“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Another consideration: and be prepared to be a lonely person.

The wrong word

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

* The person writing that would never get a job at Ontario Hydro, too many correct words: "I tink peepole woo us------" Sea, much butter!

"If they come for the innocent without stepping over your body, cursed be your religion and your ...

Diogenes comments on May 11, 2021:

Not even the US flag can cover all the horrendous multitude of murders in Viet Nam. All of them done for no reason.

I'm lovin' it

Diogenes comments on May 9, 2021:

A week! If he wore an anti-pervert shirt, the way that indoctrination is going, he would probably be thrown out for the year.

I am going to make a post that will cause some controversy.

Diogenes comments on May 9, 2021:

The subject of my missive should have been mentioned at the start, not second sentence from the bottom. It is still "reality" in all its forms. Some times the cure is worse than the original problem. #1, the Hoover Dam was built for Hydro electric, and water usage, now there are problems with lack of water in other areas. #2 Dump has said, lock downs are worse than the virus, which of course is a lie. Dead business people don't do business, and dead customers don't buy goods or services---- EVER! Not even Dump, could have changed that reality. He did get his shots--- in secret, of course. Now back to what dogs eat. #3. Yes, some animals are very big and strong- and are herbivores. That is fantastic. To some, it is a problem that dogs eat other animals. So when feeding them something that Nature never intended, they may die at an early death. There,clearly, is the problem!

The last act of defiance. 😆

Diogenes comments on May 9, 2021:

What? Give up so easy? There are enough ass-holes in the world, so you can come back and do it one more time!

"God is dead.

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2021:

"The Joyful Pursuit", and that adjective is a just one for what the pursuit of knowledge should be.

Christopher Titus [youtube.com]

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2021:

YEP! (in capital letters)

"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from ...

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2021:

Good one!

You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously ...

Diogenes comments on May 8, 2021:

M, sorry, I have a disagreement with this, even though I partially agree. Propagating religion to children or people who are not aware of the world is 'evil'. Nothing could be more obvious. I don't know if I have ever seen a container of food with, "This food is brought to you by God", but that would be a prime example of a moron's contempt for honesty. There have been people 'who are attached to religion' who have given their lives for humanitarian work. I don't have the time or the patience to be anti-theist. Ya, it is just after 04:00. I never sleep well.

His twin brother

Diogenes comments on May 7, 2021:

Beside being smarter, the one on the right has better looking hair.

Anti-Ben Shapiro comic

Diogenes comments on May 7, 2021:

Apparently, I am lucky enough not to know who he is--- or care. I believe that all Zionists should be jailed: "This is our land; gaud-dude gave it to us and we can steal as much of it as we like!"

“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we ...

Diogenes comments on May 7, 2021:

It is difficult to remember which gawd was invented by which person, let alone respect them.

Bill and Melinda

Diogenes comments on May 4, 2021:

I have my serious side. I am disappointed. I guess even the ultra rich - but with functioning brains- can get in a rut.

Christmas come early...

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2021:

Oh shit; now I see it!

Christmas come early...

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2021:

LOVE it! For me it would just be cheaper to cut the back of the shirt. I have lotsa hair; it is just in the wrong place.

Do all religious people lack a sense of humour ?

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2021:

I don't care about theists. Yes, they go to there little closets, on the first day of the week, to lower their IQs. While at the same time other people go to the gym to talk with thinking people and keep their bodies healthy. That beats being an overfed slob, sitting in the front row, lapping up the cockroaches of religion.

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in...

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2021:

Well gawd-dude should be an authority on evil sex. He fornicated with the 'Virgin Mary; She went along with the deal and committed adultery- and that made stupid ol' Joe a cuckold. Not much wonder Jeezuz-dude came out stupid and thought he could do cheap carny tricks, like walking on water.

I had a teacher once tell me "the grass is always greener on the other side because it's stacked on ...

Diogenes comments on May 3, 2021:

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence- until you get there.

Future trump supporter...just sayin'

Diogenes comments on May 2, 2021:

Ya, looks like excess is great, including gluttany. Wants to have the physique of his hero!

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that ...

Diogenes comments on May 2, 2021:

I will use my own words, but there are many variations of this quote: "The poor man is the rich man who hasn't got enough; the rich man is the man who utilizes what he has and enjoys it." I have enjoyed anything by Galbraith.

So glad I saw this

Diogenes comments on May 2, 2021:

Poor ol' Dumpy, someone took his brain long ago, and used it for chicken feed.

Most sense I've heard all day

Diogenes comments on May 1, 2021:

YES! So true!

“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at ...

Diogenes comments on May 1, 2021:

An admission: I have never read one word by Kierkegaard- but it has been said that he was a nutter!

Help, I've fallen and can't get up!!!

Diogenes comments on May 1, 2021:

"Help, I've fallen and can't reach my beer!"

"There is a rumor going around that I have found God.

Diogenes comments on Apr 30, 2021:

Old joke: what does 'She' look like? (got to capitalize God, maybe pronoun as well, at least that's what the people who invent Gods say)

People like things to be out of sight and out of mind, it's easier to ignore that way.

Diogenes comments on Apr 30, 2021:

I was working on a 230 KV transmission line and it passed near a house that had solar panels on the roof and an old fashioned wind mill that farmers used to have to pump water. There were no electric lines connected to the house. Congrats to them!

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star; but we can ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 30, 2021:

"Understand the universe"! How many "big bangs" have there been? How many 'trillions' of years have there been? Why does the human-vegtable' keep creating gods?

Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance - Charles Bukowski

Diogenes comments on Apr 30, 2021:

The stress of isolation is currently causing severe mental issues.Most individuals are not hermits. On the other hand, it would be wonderful to be able to block out the cacophony of world news, advertisements and vacuous 'entertainment'.

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 30, 2021:

Yes, but then telling the truth after thinking valid concepts, may be the reason that one is forced to drink the 'hemlock cocktail.' "When he was told that the Delphic oracle had declared that he was the wisest man in Athens, Socrates balked until he realized that he new nothing, he was (unlike his fellow citizens) keenly aware of his own ignorance."

Is it ok to affirm someone's untrue beliefs?

Diogenes comments on Apr 28, 2021:

Let's get at the WHOLE truth here. First of all, I really don't have time to be an atheist or anti-theist; to me that would be Iike arguing with a 3-year-old about how Superman flies. A slow learning 3-year-old! To me the propagation of religious bull shit is evil. Small children should not be told the lie that something ever came back from the dead. But there are humanitarian people from many religions who do honest, hard work. I have worked with them. They do not write on the food. "This food was brought to you by god". The food was grown by farmers and brought by truck or ship. Anyone that can't get out of their comfort zone needs to do a little rethinking.

How's Biden doing?

Diogenes comments on Apr 28, 2021:

Biden is boring! He has a functioning brain that he uses effectively. He, most often, makes logical choices. Ah, so predictable. Then there was Donald John Dump! We always knew that if his mouth was flapping, shit was coming out. Boring! "Ah, so predictable" Why do I prefer Biden's boredom over Dump's? I edited this; I don't think I achieved clarity. I approve of Biden 100%.----- I do know that the Dump-thing is what evil is all about.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 28, 2021:

Hundreds of reasons to reject these silly religions, including Christianity and their little black book, but few will face the facts.

“Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why the earth is ruled by men and not by ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 27, 2021:

Call them "animals", or what Amit likes, but a large portion of this rock is ruled by brainless brutes. He needs to be less condescending towards the quadruped residents.----Do I get another black mark for telling the truth?

Good luck to both of them! :-D

Diogenes comments on Apr 26, 2021:

Good one! True story: I stopped by a place owned by a very decent couple. There was a huge pitbull in the yard; I didn't know if it was safe to get out of the car. It was a 'member of the family' and acted like the people who raised it.

Saving money!!!

Diogenes comments on Apr 25, 2021:

I can do better than that---- well, almost! Let me paint your Rolls Royce. I have a clean broom and some old paint!

The Grammar Police are everywhere...

Diogenes comments on Apr 25, 2021:

I have a couple of memos from Ontario Hydro- WOW! The character in the cartoon might be a former employee- if he is wearing bib overalls under the suit coat.

I fucking knew it!

Diogenes comments on Apr 25, 2021:

I don't know or speak Acronym; didn't even know it was a language. So what is WWE? Ya, something to do with so-called wrassling.

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

Diogenes comments on Apr 25, 2021:

Yes, so true, but there needs to be other "freedoms" as well: freedom from debauchery, freedom from greed. The poor man, is the rich man who hasn't got enough; the rich man is the man who utilizes and enjoys the things that he has.

Please welcome @Diogenes.

Diogenes comments on Apr 24, 2021:

Today, after a few days of laziness, it is time for some action. Today there is no excuse, of any kind, for not getting out for a 2 hour, fast walk. The sun shines and there is no cold wind. Besides, I meet people who are actively living their life. Most of these people also have interests other than fitness.I think of RBG, a very wise woman, who also honoured the body Nature enabled her with. Yes, she died, but it wasn't from gluttony. And Marje, thanks for this room.

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of...

Diogenes comments on Apr 23, 2021:

In 1835 the English passed the National Schools Act, which taught the 'savages' to speak English, when 85% spoke Irish Gaelic. Fifty years later in 1885 only 15% spoke the language of Ireland. Is this a quote from William Butler Yates? M, good 'afternoon' (in Ireland).

"Being Nice Is Telling Someone What They Want To Hear, Being Kind Is Telling Them What They Need To ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 20, 2021:

Very good point!

I can identify with this one...

Diogenes comments on Apr 19, 2021:

If this covid doesn't get over soon--- I will need a wheelbarrow to carry my gut

Tide goes in, the tide goes out...

Diogenes comments on Apr 17, 2021:

Answer: "A few hundred fiction writers!"

Come on Joe, you know god works in mysterious ways.

Diogenes comments on Apr 17, 2021:

The Christian god believed in debauchery- and poor old Joe was a cuckold. So starts the Christian religion!

I'll leave this as an exercise for the student...

Diogenes comments on Apr 17, 2021:

The dude, Jesus, may have actually lived, and led a minor Jewish cult. No, certainly, he did not come back from the dead, even the most moronic fool would know that.

When you bust yourself unnecessarily.

Diogenes comments on Apr 17, 2021:

It's been a long time---- you mean they have human ones too?

“As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 14, 2021:

I believe that aptitude for employment should be the only factor which governs who will be interviewed. Then that should be carried through to employment. Nepotism and cronyism--- and all the other "isms" should be tossed.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Alfred Whitney Griswold

Diogenes comments on Apr 11, 2021:

Some are quick to denounce any ideas, 'including' bad ones- it's their way of looking at life. They make no effort to come up with what was wrong with the first idea, or to produce a better idea.

"A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

Diogenes comments on Apr 11, 2021:

Yes, so true. The Russians have produced some fantastic writers and composers.

With age comes...realism...

Diogenes comments on Apr 11, 2021:

Yep---or when one cries in their beer, there is still a little left in the glass to console them

Oh well if scientists said it

Diogenes comments on Apr 10, 2021:

What a shame, dolphins have dropped to second place.

Alternate ending

Diogenes comments on Apr 10, 2021:

Ah yes, the 'shame' of being a momentary heterosexual!

There are some exceptions to the rule, but I've seen this demonstrated time and again.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

I don't care what religions do, with the exceptions of teaching children that lies are the truth, and then forcing their lies on populations even by death. I have said this before, some religious people are doing so much humanitarian work that there is not enough time for religious bull-shit.

Homophobia.....

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

No, I shouldn't; but yes, I will. I couldn't give a rat's ass about what Christians think or don't think- if they think at all---- but why are there so many heterophobes in here?

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

That just about says it all for stupidity. Then maybe it was satire!

Deserves? That's still to be seen.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Yes

Deserves? That's still to be seen.

Diogenes comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Yes!

“If all the Atheists and Agnostics left America, they’d lose 93% of the National Academy of ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 7, 2021:

The reality may not be about education, but about which group is too lazy to think. All religions are the same. And all miracles are foolish.

GOD MADE MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE!

Diogenes comments on Apr 4, 2021:

Yep, but only true-believers can see 'thet thar' god-dude! Great PR though, all the tangible gods could be knocked down- try knocking down something you can't even see.

Where’d he go?!

Diogenes comments on Apr 4, 2021:

"Coming back from the dead"! Hey, enjoy the comedy.

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their ...

Diogenes comments on Apr 2, 2021:

And I thought I was forgetful- but my blunders are the 'only' thing that I remember! M, my dark humour again!

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 29, 2021:

Yep--- but you have to be 110-years-old, like I am! M, thanks for that one; I am actively looking for a laugh today!

Ah, right so, this explains it! :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 28, 2021:

"Make ships bigger; we will make more money." There is no way to explain mammoth greed and stupidity. 'Yep, those hundreds of large containers 'ain't goin' nowhere'.

Hmm, so if you smoke weed today, the devil will eat your ass after you die?

Diogenes comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Fools will do what fools will do! Smoke anything- cancer will eat your lungs. Enjoy your cancer!

R'amen, brothers.

Diogenes comments on Mar 28, 2021:

Too true!

Celebrity Chef David Chang Won $1 Million – And He’s Giving It All to Restaurant Workers ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 27, 2021:

This pandemic has hit the restaurant business the hardest- but even so the people in the kitchen were mostly underpaid. He did a very generous deed- but also a just one.

Riots on Capitol Hill in Washington. That kind of stuff would never happen in Canada right?

Diogenes comments on Mar 27, 2021:

That is something I have never heard of. I knew members of the Orange Lodge headed from Ontario to Manitoba to fight Louis Riel. I have a news photo of my grandfather doing the King Billy-bit on July 12th, about 1940. He never shaved till Sunday mornings- when he went to 'church', Protestant Gawd-dude's business address. He chewed tobacco- I imagine some of it ended up on his shirt front. Probably, if he had a map of Ireland, he wouldn't be able to find the Boyne River. I detest overt stupidity. I wish I could go back and reshape my childhood indoctrination. My former girlfriend was born in the Catholic region of Holland. We were both well past the moronic subject of religion when we met. We never talked about it. There were many things worthy of conversation- religion wasn't one of them.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn. —Arthur Rimbaud

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

I would like 'Art' to give me some of his "soft dreams"- I could use a few of those.

I was having a beer with a mate and his phone rang, rather nice music I thought, when he'd finished ...

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Gross! What can one expect from a Burnley supporter! Okay, beat me up--- but for gawd-dude, anything other than letting my former-bride nag me- that would be torture!!!

Yours too

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

My body is 'marvelous' --- wish to hell I could get the mirror to 'operate' correctly though!

"Facts don't necessarily have the power to change our minds.

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

Some just LOVE their misinformation. Dump has 'always', since childhood, told the truest lies that have ever been heard.

Was this guy leaving or just entering the village?

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

It looks like one of the vehicles from the roundabout at the top of the local road where they try to navigate it at 200 mph. Maybe they should slow down to '150'!

“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

Diogenes comments on Mar 26, 2021:

A realistic quote from Sagan! Yes, and an insignificant spec in time; forget the 13 billion years, maybe it is trillions of years? Good morning.

A new survey shows that only one in four men are truly happy! :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 24, 2021:

I've met some decent woman, be assured, but that is almost true, even if I have long been off the hard stuff.

“The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three.

Diogenes comments on Mar 24, 2021:

After I completed my sentence, I never committed the 'crime' again!

Is there a David Attenborough in the house? :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2021:

Yup!

Dude's got it all backwards!

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2021:

The cows have it right---- the other 'thing' is sitting on its ass and doing the mono-tone, "OOOOOOM"

“All truth passes through three stages.

Diogenes comments on Mar 22, 2021:

McCaine stood alone, ALMOST, in the Republican Party. There is no 'third' option, 'lies are the truth'--- and 'that' is self-evident.

If soccer players played rugby there would be nobody on the pitch after 10 minutes, feckin' woosies!...

Diogenes comments on Mar 21, 2021:

Okay, okay (LOL)!! Is that why Liverpool is doing so terribly this year; their five injuries are fake?

He is young but he will learn that actions like this have consequences! :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

An' ain't that the truth?

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

Dump has just murdered 200,000 to 300,000 people. These people had a right to live! Hang the bastard! And that is bull shit by Wilde!

Too good to save until next year

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I did my trillion-times being drunk- somewhere along the way it got repetitive and boring! Wish I had grown up a hundred years ago--- when I was young! I go to the Irish club once in a while. It is a family club- good games live from Ireland. No drunks in there--- but if so, drunks are forcefully shown the door-ONCE.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month.

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I still don't have "good character", but it has changed for the "better"--- after mammoth effort and paying attention to what was going on around me. Still, when I reach 'sainthood', my halo will be made of mud😁.

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the...

Diogenes comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I have 'always' found Mr.Chomsky worth hearing or reading about.

I often do projects around the house.

Diogenes comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Sounds like the way I do things!

"A virus is nucleic acid with attitude." Daniel Dennett

Diogenes comments on Mar 19, 2021:

Yes, off topic, sorry! When I see that huge bulge hanging over his belt, he doesn't even understand the basics- that he is "designing" his own immediate death. Food is to be enjoyed, not kill a person!

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

The fault with my some-what education- I have never read anything by Kiekegaard; I have heard that he was a bit 'off'.This brings up a second point- don't rely on conjecture! So did you wear green yesterday? I did- for a laugh. To me it is just another day. In an actual Irish setting they may be readings of James Joyce or W. B. Yeates. Anyone I know become livid with the "drunken Irish" fiction.

People don't need religion, religion needs people.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

Freeman wasn't very specific- religion needs obedient, mindless slaves.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

If Wilde were alive, I have news for him- when a person is down, they couldn't give a damned if there are stars.

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance “.

Diogenes comments on Mar 18, 2021:

I agree with Shaw. Recently, 80 million morons slavishly LOVED their information after each episode of Trump inventing it.

Anyone looking for all volumes of Britannica?

Diogenes comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Only had one argument with my former 'bride'- but it lasted 10 years. I guess I wasn't a long-distance fighter; wouldn't come out for round 'a trillion'!

Truth in advertising

Diogenes comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Yes!!! Then there are all those miraculous hair restoring adverts! Why is it that the English royal males and other billionaires 'choose' to be bald?

Charlie Hebdo: "Why Meghan left Buckingham Palace?" "Because I could not breathe anymore."

Diogenes comments on Mar 16, 2021:

Why is this non-event such an important event? There has been a recent commentary in the Globe & Mail, a Canadian newspaper, that actually publishes the 'news'; few do. The article writer questioned when Canada will break free of the monarchy. In the meantime, there is news to think about. There are so many brave people including doctors, nurses and health care workers who are HEROES, and not the dramatic, superficial, Hollywood kind. What is the big issue about mindless fluff?

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks. – Amit Ray

Diogenes comments on Mar 14, 2021:

Bull shit!

Mental Illness on display for all to see.

Diogenes comments on Mar 14, 2021:

How sick; how fucking sick!!! But the whole point is, if there is a "point", Gawd-dude is fiction, so there is no meaning to this insane missive.

“What drivel it all is!.

Diogenes comments on Mar 14, 2021:

How could anything be more related to reality than that?

St Patrick's day 17th March

Diogenes comments on Mar 13, 2021:

He sent the biped snakes back to England- where they came from!

The Lord giveth...

Diogenes comments on Mar 13, 2021:

Did 'you' then feed the "multitude", the 5,000 too?

So I can keep him then ma'am? :-D

Diogenes comments on Mar 11, 2021:

To get to the point, who in hell cares about the English royals? Apparently their full time job is about being pompous. Of all of them, Princess Ann, is the only one who actually does much- and there is never a word about her.