A brief history of the world, according to Donald Trump - The Washington Post

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Trump thinks he is such a big part of history. I hope I'm still around when Trump becomes history.

‪WHY IS NOBODY PISSED THAT TRUMP TOLD US HIS DISCUSSION WITH PUTIN IS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Trump gets away with this because McConnell will not take anything against Trump seriously and the Dems are bluffed into believing impeachment might actually help Trump be re-elected. If the Senate with not act just what is the House supposed to do? The fact that nobody does anything makes this administration as close to a Fascist regime as you can possibly get. The amount of Trump coddling and lying is sickening. Nothing like this has ever happened in America before so why are we allowing it now?

Bishop plans to spray murder-plagued city with holy water from helicopter to 'get rid of the devil' ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

He could just jump out of the helicopter.

Is the universe infinite?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

The universe could be infinite. If it is, it will be very much like the god of the believers. They claim their god always existed, so why not the universe? In recent times believers want to protect their god by claiming he exists in another dimension. Who would ever have guessed and how would we ever know for sure?

The theory of everything.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

That seems right to me.

The GoFundMe Border Wall Was Illegally Built, The City Says. Now The Landowner Could Face Jail Time.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Maybe without a permit they might make them take it down. These people are trying to help Trump. You cannot fault them for this venture. If Trump thought he could fly and was going to prove it by jumping off a high building I would help him prove it also.

HIGH HATRED OF PROGRESSIVES AND CONSERVATIVES Do we all remember how American progressives ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

True, but Trump was in a movie too. He played the part of Clyde in "Every Which Way But Loose." That title explains what he is doing to America right now. He is turning us every which way but loose and threatening that he may not leave when his time is up.

George Godwyn For two days you people, you motherfuckers, including the president and vice ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Wonderful post that hits it all straight on.

According to The Atlantic, there's but a few of us.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Some of this may be true. Wasn't there a famous non-believer who recently got baptized "just in case?" I'm trying to figure out how you would "go back" when you find that Jesus appears to be a conglomerate of several people and his big book of "how it all happened" seems to have been put together some 300 plus years after the times of Jesus. This is exactly why that book makes no sense and is contradictory. If a person knows this how can they believe the gospels were written by followers when the gospels themselves are so flawed? How does one know these things and pray and blubber "oh, Jebus, I am so sorry?" Why would you be sorry for finding the truth? On the other hand, you could come to a truth that Saul of Tarsus is credited with writing two thirds of the NT and he never knew or met Jesus. Christianity follows him and this man never knew if he was "in or out of his body" when he got his revelations.

Dementia risk tied to these commonly prescribed drugs in a new study - CNN

DenoPenno comments on Jun 25, 2019:

It all comes and goes as to what is healthy. Personally I take the older meds and refuse to help them get more money by having a new med for something. Example is that I only take one BP med and I get it totally free on my plan. I do this by splitting the pill for my dosage. I know others who allow the doctor to put them on 2 types of BP meds to "get the job done." This type of confusion makes more money for the drug company. You have to ask yourself if it is about your health - or not?

SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 experimental satellites.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 25, 2019:

If successful we might find new satellites up there to run stuff that will want us to spend more money.

I'm categorizing this under Religion and Spirituality for lack of a better one.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Sorry you had to go through this. A "commercial for Jesus" is a good way of phrasing it. A friend of mine died a few years ago and we had a wake planned for him at the Community Center. He was no longer religious but had some friends who were. His wife had already passed on. This was supposed to be about a remembrance of his life. Before it was over I thought it was a revival meeting. You also have to watch JW's for this at their funerals. They mostly have a closed casket and then the service turns into something you need to start doing in order to make sure you have "hope" and death is not your final destiny. It seems that everybody alive is so damned afraid.

The U.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 24, 2019:

I fully agree. This is part of their job but Trump's GOP calls them "Trump haters" when they try to do anything. Trump is also upset with the FBI and the CIA apparently for only doing their jobs. His idiot supporters see it all his way on these issues.

Its just not OK.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Our concentration camp at the border is a horror. I'm not sure what can be done. Trump blames the Dems because they did not give him all the money he wanted. McConnell will not allow the Senate to take any action if the proposed solution appears to go against Trump. Men with power and no empathy have created this terrible situation.

A civil war is coming for the Democratic Party — and it won't be pretty [yahoo.com]

DenoPenno comments on Jun 24, 2019:

I think one of the biggest problems in both parties is that they make outlandish idiotic claims and do very little because they are so terribly afraid they could lose out on selling us something. I'm talking goods and services here. Our politics are totally man made and it has more to it than just letting the Koch brothers get richer.

[aol.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Donald Stump is Agolf Twittler. We have a concentration camp at the border and he created it but blames Democrats because they would not give him enough money to do things right.

Intuition: this is a subject that has been studied aggressively for the past few years.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Intuition is very real and often you can use it to great advantage. It is a gut feeling and you learn some things but it is not real. Imagine your mom looking into your eyes to see if you are lying. She just knew you were and you got caught often because of this. At the end of the day intuition is sort of as reliable as hearing your phone ring and thinking "this has happened before." Of course, that is deja vue. :)

Russia & partners to counter new US sanctions on Iran

DenoPenno comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Do we need sanctions on Iran? People complain about the money we gave them but forget that we were giving back their money that we had confiscated. Recently we had a confrontation in the Gulf of Hormuz involving 2 Japanese ships and the US was quick to blame Iran, and it was Iran that rescued some of the sailors. The ships owners did not even agree with Iran being the attackers and it might have been more likely to have been an attack by Godzilla for all we know. Now Iran shoots down our drone and claims we were in their air space. The US denies it. Oil seems to be what this is all about and the US is an oil company with an army. Gas prices were supposed to go up at the pump but in my area they are going down. Putin told the US to leave Iran alone. Strange that just this morning I heard we gave Iran a bad cyber virus. Two days ago I heard the same thing about Russia. My question is did we give each of these countries a virus, or did we not give any of them a virus? Trump always said that what is in the news is NOT what is really going on and I thought he simply wanted everyone to believe only him. I do not believe Trump but at this moment I am not sure just what is going on.

I'm definitely a skeptic of the Bible, but there is an interesting phenomenon regarding the first 5 ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 24, 2019:

Bible codes are made up bullshit just like the movies about the subject. Imagine bible books in several different languages and translations. How would you apply any such "bible code" to find out anything? It would be like using an auto repair manual to build a bird cage.

Is anyone else as scared as I am about global warming?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 23, 2019:

Global warming scares me a lot and I think it is real. I do not believe we can "pay our way"out of it, or that Al Gore's "buy a credit to pollute" idea would do much except make certain people rich while fooling the rest of us into thinking something is being done.

Are Chakras an actual thing...or is it all just imaginary?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 23, 2019:

Is that Depok Chakra? :)

I'm not post any links about this b/c I refuse to dignify this man with any more press than I have ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 23, 2019:

Either Roy Moore has a lot of money or somebody with a lot of money really thinks that SOB should be in office.

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump's 'Nuclear' Speech

DenoPenno comments on Jun 23, 2019:

When I first heard all of the above I took it as the rantings of a lunatic!

Two Questions??

DenoPenno comments on Jun 23, 2019:

For the first one you find a place to put remains in the ground. Only silly people would have markers and headstones. As for the second one I have decided to be cremated. My relatives can have a day of remembering me in pictures and words for the closure they need. Either my kids keep my ashes or they will know where to scatter me.

Canada.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 23, 2019:

I love the idea and we should have it here as well. Properly applied you might have your cross around your neck but NOT visible. Headgear from religions should not be worn in public and full face covering outfits should not be allowed. MAGA hats and "Trump is Jesus" T-shirts should all go away. Keep in mind this new law is for **schoolteachers, police officers, judges and other public employees**. Certain members of the general public can still wear what they want to.

What do you think about Deism?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 23, 2019:

Deism is what we had without science. This is because science was in its infancy and did not explain anything. People all want to explain things and Deism claims an unknowable god being or supreme being set things in motion and disappeared. You can never know anything about this being and it did not intend for you to know. Many of our Founding Fathers were Deists. Franklin often spoke of "divine providence" but there was no being to pray to, grant wishes, or change anything in your life. Seems to me on the question of how we all got here an answer that simply said "we do not know" would have been good enough.

Loving how many Americans can still believe this is a good POTUS, or man.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Said it before and I will say it again. I would vote for a pile of dogshit before I would vote for this man.

Photos of the Week: Mammoth Swing, Stanley Cup, Frog Wedding - The Atlantic

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Those are interesting. I work in Cuba, Missouri where they have the world's largest rocking chair. You can probably Google it but I'm not sure why this interests people. This is near the community of Fanning and they say it's 32 feet tall.

No country leaderships are trustful.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I certainly agree, but this is a very large task.

NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life [zodab.com] via @zodabcom

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Maybe something farted.

Trump Administration Argues Detained Migrant Children Don't Need Toothbrushes, Soap

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Conservative talk radio disagrees but it is no more than an American concentration camp. AOC caught hell for saying that, but it is true. It is all inhumane and cruel. Trump and his supporters need to wake up and realize something in this self created border crisis. What is likely to happen first. Will Central America and others run out of people wanting to cross our border, or will the USA run out of money to continue this nonsense? Trump supporters justify this treatment by saying that if they did not cross our borders this would not be happening. The blind are leading the blind here and some think they should all be shot. Where in the world today does this happen? I once went to Kenya without a visa. I guess that meant I should be shot. Dump Trump and take back America. This is not the direction we want to go.

Wisconsin Democratic Gov.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

GOOD. The point here is that the GOP and religious believers are all lying about abortions in every way possible. We do not need control over a woman's body.

No scapegoats allowed for atheists.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I like Penn Jillette.

An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes | PBS...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

What this boy is proving is how illegal voting is really done. Trump supporters in my area still believe that busloads of illegals show up and pretend to be Mr. or Mrs. Smith and Jones. Trumpers in my area would opt for a bad movie on this and have you believe it.

Has Trump ever told the truth? Ever? [dailykos.com]

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

The Liar in Chief was hoping that no one would find this photo and next his supporters will claim it was photo-shopped. If he ever reached "dick tator" status he will most likely have many photos destroyed.

James Stewart.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I liked his movies and was good back in the day of doing a vocal impression of him . These days who would know his voice? Not too many.

Supreme Court Cross Case: Memorial Can Stand On Public Land : NPR

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Yes, nothing religious about a crucifix. Anyone remember the movie "The Sign of the Cross?" The original translations we have today say it was a stake. Ask yourself how churches would use a stake or make the sign of the stake? This makes the crucifix a very important religious symbol.

Alabama governor signs law allowing church to have its own police force

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I know this is crazy but it goes into ideas of protection so as to NOT be shot and killed in your church. My religious friend is now going to a Baptist church in Missouri that has secret armed but not known members in case of some crazy coming in to kill you. This has happened before in black churches and Muslim groups, so these local Baptists are making sure they can protect themselves.

Ok,,, if I start an atheist "church",,, how many of you will join?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Why would I want to do this? What is it that I would feel I was missing?

I’ve been claiming to be Agnostic for over a year and a half now, but I’m leaning more towards ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

There is no definite proof either way. There never has been. This goes for all of the gods. I found it interesting that just today friend and I were talking religion and he says "but you know which god I am talking about." How does his claim for a biblical god mean anything?

[youtu.be] This is an intetesting take on religion.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Religion is not going to go away. What people will do in turn is make up another version of it.

From your personal experience, are some people simply not wired (say, neurologically or ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

It all depends on those around you and what you are taught. As a younger man I personally believed in a lot of woo. I studied woo and had explanations for all the woo. As time went on I found that there is no evidence for any of it. None at all.

Name something edible that can be stored in your cabinet with an amazing shelf life?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

A can of soup. :)

Have you ever had anything that could be termed miraculous happen to you?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 22, 2019:

Things are termed miraculous because others term them so. In your case did the EOD officer hold any position of authority that would have to do with odds? Things happen and not always as a logical mind would seem to want them to happen. This would be so in your auto accident. I also had an auto accident at a high rate of speed where I hit a mailbox and it broke my windshield, hitting the car roof right before my face. Many said that it was the grace of god that kept that mailbox from coming on through and knocking my head off. My simple answer is that** this was the way it happened**. It has nothing to do with gods or meaning in the universe. I will add however that if you are looking for gods, meaning in the universe, or anything deemed supernatural that you will find it.

This tent is almost interesting enough to make tenting appealing again.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Cool.

Was panicking and this beautiful creature appeared.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Some people may not see him. I noticed he is in every picture. :)

Sup y'all! I told someone I was an Atheist the other day, and they said, "so,,, you worship the ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

I'm glad you posted because this response is so very typical. For some reason believers of religion think that you have to be "worshiping" something. I've never understood it because there is little proof that they worship either. Instead they have an endless barrage of BS that has changed drastically in my lifetime.

Can Humanism Overcome Hate? - TheHumanist.com

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Overcoming hate is an individual journey.

Do you suspect there is an evangelical arm of atheism that wants to convert religious practitioners ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Most certainly. This is because religious thinking has no logic or evidence. Religious thinking believes in advance.

A question I have pondering upon for some time.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Closure would be the main thing here for those that remain after your leaving. In my case I am going to be cremated. My family will gather at the funeral home or some other place of gathering with pictures of me on a big portable board and discuss me in remembered stories and by picture. This is pretty much it. That will be the celebration of my life.

The bottom line for me becoming an atheist is the feeling of freedom.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

I like your creed and I believe in nothing supernatural. This was not always the case, but these days I can debunk almost everything.

I am wondering to what extent people decide to be atheist/agnostic or just grow out of religion

DenoPenno comments on Jun 20, 2019:

If you simply "decide" to be an atheist you can also "decide" to go back the theism. I knew of such a person once in another forum. She always thought the idea of a god was so grand, and she really wished it had been true. One day she announced she could no longer be a member in good conscience because she had married a religious man and was a believer again. OMG, how would you deal with thoughts inside that head? I can imagine her praying for the "faith" that it might take to believe and praying along with words like "help my unbelief." This would be shere torture. In my case logic and evidence played a big part of becoming atheist. Too much bible study cover to cover and being honest with myself about the invisible man, his kingdom, and his plan. None of it holds water.

Political Correctness IS bigotry: intolerance screamed at other's ideas.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I used to torment my now dead mother with PC ideas about her favorite show. I told her it would be re-named "Doctor Quinn, Medicine Person."

LMAO.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I'm sure he and Trump are big buddies.

The Belief That Trump Is a Messiah Is Rampant and Dangerous | Psychology Today

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

My take on this is the way it is set up. Trump is the buffoon that has Mike Pence as his VP. If Trump was out of the way tomorrow the Evangelicals know that Pence would be in power and they see the long awaited Christian Nation as something that was in god's plan all along. It's only a heartbeat away! As for Donald Trump I would vote for a pile of dogshit before I ever voted for that man. Both he and Pence are a big joke!

Do you have to be a rationalist to be agnostic/ atheist? Is there space for magical thinking?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I once had magical thinking. If any of this works it is because of your mindset towards it in advance. It has no evidence nor logic.

Being religious is no longer a trend for teens, research shows – HS Insider

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

That's good news. It is my observation that as parents lose the super control they once had on their children that these children have less of the old superstitions of parents. Children are then less likely to follow passed on god beliefs and also have less prejudice racially. Indoctrination is not as likely today as it was before.

God and I reached an understanding.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I only go to church for weddings and I do not do many of them. My religious friend keeps telling me I can meet a good woman in church. What he fails to tell me is that if I go this route and it happens that I meet such a woman, she will soon be crying because an invisible part of me will end up in a make believe place of fire and it is all a plan of the invisible man. Ditto! We are back to convert or leave.

Have you ever heard about the lynching of a woman in Kabul, Afghanistan which took place in 2015?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

It is a sad day when anyone is killed because of the invisible man.

School Board Jesus Prayer

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

It's Evangelical crap! If such a prayer is allowed what about those who are from a completely different faith? Then we have that question of why should a school board be having prayers in the first place.It's wrong and against the Constitution.

Out of the closet after 30

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I'm openly atheist to most except for my employers who are believers. Ex-Pentecostal with a few JW's in the family who stopped coming around after my divorce. I have no regrets.

Should we all become teetotalers because there are alcoholics?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 18, 2019:

I understand this because I am an alcoholic. I'm addicted to the Internet and these days my body does not let me drink much. Last weekend I bought a 15 can pack of beer and did not even open it yet. I also have other booze in the house. I'm now a teetotaler. I've learned to live with alcoholism. Religion is another story.

About Us...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

In America the GOP has a way of making you vote for something that will cause your own suffering. They convince you that you do not deserve better or that you/we cannot afford better.

Maybe finally the pendulum has swung against dumbing down and anti-intellectualism?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

I think stupidity has been killing us for some time already.

Trump says supporters could 'demand' he not leave after two terms

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Deluded Donnie is beating the drums ahead of time in hopes he can be our new dick tator. He is a dick and I think his head is like a tator.

If religion didn't exist, would opposition to abortion or LGBT rights even be a primary poitical ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

In this issue the religious view becomes part of the capitalist slave laborers view. It is that simple.

Does anyone else struggle with hating religion?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

I do my best not to hate anything and I direct my mind away from "hate" if I find that I can dwell there. Do not give these things opportunity to thrive. Your thoughts are you. They become you.

I am without a doubt an Atheist,but a few days ago I saw a Ghost !!! If anybody is interested I ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Do not let my current position fool you. I have had ghostly experiences and supernatural experiences in my lifetime. Most of us have. It's just that today I know where most of them came from and how the mind is manipulated toward these events. It is all similar to our minds wanting to see patterns and how you saw that cloud that looked just like Jesus. The difference is that it goes a bit deeper than this, but it is all in your mind. Did it happen? Yes, but your interpretation of the event is flawed. This is the very reason that drugs and fasting are used for some religious experiences. You see what you are conditioned to see even if you do not understand all conditions of the event.

How did you come to be atheist, agnostic, etc.?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Time went by and then one day I woke up. I was tired of beating myself up for always "missing the mark" as Paul claimed we do. I came to realize that god was punishing mankind for something they did not do, and that incest was not a good plan for mankind to get here. God then found a way out for us when he used Jesus who also did not do anything. Scriptures and the perfect plan then became nonsense. I had no ideas of "putting my sins off onto a goat" and driving it into the wilderness. I was not going to paint my doorstep with lamb's blood. I simply quit and I was so glad to do so.

New report finds many non-believers still believe in the supernatural - Big Think

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

Of course non-believers still believe in the supernatural. People think "well, it could be." The problem here is that it was all supernatural when you were into religion. Your god was supernatural and he did supernatural things. Today as a non-believer think back into some happenings around you that you thought were supernatural at the time when you were a believer. I remember them well but the difference today is that I can explain most of them. When you are a believer you want to believe. This is why you do believe. As an atheist i reject all things supernatural. I need evidence.

What would you have said?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

I would have most likely have replied that god had nothing to do with it. This would have upset her into a path of explaining how god controls everything including our weather. That conversation opens up a big door of ridiculous nonsense.

Definition of "The Law of Attraction": The law of attraction suggests that you can attract ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 17, 2019:

I used to believe this totally in my days of pre-atheism. It was a law of some psychic mumbo jumbo. Now let me explain it to you. Messy people are likely to have a messy house. An unclean person could actually smell. People obsessed with crime and murder may be more likely to commit crime and murder, or they are involved with others who try to stop it. In other words, you are what you want to be. You attract what you want to be associated with simply by your association.

Ocasio-Cortez: Religious Right Only Invokes Religion ‘To Punish Women And Queer People’ ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Ocasio is correct. I get a kick out of Conservative radio making fun of her when they are not saying things correctly. Also, they are now broadcasting a piece with Pelosi telling how to inflate a non-fact into the media world but they do not tell you she is talking about the GOP. It's all misinformation and disinformation.

How many know Spanish?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I know very little of the language despite 20 years in Texas. What bothers me is that idiots say you need to go back to your country when they hear others speak Spanish and where I work the products we sell have English/Spanish instructions on them. Most of them have had this for years. You can thank Donald Trump for the nonsense. He is our Divider in Chief.

Trump's order to slash number of science advisory boards blasted by critics as 'nonsensical' ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Most things Trump does or says are "nonsensical."

My religious sister once told me she was not afraid to read books other than the bible, so I was ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

My ex was religious but not born in this country. Her college courses included a course in ethics. She was top of her class but a GF of hers who is American and semi-religious said she could not do that course. It was against her god beliefs, she said.

Words of wisdom for the day courtesy of myself: I say I'm an atheist like I say I'm a vegetarian.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I eat the burger but not the Jesus chips. Sometimes I eat soy burgers.

New York Ends Religious Exemptions to Vaccines : NPR

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Indeed it is about time!

Personal anecdote from younger days in NYC.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

I do not know if John was divine or if he was a saint. What I do know is that so many religious world event freaks read world headlines through the ideas of the Book of Revelation. A store clerk that I knew once asked me how I thought things would play out and she was a Mormon. Nothing is factual in Revelation and if you put a devil in their or world wars and even Donald Trump, you are just showing your ignorance.

Deconversion

DenoPenno comments on Jun 16, 2019:

My biggest help in the way out of Christianity was to discover that the bible as we know it today came into being some 300 or more years after the time of Jesus. It was decided then to put the 66 books together into one big book. Many other books were done away with or discredited.The appearance is to show a beginning and and ending of everything but this is not real. Putting all the books together is also why you find discrepancies in the bible. It's simply like getting a lot of people to write a story. You also have to understand that Saul of Tarsus (as St. Paul) is credited with writing two thirds of the NT and he did not know Jesus and never met him. Paul also could not tell if he was in or out of his body when he received all of his revelations. Right there is enough for any sane person to simply forget god ideas as far as I'm concerned. This is when I got away from others that babble and wave their arms around even if they do tend to make you tingle. Would you believe that 9 people were raised from the dead in the OT and that one such man came alive again after touching Elisha's bones? We need to find those bones and let hospitals use them today to cure others. Angels have wings and in the Koran the prophet flew to heaven on a winged horse. So many people see their way out of this sort of nonsense but still pick and chose what they believe. This is why we have so many religions. There is no proof that any scriptures worldwide are written by gods and no proof of any gods trying to be in touch with you. Die-hard believers still tell you that our Founding Fathers believed but they fail to see that most of them were Deists. Without science as we know it today an unknown god as a first cause set everything in motion and then disappeared. Deists also believe there is no way to know this god or have a personal relationship with it.

Perhaps the banning of Huawei and its 5G telephonics would be acceptable if it was to occur to stop ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 15, 2019:

In the beginning people will cheer the 5G technology. The problem is that it can also be used for people control if needed.

The Hand of the Almighty John R. Butler [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on Jun 15, 2019:

This is one of my favorites. I have the album.

What is happening in America to stop Female Genital Mutilation these days?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 15, 2019:

If female genital mutilation was practiced on young boys it would be like cutting their nuts off and sewing up the sack, or totally removing it also. Maybe then the elders would tell them not to cry and it was not that bad. It's just that they cannot get women pregnant any longer. Switch this back to women and you get a horrible procedure that simply says they cannot enjoy intercourse. The procedure cuts out the clitoris totally and often the labia lips. It allows women to be sewn up tighter than before if needed, and all for the pleasure of the men. Women would be like cattle and have no reason to even look for sex. They are simply for child bearing and a man's pleasure. I personally believe that this practice is a crime that should carry at least a 20 year prison sentence. Anyone connected with it should receive swift justice!

WHO NEEDS GOD?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 15, 2019:

I believe that we are all broken. I say this because we are not perfect and what we do could have had a slightly different outcome most of the time. If your life had more misses than hits you might turn to gods for guidance. An alternative to this would be that you were raised in a religious system. Brainwashed early on because your family was religious. Even so, my all-time bothersome statement from religious people is "then who do you worship?" Why do we think we have to worship anything?

Overtime with Bill Maher.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 15, 2019:

Andrew Yang will not be elected but the man makes perfect sense. What he says is a little ahead of most of us because we do not understand the mass majority of job loss that is coming.

Watched Avenger Endgame twice.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 15, 2019:

I'm out of context here with my reply but I mean to see this film soon. Glanced at it this morning some in Fluxus playlist, Hollywood Movies 10. I want to see it from the beginning. You can watch this with VLC. I also have a Russian player that is based on VLC but has other refineries in it. When I first got into IPTV the streams would hang, stutter, and stop. Watching was impossible. The cure was to go into my router and select a DNS that is different than my ISP DNS. What does this mean? It means that the ISP will block you because what you are doing is a treat to what they want to show you for profit. Now it all works fine.

The Anger of the White Male Lie – Ijeoma Oluo – Medium

DenoPenno comments on Jun 14, 2019:

I do not agree with the angry white male but I think we have a lot of them. Trump got elected and his behavior is allowing many of them to come out of the woodwork. Misguided white people who say outright to anyone who is mixed that they would rather kill you as look at you. People who think their privilege is being taken away and also want to continue the myth of a pure Aryan race. Wake up, fool! We are all mixed.

Anyone want to visit the pharoah with me?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 14, 2019:

We could all have a toot in common.

Do you think having a best friend is important?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 14, 2019:

I agree with you. I do sort of have a best friend but we argue also and he is a believer that I've known for over 50 years. There is no way that I would "tell him everything." I simply do not trust people. Nobody needs to know innermost things about you and if you tell some things you are simply setting yourself up. When it comes to women I don't need to know that you were once owned by Chez and made porn movies. Well, maybe if there is a chance I might watch one and see you. :) I don't need to know of any BF before me coz it does not matter. I once had a GF in Texas who declared that now I had to tell her everyone I had had sex with. I'm sorry. You're wrong! This "best friend" thing gets out of hand. Some people even want to discuss bowel movements. It's not for me.

I'VE ALWAYS LIKED DISCO! THERE, I SAID IT - For whatever reason, I've been hearing a fair ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 14, 2019:

I'm all for bringing back disco and I never could or did dance it. I just love the songs! Well, all but the Bee Gees. I have a 3 CD disco set that I play often and it has most of the good ones we all remember.

Christian TV host: Vegetarian hamburgers are a ‘Luciferian’ plot to change human DNA – ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 14, 2019:

If you come out of Evangelical religious stock your world view is marred by a book of Revelation plot and future play-out senario. It's because the devil wants your soul that you can fit almost anything in there with that view and followers will believe it. There are many current fringe views. Antartica is shaped like a human brain. Apparently this has something to do with the flat earth. Medicines and vaccines are made with aborted fetal parts. When did this start and why was it changed? Chemtrails are a toxin that is released to kill us all. Apparently the rich have enough money and no longer need yours. Current belief patterns are designed to make us all dumb as a rock. Who knows? That may be the plan. The way I see things today we are not far off from a "Road Warrior" world existence. The next 50 years will really be a hoot at the way we are going.

Atheist media?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 14, 2019:

Thankfully You Tube has a good variety of atheist media.

Though Atheism is not a religion, which one of them are more generous? :)

DenoPenno comments on Jun 14, 2019:

Believers seem to be the ones giving money and helping, but they do this knowing that they might be helping themselves when they get to the invisible kingdom in the sky. I know that the Buybull says nothing is gained by simply doing good works but believers do this anyway with hope of a gain. Of course, they do not help you if your religion is a rival religion. I once took a friend to a food pantry that helps the less fortunate and you even had to pray before they give you the food. Mankind needs to get their belief system out of the way when it comes to helping others. One thing that stands out to me is that when I was a security guard I was always tipped by a man who was Muslim. He gave me the camping fee and a little extra, he said because it was my tip. When his group cooked he would also make sure that I got some of the food. On the funny side of all this I saw a homeless man with a sign saying so as I exited the highway going to my work. It was raining like hell that day and this man is around constantly with his sign. No wonder he is homeless, I thought. He doesn't have enough sense to get out of the rain. The next day I saw him at another town exit 12 miles away.

Unfortunately!

DenoPenno comments on Jun 13, 2019:

Donald Trump should be onboard that first mission to Mars ASAP. I would even pay money to help this happen and if it could be guaranteed I would take out a loan.

Waksom, Texas outlaws abortion in all-male city council vote - The Washington Post

DenoPenno comments on Jun 13, 2019:

After all, if momma would have done that I would not be here. This is why your god is so much against abortion and you have to have control of a woman's body. In the Buybull a child only became a child at birth. There are no "pre-born" rights. In our times now this all gets complicated by lots of misinformation. Many sites claim aborted fetuses are used in medicine making as well as vaccines. A source is given and people tend to believe this. Let me back up. They think people are killing babies to make vaccines and medications. When did this start and why? I was vaccinated in the 50's with no hint of fetus material. Why now? The usual clamor around it is that "they just want to get rid of us." This mentality is heavily fused into a pro-lifer to where they all believe it. This is disgusting because anti-abortionists want it to be disgusting. It is also not true. Am I pro-life? Yes, because the opposite is pro-death. If the latter is true then none of us would be here. Also, your now dead uncle Charlie could have had a son named Bobby if only he had of lived. WTF is this all about? It's time to stop nocturnal emissions and hire the jackoff police.

With Trump, there are no coincidences; its all planned well in advance.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 13, 2019:

The Iranians did some rescuing in this situation and they are the first to say it all appears strange and mysterious to them. Also the "oil and gas" onboard was methanol and naptha. Beyond this my immediate notice was the news on TV saying already that the price at the pump is going up.

Amen. Did I just say that??

DenoPenno comments on Jun 13, 2019:

True words.

A couple of sunrise photos from the Bakken this morning:)

DenoPenno comments on Jun 13, 2019:

Nice pics. Maybe you could sell these and make a few bucks. I would if I knew the outlets for them. Good luck.

I find it sad that no matter where we go in life there is ridicule and intolerance.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 13, 2019:

This is a very good question. Often the words that others say are in the "gotcha" category. The saying is old but this happened to me just yesterday. A man I work with told me I'm going to hell if I do not change my ways. He thought it was funny. i asked him to please explain to me exactly where that was. After some thought he was not really sure.

Who's your daddy???

DenoPenno comments on Jun 13, 2019:

I honestly never really knew. I did see names, pics, and a marriage license. Beyond that I never really knew.