“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure:...

Diogenes comments on Nov 24, 2021:

I can give you a sure-fire formula for failure: study, get good marks, be ethical in your work habits---- and live in a corrupt country. Swope is full of shit.

"who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferosity," ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 23, 2021:

That is certainly something to think about---- even the quadraped residence of this rock have it.

Three Irishmen walk out of a pub ……… It could happen.

Diogenes comments on Nov 22, 2021:

Don't knock the Irish. It's the other drunks. I find at the last bell and leaving, some damned drunk steps on my hands as I crawl out the door.

Be positive!

Diogenes comments on Nov 22, 2021:

Oh 'uck--- I've started too many days like that!

“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 22, 2021:

Such creatures don't have to "respect me", they just have to keep out of my space.

Be yourself, not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.

Diogenes comments on Nov 21, 2021:

There are many days when I would like to be someone else.

Everything in my house sucks, except the vacuum cleaner...

Diogenes comments on Nov 21, 2021:

Yep!

“I’m well down the pecking order in my own home.

Diogenes comments on Nov 21, 2021:

Marje, I new who he was, but now that I am ancient, I had forgotten the rest. Thanks for that. Who is the top football scorer in the world- and still playing? You may be surprised.

God was trolled. Notice the comment... lmfao

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

Said it before: "the hand of god", how do these lowly clowns know that this invisible creation has "hands"?

LMAO!!!! So true! 😇🙄🤣🤣🤣

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

* A person would have to consume a truck load of drugs- to get a washed-out facial expression like that.

Ok, just ignore the reference to xtian holiday-

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

And stuffing their brains with foolishness. Exploding their guts with dead things- while others around the world starve at the same time.

“If being an egomaniac means believing in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

Good morning. As usual, I can not sleep. Yes, Lennon has a point.

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop.

Diogenes comments on Nov 19, 2021:

And people that know nothing feel very comfortable by inventing their "absolute true answers". But when 'all' the scientific answers are in, somebody will be able to spend a Saturday afternoon and make a new universe. I can never see it coming to that. That is why I am an agnostic.

God was trolled. Notice the comment... lmfao

Diogenes comments on Nov 17, 2021:

When humans invented their invisible god-dudes, that was the best con job--- but "all true- believers" could see it. (sic)

I am a member of a group known as the Brights (noun) a group advocating a naturalistic worldview as ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 16, 2021:

I would not assert that I was "Bright"- because I ain't- but my ego is not so small that it needs polishing with falsehoods either. Mr. Clement's idea could be correct.

Owning the antediluvian libtards.

Diogenes comments on Nov 16, 2021:

Another point: the unicorns were the only ones that had it right; the flood never happened- but that cartoon, although a funny cartoon, cannot be a certification of the moronic antivaxers.

Owning the antediluvian libtards.

Diogenes comments on Nov 16, 2021:

... and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and covered the whole flat-world. How did they know this?

Now recruiting....

Diogenes comments on Nov 16, 2021:

A war on Santa Clause's birthday! Uh, did I get that wrong? I detest this time of the year; can't even turn on the radio and get a bit of music to relieve the nonsense!

The lies! 😂😂😂😂

Diogenes comments on Nov 15, 2021:

I didn't know who this was---- not that I cared anyhow!

In the news last week a San Francisco cop quit rather than be vaccinated.

Diogenes comments on Nov 15, 2021:

There was a jerk in, I believe it was Alberta, who had just come back from a meeting of the Flat Earth Society. Big 'YUP'- he died of covid! Doesn't this all fit together? The profoundly moronic do---- what the profoundly moronic do.

“Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Diogenes comments on Nov 14, 2021:

Damned good point!

How to celebrate the upcoming season and the perfect gift for a budding musician.

Diogenes comments on Nov 14, 2021:

Gotta turn my radio, TV and whatever else there is, off until about January 5. The fucking shit--- it gets worse every year.

Lunching with the wolves...

Diogenes comments on Nov 14, 2021:

How-kum Jeezuz-dude always has hair? Why not paint one closer to reality: no hair and pot bellied?

Now we know!!!

Diogenes comments on Nov 14, 2021:

I don't use any kind of drugs other than alcohol and caffeine--- but to live in this current, whoopie, crazy world- they need to put the cocaine back in. I jest!

From the novelist Mary Gaitskill: "They say that you come into the world alone and that you leave...

Diogenes comments on Nov 14, 2021:

Bull shit!

A brunette goes into the doctor's office and says that her body hurts wherever she touches it.

Diogenes comments on Nov 13, 2021:

There are lots of "blonds" around despite their hair colour!

China is penetrating markets, nuff said...

Diogenes comments on Nov 13, 2021:

Well not like the rest of their junk- at least it 'looks' good!

Vegetarians Since I’m one of ‘these’ types I will only post positive ones Nothing wrong ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 13, 2021:

Sooooo true! I have some distant relatives, farmers, and younger than me; they grew big and tall, from eating all that animal, with growth hormones. They are also dead! Keep slobbering over all that dead stuff!

Theology: An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.

Diogenes comments on Nov 13, 2021:

How true can that get???

A few more FFRF goodies (2013).

Diogenes comments on Nov 13, 2021:

I haven't got any idea what a "Hay-soos" is- but all the four cartoons are 100% point on.

Keeping it real lol

Diogenes comments on Nov 13, 2021:

Jeezuz-dude- how did my picture get on here?

A lawyer dies, and somehow manages to go to heaven.

Diogenes comments on Nov 11, 2021:

Jeezuz-dude--- so true!

I worship nothing

Diogenes comments on Nov 9, 2021:

VERY valid point!

“For those who believe in god, most of the big questions are answered, but for those of us who ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 9, 2021:

"M", there is something that I have thought to add to this. No, I am not on drugs---- and no, I have not been watching too many fantasy movies. Nature has never revealed to us what is in store. Even our knowledge of the universe is still at about the flat-earth level. If Nature honours us with another life it could be anything. Suppose we could communicate with a monarch butterfly and ask it, "Would you rather be a butterfly or human?" A possible answer, "Those ugly things, and so evil. No colour- and they can't even fly. Strength? They have none. They can't even fly from the Great Lakes to the states of Mexico or Michoacan in Mexico-- and if they had that strength, their brain is so small, that they wouldn't know how to get there anyway."

“For those who believe in god, most of the big questions are answered, but for those of us who ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 9, 2021:

"Death may tremble to take us", a good laugh! But for those who are in mental agony and physically stressed it might be a pleasure to have a new window open. It is a trip into the unknown.

Ever have someone you know in life that made you think?....

Diogenes comments on Nov 5, 2021:

i don't know if I would go that far for most--- but I sure feel pleasure for many, who are NOT in my area.

Groucho nails it one more time.

Diogenes comments on Nov 4, 2021:

That would also go for Dump!

Meanwhile in Glasgow... (Journal de Quebec)

Diogenes comments on Nov 4, 2021:

I guess if one wants to see how horrifically bad it can get for the 'whole world' just get another Rethuglican administration in again. Yes, Biden DID let all the terrorists back to control Afghanistan--- it was a most stupid move.

“Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 4, 2021:

Marje, said it before, I will not call myself an "atheist" because I will not take the time to refute foolish, invented gods. I am agnostic because I have no idea of how many big bangs there have been, every 14 billion years, and what caused the first one. A laugh: I have often heard from the religious about "the hand of god". How do they know that the invisible dude has "hands"?

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken" Oliver ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 3, 2021:

Okay, everyone knows who Ollie is- but what is this about?

The unexamined life is not worth living. Attributed to Socrates.

Diogenes comments on Nov 3, 2021:

"Not worth living"- well I would prefer not to examine mine too studiously. An' poor old Soc, if one sticks to telling the truth, they may end up drinking the hemlock cocktail.

Happy Halloween Catholics...

Diogenes comments on Nov 1, 2021:

I have never been Catholic--- but what is the big deal with Catholics? All religion is crap. And another point- in this society, a person is supposed to show respect for perverts.

The papal office has an unparalleled record of corruption and criminality over the centuries, and ...

Diogenes comments on Nov 1, 2021:

All religion is meant to be corrupt- and it is! When I turn past the TV evangelists their buffoonery is just beyond belief.

"Understanding a question is half an answer." Socrates.

Diogenes comments on Nov 1, 2021:

But what is the purpose of the question? Is it to show the 'brilliance' of the stupid questioner---- or to get an unknown answer. The wife of James Joyce asked him, "Why don't you write something that people understand." But Socrates still makes a valid point.

Bad husbands will make bad wives. William Makepeace Thackeray

Diogenes comments on Oct 31, 2021:

Don't agree! Some victims of monstrous bad wives or bad husbands, never get involved with the same type again!

By all means marry - if you get a good wife, you'll become happy: if you get a bad one, you'll ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 31, 2021:

Unfortunately, I still don't put the brakes on soon enough when I start to talk about my former 'bride' and my insane in-laws!----- And that is the end of that story!

Christmas sales coming soon at Walmart....

Diogenes comments on Oct 31, 2021:

There is already an advert on TV for a faux Christmas tree, Well everything else is fake, why not the tree? Soon that nonstop howling will be on the radio- three months of shit!!!

Much harder back then

Diogenes comments on Oct 31, 2021:

I've forgotten where it is said those stones came from- it was a few hundred miles away. Ya, kinda hard on the back!

Praise jesus.

Diogenes comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Well, Jeezuz and pork fat are just about the same thing.

“I am an atheist and that’s it.

Diogenes comments on Oct 29, 2021:

There is nothing that we can know about the origin of the universe; that is why I am an agnostic. I have said it before, I won't waste a second of my time to have any conversation about religion.

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

Diogenes comments on Oct 29, 2021:

Well, I don't think 'Soc' got that one right; weak minds discuss nothing.

“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 26, 2021:

And there is 'music' of all venues- then there is vulgar noise that is only meant to irritate.

Ever feel like that

Diogenes comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Who cares? I've lost my shit long ago. Still more sane than the nuts that still think they are sane.

“I’m a rich man.

Diogenes comments on Oct 23, 2021:

Well done!

Many Republicans are showing us the truth of what Winston Churchill said about democracy: It’s the...

Diogenes comments on Oct 22, 2021:

Winny sent the Black and Tans into Ireland--- and that is the end of my response!

For Cricket Lovers

Diogenes comments on Oct 22, 2021:

Jeezuz, I hate being a hermit; gonna take up cricket!

Cured! Who needs Jesus? 😆

Diogenes comments on Oct 22, 2021:

Does he have enough for the afternoon? Us drunks require a lot, but in this weird world everybody needs a Prozac of some kind.

PARKING TICKET: My wife and I went into town and visited a shop.

Diogenes comments on Oct 22, 2021:

LOVE IT!

“Butterflies… flowers that fly and all but sing” –Robert Frost.

Diogenes comments on Oct 22, 2021:

Love Frost's poems! In this weird, bigoted world, The Mending Wall has somethng to say. I was watching the travel guru, Ric Steves and what he said was, Get out and meet different people; you may like them.

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens” ………………..W.B. Yeats.

Diogenes comments on Oct 22, 2021:

I 'confess'; another bit by Yeates that doesn't sink in. After all these years, still struggling with "Easter, 1916"- but yes, I am aware of Pearse, both of them, and some of the events.

These bastards killed a baby elephant.

Diogenes comments on Oct 21, 2021:

Well, it's the "sport" of hunting.Until the other animals can use guns and shoot off a leg, face, whatever- before the final kill- it is not "sporting". "The sport of fishing"! The cameras are on the clowns talking about all their techniques. They finally get the hook into the fish's mouth, hold it up, and blither away--- then they throw the "trash" back in the water. The evil enjoyment is profound!

" Hawking was a pop scientist who ipso facto contributed nothing of value to science.

Diogenes comments on Oct 20, 2021:

Einstein was asked, "How does it feel to be the smartest man on earth?" His reply, "I don't know; you will have to ask Nikola Tesla." At least at this point, Einstein had a sense of humour. And it is apparent that S. Crothers is full of shit.

What's in a name?

Diogenes comments on Oct 19, 2021:

Right name if he is a Repug!

The pastor got something right!!!

Diogenes comments on Oct 18, 2021:

or Edgar Hoover back to life- although I think he was a fat midget! Maybe he was just a cross-dresser

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

Diogenes comments on Oct 18, 2021:

Ya, this coloured water is actually poison----- and that gives us the right to kill men, women and children.

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 18, 2021:

Agree 100%!

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to ...

Diogenes comments on Oct 17, 2021:

In one way, "yes"- collecting junk is just "collecting junk"

Funny GIF on Trump

Diogenes comments on Oct 17, 2021:

I'm mean--- I don't find perverts -or jokes about perverts funny. Anyway, Trump would look no different with a commode dumped over his head.

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.