It is interesting that the Roman empire, and later Charlemagne's, banned tattooing in order to fight...

BD66 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

You make very good points.

Does anyone else see that the more religious a person claims to be the bigger an asshole they are to...

BD66 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

When I was 17 years old, I was a furniture delivery man for the summer. Of all the people we delivered furniture to, the biggest jerk by far was a Methodist minister.

If having a sex before marriage is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, why must that child who came out ...

BD66 comments on Aug 22, 2019:

Congratulations! You have identified another religious paradox! I have never heard that one before.

Can someone explain to me how a pro-socialism/communism lefty can even remotely consider themselves ...

BD66 comments on Aug 21, 2019:

Post it in the politics section and see what the lefties have to say.

Borrowed this from FB - thanks for the share Michael Lentz

BD66 comments on Aug 21, 2019:

Half the nation has rejected the Democratic party. Half the nation has rejected the Republican party

I wonder how fast gun control legislation would pass if Ivanka was murdered in a mass shooting?

BD66 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

It would not pass.

"Do you feel that it's unethical or racist for a white person to compliment a black person on a ...

BD66 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

A similar question of etiquette: When we were sailing off the coast of CA, one of my white friends got out the sun block and started passing it around. It got to me, and I put some on, and offered it to my Africa American friend. He declined and passed it on. Did I handle that correctly?

Agree or disagree? Guess what I think... 😋

BD66 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

No more stupid than the Ashley Graham photos and stories about her.

Florida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution | TheHill

BD66 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

That's a novel excuse.

A centrist candidate would be a losing candidate. Do you agree with that view? [salon.com]

BD66 comments on Aug 20, 2019:

A centrist candidate might win the general election, but the parties are so polarized that a centrist candidate would never win his or her party's nomination.

There is a highly vocal group of deniers of the existence of Jesus.

BD66 comments on Aug 18, 2019:

When one side says the creator of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars knocked up a teenage Jewish girl, and you don't believe it, how do you compromise?

John Hickenlooper ends 2020 presidential campaign, nods at potential Senate bid Hickenlooper says...

BD66 comments on Aug 15, 2019:

Hickenlooper is right: Hickenlooper says Bernie Sanders' socialism will FedEx the election win to Trump in 2020.

Strange how people have to resort to insults when they don't like someone's opinion "AnneWimsey ...

BD66 comments on Aug 15, 2019:

These Trump conspiracies are getting as ridiculous as religious stories. Assange has been in legal trouble since 2012. Trump didn't start his run for President until 2015. How was Assange the tool of a loudmouthed real estate developer many years before he went into politics?

Why, I've been invited into his home...

BD66 comments on Aug 14, 2019:

If a woman didn't have a clitoris, sex would be less enjoyable, so she would have sex less often and have fewer babies, so it does play a role in creating children. I'm not so sure about the devil part.

Kentucky what has mitch done for you

BD66 comments on Aug 13, 2019:

Senators can't make their citizens stop smoking cigarettes: https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/cigaretteuseadult.html

Cleaning out the fridge and pantry.

BD66 comments on Aug 10, 2019:

Tough call. You stock up, and you make fewer trips to the store to save gas, but if you buy too much, the food goes rotten and spoils, wasting the money and energy spent to produce it.

Why they ruining the fun ?

BD66 comments on Aug 10, 2019:

Are uncircumcised penises OK?

Not all churches are racist

BD66 comments on Aug 9, 2019:

Jesus wasn't Christian is taking it a bit too far.

Holy shit was real

BD66 comments on Aug 8, 2019:

My daughter is hyper enough already. I can't imagine what she would do with cocaine candy. Check out the "Horehound" flavor!

Ellen Brown writes here that the USA instead of opposing the Chinese economic model should adopt it.

BD66 comments on Aug 8, 2019:

The 2,500,000 Chinese immigrants to the USA certainly don't think so.

Common sense

BD66 comments on Aug 8, 2019:

I used to watch Fox News, and I don't any more. I am now playing video games. I am not a white nationalist My first wife's parents immigrated to the USA from Taiwan LEGALLY. My second wife immigrated to the USA from the PRC LEGALLY. My girlfriend immigrated to the USA from the Philippines LEGALLY. I do believe we should enforce our immigration laws.

Extract quoted by the BBC from Trump's words to survivors in Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital.

BD66 comments on Aug 7, 2019:

Using logic on people who have "faith" is a waste of time.

Daily Blasphemy: I'm a vet, and I'm not afraid of socialism.

BD66 comments on Aug 7, 2019:

That was the great Cold War paradox. The US Armed Services are some of the most Communist Authoritarian Centrally-Planned institutions on the face of the planet, but we needed them to protect the free world from the Communist and Authoritarian Central Planning world.

Why would anyone need a gun when you go to Starbucks?

BD66 comments on Aug 7, 2019:

Maybe he thinks it will help him get to the front of the line faster.

Don't think I could deal with that.

BD66 comments on Aug 7, 2019:

For her, I could deal with that.

Why we miss him

BD66 comments on Aug 7, 2019:

Obama again proves himself to be completely full of shit. Read the third sentence, then compare the murder rates of other countries around the world with the murder rates of the USA. El Salvador 61.8 Jamaica 57 Venezuala 56.33 USA 5.30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Interesting commentary on the current "White Supremacists are the cause of mass shootings" diatribe ...

BD66 comments on Aug 6, 2019:

You are preaching the the choir here. Post it in the Politics section.

Politics , sports, and religion the most corrupt institutions in the world.

BD66 comments on Aug 6, 2019:

Could you explain how golf is corrupt?

The death penalty..

BD66 comments on Aug 6, 2019:

My major problem with the death penalty is the government gets lots of things wrong. However in the case where there is a mass shooting, you have many many witnesses, and the probability they will convict and execute the wrong person is extremely small, so I'm OK with it for mass shooters.

Get your story straight, OBAMA!

BD66 comments on Aug 4, 2019:

Funny you would use 57 and 58: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

How will we pay for it?

BD66 comments on Aug 4, 2019:

If they were not paying their taxes, the IRS would come after them.

What’s the worst thing a loved one tried to defend on behalf of religion?

BD66 comments on Aug 2, 2019:

I explained to my mother yesterday how scientists are sure the Universe was about 13,500,000,000 years old when modern humans emerged rather than rather than 6 days, and her response was, "yes, but back then a day represented billions of years" facepalm.

Do you believe Russian interference aided Donald Trump in winning the 2016 presidential election?

BD66 comments on Aug 1, 2019:

No.

Now, I'm not saying that road side sobriety tests are getting harder, BUT, when I got stopped last ...

BD66 comments on Aug 1, 2019:

I'd be in big trouble too.

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BD66 comments on Aug 1, 2019:

From the "highlights", it sounds like my time was better spent taking a walk and talking on the phone with my girlfriend. At least they don't have someone who shouts down the other 16 candidates like Trump did in the 2016 debates.

"Spiritual not religious" I know this subject has probably been beat to death but having just come ...

BD66 comments on Aug 1, 2019:

In my own specific case, I believe there may be some form of life after death, based on experiences my father and brother had with people who had just passed away. My father and brother are two of the most sane, rational people I know. That's the spiritual part. As far as the religious goes, I don't believe any organized religion has any particular insight with respect to how the universe was created, what that creator wants for us, what happens after you die, etc. That's where the "not religious" comes from.

What if you replaced the Bill of Rights with the Ten Commandments?

BD66 comments on Jul 31, 2019:

That coveting law would be the worst.

Ya don't say...

BD66 comments on Jul 31, 2019:

That's nothing. Here is a shark roaring like a lion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrkeOayCv6E

God let’s 16,000 children die of starvation every day, but he took a selfie 🤳🏼 with toast.

BD66 comments on Jul 31, 2019:

That's not God. That's Jesus. God is an old guy with white hair and a white beard.

Spent the day touring Bletchley park and also the National museum of computing, where there is a ...

BD66 comments on Jul 30, 2019:

That's awesome, I'd love to go there. Tommy Flowers built the first programmable computer, but he had to remain quiet about it while people who built computers years later got all the credit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

This shows how stupid he is

BD66 comments on Jul 30, 2019:

GDP per capita in Somalia: 499.82 USD GDP per capita in Kentucky: $41,463

HOW DO CHRISTIANS EXPLAIN THEIR SUPREME GOD HAVING FLAWED CHARACTER TRAITS LIKE ANGER AND VIOLENCE?

BD66 comments on Jul 30, 2019:

"God Works in Mysterious Ways" is their catch-all for all the logical contradictions.

And I'm sure he would have loved Hitler and Stalin.

BD66 comments on Jul 28, 2019:

Trump doesn't do a deep humiliating bow to the Saudis:

War has one distinct and practical use.

BD66 comments on Jul 27, 2019:

How did you arrive at 2051 and 9/10 of the population?

Mad at god or don't believe?

BD66 comments on Jul 26, 2019:

Looks like 98.9 of us don't believe, and 1.1% are mad at the imaginary man in the sky.

😊 what the 1st 2 said....

BD66 comments on Jul 24, 2019:

Warren and Bill are paying almost no taxes on their vast wealth, and both of them have the nerve to say we should be taxed more.

This is going to be a long post, with math .

BD66 comments on Jul 20, 2019:

Here is a simpler way to look at the problem. One atmosphere of pressure is equivalent to 9 meters of water, so if we were able to turn all the gas in Earth's atmosphere into liquid, it would be 9 meters deep. Mt Everest is approximately 9000 meters above sea level, so we would need to have 1000 times more water vapor in the atmosphere than we have for all gasses today.

Any Trump supporters on here?

BD66 comments on Jul 19, 2019:

I voted for Gary Johnson, but Trump has done a much better job as President than I expected him too. I plan to vote for Trump in 2020. If you look at the numbers: Stock market hitting all-time highs. Unemployment lower than it has been since the 1960's. He's negotiating better trade deals with our trading partners around the world. He is doing great. If he could just keep his urge to tweet under control, his approval numbers would be very high right now.

For the NCAA Football fans here: For the record, I went to NCSU and am a ACC/Wolfpack man till the...

BD66 comments on Jul 19, 2019:

I think you are indeed crazy for thinking Duke could very well win that game, but it would like to see them win too.

Penguins and polar bears stayed home

BD66 comments on Jul 19, 2019:

What about the saltwater and freshwater fish? Those largemouth bass and northern pike would have been in for a big surprise.

OK, not funny :(

BD66 comments on Jul 19, 2019:

They have been saying this since the early 1990's. How much land have we lost in the last 25 years?

I wonder what would happen if Twitter banned Trump from posting tweets.

BD66 comments on Jul 17, 2019:

It’s easy to implement, just stop watching morning news

If only....

BD66 comments on Jul 17, 2019:

Way too many people on this site have a hatred of orange people. It's disgusting.

An Interesting News on NPR Zero Carbon Emissions by 2050 Maersk — the world's largest ...

BD66 comments on Jul 16, 2019:

Sails? Nuclear Reactors?

Fancy a hike?

BD66 comments on Jul 16, 2019:

Here's a guy who took a similar route in the early 90's. Lots of great stories in this book; https://www.amazon.com/Investment-Biker-Around-World-Rogers/dp/0812968719/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Investment+Biker=1563282917&s=gateway&sr=8-1

Are they taking Nancy Reagan war on drugs too far.

BD66 comments on Jul 16, 2019:

Nancy Reagan didn't start the war on drugs. Like many things, the war on drugs was started with good intentions, but the US Government messed it up. Incarcerating more than 1,000,000 non-violent drug offenders is costing us a fortune. Criminal Justice reform and reducing the sentences associated with drug crimes should be the top priority.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‏You know what we’re going to do tomorrow?

BD66 comments on Jul 15, 2019:

Don't forget the "Green New Deal" that will bring our standard of living back to the 19th century..

Had to share immediately!!

BD66 comments on Jul 14, 2019:

Trump is making the Europeans pay for their own defense. Trump is negotiating tough trade deals on behalf of the USA. These are good things for the USA. The fact that the Europeans don't like him shows he is looking out for the interests of Americans and not Europeans.

Most ridiculous religious experiences you’ve witnessed.

BD66 comments on Jul 14, 2019:

Church sponsors a baskeball youth league. At halftime, they lock the doors of the gym to keep people in and force them to listen to them spout their religious BS.

"FORCE MAJEURE The Sun’s Role in Climate Change" by Henrik Svensmark [thegwpf.

BD66 comments on Jul 13, 2019:

You're lucky if 1 person on this web site reads it.

What do you think the response would be if we post this in 'Politics'?

BD66 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

Post it and see.

Religious fools in government office.

BD66 comments on Jul 12, 2019:

He tells the straight up truth and gets hammered in the Presidential Election.

BBC - Future - Do humans have a ‘religion instinct’?

BD66 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Humans have a need to try to explain everything. For thousands of years our science couldn't explain a lot of natural phenomena, so religion filled the void.

Sean Connery and/or science fiction fans will remember. I'm not ready for this!

BD66 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Only Sean Connery could pull off that fashion statement.

[yahoo.

BD66 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

ICE is targeting people who are here ILLEGALLY. The people being targeted are breaking our immigration laws. Trump is now enforcing some of our immigration laws. That is one of the duties of the President and the Executive Branch. He is not being a Nazi, he is simply no longer being derelict in his duty the way many prior Presidents were. Hitler, on the other hand took away the basic human rights of German citizens who were there LEGALLY. Do you see the distinction?

Atheist Medical Practioners- Are there very many?

BD66 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

I believe there are many. They aren't going to make a big deal about it for fear of alienating their patients.

When it is breakfast time my babies sit down at the verandah of their classrooms to enjoy their ...

BD66 comments on Jul 11, 2019:

Interesting topic. My mother goes to a megachurch in Bloomington IL, They support missions in places like Uganda and Haiti. They send a good deal of charity to missions in those countries, but the charity comes with a large dose of preaching. I can imagine it's difficult for a non-religious group to compete.

If you were all powerful which would you choose?...

BD66 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

These memes are hilarious.

Being in this wonderful group I noticed most of the members are from the United States.

BD66 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

I think it's hard to generalize about Americans on that topic.

[jta.

BD66 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

The Nazi's killed 21,000,000 innocent million people? https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS.CHAP1.HTM Trump has killed how many innocent people? Maybe a couple dozen through drone strike errors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._drone_strikes So far your analogy 20 to 30, vs. 21,000,000 if off by a factor of about a million.

Women's sexual desire can alter our lives. Your thoughts?

BD66 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

When sexual desire results in children, your life is certainly altered both for men and women.

Matthew Borges sentenced to life in prison for beheading classmate - CNN

BD66 comments on Jul 10, 2019:

The other prisoners aren't going to want to share a cell with him.

Christian Trophy Hunter Thanks God After Killing Giraffe | Michael Stone

BD66 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

You need God's help to shoot an animal that is 20 feet tall??

More into Democrat 2020 Tom Steyer officially announces presidential bid [cnn.com]

BD66 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Democrats just love venture capital billionaires don't they?

I mean really...

BD66 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

Another good question. If God knows every bad thing you do, why the need to confess to a priest?

This is what we have to watch out for attempts to violate civil rights long standing republican ...

BD66 comments on Jul 9, 2019:

There's the old saying: "My uncle voted Republican his whole life, but after he died he always voted Democrat"

AP: Melania Trump was an undocumented working model in '96

BD66 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Imagining 11,000,000 Melanias running around the USA illegally!

My son's an engineer 😉

BD66 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

You are darned right. You can thank Robert McNamara too who made car safety the #1 priority when he was CEO of Ford.

Why are Christian movies so, so, so terrible?

BD66 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

They are usually low-budget. The movies like Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" are much better but those are rare. Back in the 50's, a large portion of the major epic movies were religious.

Iran is a threat because . . . .

BD66 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Iran is a theocracy that sponsors terrorism and is developing nuclear weapons. I would think atheists would be opposed to theocracies. I would think atheists would be opposed to terrorism. I would think atheists would be opposed to nuclear weapons. Come on, put your common sense above your hatred of Trump.

What are the odds he never attended those "parties"

BD66 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

That explains the Miss Teen USA pageants.

I guess they didn't see god after all... [vice.com]

BD66 comments on Jul 8, 2019:

Beats grape juice and crackers I guess.

They're every damn where. Somebody get me off this planet.

BD66 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

https://qz.com/986221/what-know-it-alls-dont-know-or-the-illusion-of-competence/

Term Limits - is it time to start term limits for Congress?

BD66 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

The flip side to this issue is that if politicians only have ~12 years to enrich themselves that the government trough, they may be even more greedy and willing to sell out the US citizens in order to make the money quickly while they can before they become lobbyists.

Bwahaha, keeps ppl at a distance

BD66 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

Here in Bloomington, IL, he would be surrounded by people who wanted to talk about Jesus.

Christians often believe that god is responsible for their income, house, etc.

BD66 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

There was a movie where Jimmy Stewart was a farmer. He had a great line like "We planted it, we tended it, we harvested it, we cooked it, and now we are going to eat it. Thank you Lord".

Shiny, Captain.

BD66 comments on Jul 7, 2019:

Trump is 73 years old. "Seaport" came out "Airport" You will do the same thing when you are 73 too. It's not like he talked about "visiting 57 states" when he was 47 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmP0yYBOc5w

The White House's Science Division Is Now Completely Empty | IFLScience

BD66 comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Looks like they are staffed up again: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ai/resources/speeches-testimony-interviews/

When Will Americans Realize We're Not the Good Guys?

BD66 comments on Jul 6, 2019:

The US Government often has good intentions, but the US Government often screws up in the implementation phase.

[yahoo.

BD66 comments on Jul 6, 2019:

Coal competes with natural gas, and natural gas is 7 times cheaper today than it was in 2005: https://www.macrotrends.net/2478/natural-gas-prices-historical-chart

I’ve been to busy to welcome new members lately so I’d like to welcome them now.

BD66 comments on Jul 5, 2019:

The few the proud.

MAD magazine, a 67-year satirical touchstone, will disappear from newsstands

BD66 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

Sad.

With all the talk about refugees lately .

BD66 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

How come the British get Freddy Mercury and we get the Tsarnaev brothers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcG79yoqqRo

Big parade today

BD66 comments on Jul 4, 2019:

The same could be said about most military parades.

These guys are so sensitive and emotional, which is ironic because they project that on liberals all...

BD66 comments on Jul 3, 2019:

The most scary thing about Ocasio-Cortez is she is the tip of the iceberg. Universities are turning out lefty idiots like her by the millions.

My Mount Rushmore of comedians, not in any particular order.

BD66 comments on Jul 3, 2019:

That's like a Mount Rushmore of basketball players: Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, and Brian Scalabrine.

So if trump loses the election, will he fabricate a crisis and try to stay in power?

BD66 comments on Jul 3, 2019:

No.

My dad is a dick and he hates me.

BD66 comments on Jul 3, 2019:

And he is his dad, along with the holy ghost, so he really sent himself down to be killed. Makes perfect sense doesn't it?

Someone please help me understand, at least in the U.

BD66 comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Same thing as "Active Shooter". If you aren't "active" you aren't a shooter.

Atheist in the western world.

BD66 comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Yes, In most of Europe, there have been government-sanctioned religions, so the churches had no competition. In the USA, since the Constitution was put in place, there was "freedom of religion" so all churches were free to morph their BS stories to capture the most followers.