Like many long time Atheists, I tend to study the Abrahamic faiths.

SeaGreenEyez comments on Feb 18, 2022:

Hmmm. So that could add another wrinkle to things. And yet again, poor Ol' Joseph is just the guy leading the donkey to the portable birthing center so Mary and Jesus can become the woman who gave birth to her son that impregnated himself into her womb. Ah, theism. So much realistic ...

DenoPenno replies on Feb 18, 2022:

To this we have to add that poor old Joseph was just too dumb to know that Mary invented the "god pregnancy" in order to save herself from fooling around. Yes, everybody was just too frigging stupid in those days but the real zinger was that people back then never knew the day would come when all the info can be found on the internet.

Can America & its people get over their stupidity?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Only if Blofart stops trying to educate us.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 17, 2022:

@FrayedBear An American idiot conservative Congresswoman.

Can America & its people get over their stupidity?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Only if Blofart stops trying to educate us.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 17, 2022:

@FrayedBear Oh, I got her name wrong. It is Boebert.

Most people get drunk on their 21st birthday. Here's how I spent mine.

Redheadedgammy comments on Feb 16, 2022:

I was working in a pizza place attached to a bar in Crown Point, Indiana when I turned 21. I got to serve pizza and sandwiches to drunks. I never understood why people drink to stupidity! 😉

DenoPenno replies on Feb 16, 2022:

I had times that I drank to stupidity. That might be why I cannot remember my 21st birthday.

I had listened to these radio shows on a crystal radio when I was 7 years old.

Andy4608 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

I had a crystal set with headphones, from memory it did not have a separate power source. The aerial went out of the (upstairs) bedroom window. I also seem to remember that it would only pick up Long Wave broadcasts (BBC Light Programme at the time).

DenoPenno replies on Feb 16, 2022:

I remember all of this. Crystal sets in my time here in America were AM only and had no power source at all. That meant you had to listen through a headset. Easy to build radio too.

Not even two months in to 2022, ladies and gentlemen, and we already have a legitimate contender for...

HankHunter13 comments on Feb 16, 2022:

Republicon Dittoheads, just repeating the wall to wall talking points on Fox and Fascists. All because the Twitler house of cards is collapsing. Adorable.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 16, 2022:

What? You don't follow Agolf Twittler. :)

E. O. Wilson: Science Explains Religion

DenoPenno comments on Feb 15, 2022:

I hate religion. I truly do.All it ever did for me was take me to extremes and I thought all of that was normal.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 15, 2022:

@skado Maybe. I was tricked into believing and lots of study got me out.

Do the American people support their government on Ukraine-Russia?

BD66 comments on Feb 14, 2022:

Joe Biden withdrew Afghanistan in a mess leaving behind $85,000,000,000 in military equipment. That was against the Taliban. You expect the American people to have confidence he could lead us in a conventional war against the Russians? I would not trust Joe Biden to lead me into a Dairy Queen.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 14, 2022:

Presidents do not lead you in wars. Our generals do that. They lead our fighting forces and not presidents.

Resurrection

DenoPenno comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Mankind has always believed in some form of resurrection. This is a basic belief because we cannot accept that we will no longer exist at some point. We do not want our thoughts or ourselves to perish.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 13, 2022:

@Triphid Only in a debate. Here it is simply common knowledge.

It just blows my mind that after thousands of years of evolution and intellectual advancement, ...

Garban comments on Feb 12, 2022:

Thousands of years of evolution?? I think you mean possibly 3 BILLION years of evolution. There must be some kind of evolutionary advantage to religion or it would have been eliminated by natural selection? Perhaps we’re doomed. Nature occasionally trims a branch, maybe we’re sawing our own ...

DenoPenno replies on Feb 12, 2022:

@xenoview This is very true but religion did evolve as we evolved. None of it is changing for the better either.

Oh my God... Ghostbusters live action TV show is in the works!!!

DenoPenno comments on Feb 11, 2022:

Do we need that? The last good film I saw about them was Ghostbusters Afterlife.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 11, 2022:

@Umbrella_Guard The film was a tribute to Ramis and a new story with younger people and a way of putting all the originals back together again. I loved it.

I have a problem here that I think is based somehow in a cognitive bias and I need a little help in ...

waitingforgodo comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Visual memories influence perception.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 7, 2022:

Thank you so very much for this one. In my case as stated I forgot to say that I did appliances and HVAC. This means my previous notion that the furnace had a heating element that resembled one in a clothes dryer is actually a false memory. This would be similar to that hill we played on as kids but you go back today and find it was only a mound. The problem is in what you remember. Not being able to find your hammer in plain sight when it was there the entire time is a fear that the neighbor kid took it. Often we think things are a certain way to find that it is not true at all. Why do we do this and what is it called?

WV teachers told kids to attend a religious revival during the school day

Beowulfsfriend comments on Feb 7, 2022:

WV has become a backwater little shit hole depending on federal funds for survival and continues to shoot itself in their feet. When driving back and forth from Central Pennsylvania to Chicago, I often stopped for cheap gas at a little place there. The stations neighbors had a hand printed sign ...

DenoPenno replies on Feb 7, 2022:

I'm sure the bibble told them who all was going to be damned to hell.

I have a problem here that I think is based somehow in a cognitive bias and I need a little help in ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Feb 7, 2022:

Maybe the kid just borrowed the hammer. That said, I've looked right at stuff more than once and not seen it.

DenoPenno replies on Feb 7, 2022:

The hammer was there the entire time. I simply did not see it. My concern of the kid getting it would mean I had left it on my porch. It turns out that the hammer was where it was supposed to have been and the kid had no access to that area.

Faith is useless without proof.

Cast1es comments on Feb 6, 2022:

As they were about to take me in for surgery , a woman in scrubs was interviewing me at the hospital . She asked if I was married , if I smoke , drank , used illegal drugs , if I believed in God , to all of which I answered no . She then commented what did I use as a crutch ? I replied , I stand on ...

DenoPenno replies on Feb 7, 2022:

@Cast1es I was speaking of "crutch" in a religious way such as religion being your crutch. If you have to use a physical crutch I did not mean to be demeaning to you in any way.

Faith is useless without proof.

Cast1es comments on Feb 6, 2022:

As they were about to take me in for surgery , a woman in scrubs was interviewing me at the hospital . She asked if I was married , if I smoke , drank , used illegal drugs , if I believed in God , to all of which I answered no . She then commented what did I use as a crutch ? I replied , I stand on ...

DenoPenno replies on Feb 6, 2022:

What do you use as a crutch? I take it that she meant using religion, booze, or drugs is how we get through life. Maybe for a great many people but no longer for me. I don't even fall for the argument that you can be moral without god. Who cares if you are moral? Whether or not you are has nothing to do with gods. Hell, I'm an alcoholic who can no longer drink and I used to love to drink. I have not worked since last Wednesday and maybe had 4 drinks in all that time. That crutch don't work no more.

Oregon church sues town over restrictions on free meals to homeless people : NPR

DenoPenno comments on Feb 3, 2022:

Regardless of all the homeless should be fed. Why? They are homeless in part because some greedy bastards somewhere tricked them out of their money through everything from second mortgages and extremely high interest rates. They are homeless because you took their stuff away as you led them on with ...

DenoPenno replies on Feb 4, 2022:

@ASTRALMAX You might say I prefer a nomadic lifestyle because my home choices are mobile homes but that never means I am moving them from place to place. I am richer by living in them and I have been in the same place now for 15 years. What this does for me is that if I need money I simply go to the bank and get it. This lifestyle also keeps me humble enough to where I do not give a damn about the Joneses.

Not all things are totally wrong or right.

Sticks48 comments on Jan 30, 2022:

I've cheated death a couple of times, so that probably won't be happening again. At my age, I don't believe I will be stealing anyone's heart. I'm not sure how much fight I have left. I would definitely have a drink with you. I am sure that would be a good time. :)

DenoPenno replies on Feb 3, 2022:

I was cheated just recently on a car repair. The mechanic lied. I am vocal so in the end it will cost him and I will not have to confront him at all. :)

Sad and ridiculous.

glennlab comments on Feb 1, 2022:

Someone is posting right wing bullshit in response, FGA is a right wing anti democratic orginization https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Foundation_for_Government_Accountability

DenoPenno replies on Feb 2, 2022:

@glennlab Rest assured, Glen, that when these documents have words on them like "ZUCKERBUCKS" you know them to be official and authentic. Oh, crap! I'm a believer now.

Sad and ridiculous.

BD66 comments on Feb 1, 2022:

Mark Zuckerberg put $419 million in to nonprofits in 2020. Those nonprofits mission was to "help" local election boards do their job. On average, Biden counties received $2.85 per vote and Trump counties received $0.89 per vote. The table below shows the largest recipients of funds from ...

DenoPenno replies on Feb 2, 2022:

If we do not watch this our country might end up like Myanmar (formerly Burma) where the military literally took over because "they found voter irregularity in votes for the president." Is that sort of thing a job of the military and why was it on their to do list. The simple answer is because they wanted to take over the government and gave this excuse of a lie to be able to get away with it.

Priorities for next 14 days : No matter what , making sure I have no wear down panties on and ...

Aaron70 comments on Jan 31, 2022:

What are “wear down panties”…..inquiring for a friend?!🤔

DenoPenno replies on Feb 1, 2022:

@Buck Mine too. If they stretch too much or get rips they become an outside cleaning rag or a burning barrel fire starter.

Are homosexual natures created by nurture, nature, or God?

DenoPenno comments on Jan 29, 2022:

When I was a Christian I believed that homosexuals had chosen that lifestyle. This belief was shared by other believers who really want to define "sin" and choosing to "sin." Various bible verses back this up so it is no wonder that Christians believe in "conversion therapy." The problem is that ...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 29, 2022:

@TimeOutForMe I agree with the awareness mentioned here by ages 6 and 8 etc. but it was not a noticed sexual awareness at that time. One example from my childhood is that we all gave Valentines to both sexes.

Good thing Neil's Canadian, and as such, Canada still has access to his songs on Spotify.

KKGator comments on Jan 28, 2022:

Rand Paul is another one for the hole. I hope he gets sued for copyright infringement. Fucking asshole.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 28, 2022:

Rand Paul is one dumb doctor.

Ex-Miss America Contestant’s Husband Shot Dead in Front of Toddler While ‘Evangelizing’

linxminx comments on Jan 27, 2022:

"He was independently evangelizing door-to-door..." So he was with his 2-year old, going door-to-door trying to get people to convert. The shooting happened just steps from Walker's home. If Walker told him to get off his property, that he was trespassing, and he didn't and just kept ...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 27, 2022:

You cannot shoot people for trespassing regardless of all those signs we have seen that say otherwise.

Confessions first I am continually trying as gently as I can to find out why members of this ...

DenoPenno comments on Jan 26, 2022:

I am atheist. Many do not like the word but it means "without gods." I agree we can stagnate but where do we move from here? I'm not sure if I am using science but I certainly am using logic. Problems with logic and reasoning in our world today is that many claim to have logic and have nothing ...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 26, 2022:

@TheMiddleWay Why would you enforce a position?

Hospital refusing heart transplant for man who won't get vaccinated

Tejas comments on Jan 25, 2022:

I hope the family sues for millions

DenoPenno replies on Jan 25, 2022:

@JonnaBononna Yes, they will lose. No shot, no heart. Just like my anti-vaxx daughter. No shot, no chemo. The medical community does not give a crap about your supposed "Constitutional right." If the Internet would have been a thing in the 1950's we would still have polio today.

Antisemitic fliers left at hundreds of Miami Beach homes | TheHill

Jolanta comments on Jan 25, 2022:

The flyers, contained in a plastic bag with small pebbles, list the names of Jewish officials who work at government health agencies and for pharmaceutical companies. I wonder what they are trying to achieve with this?

DenoPenno replies on Jan 25, 2022:

Possibly that Jews are somehow responsible for the virus and the pandemic. Then we hear more mask nonsense etc. because someone has figured out that pandemic clamor is really lost days of productivity and getting all your money that they can. The problem is -- this is not the Jews. It is none other than our modern system in these bad times.

I found this on Facebook...this painting says a lot...by Jonathan Harris aka artyougifted

Scott321 comments on Jan 23, 2022:

Black history makes white people very uncomfortable. I watched *Judas and the Black Messiah* and it made me very angry. I wanted to break stuff afterward. What happened to Fred Hampton was wrong. He crossed over to “rebel” whites and Latinos also in dire straits. Poverty crosses over. For that ...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 23, 2022:

I watched some of those same movies and was angered. Being white myself I get mystified when others try and tell me what blacks do and how they act, etc. One man tried to tell me what my ex-wife liked and it was all stereotype crap. His opinions are horrible and he has spent most of his life in prison. Many people today see only black and white and there are no shades in between.

Batty as hell!

freedom41 comments on Jan 22, 2022:

He got what he deserved for believing rights were more important than his health.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 23, 2022:

I work with others who think this way every day. My oldest daughter was one of them until recently when her rights became second place and her health went to first place. They would not treat her cancer unless she became vaccinated.

23andme is a fake, rip-off scam website.

Lorajay comments on Jan 21, 2022:

Argentina has a long history with German immigrants. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Argentines#:~:text=German%20immigration%20to%20Argentina%20occurred,of%20Buenos%20Aires%20in%201827.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 22, 2022:

@OldMetalHead I doubt it. I was stationed in Nurnberg 19 years after Hitler shot himself. He had followers but nobody thought he was still alive.

Poor Emily.

Fernapple comments on Jan 21, 2022:

Is she the only one, or do you still need to move house ?

DenoPenno replies on Jan 21, 2022:

@Umbrella_Guard Either dope, booze, or both. The only other distraction is that something is making them all dumb.

Poor Emily.

Fernapple comments on Jan 21, 2022:

Is she the only one, or do you still need to move house ?

DenoPenno replies on Jan 21, 2022:

Emily was at the Capital riots and actually went inside. I'm told she was so proud of that. She is soon to be sentenced, but locally and recently she was intoxicated and went the wrong way on the freeway. This led to a collision that killed a local woman. Her first offense will be mild compared to the DUI affair.

It is Janis Joplin's birthday.

LucyLoohoo comments on Jan 19, 2022:

And "Bobby McGee"!

DenoPenno replies on Jan 21, 2022:

Janis was great no doubt. When it comes to her songs I always remember the late Patty O'Neal best. I grew up with Patty and she sang backup for others. She was a local legend in my area and sang Janis Joplin better than Janis. (Is that possible?) Once she got on stage nobody wanted her to leave.

A Huge difference…….

silverotter11 comments on Jan 19, 2022:

The truly sad part is ALL the conservative/gop/trump supporters can not figure this out. But it is the democrats that refuse to listen to the progressives.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 21, 2022:

I agree that the Democrats refuse to listen to the progressives but the Republicans are calling them Communists.

A week ago I bought 2 cans of soup and they were both bad.

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Jan 17, 2022:

I return such items to the store where I bought them. I have always gotten my money back.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 17, 2022:

I used to do that also but this was Walmart and I am now forced to walk a mile to go get my own product again. They most likely believe nobody would do this to save $3. I keep the fight going because it is all about food quality and if we do nothing they get away with it and we get shitty food.

A week ago I bought 2 cans of soup and they were both bad.

Pralina1 comments on Jan 16, 2022:

Reminds me “ lazlo s letters “ I red that book 27 yrs ago when my English weren’t good enough , now u made me look for it on Amazon 🙌

DenoPenno replies on Jan 16, 2022:

@Pralina1 I would not buy it at that price. You reminded me of Father Guido Sarducci from TV. He was a fictional priest created by Don Novello. I read a book written by Novello in which he did the same thing in writing letters. Most of them were funny as hell. OMG! I had to come back and edit this because it is Novello who wrote the Lazlo Letters. Novello was a regular on Saturday Night Live for a while. You and I must think alike. :)

A week ago I bought 2 cans of soup and they were both bad.

Pralina1 comments on Jan 16, 2022:

Reminds me “ lazlo s letters “ I red that book 27 yrs ago when my English weren’t good enough , now u made me look for it on Amazon 🙌

DenoPenno replies on Jan 16, 2022:

My remark about bad English and guessing that the person was from India was made only to show that stores now farm out questions about American quality control. In this case I feel that the soup was made here, but a lot of our food today comes from other countries.

Copy and pasted from a mates post on fb Odd isn't it that this applies universally.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 13, 2022:

I still have people trying to argue with me on where Covid came from. Why would that matter? Most of them are claiming things that follow American politics. What morons. I maintain that we have always had Covid in one form or another. Over 100 years ago we had a big outbreak. No vaccines but finally...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 14, 2022:

@FrayedBear Current talk of fines by OSHA and others are simply a mechanism to cause companies and corporations to enforce mask wearing. Individuals are not going to pay fines.

Statism, is the most dangerous Religion. [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on Jan 14, 2022:

I simply cannot wait to get my Biden hat. Gonna get a Biden flag too and then start driving around everywhere with that flag on my vehicle. Might start a Biden train where we drive along and just pick up others along the way who believe in government the way we do. Is this a religion? Throw in a ...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 14, 2022:

@Castlepaloma What I wrote was satire to cause others to think. Nationalism and Fascism are by far the greatest danger.

I ran across this passage I had never heard of before.

nogod4me comments on Jan 13, 2022:

Imagine how demented someone has to be to build a religion around penis mutilation.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 14, 2022:

Imagine again that foreskins were once actually a money system.

Americans' Donations to Religious Organizations Remain at All-Time Low: Gallup - Michael Foust

freedom41 comments on Jan 13, 2022:

Maybe, some people are starting an journey of enlightenment and figured out they are wasting money at church.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 13, 2022:

And maybe some started looking at what these donations go for. Trump got elected and all sorts of religious crazies came out of the woodwork.

Rush Radio, Fox and Fascists & Facebook.

David1955 comments on Jan 13, 2022:

Spin by reactionary conservatives, that's how. They are attracted by fascism, but repelled by economic systems that make some effort towards economic justice. And it's not really 'socialism' but social democracy, a mixed economy, a balance of public and private sectors, which even exists in ...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 13, 2022:

That just about hits it, David.

Leavenworth WA is running out of places to put its record-breaking snowfall.

MyTVC15 comments on Jan 11, 2022:

I heard there was a glacier in OR. that melted completely, maybe they would take some. Just a thought.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 11, 2022:

I was talking to a right wing person at our workplace about all this today and he thinks it's all perfectly normal.

I admit I'm not very respectful to Xians nor any other religious practitioners of any faith but is ...

DenoPenno comments on Jan 10, 2022:

I see your rant and I agree to extents with it. My late Christian friend would tell you that the people you describe are "not real Christians" and there we go. He has simply explained why there are so many of them. Nothing more and nothing less. From time to time believers come to my door. Anyone...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 10, 2022:

@Sgt_Spanky I agree with this totally. It is as if conservatives are saying it is their way or no way.

There are a number of outspoken feminists in the atheist community who have written articles and ...

ChestRockfield comments on Jan 9, 2022:

I can't understand how the vote is turning out the way it is. You do all know that religious people all over the country are trying to turn women into forced fetus incubators, right? What the fuck is happening right now to our ability to compare and contrast?!?

DenoPenno replies on Jan 9, 2022:

@Gwendolyn2018 But, Gwen, if my mommy would have had an abortion I might not be here. That sentence alone is at the heart of this one because men know that women really are in control and they do not like that control. They also do not trust women to do the right thing.

Am I the only person who has to stop people telling me about their breaches of health orders?

Ray13 comments on Jan 9, 2022:

The thing that baffles me the most is since the covid vaccines are free, to us, why not get it? I"ve paid over $100 for a shingles shot and again for a pneumonia shot. If I can get any vaccine for free I'm jumping on that! And I had more of a reaction from the Shingles shot than any of the covid...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 9, 2022:

Then not trusting government jumps in. You hear "that shingles shot was developed too quickly and they must be up to something wanting to give us all a shingles shot." Well, something like that. I've heard that if we had the Internet in the 50's we would still have polio today. I believe that. I really do.

Webb telescope [youtu.be]

Robecology comments on Jan 9, 2022:

Go here if you don't want to listen to the chatter of the spin-doctors...and just want the news about JWST https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

DenoPenno replies on Jan 9, 2022:

Very interesting.

They say she was selling her farts in jars.

Paracosm comments on Jan 9, 2022:

$1000 a jar? WTF?! Good for her though I guess.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 9, 2022:

I've been wondering about the science of the thing myself. How do you fart in a jar and then get the lid on before the fart escapes? I've also wondered what do you do if you detect fart fraud. Then my mind drifts into greed as I wonder if she could have made more than 50K a week if she hired more farters.

1 year after the auto-coup attempt of the United States government.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 7, 2022:

Violence to stop them makes you no different than they are. There should be restraint and no violence. Jail time would seem in order.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 7, 2022:

@JackPedigo Violence is mentioned in the third thing you vote for in how to handle the movement. Domos did the posting and set up voting with 3 options.

Bette Davis's first marriage was to Harmon Oscar Nelson on August 18, 1932, in Yuma, Arizona.

BufftonBeotch comments on Jan 7, 2022:

He must have had a spectacular Johnson. I can't imagine her being with such a cad. "Read to an unnecessary degree" But from what I have learned of her, I am also sure Ms Davis was not a pleasant person to share personal space with.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 7, 2022:

I listen to music and I'm wondering what they did with her eyes?

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BufftonBeotch comments on Jan 7, 2022:

He is an arrogant asshole who smeared Simone Biles for bowing out of events that could have caused her severe injury. And anti-vaxers are starting to revolt against ALL vaccines which is very dangerous to public health. We would have never eradicated small pox and polio if the Internet was around...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 7, 2022:

I certainly agree with that and I lived through that time and have been vaccinated my entire life. I knew people with polio and visible effects from it. We simply do not see this today.

Soooo.

RussRAB comments on Jan 6, 2022:

More like .... Twitter SAVED Americans from MTG repeatly attacking them with misinformation and lies. This is the reason she was banned. It is the consequence of her own behavior.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 6, 2022:

Greene might be too dumb to know that. Her statement that schools are not closed for cancer and they are for Covid would seem to show that she believes cancer is contagious.

When did EVERYTHING become a "right"??

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

To some people healthcare is a business. I want nothing at all to do with those people.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 6, 2022:

@Alienbeing OK. Are you entitled? :)

What Is Twelve Tribes? Authorities Suspect "Cult" Land as Source of Colorado Wildfire

Mooolah comments on Jan 5, 2022:

These are some real wackos. What a great country. Anyone is guaranteed the freedom to start their own religion in order to bilk people out of their money & minds. & now they have the internet. Even the IRS fears Scientology.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 5, 2022:

The IRS had to allow Scientology because the group has the goods on too many people.

When did EVERYTHING become a "right"??

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

To some people healthcare is a business. I want nothing at all to do with those people.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 5, 2022:

@Alienbeing You seem to be making a different point, lawyer man. Look back at what you have written and then read "healthcare should be a right." Yes, it should be equally available and enjoyable by everyone. That is exactly where all of this started. I'm done.

When did EVERYTHING become a "right"??

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

To some people healthcare is a business. I want nothing at all to do with those people.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 4, 2022:

@duchessa1 My late stepdad had both. When it came time for him to be on Medicaid they used his money from both.

When did EVERYTHING become a "right"??

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

To some people healthcare is a business. I want nothing at all to do with those people.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 4, 2022:

@Alienbeing If you have paid into that insurance program I suppose you are "entitled" to draw money from it when you meet the requirements. The term "entitlement" is used to lightly dismiss anything legitimate about social security and even causes some to claim it is a "ponzi scheme." When people insist on this nonsense most of us know what political side they are on. Usually that side tries to balance a budget by taking money from social security. I left that party years ago.

A bunch of wild crap going around now about Betty White and her manner of death.

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Jan 4, 2022:

This is exemplary of reasons why I am a misanthrope. As a whole, people disgust me.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 4, 2022:

I think you have just defined me. :)

A bunch of wild crap going around now about Betty White and her manner of death.

Jolanta comments on Jan 4, 2022:

When you are 99 years old then there is nothing sudden about dying.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 4, 2022:

The biggest thing spread here is that she died after getting a booster shot. Her agent says that is not true and the quote of her saying she just got her booster is also not true. In other words, antivaxxers are trying to lie and tell us all that the vaccine killed Betty White. It simply is not true and I have seen the fake posts in Facebook also. According to Betty's agent she died at home peacefully in her sleep. Click on my link. I'm sure it made other papers and was not just picked up by Yahoo. I found it after checking my Yahoo mail.

Dick Cheney - Vice: The Hijacking of the American Presidency, Politics of Oil & Money - Compilation

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

Yes, and the Q Party is correct. Trump will be restored at gunpoint and the resurrected JFK Jr. will be his VP. It was all profitsied by Q and Nostra Day Mouse.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 3, 2022:

@rainmanjr I need to understand just who "they" are and I'm wondering what election fraud we are talking about. The thing I know most is that Donnie needs money. Lots of money. Big Deutche Bank payment coming up soon.

When did EVERYTHING become a "right"??

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

To some people healthcare is a business. I want nothing at all to do with those people.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 3, 2022:

@Alienbeing My healthcare comes through an insurance program called social security.

You socialists are so misinformed.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

I see that you have found the secret. This means that you are not like all the rest of us who help pay for this shit. Why are you excluded from this? There must be a form you fill out where they return the tax money you have paid in. Most of us know the Federal Reserve is not Federal. Please tell us...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 3, 2022:

@Beachslim7 So you are not for welfare programs in New York. How about other states and what do those who need welfare do? Starve, rob a bank, or what?

You socialists are so misinformed.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

I see that you have found the secret. This means that you are not like all the rest of us who help pay for this shit. Why are you excluded from this? There must be a form you fill out where they return the tax money you have paid in. Most of us know the Federal Reserve is not Federal. Please tell us...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 3, 2022:

@Beachslim7 Is it 1945 socialism or something that got invented in the last 5 years?

You socialists are so misinformed.

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

I see that you have found the secret. This means that you are not like all the rest of us who help pay for this shit. Why are you excluded from this? There must be a form you fill out where they return the tax money you have paid in. Most of us know the Federal Reserve is not Federal. Please tell us...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 3, 2022:

@Beachslim7 Hello. Are you a taxpayer? This is a yes or no question.

Hi all. Newbie here, first post. What is your greatest fear?

Aaron70 comments on Jan 3, 2022:

I fear that my dick will fall off in my sleep!!!🥺

DenoPenno replies on Jan 3, 2022:

That's why I hold mine. :)

Dick Cheney - Vice: The Hijacking of the American Presidency, Politics of Oil & Money - Compilation

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

Yes, and the Q Party is correct. Trump will be restored at gunpoint and the resurrected JFK Jr. will be his VP. It was all profitsied by Q and Nostra Day Mouse.

DenoPenno replies on Jan 3, 2022:

@rainmanjr It's all in the election fraud.

Investor-funded Capitalism will destroy Cosmology’s Standard Model, aka the Big Bang, which for a ...

DenoPenno comments on Jan 2, 2022:

Taxpayer socialism. What are the taxpayers paying the socialists for and who are they? Was there a big bang and a sudden blow up of something from one small singularity or do we have an electric universe? I was not there and cannot tell you. Neither can these scientists and investors. I imagine they...

DenoPenno replies on Jan 2, 2022:

@yvilletom Tom, I have no money to invest and I do not believe any creationist stories. I'm still waiting to learn the name of the first 2 disease germs. :)

I went to sleep with the TV on again last night and when I woke up to turn it off I'm hearing this ...

Julie808 comments on Dec 31, 2021:

Seems to me the idea of forgiving the sinner only gives the sinner license to do more evil because of knowing s/he will be forgiven. For many, who don't love themselves, fearing the disappointment of those they love might keep them from doing something destructive, not all but some, but if they ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 31, 2021:

In our situation, Julie, the murderer of my grandson was a drug informant for the prosecutor and both him and my grandson were dope dealers. The killer admitted the killing but said it was in self defense. This is not true but that short story is how he got away with the murder. That particular prosecuting attorney used this killer as an informant the entire time he was in office. My family wants closure but the closest they will ever come to getting it is when this killers dope deal goes wrong.

Christians are balking at the the revised Bible.

Druvius comments on Dec 31, 2021:

"If the King James Bible was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"

DenoPenno replies on Dec 31, 2021:

That is exactly what so many Pentecostals said. If it was good enough for Jesus it is good enough for me.

Interesting conversations are going on here: [reddit.

DenoPenno comments on Dec 31, 2021:

Police in my small area are a joke. I took my wife to work once and came back home that night. Later I hear noises outside like someone is in my car. What I discovered was a couple of pictures of a black girl. Later, a local cop told me he thought these pics came from my wife's secret St. Louis ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 31, 2021:

@Outsideit67 I was lost on it also. Just remarks by a small town redneck with a badge.

[peakprosperity.

DenoPenno comments on Dec 29, 2021:

I think I still have toilet paper left from the time the pandemic first hit my area and people made panic store runs. Am I lining up to be tested? NO, and that is not how it happened when I got Covid19 a year ago. I was not running around in fear wanting to be tested. I got sick and knew what it ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 29, 2021:

@Castlepaloma I do not keep testing. I wear a mask if asked to wear one and sometimes the corporation I work for says wear the mask. If a customer or a business wants me to wear the mask I do it. As for the Covid that I had, I ended up not working all of December last year.

[peakprosperity.

Paul4747 comments on Dec 29, 2021:

You throw around a lot of terms that you show you really don't understand. Lining up for covid testing is not even remotely similar to lining up to be exterminated. One is a lifesaving medical measure, the other, clearly, is not. This is the exhumation of the Srebrenica massacre victims. This is...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 29, 2021:

@Castlepaloma WTF are you talking about??

Good morning dear Agnostic friends! I just saw this one and had to share.

Gemini-1947 comments on Dec 29, 2021:

Extra points if you make it with V-8 and put a celery stick in it.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 29, 2021:

V8 is way too salty.

So, that mean old Echo Dot Alexa wanted to electrocute a 10 year old.

Charles1971 comments on Dec 29, 2021:

Alexa is not sentient. It's just a program that responds to input. If its pulling information from the internet then it will have access to a near limitless amount of garbage. Who's to blame for this? Nobody. It would be like me blaming Samsung every time I get an unwanted phone call on my cell ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 29, 2021:

I agree with you but this story is all over the Internet and it smacks of stuff like "the Tide pod challenge." Maybe you remember that one. What I am trying to bring out here is that media is simply going with this story and whoever got it going is getting all the views, clicks, and likes that they wanted. From Tik Tok to Timbuktu people want to believe this story as if it was absolute gospel. I think it is all a setup involving the making of money. Am I worried about what Alexa is going to say? Not in the least. Mine told me she was made by Amazon Corporation. Sometimes she does not get what I am saying (they do learn) and a couple of times she told me to have a nice weekend.

Here’s where we stand one year in: - Nearly 6 million new jobs — a record for a new president ...

racocn8 comments on Dec 28, 2021:

And yet I see the MAGA-Trumpers post their idiotic anti-Biden memes. They're childish and not even close to being funny. I waste enough time on here not to waste my energy on them. So, I've blocked Umbrella-guard and Bigpawbullets, whose stupidity won't be missed. Ugh.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 28, 2021:

I can agree fully. Some of the "funny" posts I don't even understand. I have no Biden flag or hat. Maybe that would help.

And Maury says," God.

xenoview comments on Dec 28, 2021:

First you have to prove mary existed.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 28, 2021:

After that you would have to prove that the mother of god was now in heaven with her son and she will plead with him on your behalf so as to grant your requests and wishes.

Would a 40-year ski bum interest you?

bobwjr comments on Dec 28, 2021:

Someone who wants no responsibility, ties, family, attachments etc. Sometimes known as mooches, live off someone else while being charming. Yeah knew a few and would not wish them on anyone.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 28, 2021:

I remembered such a person form my high school days. I asked a friend about him not so long ago and was told that he lives with other people.

Christmas & Evolution

Aaron70 comments on Dec 26, 2021:

Don’t you think that maybe, just fucking maybe, that if Mary gave birth to Jesus, it’s because she WASN’T an effin virgin!?! 🧐

DenoPenno replies on Dec 27, 2021:

@Buck The valid point is that birth normally does away with a hymen. Therefore no more virgin regardless of what believers thought over 2000 years ago. Sex itself does not always do away with a hymen. There have been cases of pregnant women with an intact hymen. I'm talking science and medicine. Not gods.

Christmas & Evolution

Aaron70 comments on Dec 26, 2021:

Don’t you think that maybe, just fucking maybe, that if Mary gave birth to Jesus, it’s because she WASN’T an effin virgin!?! 🧐

DenoPenno replies on Dec 27, 2021:

@Buck Numbers of believers do not make an idea true.

Christmas & Evolution

Aaron70 comments on Dec 26, 2021:

Don’t you think that maybe, just fucking maybe, that if Mary gave birth to Jesus, it’s because she WASN’T an effin virgin!?! 🧐

DenoPenno replies on Dec 27, 2021:

Even if she was a virgin the birth would have ended that idea for sure.

OK Church Boots Woman for Bringing Marijuana to Jailed Sister.

CuddyCruiser comments on Nov 17, 2021:

It’s about time ALL PROHIBITION OF ALL drugs comes to an end.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 26, 2021:

The war on drugs simply drove the price up and put big bucks in control of supply. It is a sham and simply another way to make money. Without the drug war there would be no drug epidemics.

How is it intelligent to assume other people are dumb?

DenoPenno comments on Dec 26, 2021:

Are you sure? I watched a spaghetti western recently that played with sub titles and the town they were in had English names for the saloon, hotel, general store, etc., etc.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 26, 2021:

@Castlepaloma The point is that the towns businesses should have names displayed in the same language that the residents speak. This has nothing to do with lessons or anything historically correct. Also nothing to do with a nature spot or defending anything. I'm telling you that the Cantina was a Saloon and that was kinda dumb. :)

How To Start Your Own Religion [thoughtcatalog.com]

barjoe comments on Dec 24, 2021:

L Ron Hubbard did a pretty good job with a phony religion. Actually they are all phony.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 25, 2021:

@Fernapple Everyone today believes St. Paul but he had to admit he did not know if he was in or out of his body when he received his great teachings. This told the modern Christian that if he was dead he was instantly in Heaven.

Pair of traitors

NostraDumbass comments on Dec 22, 2021:

It was a cuckoo coup.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 25, 2021:

It is also cuckoo girls.

Some of the loony members of this forum seem to think that everything is black or white but the ...

RichCC comments on Dec 24, 2021:

A knee replacement surgeon doesn't wear a mask to avoid catching their patient's bad knee.🙂

DenoPenno replies on Dec 25, 2021:

Yes, but MTG says we do not close schools because of cancer. I wonder where she went to school?

How To Start Your Own Religion [thoughtcatalog.com]

barjoe comments on Dec 24, 2021:

L Ron Hubbard did a pretty good job with a phony religion. Actually they are all phony.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 24, 2021:

Not bad for an alcoholic science fiction writer.

20 Completely Harmless Things Religious People Have Called 'Satanic'

Storm1752 comments on Dec 23, 2021:

It's Biblical. Once you realize according to the Bible precisely 144,000 people go to Heaven, that means almost EVERYTHING is satanic.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 24, 2021:

Yes, and if 144,000 people are going it means they are all known in advance. That would include number and names.

Is the USA on the brink of financial collapse?

DenoPenno comments on Dec 19, 2021:

Yes, Biden is printing money but no extra money was printed under Trump and his GOP did not give a damn about balancing a budget. Shoe is on the other foot now. Into your bank question, all I see is new banks being built all the time. There must be a market for these banks or someone is really ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 22, 2021:

@Alienbeing You did not say no extra money. I said no extra money in order to get replies from the diehards.:) Neither party balances the budget.

I finally told my doctor that I had been having trouble with my snake for some time.

hankster comments on Dec 22, 2021:

better off than having asp-bergers or an adder-all prescription I'd figure.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 22, 2021:

I think Donnie has both of those.

An angel even an atheist can believe in!

FearlessFly comments on Dec 21, 2021:

. . . angel (perhaps metaphorically) . . . atheist ? I don't think so "No life will ever be without struggle. And we can easily let fear, worry, and hurt rob us of the joy God has for us."' https://www.godupdates.com/betty-white-age/?utm_medium=fbpage=trending=cdupdate ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 22, 2021:

@Budgie I love Betty White. She was married to Allen Luden and he died. She never re-married. They were Jewish. Other than this I know nothing and do not know what religion was "drummed into her hard." I have been told that she is a very nice person.

Is the USA on the brink of financial collapse?

DenoPenno comments on Dec 19, 2021:

Yes, Biden is printing money but no extra money was printed under Trump and his GOP did not give a damn about balancing a budget. Shoe is on the other foot now. Into your bank question, all I see is new banks being built all the time. There must be a market for these banks or someone is really ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 21, 2021:

@Alienbeing Now let's take issue with my statement "no extra money was printed under Trump." We all know that is a damned lie! :)

Beau of the Fifth Column - Let's talk about the Newsweek article and Trump.... [youtube.com]

ChurchLess comments on Dec 20, 2021:

He was kinda babbling this evening.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 21, 2021:

But his babbling is right. What stand do you want him to take? Certainly not that putting Trump back in will solve all our problems. That only solves Trump's problems.

It clears up everything.

TimeOutForMe comments on Dec 21, 2021:

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

DenoPenno replies on Dec 21, 2021:

Musa is that you?

My oldest daughter has breast cancer and is now living with her younger sister in a town a few miles...

Alienbeing comments on Dec 20, 2021:

She needs comfort now, not religious bickering.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 20, 2021:

The religious bickering that I see is on this page in some of the ridiculous posts given. Example is a man who does not know you at all claiming you have no love and posting bible verses. WTF is that? I suppose people post without reading. Most of us here know each other simply through words on a screen.

Idiot.

Willow_Wisp comments on Dec 19, 2021:

You're talking about a being that has no self awareness. Beings with no self awareness always say stupid shit because if you aren't interested in your own mind enough to be aware of yourself you certainly aren't interested enough to be aware of anything else. Donald is the most boring person on ...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 20, 2021:

Maybe Donald Trump has too much self awareness.

My oldest daughter has breast cancer and is now living with her younger sister in a town a few miles...

robman comments on Dec 19, 2021:

How can you say "neither of us has proof for our beliefs?" Because you haven't experienced something doesn't mean someone else hasn't.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 19, 2021:

Anyone who has proof of their god claims should not be on this site. At the same time I know I cannot disprove a god so it means "neither of us has proof for our beliefs." Again, notice that the religious make a god claim. I am not making any claims.

All you have to do is say communism bad and youll get bombarded by people calling you an idiot, not ...

DenoPenno comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Most of us know that communism is bad. So is fascism. Most people I know do not want either one.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 19, 2021:

@Beachslim7 Let me know when to laugh. I seem to be missing the punch lines.

Does anybody here happen to know which prize idiot it was that first used the phrase "alternative ...

Pralina1 comments on Dec 19, 2021:

https://youtu.be/OdV_8TGswRA

DenoPenno replies on Dec 19, 2021:

@Sticks48 I'm not sure how George was able to stay married to her. I'm also glad to not see her around today. Comedian. Kellyanne Conjob.

Is the USA on the brink of financial collapse?

Charlene comments on Dec 19, 2021:

Yup, Biden is Printing money like M&M's..a trick he learned from Rethuglicans.. Mitchy boi is the Master at Sleigh of financial hand.. It's Wall St Vulture Capitalists buying up nearly entire neighborhoods and vacant lots that's driving the ever increasing value of the housing stock...as for a Wall...

DenoPenno replies on Dec 19, 2021:

My insurance agent hates it that she will be paying for forgiven student debt. I ask her if she pays taxes. What are we missing here? Maybe she can find that form where she fills it out and submits it to get all of her tax money back.

All you have to do is say communism bad and youll get bombarded by people calling you an idiot, not ...

DenoPenno comments on Dec 18, 2021:

Most of us know that communism is bad. So is fascism. Most people I know do not want either one.

DenoPenno replies on Dec 19, 2021:

@Beachslim7 Do people think that video explains anything or is it some idiot comedy show?