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"The writing is on the wall.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Part of the power of the marketing of social media was the freedom of expression, the privacy and the anonymity to share opinions of all kinds and allow the "Undesirables" to simply fade away in to obscurity as "decent Normal" people would simply ignore them.
That however is not what happened, because what the governments failed to remember was that people are in the majority of cases idiots.
Morons, bigots and misery mongers are in the majority, because almost everyone has a beef about something and is looking for someone to blame it on who is not themselves.
When computer technology was made so simple even a cretin could use it the internet became a gathering place for discontent and a world wide open forum for dissension.
At which point it becomes clear the internet was never free, private or anonymous and that everything everyone says has been recorded, stored and in some cases used to track down people with the "wrong" ideas without ever openly discussing what a "wrong" thought is.
Soon to it becomes clear than the one thing more dangerous than a moronic idiot, is an educated idiot who not only thinks they know better than everyone else but thinks everyone else should know better too and starts playing at being the thought police.
Public opinion becomes mob mentality, democracy becomes Ochlocracy and the mob begins demanding back freedoms they never had in the first place and that freedoms be taken from the "wrong people."
I was once asked how dictators rise up if the majority of the people are not behind them, because surely majority rules?
I said no, dictators are carried to power by a loud minority with powerful media on their side, you need not oppress a majority, you simply tell them they oppressed until they are so frightened they oppress themselves or worse demand to be oppressed in order to feel safe.
Social media is the most powerful weapon ever given to the human race, the governments thought it would be their tool, instead it was wrestled away from them and turned on them like a child with daddy's gun and now their reaction is to try and snatch it back by legislation, to put the safety catch on after the bullet has been fired.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Part of the power of the marketing of social media was the freedom of expression, the privacy and the anonymity to share opinions of all kinds and allow the "Undesirables" to simply fade away in to obscurity as "decent Normal" people would simply ignore them.
That however is not what happened, because what the governments failed to remember was that people are in the majority of cases idiots.
Morons, bigots and misery mongers are in the majority, because almost everyone has a beef about something and is looking for someone to blame it on who is not themselves.
When computer technology was made so simple even a cretin could use it the internet became a gathering place for discontent and a world wide open forum for dissension.
At which point it becomes clear the internet was never free, private or anonymous and that everything everyone says has been recorded, stored and in some cases used to track down people with the "wrong" ideas without ever openly discussing what a "wrong" thought is.
Soon to it becomes clear than the one thing more dangerous than a moronic idiot, is an educated idiot who not only thinks they know better than everyone else but thinks everyone else should know better too and starts playing at being the thought police.
Public opinion becomes mob mentality, democracy becomes Ochlocracy and the mob begins demanding back freedoms they never had in the first place and that freedoms be taken from the "wrong people."
I was once asked how dictators rise up if the majority of the people are not behind them, because surely majority rules?
I said no, dictators are carried to power by a loud minority with powerful media on their side, you need not oppress a majority, you simply tell them they oppressed until they are so frightened they oppress themselves or worse demand to be oppressed in order to feel safe.
Social media is the most powerful weapon ever given to the human race, the governments thought it would be their tool, instead it was wrestled away from them and turned on them like a child with daddy's gun and now their reaction is to try and snatch it back by legislation, to put the safety catch on after the bullet has been fired.
Men's equality vs machismo.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Part of the idea of men's rights and gender equality is, without destroying the difference, allow men and women the freedom to be who they really are without being judged for it.
No more of these stupid unwritten but almost universally accepted rules like
Boys don't cry (without being thought gay)
Girls can't be tough (without being called a tomboy)
Certain clothes and colour are only for one gender or the other
A man can't be the stay at home parent
Women can only be mothers, wives, nurses or secretaries
etc etc
Machismo in men is an affectation the equivalent of being "girly" in women and is something done to not to prove who you are but to prove what you are not, as such it is pathetic.
True masculinity/femininity comes from attitude, moral strength, good character and most of all from self confidence when all people of either gender ( born or chosen) understand that there will be true equality based on mutual respect and not sets of arbitrary, enforced do-gooder rules based on biased opinions and outdated traditions.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Part of the idea of men's rights and gender equality is, without destroying the difference, allow men and women the freedom to be who they really are without being judged for it.
No more of these stupid unwritten but almost universally accepted rules like
Boys don't cry (without being thought gay)
Girls can't be tough (without being called a tomboy)
Certain clothes and colour are only for one gender or the other
A man can't be the stay at home parent
Women can only be mothers, wives, nurses or secretaries
etc etc
Machismo in men is an affectation the equivalent of being "girly" in women and is something done to not to prove who you are but to prove what you are not, as such it is pathetic.
True masculinity/femininity comes from attitude, moral strength, good character and most of all from self confidence when all people of either gender ( born or chosen) understand that there will be true equality based on mutual respect and not sets of arbitrary, enforced do-gooder rules based on biased opinions and outdated traditions.
What movies have your favorite scenes of sword fighting?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Scaramouche (1952) without a doubt, the climax of the film is the greatest sword fight ever put on film, and what is more the entire scene is done by the actors Mel Ferrer and Stewart Granger, both of who are actually acomplished swordsmen, no stunt doubles and substitutions and very few cuts or edits, the majority of the fight done in one take with multiple cameras.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x53yxek
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Scaramouche (1952) without a doubt, the climax of the film is the greatest sword fight ever put on film, and what is more the entire scene is done by the actors Mel Ferrer and Stewart Granger, both of who are actually acomplished swordsmen, no stunt doubles and substitutions and very few cuts or edits, the majority of the fight done in one take with multiple cameras.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x53yxek
Who is into foriegn films? I do love me a good Japanese western!
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
If you mean films made in a language other than English, that's me; I love Japanese, Korean, Tai, Indian, German and French movies, Spain is reemerging as a leader in horror films there are some fun films coming out of Russia and Scandinavia. (Most people have forgotten that prior to the founding of Hollywood Denmark was the most prolific film making country in the world)
On the other hand a foreign language film dubbed in to English for me is an abomination unless I speak the language it is subtitles or nothing. When there are so many talented voice actors are doing animation, why is it that film dubbing companies seem to think sticking your head out of a window and shouting at passers by "Hey you, comm'ere and read this" is sufficient?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
If you mean films made in a language other than English, that's me; I love Japanese, Korean, Tai, Indian, German and French movies, Spain is reemerging as a leader in horror films there are some fun films coming out of Russia and Scandinavia. (Most people have forgotten that prior to the founding of Hollywood Denmark was the most prolific film making country in the world)
On the other hand a foreign language film dubbed in to English for me is an abomination unless I speak the language it is subtitles or nothing. When there are so many talented voice actors are doing animation, why is it that film dubbing companies seem to think sticking your head out of a window and shouting at passers by "Hey you, comm'ere and read this" is sufficient?
Those things have sold more stuff to men than any amount of logic…
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Does not work when they are plastic implant, implants are the sexual equivalent of a hungry person biting in to a delicious looking hamburger and it bouncing back and squeaking
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 12, 2018:
Does not work when they are plastic implant, implants are the sexual equivalent of a hungry person biting in to a delicious looking hamburger and it bouncing back and squeaking
Did you know any of these?
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LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Everyone almost always forgets Geoffrey Hughes as the Valeyard, I've caught out a few people in pub quizzes with that one.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Everyone almost always forgets Geoffrey Hughes as the Valeyard, I've caught out a few people in pub quizzes with that one.
Was Rand correct
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Yes, by entirely fallacious reasoning she came to the right conclusion, or rather observed the right conclusion and then tried to explain it in terms she found acceptable to her philosophy.
Humans like all life are imperitively driven to survive, reproduce and perpetuate their particular genetic line of the species.
In this we are subject to imperative programming, hard wired if you will, at every level from our macroscopic societies to our microscopic DNA.
Acts of cooperation only become necessary and desirable to us when they achieve this end by acting as a group.
When people act in a perceived socially moral way it in order to protect the genetic line to ensure the continuation of the line and species.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Yes, by entirely fallacious reasoning she came to the right conclusion, or rather observed the right conclusion and then tried to explain it in terms she found acceptable to her philosophy.
Humans like all life are imperitively driven to survive, reproduce and perpetuate their particular genetic line of the species.
In this we are subject to imperative programming, hard wired if you will, at every level from our macroscopic societies to our microscopic DNA.
Acts of cooperation only become necessary and desirable to us when they achieve this end by acting as a group.
When people act in a perceived socially moral way it in order to protect the genetic line to ensure the continuation of the line and species.
A rather enjoyable movie!
Sleuth
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LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Excellent version, far superior to the remake.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Excellent version, far superior to the remake.
An old Italian man in Brooklyn is dying.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
There is the story of a hard working but not to successful business man who comes home to find his house has been painted, his garden being tended by a gardener and his front door being opened to him by a butler.
"Were is my wife?" he demands to know.
"You will find madame in the master bedroom" replies the butler.
The chap runs upstairs to find his wife in a lace negligee, sitting up in bed eating chocolates and watching a brand new 60" TV.
Oddly in one corner of the room is a small man wearing only a bowler hat, glasses and socks doing press up by the open window.
"What's going on?" the husband demands." I am away working hard and I come home to this... Who painted the house?"
His wife nods toward the little fellow who is now doing sit ups, "he did," she says
"And who hired the servants?"
Again she nods to the little fellow now doing naked star Jumps.
"And the carpets, curtains and that TV!"
"All him." she replies, "he is my lover."
The Business man drops his coat and brief case and storms across the room toward the little fellow, who is now doing toe touches.
"YOU THERE" Shouts the husband, "What do you think your doing?"
The little man stands up puzzled as the husband strides toward him and says...
"Close the bloody window, you'll catch your death of cold."
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
There is the story of a hard working but not to successful business man who comes home to find his house has been painted, his garden being tended by a gardener and his front door being opened to him by a butler.
"Were is my wife?" he demands to know.
"You will find madame in the master bedroom" replies the butler.
The chap runs upstairs to find his wife in a lace negligee, sitting up in bed eating chocolates and watching a brand new 60" TV.
Oddly in one corner of the room is a small man wearing only a bowler hat, glasses and socks doing press up by the open window.
"What's going on?" the husband demands." I am away working hard and I come home to this... Who painted the house?"
His wife nods toward the little fellow who is now doing sit ups, "he did," she says
"And who hired the servants?"
Again she nods to the little fellow now doing naked star Jumps.
"And the carpets, curtains and that TV!"
"All him." she replies, "he is my lover."
The Business man drops his coat and brief case and storms across the room toward the little fellow, who is now doing toe touches.
"YOU THERE" Shouts the husband, "What do you think your doing?"
The little man stands up puzzled as the husband strides toward him and says...
"Close the bloody window, you'll catch your death of cold."
How about we put Pat Robertson out front of the storm and watch Jesus stop the storm...?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
How about we put Pat Robertson out front of a truck.....
No that's all :)
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
How about we put Pat Robertson out front of a truck.....
No that's all :)
See what happens when you apply political correctness
TV viewers prefer to watch giant men in ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Get woke, Go Broke
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Get woke, Go Broke
Compared to believers in this world, the number of Atheists and agnostics are way too small.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Truth is most believers are members of religions in the same way that people who live in a town involve themselves in the community.
They will identify with it on a causal basic, but know nothing about what is going on, do nothing, resent being asked to do anything and begrudge every minute and penny demanded from it.
However if some one insults their "tribe" or tries to shut it down, suddenly they get indignant refuse to believe true information for for it might reflect badly on themselves and will enjoy a good punch up on behalf of it to make the trouble go away.
Most Christians have never read the bible, only pray when they want something or are scared shitless, go to church maybe five times in their life for christenings, weddings and funerals, and can reciet one version or another of the Lords prayer off by heart because they learned it in school, but have no idea what it means outside of having something to do with trespassing and sliced bread.
Much is becoming the same for the majority of British born Muslims and every moderate Jew I know only claims to be culturally Jewish and otherwise agnostic or Atheist.
I assume much the same is happening to Hindus and Sheiks.
Religion is lip service if that among millennials and my own grandchildren find religion hilariously stupid as do most of their friends.
Time and the internet are killing religion, my generation may not see the the fall, but I'm waching the decline with a big grin on my face.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Truth is most believers are members of religions in the same way that people who live in a town involve themselves in the community.
They will identify with it on a causal basic, but know nothing about what is going on, do nothing, resent being asked to do anything and begrudge every minute and penny demanded from it.
However if some one insults their "tribe" or tries to shut it down, suddenly they get indignant refuse to believe true information for for it might reflect badly on themselves and will enjoy a good punch up on behalf of it to make the trouble go away.
Most Christians have never read the bible, only pray when they want something or are scared shitless, go to church maybe five times in their life for christenings, weddings and funerals, and can reciet one version or another of the Lords prayer off by heart because they learned it in school, but have no idea what it means outside of having something to do with trespassing and sliced bread.
Much is becoming the same for the majority of British born Muslims and every moderate Jew I know only claims to be culturally Jewish and otherwise agnostic or Atheist.
I assume much the same is happening to Hindus and Sheiks.
Religion is lip service if that among millennials and my own grandchildren find religion hilariously stupid as do most of their friends.
Time and the internet are killing religion, my generation may not see the the fall, but I'm waching the decline with a big grin on my face.
Compared to believers in this world, the number of Atheists and agnostics are way too small.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
yes
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
yes
Anyone looking forward to seeing the Venom movie?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Just what I was thinking, this had to be done as a horror film for it to work (see Spiderman 3 for how not to do it) and treating it as essentially Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a stroke of genius.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Just what I was thinking, this had to be done as a horror film for it to work (see Spiderman 3 for how not to do it) and treating it as essentially Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a stroke of genius.
Anyone remember the Trinity movies?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Bud Spencer was NOT Terrance Hill's side kick he was his partner.
Spencer (real name Carlo Pedersoli) was a celebrity and star Years before meeting Hill who was at that time still a child star trying to break in to being an a mature actor.
He was an Olympic swimmer and an accomplished lawyer before becoming an actor full time.
He Met Hill in 1967 when they were partnered as first and third lead on "God Forgives I don't" (they had both been in Hannibal in 1959, but not together Hill was only 19 at the time Spencer was 30)
Director Enzo Barboni saw the potential for the two to be Italy's Laurel and Hardy and partnered them three years later.
He even named Spencer's character Bambino Italian for Babe Oliver Hardy's life long nickname.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Bud Spencer was NOT Terrance Hill's side kick he was his partner.
Spencer (real name Carlo Pedersoli) was a celebrity and star Years before meeting Hill who was at that time still a child star trying to break in to being an a mature actor.
He was an Olympic swimmer and an accomplished lawyer before becoming an actor full time.
He Met Hill in 1967 when they were partnered as first and third lead on "God Forgives I don't" (they had both been in Hannibal in 1959, but not together Hill was only 19 at the time Spencer was 30)
Director Enzo Barboni saw the potential for the two to be Italy's Laurel and Hardy and partnered them three years later.
He even named Spencer's character Bambino Italian for Babe Oliver Hardy's life long nickname.
Anyone remember the Trinity movies?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
I love Terrance Hill/Bud Spencer Movies "Watch out we're mad" is my favourite.
There were actually only two Trinity movies, (they call me Trinity & Trinity is still my name with Spencer and Hill as Trinity and Bambino directed and writen by Enzo Barboni ) the others were just other Spaghetti westerns staring Terrance Hill marketed outside Italy as Trinity films. The Nobody films were a rip off, made by another studio to cash in.
Man of the East is the nearest to a 3rd Trinity movie but has no Bud Spencer.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
I love Terrance Hill/Bud Spencer Movies "Watch out we're mad" is my favourite.
There were actually only two Trinity movies, (they call me Trinity & Trinity is still my name with Spencer and Hill as Trinity and Bambino directed and writen by Enzo Barboni ) the others were just other Spaghetti westerns staring Terrance Hill marketed outside Italy as Trinity films. The Nobody films were a rip off, made by another studio to cash in.
Man of the East is the nearest to a 3rd Trinity movie but has no Bud Spencer.
Just a suggestion.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Wonderful
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Wonderful
Who's going to watch this one? I believe I'm going to give it a try. ??
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Same Director as Rec. that is good enough for me to want to see it.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Same Director as Rec. that is good enough for me to want to see it.
Did you know?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Han Solo was originally written for Robert Vaughn but he too turned it down because they only offered him 0.5% of the gross and he was convinced it would bomb, Harrison ford was either Fifth or sixth choice.
Incidentally Alec Guinness took the part of Obi Wan for fun and as a favour to George Lucas barely expecting his 0.2% to cover his expenses. $Ching!
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
Han Solo was originally written for Robert Vaughn but he too turned it down because they only offered him 0.5% of the gross and he was convinced it would bomb, Harrison ford was either Fifth or sixth choice.
Incidentally Alec Guinness took the part of Obi Wan for fun and as a favour to George Lucas barely expecting his 0.2% to cover his expenses. $Ching!
Did you know?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
He also did a deal with Clint Eastwood to exchange his part in Every which way but loose, with eastwood's role in Sharky's Machine, because he thought a film with an Orangutan was bound to bomb.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 11, 2018:
He also did a deal with Clint Eastwood to exchange his part in Every which way but loose, with eastwood's role in Sharky's Machine, because he thought a film with an Orangutan was bound to bomb.
Are we free?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
"We are free to be who we are without fear or guilt."
I wonder if that would have worked as a defense at the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy or Peter Sutcliffe?
The only freedom people have is to suffer the consequences of their actions and more importantly their inactions.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
"We are free to be who we are without fear or guilt."
I wonder if that would have worked as a defense at the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy or Peter Sutcliffe?
The only freedom people have is to suffer the consequences of their actions and more importantly their inactions.
LOL so me, how about you? ??
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
yup
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
yup
💯 exactly my thoughts today
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
Never heard it put better
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
Never heard it put better
So my boyfriend and I who have been dating for about a year moved in together and the other night we...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
I would ask your mum to get God in on a conference call so he can tell you himself what he wants, rather than play Chinese whispers. If God does not have the good manners to talk to you in person, then he is not someone polite enough to be worth taking marital advice from.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
I would ask your mum to get God in on a conference call so he can tell you himself what he wants, rather than play Chinese whispers. If God does not have the good manners to talk to you in person, then he is not someone polite enough to be worth taking marital advice from.
Watchmakers Argument ⌚
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
The simple answer is, you know the watch is a construction because you can compare it to natural non constructed items such as a tree.
So you know the watch infers a watchmaker because you know what a non designed object looks like, so that being the case why would you think the world is designed because it obviously isn't because we know what a designed object is.
The usual answer to this is that yes individual bits of nature don't look designed but they work together perfectly and DOES look designed.
Except of course they don't, but even putting that aside, the individual bit of a watch ALL look designed so if a designed systems is made up of designed components in a watch, why do the individual bits of nature NOT look designed as was just admitted?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
The simple answer is, you know the watch is a construction because you can compare it to natural non constructed items such as a tree.
So you know the watch infers a watchmaker because you know what a non designed object looks like, so that being the case why would you think the world is designed because it obviously isn't because we know what a designed object is.
The usual answer to this is that yes individual bits of nature don't look designed but they work together perfectly and DOES look designed.
Except of course they don't, but even putting that aside, the individual bit of a watch ALL look designed so if a designed systems is made up of designed components in a watch, why do the individual bits of nature NOT look designed as was just admitted?
Philip Zimbardo: The psychology of evil | TED Talk
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
It was recently outed in the first half of this year, that the whole Stanford Prison experiment was a fraud, Zimbardo had skewed the results to get what he wanted by secretly briefing some of the participants before hand, instructing "guards" to be tough and having a drama student fake a mental breakdown.
This talk is ten years old, when the reputation of the experiment was still in tact.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
It was recently outed in the first half of this year, that the whole Stanford Prison experiment was a fraud, Zimbardo had skewed the results to get what he wanted by secretly briefing some of the participants before hand, instructing "guards" to be tough and having a drama student fake a mental breakdown.
This talk is ten years old, when the reputation of the experiment was still in tact.
Give peace a chance.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
It shouldn't be funny but it is
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
It shouldn't be funny but it is
I am currently reading "Flight or Fright" - it is a book of short horror stories about flying.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
I was sure as I was going to be terrified flying as I am very acrophobic but when I actually did fly, it did not bother me at all, probably something to do with being in a seal compartment fools the brain in to thinking you are still on the ground?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 10, 2018:
I was sure as I was going to be terrified flying as I am very acrophobic but when I actually did fly, it did not bother me at all, probably something to do with being in a seal compartment fools the brain in to thinking you are still on the ground?
I saw Peppermint today and thought it was awesome.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Theatre of Blood 1973
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Theatre of Blood 1973
How many have seen this movie? I have seen it many times it is so hilarious. ????
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Saw this when I was a lad, always been a big Lucille Ball fan, very funny lady.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Saw this when I was a lad, always been a big Lucille Ball fan, very funny lady.
I have recieved a rather lengthy message from a member who is having issues with an account.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Why do they want to keep their identity secret?
What are they afraid of?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Why do they want to keep their identity secret?
What are they afraid of?
St.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
an oldie but a goldie
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
an oldie but a goldie
What the car in Smokey and the Bandit looked like
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Never peep behind the curtain, if you want you illusions to stay in tact.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Never peep behind the curtain, if you want you illusions to stay in tact.
How many think or feel that god is just nature making man as god as anything else?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
What did Ethel say Winnie? ?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
What did Ethel say Winnie? ?
Life after death. Yes or no?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
In the sense of natural recycling and the living cells of my body becoming living cells of something else after consumption
yes.
In the sense of surviving personalities transmigrating or ascending
No, that is just wishful thinking and cowardice.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
In the sense of natural recycling and the living cells of my body becoming living cells of something else after consumption
yes.
In the sense of surviving personalities transmigrating or ascending
No, that is just wishful thinking and cowardice.
I just thought i would post that i am rather shaken by the recent death of harlan ellison.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
My favourite "grumpy" Harlan story was when he was invited to participate in a writers meeting to help develop the plot for the very first Star Trek Movie in the late seventies.
Roddenberry kept rejecting ideas and demanding "Think Bigger, I want this to be really Big!"
After an hour or so of this, and Roddenberry pooh poohing ideas from DC Fontana and EC "DOC" Smith and others of that ilk Ellison stood up and with huge dramatic flare declared
"The Enterprise is testing out a new type of engine, one that transcends warp drive, one that breaks one barrier after another, takes the ship past light speed, beyond tachyonic, past even the speed of thought and mind until finally at the very center of the universe the Enterprise breaks through the final reality barrier, enters the world of spirit and finds itself staring in to the very face of God Himself!"
Slamming his palms down on the desk Harlan and Gene locked eyes.
Then Gene said, "No Harlan, you don't get it, I want something BIG!"
Harlan turned to leave but Roddenberry screamed after him
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
To which Ellison apparently replied "I think I am a writer, I don't know what the fuck you are!"
In light of Star Trek 5 it might be noted that Bill Shattner was also at the meeting.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
My favourite "grumpy" Harlan story was when he was invited to participate in a writers meeting to help develop the plot for the very first Star Trek Movie in the late seventies.
Roddenberry kept rejecting ideas and demanding "Think Bigger, I want this to be really Big!"
After an hour or so of this, and Roddenberry pooh poohing ideas from DC Fontana and EC "DOC" Smith and others of that ilk Ellison stood up and with huge dramatic flare declared
"The Enterprise is testing out a new type of engine, one that transcends warp drive, one that breaks one barrier after another, takes the ship past light speed, beyond tachyonic, past even the speed of thought and mind until finally at the very center of the universe the Enterprise breaks through the final reality barrier, enters the world of spirit and finds itself staring in to the very face of God Himself!"
Slamming his palms down on the desk Harlan and Gene locked eyes.
Then Gene said, "No Harlan, you don't get it, I want something BIG!"
Harlan turned to leave but Roddenberry screamed after him
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
To which Ellison apparently replied "I think I am a writer, I don't know what the fuck you are!"
In light of Star Trek 5 it might be noted that Bill Shattner was also at the meeting.
I just thought i would post that i am rather shaken by the recent death of harlan ellison.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Of course a writer's personality comes out in their writing, that is what makes it unique.
Ellison was a powerful incisive writer, some times abrasive, but always original, which is what made him unpopular with other writers.
When questioned about why he was so litigious his answer was that if people tried to pick his pocket they ought to be prepared to find a mouse trap in there.
It is one thing to claim influence but some do take it to far, the famous example being "Soldier" Ellison's story (and outer limits episode) of a warrior from the future being thrown back in time to stop his enemy from altering history, falling in love fathering the cause of the war, was so obviously the part basis for "the Terminator" (the other part being D F Jones' Colossus, the story of a sentient computer design to defend America deciding that humans were to dangerous to themselves to be allowed freedom).
It would have been easy enough for Cameron to admit this and thank Ellison and Jones, but did not in such circumstances Ellison was right to sue.
Harlan Ellison will be missed, but his works undeniably have been along with those of Philip K Dicks the basis of a Sci-Fi literary revolution and for that we should all be grateful.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Of course a writer's personality comes out in their writing, that is what makes it unique.
Ellison was a powerful incisive writer, some times abrasive, but always original, which is what made him unpopular with other writers.
When questioned about why he was so litigious his answer was that if people tried to pick his pocket they ought to be prepared to find a mouse trap in there.
It is one thing to claim influence but some do take it to far, the famous example being "Soldier" Ellison's story (and outer limits episode) of a warrior from the future being thrown back in time to stop his enemy from altering history, falling in love fathering the cause of the war, was so obviously the part basis for "the Terminator" (the other part being D F Jones' Colossus, the story of a sentient computer design to defend America deciding that humans were to dangerous to themselves to be allowed freedom).
It would have been easy enough for Cameron to admit this and thank Ellison and Jones, but did not in such circumstances Ellison was right to sue.
Harlan Ellison will be missed, but his works undeniably have been along with those of Philip K Dicks the basis of a Sci-Fi literary revolution and for that we should all be grateful.
Name a TV show?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Small Wonder
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 9, 2018:
Small Wonder
Ecclesiastes 7:3 (NIV):
Frustration is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
This from the same silly twat who gave us
Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full;
It is amazing what has passed for wisdom at one time or another
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
This from the same silly twat who gave us
Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full;
It is amazing what has passed for wisdom at one time or another
Needless to say, The Bible has lots and lots of contradictions.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
Love Biblical contradictions, really freaks out fundies.
You can sometimes even see the smoke start to come out of their ears
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
Love Biblical contradictions, really freaks out fundies.
You can sometimes even see the smoke start to come out of their ears
Watching Portrait of a Lady on a rainy Saturday.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
Goodwood is a town in the UK, there is a famous horse racing track there.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
Goodwood is a town in the UK, there is a famous horse racing track there.
Wow, how things have changed. How many of you had one for your TV pleasure?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
One of these featured in the film Terror vision, where after being struck by lightening it attracted in a teleporting alien and dumped him in west Beverly Hill. There he proceeded to make a smorgasbord out of the family that owned it.
Fun film if you like watching 1980's yuppies being eaten one after another
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
One of these featured in the film Terror vision, where after being struck by lightening it attracted in a teleporting alien and dumped him in west Beverly Hill. There he proceeded to make a smorgasbord out of the family that owned it.
Fun film if you like watching 1980's yuppies being eaten one after another
If hell is full of non-believers, then it looks pretty good to me.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
It can also be speculated that since hell will have all the scientists, soldiers, tacticians and warriors, any time they want they could kick heaven's ass.
God it would seem only has theologians, pacifists and a few thousand martyrs ready to die for their cause without actually doing anything first.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
It can also be speculated that since hell will have all the scientists, soldiers, tacticians and warriors, any time they want they could kick heaven's ass.
God it would seem only has theologians, pacifists and a few thousand martyrs ready to die for their cause without actually doing anything first.
I've just got a Roku device setup and I am very pleased with the results.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
Loved this show, John Lithgow is hilarious.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
Loved this show, John Lithgow is hilarious.
Yesterday I posted an article on Zuckerberg's thoughts of social media as a weapon.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
You need not enforce a tyranny upon a people nor fear losing your grip on power, when you have made the populous so fearful, they demand by common consent to be oppressed and surveilled 24 hours a day in order to feel safe in both public places and in the “privacy” of their own homes.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 8, 2018:
You need not enforce a tyranny upon a people nor fear losing your grip on power, when you have made the populous so fearful, they demand by common consent to be oppressed and surveilled 24 hours a day in order to feel safe in both public places and in the “privacy” of their own homes.
Sextortion - I learned a new word today.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
If they claimed to be watching me and didn't mention Susan the inflatable Lama, the rubber boots or the vermillion aqua lung hooked up the chicken, then I wouldn't worry about it.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
If they claimed to be watching me and didn't mention Susan the inflatable Lama, the rubber boots or the vermillion aqua lung hooked up the chicken, then I wouldn't worry about it.
What lead you to unbelief?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
You're lucky, breaking out of a conditioned brain washed religious upbringing is not a pleasant experience.
However once accomplished the freedom of thought and action is wonderfully liberating.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
You're lucky, breaking out of a conditioned brain washed religious upbringing is not a pleasant experience.
However once accomplished the freedom of thought and action is wonderfully liberating.
CONTEMPORANEOUS: con-tem-po-ra-ne-ous.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Replaced the more archaic **concomitant** about 150 years ago as a more time based description of two simultaneous occurrences.
Concomitant now is used almost exclusively in medicine to describe symbiotic conditions, such as parasitical relationships.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Replaced the more archaic **concomitant** about 150 years ago as a more time based description of two simultaneous occurrences.
Concomitant now is used almost exclusively in medicine to describe symbiotic conditions, such as parasitical relationships.
Name a plural noun that does not end in "s".
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Sheep
Fish
men
women
children
feet
teeth
Furniture
Porpoise
origami
Cacti
Fungi
Stimuli
rhinoceri
Mice
Moose
Geese
Hovercraft
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Sheep
Fish
men
women
children
feet
teeth
Furniture
Porpoise
origami
Cacti
Fungi
Stimuli
rhinoceri
Mice
Moose
Geese
Hovercraft
I'm for women's liberation, not feminism.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Nice analogy.
Back when I was a feminist activist, what is called feminism today would have been seen by hard core militant feminists as perhaps "a bit extreme"
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Nice analogy.
Back when I was a feminist activist, what is called feminism today would have been seen by hard core militant feminists as perhaps "a bit extreme"
I'm paraphrasing. Don't talk about the spec in your brother's eye while ignoring the log in yours.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Yes I always thought that one a bit of a strained metaphor, not one Jesus' best zingers.
Peanuts did it better
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Yes I always thought that one a bit of a strained metaphor, not one Jesus' best zingers.
Peanuts did it better
Is it acceptable in this site to call your political opponents "mentally deranged"?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Well perhaps you first have to define Liberalism. The term has a completely different and unique definition in the USA as opposed to everywhere else on earth, especially the UK.
This done you need to prove you are qualified to make a diagnosis of a “mental condition”, and indeed to which “mental” condition you are referring since there is to my knowledge no psychological disorder simply call “being mental”.
In addition and furthermore you need to stop generalising and be more specific about which particular liberal ideologies are indicative by way of "hateful behaviour" of being a symptom of which particular disorder, how you have investigated and come to that diagnosis and by what criteria you are measuring it.
If that particular set of circumstances can be met you still need to think twice about vocalising or expressing in written form, your vicious opinions in authoritative and presumably assertive tones when they are in point of fact still only opinions, opinions influenced by your own political bias, which might in the eyes of others be assessed by others as being equally indicative of brain malfunction as those opinions you yourself are fore-fronting.
so perhaps...
Liberalism in the American sense of the term, is I believe possibly a symptom of an unspecified psychological problem, given that so called liberals in the USA do, in my opinion appear to manifests hate filled attitudes.
Would, without having the same idiosyncratic punch, be a more accurate expression of dissatisfaction with persons holding diametric political viewpoints?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Well perhaps you first have to define Liberalism. The term has a completely different and unique definition in the USA as opposed to everywhere else on earth, especially the UK.
This done you need to prove you are qualified to make a diagnosis of a “mental condition”, and indeed to which “mental” condition you are referring since there is to my knowledge no psychological disorder simply call “being mental”.
In addition and furthermore you need to stop generalising and be more specific about which particular liberal ideologies are indicative by way of "hateful behaviour" of being a symptom of which particular disorder, how you have investigated and come to that diagnosis and by what criteria you are measuring it.
If that particular set of circumstances can be met you still need to think twice about vocalising or expressing in written form, your vicious opinions in authoritative and presumably assertive tones when they are in point of fact still only opinions, opinions influenced by your own political bias, which might in the eyes of others be assessed by others as being equally indicative of brain malfunction as those opinions you yourself are fore-fronting.
so perhaps...
Liberalism in the American sense of the term, is I believe possibly a symptom of an unspecified psychological problem, given that so called liberals in the USA do, in my opinion appear to manifests hate filled attitudes.
Would, without having the same idiosyncratic punch, be a more accurate expression of dissatisfaction with persons holding diametric political viewpoints?
Docktor Jim.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Ain't truth a bitch ;)
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 7, 2018:
Ain't truth a bitch ;)
Did anyone hear about this?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
They would never admit it but they are cowardly capitulating to fear of reprisals by radical Muslims for serving infidels.
Also of course it is the case that there are ten Hilton Hotels in Saudi Arabia
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
They would never admit it but they are cowardly capitulating to fear of reprisals by radical Muslims for serving infidels.
Also of course it is the case that there are ten Hilton Hotels in Saudi Arabia
They held my ex mother in law's funeral at the church. ?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Mormon Funerals are like this, they invite in as many non Mormon relatives of the deceased and instead of eulogising the deceased spend an hour talking about how only good Mormons will see them again in the highest of the three Mormon heavens so convert now and be a family for eternity.
Disgusting bastards.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Mormon Funerals are like this, they invite in as many non Mormon relatives of the deceased and instead of eulogising the deceased spend an hour talking about how only good Mormons will see them again in the highest of the three Mormon heavens so convert now and be a family for eternity.
Disgusting bastards.
Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger, was arrested and subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison and ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
If Allah is so great, why are his followers so pissing terrified of words.
Barbarous arseholes.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
If Allah is so great, why are his followers so pissing terrified of words.
Barbarous arseholes.
BURT REYNOLDS -- DEAD AT 82
The star of DELIVERANCE, SMOKEY AND THE BANDITS & THE LONGEST YARD ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Shame, he will be missed.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Shame, he will be missed.
Where the Mind Goes
Energy Flows
Results Grow
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
I cannot read your replies they are coming up blank
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
I cannot read your replies they are coming up blank
I would never debate someone on their religious beliefs (unless they ask to have that debate) but I ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Unfortunately it is often the case that the atheist is willing to respect the belief of the theist, but the theist is seldom willing to accept the status of we the atheists and feels compelled to warn us we are going to burn in hell unless repentance is forth coming.
Such sentiments I find both insulting and presumptuous as well as showing a complete lack of respect for me and mine.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Unfortunately it is often the case that the atheist is willing to respect the belief of the theist, but the theist is seldom willing to accept the status of we the atheists and feels compelled to warn us we are going to burn in hell unless repentance is forth coming.
Such sentiments I find both insulting and presumptuous as well as showing a complete lack of respect for me and mine.
How can some evangelicals justify being anti-semitic when Jesus himself was Jewish?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Matthew 27: 24 to 25 is the usual excuse
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Matthew 27: 24 to 25 is the usual excuse
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
I'm Agnostic.
Not an atheist...
Did you come to the right place?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
I am an anti-theist and it has long been my contention that *"absolutely nothing"* is an impossibility
Nothing is the absence of everything, in the same way cold is the absence of heat and dark is the absence of light.
Cold is only a descriptive concept, as is dark, they don't actually exist, likewise *nothing* is simply the description of an absence it cannot exist in and as of itself it is just a concept.
Reality "is" we measure it with our perceptions, and evaluate those perceptions with our conscious thoughts so at the absolute minimum there is awareness of thought, therefore there is not "nothing".
If there are things outside of our perception, or even technologically augmented perception they are irrelevant to us as neither we nor they can impact of the other at all ans so might as well not exist.
In to this category falls god or gods, things outside of the realm of perception and interaction, with no method of being measured, observed or assessed that even should they hypothetically exist are of no use, benefit or relevance to reality.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
I am an anti-theist and it has long been my contention that *"absolutely nothing"* is an impossibility
Nothing is the absence of everything, in the same way cold is the absence of heat and dark is the absence of light.
Cold is only a descriptive concept, as is dark, they don't actually exist, likewise *nothing* is simply the description of an absence it cannot exist in and as of itself it is just a concept.
Reality "is" we measure it with our perceptions, and evaluate those perceptions with our conscious thoughts so at the absolute minimum there is awareness of thought, therefore there is not "nothing".
If there are things outside of our perception, or even technologically augmented perception they are irrelevant to us as neither we nor they can impact of the other at all ans so might as well not exist.
In to this category falls god or gods, things outside of the realm of perception and interaction, with no method of being measured, observed or assessed that even should they hypothetically exist are of no use, benefit or relevance to reality.
Can You Be Good Without God
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Of course you can, you also be fucking evil with god
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Of course you can, you also be fucking evil with god
Is religion or spirituality okay as a coping mechanism?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Using religious lies as a coping mechanism is simply replacing a problem with a delusion.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Using religious lies as a coping mechanism is simply replacing a problem with a delusion.
Where the Mind Goes
Energy Flows
Results Grow
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
You are misquoting Tony Robins and T. Harv Eker
“Where attention goes, energy flows and results show” T. Harv Eker
"WHERE FOCUS GOES, ENERGY FLOWS" Tony Robbins
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
You are misquoting Tony Robins and T. Harv Eker
“Where attention goes, energy flows and results show” T. Harv Eker
"WHERE FOCUS GOES, ENERGY FLOWS" Tony Robbins
Where the Mind Goes
Energy Flows
Results Grow
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Define "mind"
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Define "mind"
I had a talk with a Theology Professor
Though I am still currently struggling with my ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
I care little for the considered opinions of some one who choose theology as a career path, thinks that theology is any way useful or beneficial to the world and has critical faculties so under developed that he is willing to embrace faith as a legitimate form of data collection.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
I care little for the considered opinions of some one who choose theology as a career path, thinks that theology is any way useful or beneficial to the world and has critical faculties so under developed that he is willing to embrace faith as a legitimate form of data collection.
LMAO When I saw of this report of an Israeli company making bullet proof backpacks for American ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Says it all, a country that has been in a state of perpetual war since its creation has found a market else where in to world for products designed to protect civilians from the rigors and accidents of war in a country that needs protection from it's own citizens.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Says it all, a country that has been in a state of perpetual war since its creation has found a market else where in to world for products designed to protect civilians from the rigors and accidents of war in a country that needs protection from it's own citizens.
Any anti-Feminists here?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Well being a feminist used to mean a supporter and advocate/activist for women's rights and equality.
I used to be a proud feminist.
But since the rise of third wave feminism that is not what it means anymore.
In recent polls even former ardent feminist women are refusing to identify with what is today called feminism.
Modern feminism is unrelenting man bashing, blaming of men for everything, out of touch with reality screaming and persecution of women who chose to be feminine, and horrific demands for dominance as "recompense for the abuse suffered by women (not them themselves because few of them are old enough to even remember the rise of feminism and the horrors they complain about.)
So yes I am Pro women's rights, pro equality for everyone, totally against prejudiced in all forms, but I am NOT a feminist any longer and people of all genders should think very hard before using that term again to describe themselves because doing so, identifies you as complicit with some of the most prejudice people currently in the public eye today.
Sad, unfortunate but true.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
Well being a feminist used to mean a supporter and advocate/activist for women's rights and equality.
I used to be a proud feminist.
But since the rise of third wave feminism that is not what it means anymore.
In recent polls even former ardent feminist women are refusing to identify with what is today called feminism.
Modern feminism is unrelenting man bashing, blaming of men for everything, out of touch with reality screaming and persecution of women who chose to be feminine, and horrific demands for dominance as "recompense for the abuse suffered by women (not them themselves because few of them are old enough to even remember the rise of feminism and the horrors they complain about.)
So yes I am Pro women's rights, pro equality for everyone, totally against prejudiced in all forms, but I am NOT a feminist any longer and people of all genders should think very hard before using that term again to describe themselves because doing so, identifies you as complicit with some of the most prejudice people currently in the public eye today.
Sad, unfortunate but true.
aptronym: A person's name that is regarded as amusingly appropriate to their occupation.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
An aptronym can be a result of nominative determinism
For an example my old boss in the civil service was named Paul Millions and had been told since birth he must grow up to be an accountant or Tax man, which he did this is nominative determinism, and therefore his name became an aptronym
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
An aptronym can be a result of nominative determinism
For an example my old boss in the civil service was named Paul Millions and had been told since birth he must grow up to be an accountant or Tax man, which he did this is nominative determinism, and therefore his name became an aptronym
Welcome new member twill.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
welcome
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 6, 2018:
welcome
In this group of movies which one is your number one favorite? Mine is Avatar ????
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
The Terminator
No competition.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
The Terminator
No competition.
Has anyone or your children remained seated during the Pledge?
[americanhumanist.org]
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
This is something I have never understood, somehow watching children be forced in to standing, gesturing and swearing allegiance to a flag always looked very sinister to me, as an Englishman it smacks of indoctrination.
At my schools, and I attended many, my family moved around A LOT, the only thing we were required to do was recite the Lords prayer at morning assembly.
Though I was a theist then, it was still more just a ritual than anything else.
On the Queens Birthday we would have to sing the national anthem and perhaps shout god save the Queen, or give three cheers, but nothing more.
Patriotism runs deep in the British psyche, but perhaps so deep we don't feel the need to affirm it regularly in public, Nationalism on the other hand is something most of us find abhorrent and only the truly moronic confuse the too.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
This is something I have never understood, somehow watching children be forced in to standing, gesturing and swearing allegiance to a flag always looked very sinister to me, as an Englishman it smacks of indoctrination.
At my schools, and I attended many, my family moved around A LOT, the only thing we were required to do was recite the Lords prayer at morning assembly.
Though I was a theist then, it was still more just a ritual than anything else.
On the Queens Birthday we would have to sing the national anthem and perhaps shout god save the Queen, or give three cheers, but nothing more.
Patriotism runs deep in the British psyche, but perhaps so deep we don't feel the need to affirm it regularly in public, Nationalism on the other hand is something most of us find abhorrent and only the truly moronic confuse the too.
I have no words...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
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LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
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How does one go about being a polite atheist?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I never bring it up, but if asked I will say "you don't want my opinion, I'm an atheist"
Usually however that is blood in the water and the blood wine sharks start circling, questions fly and I answer them.
Invariably it is the theist who gets angry first, and accuses me of being disrespectful, then of being a bigot and then tells me I'll know the truth when I am screaming for mercy while burning in hell.
If the mood takes me I will then say something to the effect that I wouldn't care to worship someone who would do that to me under any circumstances and I can only conclude they do so out of fear not love, and then leave.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I never bring it up, but if asked I will say "you don't want my opinion, I'm an atheist"
Usually however that is blood in the water and the blood wine sharks start circling, questions fly and I answer them.
Invariably it is the theist who gets angry first, and accuses me of being disrespectful, then of being a bigot and then tells me I'll know the truth when I am screaming for mercy while burning in hell.
If the mood takes me I will then say something to the effect that I wouldn't care to worship someone who would do that to me under any circumstances and I can only conclude they do so out of fear not love, and then leave.
I'm an ex-muslim atheist born in the UK, when it comes to politics I'm a centrist liberal, but what ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
No it is not bigotry, just like in this current labour party row, criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic.
However having been trapped in a library in 1988 by a rampaging mob of British Muslims screaming "Rushdie, Rushdie, give us Rushdie" outside and demanding every copy of the Satanic Verses should be given to them so they could publicly burn them, or else the would burn down the library and everyone and everything in it, I am a little cautious about criticizing the beliefs of the insane to their faces, especially when there are about 500 of them.
Still it did not stop me yelling out of the window
"He's not here, try next door"
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
No it is not bigotry, just like in this current labour party row, criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic.
However having been trapped in a library in 1988 by a rampaging mob of British Muslims screaming "Rushdie, Rushdie, give us Rushdie" outside and demanding every copy of the Satanic Verses should be given to them so they could publicly burn them, or else the would burn down the library and everyone and everything in it, I am a little cautious about criticizing the beliefs of the insane to their faces, especially when there are about 500 of them.
Still it did not stop me yelling out of the window
"He's not here, try next door"
Movie investigation
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
It was Hideshi Hino he was not actually investigated by the Japanese police for his film Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood 1985, but when the film made it's way to America on VHS no lesser person than Charlie Sheen called up the FBI in a drunken panic and told them he had been give a genuine snuff film.
The Feds watched the film and agreed it was an actual death and contacted the Japanese embassy, who by return sen them a copy of the Making of Guinea Pig, a documentary that explained the technical effects behind the films.
Red faces all round.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
It was Hideshi Hino he was not actually investigated by the Japanese police for his film Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood 1985, but when the film made it's way to America on VHS no lesser person than Charlie Sheen called up the FBI in a drunken panic and told them he had been give a genuine snuff film.
The Feds watched the film and agreed it was an actual death and contacted the Japanese embassy, who by return sen them a copy of the Making of Guinea Pig, a documentary that explained the technical effects behind the films.
Red faces all round.
Only 2 movies were ever made about Vincent, this movie is so awesome.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Not a movie but he was in a damn good episode of Doctor Who
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Not a movie but he was in a damn good episode of Doctor Who
Human Sacrifice: The Spirit of the Lord comes upon Jephthah, and he offers up his daughter as a ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I love getting Smug Christians to read that one, the look on their faces as they get to the end, the stammering, whu-whu-whu, and the look of defeat why innocently asked, have you never read that passage before?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I love getting Smug Christians to read that one, the look on their faces as they get to the end, the stammering, whu-whu-whu, and the look of defeat why innocently asked, have you never read that passage before?
Did you ever notice about history?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbijTxhdbG0
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbijTxhdbG0
My nephew’s knowledge & skepticism might grow.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Big ideas explained?
Platitudinous mythology made excuses for and passed off as factual to the gullible.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Big ideas explained?
Platitudinous mythology made excuses for and passed off as factual to the gullible.
LSD was invented in 1938, I have to disagree.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Pharmacological LSD was first manufactured in 1938 to mimic the hallucinogenic effect of naturally occurring substances, such as magic mushrooms and Ergot, used in ritual magic and religion for millennia.
It is like saying no one used apple tree bark as a pain killer before the patenting of aspirin in 1899. They are both acetylsalicylic acid, only one is in a concentrated form.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Pharmacological LSD was first manufactured in 1938 to mimic the hallucinogenic effect of naturally occurring substances, such as magic mushrooms and Ergot, used in ritual magic and religion for millennia.
It is like saying no one used apple tree bark as a pain killer before the patenting of aspirin in 1899. They are both acetylsalicylic acid, only one is in a concentrated form.
Do any of my peeps recall the statement:
In case of emergency, break glass.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Yes I also remember fire alarm leavers and train emergency brake cords bearing the legend "In case of emergency pull down"
When this started being printed on underwear these alarms vanished in favour of the glass fronted ones mentioned above.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Yes I also remember fire alarm leavers and train emergency brake cords bearing the legend "In case of emergency pull down"
When this started being printed on underwear these alarms vanished in favour of the glass fronted ones mentioned above.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future!..
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I predict that 90% of (so called) psychic predictions will never be fulfilled but that the percentage of logical extrapolations about events to come based on likely hood, probability and logic deduction often mistakenly called predictions is considerably higher.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I predict that 90% of (so called) psychic predictions will never be fulfilled but that the percentage of logical extrapolations about events to come based on likely hood, probability and logic deduction often mistakenly called predictions is considerably higher.
@admin I'm still having some replies not show.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I have noted that when this happens, it is mostly to hostile comments or answers, this smacks of censorship, is some kind of algorithm being used to delete, negative comments and replies?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I have noted that when this happens, it is mostly to hostile comments or answers, this smacks of censorship, is some kind of algorithm being used to delete, negative comments and replies?
Versus.....
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
And until a few hundred years ago would have burned you at the stake as a Heretic.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
And until a few hundred years ago would have burned you at the stake as a Heretic.
Who was your favorite TV dad? Mine was Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show).
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Al Bundy
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Al Bundy
I chatted with an Egyptian atheist on FB.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Islam, religion of peace.
Hypocrites. ?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
Islam, religion of peace.
Hypocrites. ?
@admin I'm still having some replies not show.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I keep getting this too, the name of the poster the date and time of the post but no message.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 5, 2018:
I keep getting this too, the name of the poster the date and time of the post but no message.
Those of us who favor critical thinking and arguments based on scientific evidence should avoid ...
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
religious belief is a mental disorder *Replace the word God, with any other noun indicating something imaginary in religious speaking and seen how insane it sounds*
religions were invented by priests "to control the masses" *Read The Golden Bough, written over a century ago it is thousands of pages devoted to and offering research and examples that prove that is absolutely true *
nonreligious people are more moral (because they act morally without expecting any rewards) *Religion does not enter in to people's own moral behaviour, however without the pernicious evil prejudice doctrines of religion, it is easier for a person to make moral choices based on a wish for the well being of others based on no other influence*
religions are more intolerant and divisive than secular ideologies *Untrue, but most totalitarian ideologies learned the power of hate as a unifying force from religion*
religions are the top cause of violence in history *Not the actual cause, but more often the excuse and the motivation from spreading hate.*
Hitler's, Stalin's and Mao's atrocities were motivated by religion *No but hatred and the blaming of certain religions and religious practices did help them to power.*
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
religious belief is a mental disorder *Replace the word God, with any other noun indicating something imaginary in religious speaking and seen how insane it sounds*
religions were invented by priests "to control the masses" *Read The Golden Bough, written over a century ago it is thousands of pages devoted to and offering research and examples that prove that is absolutely true *
nonreligious people are more moral (because they act morally without expecting any rewards) *Religion does not enter in to people's own moral behaviour, however without the pernicious evil prejudice doctrines of religion, it is easier for a person to make moral choices based on a wish for the well being of others based on no other influence*
religions are more intolerant and divisive than secular ideologies *Untrue, but most totalitarian ideologies learned the power of hate as a unifying force from religion*
religions are the top cause of violence in history *Not the actual cause, but more often the excuse and the motivation from spreading hate.*
Hitler's, Stalin's and Mao's atrocities were motivated by religion *No but hatred and the blaming of certain religions and religious practices did help them to power.*
Sinéad O’Connor Deserves Credit for Protesting Catholic Church Abuse in 1992 | Hemant Mehta
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Some of were saying that at the time when others were booing her off stage for calling the pope out on his church's filthy practices, now admitted to be true.
Every one who treated her like that should be groveling apologetically at her feet.
A brave woman
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Some of were saying that at the time when others were booing her off stage for calling the pope out on his church's filthy practices, now admitted to be true.
Every one who treated her like that should be groveling apologetically at her feet.
A brave woman
And now they are allies and valued trading partners:
[bbc.co.uk]
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Yes, so what?
We are trading partners and allies with many countries who we committed atrocities against and others who treated us equally badly.
The past is the past, what was done by our ancestors has no baring on how we behave now. There are enough current atrocities going on in the world, evil regimes killing thousands everyday in the name of various myths and political ideologies without holding on to old dead grudges.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Yes, so what?
We are trading partners and allies with many countries who we committed atrocities against and others who treated us equally badly.
The past is the past, what was done by our ancestors has no baring on how we behave now. There are enough current atrocities going on in the world, evil regimes killing thousands everyday in the name of various myths and political ideologies without holding on to old dead grudges.
Vituperative (adjective): bitter and abusive.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Love that word, so expressively Victorian
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Love that word, so expressively Victorian
Movie title??
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Much ado about nothing
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 4, 2018:
Much ado about nothing
The Bitch Fight of Canary Wharf
[youtu.be]
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Great scene
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Great scene
DESIDERATUM: de-sid-er-a-tum.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Desiderata
Max Ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Desiderata
Max Ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Please explain?
[mobile.abc.net.au]
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Basically, people who are stupid enough to follow a religion, think other people stupid enough to follow a different religion are stupid *and wrong* and that giving them a good short sharp shock like killing them will teach them not to be wrong anymore.
Governments who feel that this gives the morons a right to religious freedom and legislate in favour of that ideal tend to find religious cretins use that freedom to kill even more of each other.
Maybe religious intolerance is evolution's way of purifying the gene pool of bloody fools, if enough of them kill one another one day there will be atheists left to breed with one another?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Basically, people who are stupid enough to follow a religion, think other people stupid enough to follow a different religion are stupid *and wrong* and that giving them a good short sharp shock like killing them will teach them not to be wrong anymore.
Governments who feel that this gives the morons a right to religious freedom and legislate in favour of that ideal tend to find religious cretins use that freedom to kill even more of each other.
Maybe religious intolerance is evolution's way of purifying the gene pool of bloody fools, if enough of them kill one another one day there will be atheists left to breed with one another?
I really like this group and appreciate all of your feedback, ty! So here I go again.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Apparently it is theological doctrine that if god shags you it is not adultery or premarital sex and as Joseph was Mary's cousin anyway, it was his duty to protect the whole family from shame.
It's all imaginary bollocks anyway but a good apologist can usually do enough mental gymnastics to twaddle their way out of anything and the churches are willing to pay a fortune for them to do it.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2018:
Apparently it is theological doctrine that if god shags you it is not adultery or premarital sex and as Joseph was Mary's cousin anyway, it was his duty to protect the whole family from shame.
It's all imaginary bollocks anyway but a good apologist can usually do enough mental gymnastics to twaddle their way out of anything and the churches are willing to pay a fortune for them to do it.
Fall is almost here. I believe we are still waiting on an exact air date.
[youtube.com]
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2018:
Before Nov 11th, because on that date the BBC Children in Need Telethon is auctioning off a cast signed copy of the script for episode one
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2018:
Before Nov 11th, because on that date the BBC Children in Need Telethon is auctioning off a cast signed copy of the script for episode one
"Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident.
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2018:
That is, I imagine, as comforting as hearing someone at the scene of a tragedy yelling "let me through I'm an aromatherapist"
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2018:
That is, I imagine, as comforting as hearing someone at the scene of a tragedy yelling "let me through I'm an aromatherapist"
Does a disbelief in a god mean a disbelief in good and evil spirits?
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2018:
Define what you mean by spirit
LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2018:
Define what you mean by spirit
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