‘Bible literacy’ classes in public schools violate separation of church and state - The ...

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2019:

Pence, DeVos, Mercers, et al are trying so desperately to move in. We have to become that Christian Nation even if it was a lie. Churches are getting ready for this also. A man that I went to school with claims that the bible used to be the school's Weekly Readers. This is total nonsense.

The Big Bang Theory - just watched a show on the Science Channel "Did the Big Bang Really Happen?

DenoPenno comments on Jun 1, 2019:

I am a man who has come to agree with you fully on this idea. Bible believers want to clarify everything by saying their god has always existed and that does not work. Substitute the word "universe" and it might work. You and I and our ability to think is our beginning.

Microwave Background Radiation.

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2019:

Possibly remnants of a universe still expanding into infinity. Keep in mind that light is instantly anywhere if it travels in a straight line. "Nothing" is not a valid scientific concept.

Robert Mueller Ends Robert Mueller's Career [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2019:

I like the unredacted version of this a lot better. Goodbye Bob.

Trump is going to England.

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2019:

Trump going to England. Is he even welcome in that country?

Catholic League On Predatory Priests: It’s Not Rape If The Child Isn’t Penetrated | Michael ...

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2019:

Ah, yes. Penetration. Imagine the penis as a pistol and you are tied up and the perpetrator rubs that pistol all over your body. He even puts it in your mouth, but there is no crime unless you are penetrated.

This morning, Trump has twittered that he is going to put more tariffs on Mexico.

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2019:

Apparently we do not see the problem we have created here. His supporters want to be in power and there appears to be no way out as long as he is a "sitting president." Someone has to fix this.

Suicide Epidemic Has Swept Across American West – Rolling Stone

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2019:

Lingle says he could not take the anxiety and depression any longer and that his lottery tickets were not winning. The author downplays the part on the lottery tickets. i don't think he should have. Our lifestyles today create both anxiety and depression. We are told that we should win and that we will win. Everything is pushed at us in this manner today. It should be plain that not everyone will win. Things like this happen in a world where we have become the product. Then we have drugs both legal and illegal. On TV you find constantly that drug companies are being sued because of wronghful death. On the illegal end of this we see that everyone wants that higher high. Drug makers are adding Fentanyl and causes overdose and death for many. Look at the wrong thinking our society is creating. It's all about money. The love of money.

Georgia church hires woman to make contact with the dead | Barry Duke

DenoPenno comments on May 31, 2019:

Yes, it is total bullshit. I seldom do bible quotes but here is one. Ecclesiastes 9:5 explains it all. It plainly says that **the dead do not know anything.** The most likely reason is that they are dead. That makes sense to me. Bible believing supernaturalists have another take however. They seem to follow Paul.

In the matter of fiction, the creator of Superman had him flying through the air- but he never had ...

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2019:

Jesus did both. Imagine how long it must have taken for Jesus to be raised into the air before he was received by a cloud and was out of site. Imagine the release of a helium balloon to help you see this. Now imagine that Jesus will return "in like manner."

I prayed every night, starting at a young age, up until two years or so ago when I started to doubt ...

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2019:

You have only been a non-believer for about 2 years so getting frightened and going back to "prayer mode" is a form of protection. Not that it ever worked, but you thought it worked and that was why you did it in the first place. As for voices, I would not be worried unless you have some sort of ongoing dialog that involves other voices. In other words, if you hear voices and it appears you are carrying on a conversation of some sort. Prayer is not like that. If we flip TV channels or run through radio stations we hear voices. Being tired and hearing such things in your head can be normal and fixed by simply getting a little sleep. If you have an "invisible friend" or your neighbors dog is telling you to kill people you have a real problem. I'm not sure that having Schizophrenia in the family is a real reason to worry about anything. I know such a family and only one person in that family has it. This is the best the family members themselves can figure out looking back on their history.

Televangelist: Jesus Was Vaccinated Against Flu So We Don’t Have To Be

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2019:

Influenza is the biggest killer in the world. When you assume your god will protect you it makes you ignorant. When you assume vaccinations are the cause of autism you are ignorant.

The Fringe Theology That Could End Religious Freedom

DenoPenno comments on May 30, 2019:

Things like this should scare us. Pence is a Dominionist, for example. DeVos and a few others fit into that category.

How important is someones income to you?

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

Not important at all unless they think I am going to support them.

Trump's goons are now trying to go after the people who discovered his corruption

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

A lot of things that TRump and crew are upset about here fell into the realm of FBI and other departments to investigate. This got going well with the "Steele Dosier." Look it up as this is involved and came from British intelligent groups. No, Hillary did not "pay for it" as some claim. Her and Obama were aware of it along with many others. Trump is pushing on past the 2 year mark now still blaming Obama and Hillary for anything that he can. When will he shut the hell up and do something? He now has Barr into investigating the investigators and Barr has found an attorney in New York to take this up. Yes, the attorney is a Republican. Could we expect Barr to choose one who was a Democrat or simply had no party affiliation? Probably not. Reality America politics today - As The Stomach Churns!

Mueller Report summarised.

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

They keep on with this "sitting president" thing but it must be new. Nobody told Nixon about it.

Every time, I read about, see and think about Trump, I just cannot understand how addicted and prone...

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

He won the election but he still thinks Hillary should not have had 3 million more votes than he did. Those votes became the 3 million illegals and Trump wanted it investigated. Later on as women marched on Washington the votes became the votes of 3 million fat women. Any normal person would think that if you won it means you won and this is over now. Not Trump. He is thinking up new stuff again on this 3 million votes because it seems to be eating him alive! Of course, that is only one subject. Look around and you will find sooo much else that trump is worrying his little brain about. He Tweets at 3 AM. I don't and I'm also not sending e-mail or chatting at that time either. Poor Donnie. The job has too much stress for him. Recently he has said that he will not play unless the others do it his way.

What if Jesus DOESN'T love you? What if he's sick and tired of your bullshit?

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

I remember little children singing "yes, Jesus loves me" but nobody quoted a verse for that. They just wrote a song instead. My stepdad always said "Jesus loved you this much" and he held his arms out as if he was crucified. The argument here is whether nails through his hands would have held him on the cross. Later in pictures and movies we see that Jesus has nailed hands and he also has ropes around his wrists to hold him up. Believers will do anything to put Jesus on the cross. Catholics are good at leaving him there.

Rain bomb. Look at that! How does that happen?

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

Weird. Nothing proven here but our now bizarre weather might be caused by all the insane fracking.

I have no problem with the word “god” It is fun and nonsensical to get into an argument with ...

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

I'm most amazed by people who cannot say the word and they say it backwards to have it become "dog." When I was a teen we found a unique way to swear when we came up with "mad dog backwards."

Follow Thrive Global on FacebookFollow Thrive Global on TwitterShare this article on WhatsAppFollow ...

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

The only ones I'm angry at are my parents and others who convinced me that the religious nonsense was true in the first place. They didn't know, and actually they might have been scared. I'm sure they wondered what happened to you after death. Not that we should want to die, but people are very much afraid of dying. If I try to study philosophy and other religions does that change the fact that gods have never written anything for you? If I follow the bible into 300 AD and see how it was decided what to put together and why, I've learned a lot.Then we get into that New Testament with 2 thirds of it's writings credited to a man who never met or never knew Jesus. Bible study takes you right out of the ministry and Christianity. BTW, "early church contemporaries" were not that at all. They fall in there somewhere at the 300 AD mark or just beyond.

Has anyone here ever hosted an Air B N B?

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

Can you handle the expense? America today still pushes the dream if you just give in for a second job and maybe have your wife work also.

If there was one thing that should make anyone doubt God exists it would be Televangelists.

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

When I was a kid my step-dad made me stop watching Bishop Fulton J. Sheen on TV. He said I could not watch that coz we were not Catholic.

Here are Evangelical Christianity’s 10 biggest gaslighting tactics

DenoPenno comments on May 29, 2019:

All true. Isn't it so wonderful that your religion becomes a "relationship." What this means is you can lie and tell your friends how much you talk to invisible Jesus and invisible god and how much they talk back. I know a man who says he talks to Jesus this way every day and "Jesus talks back." The thing is, I would not want such a person in positions of power. You never know what his Jesus might tell him. If this was not your religion you would be locked up somewhere.

Del Shannon - Hats Off to Larry - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2019:

This song is good and also different because not many songs are about Larry. There was also a song back in the day about Norman by Sue Thompson. BTW, Del Shannon was Charles Westover.

‘They Came to Kill.’ Almost 5 Die Daily at Hands of Rio Police

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2019:

It gets very personal when you go to Dallas, Texas for the idiotic killing of a black man shot inside his own apartment. Amber Guyger is the former police officer who did the killing and media has went so far as to say "she shot and killed her neighbor." What a crock! Supposedly she claimed to have thought this man was in her apartment and they live on separate floors. How would that make them neighbors? At the current time a judge has put a gag order on this case until after the trial. This will and does include the media.

Lest we forget. Things were better before Trump. Happy Memorial Day!

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2019:

The only way to believe that everything in America is totally OK is to ignore all politics and refuse to see or hear the news. I work with and know a few that claim they do this. I don't believe them.

Last Sunday, the subject of the sermon was "The Lonely Atheist".

DenoPenno comments on May 28, 2019:

I'm a lonely atheist. I realized that the job was dangerous when I took it. :)

Amazing True Story On Netflix---90 Year Old Survived Two A Bomb Blasts.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

I think he is very fortunate. Some in the Hiroshima blast were seen later to be etched into a building sort of like a drawing. Of course this depended on where they were as compared to the direct blast area. Others that lived just slowly got sick while some had immediate radiation sickness beyond repair. It took a while for them to figure it out. This was strange because I was told we dropped flyers in advance.

brexit explained. [armstrongeconomics.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

I know groups who believe Brexit means the Royals will secretly pack up and move somewhere but nobody knows where they will go. I thought that idea was pretty stupid.

Story of my life lately. What’s yours?

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

Me. Introvert/extrovert self made computer whiz who works 5 days a week and then goes home to hide and be a hermit. Political activist and TV antenna designer who now gets all his TV from Internet.

[alternet.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

It should not be allowed. Not allowed at all. Trump's fascism is wrapped in the American flag. His patriotism, his non-service, his knowledge. It's all a big lie. Donald Trump is a liar and a conman. He is our national emergency.

The age of realism is over...we have entered the era of living historical fiction

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

Our historical fiction today came out of Reality TV and went right into Reality America. The problem is that the reality is a horror show.

I missed something I think.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

King James did not "make the bible." You need to study how the books we know today came into acceptance and when this happened. It was 300 plus years after Jesus and three quarters of the NT was written by a man who never knew or even met Jesus. Josephus was not even a contemporary of Jesus and the "early church fathers" were people who were joustling for power during the time of Constantine.

Gotta love it when your religious parents give you this as a 20 year old.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

This is absurd! It doesn't seem to have applied much in bible daze. It certainly cannot apply in the daze we are in today.

In Memory of My Father on Memorial Day 2019 My father joined the Marines when he was barely 16.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

I honor your father, his life, and the sacrifices he made. I'm ex-military but only served 3 years in the Army. Sikorski wanted me to make a career of it but I only served one hitch.

Does anyone else get multitudes of spam phone calls from foreign countries?

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

I get these daily but not on the same scale you do, I also have a regular cell line that is NOT associated with my name in any way. That doesn't stop them. My calls started coming in in 2015 and have increased ever since, some even going on into my Spectrum landline. I get AI phone calls so clever that you would swear it is a real person. What messes them up totally is giving all the wrong answers. The AI gets confused and hangs up. One that I get more and more is similar to "this is Eric calling you on a recorded secure line to talk about" - fill in the blank here because there are so many. It's also at this point that the caller hangs up.Someone wants to know if your number is real and active. It also appears that the call is trying to direct you to say certain words like "yes." I can only assume this is for future patch work in which they can splice something together to prove you told them they could steal your money. Some of these callers ask you outright if you can hear them alright. You know they want to hear you say "yes." Confuse them and confuse the AI. Just say "no, there's a buzzing on the line. They hang up instantly. These things happen because we have become the product and so many others want our money.

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian... [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

Devone Green does a great job.Donald Dump, not so much.

I'm curious about what people on this site feel about the simulation hypothesis.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

Yeah, a simulator could help you learn to fly a plane or drive a car. What is it that believing we are all in a simulation is doing for you? What are you learning? If you believe this idea right now today, what would you have believed way before the days of simulation? I'm at a loss of what this would prove about anything.

SUBJECT... I WANT TO GET RICH, SHOULD I OPEN A CHURCH? Go to "Alan McPherson " Facebook.

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

If I had a church it would be a non- prophet organization.

I do not know what American customs are, when you are starting to meet someone who is on the other ...

DenoPenno comments on May 27, 2019:

You should always be careful and check people out. I do it more than others know. I'm sort of like a cop or an investigator. It was back in 2004 when I used info from a website called VisaJourney to understand the paperwork involved to get people to this country. I'm sure all of that has changed drastically under Trump these days but there are steps to follow and many types of visas.

Nine people attended a KKK rally in Ohio. At least 500 showed up to protest hate.

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

The less Klansmen ans Nazis the better.

In a few generations the caucasion race will be extinct.

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

Why would I care about my skin color? If we are a giant melting pot of the races why would I care if I am white or not? Some dippy minister once said that god did not want the races to live together and mix inter-racially. Was it that minister or god who ended up being so dumb as to not understand the invention or planes and ships? FYI, there is no pure Aryan race. It's a myth, but you can believe your Jesus was the only white man in Jerusalem if you want to.

If you could travel in a time machine to witness any event supposedly of a religious nature, which ...

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

I used to have those thoughts up until the age of 35 or so. Today I realize there would be nothing there to see. We have made it all up. Besides, our time machine only goes forward.

Should our government promote any particular values?

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

When I was a kid it was "truth, justice, and the America way." Today you don't find any legitimate versions of that.

Does Trump think if he claims over and over again "the economy is the best ever" people will ...

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

I believe that Trump does indeed believe that if you say something over and over again others will believe you. He says this in his ghosted book "Art of the Steal" and claims you only have to say it 3 times. After that you are not on your way back to Kansas, but you have gained a base of followers who are so glad that you have given them reasons for their hatred and they can now make it vocal for everyone. It is because of Donald Trump that these people now can openly hate you. Meanwhile, the stable genius goes on to Tweet bad things about Joe Bidan. That's right. I said "Bidan." Look up the tweet. The genius has tariffs that amount to a** Trump Tax. **The tariffs are a tax because Americans will be paying for them.

Do you think the draconian abortion laws passed by mostly white christian republican men; will ...

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

'The system is rigged' and you have a POTUS who cannot even spell Joe Biden's name when he insults him. Then 23 or more are running for 2020 POTUS from the DNC and very few can talk about our number one problem. Trump is that problem.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE -- Let me see if I have this straight.

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

All of these are somewhat similar and some depend on what you think about some of the others. It just depends on which denomination or sect you are coming from. The bad thing is that in every one of them YOU have no life. All you have is servitude to something invisible and imaginary, and this is supposed to make you happy.

He Pope compares abortion to 'hiring a HITMAN' as he says it can never be condoned With the ...

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

Leave it to Catholics to claim their love of life by denying a woman control of her own body because "abortion is murder" and then kill millions in third world countries by also denying condom use. It makes more sense to them to "be fruitful and multiply" rather than to stop the spread of HIV. Isn't religion just grand.

Do you remember Cosmos with Carl Sagan?

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

A good series and well work watching again.

Have you ever been annoyed by just the sight or voice of a person?

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

YES! 45 makes me most annoyed and I do not want to hear him or listen to him. He's a liar and a conman.

Did Billy Graham do anything that injured our society?

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

He spread belief in an imaginary man that you had to give your life to and serve forever. His ideas of "conversion" were manipulated for fame and fortune.

A friend and I were watching a documentary called Darwin: No Services Ahead.

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

I have no clue.

Are We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson | Space Time - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on May 26, 2019:

AS SIMULATIONS BECOME MORE AND MORE REAL IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE ARE IN A SIMULATION RIGHT NOW? This is how it starts folks. Looks to me like the first thing we have to proven is whether the simulation itself is able to think. This seems doubtful. It appears to me that the only ones capable of thinking are the humans who produced the simulation and that they themselves are not thinking very well. The only thing I see that comes even close to ideas of ancestor simulation is the diehard belief that mankind has in gods.

Memorial Weekend again damn I'm missing you so much right now Norm thank you for being the Marine ...

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2019:

Sorry about your loss. The mobile home in the pic looks exactly like one I used to own. It was a 1969 Marlette.

What would you do if your workplace threatened to withhold wages from you?

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2019:

OK, so does this asshole make out the checks? You might need another new job.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wow! When Trump tweeted that spliced video of Ilhan a few weeks ago to a ...

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2019:

AOC will have them jumping through hoops and lying about her and situations for a long time. Right wing talk radio wants to make her look stupid all the time. Then they give you the "evidence" that if you believe it will make you look stupid. I have never seen a video that made Trump look smart or sane.

Yesterday I noticed an IM from my cousin through messenger on FB.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2019:

His attitude about the punishing is shared by many others in so many different ways. Trump supporters want to punish us deep down for not sharing their views. On a You Tube page I saw a post by a man who was asking if Bill Maher did not have all his money would he still have the same ideas. I once worked at a factory where a man was really upset that he had never won our "paycheck bingo" and he had played 10 times. We are despicable! I play the lotto most weeks and at 72 I have not won yet. Do you know why this is? It is because I have not won yet!

"Live simply.

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2019:

I live by most of that. It makes sense to me. So far I have not come to the end but things are often burdensome. One burden is not having a companion of like feelings during this journey.

Happy bank holiday weekend for all the Brits. Is it a holiday where you are?

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2019:

Three day weekend where I am in mid America. No banks open on Monday. My weekend will include a few drinks during 1 of the days off and a lot of computer and Netflix and chill.

"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit...

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2019:

This is why America has so few non-war years. We have become an oil company with an Army. One excuse used for invasions is that we are giving them our democracy. They need badly to learn about George Washington.

Tribalism: An exploration of the mechanisms that drive tribalism - and that offer a way out of it.

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2019:

We are all tribal. Us v. Them drives our lives in work, play, and TV shows and movies. I have tried to find ways out of it. I am moving right along but for the most part we are creatures of habit. We keep trying to do the same damned things.

As a freethinker I don't believe in life after death.

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2019:

Does the light bulb have any power once the electrical supply is shut off? Better yet, that light did not go anywhere as it was simply a manifested reaction to applied processes. Light a match and see the fire, then blow out the match. Did the fire go anywhere? No. It was simply a chemical reaction in the first place. One problem is that we dream and we do not understand sleep. We can do anything in dreams so therefore it is easy for mankind to imagine that they have a "soul." This is silly. You do not have anything except for life. Even in the Buybull it says you "became a living soul." I can only assume you can also be a dead soul as well. At this point all of the believers enter in and start lying to you. They just keep making it up.

When you were a kid what did you think?

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2019:

It took me years to question any of it because it seemed that all of the adults believed in a god long after they stopped believing in Santa. Both good and bad adults claimed to believe in a god, so I assumed it must be true. Naive as it is I find this to be the same attitude that keeps people going to church today. People want to believe because people want to belong.

Todd Starnes Sold Us a War on Christianity. We Bought It. - Christ and Pop Culture

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2019:

Of course we bought it and it is a warped story. It is always true for the Christian because most of them remember from the bible that Jesus said "you will be persecuted for my sake." It isn't far at all to go from a War on Christianity to a War on Christmas. If you are a good Christian at all, or think that you are, it is common Christian logic to believe that you are persecuted.

What is your best definition of being in love?

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2019:

Love is a decision. It involves a heightened sense of everything and also affects your sense of smell.

Texas is about to get a ‘Save Chick-fil-A’ law that legalizes anti-LGBTQ discrimination / LGBTQ ...

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2019:

To many this is religious freedom. Making fun of gays or LGBTQ is a sport that says openly that you are "all man" in many cases. Just yesterday I made a delivery where 4 or 5 men are discussing this and telling crude jokes. Religion is always at the bottom of this because the jokes go back to "Adam and Steve."

So, now the religious zealots are claiming that you don't have to believe in God to know right from ...

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2019:

Would most people have an aversion to abortion? Yes. Is abortion used as birth control? No. People that are close to batshit crazy on this issue listen to all the lies and opt for every baby to be born regardless of individual facts. As usual, they make up the facts. Are there any efforts at all to take care of these babies that people want so desperately to be born? None at all. Not even a suggestion. So much for knowing right from wrong. So much for Family Values and the GOP.

Hey guys! I posted a few weeks ago about my process of leaving religion and I know deep down that ...

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2019:

Study enough and you find out that your "almighty guy" is himself bad. In the end he came out mythical to me and I credit my bible studies for doing that.

Donald Trump's current burst of behavior -- the absolute refusal to allow testimony or documents to ...

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2019:

Trump does have a reason and he is upset. Looks like banks are starting to turn over his financial records. Poor Donald is afraid he might be un-done. The IRS will be next and it's all because of those pesky Democrats. Anyone remember when Trump was a Democrat? How about when Obama or George W. Bush got pissed off and called in their personal attorneys. Let's go back to the Nixon lawyers saying you cannot prosecute a sitting president. Yes, Trump brought Reality TV to the White House. It's one of the few things he knows how to do.

Christian Mom: It’s a Travesty That Girls Are Outperforming Boys Academically | Sarahbeth Caplin |...

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2019:

Great for the girls but if you are a boy and it bothers you just try a little harder.

What if I’m atheist not Agnostic? Just asking, to stimulate conversation.

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2019:

You can be agnostic about your atheism or atheistic about your agnosticism. I might not believe and then I might. I might not believe at all but I could believe under certain circumstances. Maybe I just believe some things that I am not telling you. Then we have started our own denominations. :)

Why do people believe untrue things?

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

This man has some interesting points. As for flat Earthers, I have flown in planes and I also build over the air TV antennas. If you understand anything about these things you will know more about the curvature of the Earth.

I was recently asked by a friend who knew me as a devoted Christian, “What happened?

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

Perfect answer.

Judge rules banks can hand over Trump's financial records to Congress

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

Poetic justice. Will the issue make it to the Supreme Court? Better yet, is this a Supreme Court issue? No, it's Reality TV.

Trump’s troubling response to “lock them up!” chants during his Pennsylvania rally [vox.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

As for The Donald. "Lock him up!"

What’s Really behind Evangelicals’ Climate Denial? - TheHumanist.com

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

What is really behind Evangelicals' climate denial? Having once been one I can answer first hand. "He's still up there. He's still in charge and still in control." That pretty much does it unless you carry this on over into Revelation where many believe that everything has to go to hell for prophesy to be fulfilled.

Who is actually 'open-minded'?

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

I am open minded. It means that I have an open mind about the things that I have decided at this point in time to be open about. Earlier in my life I might not have been this way on some subjects and I might evolve more also in the future. So much for being open minded.

"Facts" about atheists, such as 8% say they believe in God or other universal spirit and 97% seldom ...

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

If you are atheist and believe in god it means you are not atheist. If you are atheist and you pray, what or whom, are you praying to? If you are atheist and believe in anything supernatural please give evidence for what you believe in. I am atheist because I was once a god believer and found out that I was totally conned. There is simply no evidence regardless of how hard someone wants to believe. In fact, I think people want to believe because deep inside us we want to belong. Belief in a god is very much like joining a gang.

John Wayne said the words....

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2019:

I can agree with all of that. I liked John Wayne but did not like his politics.

There is clear evidence that humans invent gods.

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2019:

My clear evidence that humans invent gods is that spirit beings cannot and do not write books. They also do not dictate to you as you are in trance or dream state. Spirit beings have nothing to do with it. You got to trance state because you put yourself into a trance personally or with help of another physical being. You got to dream state because you have to sleep and even in sleep parts of the brain are awake. Yes, spirit beings cannot write on their own. They also do not scratch or bite. They have no hands, claws, or teeth. If summoned up they come from your mind or maybe your backside. But wait, so say. You haven't tried my spirit being. Why would I have to? Why would another one be any different?

Just dyed my hair blue.. You like :) This is in the day light so.. How about now

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2019:

I could get used to it. Two people at my work wondered why I dyed my hair black again. I told them I was tired of looking in the mirror and seeing my great grandpappy. :)

NJ signs on to Death with Dignity

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2019:

It is your life. You can either live it or terminate it. If in pain you might want termination. A big problem here is getting the invisible man out of your birth and death story so that you might proceed.

Death with Dignity – endoflifeWA program. . [sanjuanupdate.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2019:

When I told people that run the local funeral home that I was going to be cremated one of them came back at me saying he believed in death with dignity. My response was that death has no dignity.

Who was Jesus ?

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

You might be right. Also, Jesus of the bible might have come from legends of more than one man. Who was Jesus? Bible aside we have no evidence to ever know. We have no clues of his birth or death that are reliable. Just stories.

My daughter's science teacher believes in God, magic etc.

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

I don't blame her a bit. The guy is a modern nut case but up until the age of about 35 or so I thought just like him. It was much later that I learned critical thinking and the fact that it is OK to not know something.

Any new shows that I and my family can get into?

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

Stranger Things is coming back with season 3 in July on Netflix. I'll binge on that one. Westworld 3 will not be here until 2020.

Another scientific mystery. Dark matter? [livescience.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

I think it is dark matter because we know it is there but we are unable to see it. This makes it hard for us to figure out exactly what it does and that is part of the mystery.

So Game of Thrones Ended.

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

I am sorry for your loss. She was very attractive. Being without her now is an ever ongoing adjustment and I know it is not easy.

Isn’t that the truth.

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

For starters parents do not get a divorce because of the kids. My kids asked me once if I divorced their mom because of them. That's how kids think.

If We Want To Stop Queer Kids From Dying By Suicide, We Need To Start At The Top | HuffPost

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

This is so true. You can't pray away anything. Converting gays is like trying to make left handed people right handed.

I'm dealing well with my depression and anxiety.

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

I think being alone is marvelous and wonderful but I get lonely. I don't need a significant other but it would be nice. My last marriage was going to be the "forever love" except that nothing is forever.

Don’t worry about feeling sad: on the benefits of a blue period | Aeon Ideas

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

I fake happiness all the time. Sometimes I fake orgasms.

It sucks to get old and senile ,, huh bob.. lmao..

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

Yes, but people with a cause count on it because they need your donations.

How the U.

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

I agree with you and I know that both parties play a role in this. People think I am ignorant for being on Facebook but my purpose there has nothing to do with likes or thumbs up. Many postings there are from other areas of media and the memes and words are to get responses to and about public issues in many ways - sales and politics being but a few. In the past I have successfully pushed ideas until someone picked it up as a slogan. That's why I am there.

All Your Favorite HGTV Shows Are Totally Fake

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

Too much TV is in the format of "reality TV." The trouble is that there is no reality to it. Pawn shop shows and Naked and Afraid fall into these categories as well. A friend of mine went to Vegas and was told not to photograph the items in a certain area because they were going to be used for the next season of the pawn shop show. Then the old man died and we have no show. One of the others is doing Lifelock on TV and also works in Vegas clubs. Things like the above are why I am more into Retro TV and similar shows. They were scripted too but they never pretended to be real and they never asked you to believe that they were real.

Matt Nelson Knows Exactly How to Convert Atheists | Roll to Disbelieve: Another Christian Thinks ...

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2019:

How to convert atheists? It was my intense study of the bible that caused me to become atheist. The book is one book out of many that doesn't hold up in it's claims or origins, and it has too late of an arrival on the scene. So called contemporaries are not contemporaries at all along with other bogus claims, but let us suppose for a moment that you do believe it. The next hurdle is to get past the idea that your book and system is right while all the others are wrong. If we pass that step we will next have to figure out why there are so damned many sects and denominations. Of course, if anything pisses you off you can simply go somewhere and start your own denomination. Why not? Everyone else does. OK, that was Religion 101. It bypasses the many countless discussions you can have for hours that in the end do not prove god. Any questions? This is why I am atheist. God did not kill my father, cost my marriage, or cause me to lose anything. I am not angry with a being that I have come to find out is mythical to start with. Proof for your god goes back into those many countless discussions that really prove nothing. If I have anger on this issue at all it revolves around gullibility.

Why Donald J Trump will win in 2020.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

The Dems cannot get organized and have 23 or more running. They also need to come out strongly and appear on Fox News, then also call Trump's China tariffs (that America will pay for) the "Trump Tax." Why not? Trump makes up things and so do most of the GOP. Call this tariff and others the "Trump Tax." That might get through to a few people. Not everyone can see it. A man at my work got so riled on this that he had to excuse himself and leave the building because of his "great desire to do me physical harm." His stand is that this is Trump's way of bringing jobs back to America. The higher prices will cause us to pay so much money that manufacturing will be taken up again in our country at a profit. What a crock! What utter nonsense!

I love my city.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

Maybe they are warning Trump to stay away in advance.

Are we (progressives) giving Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez too much praise?

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2019:

I like her a lot. I think Ocasio will give the GOP something to lie about for a long time to come. On Fridays I tune in to conservative talk radio and hear the strangest things about her. Some of it is so funny that you do not want to be drinking anything while you listen. When it comes to AOC they just keep on making it up.