Not to be controversial, but I really believe this to be true.

Diogenes comments on Oct 17, 2021:

A dog usually takes on the persona of the people around it. Groucho's joke has no meaning.

“I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so; but at no time was I led to believe ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 16, 2021:

"Yes", to that quote! I will not spoil the morning by relating on how I was brought up. There are sane people about. A laugh! I go into a coffee shop, and their service and goods are excellent- but I saw a sign by their cash a few days ago, "All I need is a coffee and Jesus"---- About that time, 'all I needed' was a pail of beer.

Medical professionals are speaking out. [childrenshealthdefense.org]

Diogenes comments on Oct 15, 2021:

No, I am not a "vegetarian". If I eat meat, that makes me an omnivore. I wish I could get off 100% of eating the other residents of this rock, whether they have two legs and feathers, or are quadrupeds. If I ask a person, "Would you do something evil, like poke the eye out of that cow which is happily grazing in the sun?" The answer would probably be, "No", but yet it is okay to go to the market and buy something that has as much evil in a sanitized package. I bought some "sweet potato and chia bites"; I found the taste satisfying--- and I don't have to have crazy dreams at night! For many years now, I have restricted what I have been consuming

Hmm, how's that again?

Diogenes comments on Oct 15, 2021:

How is it know that the invisible-dude has hands?

He got something right!

Diogenes comments on Oct 15, 2021:

It would be more mature to talk about the price of bubblegum om Mars.

“Suspicion is a heavy armour and with its weight it impedes more than it ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 15, 2021:

At times!

"I've learned a while ago that you are not required to attend every argument to which you are ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 14, 2021:

And if possible, don't be in places where the arguer might be. Bad company is found in bad places- which is also a comment about the receiver of the argument.

Until next time?

Diogenes comments on Oct 13, 2021:

Who cares about religious- except when they try to twist the law? I have a TV aerial pointed at Buffalo PBS. Unfortunately, I also get these nut-bar religious criminals too.

Sadly another dies. Paddy Maloney only 83.

Diogenes comments on Oct 13, 2021:

A top favourite group of mine- the Chieftains! So sorry to hear of the death of Padraig (Paddy) Moloney. He certainly had tallent, to be able to play everything from the uilleann pipes to the bodhran.

Arriving there is what you’re destined for.

Diogenes comments on Oct 12, 2021:

"Wealthy with what I've gained on the way"? Satire?

You gotta love Emma!

Diogenes comments on Oct 12, 2021:

I don't know who she is; kinda good looking though. Ya, I know, that is not the topic---- hey, I'm living like a hermit---- puleez, a little chuckle.

No thanks!

Diogenes comments on Oct 11, 2021:

Yep.

Looks like it is that day of the year again when people celebrate a conman who tortured and murdered...

Diogenes comments on Oct 11, 2021:

From what I have read, Good Ol' Chris was too evil to be laughed at. Did enjoy the cartoons though.

Dunno whose 'science' this is, but worth a try! 😄

Diogenes comments on Oct 10, 2021:

You just hope. Then you can go into the Canadian wilderness---- and the black flies. They are so small that the only way that a person can tell they are around, besides the constant bites, is to see the 5 pound meat in their jaws.

When Christians tell me "you can't prove god doesn't exist..."

Diogenes comments on Oct 10, 2021:

"YA" big ya!

The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. - Bahá'u'lláh

Diogenes comments on Oct 10, 2021:

If Nature provides a second life- who knows where or what we will come back as? Respect for all the residents of this rock should be something to think about.

Yup, I can see this....

Diogenes comments on Oct 10, 2021:

An' jus' ain't that the truth. This being an old bastard is getting rather boring!

Damn fake birds!

Diogenes comments on Oct 10, 2021:

"Ha, ha!" What other comment can there be?

Pie In The Sky.

Diogenes comments on Oct 10, 2021:

Marje thanks for putting that on for me. "Slick and sophisticated"- not a chance, but I do think the lyrics are well presented. And Abby, not one hope in a billion that she would win a beauty contest---- but she does have loads of talent. Apparently she has earned enough money to be off the streets and has her own small trailer. I viewed a film by Yehudi Menuhin long ago, It was about all music, old and new', in the world. There was classical, jazz, bluegrass, whatever. But also regional: Alpine horns, Eskimo mouth music, African tribal music. If I remeber correctly, at the very last of the film he had "Grundge", or a word of the same meaning, and said this is dissonance- and not music.

I love etymology.

Diogenes comments on Oct 9, 2021:

Whatever!

Do ya suppose?

Diogenes comments on Oct 9, 2021:

"President"? He never was president-he was/is the criminal with his enforcers.

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book”……………Irish ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 8, 2021:

Marje, I like your new picture- you look quite glamorous! And your quote: a few laughs once in a while make the day go down a lot easier. Two nights ago I slept well. This night I couldn't get out of a long, disgusting dream--- and that is all of that.

“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

Diogenes comments on Oct 7, 2021:

This was well worth reading. I wrote a long commentary about it, but my Internet time ran out just as I finished it and it was deleted--- so starts my day! To be brief: after death we may go into a black spot; that is one of the possibilities. If Nature has provided numerous lives, just what will they be? Will it be the ant that goes busily along its way, or why is smart, faithful dog not a homo sapien. If one comes back again as human, just what physcal condition, what colour, in what regional place? I will read more of what Ayaan Hirsi Ali has to say. A very enlightening post!

Religions are not about finding truth—they are about defending lies.

Diogenes comments on Oct 6, 2021:

That is a certainty

Well, tanks for the thought anyway! :-D

Diogenes comments on Oct 5, 2021:

I thought that was hair tonic- enough to get the Wizzard of GB, BoJo, enough to comb his hair.

“The most important thing to learn is to learn how to learn, because if you can learn how to learn...

Diogenes comments on Oct 5, 2021:

I believe this is one of Abraham Maslow's Hierachy of Needs pyramids. I did look this up again- but I also took it many decades ago in Organizational Behaviour. The base level had to do with food and survival- and nothing more. Some never pass that level. Some climb the mountain- and that is fantastic. Then others don't know there are achievements/ mountains to be climbed, or where they are.

Ashley Montagu - British-American anthropologist 1.

Diogenes comments on Oct 5, 2021:

Yes, a "young life", not an infantile one! Number 3: if numerous bad things happen in the day, but only one good thing, don't crown the day by wallowing in the muck, but beat the defeat, by celebrating the win.

Too true. Too true!

Diogenes comments on Oct 5, 2021:

And just ain't that the truth! Wish I could break the cycle----- and make a few wise ones!

Something very different today - music from the Amazon

Diogenes comments on Oct 5, 2021:

Yes, interesting!

When an anti-vaxxer starts posting comments and you think to yourself.

Diogenes comments on Oct 4, 2021:

I am tired of the bar flies. One is a "sports enthusiast"--- but he just watches; none of 'thet thar sweatin' 'n' stuff'. He can tell ya how many times Morton Doodle, scratched his family jewels before he pitched the ball in 1995--- uh, anything else and he would make blondie look like a Cecil Rhodes scholar.

Afternoon snack ?

Diogenes comments on Oct 3, 2021:

From the outside look of the shack- the brains wouldn't be fresh either.

“I do love beauty.

Diogenes comments on Oct 3, 2021:

M, some 'funny', dark humour: G. B. Shaw said he loved children and flowers but he didn't cut off the children's heads! And butterflies do not fly well with needles in them.

From County Clare the Queally Sisters "Beyond the Bellows & the Bow".

Diogenes comments on Oct 3, 2021:

1. FrayedBear---- you did it again- such fine, such fantastic Irish music! The girls are beautiful. The parents must have looked through a Gaelic bibliography of Irish names to come up with Aoibheann's name. A couple of years back I was talking with a girl studying at Trinity- she too had a 'name' that started off with 3 or 4 vowels. She got, "Efa". She told me the Basc's name, Eman de Valara, was forbidden to be spoken in the house.-----Yes, excuse the spelling!

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Diogenes comments on Oct 3, 2021:

--- so it can be knocked down too!

It's your choice.

Diogenes comments on Oct 2, 2021:

Am I missing something here- after reading the comments? Rand Paul is talking about the non-vaxxers I would assume. Who in hell would want to die of the black plague or a tiny cut because there was nothing to sterilize it?

Maria, a devout Catholic, got married and had 15 children.

Diogenes comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Excuse me, what's the joke? Many decades ago, in hillbilly country in New Brunswick, I knew two that had 19! They obviously had industrial-grade stupidity.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 1, 2021:

Yes.

The tastiest drug you can buy!

Diogenes comments on Sep 30, 2021:

I still prefer my one or two coffees a day.

Santa's sleigh will be extra heavy this year.

Diogenes comments on Sep 30, 2021:

It's September- about a week ago there was an advert for Christmas trees----artificial of course! But isn't the whole world artificial and La-la Land?

Take a morning walk.

Diogenes comments on Sep 30, 2021:

I don't know if any of that is true- but certainly a walk in the woods in the morning is refreshing.

Evangelical Pastor Says Jesus Hasn’t Returned Yet Because People Are Not Donating Money

Diogenes comments on Sep 29, 2021:

But you must admire their swimming talent; they are still able to do it; swim in their own slime.

“Music is a moral law.

Diogenes comments on Sep 29, 2021:

Music, may not be my ultimate cure, but it does calm me down. It is desert; tunes like Albert Katelbey's Bells Across the Meadows or the Largo from Dvorak's New Word Symphony and with the words sung by Paul Robeson.

News Flash The UK government has brought forward its plans to get all petrol-driven cars off the ...

Diogenes comments on Sep 28, 2021:

I thought the UK government would get enough money together to get MoJo a hair cut.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

Diogenes comments on Sep 26, 2021:

* I don't know what a just alternative to "humanism" would be- but there are others that reside on this rock besides homo sapiens. At least humanism is a start.

Becky seems like a fun person

Diogenes comments on Sep 26, 2021:

I'm thinking about quiting beer- but then my rep would be gone- "the village drunk!" Becky's pal has a sour face.😜

German folk festival session. Anyone?

Diogenes comments on Sep 26, 2021:

Agreed, but "youngsters" have never heard 'music' with harmony. Something that makes people happy. Grundge! Why?

My new favourite word!

Diogenes comments on Sep 25, 2021:

I learn a new word--- once every 50 years! Must remember that one.

Get some earplugs.

Diogenes comments on Sep 25, 2021:

...or you can turn on a fan that has a constant sound that blocks out other interruptive sounds. Works for me!

In our more equalitarian times: After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace...

Diogenes comments on Sep 20, 2021:

Not really. Even Hitler killed himself- while thousand died in the rubble in Berlin- and not by their own hand. Slime floats.

Always comical.

Diogenes comments on Sep 18, 2021:

Just say "Me too", and respect the neighborhood perverts.

“Hors D’Oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into 40 pieces”………………..Jack Benny.

Diogenes comments on Sep 17, 2021:

I am not pseudo sophisticated enough to be dining on Hors D'Oeuvre- but a good one. Good for a laugh!

Great tombstone

Diogenes comments on Sep 12, 2021:

* I saw a grave stone, "Gone fishing".

Power of books

Diogenes comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Where in hell can I get that book? My life needs to have a 'little' changing! Actually, a 'lot' of changing!

Guess that's one way

Diogenes comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Love it! Funny!

Hate to post this apparently truism especially considering the source.

Diogenes comments on Sep 12, 2021:

"Marion" Wayne would be an authoritarian on the subject.

The dog has the last laugh

Diogenes comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Hell, thats a female --- should look like a male--- and me!

A woman and her 10 year old son are driving in a taxi at night in Detroit… It’s raining hard ...

Diogenes comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Okay, funny!

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious ...

Diogenes comments on Sep 12, 2021:

Unfortunately- ain't that often the truth. It isn't just the Christian religion. The Talaban are not shy about showing how evil they can be.

"After 9/11, America was so outraged by the deaths of thousands of innocent American civilians over ...

Diogenes comments on Sep 11, 2021:

YESSSS! It is alright to murder other people who would like to have their lives---- but it is evil to murder US citizens who have done no evil. Think of the MILLIONS in Viet Nam, that wanted their own government--- in their own country! Eisenhower warned of the US military- industrial complex. War for the sake of war.

Great tombstone

Diogenes comments on Sep 11, 2021:

Question: is it better living or dead?

Statement from the AHA on the DOJ's Lawsuit Against Texas' SB 8 - American Humanist Association

Diogenes comments on Sep 11, 2021:

Thanks for putting that info on the site. This is info that informed people should know and consider.

Not really news...

Diogenes comments on Sep 11, 2021:

All that harp noise- and not even an Irish harp- and all that flapping of angel wings. Somebody open a window. At least in Hell there would be some sane prisoners, that the Gawd-dude has sent there.

For that one who hates socialism but can't define what it is....

Diogenes comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Another thought, most of Europe has socialist governments. From what I have seen most people do not live in castles----- or cardboard boxes either.

For that one who hates socialism but can't define what it is....

Diogenes comments on Sep 10, 2021:

Yes, 100%, but not to be forgotten is 'that woman', Francis Perkins', FDR's Labor Secretary from 1933 to 1945. I have read that she was insistent on many socialist initiatives.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious ...

Diogenes comments on Sep 10, 2021:

King's exacting adjectives, perfect! A few more: "dedicated ignorance", "applied stupidity".

That would make the republicans think again

Diogenes comments on Sep 9, 2021:

Ya, I saw the guillotine, but 'he' looks like 'he' is pregnant! I saw a quarter-toner in the pub a few days ago. Why? On Monday, I was out on a rough, 3 hour hike; didn't see anybody that looked like the cartoon.

Let's try not to make the same mistake again shall we?....

Diogenes comments on Sep 9, 2021:

One adjective is missing, "dangerous". Like all solipsists, Dump is a good example of a being with no limits. He is in his own world where he controls everything. Not one other event has any meaning to him.

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own ...

Diogenes comments on Sep 9, 2021:

And the chief moving factor is knowing that one must 'have an education'- and at an early age. Too little, too late does nothing. That is even rudimentary for the enjoyment of a civilized life.

Soccer fans are a bit like their idols! :-D

Diogenes comments on Sep 8, 2021:

Hey, but actually the shirt was pulled---- I like the laugh better when they fall to the ground when not even that happened. Ya, the bull shit needs to be taken out of football.

Pretty accurate

Diogenes comments on Sep 8, 2021:

Hell, a quarter-tonner from the local burg!

That's gonna be an awkward conversation.

Diogenes comments on Sep 8, 2021:

---or ask the US of A what war they are currently in in the 21st century!

A friend of mine sent me this from her vacation.

Diogenes comments on Sep 8, 2021:

Ha, ha--- about time for a few happy laughs!

if all the ifs & ands were pots and pans there would be no need for tinkers.

Diogenes comments on Sep 8, 2021:

I've put too many excuses into my life; there is no place for "ifs and ands". Toss them into the 'dust bin'.

Perfect costume

Diogenes comments on Sep 7, 2021:

At such a young age, and dealing with the realities of religion! But another point: I have worked with religious groups packing food. Although the humanist side may be small in religion, it is there.

A few words to live by

Diogenes comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Yes, a dozen tasks to start the day and if a person just frets and looks at them, there will still be a dozen left at the end of the day.

Ah! So that's what horseplay means! :-D

Diogenes comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Bland---- but still funny!

Orbers are trying desperately to convince flat-earthers of the truth.

Diogenes comments on Sep 6, 2021:

I read a book many decades ago and it had as a title, something very descriptive, but unimaginative, Sailing Around the World. In about 1899 he got to South Africa and met the Boer Prime Minister, who 'corrected' him; "That's Sailing in the World"

“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance “…………….Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Diogenes comments on Sep 6, 2021:

Lots of Athenians in the world- too ignorant to know they didn't know it all.

Not the weed so much..

Diogenes comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Keep sucking garbage into your lungs- you won't need the two million dollars!

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Diogenes comments on Sep 4, 2021:

Fantastic music

Wonderful, optimism at it's greatest! :-D

Diogenes comments on Sep 3, 2021:

How did you find my advert?

He is on guard.

Diogenes comments on Sep 3, 2021:

NOTHING is funny in Afghanistan! Maybe 'deadly and silly'- but nothing more.

Take that

Diogenes comments on Sep 3, 2021:

Because I am an authority on porn (shame on me) - Hell will freeze over many times, before a person finds anything erotic in porn! Society frowns on porn, but on your TV you can watch scenes of heads being chopped off, guts being ripped out. (Excuse the dark humour- and even evil things) As moronic as porn is, at least I don't get the urge to vomit.

Hi there! This is my first post.

Diogenes comments on Sep 3, 2021:

That would certainly apply to me when I was young. There is another idea though, "Working hard" is not the same idea as working successfuly.

Ron Reagan: Unabashed Atheist - YouTube

Diogenes comments on Sep 2, 2021:

That is SOO informative. If it matters, that is like me, forced into the religious nonsense, and just as forcefully fighting every bit of it.

Yes always them

Diogenes comments on Sep 2, 2021:

I have only been through Texas, but from what I have read lately, it would seem that all three are populated with an over abundance of idiots.

Letters From An American 08/30/2021

Diogenes comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Sorry, I have not enough time to read all the facts and numbers. What I have read is that the US governments have sent huge amounts of hard-earned tax money to Afghan, where the government officials there just pillaged it. And they were almost as corrupt as the Taliban.

Justice for me, please. 😆

Diogenes comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Ya, "justice"---- whatever that is! And yes, I get the joke too!

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. - Maya Angelou

Diogenes comments on Sep 1, 2021:

Some platitudes are sillier than others!

Happy Sinful Sunday....

Diogenes comments on Aug 31, 2021:

Ya Gawd fornicated with one of his married creations. Now let's talk about morality. Is there anything in that funny book- that isn't "funny"?

Robert G. Ingersoll

Diogenes comments on Aug 31, 2021:

I am guilty!!! Sometimes I watch shit on the computer. Yesterday I bought a readable, newspaper, one aimed at 'adult' readers, and listened to the classic radio station from NY City. I felt refreshed---- and NOT depressed, like I would be if I watched shit!

Why I'm still here! Lol

Diogenes comments on Aug 31, 2021:

Right now I don't need any added "THIT"--- and that's why I wouldn't consider using Facebook- or something called Faithbook either!

Why Jesus walked everywhere...

Diogenes comments on Aug 31, 2021:

All those Bibblie jokes, like walking on water- and the Christians think that other religious morons are fools. The nerve, the ego of t!

I've heard my nurse friends mention these stories! Lol

Diogenes comments on Aug 30, 2021:

A nurse told me a perve came in with a light bulb in! It must be dark there--- but why did it have to be illuminated?

Enjoy yourself, It is later then you think.

Diogenes comments on Aug 30, 2021:

> Yes, the whole quote makes a point. I wonder what else Acton had to say.

“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us”…………….John Dryden.

Diogenes comments on Aug 30, 2021:

That is an excellent point. There are many examples of that- and also 'people who have broken bad habits'.

Thought this was spot on!

Diogenes comments on Aug 29, 2021:

But the tent would have been built upside down, if that was possible- after all, they are "experts" at everything

In the US they take horse de-wormer while in Africa.

Diogenes comments on Aug 28, 2021:

Is he more insane than Dump--- or are they both at about the same level?

Biblical ancestry:

Diogenes comments on Aug 28, 2021:

And after that their descendants were dinosaurs.

Letters From An American 08/26/2021

Diogenes comments on Aug 27, 2021:

Biden has made a HUGE mess of Afghanistan, period! Biden did not end the virus because of the consistent efforts of fools like DeSantis! That is a different situation than the first.