I need to release some steam.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 24, 2018:

Ask a "love and Peace" Christian about the Midianites, if they know about them they will scream Old Testament and refuse to talk, if they do, they will ask you what about them and then scream Old Testament and refuse to talk further. Perhaps the worst war crime in the bible, a tribe sues for peace, God orders them to be circumcised, they comply and while "recovering" the Israelites God orders the wholesale slaughter of all the men, married women and boys and the enslavement of the virgin women and to take the young girls as sex slaves. THAT is the god of peace and love, the father of a son who was tortured to death so that daddy could forgive people for the fact that thousands of years before a nuddy woman ate the wrong apple because a talking phallic symbol told her to. How does any one still take this shit seriously as a moral guide line for life.

If Jesus was a real person, was he the first magician?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 24, 2018:

None of Jesus' conjuring tricks had not been done before in earlier Jewish texts or mythology, like wise his teachings, even if all of this is true it still makes him nothing more than a popular street entertainer who like other popular entertainers of today started thinking he had the right to interfere in politics and got his comeupance when he pissed off the wrong people.

Christians protest against a Muslim woman...Why?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 24, 2018:

This clip was from 2016, 2 years ago and later proved to be the woman having victim mentality delusions. The "Protest" was street evangelism that had been planned for months and had a public gathering licence in no way was it a protest. The Woman who has never had her name revealed and soon after closed down her social media, was claimed the pastor who organised the meeting, completely unknown to him or the congregation, she didn't even work there and was a bus driver who happened to have driven in to the Bus station at the time of the evangelical nuisance that carried on after she left. It is like claiming a salvation army band playing in the street on a Sunday morning was protesting me for going to the corner shop and buying a newspaper, because they just KNEW I was a an atheist because I was wearing atheistic clothes. (You know, those sort of hat and coat only atheist wear) A full "Hate Crime" investigation was carried out including CCTV coverage from every angle, and was dismissed as a "misunderstanding" on the drivers part. Professional victims like this do nothing to help the victims of genuine race crime, and in fact trivialise a very real problem with their attention seeking martyr complex

I went to sunday school.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 24, 2018:

God is a mega pervert. He will sit quietly watch you wank and then say, that was naughty, I'm going to burn you forever for that, now excuse me while I go make sure your Mum is not enjoying being ravished by your dad too much.

I've come up with my own theory on why we came to be called "mankind".

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 24, 2018:

In the North of England where I come from, Manki (or manky from the Latin Mancus = maimed) mean rotten or putrid, so perhaps to be manki'd is to be made to fester. It's another possible etymology for *manki*nd?

Not religious, but spiritual? Really?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Look, look, now look... it's like being a vegan right...EXCEPT for the bacon sandwiches

Who here has seen a ghost?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

First define ghost.

So I'm gonna put this out there right out the gate.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

You know this sort of post makes me feel really old, back in my day we usually started off with, he she seems a nice person, perhaps I might see if they want to get to know me and I them. It used to be a standing joke that only lonley losers held up signs with "No fat chicks" written on them.

Do you think there is good to reinvent yourself sometimes or to keep doing the old way?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Anyone may change and improve, however the idea of self reinvention seems inherently dishonest to me. You are who you are, anything else is living a lie, that is a speciality of the religious.

What is your biggest pet peeve?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

I have two that really annoy me Saying *jealous* instead of **envious** when the latter is meant Saying *lend* instead of **borrow** when the latter is meant In both case's the mistake is so wide spread it is accepted as normal but is literally speaking nonsense.

We have had a good discussion about Rental Property in another Post.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

As a life long tenant and renter, I am tempted to list of a reverse list about who not to rent off owing to the fact that most (not all) private landlords are totals douchebags *if * you are lucky. However I will limit myself to this: always rent from a housing association bound by laws, or social/council housing again because you can go to law if they behave like a fucking arsehole.

Women who quote "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" are usually ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Simillally

Best ways to respond to religious people about being LGBTQ+?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

You are so right, but if that is the case a) When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. **Should I smite them? ** b) I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, **what do you think would be a fair price for her? ** c) I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness (Lev 15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense. d) Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians? e) I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself? f) A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an Abomination (Lev 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? g) Lev 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here? h) Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev 19:27. How should they die? i) I know from Lev 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves? j) My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev 24:10-16) Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14) I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help.

What do you think about a 2-3yr old saying "praise god?" Cute?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Indoctrination, don't you just luv it!

I wonder if President Trump thinks that he is "Ordained by God" or simply believes that he is God:...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

I picture a judgement day where God welcomes the former presidents of the USA, First comes Lincoln, "I am Abraham Lincoln" he declares. "You freed the slaves," says God. "You may sit at my right hand." Next comes FDR "I am Roosevelt" he declares. "You saw The USA through the darkest hour of human history," says God. "You may sit at my left hand." Next comes Trump "I am Donald Trump," he declares, "Who is the bearded, immigrant, transvestite sitting in my chair?"

The weight of one opinion over another.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Religious freedom in law seems to boil down to enforced toleration of a particular delusion useful to the legislature for social control.

A few questions for Atheists out there.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

What made you become an Atheist? *I grew up and no longer needed an imaginary friend, or worse an imaginary enemy* Are there any other members in your family who are atheists or did you become one independently? *My wife is part wiccan/druid and part exogenesist, my son is atheist my daughter is transitioning out of religion.* Have you told your family about your religous thoughts and what did they say? *My father could not care less my mother is dead, the opinions of the rest of my extended family don't matter to me *

I went into a Bar and noticed a strange-looking man crying his eyes out.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

A man faced with a genie is offered a wish, he asks that his cock reach the ground, so the genie makes his legs disappear

You create a religion.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Church of the eternal suckhead Alucard

We had a march lead by the EDL today in Worcester city centre.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Where is the option that says the EDL are a bunch of ignoramus who need a book of instructions to use a toilet and even then it has to be in crayon and pictures only since being able to read is "gay". It's amazing even eight of them managed to find there way there unless the meet was organised to gather outside of a Ye Olde British curry and pizza shop next door to a pub with a picture of German British Beer on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaZCaWH96xw

SPOILERS Apparently, this is the 13th Doctor's new Sonic. Wtf?!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Yup...., erm yes, just, ....yup

Lets see you get your knickers in a twist over this one.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

reminds me of the story of the Irishman captured by a tribe of Amazons He is told to earn his freedom he must perform two tasks, he must fight a fully grown gorilla to the death with his bare hands and make love to the tribal queen and get her pregnant. Which do you want first? He was asked, "The Gorilla" says Mick. He is taken to a dark cave, thrown in and a stone is rolled in front of the doorway. For eight hours the air was rent with screams of such horrific timbre that no member of the tribe could stand to listen. Finally there were three knocks on the stone, which when rolled away reveals Paddy alive if not well, bruised, battered and exhausted, but alive and smiling. "Right!" he said. "Now where is this queen I have to fight to the death?"

I'll just leave this here.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

We are the Trumpleks, you will be fornicated

I have received hundreds of messages requesting a recent picture.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

and if you merge the two?

I’m on a train completely surrounded by summer campers wearing these shirts! Indoctrination of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Priest: Give me the child until he is 7.... Atheist: And I will show you the man? Priest: Say what's that now?

Interesting study. I've posted a photo of it as the website has a paywall.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

I saw that on the BBC papers section last night, with some vegan ass hat complaining it was blasphemous and disrespectful to people of faith.

Here's a partial list of some of this group's members: Hans Zopf...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Of course there is also Phil Mycok (Prize winning Hen breeder) Ophelia Legg (Massage therapist) Seymour offit (Of the late comedy duo Bend Dover and Seymour Offit) Claud Balls (the noted author of Tiger in the bed) Izzy Skint (Unsuccessful financial adviser) Rob Yulot (Tax consultant) and Russian diplomat Meina Vankopff

Here's a partial list of some of this group's members: Hans Zopf...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Ivor Biggun? I recall him in his heyday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1xpUbAtcZA

American Werewolf in London - Complete Transformation "I didn't mean to call you a meatloaf, Jack!"...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2018:

This scene blew me away the first time I saw it, still hold up today as disturbingly realist.

As a SAG/AFTRA member I stand in support of my brothers and sister in Animation demanding fair ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2018:

100% agree

Thoughts on the most recent trailer for the upcoming series of Doctor Who...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2018:

Oh dear this is still not igniting the spark of confidence in me.

Many of you may not know of the Teletubbies, a kids program that was one of the highest rated shows ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 18, 2018:

Long forgotten now, but teletubbies was subject to a copyright infringement law suit by English comedian Harry Enfield, who claimed quite reasonably that the teletubbies were a copy of his recurring sketch "English for aliens" which featured four gibberish spouting childlike fat aliens with antenna sticking out of their head attempting to assimilate in to human society (unsuccessfully) Teletubbies settled out of court. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k1eicbZqfA

If CRISPR were perfected to the degree some people hope it will be, would you edit you own genome?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

I someone will do this to themselves with cosmetic surgery, imagine what they might do given access to genetic engineering

Do we make our fates or is life preordained??

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

Neither Chaos theory presents a far more likely explanation for the variants of how life systems actual work

This hard to believe ?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

Not in my house Or in the white house if Prezza Trump's pussy grabbing comments are to be believed

I know this sounds daft but being in Australia I am totally out of the loop.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

Perfectly simple Brexit means Brexit Remainer means snowflake bastard Brexiteer means irresponsible bastard Leave means leave except when it doesn't Free movement area means unpatriotic invasion monkey, antifa welcome, sign waving snowflake Non free movement area means KKK, bigot bastard, who should be publicaly shamed and hung out to dry Soft brexit means staying in Europe and abiding by all European rules but not paying for it, as much, but having no say Hard Brexit means becoming the 51st, state of America in a few years time The British people means the percentage of the people who do as they are told, discounting the those who do not and those who did not express an opinion either way. Prime Minister, means the person who will get blamed when the country goes tits up. See perfectly simple

So... Blocked twice so far. Why?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

When I trained in retail management a few to many years ago, lesson one was never communicate in memos, the written word will always be given the worst possible interpretation. It is true, face to face you will get across 80 to 85% of your intended meaning when talking to a peer, less when talking to a stranger By telephone this drops to 40% across the board which is why efficient telephone operators, telemarketing and telephone customer service people need to be specially trained to raise this to 60- 65% but these days no longer are. By memo, with no cadences, no emphasis and no none verbal expression the comprehension factor drop to 0 - 25% unless you are a skilled writer and an experienced reader. my favourite experiment in this is the phrase I didn't steal grannies cake *I* didn't steal Granny's cake George did I *didn't* steal Granny's cake emphasise indignation I didn't *steal* Granny's cake I just sort of borrowed it I didn't steal *Granny's* cake I stole Grandad's and he stole Granny's I didn't steal Granny's *cake* I did steal her pension book though On first reading which would you have assumed?

What kind of philosophical school of thought do you adhere to in your daily lives??

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

I like to think I am a pragmatist but I am not sure of its efficaciousness

Life is like a box of chocolates - It does not last long if you are fat

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

Any other John Carpenter fans here? Favourite movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

I am very fond of Prince of Darkness too, They Live is frighteningly prophetic

How did you become an atheist and at around what age??

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

After leaving the Mormon church in my early thirties.

Think this is a fun saying.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

the secret of a successful life is to treat it like mushroom farming... Keep them in the dark and feed them on bullshit

What length of hair do you prefer on your significant other?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

especially if it is red :)

What are your favorite Steven Spielberg movies? Mine is "Jaws" and "ET"

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

I forgot "Something Evil" genuinely scary film, wish he had made more horror films.

You know, I think a lot about judging people.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

"Don't judge until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes." However make sure they have taken them off first, stamping on their feet is likely to make them judge you preemptively.

A friend of mine put this on Facebook.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

Oh I know so many religious people who will just look embarrassed, give up immediately and go away if you say "Book of Job?" ever so sweetly, tail tucked between their legs. I am sure SO many Christian denominations would love to see that one quietly edited out. It is unforgivable, unmitigated bullshit, "the Spanish train" gives a more favourable account of the Christian god. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnaUvPoiTfQ

Many television shows are based on god or religious themes, and was wondering if any of my fellow ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

Used to, don't anymore. Though I will admit "Almost and Angel" is a very funny film, but that is more down to Paul Hogan than the religious theme. The idea of an angel robbing a MacDonalds at gun point using a KFC bucket as a mask for a 1000 burgers and then distributing them to the poor and homeless just tickled me.

DO ATHEISTS AND HUMANISTS HAVE SACRED VALUES?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

I believe the word Dennett was struggling for was either axiomatic or inviolate.

DO ATHEISTS AND HUMANISTS HAVE SACRED VALUES?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

Scared as a word does not and cannot have have religious connotations, lexicographically it is a religious word. Sacred from Latin sacrare literally meaning to designate as religious or holy and therefore coming from the same root as sacramental and sacrosanct and sanctified it actually separates and designates something as religious or as holy and dedicated to a deity rather than secular. It is therefore completely impossible to an atheist to hold anything sacred, it is like asking how many corners can a circle have.

What are your favorite Steven Spielberg movies? Mine is "Jaws" and "ET"

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

Duel after that he sold out and went very commercial

And so the American disease infects Australia: [getup.org.au]

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

I don't understand having read that article from beginning to end, and having seen the facsimiles I can see no mention of race, the word black, ethnicity or anything else in the fliers. The only subcultural reference is Youth. However the petition itself in calling to have the flier withdrawn and apologised for, seems to imply several times that ALL gangs are made up of black youth, that all crime is a product of black gangs. In short if there is any supposed or construed racism here it is within the petition, not in the object of their displeasure. If I am under informed or have been misrepresented to, I would appreciate the rest of the data, but on the information presented, this would seem to be the case.

Baptist Pastor: Men Who Let Their Wives Work Are “Destroying” Children’s Minds – Friendly ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

who ever wrote this in bed tonight

Origin of god

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

Wishful thinking by gullible people harnessed for power and control by unethical people.

What is reality?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

That which is real can be perceived and is capable of being measured. That which cannot is not, or is irrelevant to us and so may as well not be.

If I, as an agnostic looking for guidance.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

Neither, I recommend Douglas Adams

A useless rant, triggered by my reading through the general population of useless rants, and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

Turn it inside out, place it inside of a large COTTON pillow case and tie (or Velcro) the top shut and place in the wash like so. You will have no more problems

I want to hear what people have to say.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

put another way

Recall that three Americans of Korean descent were released from North Korea last May.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

Lying for the Lord A great American/Christian tradition, especially in Utah. So they broke the law of the land, because religions don't have to follow laws not made by gawd... I wonder if shouting Infringement of religious freedom, multiculturalism, social Justice and I'm gonna complain about you on Twitter... worked for them, there? No, because they had to find out the hard way that some countries take their law and culture seriously and expect even foreign residents to assimilate, tow the line, or else piss off or face the consequences

As I am trying let people know about community, I always get the question/comment of how theists ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

Oh come on they are *adorable* Unless of course they start telling me they think people I care about deserve to burn in eternal fire, then they get told that that is a very impolite thing to say and they should go away and think about it, only not in so many words.

I viewed a segment of Bill Maher's Religulous on You Tube.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

It could be very bad phonetic Japanese, translated it means something like This Postcard (says) It is (because of) something that happened (drunkenly) during the past few days, so it is not easy for us to come back here. or with alternate Kanji It's just as if you were borrowed.I'm very disappointed, I'm sorry, this place is OK.

Questions

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

a truly beautiful sentiment

"When the student is ready, the teacher appears."

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.” ― Lao Tzu I think perhaps "When the student is ready, the teacher is recognised," maybe more of a truism, however the effect is the same.

Reality of Deities

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

If someone says to me the word Centaur I have a semiotic notion of the symbolic value of the word, I know the word exists and I know what it describes, but does not mean there is a half man, half horse creature doing his shopping and living a happy and productive life. Likewise the concept or idea of a god(s) can be real while in no way implying the existence of actual god(s).

Is there only one kind of truth; only one kind of reality?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

Sorry but this sort of wheedling, wordsmiths equivocation gets on my wick. "Emma Bovary died by suicide" is not truth or reality, it is a précis of an aspect of a work of fiction. The book/story Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert exists, that is reality, that is true and that is as far as the reality of it goes. Pro-literary or pro-filmic contextuality is just a device for coherent story telling, nothing more. Saying "inter-subjective entities have a kind of reality of their own" is basically the kind of deliberate mental masturbation that literary theorist come up with so that they can spend years publishing books disagreeing with one another and not having to get a real job, or even write real books. Baudrillard and Bloom were prime examples of this in the 80's and 90's much of their output was dedicated to stating how wrong the other was, but never really saying why, while Terry Eagleton stood ring side egging them on and writing books that took the piss out of both their arguments. Taking inspiration from a work of literature is undeniably something that happens, but is nothing more than that, inspiration. We as humans are bound by the limits of both our senses and our technology to define reality as that which can be directly or indirectly perceived, measured, observed and proven by quantifiable "real" evidence. There well maybe other aspects of reality outside of that range of perception, but until they can be perceived they are in effect irrelevant to us and should be treated as such. Even in some physicists wildest speculations upon the many worlds theory of quantum mechanics, the idea that some were in the vastness of the omni-verse/multiverse there is actually a world were Winnie the Pooh exists and lives in the 100 acre wood with his pals would boast such an almost infinite degree of improbability that the chance of such would be so negligible as to be to all intents and purposes impossible. "Nothing unreal exists" though from a ridiculous source is a quote worth remembering, and had it been taken as common wisdom a few thousand years ago, we would have probably avoided no end of bloodshed, horror and inhumanity in the name of unperceived (therefore unreal) and yet honoured and blindly followed objects of wishful thinking.

Thinking vs Understanding

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

Understanding is the product of critical thinking applied to accurate data

About blocking.. Am I being harsh?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

I never used to, but recently I have taken to blocking idiots, they make one stupid post or idiotic comment and I can't be bothered talking to then, had enough of that shit on FB.

Only a woman is capable of saying something like this with a straight face.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

My father made me disassemble my first motorbike and put it back together again using a Haynes manual before he would let me go out on the road. I never had a break down I could not cope with, never paid a penny to a mechanic or engineer.

Anybody for classic movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

my Top threes Male Actors Carey Grant (no question), James Mason, Vincent Price (before he started rolling his eyes and parodying himself) Female Actors Bette Davis (No question), Kathrine Hepburn, Margaret Rutherford Classic films Casablanca, Monsieur Verdoux, Metropolis

Why religion still exist in today's adavance era?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Societies develop faster than individuals do. That is why civilisation's one infinite resource is an unending supply of gullible idiots.

Sounds legit!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Holy men are so full of shit.

Religion has done many good things as well as caused much pain and suffering, death and ignorance.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

What is good in religion is not original, what is original in religion is not good. Every good achievement claimed by religion, has been achieved elsewhere by secular means and then stolen by the clergy.

Remember this

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Isn't it better to find out why you keep falling and fix it?

Is there meaning to your life?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Family, dogs, being creative, trying to leave this shit hole of a world a bit better than when I found myself in it.

Proselytizing

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Only when they try and convert me first.

Has Christianity ruined crosses for you?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Wore ankhs when I was a Christian, still wear them now, still get asked if it is a Celtic cross, some peoples are idiots.

A friend posted this on FB and I couldn't resist commenting on it.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

So it is imagining things then?

? Never...mind

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Once upon a toilet dreary, where I laboured, weak and weary, Waiting the relief of Senna's potion swallowed just before— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my Bathroom door. “’Tis here occupied,” I muttered, “cease tapping on my Bathroom door— This I said and nothing more.” Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying stomach gurgle wrought my belly sore. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my drugs surcease of sorrow—from IBS I so deplore— For the rank and chilly porcelain midden between my bottom and the floor— may trap me here for evermore. And the rough, sad, rustling issue of the purple unused tissue Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I sat repeating “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my Bathroom door— Some late visitor entreating entrance at my Bathroom door;— This it is and nothing more.” Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, “Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was crapping, and so rudely you came rapping, And unwelcome you came tapping, tapping at my Bathroom door, That I scarce believed I heard you”—banging on the bathroom door;— Silence then and nothing more. Deep into that silence listening, long I sat there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream below; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Hello?” This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “hello!”— Merely this and nothing more. Back into the Bathroom turning, all my bowels within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. “Surely,” said I, “surely this is something without manners; Go away, then, what the problem, and I my bolt did draw — Let my heart be still a moment and this excremental flaw;— ’Maybe trapped wind, nothing more!” Openly here I did stutter, when, with many a fart and flutter, I strained to hear, vain and craven as in the saintly days of yore; For the least dissonance made not he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, doubtless did this lord or lady, perched outside of my Bathroom door— Perched hand upon the brass door handle impatient for my Bathroom door— To open wide and nothing more. Knowing this one beguiling in my sad fancy evilly smiling, ...

It amazes me how little people know about evolution, although it probably shouldn't since so little ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Here is what happens when you expose schools to fundamentalist religions such as Islam, fundamentalist Judaism, or evangelical Christianity. 0-4 Child born, is immediately given a magic bath and trained to pray at night in case they die. 4-6 years enters school, with a fair degree of reasoning still remaining, taught to pray 7-11 years begins to loose sight of reality in favour of bronze age fables and fairy tales 12-16 years taught to replace reasoning with faith and an unfounded conviction that God will see that all will be well, so long as you give him money and don't masturbate 17-18 too busy not having sex 18+ Join army, join church, get married vote for an idiot because he or she says they stand for god and country, and/or old fashioned morals that advocate killing whores, gays, troublemakers, foreigners and scare people who are the wrong colour . Governments like nothing better than a pliable, unquestioning workforce, who accept any old rubbish as true, which is why they still won't tax churches as they provide exactly this in bucket fulls.

I wonder if Superman gets morning steel?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

It has been theorised that if the peristaltic muscles responsible for ejaculation are as proportionately strong in superman as the rest of his muscles, his ejaculations would leave his penis with the velocity of a machine gun bullet, would penetrate the partners body pass through all major organs and then blow their head off. Further since Krytonian sperm would be indestructible and immortal and would be able to fly, thus every woman who came in to contact with such a sperm would likely find themselves in a delicate condition for a few months at which point the first kick from hybrid human/super baby would likely fatally rupture a kidney, the wall of her womb or go crashing up in to the upper body and blow her head off.

For all you "slow coaches" still in the 12th of July please allow me to send you greeting from ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Friday, 13 October 1307 was the night of the long knives when under orders from Pope Boniface VIII, King Philip IV of France (in an attempted reconciliation between church and state) ordered the arrest, torture and disbandment of The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon AKA the knights Templar. Since that Knight (boom boom) the Roman catholic church has deemed Friday the 13th to be a night for the Heretic and sinner to beware the wrath of Gods Kingdom on Earth, the Vatican.

“The salvation of a civilization has to be predicated on a resurrection from the corruption of its...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

That statement is utterly evil. To begin with the uses of the words salvation, resurrection and corruption connote a neo-religious pseudo biblical authority to which it has no right or baring. The presupposition that any society or culture in question needs salvation is an assumption based upon the idea that something is inherently wrong with said culture in the first place this is of course a totally subjective view. Case in point both Islam and Christian cultures believe the other to be in error and in need of “salvation” from damnation. It is basically then an opinion to assert any “civilisation” is in need of “salvation” However even given that this is so to say said salvation “has to be predicated on” anything is again a matter of opinion and circumstance. The salvation of the dog from drowning in the river is predicated on a near infinite number of variables: can I swim? can the dog swim? how deep is the river? how strong is the current? what is the ambient temperature? do I want to save the dog? does the dog want to be saved?...etc In any given circumstance there is no “has to be predicated on” all that “has to be predicated on” is one person's chosen course of action. Opinion again. “a resurrection from the corruption of its language” The grammar here is appalling all one can do is first of make a guess at the implied meaning which might be “a resurrection of the language of the civilisation from corruption” This immediately makes the assumption that the language is a)corrupted and B) is therefore dead. I can think of no instance in history where even a dead language passed from use because of it being corrupted. This statement is in itself a bastardisation of Orwell's “new speak” in the novel 1984 the idea that to control the language is to control the populous and the civilisation, to limit language is to limit thought or at least the expression of thought. The rescue of this civilisation has to rest on the rewriting of the language for the culture to be born anew in the image of those who wish to control it? YUCK! Scary.

Are atheists criticising the wrong things about religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Wow isn't it amazing that since Jordan Peterson started arguing apologetics from the POV of Dostoevsky, so many others have started doing the same?

George Carlin

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

genius

I ran across this and just had to pass it along!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

or conversely if you are an evangelical

For those who've reverted back to atheism...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

one of my ex's left one of these in my flat, so I suppose it counts as a holy holdover

"The earliest Morman accounts state that Smith's 1823 epiphany was the nocturnal visit of a spirit ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

The angel Nephimoron?

"The earliest Morman accounts state that Smith's 1823 epiphany was the nocturnal visit of a spirit ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

Yup it also fails to mention that at the time of the "Vision" in Joseph's bedroom he had his brothers sleeping in there with him, who neither saw nor heard anything and were not woken by Joseph in order that he could tell them about it. Strange too that in every picture of Joseph's nocturnal visits none of this is shown, and that Joseph claimed the "angel" who visited him was Named NEPHI until a few years later he changed his mind and said the Angel was called MORONI An 1842 The Times and Seasons Vol. III pp. 749, 753 a publication edited by Joseph Smith recounting the miraculous visitation says, "When I first looked upon him I was afraid, but the fear soon left me. He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Nephi. "Joseph Smith lived for two years after the name "Nephi" was printed in Times and Seasons and he never published a retraction. It was when Orson Pratt "published The Pearl of Great Price in 1878, that he removed the name of Nephi from the text entirely and inserted the name Moroni in its place" and so it has remained ever since. This is all easily available information and proof that the SCC LIES consistently and culpably.

Good, bad, or in between, what is the weirdest job you've ever had?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

I suppose the oddest one was being a sandwich board man for a blinds company, walking about in a Top Hat, with boards hung over my shoulders handing out leaflets

Men's underwear

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

I hate boxers and Jockeys, I like something that keeps everything in place and out of my way.

Christian Message

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

Love me or Burn Forever, that's how much I love you. GOD

After my g/f visited me these last 2 days, I got to thinking.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

It's been my experience that they do, but god (or whatever) help you if you say no.

As I was raising my children, I used guilt as a tool to help them understand that some behaviors ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

Nothing wrong with making a kid feel guilty when they are guilty. The problem comes when you start imposing false guilt on kids for innocent things, but which you either don't approve of, don't like or just find a bloody nuisance.

Why would anyone want to be anything but a Pirate? Who wouldn't want to be a pirate? anyone?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACyZIXkHq0

What's your favorite name?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

Ben and Klaus for a man Nicola and Rose for women

Church That Posted “LGBTQ Is a Hate Crime” Sign Kicked Out of Building – Friendly Atheist

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

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

My son is hilarious.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

Yes reminds me of a couple of other badly named web sites a directory of therapists therapistfinder.com Power Generation Italy Powergenitalia.com The Speed of art Gallery speedofart.com Mole Station Plant Nursery Molestationnursery.com

It is said to kiss a frog it turns into a a Prince/Princess ?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

this was always one of my favourite variations

AA is agnostic.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

Is that even in English? ^^^^^

Literal translation from German to English -- do you understand what this is trying to say?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwOH3YsraNs

Yeah, I know fairies aren't real, but this is still funny...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

The classical error of The Cumaean Sibyl “Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβνλλα τί ϴέλεις; respondebat illa: άπο ϴανεΐν ϴέλω.” (the wasteland T.S. Elliot) Be careful what you wish for.