Imagine dinosaurs walking around with the headbob motions that many birds do.

DenoPenno comments on Jul 3, 2019:

Yes, it does. I'll go you another one. We made up the colors of the dinosaurs. In reality we have no idea what color they really were.

The republican great lie

DenoPenno comments on Jul 3, 2019:

This is exactly what it means. They reinforce this in peoples minds with words like "entitlements" because they can point out that social security is only a tax and you think you are "entitled" to it. They get away with this one because most people are not old enough to be drawing social security money of any kind. An exercise in thinking comes out here as I told a young person at work yesterday that I got another phone call about my "social security number being compromised" and I'm laughing at this scam. He said I should be concerned with that **at my age**. I told him we should all be concerned with it and age has nothing to do with it. He has that younger GOP thinking that they push on us all.

Here comes the Fourth of July! Tanks in DC and kids in cages on the border.

DenoPenno comments on Jul 3, 2019:

Very much is wrong with this. Trump is using it to appeal to his base and beyond with sights set on 2020. It means a big military parade paid for by the government is part of his re-election campaign.This should be against the law but I don't hear any complaints. He does this while some point out that the DC monuments need billions in repairs and our border still has a concentration camp. To show that he is a "nice guy" the Orange Clown is holding back on ICE roundups until after the 4th, and he is simply fining a lot of illegals in the mean time. Does he expect them to pay? Maybe he wants you to compare this to his tariff taxes that only Americans are paying. In with all this I am told that the Baby Trump diapered blimp will fly along with it all. Maybe we can't blame poor Donnie so much. The poor rich bum just wanted a firecracker and a show of military might. Dictators do that all the time.

Dating a Christian?

DenoPenno comments on Jul 3, 2019:

Of course it is a big issue. Anyone who is having a nice day "by the grace of god" will sooner or later end up in tears over you because some invisible part of you is doomed to hellfire by an invisible man. I'm telling it just like it is. For the record, have you heard of Lee Strobel? Long story short on this man he and his wife did not believe but secretly his wife and kids started going to church. Today Lee is said to be a big believer also after writing a book that was intended to disprove everything. It did not work that way and Lee wrote The Case For Christ, The Case For The Resurrection, etc. and there is the movie about it all and so forth. It seems very plain to me what Lee was doing. **He was saving his marriage**.I might add that these days it also makes him a pretty good living.

I am a 100% skeptic about all things supernatural! Do any of you hold on to any supernatural ...

DenoPenno comments on Jul 3, 2019:

I'm aware that some people believe in the supernatural in many different forms. I used to believe all the nonsense as a younger man when I got hooked on religion. The bottom line is that gods are supernatural and there is no supernatural. Proof of anything supernatural is just like evidence for or against a god being. People that believe it usually have a confirmation bias in the first place, or they do not understand things well. To believe it you obviously want it to be real.

Ark Encounter founder warns ‘kids of all ages’ that libraries are becoming dangerous - New York ...

DenoPenno comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Anyone could find out about myth, superstition, and the fact that the Ark Encounter project was not even done to the standard of the big book in the first place.

The cure for Christianity.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

It's a true quote and it worked wonders for me. It took a long time but it worked.

I remember being so happy that I'd been 'saved'.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

I remember "being saved." It was a religious high that was as great as any drug. You could be happy and drunk at the same time. Oh, so wonderful. Today I ask "saved from what?" The answer is that you are saved from what god was going to do to you if you did not believe in him and go along with him. This means that god was the problem all along.

It's almost time for Pow, ka, pop, pop, pop! That's the sound I always hear around my area just ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

June 30th here and still not a lot of fireworks going off in my area. You have to really listen for them to hear them and there are none in daylight hours. Last year and before the area was like a war zone 2 weeks prior and 2 weeks after.

Orwell’s 1984 no longer reads like fiction. It’s the reality of our times — RT Op-ed

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

This is all a double edged sword. Facebook and others were promoted and invented with false ideas of getting groups and families together in some common meeting place complete with pictures and stories. It turned into a giant marketing venture along every avenue possible and the founders got rich by selling the complex data. This is actually what government, military, and mega-marketers wanted but then jealousy and a demand for data caused limitations to be put on the founders. False info was planted by groups wanting political control and hate speech was everywhere on FB and others. I've read that Zuckerberg is working with a conservative group now. The idea is to change how we view certain ideas from the right. Trump has said that he wants a list of everybody that does not like him. I'm not sure this will happen but I have been censored on my own site and the man that reported me came there to argue with me and got angry that he did not "win." Facebook took his side and erased my convo with him. I took out a few swear words and reposted again. I'm glad that hate mongers and hate groups are disappearing from Facebook and others. I even see some new items sneaked in by management that show pictures of nice animals and puppies. I'm seeing far left false info and speculative info that could never be true, but then neither are angels. People in power want Facebook info because Americans have now become the product and the database is so large. I do not want Alex Jones and don't give a damn about Donald Trump but my words are my opinion and not "hate speech." Everyone should have a right to their opinion and when that changes we know that 1984 has finally arrived and is no longer just a novel or a movie. When Donald Trump said "fake news" and claimed that what we see and hear is not what is really happening he opened a door that also brought in pixies and a moon made of green cheese. He cannot have total control of what he is creating but I hear that You Tube is in process of doing their own cleansing of things right now also. All we can do is hope for the best.

A "perfect world" is theoretically possible, is it not?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

The JW's have it figured out. The perfect world right here on earth where the lion plays with the lamb. Lions also no longer eat meat. They eat straw now and I guess their teeth have changed. Hard to eat straw with those pointy teeth. On the serious side, get rid of greed and let everyone become concerned with their fellow man and this earth could become the perfect world. There would still be problems but we would work together toward common gain to solve them. Misinformation and the love of money prevents all of this now. Would it all matter as an atheist or agnostic? Would it improve our vision and outlook? Certainly because life has the meaning that you give it. Harmony is much better than earthly strife. This is why people invented gods and stories of heaven. Rather than false hope we need real hope.

WARNING! WARNING! DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER! So I had a desperate thought today.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

At least you came to your senses. A religious friend of mine knows for sure that I could meet women at church. He tells me all the time I should start going again. Knowing my disbelief doesn't stop him because his book tells him everybody knows there is a god. What he has in mind for me is alter time and "Oh, Jebus, I am so sorry." Of course we go that route because Suzie, my new church GF, is right there to help me. I think the whole idea is so sorry!

How has learning science affected your life?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Science was always fascinating to me. In its beginning we had oddballs. Before that we had goddidit.

I went off to a 40's & 50's singles group yesterday afternoon.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Life is what you make it. I have always followed my own interests and I still do. I have had exciting times but I'm really not exciting. I have no bucket list and I'm not going to bungie jump. I'm also not likely to be watching the sun go down unless I'm camping or something.

Unintended Meaning

DenoPenno comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Usually it is the other way around.

Maybe I'm looking for the impossible.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 29, 2019:

I'm not certain and I'm not a scientist. What I do know for sure is that we did not get here because of the invisible man. Creation does not disprove evolution and I'm not sure the big bang had a sound. I was not there.

I am in love with this woman and we've been seeing each other for 3 years now.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 29, 2019:

My ex and I knew a couple who were actually married twice. Her kids from a previous marriage did not like him so everything was back and forth. Today they are divorced and she is married to someone else. I ignore her and I'm not sure what her kids think about this new guy.

Islamic Centre, Leicester (UK) website: ‘An apostate does not have the right to life.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 28, 2019:

If they believe this let them put their sins on the apostate and drive him off into the wilderness. They did this with a goat before Jesus came along.

To make a long story short, the guy im dating is taking his ex wife on a weekend get away.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I would find a new boyfriend. I was there for one of my ex wives when her daughter died but it was only a phone conversation.

As an Atheist who just turned 40 and is single I am now for the first time really grappling with my ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 28, 2019:

When I die and my remains are put into an urn and given to my children I want words on the urn that say "if you ever need me just add water." Immortality changes as your life goes on. I was once ten foot tall and bullet proof.

Is Billy Mumy god?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I believe he sent others off into the corn field way before "Children of the Corn" was ever made.

Christianity is a fraud religion since it is based on two events that never happened; a virgin birth...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 28, 2019:

All religion is a fraud.

My husband says, google is his god, because it knows everything and always has an answer for his ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I'm an agnostic/atheist if you can deal with that. As a younger man I was tricked into believing in a god and I studied to be a Pentecostal minister. Wanting to know things, I studied much more than just the bible. I was in my 60's when it all rang true. There are no gods and no evidence of gods. There is no evidence that gods wrote you a book and told you what to do. No evidence of gods wanting to be in touch with you. The bible as we know it today came some 300 plus years after Jesus, who himself might be a composite of more than one man. Prophesy in the bible is contrived in order to make it fit the situation. Jesus is about as real as Zeus or Jupiter. You do not have or possess a "soul" and there is no proof that you are doing anything or going anywhere after death. Do my beliefs scare me in any way? No, I'm more free right now that I have been in my whole life.

In 1926 Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I think she was proving to the world that she had solved the mystery by calling both of them out at the same time.

I love listening to The Thinking Atheist and to The Atheist Experience.

DenoPenno comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I love listening and watching all of those. I'm always amazed at the stupidity of those who claim to have new evidence that proves their point of view entirely.

Should a company who hires workers to work in the heat and cold be responsible for these workers ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Certainly, and many do monitor for these things but they only take action if the temp is within 3 degrees of something happening. I used to work in a factory like that.

"Holding governments accountable by exposing their misdeeds is the job of the free press, to which ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 27, 2019:

This is a very good question. Personally, I'm seeing our worldwide news reporting going in directions that are not desirable.

God created nature or are we an evolution of bio organisms first?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 27, 2019:

If you believe in gods, religion, and the bible then you have to believe in* conditiona*l love.

I can get over for the life of me how Trump still has so many supporters that can see through this ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 26, 2019:

I see it here also. It appears to me that so many take Fox News, Hannity, and the rest as something real. They hate CNN and not so long ago CNN had James Earl Jones claiming they were the most trusted name in news. Then along came Trump and told us it was all false. News is only real if it says something good about Trump. Remember that this is not my opinion. It is Trump's opinion.

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.

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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.