What do you think of backward ball caps on older men?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

I agree with you. For the record here I do not wear hats. Several places I worked at tried to give us hats but I do not like them. A former boss who actually taught me computer in my home told a story once on coming over to teach me and there I was drunk with my hat on backwards. It's not true and I do not wear hats.

My mom's concern for me and my husband's atheism.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

He drank the sinner's cup of punishment. She rants on and on. WTH is this? Your mom has a great delusion that most likely will always be with her. She thinks she is "saving" you but she will do everything she can to tear you and your husband apart. If she blames him for your atheism this is a very strong desire. Deep inside she may feel that once you are torn away from him you have no place to go but to Jesus. I would avoid confrontations with her and do not discuss beliefs with her.

Back in 2008 I started a group in my town called the paranormal society of Albuquerque.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

Years ago I went ghost hunting with others and we drove the car to a cemetery way out in the boonies and got out to look around. Suddenly somebody seen something and cried out, then everyone ran for the car. Who knows what they saw but it was something by a tombstone. The driver flooded the car trying to start it and I was the last one inside before we drove away. Much later they told me I should admit that I saw something also because I was running too. It's true that I was running. I did not want to be left all alone in the boonies late at night with no place to go. What can you see late at night by tombstones in a cemetery? Almost anything but not very likely to be a ghost.

Has anyone any theories as to what is happening with the solar observatories?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

What I find on it is that this was a sunspot observatory and it was shut down with suspected child pornography involvement from one of the employees. No arrests yet but computers, laptops, thumb drives, etc. have been removed and the same at the supposed suspect's home. There is some concern that the FBI is not telling everything, but what else would they be obligated to tell you? What else can the paranormal mind make up?

Several people I know who passed on .

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

I know nothing first hand on this but a man I went to school with claimed later in life that his sister was seeing and meeting dead relatives before she passed on. Everyone knew his sister was dying of cancer. Since she knew it also, my best guess is that her mind made this up for her in order to condition her. With a religious past she had to believe that she was going somewhere. I have my own stories of woo mostly from days that I believed in woo. These days I try to explain the experience rather than accept traditional woo that many do believe.

Just a thought I had from one that I dearly call 'friend'.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

My religious friend is rational on most things. It's just that he has no rationality at all when it comes to Jesus. He even views world events by comparing them to what he finds in the book of Revelation. It never enters his mind that this biblical book was not the only choice when the bible was compiled and assembled. Some people have a near fit when they hear you tell them things like this. They want a bible that was present in Jesus time and not one that came about in the 4th century.

Not knowing that Gods and Devils are made up fictional characters is like not knowing that ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

Yes, but these are not fictional characters. I have actually met Batman and Wonder Woman and had my picture taken with them a few years back.

I have a beautiful, tender-hearted young Christian relative who is working her way through college ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

In her belief frame she is giving it her best shot by thinking ahead on the prospect that her wallet could be stolen. I hope it works for her. In my own true case of this sort I have a landline phone with a special message. After a few rings it goes to "I'm not home right now, but in case you are the burglar I think I hear myself coming back." Then it beeps for you to leave your recorded message. Maybe a thief will have heart and want to give her stuff back, or at least share it with her. IDK.

So I'm at work and I had a customer ask me if i was a lover of jesus.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 22, 2020:

I just Googled "evidence for deity" and got hits too stupid to even read. It's always the same old arguments and believers miss the reality of what caused them to believe in the first place. IF you actually found "deity" does that mean you should worship? Maybe your god was a runaway father. Are you bound to bow down to the Royals? Maybe you can make up your own mind. If I fall a distance and am left alive is it because of some god or better yet - because I am still alive. Which one better fits? In my workplace a deer hunting story is told and the deer escapes. The boss' son then says "god didn't want you to kill that deer" and listeners reply "he's a smart kid." WTF is that? It is not logic. If people use this way of thinking and they crapped their pants then god wanted them to crap their pants. This is all like "free will." You either have the free will to do something - or not! gods are not educating you or helping you.

At Long Last, Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Church With Predator Pastor | Hemant Mehta | ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Pedophiles are always there in one guise or another.

BIG wobbles in Salt Lake as member ship levels fall so low, the big three have decided to make huge ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 21, 2020:

It's time for anything that deals with Kolob to die out entirely. Too much make believe here. Let Scientology be next.

Christian parents sue their school district to force it to out trans kids / LGBTQ Nation

DenoPenno comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Maybe they have succumbed to the nonsense of why people go to the "wrong bathroom." The right is responsible for a lot of this. In the 60's in Germany we had unisex bathrooms in Nurnberg without any problems.

Mormon Church Formalizes Punishments for Trans Members

DenoPenno comments on Feb 21, 2020:

Total hypocrites.

Traditional burials are hugely wasteful and toxic, while cremation uses lots of fuel, emits vast ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 21, 2020:

In most cases today the dead body is prevented in every way from ever being a part of the earth again. I chose cremation because it just hurries up the process.

I came across these gentlemen somewhat by accident, but I can relate with some of their experiences ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 20, 2020:

I view clips and programs on You Tube with both of them and I also watch the Atheist Experience almost every Sunday.

Is it time to start talking TACTICS ? [pewforum.org]

DenoPenno comments on Feb 20, 2020:

No, it is not that time but it is the time of manipulation and lies. Support for the current regime shows this fully. I want no part of it.

I am very depressed.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 19, 2020:

Perhaps the DNC is drifting away from Biden. Rumor has Bloomberg enticing Hillary. I'm beginning to think everyone wants "business as usual" with the top 1 percent in control whether we do or do not have Trump.

Have you ever thought of religion and communism as not being that different?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 19, 2020:

I was always taught that early Christians tried communism according to the book of Acts but it did not work and they abandoned it. I suppose it was put to us that way so believers would continue to be against communism. Keep in mind this was in the days of Sputnik.

Sen.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 19, 2020:

At my workplace one conservative says that the coronavirus comes from the fact that "people over there (China) eat bats and things." His lame remark is right in there with virus and disease coming into our country when illegals cross our borders. It seems that nothing here is airborne and it has to have a human host. Wash your hands. Johnny.

Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of 11 people, including Rod Blagojevich, Bernard Kerik, ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 19, 2020:

My take on this was that a crook will always pardon a fellow crook.

Anyone else hear the phrase, "I'm better than I deserve"?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 19, 2020:

If everything is "better than you deserve" it is because bible believers know you are just a miserable sinner worthy of hellfire. I've heard the phrase and it is the kind of crap that a cult would use. It is also used by many Evangelicals.

FRESH FROM TODAY'S INDEPENDENT NEWS.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Isn't it amazing now that Bloomberg is considering Hillary as a running mate. (I've heard this.) That should cause the same thing that happened last election. Business as usual people just do not learn. It looks like the powers that be are asking us if we want billionaire oligarchs running the show or billionaire fascists. Either way there is nothing here about us and we are back to the top 1 percent.

It amazes me, the deep indoctrination self- indoctrination I had growing up.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

We are now in the day and time that believers have put their god in another dimension so you cannot touch him in any way. Not only would this prevent such a god from lifting the rock, it would also prevent us from knowing anything about him. Imagine 2 fish bowls with fish in one and god is in the other. Believers now claim their god can jump in and out of dimensions like jumping in and out of fish bowls and leave no evidence at all of doing it. Isn't that lovely. How did the believers ever come to this knowledge in the first place?

Has a fellow member on this site been an encouragement to you lately?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

I appreciate you and many times your words do encourage me. :)

I see this here all the time.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

A fight to establish that "my way of being an atheist or an agnostic is better/more correct than your way of being an atheist or an agnostic." That's what it is and I don't give a duck! Won't give a chicken either. Have it your way.

FRESH FROM TODAY'S INDEPENDENT NEWS.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Sanders is too old, Trump is too old, Eisenhower was too old.

Meet the xenobot: world’s first living, self-healing robots created from frog stem cells | FOX59

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

The day will come when we are able to back up the mind like we do a computer operating system. In this way we who fear death can keep living as long as we have backups. This can be much like system restore in a computer today. Of course, this mind will continue to grow from a given point much like our universe continues to grow. This is not a problem and it is diversity. Is this the secret to time travel?

know why you re an Agnostic because you re not afraid to think.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

I copied this and it is worth re-printing. **No ifs, no buts, no devils no gods: I am a total Atheist.** As a one time believer who saw error in his ways, that pretty much does it for me.

It is an established fact that believers are deluded and liars.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

Believers have to be liars because there simply is not any proof. I challenge god to heal all those at St. Jude of their cancer and I'm not even Catholic. Of course, I forgot that many of these children are there because of the sins of their fathers. God is so just and we cannot understand his ways. Many today think Trump has something to do with god and some have even wanted him to sign their bibles. If Trump lies do not make him just like Jesus, at least he can be "just like Cyrus." There is lots of delusion here. Anyone remember the 2 men during WW2 that were shooting at each other and one could not harm or kill the other because they were both Christian? I don't remember it either but it shows how complicated things are for god and how big his job is. Each side has a story to tell even though they are lying.

Bloomberg’s billions and the politics of oligarchy [wsws.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

I see Bloomberg as a contemporary of Trump with a different agenda. As a nation we are now being asked if we want Trump Fascism and white power backed by the rich, or "business as usual" backed by the rich. I feel this is because the DNC will not give up and does not want anyone progressive in any way. The Clinton's largely control the DNC and there is plenty of proof that business as usual failed in the last election. They never learn because I hear rumors of Hillary wanting to run with Bloomberg. My advice is "please, don't."

I've been thinking about the higher age group of this site and I think I got it figured out a bit.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 18, 2020:

This sounds right to me. I'm an older man who came here from another site mostly because myself and a handful of others were the only ones who posted there. I am aware that this site was called a dating site and dating is possible, but I do not look at this site that way. I'm more than happy to find others of like mind. For me, being of like mind means being able to express why you do or do not believe something. I can do it because I came out of religion. It might be possible in any group to find those who are not gerbil eaters, but if you never ate gerbils in your past it seems very hollow. Many people in life are hollow with hollow beliefs.

Ronald Coleman 1891-1958 Born in Richmond, England.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 17, 2020:

I remember him well and he was a great actor. I read once that the studio claimed they loosened him up for a role with a few drinks. Coleman did not drink and he sued them and won.

Loving the new look. 😃💕🇨🇦

DenoPenno comments on Feb 17, 2020:

Not sure if I love it, but it is OK. :)

A friend of mine posted this on FB today : So it seems that God has all these universes and species ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Yes, god is especially concerned with what you do while naked and whomever you do something with. As he watches us all it gets worse when you become aware that he watches you naked and taking a crap as well.

I just looked at my last post after doing other stuff for awhile and it seems a bit crazy.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 16, 2020:

I haven't smoked anything in 20 years and I quit cold turkey. Quitting is not easy and most programs that are aides to help you really do not help you. People lose money if you quit. Your friends who really want you to succeed can't quit themselves and they are lying to you. Good luck.

So unlike my parents, whom I love, lol I am letting my son decide what to believe or not to believe.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Maybe there will be a time he no longer believes in Santa. God belief is like Santa for adults.

Can the number of "Nones" be slowing?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 16, 2020:

Polls are misleading. It depends a lot on beliefs of who conducted them. With that said it might be possible that people in our times of uncertainty are hedging a little towards wanting to believe. We have no answers and it makes many people feel safer.

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Complete) - YouTube

DenoPenno comments on Feb 16, 2020:

It is a planned interview and you can tell instantly where she is going when her first words are about explaining **"how human beings were created.**" I don't happen to believe human beings were created. She does and makes it all so very plain from the beginning.

Makes so much sense now.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 15, 2020:

I see things like this along roadways where it is hard to imagine how they might have died there.

Kirk Douglas Dead at 103 | PEOPLE.com | PEOPLE.com

DenoPenno comments on Feb 15, 2020:

I remember many of his movies and he was fantastic. My ex heard him speaking one day and told me he needed to learn how to talk. He was long retired and had a stroke, then had taught himself to speak again on his own. She did not know this. Kirk Douglas was a remarkable man.

Kobe, Impeachment and the Coronavirus: A Study on the Dangers of White Liberal Fragility White ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 15, 2020:

Having some sort of prejudice or bias is one thing. Believing garbage or acting on it falsely is another thing entirely. Let's just take the issue of whites not wanting blacks (or any non-whites) to live close to them or next door to them. The motivation here is political and used for gain by making the whites believe that** someone is going to take something away from them.** It's garbage and bullshit. This same thing is going on at our border with Mexico right now today.

republican health care....

DenoPenno comments on Feb 15, 2020:

This has to be the true plan because there never has been a Republican health care plan. In my state you find now that Trump and his GOP have extended Medicare options for you and this new plan is listed as an HMO. Check into it and you find new benefits that you have to pay half of to get. Many of them are free on my current plan.

Donald Trump Kissing Vladimir Putin Mural Goes Viral | Time

DenoPenno comments on Feb 15, 2020:

I bet they each kiss the opposite end this very same way, tongue included.

Politics Question. How will you vote...and WHY?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 14, 2020:

I'm a card carrying Libertarian but never vote for or with them. This is because I am a progressive these days I will vote for anyone who can get us out of this current Fascist regime. Libertarians bought into the GOP and made this current nightmare possible. I'm for anyone who can get us out. Trump needs to leave by any means possible and as soon as possible. I would imagine that if this happens the person elected will have enough supporters to have a majority in both the House and the Senate. I would not vote for Trump even if somebody paid me. BTW, I did not take your quiz. Are you mining for information?

I've just started reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins and he say something that I never ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 14, 2020:

I have read the book and Dawkins is correct. A major belief of modern Christians today is that their one god is so far advanced from belief in many gods, and they believe this even though their one god is really three gods in one. I'm with them if they ever get to no gods.

Happy Valentines Day!!!

DenoPenno comments on Feb 14, 2020:

Nice.

I discover more and more that in any group of people, there's a tendency for it to fragment.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 13, 2020:

What you have discovered is exactly why there are so many religious denominations. Also we find that religion aside man tends to form into groups.

The obstructionist republican fascist are overtly spreading their propaganda full of lies and pure ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Yes, Trump and his group think I am one of them or they just send this out to everyone.

SPECIAL PERMIT - FAVORITE GROUP?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 13, 2020:

I'm not so sure that all the other groups want to "see white America erased." What I am sure of is that this mindset is the rallying cry for white supremacist Americans. There is no doubt about it. In Europe mask wearing by Antifa and a few others was so they would not be recognized and arrested later because they were in a protest march. In America today mask wearing is to hide the fact that the wearers support our current regime. This in itself is scary and I believe it threatens us all.

I need this hat in my life

DenoPenno comments on Feb 13, 2020:

I hope that the words on the hat spell out what is going to be but the unfortunate thing is that the approach of the Dems is still "business as usual." That didn't work for Hillary.

Why some believe in God

DenoPenno comments on Feb 13, 2020:

People feel they really need something to believe in and they need to have all the answers. Where am I going in life and what is this all about. The religious find that in the end your life is just a test that gets you ready for death. They keep making it up to give it more meaning.

Being intelligent , unfortunately , does not mean a person is moral .

DenoPenno comments on Feb 13, 2020:

Yes, define morality. It seems to me that morality is in the eyes and mind of the beholder, set from within by whomever it is that currently molds society. In this way "morality" is ever changing.

I'm not sure into which category to post this speculation, so I eventually plumped for "general" ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 13, 2020:

This would all be a far step in my opinion. It was a story. Who would have known about virus or germs to take a far fetched story and try to make it legitimate?

Members, this is just reporting.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 12, 2020:

I don't like any bitter truth about anybody. It seems that the Dems want to run on "business as usual" and this cost them the election last time. It more than likely will this time also. Trump asked the Ukrainian president what he did because he already knew in advance that Biden would be his main opposition. Both sides take money from our controllers and top money interests. It's really all a matter of whether you think we need better healthcare and wages or not. It can never happen with the current regime.

Someone I know is dying and has expressed that she would like to just fall asleep and not wake up.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 12, 2020:

I agree. The desires of the one who is dying should be foremost.

[wkrn.com]

DenoPenno comments on Feb 12, 2020:

In our Reality TV POTUS world these people would not know "fake news" if it bit them on the ass. Oh, I forgot. This is all a problem of the dims.

How many of you have lied or decieved a potential employer about your being agnostic or atheist.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 12, 2020:

I don't use the word atheist at work because my corporation has a religious base. If it comes up I claim I used to be religious and studied for the ministry but today I am no longer religious. If asked "what happened" I give them a stern look and reply "I am no longer religious." That usually ends it.

Can sex overcome religion? You know what I mean!

DenoPenno comments on Feb 12, 2020:

Sex can usually overcome religion until the religious one gets in so deeply that they are almost brought to tears over prospects of some invisible part of you burning in an imaginary place forever. Paul said in the buybull that the believer might eventually convert the non-believer so this was all a good thing. The truth usually is that some zealous minister hears stories of what the couple thinks is happening in the relationship (and they are one sided stories) then that minister takes action to at least be able to keep one out of the two in his flock.

Incredibly, it seems to be so... There are Atheists who fear hell! [patheos.com]

DenoPenno comments on Feb 11, 2020:

I know it sounds strange but this is why FFRF was formed because it helps you to recover from religion. Some people "suffer" in or out of a religion while others do not.

What happened when you came out of the closet as an atheist?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 11, 2020:

My stepfather told me I was "going to split hell wide open" but otherwise we remained friends. My 2 daughters claimed they saw my viewpoint once I explained it to them but they each claimed they "still believe in their own way." That same belief they share is what made Christianity the muddled mess it is today.

I wish Christians would just be honest and say they have NO idea what happens when a person dies?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 11, 2020:

The only thing Pascal's Wager does is claim you have lost nothing if you live your life and follow teachings of a god even if you doubt the existence of such god. Believers in this concept forget or lay aside the fact that your all knowing god would know you were not totally sincere. They think this is an exercise of faith. Instead it is absolute stupidity. NO, Christians and atheists are not the same as to what happens when a person dies. If you die you are dead.

Is TV getting preachy again.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 11, 2020:

It all stands out to me. The preachiness is trying to sell to a market. Everything today is Reality TV and we know this has nothing to do with reality. This trend is why films like "God Is Not Dead" have made the movies. Some people eat this stuff up. Media today is in the "reality" market and that is sad. I watch TV shows like "Batwoman" for example because her lesbian character is not having numerous affairs all over the screen, so I can accept it that Batwoman is a lesbian. This does not bother me. It would if she was also some super religious freak at the same time. I do make fun of TV shows often and "Chicago PD" is one. I'm sure it is a good show but in jest I write sometimes that I am watching "Chcago Petey" re-runs.

I feel being raised heavily Christian made me afraid of intimacy. Anyone relate? : atheism

DenoPenno comments on Feb 11, 2020:

Maybe I understand this and maybe not. I'm not afraid of intimacy but I am not likely to share all my inner feelings on that subject with people I am intimate with. For one thing, intimacy is different than sex to me, but it may include sex - or it may not. I cannot look at sex as "making love." Sex is simply sex. While having sex you might be "making love" but it does not mean that I am. My mind has sex with the pinup model or the woman in Playboy that I can never have or hold. I'm not "making love" to them so I have a strange detachment of sex and love. They may go together, but for me they do not. I'm not sure if religion has made me this way but it is how I am. These beliefs might explain why my ex and I only lasted 12 years. They might also (if understood) explain to the haters why I do not "hate" her.

If you ever find yourself have to explain your entire belief system to someone that has no ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 11, 2020:

I'm an agnostic atheist. If you like, or want to quibble with words and their meanings, you may simply call me atheist. I'm not going to argue with you on what words mean or what someone else said they mean when the said meaning may not even apply to the writer. Years ago I met a man with a bad heart that told me his condition did not allow him much more time to live. He thanked god that he had learned the truth and was no longer in control of the "isms." It was the isms that blocked our senses from reality and really knowing god. This man cam out of Catholicism and he would tell you all about Mormonism, Hinduism, and all the other "isms." You simply could not be saved if you were connected to an ism. The irony is that I'm sure this man believed in baptism and he came out of Pentecostalism in his new found wisdom and belief. Yes, this is a true story! BTW, when you take the book definition of "agnostic" as the right approach you will always have believers trying to sway you to their side because they simply believe that you did not have enough right information. You also end up with things like "Agnostic Christians" which seems more than odd. "Well, I just do not know." OK, believer. How did you get this far? This reminds me of a child who does not want to eat his carrots.

I have 4th stage prostate cancer so I will dies soon.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

My best wishes to you and for you.

There’s always gotta be that one Christian that thinks they’ve caught you in a lie about your ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

But demons and ghosts are mentioned in the bible and it says nothing about them having energy. BTW, I do believe in the Holy Goat. :)

Dating scammers on Agnostic.com?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

Scammers are everywhere. They are here and I find them in other dating sites like Mingle 2. Usually they are fly by night people looking for a fast buck. However, I am followed by one woman in this sight from Puerto Rico and she just disappeared. Gone but her profile is still here. I think she joined the site, went to level 2, then just lost interest. You never know?

In the 2016 debates, Trump put one of Bill Clinton's mistresses (sexual assault victims?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

It's all lies and distraction anyway so what we need is Stormy with a copy of her canceled check and then we can see how many hoops Donnie jumps through to claim it is a fake.

WHY BERNIE WILL BE A GUARANTEED FAILURE?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

I'm not sure I understand all your talking points. Maybe you should try understanding how things were in the Eisenhower years and then try again. Nobody is wanting anything "for free" or talking about pie in the sky. Slipping in the names of other politicians to discuss Bernie (or anyone) is an apples and oranges type distraction. I simply cannot be for any person that wants to cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. Why? It is because we need these services and most of us have someone in our families that gets their basic support from these services. No, it is not free. We pay in a tax on these in our working lifetime. Can we afford to pay $6000 per month to keep a family member in a nursing home? I can't. Cuts to the system are already affecting lots of families. To believe that these continued cuts will not affect you and your loved ones is a bit lame. Setting up a 401K for such people at any age is a pipe dream. An honest person cannot declare that they want to see these services cut or taken away. The above is just ONE of my many objections to the the current regime and the powers that be. See! I have accurately discussed politics without naming those who are running for POTUS. Those who do not see my talking point are either rich or they are lying.

Years ago in Waller, Texas I discovered our indoor/outdoor cat dead one evening.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

What I am attempting to tackle here is that when you see an apparition it is not because of energy that came from the deceased apparition. Existing evidence seems to show that the visual scene has instead come from within your own mind in some way. I have written this because on another site we had members who claimed the dead (animals and humans) do have spirits that hang around for a short time after their deaths. Some believe that a twinkly came and got them later like in the movie "Ghost" or that they just found "the light" and entered into it and went away. Leave spiritualism to the movies, but I find that many Christians believe this same thing. In the case of my one deceased wife, both my daughter and myself heard her moving around the house for days. She was cleaning, cooking, and doing the laundry. You could hear her but never could see her. We thought we were both going crazy but when you research this you find it quite normal. It was our minds that were not ready to let go. The dead are dead but this experience happens to many people who are not ready to let go of the loved one. This is why we have many spirit and ghost stories, mostly told by religious believers, but the phenomenon affects everyone. In the case offered here it was me myself that saw her beloved cat some 2 days after the cat was killed. In explaining my post I have now offered a second experience as well as my first.

Facebook Is Free For A Reason!

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

I'm still on Facebook and I notice such things also. I have started to complain by dong a post called "Dear Facebook." I've done this several times now and they lighten up on me for a while. One example is that I tell them I did look at a car, some property, and items on Marketplace. I am no more going to buy any of those than I am those pretty young girls I looked at from India, so knock it off please! It isn't just Facebook. We are the product now. If I visit Lowe's or Home Depot online my main e-mail comes up to show me what I was looking at. Usually the best way to deal with that is to mark it as spam. This happens in Yahoo mail all the time.

Not having been on a real date in a very long time, I was thinking of inviting someone.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

I have not been on a real date in a very long time. Leap Day or otherwise. I work my 3 hours, think of some women I want to see locally as I go home, make my appearance wherever they are (usually at their own workplace) and then after a few words i go on home. Most of them don't even know that I care.

When it comes to bondage, would you rather be the one doing the tying, or the one tied?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 10, 2020:

I'm not into that at all. I have often imagined a perfect safe word as "stop."

America Isn’t Growing Hostile Towards Christians, It’s Growing Hostile Towards Religious ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Religious bullies includes the current Evangelicals that support Trump for ignorant and strange reasons. Lots of these people are televangelists.

Christian Blogger on Hitting Kids: “You Must Make Sure It Hurts to be Effective” | Beth ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

In my experience kids are terrified over gentle taps and words you say to them. They do not need for anything to hurt them to be affective. What they need is consistency of word and deed, not pain and bruises.

The world’s oceans are speeding up — another mega-scale consequence of climate change - The ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

I agree with it. Ever since the Viet Nam war became part of your evening meal at news time the entire world has been speeding up. Now we have shared news in an instant. The faster oceans will greatly affect our weather. Nobody cares. :(

I actually saw this on Facebook this morning. Can't verify. [shop.unicornpolitics.com].

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

There probably is such a bill that you can buy. I would not want one. Years ago when JFK got his brains blown out a friend of mine said that if we played our cards right we could make some money out of that. We let it go, of course. Look back and you can see that so many did not.

Nancy Griffith - from her album - Other Voices.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

I remember some of these and I was once staggering into a bar in Houston while Jerry Jeff was staggering out. I got there as the show ended but I listened to Jerry Jeff Walker for years after than.

Secession.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Really? America today is controlled by an extremist group and I do not mean Democratic Socialists or the current DNC.

What do you guys like to do for fun? i just watch youtube all day lol and sleep.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

I work 3 hours a day then come home to go into an evening of TV and movies, You Tube, Netfix and chill, social media in general, or other things involving political activism. I'm a man that can talk your leg off but I'm perfectly happy being alone. Maybe my 3 hours a day with the general public helps me to be almost a hermit. We do need interaction with others.

Trump Calls on Congress to Expunge His Impeachment Talking to reporters on the White House ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Sorry, buddy. You are impeached for life and it will not help your "brand." After this POTUS thing you are about done anyway.

Interstate cross check, that handed him (Donald Trump) the election more than anything.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

Amazing reporting into our fractured system of voting and the powers that be, currently and before. Hillary did not want help where she needed it because she thought she had it all sewed up. "Business as usual" backfired and today even Obama says the Dems should not go progressive. Sorry, folks. You cannot beat Donald Trump by trying to keep the DNC within its ranks. This is a part of wishful thinking that allows Trump and his GOP to remain ahead. Steve Bannon recently said that we are actually a Republic (not a Democracy) and that Trump and the current GOP are "the salvation of the Democratic Party." I can't go that far with it but I think he means the Dems are also going to have to change. Hillary and Trump trade barbs as to which one was a "Russian puppet" when current facts show Trump had (and still has) the defunct Cambridge Analytica on his side. The info they had did not vanish and the tactics are still around. Many of them are still working for Trump. Then Koch Industries, the Mercers, and others come along to "purify" the voting roles and make the votes all white. The reason is that brown skinned people are mostly for Democracy and not the white demagogues in power. Yes, my polling place locally also has equal people of both parties running it and an officer of the law there also. I'm in a GOP locale where many of the officials still rant against illegal voting. Apparently they think we have bus loads of illegals coming in. Sorry, folks. Impossible in my area for the way things are set up. Those that argue otherwise know it and they still argue with you about it. They would rather have dictatorship than Democratic Socialism.

Belief is back: why the world is putting its faith in religion

DenoPenno comments on Feb 9, 2020:

What I get out of this is that the world as we thought we knew it is being ripped apart. Leaders know this and they cause this. "We tell us stories in order to live" is the more than famous words of Joan Didion,- it seems to be an ongoing truth. Everyone has faith and religion one way or another. Even your dog has religion. In the confusion people feel that they have to have something. Many will fight you to say that a thing must be true because it is on You Tube. (My apologies to You Tube because I do like them and view their content.) In order to get every dime out of us leaders play with our belief and this also helps us to twist their lies into distorted visions of them as our savoirs. They become part of our religion just like that dog. It all brings me back to something I have only become aware of since retirement age. I'm on the wrong world. This is not my world any longer. No, I have not got religion and think I am going to heaven. It's just a fact. Not pushing forward making a strong way for myself or my family it is all just easier to see today. What is going on is nothing I want to be a part of. The irony here is that for those who have faith, current world events might even make that faith stronger.

UPDATE: She was found safe around 4am in Vegas and will be on her way home today.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 8, 2020:

I hope that this situation turns out OK for her and everyone involved. Too much nonsense goes on in the world today.

Exclusive: Netflix reveals its 9 government takedown requests [axios.com]

DenoPenno comments on Feb 8, 2020:

I can see a lot of this but if it continues the current American regime will soon be asking for take downs as well. I am a paying member of Netflix and have been for a few years now. This is strange because I watch everything else free and am a pirate. I hate that the movie and music industry cries over all the lost sales it thinks it has. This is not the case at all and piracy might even help sales in the long run. Imagine rain that comes down and you catch some of it in buckets. All of the rain cannot be caught that way. The fact that a signal in the air is caught, viewed, and enjoyed by people is not proof that these same people would have paid for the signal. I have watched many movies and TV shows simply because I could and because they were there. It does not mean I would have paid for them but if I talk about them other people might pay for them. Back to Netflix again, it appears that my ex has given out our password to people she knows in Kenya and they are watching my Netflix free. I get notice of another sign-on constantly in my e-mail. When I tell the story to others they have fits and say "change that password because they are stealing." .I don't care. my view is that some of these poor people might enjoy what they watch and build a good mental idea of Netflix that might allow them and others to pay and view later. The fate of any good thing is passed on by mouth. I don't give a damn about the buckets full of signal that the industry cries about and says they have lost.

The retribution has begun.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 8, 2020:

I agree with your every word. The problem is that what you are writing did not appear so much to the general public, and if it did Trump supporters would just say it was "Trump being Trump." I look at the many times this man is on video claiming he will not leave and that an election is false and invalid if he does not win as expected and it makes me feel Trump would refuse to leave the White House. Many people think this is a false alarm and invalid but I find Trump to be a real alarm and with very valid intent. He needs to be removed by any means possible and as soon as possible.

What can be done about the inactive members problem on this site?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 8, 2020:

I came here from another site and have since then found others here who also come from that site. This site and the other one have lots of members who joined but continue to say nothing or not post anything. I find this to be normal. People move about because they want to get away from the same old posts. Others join and do nothing. This is much like having a Baptist friend who belongs to your baptist Church but he never goes there anymore and doesn't want to hear sermons. I get it. He just wants to belong. When I look back at the last time I was involved in a church I recall a man there who was pointing out that you have to be a productive member of society. His example was that even bees will kill a non-productive bee member. WTF was he trying to say? This sounds a little extreme.

[boredpanda.

DenoPenno comments on Feb 7, 2020:

We are all different. I hear my words in my brain as words said but I do not hear them in a voice or my own voice. They are just thoughts that are there in sentence form. This is how I think. I have another mode that I call survival mode. No thoughts just actions and more animalistic. I prefer the thinking mode.

Why are newscasters hedging their statements?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 7, 2020:

I have seen this too and I agree with you fully. Trump lies. Most people are scared shitless of Donald for one reason or another but he can say anything he wants to. Then his supporters try to tell you what he really meant or said. This is worse than fabrication or falsehood.

A convoluted argument hard to grasp for agnostics, but if it were to succeed...? [sojo.net]

DenoPenno comments on Feb 7, 2020:

"Creation care." WTF is creation care? What is hard to grasp here with environment and issues of our environment involves the Christians. The reason is that our environment does not matter because god is taking care of that and why should we worry because we are not going to remain on the Earth for that much longer. That's right. This last bunch of believers are **so special** that god is going to remove them so they do not have to go through what all before them have endured. They believe their bible says that. Then you have people like Bill O'Reilly who says of god "he's still up there, he's still in control." This goes over Fox Noise and is absorbed by so many not to smart people. It means that Koch Industries and those of like mind are setting you up to rape your environment without a single care about you or your healthcare. They are also setting up political action groups to change everything in their favor so as to do this. It is trickery backed up by religion and every bit of it is used against us. This is what is behind Trump and his new Executive Order on our environment. In fact, this is also the major group that is behind Trump. Believers do not care about tomorrow if the world is ready to end. In fact, they will do anything to make it hurry up and happen. Look at the rants of Michelle Bachmann and others on this. Look at the many idiotic rants of popular Evangelical preachers today in Trumpland. Koch, Mercer, DeVos, et al. They all want to trick the farmer into leaving the hen house door open. This is what it is all about.

Stephen Colbert on Mitt Romney. Was Mitt sincere?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 6, 2020:

Was Romney sincere? It is hard to tell because both religion and politics have a history of making things up.

Trump’s legacy will be exposing the patina of decency for what it is and revealing just how much a...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 6, 2020:

I posted the above today in Facebook feeds on my page for a reply to many things they send to me. It seemed to fit. The FB robot caught me and said "posting the same reply repeatedly is not allowed." They wanted me to explain. I answered that they send me the same memes and posts repeatedly. Make you a bet that Zark Muckerberg will never see this or that he won't care.

Trump Gives Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom During an extremely divisive State ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 5, 2020:

In this case the medal is a cheap bowling trophy.

Trump's acquittal in impeachment 'trial' is a glimpse of America's imploding empire: ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 5, 2020:

Mousillini would have been proud.

Borrowed from Facebook: By Donald Phagan When I worked in the funeral business as a counselor to ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 5, 2020:

I certainly can agree with that.

trump acquitted [youtu.be]

DenoPenno comments on Feb 5, 2020:

Let's move to the shooting of someone on 5th Avenue and hope that when he does this it is himself.

I would like to know how many of you would vote against someone soley due to their open religious ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 5, 2020:

If it has to do with religion I'm not in favor of it. I look back at the strangeness of Ronald Reagan welcoming the religious into the Republican Party when Nancy controlled everything by her belief in Astrology.

What did your adult child(ren) thank you for doing while raising them?

DenoPenno comments on Feb 4, 2020:

I can't be thanked for being there because often I wasn't. My 2 daughters lived with me in the 80's and I look at them today and they both do many things we did in those years. Yes, it's things they learned from me but I think they are stuck in the 80's. Me? I'm not good at time travel and I wonder where all the years went. Some days I wake up and my mind says "my god I can't believe this." What the hell happened?

Buttigieg Backer Top Funder of Group Behind Iowa’s Disastrous Voting App A dark money operation...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 4, 2020:

It looks like you are correct here.

Trump reportedly compiling Nixonian ‘enemies list’ as he seeks revenge for impeachment ...

DenoPenno comments on Feb 4, 2020:

Would the Mafia do that?