 23, 2018:

I dated a girl in wheel chair part of the time, was a non issue. I had to learn to keep up.

Just leaving this here

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 24, 2018:

That suggests an intelegence that guides your path... I don’t believe in that. I believe nothing is preordained.

Trump's guide to French diplomacy.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 24, 2018:

I would almost consider this meme as a back tattoo.

Giggity giggity

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 25, 2018:

Proof reading is an art, don’t let anyone tell you different!

Which would you prefer. A singing parakeet or an off key member of the family who loves to sing?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 26, 2018:

What song?

Mistaken Identity

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 27, 2018:

With my beard I’ve been told I looked like Eric Claptan and without it Bill Gates.

Sometimes I find an American post that I cannot understand because we have different words; or ...

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 28, 2018:

I speak fluently in both English and American having dated a girl from Hull for five years.

Holy shit, this is good. Black Sabbath - War Pigs, live in Paris 1970 [youtube.com]

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 29, 2018:

I loved Black Sabbath when I was in high school 30 years ago, my taste has changed but I remember it fondly. Since I sell guitars for a living, can we stop with the Iron Man riff? Also.... No Stairway!

Is anyone actually on here for dating?

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 29, 2018:

https://youtu.be/D8avWJIwyxY

If life gives you lemons, it's really not that bad.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 29, 2018:

No but I love artichokes and since they make all wines taste bad break out the tequila.

This bitch is not going to stop, she's getting more hateful by the day.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 29, 2018:

We do in fact stand a chance and the more divisive she becomes the more that will oppose her, the more that will stand, the more she will be seen for what she is by all but the hate spewing minority that needs to be forced back into its hole, just saying.

The GOOD atheists

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 29, 2018:

Not only can you be good without God, you can be better.

Just met a person who does not like pets because they are all dirty.

ArdentAtheist comments on Apr 29, 2018:

Their loss and keeping animals away from this person is best for the animals, probably should keep this person away from me while we are at it:)

Am I the only one who has gotten to a point of cringing with embarrassment every time Trump starts ...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 2, 2018:

He lowers the bar for humanity!

For those of us that have been on this site for awhile, being at least a couple months or more; what...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 2, 2018:

It’s like being in the whitness protection program. I live a relitivly normal life but nobody knows I’m here.

I feel compelled to correct people when they say podium when they are talking about a lectern.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 2, 2018:

If enough people use podium for multiple platforms and or lecterns:) then it’s generally excepted, the meaning is undergoing a cultural shift, so get off your soapbox:)

I'm gonna quote my favorite author, Robert Heinlein.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 3, 2018:

All also benifits companies that make crappy bass guitars.

I posted this in Politics as well because it is so related to 45's stupid vice president.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 3, 2018:

I have a gun, inherited it, don’t want it! It’s locked in a safe for now... It was a registered weapon that belonged to my dad... why if it was registered have no authorities asked me where it is? We have so many holes in our gun laws it looks like the Albert Hall, they will count them all but prevent nothing!

How do you respond as a vegetarian / vegan to people who say they only eat meat from locally ...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 4, 2018:

I would say none for me, I simply don’t need or want it. I became vegan to get the better health that I am in fact getting. What your doing is better but still your missing the point. At some point someone taps a pig on the shoulder and says, we have run out of bacon, please come with me. Since becoming vegan my blood pressure problems went away, an inner ear problem cleared up, I lost weight, I never get indigestion or related problems, heart burn doesn’t exist and finally I have mostly solved a 30 something year long debilitating migraine problem that doctors could not help me get under control. Meat and dairy are poison even if “Humanely procured”. The addiction to animal products is cultural and mental, if you trully pay attention to how what you eat makes you feel and be honest with yourself you would probably make some changes.

How are you doing today?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 5, 2018:

I’m asked this many times a day and many times a day I say, “unbelievable”. I prefer a statement to a question… Good morning as opposed to, how’s your morning? But in many situations I can also be a good listener.

Wine lovers?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 5, 2018:

The wine currently in the house gives me a headache, did some research and found it was not vegan... I’ll go to Trader Joe’s Monday and get some vegan wine, where can o get a WTF glass? I had a scotch last night while we sat around singing and playing guitar. Some of the songs I was playing we’re so old I almost went and made a gimlet.

Is this real?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 5, 2018:

lol, I really do have great kids. This kid needs a realty check. Get her a rusty bicycle and a job!

Jesus loves you? What does it mean to you?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 5, 2018:

It’s an occupational hazard for me so at work I just ignore it and move in to the next thing. Outside work I would probably say something like, you don’t even want to know what he told me about you and it’s a shame really because you had such a promising future:(

I'm sensitive to MSG and glutamic acid.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 5, 2018:

I also am sensitive to MSG, I’ve been using Helmans vegan mayonnaise, I’ve noticed no problems but I’ll check the label. I do lots of my shopping at an Asian market and you gotta read everything, hope I didn’t assume too much on the mayo, perhaps it takes more than what I use to trigger me? Thanks

Caught Mt Robson while on a road trip in British Columbia .

ArdentAtheist comments on May 6, 2018:

Lovely, Mountain photography really peaks my interest:)

Just a thought?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 6, 2018:

Do all the good you can for all the people you can whenever you can ...or just pass the plate and buy a jet?

Who can stay still? :) Sly and the Family Stone-Dance To The Music ://youtu.be/4URogrXiKsI

ArdentAtheist comments on May 6, 2018:

Nobody

Favourite Catwoman?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 6, 2018:

How can one be expected to choose that’s like asking me to choose between the two Darren’s on bewitched, completely unreasonable.

Rather be here then working!

ArdentAtheist comments on May 7, 2018:

Either that’s Lake Worth, Fl. or it’s exactly like it. Nice one

Why did you choose atheism?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 7, 2018:

I was never on board with the whole religion thing but it is only in the last few years that I started labeling it... even way back when. when I used to refer to myself as Catholic it was only because my family was Catholic, not because I was doing any Catholic things, LOL

A Sam Harris Question

ArdentAtheist comments on May 9, 2018:

Is the person I’m standing next to deciding on the same choices, maybe we make the same choice and both jump?

Not too old... (not a video)

ArdentAtheist comments on May 9, 2018:

Your grandkids took it because it was the only record in your collection they recognized.

Does anyone smoke (cigarettes) anymore?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 9, 2018:

I don’t think I would date a smoker again?, did it twice for a total of 8 years and you woukd need to be behond special for me to do it again... I’ve had my fill of second hand smoke... I smoked for a year or so in the 80’s so i remained tolerant of it but these days I’m a health conscious vegan, deal breaker... if I was here to date.

Pick your top 6

ArdentAtheist comments on May 9, 2018:

Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys, The YardBirds, Long John Baldry, Queen, The Beatles and Frank Zappa

Young Man Blues (live) by The Who [youtube.com]

ArdentAtheist comments on May 9, 2018:

Awesome… Saw them at Shea Stadium in 1984. Definitely not the same thing without Keith Moon!

When I was 12 a man I babysat for pinned me up against a wall and called me a cock tease.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 9, 2018:

I have two daughters and worry quite a bit about what they are going to have to deal with... it’s up to us men to call out the bad behavior of other men every time we see it.. men like that are not men! I’m glad you have good instincts. And now with our commander and predator the example to our youth is more disgusting than ever.

Coffee! The elixer of life! Without this delicious and stimulating brew I can barely function.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 10, 2018:

I love coffee, skipping it I risk triggering a migraine and that I don’t love. 3 pots would probably kill me... I sometimes drink an entire pot of espresso, that’s 4 demitasse cups worth or one mug. The meditation gurus are very against caffeine, it’s not good for meditation, it feeds monkey brain, it can take longer to calm the mind. I gave up all fast food, ciggeretts, cigars and all meat and dairy over the last 6ish years, giving up coffee would be harder than any of that, plus I really don’t want to... I take it black, no sugar. Having just enough without going crazy is my preference but that 2nd cup is alluring.

Where do agnostics go when they die?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 10, 2018:

We ascend to heaven to dwell forever in the house of the lord. ...um wait, I confused that with a plaigerized myth designed to control the masses and bring power and wealth to the elite. We don’t go, we stop... when your car dies it’s still there. We are caporal beings... primates, do you think there is a monkey heaven? Because we are smarter but still basically a monkey, we are smarter but not always wiser.

I honestly cannot think what to say about this...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 11, 2018:

I see a Metallica poster and enough detail to assume this is in America and because it’s America we can’t assume it’s a joke, almost as strange as Mormonism.

Athiestists and Astrology

ArdentAtheist comments on May 12, 2018:

https://youtu.be/kjxSCAalsBE Astrology is bunk, ancient myth... The definition of a myth is something people believe that isn’t true... The bass line in this is a fine example of bass player over play... Most often astrology claims must include the words, for entertainment purposes only… The fault lies not in the stars but in ourselves - Shakespeare

Americans - How corrupt is your government? If at all!

ArdentAtheist comments on May 12, 2018:

Extremely corrupt… I write my congressman, I protest, I run a Twitter page to encourage voting and I vote.

What is the most irritating thing about a person that you found out about only after you started ...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 12, 2018:

My ex was jealous of my guitar playing, would complain that she had no hobbies... suggested I “grow up and stop playing the guitar”, I told her to tell that to Andrea Segovia! ... it should be noted that she started out as a groupie, she would hang out around the rehearsal space writing out all of our lyrics. Also I was making money as a guitarist and a teacher. She had been a poet when we met and it was her artistic spirit that attracted me to her, she stopped her writing and chose to attack my art instead, i’ve played guitar since I was 4, I was not going to stop for anyone, ...there you have a recipe for divorce... never sugest a musician stop playing because you can’t find a hobby, that was irritating. Had it been snoring or something I would have been fine.

One of the hardest things about becoming vegan for me was giving up fast food, not because I loved ...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 13, 2018:

I do the same, farmers market near my job... A go to for me is a chickpea salad, toss it in pita pocket, It’s two bucks to buy the whole package of pita bread and I just bring the rest home. I gave up fast food About five years ago… That was two years before I went vegetarian let alone Vegan. An accumulation of small changes gets big results... you go!

Trump Pulled Out?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 14, 2018:

His entire presidency is a hate crime!

Get in the game people!! Post someg!!

ArdentAtheist comments on May 14, 2018:

W&B

I think the image says it all.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 14, 2018:

That should’ve read, “so is your llama”.

I am part Indigenous, and I study my indigenous ancestry A LOT.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 14, 2018:

I would participate, perhaps mention how it would have been done prior to European influence... preserve best the cultural parts most important to you... culture can be important but it has no bearing on your beliefs... ritual and history can be fascinating. We don’t want to loose our connections to the past.

I made carrot hot dogs for the first time today.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 15, 2018:

I watched a video… And now with your endorsement I’m going to have to try it :-)

It's gone way too far

ArdentAtheist comments on May 19, 2018:

Spaghetti pie bagel?

Color fading.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 20, 2018:

Colors fade, that’s why I went with all black ink on mine... as my tatt changes with my age I look at as one looks at a fine antique... I think it adds to why I have it, it represents my life... I won’t try and fix it, I’d rather embrace it. My life is not perfect but it’s mine.

Do u think Christianity is bad ? What's your opinion on it

ArdentAtheist comments on May 21, 2018:

I think it and all religions are false and we are never served by believing lies.

Ok so I am curious. What one g would be the icing on your cake of life?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 21, 2018:

The icing is so thick I’m not sure there’s any cake under there.

What's in your coffee?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 21, 2018:

If you need to put stuff in your coffee you don’t really like coffee, you like stuff. It took training my pallet a bit... So much quicker to get in and out of the Circle K in the morning if you take it black, now it’s my preference. I put sugar in espresso and nothing in American coffee.

You are unique!

ArdentAtheist comments on May 21, 2018:

That’s what I’m always saying about jazz:)

Counting down the days when this can happen. Vaca days are just around the corner. Woo hoo!

ArdentAtheist comments on May 21, 2018:

Bbh

Tyson vs Sagan and GO!

ArdentAtheist comments on May 22, 2018:

Tuff but gotta give it to Sagan, kept his cool and always had your attention.

The Tallest Man on Earth- Rivers [youtu.be]

ArdentAtheist comments on May 22, 2018:

Wow... I loved that... so much that it caught me off guard, pulled me out of what I was doing and had me mesmerized.

@Charlene this is the resident Sphinx Las Vegas NM style

ArdentAtheist comments on May 22, 2018:

Something Sphinx around here!

Do you have that one ingredient (or ingredients) that you are obsessed with and must put in just ...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 25, 2018:

Tumerick is the ingredient that goes in just about every dish, mixed with black pepper and had regularly it’s an extremely effective anti-inflammatory, among other benefits.

This is related to the "Loneliness kills" post earlier today.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 25, 2018:

A quote that I read in a meme somewhere… “If you’re lonely you’re in bad company“. Of course there’s more to it than that but your post brought to mind that meme. There is however some truth to it though. if I’m not in a great mood getting together with friends can lift me out of it but if I am in a great mood I can toil in solitude for hours and wonder where the time went.

How old is everyone?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 26, 2018:

Old enough to know better and young enough to do it anyway.

Pope Francis

ArdentAtheist comments on May 26, 2018:

Concidering the perspective of the Pope that’s better than telling the kid his dads going to hell... it’s not like we would expect him to denounce religion. What the kid needs is an adult in his life with a grasp on reality.

Came across this guy on YouTube and think he's just awesome. ://youtu.be/Y08H4j12Tls

ArdentAtheist comments on May 27, 2018:

Nice, I’m a fellow slide player... great one, his thumb is a dam clock!

Do you believe in life after death of any kind?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 27, 2018:

Belief could be a strong word for it as it is temperd with a scale tipping amount of doubt. I have and do study some Buddhist philosophy and technics and it feels plausible when I’m in meditation. I think of it as a energy net that we come from and return to, I can invision this being part of the natural world not requiring an intelligence or creator, this can lead to a feeling as if reincarnation is plausible. It’s what I would like to believe but without better evidence than simply how I feel, I can’t trust it as an actual reality.

Do you follow any particular major league baseball team? If so, which one and why?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 27, 2018:

I have no interest in watching adults get overpaid for playing a kids game... if it’s possible to have les than zero interest in it that would be me... maybe partly because I’m colorblind and loose track of what team I’m supposed to care about.. I like beer so I’ve been known to keep my friends company while they root for some guy with a ball or what have you.

Do we really need God or religion to tell us what's right and wrong?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 27, 2018:

No, I’m a nice person that knows right from wrong without being religious and so are most of you:)

What was the happiest day of your life?

ArdentAtheist comments on May 27, 2018:

I never thaught about it, I’m struggling to think of one... it’s a little unsettling not to have an answer, it seems a reasonable question, I’ve had many good times. 3 great kids, musical successes, marriage. Kids are big, divorced and the fan left, lol ... played Carnegie hall when I was five and it’s been all downhill since then... not really:) I mean I did play Carnegie but has not really been all downhill, but it has been hilly.

The definition of irony.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 28, 2018:

We are all Gods and our destiny is of our own making. -Jim Morrison

I have been meaning ask a question to all of you, but I am really busy reading and responding as ...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 28, 2018:

I’ve had a bunch of really cool interesting cars but the first purchased with my own money was a 76 Chevy Chevette piece of crap for $600. I think dam near every other car I ever had was cooler except for the piece of crap I’m currently exploring the limits of patience with.

If you had to choose between keeping 30 grand or bailing a loved one out of prison with the money, ...

ArdentAtheist comments on May 28, 2018:

If I’m the one they shot, no! Otherwise will take it on a case by case basis.

Crappiest things Jesus said.

ArdentAtheist comments on May 28, 2018:

The dog was steeling the toast and intercepted Jesus, bet he’s pissed.