Bill Maher

DenoPenno comments on Apr 26, 2020:

Bill sums things up pretty well most of the time. He's funny and he is a good activist too.

A different perspective; Is the fight against COVID19 worse than the disease?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 26, 2020:

Are people daydreaming and are we in our right minds? COVID-19 is similar to the flu in many ways. Are we building up immunity to the flu and are there vaccinations to "cure" it? No. Why do we think we can get a coronavirus "cure?" Chances are that the virus will be back regardless of what we do. I don't think this thing works the same way VD does.

I think the definition of religion should be expanded.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 26, 2020:

I have no need of religion of any kind. As for being "spiritual" in any way this can be anything you want it to be. It might be "spiritual" for you to sit and watch the ocean but the term you are using still came out of someone's holy book. What basic spiritual need is it that we have? This is all delusion. Many people want to be happy having this delusion but they also cannot be honest with themselves.

Seems relevant

DenoPenno comments on Apr 25, 2020:

Certainly not a Tide pod.

Agnostic.com has been trying to achieve eradication of loneliness since its inception: [npr.org]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 25, 2020:

I'm lonely and** not** loving it. I should love it because I am doing the things I love to do but I was used to doing them knowing that others (or at least one other) were around somewhere. My mind said that I'm doing what I like and they are too. Sometimes we would talk and do things together but not 24/7. In the end I found I have deceived myself. This "perfect state" was destroyed by everything having to be about them. They were not loving it and wanted my head up their ass all the time. Being equal was not enough for them. Apparently it never was. This is more or less the story of my life. Apparently I cannot give enough.

[smithsonianmag.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 25, 2020:

Jesus Christ's Supercar. I never knew.

Gnostic Atheist, Agnostic Atheist, Agnostic Theist, or Gnostic Theist?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 25, 2020:

I'm an agnostic theist vegetarian atheist but I still eat meat.

Peter Falk 1927-2011 Born in New York City.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 24, 2020:

He was an exceptional actor for sure. As Columbo he seemed bumbling but was really intense.

Pour more and more chemicals on food crops is not the answer. [theguardian.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 24, 2020:

Safe when used correctly. How would that be? It seems plain to many of us that Monsanto and others want you to be totally dependent on them. They want farmers to be totally dependent on them, and so much so that they would end up being the only ones with seeds. Farmers would have "seedless crops" as much as possible. Then there are the reverse suits I've heard of where Monsanto wants to sue the farmer for contamination when it was totally the other way around. No, chemicals are not the answer.

Doing my first shift testing people for covid tomorrow wish me luck .

DenoPenno comments on Apr 24, 2020:

Good luck and stay safe.

Dating religious people

DenoPenno comments on Apr 24, 2020:

I'm picky even at my age. I'm very leery of any woman who lives in her grandkids so much so that her grandkids can beat up my grandkids. I'm equally the same with women who have a god that can do this or maybe even beat up me. Most likely I'm not going to meet a good woman at the local atheist group coz we do not have one here. My never give up friend tells me my best chance is to meet a woman in church. Wow! If that happened and I wanted to be with someone so badly I could become converted again. Sounds like a poor plan to me.

What is more damaging in Western societies religion or conspiratorial thinking?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 24, 2020:

Religion itself is filled with conspiratorial thinking.

Roy Scheider 1932-2008 Born in Orange, New Jersey.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 23, 2020:

He was a good actor.

Without a single coronavirus death, Vietnam eases lockdown - Los Angeles Times

DenoPenno comments on Apr 23, 2020:

As usual, time will tell on this.

COVID 19 - an interesting accusation & purported disclosures: @usahackers reveals that their next...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 23, 2020:

Since you are from the land down under I'm going to suggest that some of this you are reporting is very similar to what we get in the U. S. from Trumpers and Fox News. I've heard of some of it but I cannot be convinced of wrong doing by WHO, the World Bank, CDC or even Bill Gates who has become a right wing target. What I am convinced of is that none of these mentioned are in particular alignment with conservatives or Donald Trump. Media is falling into a big trap right now. Even good media is reporting a one sided issue that came to them out of some gossip and they say later they wanted to report "both sides" but could not find anyone of the other viewpoint. This is because Trump and his right wing cronies are starting to be taken as normal. They are not normal and there was not another "side" to present. What goes on today is not Ronald Reagan politics. Shame on the media.

I’m an atheist but I want to ask a serious question.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 23, 2020:

**I use the word god** or maybe gods when I think those words refer to what another person is talking about, or to answer something in some sort of religious concept. The word "god" is not really a name and I have no other use for the name. I'm not sure why some people can only say "dog" and reverse the word. This is dumb to me but I do recall as a young person when we would swear openly by saying "mad dog backwards." (Nobody ever got that one. ) **Religion** is a belief system that has a set of rules and rituals to it. ** Church** is the building which houses the believers of a religion today but in early times the church was the people.

This article says everything that's wrong with healthcare in America.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 22, 2020:

I see your viewpoint fully but the media does not follow up on things like this and do the reporting that you did just now for all of us. Instead, media takes the words of the hospital CEO as truth and if you call them on it they claim they needed a view from "the other side" to be fair - but there was no other side. It makes me want to ask home dumb media is today. This is all similar to people who cannot afford their own healthcare but they remain against healthcare for all. Americans remain against their own best interests in a bath of bad politics.

As today is the 50th year of "Earth Day" activities, I put together a little animation of the pace ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 22, 2020:

Birth control might help but it is a 2 way street. Where are you in that picture?

Are one through nine spelled out?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 22, 2020:

I think you are exactly correct but I often just use the numeral unless I am starting a sentence.

Did you know that grass blooms? Felt like an idiot.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 22, 2020:

I think I just learned something here.

How many of you feel religion negatively impacted your formative years?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 22, 2020:

Of course it did. I only heard bible stories and the like for a long while, then my parents got into church and got me interested and I was filled with lies. All lies, and nothing but lies. Today I am pissed off at those who immediately ask me "how do you think we all got here then?" If I tell them their god used incest to get the earth populated the believers want to claim people lived so long in those days that god's perfect plan was not really incest, etc., etc. They forget that their god used incest twice to populate and re-populate. I suppose this is some set up to claim why we really need god in the first place. Yeah, I was negatively impacted and lied to bigtime. Many of my religious friends today claim they just do not see this and do not know why I feel this way. This is also the reason I do not have many friends. I will not stay quiet about this when people start in about their "loving god."

I'm cutting my own hair this weekend. Wish me luck.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

I knew a girl who cut her own hair and she couldn't even get her bangs straight. Wish I knew where she was today. We could chill and I'd help her cut hair. :)

I was listening to this week's show of The Atheist Experience and Matt asked the co-host to define a...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

This makes good sense to me. A lot of it depends on if your parents were particularly religious and everyone went to church or not. Some of it also depends on whether you were Evangelical or Catholic, or not, or from some other religious stripe. I had no fears of hell but it took me many years to decide that this was all made up. That includes hell, sins, and the invisible man who knows all and lives in the sky.

Wow, six planets in almost perfect resonance! What a rare find! "Six planets: a super-Earth and five...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

OK.

WHY I WEAR NO MASK?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

As I bet they would. I was in Walmart yesterday and everyone had on a mask. I asked a checkout if this was a holdup and she laughed. Just this morning I am seeing how robbers can blend in more easily now because everyone is wearing a mask. This was on the news.

Recently my facebook newsfeed has been flooded with Church ads.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

Facebook algorithms are crazy. Recently they flagged me for doing a copy and paste to deliver the same answers and said that was not allowed. I protested by asking why they could continually show me the same things over and over again and claimed it was normal for me to have some of the same answers. Nothing more became of it, and I continue as before. I'm not seeing church ads however. I do see more religious stuff because of COVID-19 and I get upsets if I post my truth to them. People are simply convinced the biblical "end" is here. What about "the end" according to other writings? One thing I do see much more of now is gambling. It's like slot machine casinos have taken over my Facebook feed. I click on the "like" for them and give them all a "ha ha ha." Maybe that's what keeps them coming. I never tell Facebook what I like or do not like nor what I want to see, etc.

Raising your children without religious influence

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

You did right. The problem here in reactions you get when the truth of raising comes out is that those reactions are coming from people who have read in their holy book that you should "raise up a child in the way he should go and in the end he will not depart from it." The difference is that you did this without religion and they believe their holy book was saying it about their god and religion. This is why so many children are indoctrinated.

What do you/people think about China's role in this epidemic?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

If you listen to those who do not know and spread rumor for their own purposes you find a claim that China did this deliberately and created the virus in a lab for some reason. It's either as a weapon or to take down Trump and gain the billions of dollars in the 5G technology. Take this a step further and the Dems created the virus to take down Trump because impeachment did not work. Carry that on into Sid Roth and his show "It's Supernatural" and you find a man who claims god revealed all this to him in a dream. The script was read well. Shame on you, Sid. There is very little truth about COVID-19. We simply do not know. SARS-CO-1 before it came on the scene in 2002 and then was gone by 2004. We knew very little about it also.

Rational Americans already understand that trump is Mentally Ill.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

I don't think they will or can do it. The DNC is committed to business as usual. They need to back off and see how this worked out in our last election. It did not work for them and I think since both parties have taken money from those at the top who lobby for control they are afraid to speak of Trump the way he really is. If they do so it would seem to attract progressives and that is the last thing the Democrats want. Therefore, they will continue to want "business as usual." They are defeated because they cannot allow their politics to be as dirty as Trump and his GOP.

Funny, How some things appear to fit together: Riding bike on the sidewalks and ran across chalk ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

1492 was when Columbus brought diseases to areas of the world that did not have these diseases yet. The end result with European whites was to convince them that people of color were somehow inferior to them because the natives had no immunity. This idea has held since then and even goes into our current American politics.

does anyone else watch Matt Dillahunty on the Athiest connection.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 21, 2020:

I've watched the show for years and I'm always amazed at callers who cannot answer a simple yes or no question. Most of them can't and they have repeats of the same old arguments to try and convince you there is a god. The god believers are also very dumb in thinking Matt and others on the show have to "prove their position." How would I have to prove to you anything about my not believing in a god?

I just saw a video from Austin, Texas, where a group of idiots make a small demonstration carrying ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Fauci has one thing against him. He was in Democratic administrations previously. This was given as a reason "not to trust him" in conservative talk radio last Friday in my area. Nothing is bipartisan any longer. Trump has taught his people to hate and they all want to hate the same things he does. This is what our current American regime is about.

Need Help Finding Atheist Home School

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

I cannot tell you how to get in touch with Jerry DeWitt but he is a former pastor in your state who now has a non-religious type "church" for those of community. You might Google how to get in touch with him and I think some of his people would have the right info for you.

Opinion: There Is No 'Get Tough' With Coronavirus; We Need A New Slogan : NPR

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Bottom line is that the virus will tell us what to do because we cannot tell the virus. Trump and others should take notice of this. Nobody gives a damn about you. It's all about the dollar.

What are we missing?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

**What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt?** None. Absolutely none at all.

Coronavirus forces Silicon Valley to reset its moral compass [seattletimes.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

I can't read the story. The site wants me to sign up for something and I won't do that.

If Republicans are the party of Lincoln, why do they fly Confederate flags?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Republicans are also the party that claims they do not believe in government. This is why they are all so bad at it.

So, tonight my husband got called an apostate whose after-death destination will be hell.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

I don't really care as I have abandoned all religion. Yes, Jesus died so you won't have to but you die anyway. At that point everyone goes on to continue making it all up.

Moral Compass

DenoPenno comments on Apr 20, 2020:

I'm not so sure i have a moral compass or even want one. Everybody talks about this but in a different way. The religious think they are "pious" and the non-believers seem to be going out of their way to claim they are the same. Your morality comes from your society at the time frame you are in and societal standards are not universal. A modern bathing suit is a great shock to someone from 1920. In some societies sex before marriage is desired. i view a worldwide picture on this issue and not a moral compass.

Any tips on how to not feel so weird about using dating sites/apps?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

My best tip is to avoid texting and "hangouts" that dating scammers try to coax you into. People at any age should understand that words on a screen mean nothing and real people wanting to date will talk together on a phone. Try imagining if I had of flown to Africa to meet me now ex on the basis of texting. How do you think that would have worked out for me?

The great Thomas Paine said this in his book Age of Reason "Whenever we read the obscene stories,...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

The OT god was a tribal god and so many keep trying to piece both testaments together. It only works if you ignore things and cherry pick verses. The bible is as much hearsay as the writings of Nostradamus. Without dates you can make the verses say anything you want them to say.

Following is a quote from an article by the late James Laxer, an avowed socialist.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

I believe deeply in your very last paragraph. The current regime will not work and neither does "business as usual."

I had a group of friends in high school that I hung out with.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Whether you are a believer or not you are still developing bias as a younger person. Most of us believed in a god even if our families were not religious. In time religion develops its bias because it claims you can have all the answers. This, of course, is not true. Younger children play together and do not ask religious types of questions in a serious way. Bias and cognitive dissonance develops later. My best example from high school is that I do not remember classroom prayer. People I went to school with who are still in church say they do remember school prayer. (Thank the preacher for that.) I do however remember teachers offering on minute of silent prayer for those who wanted to pray. I'm aware that O'Hair put a stop to school prayer to cause this "silent one minute" that was mentioned, but I do not actually remember prayer in schools. People in my classes now claim they do. Can you imagine this - "Oh, god, I know you like me and you will help me to do good on this test but please do not help Bobby coz I want him to fail." WTF else would prayer in schools be about? I ask you honestly.

Phony ‘Corruption’ Excuse for Ukraine Coup [consortiumnews.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Screw the people and take the money seems exactly to be what is going on. The question at hand is how do you get rid of and replace Trump, or are you going to be content to let him do this? Personally I would like to see an administration that gave a crap about healthcare, real people, real jobs with benefits, living wages, and our water, air, and food supply. Trump is not going to do this and is working his best to tear it all down. Currently he wants to defund the Post Office because it seems plain that he is against ballots by mail. I suspect the ballots could be said by Trump to be the votes that came from 3 million fat women. At any rate, if this clown loses he is not going to leave and will put Barr into instant investigations that might go on forever if we buy it.

Once upon a time, "life" was defined as the ability to replicate, but no longer.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

The bible had an ill-fated conception but it is also a virus.

This cracked me up. And I feel this is the proper group in which to share.....

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Maybe he smells his own ass for a few washings but at least he has a mask.

I see how many people die for no rational reason.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

In nature little birds clean the teeth of the hippo and he likes that. For what we are doing to the planet, I'm not sure the planet likes that. Is what we see today simply a reaction, or is the planet fighting back?

Broadband, WiFi, smartphone, iPhone, laptop, tablet, email, SMS, text messaging, Skype, Zoom, ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

We are being fleeced because we have become the product now. To make a better widget today it has to involve that phone you hold in your hand and play with constantly. At my workplace this is all you see until a customer walks in the door. Once they leave it's back to smiles and phone play. I love broadband but my phone stays in my pocket and it never comes to bed with me. A lot of Trump's fight with China is over the billions of dollars plus 5G technology but most of us only get lies about it. There is a war for your mind and one to see who gets this greater technology. Of course, we have to watch it though because people are crossing our Southern border. This time they can cut through the Trump wall or continue to climb over.

The evolution of religion: Why belief systems are literally false and metaphorically true .

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Is this like when Jesus returns riding that white horse in the sky and he has angels with him and they are ready for that last battle? Certainly this is a metaphor but the Evangelicals take it literally. I tell my religious friend this is impossible and he tells me that isn't what the scripture really meant. OK, what did it mean? The term "the heavens" and a place called heaven are different things. Why would you believe in the place called heaven if it has walls and a large pearly gate? Yes, even in heaven god is protecting you from enemies. Religion has evolved enough in my lifetime and I have witnessed a lot of it. Now will it please just evolve itself away into the myth that it is. Most of the other religions are becoming myth except for the Christians and Muslims. Nobody rose from the dead and nobody flew to heaven on a winged horse.

Turd cartoon!

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

that nails it.

I was over on the r/debateanatheist subreddit and formulated a lengthy and thoughtful response to a ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

All religion causes harm. I reject the Christian religion in big part because its holy book came into being as we know it today some 300 plus years after the time of Jesus. People act like they do not know what this means. They think I am wrong or they just do not understand it. Look it up. Google it. Try not to be ignorant. Of course I have many other reasons as well and one is taking things "by faith." Again, many of them come right back to things written inside that magic book.

Thoughts on globalization.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Globalization is a desirable thing but it is hard to have it when you are afraid you and going to be murdered or overrun by those crossing our Southern border. This and many other things in the current regime might take years to overcome. Now I quote you: **Our only advancement is Trump saying, give ‘em baseball, football and hamburgers**. OK, let me add Trump defunding the Post office in an effort to prevent mail in ballots at election time.

Let's discuss censorship.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

I hate censorship and have suspected what you are saying but I have no proof. It's sort of like when you cannot explain or find something. At that point your mind usually makes something up. I have lots of items that I lose, for example, and later I find them right there in plain sight.

I'm growing my own vegetables.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

It sounds great to me. I quit growing anything about 5 years ago.

What are atheists for?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

**An explosion of recent research suggests that religious beliefs and behaviors are universal, arise from deep-seated cognitive mechanisms, and were favored by natural selection over human evolutionary history.** I stopped reading at the first sentence above. This is because I do not believe that woo and superstition were favored by natural selection. Instead I believe that they came out of a quest for knowledge and a desire to know what cannot be known. This is wrapped in the security blanket of universal religions. It means to me that all the atheist is doing is challenging those beliefs.

A plane went down and all people on it died; they were a mix of Christian, other religions, and ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 18, 2020:

That last line says it all for those who insist that an imaginary person wrote them a book and will judge them by it also. Why are people so dumb? It's hard for me to think I was once a believer just as they are.

Cloris Leachman Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1926, now 93.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 18, 2020:

I remember her well.

Coronavirus stimulus checks: Where is the missing money going?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 18, 2020:

Where is all this money going and why is there missing money? I have the answer. Ask yourself which political party is in power right now. Rest assured that the missing money is not going to those of the opposite party. Also take a long look at Trump using his family to decide who actually gets the money. Does this mean Mar-A-Lago and others like them are getting money? Certainly. Problem solved.

Trump can not longer be considered president of this country!!! trump is pushing and pandering ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 18, 2020:

The very definition of TDS. You have it wrong. It is the Trumpers who have TDS and they also invented the term.

Trump’s Lies Are Killing His Supporters as COVID Starts to Sweep Rural America {People take ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

I find it incredible that a lot of these people still think the virus is fake. Looks like we can think Trump for that one. Conservative talk radio today once again mentioned the "Deep State" and it sounded like they were serious about it. Perhaps they missed the Steve Bannon interview where he said he and Donald Trump invented the Deep State for political reasons. There is also lots of crap going around where they claim this virus was "created" just to take Trump down.

Why did 'god' create Atheists (or Agnostics, or Secular Humanists)

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

Wait! You found evidence of a god?

Letters to the Editor: Who asked Ron Reagan about his zealous atheism?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

I have no problems with Ron Reagan and his atheism. I did have problems with Nancy and her astrology.

It seems like with so many different beliefs and religions in the world it would be impractical if ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

Why would you have to go through all of the religions to see if they had evidence for their claims? Evidence is either real or it is made up. The believers continue to make things up.

Follow up interview with the first person to receive a vaccination against COVID-19.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

It remains to be seen what happens. Trump is still lying and using COVID-19 updates in place of his town meetings. Nothing here is bipartisan as both parties have been taught to hate each other. Trials of vaccines may be going on. I heard conservative talk radio today where they are beating each other to death verbally and they do not trust anyone. If Trump isn't behind it they don't like it. You would think that The Chosen One had studied medicine or something. LMAO

If 2020 was a car.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

i see people driving POS cars and trucks that are almost this bad.

Today's hike: "Holy shit!" moments, afraid of slipping over the edge.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

Incredible! I agree with you on number 5. Standing out there for a photo is too scary and dangerous.

Have you wondered if perhaps the godbotherers of the US love trump because he does truly represent ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

Trump hates the things they hate. I still recall a Florida Trumper who came right out and said "Trump isn't hating all the right people." It's like a religion. Your god hates the things that you hate.

So.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 17, 2020:

Exactly, but it is not just one book - 66 of them at least and more if you are Catholic. Some of the problems are that they were never meant to be only one book and that one buybull book came into existence some 300 plus years after Jesus. This fact alone is why it has so many contradictions. I agree with some of the others here if you do still live with your parents. Keep your breaking away as your little secret for now. It's not immediately important that you talk to them about it.

Got on my states list for volunteers medical personal as back up in emergencies .

DenoPenno comments on Apr 16, 2020:

If it feels right do it. It won't work for me coz I was a demo specialist, company runner, and mail clerk. I worked mostly in the orderly room.

Kudos to Costco.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 16, 2020:

I have never been inside one but it sounds like you had a very good experience.

Do you know anything about Deism?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 16, 2020:

In Deism the creator god made everything and set it into motion, then simply went away. You cannot ever know this god personally and he does not talk to or communicate with you. There are no sacred writings or bibles and Deism was popular before we had science to explain things. Many of our Founding Fathers were Deists.

Saw this on Facebook.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 16, 2020:

None is the correct answer. Believers just keep on making it up.

Is anyone here the daughter or son of a minister?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

There are no gods as they are all imaginary. I would also avoid spiritualism as I would any other sources of woo.

Trump's name to appear on stimulus checks, likely delaying payments

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

I agree with your every word. The bastard is doing this because he knows he is losing and he cannot control the virus, so let's try to keep the Trumper base any way we can. Evangelicals love it.

Pat Robertson: God May Have Created the Earth in Six “Universal” Days | Hemant Mehta | Friendly ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

But god has a different timeline for things. Look how long it took for him to give us DNA.

UCKG - A Christian scam in my neighbourhood.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

If they are not on you telly be thankful and consider yourself lucky.

Karen believes she gave me COVID-19 after returning from Japan.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

I'm not sure what to say and I cannot claim either of you had COVID-19. Obviously you both had something. A man at my workplace came down with flu, recovered, then took off until this pandemic comes into better control because he does not want to give it to his invalid mother. A girl at my workplace thought she had the virus and her doctor sent her for testing. They would not even test her and sent her back. She does seem very fearful to an extreme. Many of us have our own "remedies" for lots of things. I do my own version of cowboy nose blowing and I also us hydrogen peroxide in my ears. I also drink 6 oz. of aloe vera juice a day mixed with other ingredients. A friend of mine says "this will not help you with COVID-19" I never told him that any of it had anything to do with COVID-19. He only assumed so out of his own fear.

[friendlyatheist.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

He's on the road to telling the truth.

This article is misleading but still important to look at.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

I believe they would think anything better than to force a default. The exception would be where property is involved and the people in control actually want your property.

I’m jealous of all yawl on lockdown.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

My job is considered "essential" but they do not keep you around when there are no deliveries to be made. Tomorrow I go back to work after my week off and I'm scheduled for 2 days this week. This is the second time I have had a week off.

I was brought up by aunts, grandmothers and hired help because my mother worked 16 to 18 hours ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

I was always impressed as a child by hearing of Michael the Archangel in the bible. This was because Michael is my middle name.

Here in Mojacar we now have the local police coming round to every house to hand out a free mask to ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

This is nice of them but what about the chance that they also are spreading the virus? I'm curious if we have any reported shootings of those wearing masks? Especially if you are close to someone's property and wearing one at night. You might have been in fear for your life.

[getpocket.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

The article is too long but yet a true story. It is an example of believers getting something and running with it as far as they can. This type behavior is in their blood, but they made it all up just the same. In my lifetime we first had religious commentary on scripture. Later on this had to evolve into apologists because preachers and ministers needed an active person to back them. The religious continue to make things up.

Treasury Department Orders Trump’s Name Printed on Stimulus Checks In an unprecedented move, ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Notice that this info comes from a comedy site. Even so, it would make Trumpy feel so damned important if it was true and it might make others vote for him. Not me. I got up this morning to find my $1200 was in my online banking account already. I'm keeping the money but ditching Trump.

What was your journey into becoming an Atheist/Agnostic?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

With the ministry pushed at me from my teen years, I rebelled and got away from that idea but had a lifetime of much guilt and grief because of it. Many years went by with these bad feelings. Somewhere about 2011 or so I discovered Jerry DeWitt on You Tube. He seemed to be telling my story and then for the first time the "scales fell off my eyes" as the Buybull says about Saul of Tarsus. These days I am sort of a preacher in reverse and I operate on logic and evidence.

Is there a meaning to life and if there is, does it even matter?

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

A meaning to life. Let me see. The male got the female pregnant and the one who is born must make their own meaning to life. Along the way males just keep on making females pregnant and the females allow this because deep down they know they can change that male if they try.

Okay I'm back seeking assistance with the new lingo please.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Who tells me what I cannot say anymore?

Would you want to move to or live in a country, State, or society that is basically the same as your...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Bad thought experiment. Believers in America have been wanting to do the exact opposite now for many years. Their dream of a "Christian Nation" drives me nuts.

Today's hike after three weeks: An "Oops!" Coyote and Joy

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Well done, but remember that if you do not spit on each other WHO says it is OK to be only 3 feet apart.

i am a test post

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I am just one of the test replies.

The world is "only" 80,000 infections short of 2 million.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

This is terrible and nothing we can do except shelter in place. The bad thing is that I've found 2 fake claims about the virus. 1. The first fake claim is from the show "It's Supernatural" where Sid Roth has a man on that claims god showed him all about it in great detail in a dream and it's a created virus by the Democrats to get rid of Donald Trump. 2. This second claim of 5G technology causing coronavirus is also to get rid of Trump and claims 5G is a direct virus cause for that purpose or it can weaken your immune system to where you get the infection. I suppose this came about because there are billions to be made in 5G and if America doesn't get the contracts then Huawei in China will. It's a shame in these tragic times that scammers spreading fake news will go this far to confuse everyone about a very serious worldwide infection. I find the too often COVID-19 WH updates to be equally as disturbing. Non-supported claims are made often.

The two biggest challenges that I have encountered in dating are women who smoke and women are too ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Trumpers, smokers, and the religious are at the top of my list. Age doesn't bother me either way unless they have a stupid ridiculous laugh constantly going on. Going to the older ones I'm not getting off by talk that "my grandkid can beat up your grandkid" either. Even though I came out of religion I ended up smoking for right at 30 years. A non-smoker now for 20 years, I have to admit that cigarettes taste and smell repulsive. It would be damned hard for me to end up with a smoker or want to be involved with one.

The Shit-Show Rages On: [rawstory.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

If Trump was out of office tomorrow his lunatic ranting and ravings would go on as long as he was still alive.

An Indian TikToker who said to trust God over face masks is reportedly the first person in his ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I'm not wearing a face mask but I do distance and use common sense. I have no trust in gods and I do not want to worship or pray.

California sued over restricting religious freedom- [cnn.com]

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Why don't they just STF up and take their services online?

Bishop who preached 'God is larger than this dreaded virus' dies of COVID-19

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

God works in hysterical ways. That man and others on FB should wake up.

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Yes, the babble speaks of apostasy. As for "sinner" I remember a person who came to our church while I was a teenager. He had been in war and had killed people, but he really got into god and church. He could not forget his past and one day a good Christian found him drunk and crying outside the building. He was immediately told "you are nothing but a sinner and you will always be a sinner." Yes, I remember my church daze.

Shortest conversation ever through online dating

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

That man is about as ignorant as the Orange Trump god that he supports and serves. Also, am I "trading a liberty for benefits?" When you give up liberty and freedom you have no benefits. The National Socialist/Fascist regime is in power and in the WH as I type.** America is now in the worst recession since the Great Depression. **Much of this is possible because people fear Trump who has no idea what he is doing. I support your words and actions to Scott fully. He should have known better.

This is from The Onion-satire TALLAHASSEE, FL—In a bold affirmation of faith during a time of ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Nothing like a good Christian virus when you have a self loving good Christian POTUS. Let's start making money again. Trump thinks he can order this. LMAO.

Trump uses coronavirus to cliam 'total' authority.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

The problem here is that Trump is "total" but he is not an authority. The buffoon thinks he is like a King or something.