Smithereens.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2018:

in Irish Gaelic -ín pronounced een is an indicator of a diminutive form so eens probably means small piece of the preceding A Smyther in Gaelic is also a word for a small piece, but in middle English is metal worker, it is a fair guess then to say Smithereens means either smallest of small pieces, or the tiny bits of metal chipped away while metal working at a forge.

Jesus said that he would return in his disciples lifetime. 2000 years on and...........

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2018:

Yes but he found a loop hole by making one of them immortal

I had a stillborn son 6 years ago.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2018:

Why do people think this makes people feel better? They don't, they do it to make themselves feel better, they imagine that by saying crap like that they are "doing something", they are being missionary and spreading the word and love of gawd by being an apologist for actions that were he (gawd) real would be acts of inexcusable cruelty, they would rather try and explain away than admit the truth that he is imaginary. Rely on the true love and comfort of family and friends and move forward knowing this is not the end of your life and the joy of family you can still experience. My daughter lost her first child too, but now she has given me four beautiful grandchildren who the whole family love unconditionally. Comfort is in the future not the past. Your anger does you credit, now use it to strong and carry on. :)

How do you choose the movies you watch?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2018:

Instinct, intuition If I had gone by reviews and recommendations or avoid films people tell you you're not supposed to approve of, I would have missed out on some of my favourite movies.

Who likes anime movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2018:

Slightly off topic but the first Anime I saw was a boy and was a B+W series called "Marine Boy", apparently it did badly in Japan and only 16 episodes were ever shown there, but the BBC commissioned an additional 60 episodes in colour that were only ever shown in the UK and other English speaking countries. It was one of the first shows to be commissioned in colour by the Beeb for the upcoming legalization of colour TV in 1967.

Deracinate: To tear something up by the roots

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2018:

great word, love it.

I know these are not uncommon words but they confuse many people.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2018:

When my father was working for ICI (imperial chemical industries) in the 1960's he asked what the difference is and was told Flammable is a chemical or substance that will spontaneously burst in to flame if exposed to high temperatures where as inflammable will only burst in to flames if exposed to a flame or electric spark from the verb "to inflame" nothing to do with the in- prefix meaning not. May have been true then, or may have been a BS explanation to shut him up, but it does sound probable

HELL EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT The following is an actual question given on a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2018:

Only in the USA would a science test ask for theories about the nature of Hell. Perhaps next year he can write a thesis on the chemical elements and conditions needed to produce A1 quality ectoplasm

Bible Verses That Inspired the Pennsylvania Church to Cover Up Abuse [thenib.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2018:

Cognitive dissonance

"It's not what I say, it's what the Bible says."

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2018:

It is even better when they tell you "It's not what I say, it's what the Bible says." and they have just quoted Shakespeare, Milton, Anton LeVey or Mr Spock

"It's not what I say, it's what the Bible says."

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2018:

1) Why should I care what the Bible says? 2) I didn't ask what the bible says, I asked YOUR honest opinion, are you capable of telling me that? 3) Oh I see, so you mean you don't agree with it, you're just to frightened of your god to object?Then doesn't it say more about you that you choose to agree with it unquestioningly when you know it is evil? 4) The bible also says Bats are Birds, snakes and Donkeys can talk, a man can walk on water, Unicorns exist and that women should STFU, not me, the bible says that.

Who likes anime movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2018:

Saying who likes anime movie is like saying who likes live action movies, anime is a form of film making covering every genre some is good, some is appalling, some are delightful, some are pornographic. Having said that I do like many anime movies and series, especially sci fi and horror, though one of my all time favourites is "Colorful", the story of a spirit sent back to earth for a second chance at life, it is both disturbing and beautiful.

How many like this TV show?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2018:

liked every version, and "The Outer limits"

Tee shirt.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2018:

want one

Does anyone know how to sell ideas for amusing TV adverts without just having them stolen as soon as...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2018:

Nope. Editor, sub editors, ad execs, all are similes for thieving scum bags

Have you ever come across a blooper in a movie?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2018:

There is one Bond film, can't remember which one, where Sean Connery is thumped, falls back against a dressing table and moves it, at which point the whole camera crew can be seen in the mirror, desperately signaling to move it back.

Fellow members in case you haven't seen this please read it and protect yourselves from such ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2018:

yeah daily wire is Ben Shapiro's personal piss take site

I hope this isn't too off-topic.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2018:

love Blackadder

Is trust a irrelevant thing?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2018:

Trust is best when earned and given sparsely and with caution, only a fool trusts unconditionally and without good cause but it is equally unwise to never trust those who have proven themselves trustworthy.

I took a course in theology in collage and to sum it up you had to beleive i guess to pass.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2018:

I seem to recall Bertrand Russell telling a story of a student asking him which universities had fellowships in theology and his replying that it would first have to be proved to him that theology was even an educational discipline before he could give question brain space.

I've been a fan of the show ' the Atheist Experience ' for about a decade.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2018:

I wish Jeff Dee was still on this show, he was awesome when he just lost it with pius aholes

Richard Burton - the Greatest Poem in the English Language.mpg [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2018:

or my favourite rendition of the Raven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuL1xhUp0Gk

Richard Burton - the Greatest Poem in the English Language.mpg [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAejmFrO_6Y

Who was your favorite 007 ? mine was Sean Connery.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2018:

Dalton was closest to the book character, but my personal favourite was Roger Moore

Hey.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2018:

Faith

Thou shall not kill. Didn't God send his son down here to be murdered?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2018:

Yup the great logic of Christianity is that God put people in a garden and ordered them not to eat a fruit he knew they would eat since he is omniscient, then punished them for falling for his entrapment. Then he waits three thousand years of letting everyone go to hell for the sins of their first ancestors before turning himself in to a human version of himself, so he can go to earth and sacrifice himself, to himself, so he can forgive everyone else for what their great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandma did after he tricked her in to it. However having done all that he adds the codicil that even if he never gives any evidence of his own existence and in fact gives lots of evidence of his not existing, if people don't swear life long fidelity to him, obedience and give him 10% of their money, they all get to still go to Hell and burn forever, rather than go to heaven and spend eternity praising him for not burning them for doing what he knew they would do in the first place until he interfered. *Grown up people* believe this shit is proof of an all wise and all merciful being who created everything and tortures people because he loves them, and that is just peachy.

An erudite and succinct indictment of American hypocrisy regarding its foreign policies and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2018:

The American taxpayer has always been deceived: it is his birthright...lending money to South American dictators, for instance, which the taxpayer thought was being spent on South American peasants. Besides his own Secretary of State agrees with the deceit. He knows that it is good for the American taxpayer. And *it is* good for him. Leonard Wibberley 1963

Psychopomp (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psuchopompos, literally meaning the "guide of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2018:

Actually, literally ψυχοπομπός means Mind Transmitter/Transmigrater since the ancient Greeks did not believe in a souls in the way religions do today, but did believe in the survival of intelligence and individuality away from the body, and the possibility of the strong mind of one person inhabiting a second or more bodies and dominating them, or like wise the power of a strong animal mind, especially that of a wolf, possessing a human being. Plato wrote extensively on it.

Better things to do.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2018:

the year they give a Nobel Prize in science to the first man to find a way to harness magic as an inexhaustible source of thaumatic powered magic carpets and solvees the energy crisis once and for all, I might considered perhaps thinking about the possibility that their may be some speck misinterpreted of half truth in the idea of a godlike thingummyjig. I cautious of even going that far though.

Here are 2 great movie stars of the past. Can you name them & the movie?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2018:

Rings a bell, but can't quite get it.

What favorite movie do you not have in your DVD collection that you wish you had?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

There are a few of my old VHS that have never had a DVD release so have not yet been replaced and one or two rarities that I am not going to pay over £200 for. Ski Patrol (1990) is one that comes to mind, terrible film but it is a guilty pleasure and was my introduction to Leslie Jordan

The place you are looking for Is the place you are looking from.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

Oh Bollocks. "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard." ... L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Fuck that.

Floccinaucinihilipilification (Noun) the estimation of something as valueless or worthless.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

This used to a favourite on the old TV word game "Call my Bluff" (1965 to 2005) a sort of right of initiation for each new host or team captain.

I tried to understand how Christians are like.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

Don't worry about it, for most Christians, especially USA Christians it is a make it up as you go along religion. Tonight I watched a documentary on "Cowboy" churches in the USA and who they are almost 100% pro-Trump because they say he espouses Christian values Those values being 1) Jesus was all for personal Gun Ownership 2) Jesus was anti immigration 3) Jesus would rather have an amoral womaniser as president if the alternate was a gay loving/ marriage equality democrat snowflake. Not the bible I remember reading

CASTIGATE: cas-ti-gate.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

I had an English teacher at school who would often threaten the class with "Castigation and Vilification" None of knew what it meant but it sounded terrifying

SCINTILLA: scin-til-la.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

This possibly the root of scintillating?

AUGURY: au-gu-ry.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

related are an AUGUR a sign or portent that is interpreted as an augury or To AUGUR verb can be the action of one who produces an augury a prophet or soothsayer An August is that or the person who was foretold and is therefore considered holy or venerable

Sooooo, one of my Facebook friends is complaining that she prayed before she started driving, and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

Have Faith God has a plan, his ways are not your ways, everything happens for a reason, God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Feeling better now? By the way hating god and leading others in to temptation ***will*** send you straight to hell, so STFU!

Skol or Skoal. Viking toast, made when good friends sit down to drink. Means "Cheers!" basically.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 19, 2018:

Also spelled "skål" Norwegian for Bowl

Do some emotionally moving movies retain (after multiple viewings) greatness better then others?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2018:

Silly example but in "Cool Runnings" the scene when Junior's father stands at the finishing post, wearing the the team shirt to support his son, brings me to tears every time. On the other hand "It's a wonderful life" used to move me to tears, now it annoys me as simply contrived and deliberately emotionally manipulative, with a very, VERY bad message behind it.

What are some movies everybody seems to hate but you?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2018:

The go to TV film reviewer for years in the UK was Barry Norman, his series Film (insert year here) program ran for years (1972 to 1998 ). It became a standing joke in my circle of friends that if Barry slated a film as terrible, I would love it, if he loved a film I would hate it. (with a few exceptions we both shared a love for Kind Hearts and Coronets as one of the best British films of all time and lament it's banning now for the use in one scene of the N word, quoted in a nursery rhyme contemporary to the setting.)

Vanity publishing or self publishing. What are your thoughts.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 18, 2018:

These days I self publish all my major pieces as Kindles before sending them anywhere, I have been ripped off enough times in the past to be cautious about having a dated copy lodged somewhere as proof of my authorship. As Harlan Ellison once said "they are going to pick your pocket so make sure there is a mouse trap in there waiting for them."

Isn't Dogmatism worst than religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2018:

wasn't that the name of Astrix' dog or was that just Dogmatix?

What are some of your favorite Westerns? Here are a few of mine, in no particular order

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2018:

Not a big western fan but do like High Noon The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The Trinity films The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Destry rides again Valley of the Gwangi Cowboys and Aliens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkZQ5iXSMs8

Something the lds don't want you to know.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2018:

Oh yes, Young was a homicidal bastard and they know it, but since most of their major assets are name after the old see you next Tuesday they have to keep on slapping away with the white wash. It is mainly because of his twaddle they had to disavow the JOD and not one single original teaching of Bring'em Young is still considered official church doctrine. He is the weird creepy Uncle of Mormonism; the one you have to keep inviting to family gatherings, but hope he won't show up, or if he does has to be kept in a corner with his hands full and with cousin Knuckles keeping an eye on him.

So according to new 92 year old prophet Nelson.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2018:

I once pointed out to an Irish missionary that Kolob (the star Mormons believe has the home planet of God orbiting it ) is almost exactly Bollocks spelled backward, and he was not best pleased, used some very unsaintly language. Probably trying to disassociate themselves from some very silly doctrine and the fact that some dictionaries especially those published before 1980 still define Mormon simply as a polygamist

Everybody say it! Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon,Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon,...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2018:

I once pointed out to an Irish missionary that Kolob (the star Mormons believe has the home planet of God orbiting it ) is almost exactly Bollocks spelled backward, and he was not best pleased, used some very unsaintly language. Probably trying to disassociate themselves from some very silly doctrine and the fact that some dictionaries especially those published before 1980 still define Mormon simply as a polygamist

Everybody say it! Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon,Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon,...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2018:

I just posted about this in my ex-mos group, apparently their not even allowed to say LDS anymore, it's the full title every time ?

Following AmiSue's lead, what is a song that makes you cry?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2018:

Jesse by Janis Ian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Sg6kwpEfQ

What's your favorite dessert?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2018:

Bread pudding

A wise man who is active in his church said this to me: "The older I get the more I move towards ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2018:

I have never yet had anyone give me a satisfactory explanation of what is meant by spirituality that does not come straight back to privatised religion

I saw Airplane! on the big screen last night, a movie I’ve seen a gazillion times.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2018:

Work of comic genius, love that movie

Is anyone else going to the 50-year anniversary re-release of 2001: A Space Odyssey?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2018:

No, it is perhaps THE single most over rated film of all time.

Do we have some Corbyn supporters here? if so I have a question. Are you for or against Brexit?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 16, 2018:

the way things are going, I'm thinking of joining the Monster raving Loony party

YOU GO TO HEAVEN BUT YOUR SON/DAUGHTER GOES TO HELL - So in this scenario you're a Xian but ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

Since God is a total twat, those who chose to follow him, be loyal to him and worship him, holding him forth as an example to live live by must in themselves be the sort of bastards who would tolerate the eternal torture of others in order to be a willing slave to the torturer in return for not being tortured themselves.

Are we living in an era of "post-truth" ?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

More an era of subjective truths

Fill in the blank ????

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

Witchfinder General 1968

Have you any favorite movie scores?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

Battle beyond the Stars by James Horner Back to the Future Alan Silvestri The pink Panther by Henry Mancini Scrooged by Danny Elman The Man from U.N.C.L.E. by Jerry Goldsmith John Carpenter The Fog/ Vampires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQL0h2TNJG0

Judge Employed by Mormon Church Guts Sex Assault Suit Against… Mormon Church ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

Judge Kimball? As in Prophet Spencer W. Kimball? His Cousin?) As in Apostle Heber C. Kimball? (His Great Grandfather) Poor lass didn't stand a chance :(

Why are so many people pleased at other people's misfortune?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

There is a strong and inherent need in people for justice, however not objective justice or real justice in any sense, a subjective personal justice, a sense of balance and fairness that no one else if having a better deal than you. If I lack X in my life and you have X in abundance, I envy you and feel it is an unfair situation, if you therefore suffer from something unpleasant happening to you, that has not happened to me, at a subconscious level I feel the balance has been redressed and that life is fair and my lack of X will be consequently redressed by natural justice at some point as your abundance of X has been. This leads to the extrapolated belief that if something bad happens to someone for no readily apparent reason it is deserved punishment for some past crime or injustice or punishment for something they will do in the future. It is childish superstitious thinking with no basis in reality but fulfils a primal urge for life to be fair and for no one to have gotten the better of you.

I being athiest try remember faith gives others comfort and hope etc but I myself see this as false...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

Faith is dangerous, since it is self perpetuating like a virus. I have cancer, I have faith it will go because god will protect me. I still have cancer, my faith was not strong enough, because I went to the doctor as well. I STILL have cancer and it is getting worse, probably because even when I stopped seeing the doctor I still kept taking my medicine because my faith in god is not total. I stopped seeing the doctor, I stopped taking my meds, I pray every day, I really believe god will cure his good and faithful servant... I... I ...oh He had cancer, and though he had great faith, the Lord gathered him unto himself, we therefore must have faith that the Lord knows what he is doing.

And now, for something completely different: [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 15, 2018:

Brilliant, love the Jedi

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

You cannot count the one in South Bend. He died of pneumonia! He wouldn't have died of pneumonia if I hadn't shot him!

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

Obey motorised dustbins? We'll see about that!

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

It seems the film is being attacked by the supporting feature

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

I aint got time to go to no stoning, he's not well again!

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

Of course I fell off! All of my moves are very carefully planned.

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

Swine Bird! That is *my* mustache!

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

Guess you broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya!

Do you remember any movie quotes?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

I feel I was denied critical need-to-know information.

I've moved on from old black and white horror to 1940's historical adventures.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

one of my favourites

OSTENSIBLE: outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2018:

love this word

The LDS anti-LGBTQ “November Policy” now cemented in place. [friendlyatheist.patheos.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 13, 2018:

These people sicken me. They have basically set up membership as being contingent on being a bigoted homophobic asshole. Why is anyone still joining this filth?

My kid just sent me this.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 13, 2018:

By that logic a fly is called a fly because it flies, so why isn't a fish called a swim?

Whilst looking for something elsewhere I encountered the following replacement for the umbrella.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 13, 2018:

Try putting that in an umbrella stand. Time was people invented things to solve problems, THAT solves the problem of hang to go to the effort of putting up an umbrella by causing five other problems that should not exist.

Hmm.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 13, 2018:

When to speak is a crime and to remain silent is a crime, the only option left is to talk unintelligible gobbledygook and accuse those who have the gall to announce that they fail to understand of idiocy and Prejudice. We live in a world analogous of the "emperor's new clothes" where all the honest little boys have been gagged and tailors have not only seized the throne, but have sold it and opened up the palace as a bingo hall.

Which instrument do you wish you had learned when you were young?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 13, 2018:

Keyboards, I play a number of other instruments but never bothered to learn piano because in those days you could not carry one to a party.

Which would prefer to know?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 12, 2018:

I would be inclined to disbelieve the answer in either case, since the only way to verify it would be to die and at that point I would have lost interest.

How does an all knowing PERFECT GOD make a defective person and allow evil?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 12, 2018:

This is a great one for confusing creationists me : How does an all knowing PERFECT GOD make a defective person and allow evil? Theist: God has given us the gift of free will, we are created perfect but can choose to do evil? Me : which makes us imperfect? Theist: Of course. Me : So Someone with evil in their heart is potentially evil and so cannot be perfect correct? Theist: That's right (smug smile) Me : Where did Evil come from? Theist: What? Me: If everything was created by God and comes from god where did evil come from. Theist: Tut, evil did not COME from anywhere it is a choice made by people. Me: So what makes Evil evil? Theist: If a thing or action goes against god or his teachings it is evil Me : I see so how did we know? Theist: What? Me: how did we know what was against the will of god? Theist: SIGH it's in the bible Me: So Adam and Eve had a bible? Theist: No of course not they talked to god directly and he told them what not to do. Me: So he explained evil to them? Theist: Yes Me: So God is potentially evil then? Thesit; What? Me: If he could explain it, he must have been able to understand it, so therefore he was potentially capable of doing it, which means he had evil in his heart and so was potentially evil. Theist: NO, god is perfect, not evil at all, pure good. Me: But they broke his rules and he got pissed at them, that's in the bible Theist: NO, yes, no hang on, that was the devil, in the form of a snake, he tempted them. Me; Who made the snake? Theist: God did Me: And the snake was evil? Theist: yes Me: So god made the snake who is the devil who is the epitome of Evil, the personification of evil, but god is totally good? Theist: erm...... Me: How? Theist: God works in mysterious ways, god's ways are not our ways, you're reading it out of context, FECK OFF heathen!! I ask you, how in this day and age do educated, mature adult people still believe this blatant crap!

Wow I had no clue that there were so many more like minded people I thought I was alone in my ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 12, 2018:

you are alone, totally alone ... we are all figments of your diseased imagination, B'wahhahahahahahaha" ;)

Why do all religions say they are the true religion yet even within those religions they still ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 12, 2018:

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock tells the story of a fundamentalist Christian who travels back in time to meet Jesus, finds him unsatisfactory and too Jewish, so kills him and takes his place creating "proper" Christianity as God wants it to be. Even going so far as to have himself crucified. In the mean time the real Jesus has recovered from his injuries and and amnesia and finds himself the object of adoration and a messiahship he finds blasphemous, so runs away. This novel is a masterpiece of allegorical fiction about just how people become obcessed with their own idea of how religion should be, having no respect for the the truth or of the origin. There was an attempt to make a TV Twilight Zone episode of the story, but it was blocked until they changed the lead from Jesus to Elvis Presley. (the writing credit goes to a young George R.R. Martin and is called “The Once and Future King,” but is clearly a rewrite post dating Moorecock by 17 years.)

Why do all religions say they are the true religion yet even within those religions they still ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 12, 2018:

The stock answer I always got was "The Church is perfect, people are not. If you don't understand that, go away and pray for the wisdom to do so. The Lord will provide." Platitudinous bullshit that means nothing but sounds good has been a staple of religion for thousands of years

Vodun (meaning spirit in the Fon and Ewe languages, pronounced with a nasal high-tone u; also ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 11, 2018:

I was once commissioned to make a Lau stick for a Boku man in Louisiana, during a period of my life when I was making bespoke accessories and jewelry. Interesting project, just shows you how religious people of all strains are willing to pay a lot of money for basically a stripped and decorated graveyard tree branch. He was happy with it and I was happy with the cash, win, win.

Tonight: Machete and Machete Kills! Need a little B-movie, pulpy fun every once in a while,

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 11, 2018:

Danny Trejo is baddass

So, I finally watched Flash Gordon last night.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 11, 2018:

Went to see this in 1980 at the local cinema, the audience was made up of about 200 Brian Mays and I think I was the only one with genuinely curly hair.

My rose garden has several rocks with similar messages.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 11, 2018:

well Imagine that

A comparative study of world religions Catholicism If shit happens, I deserve it.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 11, 2018:

Catholicism If shit happens you shouldn't have used a condom Church of England If shit happens you need to define what shit is first, nothing is just black and white Church of Scotland If shit happens it's some woman's fault Church of Ireland If shit happens it's some English man's fault Baptist If shit happens it's because god hates you Southern baptist If shit happens it's because god really hates you Westboro baptist If shit happens it's because god hates fags Spiritualist If shit happens it's an evil spirit, or a demon Quaker If shit happens sit quietly and it will go away, or you'll die, either way it will stop Methodist If shit happens it's all part of the greater plan. Seventh day Adventist If shit happens it's your fault for having the wrong Sabbath Televangelist If shit happens it is because you didn't send me enough money Mormon If shit happens pay more tithing Jehovah's Witness If shit happens that's nothing the world is about to end Scientologist If shit happens watch a Tom Cruise movie

Selfie Doctor Who shirt Here's one of my Doctor Who shirts.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 11, 2018:

love it

Out of this group of 1980s movies which is your favorite? Mine is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 11, 2018:

The craft

Is there a word that says one is anti "religion" not antithiest?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2018:

I am assuming the word would be something like contraekklesia being in opposition to religion or churches Come to think of it Iconoclast probably fits the bill nicely. An Omnipotences (used as a proper noun) probably fits for your second query

Belt of Venus.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2018:

Beautiful

Pretty concise embarrassments (proven falsehoods) about the Mormon church. [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2018:

Seen this one before, it's a good starting point.

Persecuted??? [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2018:

To those who view privilege as a right ...equality *is* persecution

I dfon't get this one

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2018:

My best friend once had a student write an essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness comparing it to the 1998 film "Armageddon" because the student could not tell the difference between that and "Apocalypse Now" so this this kind of muddle is no surprise to me.

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LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2018:

Back in the days when she was still a poodle

Ever sayn how that thar pintin' on the wawl 'pears a mot si-goggly?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2018:

Way'aye man, like, thas as bad ass Braw Geordie man, y'na. Ya'kin Larn yesell Geordie from thes buk

I missed them the first time they were shown, but caught up with them all these years later – ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 9, 2018:

The only good thing about season 2 of space 1999 was the theme tune, they wrecked it, but since the series was a product of ITC interfering with the Gerry Anderson studios organisation in the first place it is understandable. Truth of the matter is that Space 1999 was originally going to be a sequel to the fantastic 1970's show U.F.O. one of the most definitive pieces of Sci-Fi to come out of the UK ever, highly influential and powerfully written (if you have not seen it, do so) U.F.O. 1999 was supposed to take place 20 years after the initial series, set entirely on Moonbase one from the original show, now Earths first line of defense against the savage human harvesting aliens. Armed with a fleet of Eagle transporters and Hawk fighter/interceptors the series would have been great. However the Italian co producers of the project and ITC entertainment wanted to cash in on the almost guaranteed upcoming hits Star Trek TMP and Star Wars and so wanted a space odyssey instead. The whole program was quickly reworked and Mission Impossible stars Martin Landau & Barbara Bain brought in to appeal to the American market, the Hawk fighters were dropped (appearing in only one episode) the whole thing became anti-nuclear apocalyptic moralising. Though moderately successful, it on the whole bombed and ITC dropped their Italian partners, brought in some American crew who had worked on Star Trek and dropped Barry Morse as Victor Bergman perhaps the most popular character in the show replacing him with Catherina von Schell (aka Catherine Schell) as cliche shape changing alien Maya, but other wise just reprising her role from Moon Zero 2. It went down as well as Liberace on an oil rig, what people loved about the show was edited out, what they hated was bulled up and more added. Blake's 7 on the other hand was something else. Just as Doctor Who was supposed to be originally titled Doctor who? the BBC graphics department who charged by the character, left out the apostrophe turning the opening graphic in to Blakes7 to save money, the show was Launched to pacify ravenous Doctor Who fans, calm down Terry Nation (who was fighting for rights to the Daleks with the BBC) and go up against Space 1999. Nation in typical fashion decided to completely reverse Star Trek and basically do Space Pirates on a stolen ship. In this Universe the Federation are the bad guys, the rebels are useless, the eponymous hero was written out after series one, the main villain is a bitch and the hero is a thieving murderous bastard. The sheer chemistry between Paul Darrow as Avon and Catherine Pierce as Servalan with comic relief from Michael Keating as Vila drove the show from season to season, a series of vocal performances from Peter Tuddenham gave every computer in...

Joan Crawford, Waikiki, 1948.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

Mildred Pierce and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane two of my favourites

TWITTERPATED: twit-ter-pat-ed.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

Whole new meaning in a modern context

Watching this and remembering how much I loved their "horror" movies as a kid.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

Chick Young: What's the matter? Larry Talbot: I know you'll think I'm crazy, but... in a half-an-hour the moon will rise and I'll turn into a wolf. Wilbur Grey: You and 20 million other guys! great exchange. I will admit that Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was the first Horror film I ever saw as a boy, with Boris Karloff as Jekyll and Hyde and he scared the living B'jesus out of me.