The Death of Expertise

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

We are being programmed for something and in the doing there will be no more experts. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/coronavirus-information-apocalypse?utm_source=pocket-newtab

As a young catholic school girl, I tried so hard to believe.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Be thankful that you are free today. Before I came out atheist I wanted "Amazing Grace" played on bagpipes at my funeral. Today that doesn't seem too likely and I'm going to be cremated. My indoctrination has worn off.

James Dobson Warns Democrats Will ‘Enslave’ Conservative Christians | Michael Stone

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

My question to James Dobson would be "when did Democrats do this in the past?" Nothing is bipartisan in politics today, and this includes religion.

Jamie Lee Curtis Born in Santa Monica, California in 1958 to actor Tony Curtis and actress Janet ...

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

I always like her a lot. She's Bernard Swartz's kid. :)

AL Pastor Puts Up Sign Saying “Black Folks Need to Stay Out of White Churches” | Beth ...

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Elect a bigot president who claims racism is OK and you end up getting back to this sort of nonsense in a short time. It's like a former friend of mine claiming we should shoot those crossing our borders because "Trump would be OK with it." The "white right" is OK with this church thing because of the POTUS they helped to elect.

FEED MY BIAS ! My history is bad.

DenoPenno comments on May 25, 2020:

Good luck. We are in a phase now for the dumbing down of America in order to get you to not know exactly what to believe. This is done willingly and knowingly through QAnon, Plandemic videos, and other things. (They are soon to release Plandemic 2) Most people are part of the "deepfake" and do not even know it. When I was a boy in school we were told of the evils of Russia and how in their communism they did not even have enough food. Do not believe it today. The drive is on now in our country to scare us into hoarding food because we keep seeing empty shelves. Russia is still like this. Freedom is losing out to panic and this keeps profits at the very top level. Many tell me now that business insiders claim the next 2 months of quotas are already met. Marketing tactics are changing with a trend to make us all just like third world countries. The motive behind it all is money. Many still believe that businesses can be brought back to America. How would this ever happen when it would lead to a loss of profit? We are being trained for something now and COVID-19 came along just at the right time. Prove all things because soon we will not know what to believe. The Internet used to help me a lot but today you cannot look for an exact thing. Marketing has demanded that search engines produce what you are looking for along with related things. The trend is to make truth an individual thing. Either way, marketing today is selling you. You are now the product and you need a new app.

Drumpf's religious hypocrisy...

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

I believe the pastor on this one. Trump has said before that he never did anything to ask forgiveness for and those around him today claim he is "the Chosen One." We all know that Trump just eats this up. As for bible study being big in public schools a religious friend of mine said way back there somewhere they used the bible for their Weekly Readers. I'm sure he meant in the late 1700's or even the 1800's. The Weekly Reader program is only about 110 years old. What Trump is lying about this time is that he and DeVos would love to see the end of public education as we know it.

Life is hard, stress can be overwhelming, there's always more bullshit on the way, it's always going...

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

I deal with stress mostly by avoiding it. Way too many people thrive in stress and even try to create it. I do all I can to avoid it. Stress and drama go hand in hand. I do not like either but I am aware that your job can stress you if you let it. Sometimes this happens because you are one person at work and another person when not at work. I try to be the same person all the time and it's OK because I have no desire to be corporate in any way. I try to not let my work or other people play games with me.

I read in my local newspaper some Atheists are being blamed for burning down a church in ...

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

Atheists being blamed for burning down a church in Mississippi. How do they know the culprits were atheists? Do they have them in custody and they confessed maybe and said they did it because of their atheist belief. That's a far stretch. Are they true Scotsmen? Maybe this is hearsay.

I love this rare clip from Christopher Hitchens. It's amusing, raw and honest.

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

Hitch was always interesting to me. I agree with much of what he has said.

Too many atheists are hostile to the religious.

DenoPenno comments on May 24, 2020:

As a once religious person I think today that you are not playing with a full deck if you believe in the magic man in the sky. People might ask "well, what about you?" It's the same story. Once upon a time I did not play with a full deck, but I woke up.

Lincoln Project is going after McConnell - and I think they will get the turtle!

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

Bitch McConnell does not deserve to even be in office. He has the Senate can most of the legislation and he said proudly that they would do all they could to see that Obama was a one term president. He is bought and paid for by the top 1 percent.

Why Atheists Are Not as Rational as Some Like to Think [phys.

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

As an atheist I do not believe in magical thinking. I also do not believe in or follow right wing authoritarianism. If you cannot take care of all of the people you are only taking care of a select few.

Was Jesus a man who became mythicized or a myth that became historicized or something else?

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

Food for thought here. The bible as we know it today came into being some 300 years after the time of Jesus. Paul is credited with writing almost two thirds of the NT and claims he met this Jesus but it is not true. Jesus was an apparition in the sky only but did speak. How would this said Jesus have had an audience with Pilate and in what language did they speak? Prophesy in the bible appears to have been contrived and made up, or in some cases the events mentioned are after 70 AD. The man, Jesus, could have been a Roman invention and Paul was part of this. There is no way to actually check it out. Why did Jesus have a tomb when most crucified people were put into a mass grave? The bible says a guard was placed at the tomb. I suppose they were afraid that he would actually rise from the dead. In Israel they value tourism and will gladly show you the tomb of Jesus. None of this is what the bible thumpers of today think it is. Why would anyone ever think that Jesus would like crosses and have you wear one as a religious symbol? If there was a Jesus he was a Jew. Not at all what his cult following has come to believe today.

An interesting history, it may interest US members especially who would like to know about life in ...

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

Morals without religion is actually redundant. The problem is that bible believers think their OT tribal god who was jealous and killed people is the one who gave them morals. Somehow they attribute this to the Ten Commandments. Exactly where is it in there that this god gave you morals or even a "moral compass" as so many talk about? I studied for the ministry as a Pentecostal and I cannot find it. Your morals are largely dictated by the structure of your society.

Wired for marriage: The neural and genetic links to romantic love - Neuroscience News

DenoPenno comments on May 23, 2020:

Marriage has a completely different history. Early on there was a recognition and ceremony to show the tribe or village that two people were exclusive to each other. I suppose this would seem logical. The church did not take over marriage until the 13th century and only started strict enforcement of the sacrament in the 16th century. So, today you gotta get a license. LOL

Trump orders houses of worship to open [cnn.

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

Trump believes he has total power and can order anything he likes. He is a moron that is surrounded by those who claim he is "The Chosen One." They are mostly batshit crazy. Trump can no more order a church to open than he can a jar of pickles. He is not magic in any way and he lies a lot.

Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a ...

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

I don't think about it much. I do remember Michael Landon who died of pancreatic cancer. On a TV program once they questioned him about taking coffee enemas. He said something to the affect of a person would try anything in his state. It was non-operable. That tells me that people worried about the virus today will also try anything.

COVID-19 pandemic myths are spreading faster than the virus. But Why?

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

Lots of trusted and believable info in that HuffPost article. Too bad that people just believe what they want to believe and many of them believe without any knowledge of the subject matter. They just want to connect the dots.

A girl I work with told me yesterday that she hated the Democrats because they are the ones who gave...

DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

See if this link works. I got it from another feed with a similar subject. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/psychology-why-people-believe-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories_l_5ec46c59c5b6956f4169cea4?ncid=newsltushpmgnews

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DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

I had to click on your profile to see you in your red shirt.

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DenoPenno comments on May 22, 2020:

I believe what evidence and logic will support. Religious writings are not evidence in any way. Harry Potter and the Dick and Jane Reader have about as much claim to truth as religious writings. I'm not sure what happens when you die but I think you are dead. Others just keep on making it up.

Texas Mayor Claims His Religious Beliefs Bar Women From Leading Public Prayer

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

I'm sure him and Pence are good buddies.

Jesus loves you.

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

God was too arrogant and proud to change a rule that he made in the first place. That's why it came to this. You have to believe in him and know that he killed himself for you. In the real world this idea is insane.

Why women remain in religious sects like this is beyond me--brainwashing into feeling inferior, I ...

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

"And if they will learn anything let them ask their husbands at home", etc. etc. Did this mean they could not learn in church?

From today's Daily Stoic.

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

We do not control what happens. As you said, we control how we respond.

Hate and haters are not welcome in BC, or Canada.

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

I have no place for hate of any kind. Hate has risen since the last major election in America and then again rose to another height during this pandemic.

Has Evangelical Christianity Become Sociopathic? [huffpost.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

Indeed. The Evangelical Christian message is clear. They only care for themselves.

I hate Theists

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

I can see this and I really do not like people in general. When I find that they believe some sort of religion I like them less. I know lots of people but only a select few are really my friends.

Oooops, there goes yet another "God did it" side of the Creation Myth it seems.

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

It is amazing that they always have something silly and that they also believe it.

Don't think this is new but we all could use a laugh - The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational ...

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

Classic.

May 20th, 2020 list moved and updated CURRENT SCAMMERS WILL BE LISTED HERE - CONFIRMED PHOTO ...

DenoPenno comments on May 21, 2020:

I almost identify with that man who said he was a lesbian. :)

Is anybody getting incessant (like, 10 in 15 minutes) messages from somebody named "drew69" accusing...

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2020:

Educate me, Anne. Where is the block button?

I live on a world, and try to live in a world, with a bunch of fucking idiots.

DenoPenno comments on May 20, 2020:

There is so much of the time that I agree with what you wrote. What is important to me these days is not important to any others and my limited friends do not see how I can live as I do. They play games of belonging and trying to live up to standards they have learned from their past. I like to think I am beyond that. I haven't given up. There is no aspiration or dreams of anything. Just being and doing what I want. My regret is there is no one to share it with, but just what would I be sharing?

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DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

In my areas some are having church with empty pews in between the full row. This is their "social distancing." Some restaurants and bars are opening back up just as before as if there is nothing to fear.

Yep.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

Thanks. I just copied your meme and might re-post it.

Are people protecting the idea of religion or the power, privilege and social status that religion ...

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

It said in the bible that you must confess your sins one with another. This might bring about blackmail in my opinion. Church leaders want social power.

I spent far too much time looking into which group this would be most appropriately posted, so it ...

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

He was mentioned in my church days but his commentaries were not of the bible as we know it today. Some of it existed but that book had not been created yet. Churches today are good at telling you things and putting others like Origen there as a proof of what the preacher was saying. Instead, Origen may have been one of the first humanists.

Read this on another board and thought I'd offer it up for discussion here.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

You lost me when you said "that's you again but not exactly you." I don't see this as a moment when anything needs to swap. Your idea might work if there was a great people or "soul" shortage. Why would anyone need to come back?

So I decided to dry cloths at the laundromat.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

Wear your mask if you need to. I don't wear one but should,and I'm only out of the house about 3 hours a day. I don't shake hands or get close to anyone.

Churches have been very good at providing coats etc.

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

If any of this vanishes it will come back later under different names.

This Priest Used a Water Gun to Shoot Holy Water in Parishioners’ Cars | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

What made the water holy? I would really like to know.

We’re good without god

DenoPenno comments on May 19, 2020:

These days Casper is so old that there has to be holes in his sheet. That makes him the Holy Ghost.

Lon Chaney Sr.

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2020:

I've seen him in a silent film or two.

Is it still a lie if you don't know it isn't true?

DenoPenno comments on May 18, 2020:

When you tell a lie it is because you know in your mind that you are lying. Telling an un-truth is another matter. Most of us know when we are not telling the truth. By this logic you know that when Charlie tells you he has pixies living in his shoes or that there is an invisible man watching you in the sky, Charlie is either: 1. Indoctrinated early on into his belief or decided it was true because he has always heard it is true. OR 2. Charlie is as crazy as a loon. This last idea is an expression as I'm not sure loons (birds) are crazy. It may also go back to the word "lunatic" which involves asylums or the moon having something to do with ones beliefs.

Memorial day is coming up.

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

I avoid cemeteries and funerals if I can. My mother has now been dead 14 years and I think I went to her grave 2 or 3 times. I forget what times they were, but nothing recently. Before he went into the nursing home my stepdad said I needed to visit mom's grave more often. I denied that I did and suggested maybe he needed to visit her grave more often.

Your grossly incompetent president called Obama's presidency "grossly incompetent"...

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

Trump repeatedly talks of "Obamagate" these days but he doesn't explain exactly what that is. He says to just keep watching. I'm sure his bunch is working with Bill Barr on that one. Now that Trump has learned he can get away with almost anything he appears to be trying to smear any person in office before him. Let me explain it another way. If you remember the Central Park 5, recall that Donald Trump thought they were guilty and should be executed regardless of the DNA evidence. I'm sure he did this without the use of his sharpie.

Atheism is an absense of belief in god(s).

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

Your last sentence got it all very well.

What I was leading to in my last posting is that people believe whatever they want to believe.

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

In younger life you believe what you are told to believe. In later life you believe what you want to believe.

Does being an agnostic mean that you’re on the wall or you lack acceptance?

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

Yep. RiverRick is right.

I checked in to see what agnostics are up to these days.

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

Congrats. I became an atheist about 2012 but was thinking that way a few years prior. I'm soon to be 74 and politically I suppose you could call me a Democratic Socialist.

What would you do/say if a Christian friend told you they're questioning their faith?

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

He seems to be coming around but it is a personal thing and he might take years yet to de-convert. One problem wit believers is that they keep going around in circles. Be supportive but not pushy. In time most people see their god is really imaginary.

Is your yard private?

DenoPenno comments on May 17, 2020:

Farther along we'll know all about it Farther along we'll understand why Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine We'll understand it all by and by There's a few words to an old song I remember from my church days. The problem is that we won't understand it all by and by. Religious people just keep on making it up! As for noise in my yard that I can hear inside my place, I am blessed with the idiots from the 3 unit apartment complex next door. They party outside and play loud music. I do too, but not outside. They are often in my yard because the wall fence was not put back in place by the developer. I would bitch and complain but they might complain right back. I don't need a war and we are only 50 feet apart. Because of the landscaping if someone gets hurt they would have to sue the developer. He's the one that removed the fence and said later that we do not need it. I do go out occasionally to tell them NOT to play in my yard.

The simulation hypothesis has always bothered me as it requires a belief in the unprovable hence ...

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2020:

I like Tyson and I appreciate his knowledge but there is lots of this that I cannot buy. For us to get down to ideas of a matrix and a simulation it would appear to be something coming out of a computer age or a sci fi story. Our current conditions and limitations were here from the beginning without the "advanced thinking." My thoughts are the same about people who suggest we are just "a brain in a vat." What vat and what kind of brain? Currently there are just some things we do not know.

When did you join and why do you stay?

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2020:

Forgetful of when I joined and cannot find the date on the site. With that said, I stay because of community and that being reinforced with blogs people have here. My problematic issues are people who want to debate you and apparently think every remark you post has to have an answer tit for tat until you simply give up on replying again to their nonsense. People need to be aware that if others give an opinion on a blog that said opinion is not always directed in an individual way. This is NOT a debate site. I am opinionated but I will not debate you.

I have a tiny , little dilemma: Yesterday Lia, my student, and granddaughter came running int the ...

DenoPenno comments on May 16, 2020:

When dealing with a child always use some good child logic and do not push the issue. For the rest of us ask yourself if Jesus was a fan of the cross and if he would wear one. How would he feel about the hangman's noose, electric chair, or injection gurney? Let's progress to you and you being killed by a bullet. Would you be a fan of that bullet and wear it around your neck? Not likely, and so much now for Christian imagery.

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DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2020:

They need money and Trumpy wants to be re-elected. Sheltering in place isn't giving them the money that they can only get if "we the people" are working.

Israel eyes closing down evangelical channel

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2020:

The problem is that Evangelicals have this ignorant feeling that Israelis think, feel, and believe the same way that they do. If you visit Israel and are shown the birth place of Jesus or even his tomb, it means little more than tourism.

I am agnostic because I want to have an open mind! Really?

DenoPenno comments on May 15, 2020:

I am also an atheist. In fact I am an agnostic atheist. Many people want to argue that they are a vegetarian meat eater and I find several of them on this site. Some people even claim they are an "agnostic Christian." OK, I get it. Your belief is your way and not my way.

Baltimore Black Church Kicks Ben Carson Off Their Property | National | BET

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2020:

I would kick Ben Carson off of my property. I guess I'm siding with that church.

A new religion [friendlyatheist.patheos.com]

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2020:

So, yogert is now a religion? Yoga. Sorry, I had a key slip.

Does anything about being in an atheist or agnostic social network provide comfort?

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2020:

I enjoy knowing that others have similar ideas and beliefs to mine. Ironically this is also why so many today are still attending a church. They are there for the social support.

You Gotta Love Former Senator Clare McCaskill

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2020:

This seems typical. On Facebook this morning I saw a pic of 5 guys with their guns and something about their right to have them. OK, what makes you want to have your pic taken while holding your guns?

What are your thoughts about the "God of Gaps"?

DenoPenno comments on May 14, 2020:

Gods are man made. The gaps idea only works to allow a believer to fill in holes in their presentation. it is an attempt to justify something that you already believe by patching it up. It has no logic or evidence.

What would you have done differently had you been god?

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2020:

I no longer can identify with a question of this nature. I have no thoughts of a make believe invisible being in the sky.

Kentucky Christians Win Fight to Spread COVID-19 via In-Person Church Services | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2020:

They were bread in Kentucky They are just a crumb up here Knock kneed and bow legged With a cauliflower ear And they are going to spread the virus!

For Katherine Hepburn on what would have been her 113th birthday today.

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2020:

I liked her and her movies. She was ahead of her time.

I missed you MFs! I just got way too irritated with his idiotass. 🤗

DenoPenno comments on May 12, 2020:

Welcome back. I'm always irritated with his idiotass. On FB I saw a post just yesterday by the "Justice Warriors" that lists arrests around the world and it claims you should watch because this is coming. It shows a pic of Obama and one of Hillary. Trump is in the pic watching them. What frigging idiot is it that thinks Trump has power to arrest anyone? Again, this is part of the Q-Anon infodemic.

What a morning.

DenoPenno comments on May 11, 2020:

It could be anything. People are stupid and gullible. As for hand sanitizers simply try washing your hands using 2 drops of Dawn after you have got the hands wet, then work that into a small lather. Rinse and you are done. This is affective and you do not need alcohol. I was in the license renewal office today and saw people frantically using hand sanitizers for the most simple and crazy reasons. Nobody wants to get sick and die but this is insanity! As for toilet paper and paper towels, I probably have a 3 month supply right now. I normally only have 4 packs of each (or even less) but the panic buying has caused me to react this way. I hate it and the business love it. They are all over monthly quotas for the next 2 months because of this craziness. I've been lucky enough to keep my normal supply of food. Avoid the Q-Anon infodemic going on right now. There is no truth in it at all. You have to look that one up, but it is some of this fear that is keeping the gullible going and it might be causing many to go insane! Wise up and prove all things. Use logic not pandemic.

Anyone starting to come around to my opinion about Elon Musk being a bad guy yet?

DenoPenno comments on May 11, 2020:

I have no real opinions of Musk as I do not know much about him.

I think someone mentioned this show a while back.

DenoPenno comments on May 11, 2020:

Seems like it would be very interesting.

IS there anything the people really CAN do to reduce or stop the deliberate feeding of hate and ...

DenoPenno comments on May 11, 2020:

One of the biggest problems I see right now is caused by the Q-Anon infodemic. Look that up and you will see anything from A to Z about our pandemic and all that is going on right now. People keep adding to it because they want to have all the answers and some of this nonsense fits in with what they want to believe with a lot of that going back into their religion, politics, etc. It seems to me that our current regime and others that plant disinformation are working overtime on this. Educate yourselves and be aware. There is zero truth in Q-Anon.

Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body.

DenoPenno comments on May 11, 2020:

In the end there will be a vaccine. This vaccine will not cure the virus but it will keep it from causing some of the newer things they are finding about it now. This will make it easier for you to survive and recover if you get sick.

Death takes us all, as an atheist i have no reason to fear it, I have respect of it.

DenoPenno comments on May 11, 2020:

I don't fear death but it is not a friend of mine.

Believers advise me that if I require evidence for God, I must first trust in God by accepting his ...

DenoPenno comments on May 11, 2020:

Hmmm. This is all like putting a Cadillac converter on your car. It's wishful thinking. Unless you had a Cadillac to start with it just isn't going to fly.

Brazil is letting the coronavirus run wild with little intervention, and the results are strikingly ...

DenoPenno comments on May 9, 2020:

Bolsonaro and Trump must be related. If not he must be related to Stephen Miller who writes most of Trump's speeches.

I think for many of us in the US, we have seen more of our governors recently than all the previous ...

DenoPenno comments on May 9, 2020:

Lots of interpreters help get the words out. If I watch UK TV there are some regular channels there that show a small screen to the right and an interpreter allows the deaf to know the words said in the program. These ideas are catching on.

Which religion has the most influence on the spread of covid19?

DenoPenno comments on May 9, 2020:

I'm not sure I really understand the question. I don't see the connection between religion and Covid-19 except that Evangelicals think they are immune and protected by the invisible man.

More than 12,000 Catholic churches in the U.S. applied for PPP loans – and 9,000 got them

DenoPenno comments on May 9, 2020:

I re-post your words here because it sums this up perfectly and very nicely. This should not be happening. Churches are not classified as businesses. They are tax exempt. They should not get access to that money.

Jeepers I hope she didn't give it to you know who...because that would be really sad

DenoPenno comments on May 9, 2020:

Let all of the Trump inner circle get the virus, including the Orange turd himself. I just read that Pence's aid has the virus now. Imagine the possibilities here.

"'Plandemic' Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense --- A pseudo-documentary full of outrageous, verifiably ...

DenoPenno comments on May 9, 2020:

Informative article from Vice here. I have only recently become aware of Q-anon and all their nonsense along with those who believe it. Way too many believe it. Yesterday at a local license bureau that had recently re-opened, I stopped by in uniform to see their hours. A line had formed outside and I asked a question or two of the 9 people there in the line. Since they were limiting people inside the building I wanted to get an idea of how long it might take and how long others had been in the line. A woman spoke up and told me "The Democrats want Socialism and it looks to me like they are going to get it." She thought her response would explain lines, viruses, sheltering in place, distancing, etc. I replied that I see her concern but my take on it all is this is what the current GOP wants and it is a different type of Socialism that we have all seen before. A few there agreed with me and shook their heads as I got into Q-anon tactics and beliefs. Being in uniform and working right up the street from that office either appeared to give me more authority, or in the end it might even put my job at risk. I do not care and could not help it. I think people need to know the truth and Q-anon is not part of it.

Tom Cruise Born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in Syracuse, N.

DenoPenno comments on May 8, 2020:

I like him in some movies maybe because he is a good actor. I'm not sure i could like him as a person and I damned sure do not like his religion.

During the CBS Evening News this evening one commercial was that of an evangelical giving a camp ...

DenoPenno comments on May 8, 2020:

Is the local affiliate owned by Sinclair? If not maybe more of Trump and friends might be rubbing off on our bedazzeled media.

Are you in favor of UBI ? Why/not ?

DenoPenno comments on May 8, 2020:

UBI is a needed thing to help with the general welfare of the people. Just enough of it to get you by and also provide you with the necessary healthcare. One reason it is proposed is that we have too many products and apps and those that make them want to continue making a profit. They are willing to cave for a bit less and help citizens out in order to keep going with business as usual. Where will the money come from? Those who view us as the product will be making this happen. Beyond all that you can start a business and make all the capital that you like. Other countries have this sort of system now and it helps to take care of many people.

Prove me wrong.

DenoPenno comments on May 7, 2020:

Everyone thinks it's a booming economy but most people will see everything go to hell if they miss 2 paychecks. They get behind on everything and I'm told most families are doing good to have $400 for an emergency. That's a shame. Last year my water heater went out. I spent over $600 to replace it and did all the work myself. I didn't like it but I just wrote the check. This is possible because I do not have any "extra money." IRS returns and stimulus checks are not "extra money." Many people have to be educated on this.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War ...

DenoPenno comments on May 6, 2020:

It may be true that the Trump tariffs on China hurt U.S. capitalists but people are failing to call out that U.S. working people like John Doe are the ones buying almost all of these imported Chinese products. **This means the American people are the real ones paying the tariffs. **Ttrump supporters do not want to hear that and media has now seemed to back away and treat this as being normal. It is not normal and it used to not be normal. How could I ever treat it as normal? Using some Trump logic here I'm going to claim that I do not like Charlie and I will tell him so and then hit Bobby in the eye until Charlie apologizes to me. This is about as dumb as Jesus dying for you so you don't have to die, then you die anyway. It seems that both politics and religion want you to believe something that you know is not really so.

Is there a way to check whether a certain profile has been flagged as spam or catfishing?

DenoPenno comments on May 6, 2020:

One wanted to do text and hangouts with me but I know the drill and turned that all down. No contact with me since. Sorry, baby, I'm not that gullible.

My religious wife watches Christian movies and I hate it.

DenoPenno comments on May 6, 2020:

Years ago I knew a man who stood with his wife as he told me "as for me and my household nobody here watches 90210." (That's an older TV show.) My impression immediately was that he had control and would not let his wife and kids watch that show. I never watched the show much myself but I felt sorry for them. I really did.

The secular survey is out and the Friendly Atheist has the low down, excellent report! ...

DenoPenno comments on May 5, 2020:

Is it true or wishful thinking? I've been involved in surveys and many of them have loaded questions.

Evangelical fundamentalists who openly defied social distancing guidelines are dying of COVID-19 | ...

DenoPenno comments on May 5, 2020:

The claims need proof, but we knew they were stupid. Their book says believers can drink poison and take up serpents and there are still a few wanting to prove this by handling rattlesnakes. If they get bit and die their faith was not strong enough or they had "secret sin" in their lives.

"In a certain sense, postmodernism seems to be the last step of secularization.

DenoPenno comments on May 5, 2020:

We have not really killed god. Are you telling me to look at the trees and the sunset? The Internet has killed god. He is desperately gasping and still kicking but the fatal wound has been made.

Will Smith Born Willard Carroll Smith Jr.

DenoPenno comments on May 5, 2020:

I like Will Smith.

Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery ( 1933-1995 ) born on this date, April 15, in Los Angeles to film ...

DenoPenno comments on May 5, 2020:

I always thought she was so beautiful.

Ok so I'm not sure how many parts of the country are getting it but the My Pillow guy is hawking ...

DenoPenno comments on May 5, 2020:

Using math to prove god exists. OK, "so therefore god."

An Evangelical Christian (my classmate's friend) commented on a FB post I made about me being in ...

DenoPenno comments on May 3, 2020:

I'm still amazed at people who think abortion is an easy decision and that women are using it for birth control. No common sense in that idea. Strangely, I was talking coronavirus the other day with a store clerk and said our cases are now over a million in the USA. She quickly compared it to "those millions of babies who are being aborted every day." What babies? Where is this information coming form?

Mike Pence- The Mask of Zero and Other News. Hilarious!

DenoPenno comments on May 3, 2020:

Both Pence and the Orange Turd are a joke.

Virginity: Atheist vs. Agnostic vs. Deist vs. Born Again

DenoPenno comments on May 3, 2020:

I'm out of context here but I have never found any real value in a virgin. Some might compare her to a full bottle of new wine and use the illustration that you would not be pleased if some of the wine is missing. Only men smile with this. I'm back where I started with this. Nothing is gone or used up. She's a woman and not a bottle of wine. I still find no value in a virgin.

Talking dirty. De-stigmatizing sex talk [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on May 2, 2020:

My view on talking dirty during sex is that I think it came about by others being told at a young age that sex was dirty. My opinion is that it never should be and I will never call you names. I also have a perfect safe word for sex games. It is called "stop."

For the grammarians: The atheist might say, “If there WERE a God there would be no unjustified ...

DenoPenno comments on May 2, 2020:

I'm going with if there were a god there would be no children in St. Jude with cancer and suffering because of "sins of their fathers." Some religions still use that lame excuse you know.

Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It

DenoPenno comments on May 2, 2020:

If religion did go away some idiot would bring it back. Maybe it would just take another form. Everybody knows that 2 aspirin will work for a headache but some people have to take 3, 4, or 6. What does this mean? It means that people just keep lying. I want you to know that the juju helped me and I know it personally. My juju is stronger than your juju.