The U.S. men's and women's soccer teams will be paid equally under a new deal : NPR

Diogenes comments on May 19, 2022:

It's way past time for this to happen, and not just in the US, in Canada too- and the rest of the world. This is NOT Afghanistan!

What happened to Titty Tuesday? It is so quiet in here

Diogenes comments on May 18, 2022:

Jeezus, Kinda funny stuff!

Not sure if he's right about this, he himself is an example of someone who is intelligent and ...

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

Why would a thinking person be bothered to tolerate a person who's objective it is to be a buffoon?

Why the lack of (authentic) religion breeds mental illness. [agnostic.com] .

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

What I get from this is, if you live a life of comic absurdity, your life will have meaning! Reality is--- whether we like it or not. If there is a second life- yes we may come back- as a happy butterfly. How is it not to be sorry, for this cold, sick, empty bastard?

Like, no shit!

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

Got some electronic equipment; it had instructions on how to open a box- none on how to assemble the junk inside.

Marc Chagall (Litvak-French 1887 - 1985) The Ukrainian Family 1942

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

YES, agreed, to the picture, and the three comments. And in one of the world's abundant food growing areas, Stalin murdered anyone who kept food. I believe that it was "millions" that starved.

Galla Grotto was born in Tver, Russia and currently lives in Creuse, France.

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

I enjoy this very much- even if I don't completely understand it.

Paul Cézanne - La Route tournante - 1881

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

Marvelous!

Piet Mondrian (Dutch 1872 - 1944) Farm at Duivendrecht 1907

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

Zo heerlijk!

When Technology Drives You Crazy | James Gregory - YouTube

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2022:

Then there are the ones that have to scream into their toy! Anyhow, that was funny. Another point- the whole internet has to be "improved" at least two or three times in one week. "It makes things faster." ????????????????

She got it all covered

Diogenes comments on May 7, 2022:

I think 'it' is one of the things that live around here!

DOCTOR: You've gained a lot of weight ME: I'm getting older and my metabolism is slowing down ...

Diogenes comments on May 6, 2022:

Obviously, I have been to the same doctor!!! Although I don't eat "wings"- they look better on chickens!

Drug Problem? Oh yeah...

Diogenes comments on May 6, 2022:

Ha, ha---- oh, ha! Stupid is as stupid does!

Debate motion: porn does more good than harm Pre debate poll: [agnostic.

Diogenes comments on May 6, 2022:

Okay, I stopped watching this after the first million words about nothing. Let it be know-- I am an 'expert' on porn addiction; I've watched it long enough!! Yes, YES, yes, about 10%, or less, can be erotic the rest is unbelievably BORING!!!! All the fake wheezing, grunting, and such; is this an advertisement for a respiratory condition? Most of it is laughable. It is a hell of a lot of WORK, and hours out of the day, to find something of interest. This isn't a mater of morality; it is a matter of how a fool wastes his time. Then there is the really sick stuff- the perverts who have to play with the children. The lash would take care of that. And they don't even care about "subjectively"; what would they get from it? Little girls-- or little boys- don't look like grown women! And if there are any serious women on here, after a day of humanitarian work, with a lunch of some inventive food, laughter, and frank discussion---- time to go to bed- with someone that one really "LIKES", respects, and wants to be with.

Sad role reversals

Diogenes comments on May 6, 2022:

Too much truth in that one. This shit about being a geezer is a piss off! What can fall off next? Actually, the old woman looks okay!

Living the dream requires surviving the occasional nightmare. ...........paraphrasing @hippydog.

Diogenes comments on May 5, 2022:

The key word is "occasional".

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2022:

There are brilliant people in Russia also. When I get a few minutes, I am going to send you mail, if you don't mind.

Obesity Diagnosis

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2022:

'Good god-dude', an' ain't that the truth. There is the TV advert, that in essence, says, "It isn't the ton of food that 'it' stuffs into its yap every day- it is insulin-resistance"---whatever in hell that is supposed to mean!

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely.

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2022:

Good point- but education is involved with more than "democracy", even picking a life partner!

A Christian college punished a sexual assault victim for having premarital sex

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2022:

Let's get around to naming names. The fantastic house across the road was sold in 2013. This is not a crime area; what an ideally unlikely place for criminals to operate from. I, and the neighbours called the police many times about the BOOMS, FROM THEIR BOOM BOX. The yard was soon filled with about 12 wrecked cars. They were keeping dogs for dog fighting. The crime list was long. They were pimping an underage girl; she escaped; the police finally raided the crime scene. The TORONTO STAR wrote a fiction about this on Jan. 6, 2016. Was it ever a beauty!--There wasn't a lie missed!! The mistreated "boys" were just running a "car repair business" in an area zoned residential

So much for this COVID pandemic keeping the religious Christfools from going door knocking.

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2022:

I will not argue with an idiot. It has been said, "To do so, someone may come along and not know which is which." It has been ages since one has been at my door. They are all the same--- the books and pamphlets in hand; the wilted, sophistic, generic leer on their pie. Without saying a word, I quietly closed the door.

Russia maybe at war but the catalog is still popular

Diogenes comments on May 1, 2022:

Well if the Dump bride was still in a position of power, it would be in favour of sending troops to help his buddy, Putey, kill women and children.

"Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even...

Diogenes comments on May 1, 2022:

It is decades since I read Huxley's book. Along the way I've read a stat that rated Finlanders as being happy and contented people.

Looks likely the "supplements" were Gin, Vodka etc. :-D

Diogenes comments on May 1, 2022:

I gave up the "gin and vodka" stuff long ago- that crawling across the parking lot is hard on the knees!

“Your habitually unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer them up, because that means they ...

Diogenes comments on May 1, 2022:

* A couple of ways to greet people, "Did you hear about about ol' George?" And the next days, Fred, Charlie, Suzie--- and on and on forever! Must always be a downer! How about, "Hey Alice, nice dress; going to a party. Going to invite me along?" Something to cause laughter! If depression is being "enjoyed"- ain't being done right! Nothing enjoyable about depression!

This child had all her hair plucked out in a disturbing Jain ritual

Diogenes comments on Apr 30, 2022:

Apparently, the world would be a better place if a few 'Jains were plucked out'.

Another song for the Atheist Hymnal: [youtu.be]

Diogenes comments on Apr 30, 2022:

I listened to nothing by her- and I won't now or at any time. There are children and adults who would love to have the joy of eye sight----- and this profoundly dumb bitch just dares fate to take her eye sight with those studs around her eyes.------Maybe she should go down to the slaughter house and get a used cow brain to put into her lump- anything would be better than what she has.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 28, 2022:

A downer: even fools should know when it is time to quit--- although admittedly, I have not read enough of what Confucius has supposedly said.

Hello how’s everyone here? Does this group really serve its purpose? Looking for a girlfriend.

Diogenes comments on Apr 28, 2022:

First look in here; really no point in coming in again. There are three or four times as many men as women.

It's just a personal theory but if we had more Xstian petting zoos with Lions, this whole religion ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 27, 2022:

The artist, whoever he/she is, has above average ability. The painting is 'inspirational'--- even if the subject is quite obviously foolish as hell. What turn would the uneducated have if they saw that painting in, hypothetically, 1700 CE. But yes, the poor would not be found in galleries! "1991", no excuse!

Follow for maximum results

Diogenes comments on Apr 27, 2022:

Poor dear- if someone had just given her a pen and piece of paper!

When the walls of delusion break down and you are forced to admit that others were right about your ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 27, 2022:

Yep! Forgot which party Will Rogers mentioned, but--- "I belong to no political party; I'm a Republican."

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 26, 2022:

Jeezuz-dude, an' ain't that the truth. One day a person knows it all., and the next day they wonder if there is any thing that they know.

Florida Atheist Petitions to Ban the Bible in Miami-Dade and Broward Schools - [miaminewtimes.com]

Diogenes comments on Apr 26, 2022:

No! It is important to read and see the 'moronic'- to see why it is that. But the instructor should ask easy basic questions, "Did anyone ever wave their 'magic wand' (or whatever he used) and feed the multitude, the 5,000?"

Albert Einstein: God is a Product of "Human Weakness" and the Bible 'Primitive Legends' — ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 26, 2022:

I too was indoctrinated by the "god manure" at an early age- and beaten on the first day of the week if basically, 'I moved'--- because Sunday was a day of rest-- in some moron's book The shameful part of this is that I still had this acquiesce in adulthood. It is a fearful point, that in this information age, that such a huge portion of the population, believe in these infantile fairy tales, whether it is cross-related or wearing a rag/turban around the lump '24 hours' of the day.

George Carlin on Religion and God - YouTube

Diogenes comments on Apr 25, 2022:

When man created his gods, Carlin has it right, "fire"! Now fire has to be the most painful death possible--- and forever. The god-criminals knew/know how to keep the uneducated schmucks in line. "No meatloaf tonight; we gave our last farthing to god-dude".

Always wanted a garage....

Diogenes comments on Apr 24, 2022:

Maybe this is the fucking ass-hole that I saw the other day--- with his ghetto blaster, blasting and his left foot out the window! He was NOT clever- but he did show ingenuity- finding the dumbest thing to perform!

University of Pittsburgh Proves Exercise Equals Better Memory

Diogenes comments on Apr 24, 2022:

Yes, to all of what is written. This pandemic has wrecked my routine of getting to fitness--- and I still haven't gotten organized. I find a quiet period, so that the 'cacophony' of stressful thoughts settle down, followed by interesting conversation is very refreshing for my brain health. That includes a few laughs thrown in as well.

Yup, U got that right!!!

Diogenes comments on Apr 23, 2022:

I've never been wise enough to have discretion- now that I am a wizened up old geezer, I don't give a fuck!

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”…………….

Diogenes comments on Apr 23, 2022:

Russia and Napoleon; Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm; Russia and Hitler!!!

The truth is mundane?

Diogenes comments on Apr 23, 2022:

"The truth is mundane". Getting away from the 'Mary subject', "truth" has always been made to run through the brier patch; lies are exciting- to some. In this age is there any truth left?

Have you ever asked a Christian?

Diogenes comments on Apr 22, 2022:

Hey, my laugh for the morning! Thanks!

"I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God.

Diogenes comments on Apr 21, 2022:

I believe in The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson. Only the indoctrinated could see the cloth, an' I ain't "indoctrinated"! Points for Darrow.

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 21, 2022:

Putin, is quite crazy. Back away from his nuclear threat, because a person does not want to die (who does) but he still 'has the right to kill you', in his tiny mind, no matter what a person/nation does. Excellent quote by Sagan!

“True penitence condemns to silence.

Diogenes comments on Apr 21, 2022:

I haven't got the slightest idea what this is supposed to mean. There are evil choices, not 'accidental mistakes', that I have made, that I would never chose in my old age.

Poor baby!

Diogenes comments on Apr 19, 2022:

Ha, ha! -----

“Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them.” – Carl Sagan

Diogenes comments on Apr 19, 2022:

Yes; imagine living in a high rise; not even any grass around!

Hey, hey, HEY!! My eyes are UP HERE!

Diogenes comments on Apr 18, 2022:

Well she has too many nipples - can't be a cow!

What a shitty way to go!

Diogenes comments on Apr 18, 2022:

I've been swimming in shit all my life! W'ats the matter--- no stamina?

Your so vein!!!

Diogenes comments on Apr 18, 2022:

I don't know when nails were invented; but I read: when fatigue had set in, and the victim was hanging down on a cross like that, they would die of asphyxiation, because their lungs could not expand and take in air. All this mythical bull-shit--- that is never questioned!

Elon Musk is a crook and a joke. Martha Stewart went to jail for less..

Diogenes comments on Apr 18, 2022:

Martha Stewart is now selling kitty litter on TV- not that I care, more or less. I find it amazing; guess it brings in the money.

I hope we don't have any here

Diogenes comments on Apr 17, 2022:

Does eating pussy count?

Continuing with an Easter theme and some probability theory thrown in...

Diogenes comments on Apr 17, 2022:

A few years back I posted a lecture on Agnostics. What the speaker said was, "There could have been a Jesus from a minor Jewish cult that was arrested by the Romans for protesting against the Romans desecrating the temple. He could have been executed by one of the horrible Roman tortures." From there the bull shit starts; nothing has ever come back from the dead- not a dinosaur; not a cockroach and no prophets either. If Constantine, hadn't adopted Christianity as the state religion, the world would have not been infected with a least 'this' one foolish religion.

Happy fucking Easter or something like that! Lol

Diogenes comments on Apr 17, 2022:

Happy-Coming-Back-From-The-Dead-Day! If you happen to see any ghouls running around, do it like they do in the movies---- a wooden stake to the heart. Maybe they/he won't come back next year!

That people still believe this fake shit in 2022 boggles the mind!

Diogenes comments on Apr 16, 2022:

I like the "real" saviors, the ones in business suits--- or the "Pillow Man", or the advert for "dry shampoo" or "all day breakfast"---- let's see at 6 in the evening a person is going to 'break fast' from the day before?

Happy Birthday, Emma!

Diogenes comments on Apr 16, 2022:

Yes! Certainly! But I have no interest in religion, until the religious start enforcing their warped religions on the public. With so-called "Easter" on the horizon, 'and those bunnies', arguing with a theist would be equivalent to arguing with a two-year-old about why Bugs Bunny can speak--- and in every language, depending on the country he is in.

Ha, I knew it!!!

Diogenes comments on Apr 15, 2022:

Yeeeppp--- then there followed the crowd that ate the rest of the mushrooms.

Now this is what a good church sermon should be like: [youtu.be]

Diogenes comments on Apr 15, 2022:

Gettin' quick to the point; loved that!

“People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure.

Diogenes comments on Apr 15, 2022:

I can see why I am so FULL of "boldness and spirit of adventure"--- I would like to be filled another way.

Hannity is Batshit insanity..... [youtu.be]

Diogenes comments on Apr 15, 2022:

* "IT", whatever it is, has to be one of the dumbest!

Another promotion in the Russian military.....

Diogenes comments on Apr 15, 2022:

Well the Russian tanks are all lined up neatly- shouldn't be too hard to take a few hundred of them out.

Well He does work in mysterious ways.

Diogenes comments on Apr 13, 2022:

I see NO humour in so-called "god's" humour. If I have my history correct, even the earth was know to be round in the time of the fictitious Jeezuz-dude.

”God is the only being who does not have to exist in order to Reign” Charles Baudelaire

Diogenes comments on Apr 11, 2022:

Ha,ha. Gotta be a joke!

Nobel laureate in physics, a clear thinker.

Diogenes comments on Apr 9, 2022:

The first part of that statement is 100%, and the last part is bull shit. I have zero interest in religion but I have volunteered at a religious place where they do a lot of humanitarian work, with their own money, and they are not propagating their religion to anyone.

Easter joke A priest didn't think anyone knew the true meaning of Easter anymore so after mass ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2022:

Yep, 'fer' certain its sumthin' like that!

An Irish song in Gaelic with translation [youtu.be]

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2022:

SOOO fantastic!

Don't piss off Joseph

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2022:

Poor ol' Joe! Guess he wasn't a happy cuckold!

Atheist quotes…lovely!

Diogenes comments on Apr 4, 2022:

Yes, all very good points. I agree wholly with Keira Knightley had to say, being anti-theist has its downside.

Here's a few for our favorite madman, Vlad: “When I despair, I remember that all through ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 4, 2022:

There is the paramount question, "The next time Putin threatens nuclear war, and people of the whole world wring their hands and do absolutely nothing but back up, what happens when there is no place to back to?"

April fool special [youtu.be]

Diogenes comments on Apr 3, 2022:

Old, old stuff! I've seen advertisements like that 50 years ago in Holland. Only in North America is it still not permitted---- that would be sinful! What I saw: the female gov. of the sauna comes in to the male portion of the sauna and one men has a hole in the wall into the female side. He has a newspaper over his 'organ'---- but the advertisement was about the newspaper. But hey; yours was still funny too.

Build the wall!

Diogenes comments on Apr 3, 2022:

Ya, an escapee getting out- an' going for a beer- with his drunken buddies. At least that that is better than being with the murderous hypocrites.

Listen to smart women.

Diogenes comments on Apr 3, 2022:

I am not a smart-feminist-supporter; I am a wise-person-supporter- and it is to be noted that half the population is female, with a proportional wise group. Equal pay for equal work- and no excuses!!!

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, then you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Diogenes comments on Apr 3, 2022:

I am NOT a vegetarian- I eat fish. What I find though is a lot of secular people, because they are prone to think about many things, including cruelty, do not eat the other residents of this rock. Pieces of any animal can be wrapped up, bloodless, in the cleanest cellophane- but the terror that those animals went through is still in the package.

“What will become of virtue if riches are to be acquired at any cost?

Diogenes comments on Mar 31, 2022:

"What will become of virtue" if virtue was never there?

You need to show up in life, and not be afraid of staying late - Steven Rinella

Diogenes comments on Mar 31, 2022:

What would the need be "to stay late", if there was nothing going on?

Early conversion therapy.

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2022:

But no books about 'fucking'---- that would be evil!

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2022:

Ya, by the time a person knows what the whole plan is about, it is too late to do anything about 'the joke'!

Top 10 signs the Russian military sucks.

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2022:

I've known one or two Russian people; they are/were honest hard-working people. You are saying the Russians are cowards- I think it is a matter of these young guys not wanting to go to the Ukraine and killing people they have no gripe with. If Hitler were still alive he would still be cursing General Georgi Zhukov. It was a very bad idea for the NAZIs to invade Russia. Some countries have people who will fight to the very last drop of blood when invaded- that also includes the Ukraine.

My humble observation

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2022:

And foam is just foam- no matter how much of it there is!

Quotes on history by William Faulkner; “The past is never dead.

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2022:

Yes!

"Nobility is being superior to one's former self.

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2022:

Would be appealing to be better than one's former self, if a person could also remove the former bad choices made.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings.

Diogenes comments on Mar 25, 2022:

I am "an agnostic"- I do not know if---- there is- or isn't--- a cognitive entity behind this existence. I don't know how many Big Bangs there have been--- and I refuse to fill in the gaps with my own fairytales. ALL gods are man-made and inventive. Ass holes, of any stripe, write books- doesn't give them much time left to do any humanitarian work. A most excellent quote!

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 24, 2022:

The life of a moron who does nothing, may be more comfortable than a life filled with mistakes and depression.

“Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 23, 2022:

Mr. Chomsky again hits the mark!

What would Jesus do?

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2022:

"What would Jeezuz-dude do? Well if he was a decent chap, and he can walk on water, he could at least help Santa fly his magic slay!

Forty billion in structural damage- plus the thousands of murders! $100 million for Putin's head on ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2022:

… and as far as structural damage, it is no longer $40 billion, I have seen it quoted at $100 billion. The horror of this is beyond belief. When this stops---if it ever does- the Ukrainians want to arm themselves non-stop.

Ah, that feels SO much better, have permanently BLOCKED @Twill now, peace and quiet shall once again...

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2022:

Outside the Agnostic site, I have used the "block" selection for junk mail- and even with Norton. it blocks NOTHING!

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Diogenes comments on Mar 21, 2022:

I don't claim to be a member of MENSA- but I am lucky enough to have a saving bit of "curiosity"- and a need to know.

“There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2022:

Yes, all the 'residents of this rock' deserve respect. Butterflies, Monarchs, weigh a few grams, yet they can fly from Canada to Mexico. I can't get a few miles down the road without using a map.

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or to push an agenda.

Diogenes comments on Mar 19, 2022:

Obviously, with him being the world chess champion, it didn't "exhaust" his critical thinking. An interesting quote! It takes a lot of work to parse through the vacuous gibberish.

Forty billion in structural damage- plus the thousands of murders! $100 million for Putin's head on ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 17, 2022:

Vlad the Impaler had these 'heads' surrounding his castle and he, like Putin, killed for pleasure.

“If God made this world, then I would not want to be that God.

Diogenes comments on Mar 16, 2022:

There are Ukrainians, who are blinded, faces burned off, dead, arms, legs missing. No water or food for days. No heat or light in the cold of winter, for weeks now. If there was a just god-dude, he/she would introduce Putin to a place that made the mythical hell look like a holiday resort. Marje, right on with this quote from Schopenhauer.

and I believe you know who you are

Diogenes comments on Mar 15, 2022:

An' ain't that the truth. Thank god-thing, whoever she is, 'fer' the gift of spell check!

Misspelling or no, I'm going to check it out to be sure

Diogenes comments on Mar 15, 2022:

Many decades ago--- "Boat for seal"- whatever that means! Well, at least the right letters, even if in the wrong order.

Happy pi day, y’all.

Diogenes comments on Mar 15, 2022:

I watched someone 'recite' some of the numbers--- oh, what a bitter pi! Never did remember even a few of the numbers.

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book.

Diogenes comments on Mar 15, 2022:

I have never read one word out of Hitler's Mein Kampf- but from what I have heard, it is evil gibberish, both poorly written Deutsch and filled with evil nonsense. I do NOT agree with Mr. Wilde's evaluation.

Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash in Alaska with bush pilot Wiley Post, was one of the ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 13, 2022:

Humour- but so full of reality!

Putin and Biden are wrapping up their discussion.

Diogenes comments on Mar 13, 2022:

LOVE that one! All Russians are not evil- but they are not 'taking care' of Putey either. Maybe they are taking their time sharpening the blade on the guillotine.

Karen goes to the doctor not feeling well.

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2022:

YESSS!

It hurts at the pump....

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2022:

Well it "hurts" enough, that I , existing on a nickel and dime pension, will do all my errands in one trip per day. Cost in Canada for gas- about $ 8 per gallon!