The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt (Author, ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

"Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens?" Because experience tends to to teach everyone the hard lesson the hard way that most other people are a shower of bastards who will stab you in the back while smiling to your face. Therefore the safest default position is to assume the worst until proven otherwise. This is true across all cultures, because humans are inherently selfish, altruism appears as a genetic trait in time of crisis to preserve the species, but if it comes to saving the species or saving your personal genetic line, ME FIRST will always win out. Humanity has relied on this social superiority to survive and prosper, the rich need masses of poor to support them, self interest not altruism supports them in this, King, president, leader, priest, all titles because humans have children to support them in their old age, love binds them for survival not for any noble motive, being the dominator or the dominated is a way to survive. Hence class, or cast or "know your place!" This genetic and social conditioning is why communism always fails, we are not genetically prepositioned for equality. Either on a Macro or microcosmic level we need social inferiors first, superiors second and enemies third in order to make sense of life. Blessed is the pessimist for he shall never be disappointed, and will probably live quite a bit longer.

Irresistible

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

I'm assuming you mean the sort of situation where you meet someone, there is an immediate attraction and you cannot be in the same room together without ripping off all your clothes. The sort of relationship that is an intense fuckfest for a month or so, until you actually get so exhausted you start talking and then find that apart from sexual compatibility you have nothing in common and actually don't even like one another very much, the sex continues for a while but eventually even that fizzles out. That was pretty much my first marriage, six months of whahay followed by four and a half years of “ what the hell was I thinking? ” on both our parts.

The most important thing that I’ve learned through my relationships with women is that I’m a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

The menopause might be the one thing that makes me admit to the remote possibility of there being a God and him being a merciful man.

Well it is Sunday so all the religitards are out and about feeling holy - holy about themselves and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Is that picture by Hieronymus Bosch ?

On this morning's run I decided to stay in my neighborhood.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Still got to be more entertaining than the freaking world cup

Well it is Sunday so all the religitards are out and about feeling holy - holy about themselves and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

"I hope I haven't missed the part where the three Chinese guys give perfume to the star baby. It's, it's like the diaries of a madman!"

Reading through these Posts and comments, I am thinking how on earth can we claim we are having ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Bubble fountain egg whisk to you too arch-chancellor and a happy all yellows eve to boot.

Love this Jimmy Stewart movie, how about you?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Brilliant film, one of his very best :)

A Trump supporter visiting Canad a told me that he thought we were all a bunch of passive/aggressive...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

??????????

If you say "liberry" instead of "library", we can definitely be friends because I will always feel ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

One of those fascinating words with multiple correct pronunciations Liberry Library Lybree Lyb-rary Libre-ary L'baree Since it has multiple roots from Latin (4 sperate), Normandic French, Frankish, anglo-saxon, Proto-Italian and Albanian

I was inspired by SukiSue's Airport Facebook posts.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2018:

One of my favourite stories about air travel is the case of a baptist minister on a plane to San Francisco, who spying a newly married gay couple sitting across the aisle and a few seats down, took umbridge. After the third time that one or the other of the happy couple kissed their partner before getting up for one reason or another, the good reverend gentleman could stand it no more. Approaching the couple he declared "Will you stop doing that! It is offensive and is upsetting your fellow passengers!" "Why?" he was asked. " Two folks of the same gender grouping kissing is not what god intended for our bodies, it is unnatural!" he blustered "You have noticed that we are flying?" came the smiling reply.

They call it “Rump Roast” because no one would eat it if they called it “Cow Ass”.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2018:

If Rump Roast is a cows ass, is Trump roast that of a donkey?

They call it “Rump Roast” because no one would eat it if they called it “Cow Ass”.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2018:

My Grandmother was very fond of a cut of meat she started to buy during world war two, when meat was rationed this was a welcome bit of beef to put in a stew. It was not till the 1970s that a butcher explained to her there was no call any more for Bull's Pizzle, because no one wanted to eat Cattle penis anymore. I think it was a week before she stopped retching.

Rejecting a banana.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2018:

One of the best moments of the last few years was Ray Comfort's face when he was was confronted with his famous "The Banana proves the existence of Intelligent design and God" video and told by a botanist that the banana is a cultivated product of Eugenics and does not exist in nature at all because it is sterile and can only be grown from cuttings. Hardly an appearance of Ray ComfyChair goes by now without some one coughing UH(bananas)choo in to their hankercheif.

DON'T LAUGH PLEASE In Japan they invented a machine that catches thieves, so they took it out ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2018:

I am so stealing this and applying it to cities in the UK. :)

Anybody else notice deleting multiple messages at once when you just had the mouse over one?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 7, 2018:

No, chances are if you are using an optic mouse it is on the blink and needs replacing.

@Admin I just encountered an Anti-Semite here.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 6, 2018:

Most people who are not as mental as he is will just block him, meaning in effect he is shouting profanity in to the wind. People like this are just attention whores, starve them!

I need to complain about my job a bit.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

It's not a mistake it is simple economics. I,000,000 employees don't get half their pay for 4 days, that money sits in the bank for 4 days has 4 days interest added to the capital. Do this once every two month can increase profitability by 10% per annum. Another trick is to apply late payment charges to every customer, 50 percent notice and have their fee refunded but the company garners the interest, 50% don't notice and pay anyway, win win situation. Creative capitalism in action.

What are your favorite Stephen King Movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

The TV mini series version of The Shinning and Rose Red Tie for first place

Okay.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

another bathroom product that may contain seamen?

Praying for something to happen is akin to doing nothing...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

verily it is written

I don't meet a lot of people in my age group that are Atheist/agnostic, are people too afraid to be ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

Generation and nationality enter in to it a lot. In some countries declaring your atheism is a death sentence, in others it will endanger your career and social standing. In some countries people could not care less. In my generation it is still something to be discussed and contended about all be it on a fairly civilised basis. My son however is an atheist, and sees no reason to justify it. Asked why are you an atheist I will reply because I see no reason or evidence to indicate a god exists He will reply Because I am an adult and I'm not a fucking idiot. Grow up. When I engage in dialogue with Theist he says I am wasting my time talking to morons, I don't agree, but he and his social circle simply don't consider religion worth talking about, assume that one another are non believers and don't let it enter in to their lives. I feel in the UK at least, in fifty years most of his and the next generation will all simply disregard relgion completly, it take longer among the Jewish and Islamic communities, but even now I see a lot of Muslim young people only going to Friday prayer to kep their father's off their backs and for a quiet life, once that older generation goes they will probably be completely Anglicised. Among the UK Jewish community many of the Youngsters treat being a Jew as being a member of a club and the amount of people calling themselves Jewish Atheists is amazing.

So im watching Suicide Squad again.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

The two animated suicide squad movies are better, but "Hell to pay" would seem to back up your hypothesis. In the actual suicide squad movie though think US government = God Amanda Waller = metatron Master of the angels and devils Batman = Gabriel God's messenger Flag = Michael Commander of of god's army Joker = Satan Harley = Lilith (Mad first wife of Adam and later god of cot death) Deadshot = Angel of Death (Azrael or Sammael) Enchantress = Kali god of destruction Katana = Bishomonten god of just punishment Killer Croc = Sobec god of robbers

So how did Noah get the critters from Australia across the ocean to his canoe and then get them back...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE1Jz2NtzDU

One of my favorite responses to the religious!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

The floating sky daddy watching has never really controlled the moral compass of anyone over the age of 10, that is why from about the second or third century churches introduced church courts, then what became inquisitions, torture chambers, heretic burning etc. Religion when given the chance will always resort to being Hell on Earth, they know a thumb screw is far more effective than the threat of hell hereafter for discouraging irreligious behaviour.

A scene from one my favorite comedies-the magic staring Peter sellers and Ringo Star.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

And I am king If he took off the wig everyone would get it straight away, ;)

So, I have a holiday tradition that I have been carrying on since I saw this movie in the theatre on...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

My Son watches the first six Star wars movies one a night in the count down to Christmas, he started when there was only three, but refused to add the new ones which he calls Mickey Mouse wars.

What are your favorite James Bond movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 5, 2018:

Live and Let Die closely followed by Gold Finger. Though I will say Timothy Dalton was the closest portrayal to the Bond of the novels, he just had some of the worst scripts. The worst (canon) Bond film ever was Moonraker.

The roots leading to and the founding of the United States of America are riddled with inaccuracies ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2018:

History of the world is the biography of the great man... A great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed. Thomas Carlyle History is written by the victors - Winston Churchill (a drunk) History is more or less bunk - Henry Ford (a fascist) History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page -Lord Byron (a drug addled murderer) History teaches us that unity is strength, -Haile Selassie ( a man who thought he was god) history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - JFK (Drug addict, serial womanizer, Marilyn Monroe fan and drunk) A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi, one anorexic loony in a nappy and we lost the whole bloody empire - Margaret Thatcher (attributed)

Swear words?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2018:

I have a great affection for ## "OH for Fuck sake!" very satisfying on the tongue

What if you jazzed up confession by using synonyms?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2018:

As Lou Costello once said

Well at least the bible has some common sense.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2018:

Most versions say foreigner or stranger, the common English translation says immigrant alien in its original sense also means foreigner so it is an equally good if equally inaccurate translation. In reality the word used in Hebrew is Ger the root word of the modern Hebrew term Goy or Goyim, a derogatory term for a none Israelite and even more so back then. So while having good intent it is still racist. Is is the equivalent of of some one today saying, hey be nice to the (N word) not his fault he is not white.

So I have come to the conclusion that everyone who is religious is nuts as fuck.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2018:

Hail Howard

“Prayers for my once in a lifetime dream hunt came true today,” Ms Talley, 37, wrote.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2018:

What an utter an unmitigated act of savagery,barbarity and evil. A noble creature brought low for the vanity of a human coward. Shame on her, shame on anyone who eats of her 2,000 lbs of giraffe meat. People of this type disgust and Nauseate me.

What about Last Rites. Would you object to a Cathoiic Priest administering on your deathbed?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 4, 2018:

If there was someone in my family who would gain comfort from it, they could bring in Bozo the clown to throw one last sacred custard pie in my face while singing three verses of "My old man's a dustman" in Swahili and hanging from the ceiling by his testicles and wearing an aqualung. It will be just as effective and just as pointless.

Do Not Make Excuses When White Men Murder

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 3, 2018:

WTF? A little black girl never shot anyone, so white men are all killers? People kill people everyday, other than cases of self defence and a few other extreme cases there is never an excuse. Why single out white men? Sexist racist bigotry!

Just a little short one from Teresa MacBain.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 3, 2018:

So much for Atheists can't be moral or good. But of course all your Christian "friends" can't get away quick enough, sometimes they even leave skid marks. Shame she was a Hypocrite and went back to the church in 2016 after a scandal about her claiming a masters degree she never had.

If you were to go to a ComicCon like convention, what superhero, cartoon character etc.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 3, 2018:

A short fat Doctor Strange

In last few days, a man was snatched from the street, imprisoned without trial and then reporting on...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 3, 2018:

I have had to rejoin this group just to turn off alerts on this post, I will leave again immediately, so don't bother commenting anymore, I won't know, I can delete this or I would, but before you go about lies. or anything else check the fucking date on the post, I put it up on the day it happened, before everything else happened and all the facts came out. Maybe some people in this group mistook Freethinker for Non thinker.

Any Babylon 5 fans?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 3, 2018:

Beautifully parodied in the latter scenes of "star wreck." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFssC353hDA

Why is Atheism still so misunderstood in 2018?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

"why does the word “Atheism” even exist? Is it useful?" Christians find it useful, since many of them still believe knowing the name of a devil gives you power over him. Plus I think a lot of them find Heretic just a bit so 17th century. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiv3Pl0WJOw

A few of my latest memes.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

A couple of mine

Annoyed Camera Guy Smacks Down Christian Preacher - YouTube

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

He keeps this up, he will soon be the most righteous man in the cemetery. His name is Dean Saxton and this video is from 2013, he is still active and making a nuisance of himself. In May of last year he was beaten publicly with a baseball bat by a 19 year old girl who objected to being told she was a whore and deserved to be raped, and he did not get the message that exercising your freedom of speech does have consequences, so in a country like the USA where carrying a gun is legal, I suppose he thanks his wretched god that it was ***only*** a base ball bat that some one used on the back of his head.

I'm curious why religious people join sites like this.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

They's godda du wut they gawd sez, un' tri und sayv R hellbown'd soles wid revelled whizdum n trooof stead of awl dat dere syensee diveltrees!!!!

I totally agree on the word Athiest, I hate it.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

I prefer anti-theist

Anyone here display satanic symbols?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

There is no such thing as a satanic symbol, their are semiotic symbols that have been assigned satanic meanings usually by Christians in order to try and make people even more paranoid than they natural are.

Do you have certain words or phrases you mispronounce on purpose?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

I have a tendency to use partially made up words or goobledgook such as "My kneecaperies have got the woblesomeness" "I feeling discomknockerated in my confusifiederation" " If you want to give up smoking you have fagerettelessness" "My wife is bucketfullified with Uberbabeness"

Theism and Mental Illness

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

Yup, if you replaced the words God/heaven or Jesus with anything else their beliefs would be considered delusional and rightly so. Glory glory glory Lord Giraffe almighty Our father that is in the land of Oz hallowed by thy name In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Charlie Chaplin and the Word was Charlie Chaplin . The same was in the beginning with Charlie Chaplin . All things were made by him; Doughnut Christ, Superstar, Do you think you're what they say you are? And the piece of Cod, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Curry sauce. Amen See what I mean

Pastor Kicks Out Black Funeral-Goers, Allegedly Calls Them 'Crackheads, Prostitutes' | HuffPost

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

Keep it up Father's, that's 3 priests in the past week screwing up "sacred" events, slapping infants, clipping the ears of young "sinners" and now barring black people from their own funerals. I freaking love this, I might start a sweep stake on how long before the whole filthy edifice collapses under it's own incompetence and evil.

I'm just going to drop this here. Not really hypocritical if she's a true believer.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

Ah the Abraham school of priorities, God first, everyone else is a potential sacrifice.

Do you believe that Joseph Smith and the early Mormons, who were Masons, stole the temple ceremony ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

Don't have to believe it, we know they did. When John C Bennett was excommunicated from the church and drive out of Nauvoo at gun point by Brigham Young, he wrote a number of exposés about the church including the fact that he sold the masonic ritual to Smith in order for him to set up the Rising Sun lodge in Nauvoo and proclaim himself Heliophant. The reason Bennett was in the USA was that the The Rectified Scottish Rite, also known as Order of Knights Beneficent of the Holy City, of freemasonry had placed a death sentence on him in Europe for selling their secrets their too. Smith's father, brothers, Uncle and other family member were all masons but belong to the lass esoteric branch known as the Scottish Rite and the York Rite was home to Sidney Rigdon and a few others. What is more extraordinary is that the temple ordinances were supposed to eternal rites, passed down from the time of Eden, perfect and unchangeable, except for the changes made in 1842, and 1843, which corrected early misinterpretations and so restored the perfect form as intended by God. Except for the the mistakes rectified in 1877 and 1893, and those in 1904, 1906, 1919, 1923, 1927 and 1936. allowing the Endowments to be given in languages other than English began in 1945 but absolutely no further changes were made.... until 1960, and 1975 and 1978, but that was it for definite, it was the perfect god given ritual, that was never to be deviated from ever again .... Until seven major changes were made in the 1990s leading to a mass apostasy of those who felt this shit was getting beyond a joke. Further changes did happen in 2005 and 2008 but that is it, definitely, no more ever, it is the perfect ceremony now, with no touchy feely stuff, no nudity, death threats and blood oaths or the promise to kill the murderers of Joseph smith if you ever happen to come across them. JUST good wholesome covenants with god, in silly bakers suits, with green aprons and weird handshakes. What more is wanted?

Are there any movies that you saw that made you get a job?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 2, 2018:

Please Turn Over 1959, Barfly 1987 The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) & Oscar Wilde (1960) All pushed me to try and take myself seriously as a writer instead of just being a hack.

What movie do you wish you could see again, for the first time?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

Please turn over 1959 Georgie Girl 1966 Both films unexpectedly blew me away the first time I ever saw them and both were a great inspiration to me , it's amazing what studios could do with nothing budgets, good scripts and imaginative directing back them.

Any one from the North West, UK on this site?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

North East

Have any of you been able to share the evidence on the book of Abraham being a con job with any ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

The message was getting through to a lot of active members until 2 years ago the SSC threw the desperate ones a life line (one made of razor wire, but a life line nonetheless) A new edition of the Pearl of Great Price was published, in which the introduction to the BOA was rewritten, now claiming that Holy Joe did NOT directly translate the book of Abraham from the papyri, but made an *INSPIRED* translation, simply using the Egyptian funeral texts to channel the book. This is of course a lie. The church even has Joseph'smyth's translation lexicon, written by himself while translating and giving the meaning of each individual hieroglyph (some of which translate to a whole paragraph of bad English). But this is now the official line of the church. It has even been rumoured lately that the POGP is actually going the same way as the journal of discourses, it being so embarrassing, it is being used and referred to less and less in preparation for it's removal from the standard works in the next few years and relegation to historical curiosity.

What is your favorite movie that is a love story?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

Hot Fuzz the Simon Pegg comedy is actually one of the best love stories of recent times whether viewed as a homosexual romance of a deep loving male bonding story the romantic element is beautifully enacted.

Can anyone do this in only four words?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

Even Margaret Thatcher died

What pc games are yall playing?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

I only play variations on Unreal Tournament never found another game I liked.

Is this what jesus meant by LOVE your brother?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

lol

George Patrick Lee was the first Native American to become a general authority of The Church of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 1, 2018:

George Patrick Lee, like George R. Lyman before him were the only two General authorities to be excommunicated in the modern era, their stories stand as testament to the Hypocrisy of the SCC both in terms of their behaviour and of the LDS treatment of them.

Best of Christopher Hitchens Amazing Arguments And Clever Comebacks Part 19 [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2018:

The fact that Chris Hitchens is dead and Ray Comfort enjoys glorious health is for some of us sufficient proof that if there is a god he is an arsehole of the first order, a tasteless moron and an attention whore par excellence, but that in all likely hood is actually non-existent, since a supreme being so dense could never have been able to design a hole in the ground to use as a toilet never mind intelligently design and construct a working cosmology.

Why do people have such a huge problem w/ Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2018:

I have no problem with Sam Harris. Jordon Peterson on the other hand is an opportunist rhetorician, an incincere peddler of right wing ideology in the usual camouflage of a practitioner of intellectual gamesmanship and a hypocrite. The longer he continues in the public eye the more he shows his true colours but the less he cares; as his ever expanding patreon account lays testament to the public opinion of his bunko booth side show barkers cacophony of populist and pop psychology, as simply entertaining profitable waffle and less about the relevancy of his self opinionated verbosity's efficaciousness in the real world.

What bit of the Bible do you ignore? [facebook.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2018:

I ignore none of it, I need to know my enemy, I disapprove of it as a whole, I despise it as a whole and I am sickened by it as a whole.

I see too many ridiculous posts about people declaring they don't believe in ridiculous things.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2018:

If you have to ask, you are not ready to understand the answer.

This is one of my favorite Summer songs. [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 30, 2018:

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

Natural or supernatural?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2018:

There is no such thing as the supernatural, or the Miraculous, there are simply natural things about which we do not yet have a full understanding.

What are your favorite movies with great dialogue?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2018:

Casablanca Network Withnail and I Life of Brian Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed The Producers (1968 ) Some like it Hot All about Eve.

Truth doesn’t need multiple versions!

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2018:

Truth is one of those woolly words, it should be clear what it means but it never is. Truth all which is true **The** Truth an ideological stand point dependent on the contextual ideology. **A** truth something that fits with activity being performed, that might not be necessarily true in different circumstances. **My or Your** Truth something taken by individual on faith. **Factual Truth** a semantic redundancy that implies some facts are more true than others I prefer the words facts, axioms, actualities, fundamentals or principles.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin abused by children so he sues them for elder abuse and fraud. [news.com.au]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2018:

Same thing has happened to Stan Lee.

Trump administration is just toughening people up and testing the water with what they can get away ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 29, 2018:

Yep testing the waters on the Mexican boarder, basically found out if you don't mess with the kids, you can get away with almost anything else by labeling it "National security, or an imigration problem.

I just love this directors movies, who else does? M. Night Shyamalan [imdb.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2018:

Got everything he ever did on DVD, one of the all time greats.

" Who is more humble?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 28, 2018:

You ask this of people who have a scriptural commandment to be humble 1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” This has lead to competitive humility for the last 20 centuries among Christian people who will with no sense of irony whatsoever declare themselves "100 times more humble than thou art!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R42mFx3_ss

Last words

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2018:

Bugger me an Anthropomorphic Personification!

What's the worst gift you've ever had?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2018:

I think you are talking about gifts given as veiled insults here. If someone gives me an actual gift, I appreciate it because they wanted to give me a gift. If I receive a gift meant to be an insult or a jibe (it only ever happened once), I make double the fuss, thank them profusely and ask how they knew it was what I needed.

Why do people think bad things that happen to people are part of god’s plan?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2018:

It is a platitude, makes them feel better for not actually doing anything or having anything thoughtful or empathetic to say. They don't say it for your benefit they they simply don't want to admit their god who they are terrified of, is a c<>t

My go to movie of late...SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. What is yours

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2018:

Monty Python's Life of Brian, funniest film ever.

I've been thinking more about the angry and dehumanizing tone that a tiny minority of our members ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2018:

Why the fuss and bluster, if someone is upset or "offended" by another members posts they can block them, or not read them, no one is holding a gun to anyone's head here. If one member continues to interact with another of a differing opinion, they have chosen to do it. It is like the man complaining about the fact that when he shoved his dick in a pencil sharpener it hurt so wants the pencil sharpener sanctioned for being sharp with him.

Should we genetically modify our species?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2018:

NO. "Modification" either means to improve or control, in either case it is a totally subjective decision made by and subject to an opinion. Our genetic make up is the result of millions of years of evolution with no aim other than the continued objective aim of survival of the species. To think we could interfere with that, other than to cure genetic faults and diseases on a specific case by case basis, is the height of arrogance and dangerous stupidity. If you cannot see the potential dangers of mass genetic engineering you have no imagination.

What made America great?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 27, 2018:

It is typical trait of nationalism to call back to a "Golden age" that either never existed at all (The court of Camelot)or a gross inaccurate exaggeration through "Rose Tinted Glasses" of an actual era (Victorian Values and Morality) Every state in the USA seems to have their own version of this, so a vague statement like "Make America Great Again" can basically mean whatever the listener wants it to mean, with all those around them agreeing vehemently while having no idea what is actually going on in the other person's head and what they are in agreement with..

Epiphanies

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2018:

I dislike the word epiphany, it has too many religious connotations, I prefer Inspiration

How would you describe karma and it’s effects on people?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2018:

Social version of Newton's third law? Be an arsehole people will treat you like an arsehole, be friendly you will likely make friends, be miserable and people will keep away from you, result you'll be lonely and even more miserable.

What is a horror movie that you watched when you were a kid that totally destroyed you?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2018:

Witch finder General 1968 Possibly the most effective and disturbing horror film ever made, the Masterpiece of the tragically short career of Michael Reeves and the joint best performance ever by Vincent Price equaled only by his performance in Dragonwyck. The film haunted me for years, especially its utterly devastating ending.

Is fate a thing?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2018:

This is Fate this is Karma & This is a Thing

Creative Misspellings Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2018:

Neffiti Vandalising in ancient Egyptian Assburger's syndrome eating like president Trump Deja Pew Knowing when someone else is about to fart Pat'ro-Money payments made by TV Evangelists who have sinned. Sinterior design the art of decorating houses of ill repute Whinestien's disease the inability to stop complaining about women calling you on your shit Cosbplaying the compulsion to wear awful sweaters, make unintelligible noises and ruffy people Clinternal security failing to be careful about your email or computer browser history Trumpet a very nervous cat that does not like being grabbed.

More science, less bullshit. Science is fact.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2018:

Family Guy s05e17 Mayor Lois: We have intelligence that suggests that Hitler is plotting with With the Legion of Doom to assassinate Jesus...And we also have evidence that Darth Vader tried to buy yellowcake uranium from unwed teenage mothers. Panicing crowd: (throwing money) Those things all sound scary! How much money before I can feel safe again? A hundred thousand? I threw a 10! See that 10 there? I threw that.

Thinking about the end of life, do we get dispersed throughout the galaxy as energy?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 26, 2018:

Neither, you die, you rot, nature recycles you. That's pretty wonderful and as near to imortality as any of us are ever going to get.

This is comparable to the best "evidence" of god ever found.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2018:

Knocks on the Vatican door ????????????????????????????

Do you love the 80's Action Movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2018:

My guilty pleasures from that era are the early straight to video sci-fi action movies produced by Charles Band and mostly scripted by Bilson and Demeo Zone Troopers, Eliminators, Trancers etc.

Do you think Christians should revise their Holy book?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2018:

Nope, editing would only legitimise the filth. They should be confronted with the evil they are tacitly supporting, and made to face the consequences of affiliating themselves with the disgraceful and frankly excremental doctrines of their chosen "Club House" or given the choice of disassociating themselves. They have gotten away with this ... The bible says... but not all Christians believe The Quran says... but not all Muslims believe The Torah says... but most Jews most certainly do not believe ...CRAP for too long, you venerate the book, you ARE responsible for the doctrines espoused, you hold up a turd and call it scripture, don't be surprised when people tell you you stink of shit. If you don't believe it, drop it, walk away and join the the chorus of disapproval, have the courage of your convictions, NOT the whine of a wheedling, snivelling little apologist worm.

Religous beliefs

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2018:

I tell them I don't have any. If they ask why not, I say it is because I am an adult and grew out of the need for an imaginary friend when I started infant school.

[youtu.be] Wow

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 25, 2018:

Newton's third law is: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This applies in society and psychology as it does in physics. You push a bloody stupid radical agenda hard enough, you will not get a reasoned debate and logical argument in return, you will get and equally bloody stupid knee jerk reactionary agenda. Radicalised idiots love to fight among themselves and don't really care who pays the collateral damage.

Anyone have any good atheist jokes or puns?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Thank God I became an Atheist Atheist have no invisible means of support. (the classic) Atheism is a non-prophet organization. Why would an Atheist still use a cross to ward off Dracula? Dracula is allergic to Bullshit, everyone knows that.

I just watched a movie called Delirium with Topher Grace. It was...interesting...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Sounds a bit like an unaccredited remake of the Legacy (1978 )

If Jesus were alive, he would be on Jerry Springer.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

And I said, "Why me?" And the Voice said: "Because you're on television, dummy! You have 40 million Americans listening to you and after the show you could have 50 million. For Pete's sake, I'm not asking you to walk the land in sackcloth and ashes preaching the Armageddon. You're on TV, man." So I thought about it for a moment, and then I said, "Ok." Howard Beale "Network" 1976

How many enjoyed this movie? I did it was well done during its time.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Beautiful film and surprisingly historically accurate. "We're Bunny and Clyde, we steal carrots"

I bought this 50 movie pack quite some time ago.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Yes these Mill Creek multipack collections of public domain movies are really good value, you always get a few doubles but all in all there is some great stuff there.

This sketch was written in 1980 and broadcast on a BBC satirical comedy program "Not the nine ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Here is the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaGdwfykYGY

If Jesus were alive, he would be on Jerry Springer.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

If Jesus were alive, the government would be calling him a liberal lefty loon, Fox would be calling him a dangerous extremist democrat, the churches and other religions would be calling him a fake, he would likely be in jail for insurrection and hate speech, feminists would be saying he was the wrong sex and had always been a woman if you read the bible in a certain way, and if it had not been done already some one would be trying to assassinate him.

Have you noticed a decline in writing skills?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

A couple of particular bugbears for me

Agnostic shopping?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 24, 2018:

Athesium, wow I know It is a typo, but what a great word, "Without a set place or position" I'm stealing that for the name of a city of undecided gods, in a novel or screen play :)