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JackPedigo comments on Jan 7, 2019:

It will be eventually when the glaze wears off. My late partner and I were on opposite ends of the personality spectrum but were 95% aligned with our values. That and a willingness to learn and change made all the difference in the world.

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

Generally, I can agree with people about 95℅ of the time. It's that 5℅ disagreement can be a real bitch. Then my chances are good, as long as we can both respect each other's indifferences.

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John_Tyrrell comments on Jan 7, 2019:

As you are not at an age where "how do we deal with bringing up kids and religion" is an issue, I would not worry too much about it as long as religious attitudes are not affecting how you deal with each other. I've got a religious friend who just lost her husband of over 30 years - he'd made it ...

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

Good idea, don't step into their church. All three pass Christian girlfriends in a row dragged me into church and still could not save me.

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Zster comments on Jan 7, 2019:

"Wrong" is a pretty strong word. I would think anything longer term could be risky though. It depends on how flexible each of you can HONESTLY be with the other's opposed value priority. Most christians that I know would never admit to any priority other than "god first, family second" due to having...

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

Both our dreams or aims in life is to go to the end of the world together in a romantic relationship. That ultimate love, could be stronger than her God, kept secretly from herself.

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aspiringunicorn comments on Jan 7, 2019:

I personally wouldn't put myself in that situation. For me, I would be letting myself down again, and I'm unwilling to do that. It might be a good idea, in my opinion, to have a conversation centered around what you believe and are willing to accept, and what she believes and is willing to accept. ...

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

That might be my case, secretly doing it for herself, rather than her God.

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jlynn37 comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Go for it and find out for yourself. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

@Mike1947 It's worth a shot.

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KKGator comments on Jan 7, 2019:

I won't say it's "wrong", because that's a value judgment and I try not to make those. I will, however, say it's pointless, because logically speaking, it's doomed to failure. Enjoy it while it lasts, and be prepared for it to end.

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

Generally atheist marriages do last longer. Me being more of an agnostic and her able to question most things, can turn out to be a good match. I do suffer from some honesty Tourette syndrome. Don't bite my tongue well enough. At Christmas time, my very religious family and I were playing a game of family feud. One question was,...in what professional field, would lie the most? I hand tapped first, and gave an answered,...Clergyman!!!! My niece said to me, how could you?, your brother is a clergyman. Why not answer with, lawyer or Politicans?. Since my niece is a lawyer, maybe she is right. Nationaism is more dangerous than Religion. Most US Presidents were lawyers. That makes sense why, Trump has a world record in law suit's and is a world champion liar. Many Catholic I know, 'don't act very religious like my family. Yet still love and get along with them.

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Spinliesel comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Couldn't you both agree on Maslov's Hierarchy of needs?

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

Maslow's pyramid sounds interesting.

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josh_karpf comments on Jan 7, 2019:

You won't the first! And there may be differences that are worse. Lovely spouse and I nearly killed each other over how to unpack and arrange our new home. Till then I thought vegan vs omni/carnivore was most conflicted, followed by atheist/religionist as a distant third. So enjoy the dating, ...

Castlepaloma replies on Jan 7, 2019:

Outside of one whirlwind romantic relationship. My last three Christian girlfriends in a row, dumped me, because I could not be save by their God. I accepted their religion, yet they did not accept my Individualism. I laid down a new law. Do not try to convert me to your monothecal religion or it could be our deal breaker. At least being spiritualsided is one great thing we both do share.

A veteran friend of mine sent me this along with the message of “ It doesn’t matter who’s in ...

wordywalt comments on Dec 26, 2018:

To degree, that is correct. We should never have been in Vietnam

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 28, 2018:

@motrubl4u We certainly grew up in different worlds. Nobody in my family tree ever killed anyone or was imprisoned. After traveling 100 countries and six of them war zone. I can't imagine running out of ideas to kill anyone. I can't imagine anything more hell on earth than war. Military intelligence is the greatest oxymoron. America has been at war 93℅ of the time since their independence, they have only won the the Mexican/America war. Empires kill more innocent people than any group in human history, all in the name of God and those greedy Bastards.

A veteran friend of mine sent me this along with the message of “ It doesn’t matter who’s in ...

wordywalt comments on Dec 26, 2018:

To degree, that is correct. We should never have been in Vietnam

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 26, 2018:

War solves nothing, I do feel sad for those who were tricked.

Are we witnessing the fall of the USA?

TheAstroChuck comments on Dec 24, 2018:

There's no doubt about it. The US economy will collapse in the not too distant future. The economic collapse will then be followed by the fall of the US government in a fashion reminiscent of the fall of the former Soviet Union. The US will likely then fragment into several smaller nations. It ...

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 24, 2018:

All empires will crash, for what unfolds for the US. I'll be in South America in a selfsubstainable home.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

Radioscope comments on Dec 16, 2018:

I need guns by the swimming pool. Mosquitos, you know. With our skin exposed, I must protect myself and my family.

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 17, 2018:

@Radioscope Lol! One gun happy gun person tried to convince me that hammers as a weapon kill more people than guns do. If that were true. Thor would be leading NATO. Also, murdering someone by hammer into a bloody hamburger. Would be too gross and too personal.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

Castlepaloma comments on Dec 15, 2018:

One person's fantasy is another persons insanity. 1. According to the NRA you are 3 times more likely to commit suicide by gun than to kill anyone else. 2. You are more likely to kill someone you know with a gun than a criminal. 3. There is a chance the criminal can disarm you and use the gun ...

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 17, 2018:

@Paul4747 I don't get your suicide logic. Still suicide overall kill more people than wars and homocide combined. I thought the US was the greatest country in the world, up to the 90s. It's where I lived often and made most of my money. Today US has turn into the new USSR in most part. Number one in Prisons, Wars, crimes in the Industrial nations and angels. Guns and marrijanna have been used against us led by US everywhere in the world.. Even our love lives have been much divided and conquered. My rant is designed radar for detecting BS levels. In order to move far away from the US ground zero when the insanity hits the fan with depression and War. Colombia is so beautiful these days. I won't forget the good times in the US. There will be starving or obese Americans in need of my natural food care packages.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

genessa comments on Dec 15, 2018:

yes, great idea. let's give guns to insane people, people convicted of violent crimes, abusive husbands, radicalized evangelicals, and anyone in my neighborhood i don't know who might have some grudge against someone and decide a gun is a good tool for solving it. g

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 17, 2018:

@genessa I know, the Grimm's brothers were famous Philosopher. They wrote children stories on the side. The stories that children get, and many aldults don't.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

genessa comments on Dec 15, 2018:

yes, great idea. let's give guns to insane people, people convicted of violent crimes, abusive husbands, radicalized evangelicals, and anyone in my neighborhood i don't know who might have some grudge against someone and decide a gun is a good tool for solving it. g

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 16, 2018:

Give guns to children too!!!! The NRA starts with Grimms fairytales to educate children about guns in school. With stories like the Hansel and Gretel. No wonder armed toddlers kill more people than terrorist do.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

GeorgeRocheleau comments on Dec 15, 2018:

By this logic, we shouldn't have any crime now, and Japan should be awash in a sea of blood.

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 16, 2018:

There was a bicycle stolen last week in Tokyo. No other crime to report.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

sfvpool comments on Dec 15, 2018:

That would be a violation of my rights. They would be paid for with tax dollars -- stolen from me and every other tax payer.

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 16, 2018:

They need guns to hold us as slaves. Drugs and guns have been used against us. In order to control and own us. I perfer to lead my own life, who can do it better?

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

Castlepaloma comments on Dec 15, 2018:

One person's fantasy is another persons insanity. 1. According to the NRA you are 3 times more likely to commit suicide by gun than to kill anyone else. 2. You are more likely to kill someone you know with a gun than a criminal. 3. There is a chance the criminal can disarm you and use the gun ...

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 16, 2018:

@Paul Point by point: 1) For men, this would be true, I imagine. But that doesn't mean the gun causes the suicide. A- If I get upset, I'm going to write a letter. If you get upset, your going to get your gun 2) Studies showing the US crime rate went down; logically, criminals know they have a chance of being shot themselves. A- If Europe (per capita) crime rate is half of America for lack of guns. Then Japan is half the crime rate as Europe with even less gun. Your logic is greatly flawed 3) I will take that chance, compared to the possibility of bringing a finger to a gunfight. A- Any fool can pull a trigger, I can't imagine running out of ideas to kill anyone in my lifetime. Where do you live? Iraq.. 4) I will not willingly take any life except to save my own or someone else's. A- US troops kill ten fold or a hundred fold of their enemies, most by guns. To prove to us killing is wrong. Domestic or overseas, guns make hippocrites and can give you a licence to kill, by law, not by ethics. Plus an express ticket to hell on earth. Police response time to a 911 call averages 11 minutes. A- There is no creasure that gives more loyalty, friendship, unconditional love than a dog. Why would you not adopted a dog into your family. I don't trust any family member to give a bullet up for me better than a dog. Why call authorities when the UNjustice system and Troops empires kill more innocent people than any other group in human history. Violence will never stop violence, killing will never stop killing, it only increases it, no better tool designed to kill than a gun to do that meaningless job.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

Deveno comments on Dec 16, 2018:

Can I get more than one gun? I'd like to kill certain people with special guns.

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 16, 2018:

@Deveno Or their Disrespect for more likely killing yourself or someone you known, rather than the criminal.

Guns: Give them to everyone as a government program.

Radioscope comments on Dec 16, 2018:

I need guns by the swimming pool. Mosquitos, you know. With our skin exposed, I must protect myself and my family.

Castlepaloma replies on Dec 16, 2018:

Those mosquito can kill you at a greater rate than guns can. Yours better off killing those mosquito with a sludge hammer ⚒.

WE ALL WORSHIP one GOD, It's called the GOVERNMENT! Some say, you can not be an anarchist without...

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 31, 2018:

With retirement money and an international sculpture business, money will go much further. Plus build my tiny castle home without the hassle and grow my own healthier food. People feel they won't survive without the Government. Yet I don't know anything the Government can do well, except harm ...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 31, 2018:

@Byrdsfan Because the many people, that don't question they are crazy, probably are.

Can we learn more from ants than imaginary Gods.?

Matias comments on Oct 26, 2018:

Ants teach us that individuals do not exist. Ants do not have rights or dignity. Ants teach us that only the elite should reproduce. if a worker ant tried to lay eggs of her own, she is killed by her sisters. To sum up: In the world of ants "Brave new World" is not a dystopia but daily ...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 26, 2018:

We could learn alot from apes and chimps. Yet there success rate from extinction or survival is not so great. Not like the octopus, jellyfish or Trarigrades. I was more comparing an ant system to the monotheism Religion system of cherry picking better idea, hell knows the bible has too many horrible ideas.. In my world as a strong individual, it more effective sharing with other strong individuals. That can be different for a lone wolf who dies without the pac, like a Religion. The game of life, Tit for Tat is also a highly effective strategy in game for dilemm with everyone. It is more efficient than the heirachary game of chess related to Religion. As we can learn cherry picking something from everyone and from any species in the animal kingdom that contributions of different individuals within such groups vary can all somehow be incorporated into each individual. Certain individual ants were indeed highly active in tandem running, attempting significantly more tandem runs per ant. However, surprisingly, these active individuals were in fact no more successful at completing the task. "Instead, it seemed that when more tandem runs were needed, colonies relied on greater numbers of ants being involved in the process. Iindividuals exist within groups of animals, their relative contribution to task performance may be far from decisive." Monotheism religion for sure divides other groups of people and individual thinking. As we are, what we each think. If the Religious plan is to out breed us and make us dumber, we are better to re educate them.

Can we learn more from ants than imaginary Gods.?

JacarC comments on Oct 25, 2018:

""" Can we learn more from ants than imaginary Gods.? """ Well, YA!

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 25, 2018:

For 90℅ of the times humans have been on the earth we feared large animals most. There was good reasons to fear them. Now we have killed most of the animals and large trees in the last 50 years. Where now, most people fear God and Satan. Religion is based on fear, then tooled by greedy Corperationism/ military and politics. An atheist won't get into political high office, when they compare them with rapist. I rather worship an ant.

Is the world becoming more atheist?

paul1967 comments on Oct 22, 2018:

I can tell you that I've been an Atheist since the 60s and without a doubt, Atheism is on the rise, and if you are willing to give it 50 years you will see a dramatic increase from today. That is assuming we get through Donald Trumps term in office of course ;)

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 22, 2018:

@paul1967 LOL Pope was Times Man of the Year. He sounds more atheist than any other Pope before him. A believer in the Big Bang, Evolution, Aliens are our Savior, Hell dose not exist and dogs go to heaven. Pope has a dead end job and Trump need a metal hospital.

Is the world becoming more atheist?

paul1967 comments on Oct 22, 2018:

I can tell you that I've been an Atheist since the 60s and without a doubt, Atheism is on the rise, and if you are willing to give it 50 years you will see a dramatic increase from today. That is assuming we get through Donald Trumps term in office of course ;)

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 22, 2018:

Didn't the Pope say Trump was not a Christian. Still would want the most embarrassing ass out.

Is the world becoming more atheist?

Lucignolo comments on Oct 22, 2018:

If you remove religion and leave people ignorant, you have achieved nothing. It’s tricky. Religion has been intertwined with established power. The problem with religion is that all religions are not factual, but more than that, it’s the fact that once they grow, they start to try and gain ...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 22, 2018:

To many the world is going to hell in a hand basket. It will get worst before it's gets better. On the Contrary, from what boomers may think. Each generation is generally less ignorance than the one before. The third world countries have updated information access on the internet as we do. Places like China and Middle East are fastest changing than any place in the world. I think in my lifetime most people will be non believers. Most people I meet, already say they are spiritual rather than Religious.

History of American violence is a hazard to culture & health.

Castlepaloma comments on Oct 11, 2018:

Everybody comfortably numb? I'm well prepared for much worst to come.

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 12, 2018:

@zesty In China today, poverty refers mainly to the rural poor, as decades of economic growth have largely eradicated urban poverty.The dramatic progress in reducing poverty over the past three decades in China is well known. According to the World Bank, more than 500 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty as China’s poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 6.5 percent in 2012, as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity terms. Since the start of far-reaching economic reforms in the late 1970s, growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income helping to lift more people out of poverty than anywhere else in the world: China's per capita income has increased fivefold between 1990 and 2000, from $200 to $1,000. Between 2000 and 2010, per capita income also rose by the same rate, from $1,000 to $5,000, moving China into the ranks of middle-income countries. Between 1990 and 2005, China’s progress accounted for more than three-quarters of global poverty reduction and a big factor in why the world reached the UN millennium development of dividing extreme poverty by two. This incredible success was delivered by a combination of a rapidly expanding labour market, driven by a protracted period of economic growth, and a series of government transfers such as an urban subsidy, and the introduction of a rural pension. As long as the Chinese leader dose not bully other small countries out of their lives and natural resources

History of American violence is a hazard to culture & health.

zesty comments on Oct 11, 2018:

The leadership of Peoples Republic of China is in a permanent state of war with their own population since the communist party gained power. Tens of millions of innocent Chinese people died. The most meaningful act of kindness is taking out the top communist leadership of China!

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 12, 2018:

To say China is a communist country either means you are out-of-date, ... of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship. China has many private capitalists and entrepreneurs with public and collective enterprise. Yet China remains Royal China, because the Party retains control over the direction of the country, maintaining its course of socialist development.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

mikebeed comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Where's Colin KapperDick,lol

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 7, 2018:

@mikebeed Caitlyn Jenner, could still complete in the Grandma master's. On a poster, airbrushed she looks good for age 68.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Xuande comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Look stats and fans are great measures, OK? But when it comes to the Top 10, this is incredibly wrong The list should be: 1. Kobe 2. Kobe 3. Kobe 4. etc. Jest aside, it's interesting that there's only 1 football player on here, and one most people haven't heard of. Walter Payton deserves...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 7, 2018:

@Beowulfsfriend Otto Graham was the starting quarterback for seven championship teams with the Cleveland Browns. But only three of those teams won NFL championships. American football was invented in Canada in 1874. My pick is Jim Thorpe because of his dominatance in Championships early on in pro football brought the popularity to the push for the NFL League.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Count_Viceroy comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Where's Hulk Hogan?

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 7, 2018:

@jorj Pro football players have tried out for pro wrestling and many didn't make the cut physically. They say the wrestlers and their feild have one the highest IQs in sports. Where golfers are said to have one of the lowest IQs. Love Jessi Ventura, more now.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Xuande comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Look stats and fans are great measures, OK? But when it comes to the Top 10, this is incredibly wrong The list should be: 1. Kobe 2. Kobe 3. Kobe 4. etc. Jest aside, it's interesting that there's only 1 football player on here, and one most people haven't heard of. Walter Payton deserves...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 7, 2018:

Walter Payton had great individual records. Yet, only won two Superbowl rings. Over 40 players have won more than one Superbowl ring with Tom Brady winning Five rings

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

242Foxtrot comments on Oct 6, 2018:

It's a very interesting mathematical formula here, and it's interesting to not all of those listed are in unique sports. Did you see a bigger list? I'd be curious as to where Willie Mays or Henry Aaron might be.

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 7, 2018:

From judging in many international sports and art competitions. I found the best judges are your own peers.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Count_Viceroy comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Where's Hulk Hogan?

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 7, 2018:

@Stevil Ric Flair, said so himself and I can see for myself.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Count_Viceroy comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Where's Hulk Hogan?

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 6, 2018:

@Stevil A fair part of it was real up to the 1990s. The million $ man-Ed change the stories alot. Pro wrestling is one of the safest professional contact sports.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

mikebeed comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Where's Colin KapperDick,lol

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 6, 2018:

@mikebeed Jim Thorpe won both Gold in pentathlon and Decathlon in Sweden Olympics. The King said you are the best athletes in the world. Jim said, Thanks King. Jim Thorpe was voted Best American Athlete of the century. Since 7 Americans on are this list of the top ten, do I say more.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Xuande comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Look stats and fans are great measures, OK? But when it comes to the Top 10, this is incredibly wrong The list should be: 1. Kobe 2. Kobe 3. Kobe 4. etc. Jest aside, it's interesting that there's only 1 football player on here, and one most people haven't heard of. Walter Payton deserves...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 6, 2018:

Jim Thorpe really promoted football into the NFL more than anyone. Bill Russell 11 NBA title Michael Jordan 7 titles Kobe Bryan 5 titles LeBRON James 2 title Peers voted Jordan no 1. Player of all times. LeBRON has most points in playoffs of all times. It would be a Jordan challenge if LeBRON dose very well in LA for the next 4 years.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Beowulfsfriend comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Pele is no surprise. 20 years after retiring he was still the highest money making athelete, actually making more than Jordan in his hey days. Pele was making 200 million a year in the 90's. That is what world wide fame can bring. I would add Ali, myself, near the top.

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 6, 2018:

Ali became the first million $ boxer. Today Floyd Mayweather is the first billion$ boxer without a loss. Although peers voted Ali ranked #1. Comparing world championships and win/loss records, not as great as a couple of other boxers and top other athletes.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Count_Viceroy comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Where's Hulk Hogan?

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 6, 2018:

@Stevil Some people actually think that is all real. I was competing in international wrestling, at their age, BRING IT ON!!!

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

ipdg77 comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Just at a glance if Williams is there so should Federer, if Phelps is there what about Spitz, Tiger Woods then surely Nicholas. I get that any list is open to opinion but this seems to miss a few.

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 6, 2018:

William has won 3 more single grand slams than Federer and most double and mixed doubles grand slams. Only women athletes to make to the top 50 networth athletes. Tiger was voted by peers, although personally I picked Nicholas too. Can't pick two in one sport, that would be bias.

Top ten ranking Athletes of all times.

Gareth comments on Oct 6, 2018:

Never heard of Gretzky or Kiraly - no wonder, since ice hockey and volleyball are not major international sports. Off-hand, I can think of Paavo Nurmi, Don Bradman, Roger Federer, Bjorn Borg, Carl Lewis and Maradona who I would put above them, although really it's a pointless exercise to compare ...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 6, 2018:

Vollyball Five continental confederations: AVC (Asia), CAVB (Africa), CEV (Europe), CSV (South America) and NORCECA (North and Central America). The fifth largest in sports fans. Ice hockey is the least worldwide sport on this list. Yet played on 4 continents and needed something to represent winter sports.

Trust is overrated and honestly is underrated Most people use dishonesty in order to keep trust.

Matias comments on Oct 4, 2018:

I tend to disagree. Mutual trust among strangers is maybe the most valuable "human resource" a society has. Social scientists call it "social capital" and they measure it by asking people on the street "On average: Do you think that the majority of your compatriots can be trusted?"- In ...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 4, 2018:

There is upsides and downsides and degrees to most everything. I gave you the downsides of trust, the larger and centralized groups, I trust less and individual I trust more. I had to have a high degree trust to survive for 44 years in an Artist business and for family and friends. Be Honest and don't harm rules, gain my trust with others. Played the game tit for tat rather than chess. Out of 600 strategy games of life. Tit for tat was number one. Results of cooperation is sustained once it begins, but noncooperative behavior is punished by a lack of cooperation in the next round of play, like with suckers pay offs changes the energy level. It's a way of earnings trust. Why would people trust US Presidents when they don't' deliver on even 25,℅ of their promises, I need a 100℅ to work with them. More often, happier and trustworthy countries are the ones with smaller Government and less people. I was demonstrating how honesty is more important than the trust of large organization who don't give a dam if you live or die. Oh yes, trust is vital, just saying beware on who you trust. I personally don't trust US politicans, Nationaism and their Religion anymore than I can throw them. The American people are basically good. You agree that in general, trend in Western societies towards less and less trust.

Doubt vs gullibilty

TristanNuvo comments on Oct 3, 2018:

I've mentioned this in another post a bit ago. I find that planting seeds works wonders. i've had conversations with many believers, some are great friends. I learned that it's never a good thing to try and force any one to think differently than they do. However, what I do is listen to what ...

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 3, 2018:

Works better than having fits and calling them delusional

Trust is overrated and honestly is underrated Most people use dishonesty in order to keep trust.

Cosmicowl_73 comments on Oct 3, 2018:

I'm learning to trust no one.

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 3, 2018:

Trust is overrated. Yet I will take the risk of trusting someone if we are honestly in love. It's better to have lost a love, than to never have tried love at all. A degree of trust is healthy, even to trust other people. Like they won't cross the yellow line, when driving in two way traffic.

Being an optimist, I found something solidly good in everyone.

Martie1965 comments on Sep 29, 2018:

How about Trump was the necessary evil needed to make more people pay attention and get more involved? That's my take on this painful period in American history.

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 2, 2018:

@Stig The thinking process is to get them to work it til it looks right. They are the creators and it's still not happening. I'll say don't change it now, yet next time. Us sculptor can get bent out of shape, and have tortured soul. Yet, all the vertern I know, love their work.

Being an optimist, I found something solidly good in everyone.

Martie1965 comments on Sep 29, 2018:

How about Trump was the necessary evil needed to make more people pay attention and get more involved? That's my take on this painful period in American history.

Castlepaloma replies on Oct 1, 2018:

@Stig I say that, when training artist on the job. There is not enough time to do it right the first time. Yet all kinds of time to fix it later.

Being an optimist, I found something solidly good in everyone.

linxminx comments on Sep 29, 2018:

I'm wondering if the democrats would have had someone other than Clinton or Sanders to choose from, if Trump would not have won. I wasn't thrilled with either Trump or Clinton, but ended up voting for Clinton as the lesser of 2 narcissists. I don't think we had much to choose from with this last ...

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 29, 2018:

Being a bit of an anarchist, I see no sense in voting for a lesser evil. I take no stock or responsible for presidents progressively getting worst since Kennedy. There is much more personal growth and happiness in being your own leader in life. Let Assholes be assholes and for most part their power shrinks by ignoring them.

Being an optimist, I found something solidly good in everyone.

BestWithoutGods comments on Sep 29, 2018:

13. He hasn't started WWIII. Yet. He may be trying, but his incompetence has made him fail. So far.

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 29, 2018:

That too, is a silver lining. He won't be as cunning or taken seriously as Hitler.

Being an optimist, I found something solidly good in everyone.

Martie1965 comments on Sep 29, 2018:

How about Trump was the necessary evil needed to make more people pay attention and get more involved? That's my take on this painful period in American history.

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 29, 2018:

I said that about GW Bush and then Presidents got worst. Nothing changed about the amount of wars, then he brought back the nuclear arm race. Then punishment Nato members for not paying their high increase fees. Wars ends up solving nothing anyway.

Being an optimist, I found something solidly good in everyone.

birdingnut comments on Sep 29, 2018:

When you can't cry any more..laugh.

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 29, 2018:

Yes, laughing is great medicine. Like being served lemons, you make lemonade.

Does anyone truly "believe"?

Castlepaloma comments on Sep 29, 2018:

Got a wolfpack theory. Wolves are very social creatures like humans. If a wolf gets rejected from the pack, he becomes a lone wolf, a wolf who can not survive without the pack and dies. Most humans think this same way, except a lone wolf human can survive without the pack, as a strong ...

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@kasmian Dogs, wolves and humans are much closer related socially than you would think. Many cases humans and dogs have closer bonds like ultimate love, loyalty and friendship. When a dog joins a human family, he will fight to the death to protect from an outcast intruders as they would with their own pack of dogs or wolves. Wolves are second to human for territorial ownership for hunting and exploring on earth. I could learn by simplifying how a human ought to be living from the Tree of survival of law of nature rather than. A fairytale of the Tree of life made up of laws for greed control by many monotheism Religions. Like when the homo sapiens who came across another tribe who dresses and grunts differently so they killed them, so where Religion was born. Human are far overrated in their over ego world. If their comunication to create allies when associating those labels are advanced. Why would they kill 83℅ of the mammal on earth and half of the plant life. In my books, humans are a failed species of animals. Take the age of the earth into a year calendar. Man has lived on earth for 10 minutes wail an octopus or jelly fish has live on earth for 4 months.

I got frustrated with my special lady last night and punched my steering wheel quite hard in anger.

Drsmash253 comments on Sep 27, 2018:

Many years ago when trying to save my marriage I ordered dr. John Gray Men Are from Mars Women Are from Venus and I was taught that there are three phases to an apology first you have to sincerely and abjectly apologize then you have to tell why you're apologizing and then you have to explain to her...

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

@Nardi Great start, from a hopeful romantic.

I got frustrated with my special lady last night and punched my steering wheel quite hard in anger.

EricSellers comments on Sep 27, 2018:

I won't say sorry. Its the easy way out. actions speak louder than words. Time Heals all wounds.

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

@maturin1919 I have 2 rules. Be honest and don't harm. The only time I would break the honest rule is for kindness to defuse harmful possibilities. There is no anger in me just at times deep frustrations. As I said , I don't know if Nardi would hit a woman. I sense his girlfriend has no idea if he would hit her as she suspect he might. An opolgy would be the first step to unsure her trust, that he would not hit her ever. I don't care how it looks, it's how you truely feel that counts.

I got frustrated with my special lady last night and punched my steering wheel quite hard in anger.

Castlepaloma comments on Sep 27, 2018:

Yes, a big mistake, if you deeply care about this woman. Yet knowing a violent act, even if it was on a steering wheel, she would react harshly to. Women love to hear sorry, this is the best time to get on your hands and knees and beg for forgiveness. Don't know you, if you have ever hit a ...

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

@Nardi Sometimes a women can almost drive me insane. I go to the woods alone and have my shit fit and gather my thoughts and work it out. You can't beat love and work. Give it all you got.

I got frustrated with my special lady last night and punched my steering wheel quite hard in anger.

Castlepaloma comments on Sep 27, 2018:

Yes, a big mistake, if you deeply care about this woman. Yet knowing a violent act, even if it was on a steering wheel, she would react harshly to. Women love to hear sorry, this is the best time to get on your hands and knees and beg for forgiveness. Don't know you, if you have ever hit a ...

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

@Donotbelieve I referring to this case. People in general love to hear a sincere apologies to any serious mistake. We are not all Canadains here..... Just a little joke.

I got frustrated with my special lady last night and punched my steering wheel quite hard in anger.

EricSellers comments on Sep 27, 2018:

I won't say sorry. Its the easy way out. actions speak louder than words. Time Heals all wounds.

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

I say sorry when ever I make a mistake to anyone. My EQ is more important to use than my IQ in a over ego and emotional world. You can end up too much inside your head. Unless your Donald Trump who bash his way out of everything.

I got frustrated with my special lady last night and punched my steering wheel quite hard in anger.

Castlepaloma comments on Sep 27, 2018:

Yes, a big mistake, if you deeply care about this woman. Yet knowing a violent act, even if it was on a steering wheel, she would react harshly to. Women love to hear sorry, this is the best time to get on your hands and knees and beg for forgiveness. Don't know you, if you have ever hit a ...

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

@Donotbelieve Only when you have made a serious mistake, like in this case. When and where did you ever find a man that doesn't make a mistake in an emotional love relationship along the way? Unless it in a movie like Love Story. Love is never having to say your sorry. Wished we all could lived in a love movie.

Is it child abuse or child neglect to take a child under 18 to a religious establishment and live ...

mattersauce comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Poor form poll with "maybe" & "yes" as the only options. No, it's not child abuse. If theism is correct then those people are working to save the child's immortal soul and even this site has many people who confess to "not being sure" that there's no god.

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

@mattersauce I tend to agree, even though I think Religion causes more harm than good. In the general American male population, a conservative estimate is one in 10 was cause a child molesters act. Margaret Leland Smith, a researcher at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says her review of the numbers indicates it's closer to one in 5. Even those numbers may be low; research suggests that only a third of abuse cases are ever reported (making it the most underreported crime). "However you slice it, it's a very common experience. Don't think Priest would be any higher rate. Even I was drugged and molested at age 12. It was not my fault, yet thought maybe, it's the gay disease because gay acts were illegal at the time. I should of paid more attention to Grimm's fairytales story about Hansel and Gretel. I'm straight and confront every problems as an aldult, up to today. Although nothing wrong of being gay, just not equipped to join the team.

A greenhouse was made into an experimental living space in Taiwan.

Castlepaloma comments on Sep 27, 2018:

Working on the similar concept in tiny homes, plants pump in fresh oxygen. The adverage building in 9 times more toxic inside than outside. As we breathe more than anything else. Make you feel alive amoung the living rather than an over synthetic world.

Castlepaloma replies on Sep 27, 2018:

@Drsmash253 That's right, in fact they remove plants at night in hospital rooms. I build my green house eco system outside of the Adobe home. Yet pumping in fresh oxygen during the day. I have restored built eco system for sick building in Toronto.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

birdingnut comments on Aug 18, 2018:

No kidding. But people who get too curious about the US government's official lines tend to have short lifespans.

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

@IAmLove I would not go that far, no proof if any Aliens have landed on earth. I don't count the illegal Mexican aliens. I don't count out helicopter hovering over. Then troops crashing through my roof. Then cable down into my living room to shoot my dog. Then blame it on killer weed then haul me off to a Walmart fema camp, then inject me with a chip.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

MacTavish comments on Aug 19, 2018:

What *evidence* do you have to support your suppositions? What is your knowledge of velocity and kinetic energy? Thermodynamics? Architecture? Engineering? My Dad thought the same way as you, he even thought there was a little man inside his TV signal converter box that spied on him. Not to...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

@MacTavish Once in a wail I question if I have a screw loose being a sculptor for 44 years. The ones who don't ask if they are crazy are the ones in real deep trouble. If your living in your Mom's basement with cats and meaning less numbers in a vacuum, without smelling reality, you might be that guy. Henry Ford hires engineers to help work out his puzzle plans. I do the same with 25 different sculptural world records broken in scale of different materials with proof. If your smart enough to figure out there is no God. Go to the next level and figure out Nationaism is more dangerous than Religion, quote by Richard Dawkins.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

MacTavish comments on Aug 19, 2018:

What *evidence* do you have to support your suppositions? What is your knowledge of velocity and kinetic energy? Thermodynamics? Architecture? Engineering? My Dad thought the same way as you, he even thought there was a little man inside his TV signal converter box that spied on him. Not to...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

@MacTavish I'm sure this Jane's theory has never been tested in real life because no incident have happened in history. Numbers don't lie, just following the money of 8. 5 trillion dollars most benefits banks and military unlimited budgets years afterwards . Then puzzled all that together with the world's greatest dangerous liars, Rumsfeld and Bush. I built life-size dinosaurs using aluminum and steel. Have you ever seen a wrecking yard of jet plane being tore apart like paper, never steel, steel might bend, not come apart easily. The wings penetrate the concrete and 14 inch steel and slide into the World Trade Center like a knife through butter. Imagine a aluminum hammer and aluminum nail trying to pound through heavy steel with no hesitation. Then its not even a sharp point, but 75' wide span, it's totally impossible. It's known that these planes are made from aluminum. So do the math, aluminum Vs. Concrete steel framed sky scraper. Who wins? A pancake demolition afterwards makes sense and many heard the Multiple explosions and recorded. Give physical logic and evidence a chance. Then then the pentagon probably didn't differ much neither. When the plane hit the Pentagon and continues to hit the floor, ceiling, columns and interior walls, all at high speeds at the same time. It took an aluminum plastic nose plane to hit a18' reinforced concrete wall. Even if I hit it several times, like a battling Ram at high speeds, it would turn into dust. If I took the biggest redwood tree trunk then rammed it into the Pentagon several times, then my veteran artist would not laugh at me, as it has been proven in history books.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

MacTavish comments on Aug 19, 2018:

What *evidence* do you have to support your suppositions? What is your knowledge of velocity and kinetic energy? Thermodynamics? Architecture? Engineering? My Dad thought the same way as you, he even thought there was a little man inside his TV signal converter box that spied on him. Not to...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

Age 4, I questioned Noah Arc and live musician playing on the radio. Age 8, threw away my army men toys, knew killing was the worst wrong. Where US presidents supposed to be most intelligent yet never grew up because they kill millions of women and children and take no responsibility for it. I think of myself as a bio -organism first. As far as raw natural energy, I have insight of velocity and kinetic energy from being a world class athletes and sculptor. Thermodynamics Architecture Engineering. Started as an 3D animator, then brick mason, then built 3 self substainable ego villages totally off grid. Using Geothermal energy for heating and cooling. Use solar energy for home and workshop. Harvest water, for greenhouse food, Xeriscaping landscape, gardening, and grey water system. Plus build for top movie makers, costumes, museum and theme parks. Tell me what I can't figure out? Hired over a 1000 people, many smarter than me.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

MacTavish comments on Aug 19, 2018:

What *evidence* do you have to support your suppositions? What is your knowledge of velocity and kinetic energy? Thermodynamics? Architecture? Engineering? My Dad thought the same way as you, he even thought there was a little man inside his TV signal converter box that spied on him. Not to...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

@weeman Like your white Afro.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

birdingnut comments on Aug 18, 2018:

No kidding. But people who get too curious about the US government's official lines tend to have short lifespans.

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

Many celebrities that normally speck up, do fear for their careers and life when speaking about 9/11 or Zionist.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

IAmLove comments on Aug 18, 2018:

I have been researching this subject and am in agreement with you. Bush even let it slip in a speech ....made sure no one was on the top floors...what crap. Also I just love the fake pictures of the planes going in. Drones covered by structures looking like planes. Did you see the plane slip ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

Normally a plastic, aluminum plane would have hit that steel grit and fall off like a bug on a windshield. See that plane's outline reminds of the cartoon coyote hitting the ground. Having worked in many material in sculpture. I would have used a flying saucer with diamonds blade teeth to get through that thick of steel and that big.

Is 9/11 the worst cover-up in mankinds history.

powder comments on Aug 18, 2018:

I don't know anyone that, looking at damage at Pentagon, believe a commercial airliner hit it.

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 19, 2018:

I think a missles hit through that thick wall, then they place a tale end, for special effects.

With such a lack of Reason and Logic amongst religionists and spiritualists how do we who have ...

Castlepaloma comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I"m agnostic and spiritual. Who is to say atheist are not unbalance by being too much into their own heads. Too much in our minds is where the source of problems are. Why not lead their lives with their hearts?, said to be the other brain or sub consciousness. Suppose they lack the ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 10, 2018:

@Diogenes Best thing about Religion for me, is the comedy material for my standup as Religion is so outrageous. Atheist and Religion I find both extreme and limited in overall thinking, yet atheist is harmless. From building alot of history museums displays. I'm most impress with the greater number of great people throughout human history. That were more middle grounds thinking. Balance like agnostic , or spiritual sided rather than Religious.

With such a lack of Reason and Logic amongst religionists and spiritualists how do we who have ...

Castlepaloma comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I"m agnostic and spiritual. Who is to say atheist are not unbalance by being too much into their own heads. Too much in our minds is where the source of problems are. Why not lead their lives with their hearts?, said to be the other brain or sub consciousness. Suppose they lack the ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 9, 2018:

@Mcflewster My studies in Asia Taoism in the 70s taught me, we have 3 brains. One in the gut, the heart and the brain for our mental, physical and emotional health. This practice has giving me higher energy to achieve world ranking in athletic sport. Then later on a world renowned sculptor profession for 40 years. Religion is not meaning being spiritual. Spiritual is different.

I’ve been shot in combat.

bandit321 comments on Aug 9, 2018:

I'm more in favor of placing trained dogs in the class room! sitting beside or laying beside the teachers desk! They will take out an intruder in moments (besides I do not know to meany people who knowingly want to annoy a K9). Right now as the military is winding down operations around the world ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 9, 2018:

Kind of distracting, yet better than guns.

With such a lack of Reason and Logic amongst religionists and spiritualists how do we who have ...

Castlepaloma comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I"m agnostic and spiritual. Who is to say atheist are not unbalance by being too much into their own heads. Too much in our minds is where the source of problems are. Why not lead their lives with their hearts?, said to be the other brain or sub consciousness. Suppose they lack the ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 8, 2018:

@JimG It's interesting how the overrated mental brain of humans and Dolphins are. They are weaker than brain power of the gut and heart. Look at the jellyfish with no brain yet out survives all animals on earth.

With such a lack of Reason and Logic amongst religionists and spiritualists how do we who have ...

Castlepaloma comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I"m agnostic and spiritual. Who is to say atheist are not unbalance by being too much into their own heads. Too much in our minds is where the source of problems are. Why not lead their lives with their hearts?, said to be the other brain or sub consciousness. Suppose they lack the ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 8, 2018:

@JimG My personal experience, with most atheist that fear going into any discussions with any depth about imagination and spiritual topics. They fear the out of mind experience. Meaning leading with the heart, that they would call just a muscle rather than a second brain. My daughter and I are fearless. Everyone dies yet not everyone lives. We don't fear death, it just this unknown spiritual world, that Religion claim to have found it. “Religion is belief in someone else’s experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.” Spiritual meaning explore the 99℅ unknown, until its manifest into our ego self. Everything I have ever achieved in life was all once imagined and the same for the history of of mankind. Beauty is truth, we all lie, it just in degrees each of us lie. My only two simple rules is to not to harm and be honest, keeping it to the lowest degree. Bullshit is the worst kind of lying, you don't even care that you are lying. To claim a book to be the universal truth and knowledge, is the greatest Bullshit story ever told.

Rules of Logic.

GipsyOfNewSpain comments on May 10, 2018:

I guess I am pre moses kind of old soul. I live without commandments.

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 7, 2018:

I think my daughter is smarter than Moses.

Anybody previously religious? Which book or idea broke the camels back for you?

pinklotus18 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

It wasn't at all a book or an idea for me. In my case, it was the hypocrisy I observed for many years by "religious" people. I saw no one whose words matched their actions or lifestyle.

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 7, 2018:

I study behaviors too, it causes more harm than good.

Overused religious words.... GO...

Sheannutt comments on Aug 6, 2018:

When a person dies they say "He/She is now with GOD" ?

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 6, 2018:

Biblical chances are, they are with Satan.

Living in a small town full of religious people is one of the most depressing forms of existence.

Cassiopeia comments on Aug 5, 2018:

This type of environment simply does not exist here in the UK, do people randomly start talking to you and trying to convert you? I’m genuinely curious, I have a few friends who are religious but they keep it to themselves and their church friends.

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 5, 2018:

@Unrighteous I had this Mormon business partner, we traveled in hotels rooms together for 3 years. He never would let me see his magic underwear. Must be a world record game of hide and seek to the catch the magic underwear.

Living in a small town full of religious people is one of the most depressing forms of existence.

Butterflywndr comments on Aug 4, 2018:

The hardest part of life is realizing you can’t change someone else. While they believe there is something wrong with you because you can’t see the way they do. It’s taken me a long time, but, I’ve found when I just let people be people and not focus on the religion, we get along better. ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 5, 2018:

@Butterflywndr I told a Christian woman, I was a Christian for 3 months. Then she said , oh that is why your such a nice person. Hitler was born and dead a Catholic, he must have been a really nice person.

Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round

Humanistheathen comments on Aug 3, 2018:

I simply don't believe this stat and suspect a very poor sampling population. The Millennial generation is about 87 million strong. You're telling me there are 30 million Americans who grew up with the internet from a very young age that don't believe the earth is round? That number is fucking ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 5, 2018:

@Flyingsaucesir That plane by Newton law of physics. Would of hit that building like a bug hitting a windshield then dropping off it. That was express by many demolition expert's who know the building were destroyed by planted explosive on each floor.

Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round

Humanistheathen comments on Aug 3, 2018:

I simply don't believe this stat and suspect a very poor sampling population. The Millennial generation is about 87 million strong. You're telling me there are 30 million Americans who grew up with the internet from a very young age that don't believe the earth is round? That number is fucking ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 5, 2018:

@Flyingsaucesir Their are things the Government can not deny except Trump. About 97℅ of biology Scientist agree global warming is a strong part caused by Human activity.

Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round

Humanistheathen comments on Aug 3, 2018:

I simply don't believe this stat and suspect a very poor sampling population. The Millennial generation is about 87 million strong. You're telling me there are 30 million Americans who grew up with the internet from a very young age that don't believe the earth is round? That number is fucking ...

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 5, 2018:

@Flyingsaucesir From working sculptures in film and museums I can make almost anything look real. For many of you here, you finally found out many of the fake tricks of the Religious miracles that went on for 1000s of years. Now you know how their tricks were done. Now think of Nationaism magic tricks. They are similar except they are more dangerous than Religion. I've traveled most countries in the world, just not North Korea or Venezuela. I find US the most lack of freedom country in the world. They have been so deeply hypnotized and program than anywhere, the mass will believe anything their leaders tell them and they will believe it. Good news, things are changing by many postive grass roots organization.

Living in a small town full of religious people is one of the most depressing forms of existence.

pinklotus18 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

I don't live in a small town, but I feel your pain. In the south, you are a black sheep if you don't love Jesus. But you know what? Sheep follow blindly, they aren't the most intelligent of creatures. I'd rather be a wolf and left to my own devices. Lol

Castlepaloma replies on Aug 5, 2018:

They think your a lone wolf that can not survive without the pack. I can, rather be a lone wolf than be a lead sheep leading a flock of sheep into a volcano called hell at the end of their lives.

People will respect you if you respect them? True or false?