A friend of mine said he doesn’t eat nuts because it’s like cannibalism, I said you really are a...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 17, 2018:

With the Surname Hazell I have had that joke all my life. Also this advert was a bane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFgLLjTkA9A

Today in TV History: Oct.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Loved this show.

I'm a fan of all three and think this is a fair analysis.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Supernatural does not even belong on the same page as the other two

A man approached the window of a movie theatre with a chicken on his shoulder and asked for two ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Mike Harding does 25 minute version of this featuring a murdered budgie, a frozen Christmas dinner, a pet shop misunderstanding and a belligerent live turkey in a sealed carrier bag and two oldies in pub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnsMWy4Dhz4

LACKADAISICAL: lack·a·dai·si·cal (adjective): lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Proper Victorian sounding word :)

For those of you into zombie movies, I am trying to find this one zombie flick that came out around...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Can you recall anything else about the film?

What a bunch of clowns. How do people buy into this nonsense? ??

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 17, 2018:

Dems da rulz Not allowed to call yourself Mormon anymore. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/17/us/mormon-church-name-trnd/index.html

What are you really good at that you wouldn't put on your C. V?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 16, 2018:

Sleeping

Welcome new members levan and Reasonpls.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 16, 2018:

Welcome

Since it is ONLY less than 10 weeks from Christmas, I need your help.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 15, 2018:

Okay cannot resit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnEJrwYXXsI

Since it is ONLY less than 10 weeks from Christmas, I need your help.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 15, 2018:

Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever (2014) (Purrrrrrfecty aweful) Arnold Schwarzenegger's Christmas in Connecticut (1992) (Arnies only film as a director) A Christmas Horror Story (2015) (William Shatner links four horror stories about a psychotic Santa, Zombie elves, and Krampus) Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas (2014) (Exactly what it says on the Tin) Last Ounce of Courage (2012) (Veterans declare war on the war on Christmas) Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) last and least in the franchise is a Christmas horror film

Outside Time and Space?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 15, 2018:

Given that existence is defined as being able to be perceived as occupying space and moving through time, a being outside of time and space could have no motion and therefore could not be perceived as possessing any of the traits of existence, and therefore cannot exist. I can only conclude therefore the contention "God exists outside time and space" to be a Self-refuting statement.

Here's a mystery I've been trying to solve for a long time.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 15, 2018:

*"There is no absulute proof there is no god "* Well there is no absolute proof there are no unicorns, fairies, leviathan or odd sock demons, but that gives me no reason to for one moment consider they do exist, the same with god or gods, they are myths made up to explain thing that could not be understood and to amuse child like intellects. Most people will not give up their comfortable delusion because it is comfortable or because they see the only alternative as eternal hell fire and that scares the shit out of them. There is no dilemma other than that of your own making.

My son's partner just told me about her experience with a tarot reader.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 15, 2018:

Was the Tarot reader recommended to your son's partner, by some one who was already a client of the reader, because that might explain a lot.? Hey I know this person who has this ambition to work with animals, would you do a reading for them? If you do go yourself be aware how much info might have been pumped from they about you, before you attend.

antiestablishmentarianism - a policy or attitude that views a nation's power structure as corrupt, ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 15, 2018:

As opposed to antidisestablishmentarianism meaning the people who against the people who are against the establishment, for example the police.

This is hilariously funny not because of the spectacular low speed accident filmed in full glory but...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 15, 2018:

I have noticed this with a lot of drivers all over the world, "road signs are for other people they don't apply to me because I am me and me is special."

SCURRILOUS: scur-ril-ous.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 14, 2018:

From the Latin Scurra meaning basically "a gossip", though the word implies more, a scurra was someone high born who is so bored by not having to work that they provoke drama in the lives of their social circle for the purpose of amusing themselves.

Name your favorite ??

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 14, 2018:

Theater of Blood 1973 The Stranger 1946 Witch finder General 1968 Life of Brian 1979

God Fearing

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 14, 2018:

God Fearing was the standard description for Christians for much of the church's history. The idea of the loving God, is a fairly new idea that only became popular after the introduction of mass literacy. God was to be feared, not loved or respected, he was a king like any other king who ruled by force of arms and threats. Early Christians saw no contradiction in a god who demanded love, obedience and fear under threat of damnation, because that was what was normal to them.

Was the SRA (Satanic Panic) moral panic a psy-op in order to distract from the real elite pedophile ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 14, 2018:

No it was a desperate attempt to divert attention from the institutionalised kiddie fiddling of the Catholic Church and the BBC.

Did Jesus actually exist? yes for yes no for no

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 14, 2018:

There were several claimants to the title Joshua, rendered in Latin as Iesus and in English as Jesus around the non specific time of the Gospel settings, incidents and sayings from the lives of at least nine of them appear in the Gospels as ascribed to The fictional life stories of the Carpenter of Nazareth, written at between 66 and 120 years after the fact.

Just finished watching "Apostle" on Netflix .

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 14, 2018:

I had to stop watching it, first time in years a film was just to cruel and disturbing for me. Beautifully made powerful piece of cinema.

I just sat through a vid made of trailers for upcoming movies.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 14, 2018:

There are, but Holywood won't hire them, and if they by some miracle do, the studio execs stick in their noses and change anything good so as not to show up their other garbage projects. The best films at the moment are all indie movies, European films or Japanese.

Can someone be both an atheist and spiritual?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

You "can" be both spiritual and Atheist, but it takes a big dollop of steaming hypocrisy to do so unless you have 1) a definition for spirituality that makes sense and 2) Evidence to support the existence of spirituality so defined

A Muslim friend whom I know, tells me that I am not a true atheist, atheists don't believe in morals...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

Typical theist, if you cannot argue against an assertion, change the definition of the words to make it a softer target. Hitler was not an atheist, even after abandoning catholicism he was a practicing member of the esoteric Thule society, employed and worked with spiritualist and claimed to follow Teutonic paganism.

THE POPE IGNORES THE DAMAGE AND ANOTHER PRELATE FALLS.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

The RC church is perhaps the single most disgusting organisation to ever befoul human history

Everyone says their religion is the right one.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

This why religion is always in the win win situation, A) if they are right no one comes back to talk about it because it is bliss, B) if thy are wrong no one comes back because they have ceased to exist, but the priest can still claim option A for them.

Is anyone here planning on being at the People's Vote March in London on Saturday (20th)?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

If I can make arrangements to be there.

Beyond the superficial scope of the conscious mind exists the subconscious which is a corridor to ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

I think you mean æther (an imaginary substance thought one to be the matter of souls) Ether is a chemical compound (an anesthetic), and being exposed to it will leave your mind anything but conscious

Two movie dates coming up.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

Can't anymore, none left in the North East of England Cineworld or Showcase. The last indie Cinema, "The Turner's Electric Cinema" in Stockton on Tees was pulled down five years ago, I used to do volunteer box office there. 100 seat capacity, perched on top of an insurance office, Showed only films that were at least thirty years old. It was great.

I need help

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

Put it to the test, once and for all. Stand up, speak aloud and say the following. Dear God, I deny the holy ghost, THE unforgivable sin If you exist prove yourself to me now Strike me down if you can you cowardly bitch Appear in front of me and say hello, you wanker Give me a reason for all your fuckwittery But you won't, because you don't exist Go on prove me wrong, jealous and wrathful god with a small g well nothing has happened, I am talking to myself and it is the last time Fuck religion, fuck magic, fuck churches and fuck gods. When nothing happens, and it will not, get on with your life knowing that either you are free of the delusion or are going to hell for the unforgivable sin and so need not even think about god ever again, either way your rid of it. :)

I'm 62 and am planning my funeral.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

I've told my family to stick me in a bin bag and throw me in the incinerator, cheapest possible funeral, if at all. If people want to have a bit of a piss up to recall what a bastard I was they can feel free to do it at their own expense. I'll be dead, what does it matter to me what is done with my corpse?

Today is National No Bra Day.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 13, 2018:

No put it back on, your under moobs will get sore

Do you remember the three rules? ?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Don't sell him to a wandering loony inventor Don't let him watch television Don't piss him off or he'll go all Rambo on your ass.

Do you think there progress in philosophy?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Philosophy is the love of wisdom. That's enough for me to want to continue on with it.

I just got home from attending one of my best friends funeral.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Just because it is a nice story does not make it real. However memories are real, and they do stay with you.

Do you accept or reject objective morality?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

No such thing as objective morality, circumstance should dictate action not moral certitudes. There is no so called objective moral truth that in one circumstance or another would be considered an act of evil. My general rule is pragmatic, if an action preserves or creates a greater good in terms of life and well being, when inactions would cause the opposite then it is fair to judge it as subjectively moral.

A statement I've often heard from the Theists is that Human Morality comes only and directly from ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Theists also claim the world is only 6000 years old, snakes can talk, and that a 2000 year old dead Jewish Zombie carpenter will burn you for all eternity if you don't have him put in a good word for you with his psyco dad. One other crazy claim is not something I would loose sleep over.

A forgotten classic [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Make your bed up high pray into the sky close the window close the door makes no difference if you're rich or poor. Get on your knees scream please that man just love to tease. Try to run get a gun he just laugh it make it more fun. And it makes no difference if you're yellow or you're red when that bad man say tonight is the night you are dead. And it makes no difference if you're black or you're white for Tokoloshe tonight is the night is the night is the night. Hard like rock ain't got no soul he can make the sun feel cold. Put an eclipse on the moon make a little cloud forty day monsoon. Don't recognize no hawk don't recognize no dove Bad tokoloshe man he don't even recognize love And it makes no difference if you're yellow or you're red when that bad man say tonight is the night you are dead. And it makes no difference if you're black or you're white for Tokoloshe tonight is the night is the night is the night. Only thing I can say to you is you gotta be good an'you gotta be true think about Jesus Christ. think about Jesus Christ. And it makes...

"Jimi Hendrix, Experience." 1969. (poster)

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Like Janis Joplin and a few others of this era, a true performer for who the musical talent was only equaled by the passion for the music.

Conversation starter.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

The original time line, all you have done is create an alternate.

phantasmagoria - a sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

There was a horror film magazine in the UK years ago called **Fang' Gorier ** the apostrophe presumably replacing the "tasma"

Have always wondered why 42

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

In Japanese the pronunciation of 42 Shi Ni is almost the same as the Japanese term for a death Shini as used in shinigami a grim reaper. Therefore much as 13 is avoided in the west 42 is avoided in Japan, no room 42 in a hotel, no forty second floor in a sky scrapper If 42 is death, is death the answer to life the universe and everything?

Evolution And The Loony Tunes Right-Wing.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ~H.L. Mencken, The Evening Sun, July 26, 1920.

There was a court case where a preacher husband convinced his wife to commit suicide so he could use...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Religious people can convince themselves of anything, and always have the old favourite to fall back on "God told me to do it and who am I to argue with the all wise? ”

All empires fall and America is an imperial empire with garrisons around the world.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Rome fell when the idealists emperors and senators were overthrown by the business men, speculators and accounts, then economics replaced pragmatism and empire fell. Same thing happens with all empires. Sound familiar

Is the solution to "hate speech" more speech or less speech?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Education, discussion and reason

Horsefeathers - interjection (sort of), used to express disagreement, disbelief, or frustration.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Horsefeathers a expletive simile implying something does not exist, used in the same fashion as Rocking Horse shit, budgie's teeth, or a left handed hammer. It is also a terrific Marx Bros Movie

Codswallop: noun, nonsense.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

In the heyday of the temperance movement one gentleman name Hiram Codd, invented a form of bottling that sealed the neck of the bottle with an air tight seal using a glass marble as a valve, but was easy to open with a push of the thumb. The Beer industry immediately offered Mr Codd a huge contract to make the Codd Neck Bottles for them so as to keep beer carbonated. Codd however refused them the licence and instead started a business selling stay fizzy carbonated fruit drinks and sold them as a beverage with a none intoxicating kick. In time Fizzy Pop became known as Codd's Wallop (Wallop being a cockney term for Beer) However among the drinking crowd and the breweries Codswallop became a derogatory term for none alcoholic beverages and then in time for any thing inferior or a Knockoff. Ironically today Codd Neck bottles are only used in brewing, the patent having been purchased from Hiram Codd's Family after his death.

Please consider signing this, if true it is highly important "He put children into cages, pulled ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Thanks all

We keep losing longer term members - some who were top contributors.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

If someone insults you, or you don't like them, block them. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

QUERULOUS.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Hence professor Querul in the first Harry Potter book?

Elaine Reynolds :o Miss October 1959 : Playboy Centerfold (nudes) not for the faint of heart ;)

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

And today she would be told to take slimming pills because she is to fat and too old to be a model, which simply shows that modern media has no idea what most men like in a woman, for her to be a woman not a Juvenile emaciated stick insect.

Witches Outnumber Presbyterians in the US; Wicca, Paganism Growing 'Astronomically' ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

Shouldn't that be "astrologically"?

Ah, yes.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

We live in a world where this is on the NEWS

If a bra is an ....???

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

I know that if a bra is an upper decker over the shoulder boulder holder, a Jock Strap is supposed to be a Lower decker knacker sacker

Elvgren Art

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

I have a dvd filled with 1950s pin ups, Alberto Vargas (my favourite see below), Gil Elvgren (of course), Enoch Bolles and the great pulp artist Tom Lovell ( who under various pseudonyms also did Book of Mormon Illustrations) etc

A little old lady who had lost her marbles was walking up and down the halls in a nursing home.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

There is a true story of the Queen Mother visiting an old people's home and being introduced to their eldest resident, a venerable old lady of 102 years old. The Queen mum took her hand and kindly asked "Do you know who I am dear?" The Old lady patted the Queen Mum's hand in return and said with a smile "Don't worry luv, ask one of the nurses and they'll tell you."

Why blame "god" for natural disasters ? Its only nature after all

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

It is the appropriation of the Causal Fallacy for the purposes of instilling fear and obedience in the ignorant and gullible. Throw in a good dollop of the argument from ignorance and you have a useful theological weapon. 1) State an intended course of action will provoke God's wrath 2) When course of action is pursued warn again of impending punishment refer to bible passages as "proof" 3) Wait until anything thing bad happens anywhere, then cry "I warned you" and equate bad thing with some biblical precedent 4) when asked how the events are connected declaim loudly "What else could it be" 5) If laughed at dare them to do it again and "see what happens" 6) repeat.

What is "Compartmentalization" with regard to religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

It is a misuse of an actual world for the purposes of euphemistically excusing expedient hypocrisy.

ALTERCATE. - Verb....to bandy words, wrangle, to argue noisily and publicly: Noun...Altercation.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

EQUIVOCATE To use the linguistic trick of deliberate confusing homonyms or alternate contextual readings of a word for the sake of winning an argument or making a point, in humour known as a pun or play on words. eg witchcraft does not work It does but you need to practise it confusing Practice (Noun the carrying out of an occupation) with Practise (verb to rehearse in order to improve) even more confusing in the USA where both the noun and the verb are spelled with a C The Angel Lucifer fell from grace However Grace was not very pleased about that confusing the name Grace with the spiritual state of grace to make a pun and subvert expectations.

A woman finds an injured snake.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vjfw7UHl_E

Red Box Pics

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 11, 2018:

We don't have rd box in the UK is it a streaming service?

“This sentence is false." Is it true or false?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

neither it is a linguist paradox

Yes I do...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

The pope is a geriatric alleged virgin who has dedicated his life to promoting belief in an obnoxious fantasy genocidal bigot in order to exploit the weak willed and gullible. I don't think I am going to take his advice on how to live a good life too seriously.

Who's thoughts and ideas do you enjoy more on the topic of religion/spiritually/humanity?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

Matt Dillahunty

ILLEIST: (IL-ee-ist) noun: One who refers to oneself in the third person.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSwz4m6GQZI https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e3xox

Should women be spelt womxn?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

Not something I would think about either, so long as the word used means the female of the human species, who cares. I know what a Woman is, I had no idea what a wammin, wimmin or womxn is until it was explained to me, which just seemed an unnecessary complication. But even that aside in old English all adult people were called a Man, a wife man or a husband man, in time wife man became woman and husbandman became an agricultural profession and so the male was reduced to simply man. Interestingly all children were called girls, as the word boy meant servant for either sex. Females were gay girls and males knave girls. The sexual associations in all these titles is a fairly recent occurrence.

Can you be a Wiccan and call yourself an Atheist?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

So long as you profess no conviction in the existence of a god or gods, you are an atheist. My wife is a Druid but associates with many wiccans she is not an atheist since she holds a belief in nature as a deity some wiccans hold a belief in the divine feminine and the male principle sometimes personified as Cernunnos or Herne but that is not her personal system of belief.

One favorite QUOTE : "THE PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD is that intelligent people are full of doubts .

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats,

PSA: Don't see Smallfoot.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

So an abominable movie in more ways than one? ;)

During this Kavanaugh debacle, and then when I see the President mocking a woman who believes she...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

The Kavanaugh debacle is exactly that, Trump is a pig who draws no line aof decency at mocking men, women, the disabled, his own children. Both men and women are portrayed sexually in the media that is part of what the media is and always was. MY Father and my Mother both loved Benny Hill because he was *funny* and ribbed both men and women. Schoolboy immature humour is not worse than Schoolgirl immature humour and both persist in to adulthood. People are people, true and people make jokes, all jokes have victims, that is part of why humour is essential to mental well being. If you see a lonely old age stretching out in front of you that is your choice, if you hold the world to impossible and undesirable standards, you have no one to blame but yourself.

The new world, "breakfast of champions", tick tock, me too.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 10, 2018:

Welcome

Halloween party ???

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

Groan

@Admin here is an humanist story for your files -"Man catches falling home alone 7 yo.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

This is why people should have to have a licence to be a parent

Just as the USA has its rifle association Australia has its racing fraternity.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

Though on a practical level I can see the difference between an act of actual vandalism and a projected advertisement, I would argue that the Opera house is an inappropriate venue to be Commercialised in such an act of cultural vandalism. It seems disrespectful to the architect, the patrons, the artistic and the aesthetic purposes and their intent. I am sure this sets a poor precedent that WILL be exploited in the future

What is your Definition of:

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

1) Atheist Someone who has insufficient evidence to justify the reality of a god or gods 2) Agnostic An Atheist with out the courage of their convictions 3) Spiritual In the context of this discussion a hypocrite

What is an odd thing that you tell yourself whenever you need to be comforted?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

"And this, too, shall pass away." Abraham Lincoln (misquoting King Solomon)

Sneezing and 'bless you'?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

When some one says it to me I appreciate the sentiment while ignoring phraseology. When some one else sneezes I usually say Gesundheit (German for good health)

What is the meaning of life for a godless man/woman/country/world??

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

Leaving the world a little bit better than you found it. A duty to my descendants.

Did the Bible make you an Atheist?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

It helped, it definitely helped

LOQUACIOUS - Adjective.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

Hmmm things could have been so different

Hello, I'm a Utah transplant.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 8, 2018:

Welcome to the group

We all make up our own story...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 8, 2018:

It's an old saying that a mother's best advice to ad daughter seeking a husband is talk to him about him.

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Hannah and her sisters

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Serial Mom

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Buffy the Vampire slayer 1992

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Beaches

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Hocus Pocus

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

What ever happened to Baby Jane

It's hard to pick only one...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Out of that selection, the Tobe Hooper version of Salem's Lot, no question in my mind. With Halloween 1978, a close second.

SPOILERS S11 E1 The Woman Who Fell to Earth A discussion thread for discussing the episode after...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Sat and watched it prepared to hate it, and within minutes found myself enthralled. Chibnal has given us back classic Who. This is not NU-Who, this is a doctor the like of which has not been seen since the 70's or perhaps even the 60's. I have not enjoyed a season premier as much since 2005

The Real Medusa: THE STORY BEHIND THE MEDUSA STATUE THAT HAS BECOME THE PERFECT AVATAR FOR ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Only in Ovid's version of the Medusa myth(one of the last of the classical versions ever written) was the rape by Poseidon added. Something unlikely as Phorcys and Ceto thee parents of Medusa were also the Gods of the sea, in an entirely different pantheon to Poseidon. In most versions of the story the Gorgons (a Greek word for Grim ones) were born monstrous and only Medusa has snake hair which was considered a blessing as it made her an even more fierce warrior. She was slain by Perseus because he was commanded to do so by Polydectes a suitor for his mother as a wedding gift to them. Polydectes did this not because he hated Medusa, but because he believed she was the only warrior capable of Killing Perseus. He was wrong of course, Perseus being the bastard son of Zeus was equipped with magical weapons in order to cheat (He killed her while she was a sleep). Right up until Roman times the image of Medusa was worn on breast plates of great warriors as a sign of respect and power.

Is anyone else tired of the philosophical crap about the existence of a theistic God?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

It is not "philosophical crap" it is "Theological crap" Theology is that bastard child of metal gymnastics and wishful thinking.

Sounds like one of those strange and mysterious ways situations.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

It is like when you hear that a fortune teller was knocked down by a car and they never saw it coming.

What made it hard to have faith in a god?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Faith does not work, prayer does not work, faith requires acceptance of the unacceptable and continual acts of self delusion. The final straw was that other peoples faiths in other gods, spirits, deities and angels were just as strong and just as ineffective as my own, therefore if they were all wrong, I was probably wrong too.

Stupid shit like this makes my blood boil! 1. Why the fuck is this considered newsworthy?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

"Sorry, this content is not available in your region." Lucky us :)

Any thoughts on the theories of Eric Von Daniken?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Von Daniken was a fraud, a cheat and a liar. However he was the first and the inspiration for those alternate historians that now have revealed how so much of history was skewed by religion and politics and capitalism. My friend Lynn Picknett admits to Von Daniken being an inspiration for her research and many books on alternate history, while at the same time deriding him as I do as a con man.

Let's have some fun, Name Something that is now funny to you but at the time it was not ???

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

My first marriage and Mormon temple ordinances

Increasingly, there doesn't seen to be any genuine love in the world.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Love requires three things Total honesty Complete trust And complete and determined tolerance Oddly the last of these is the hardest to maintain, so many times it is the quirk that first attracted you to the other person that becomes the reason for leaving them. for example He was such a free spirit...becomes....he's utterly Lazy and useless She is so full of joy and laughter...becomes....she's such a bimbo who would laugh if her arse was on fire Such a bad boy... total and utter bastard