Do we make our fates or is life preordained??

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

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

This hard to believe ?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

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

So... Blocked twice so far. Why?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

Any other John Carpenter fans here? Favourite movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

After leaving the Mormon church in my early thirties.

Think this is a fun saying.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

especially if it is red :)

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

You know, I think a lot about judging people.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

A friend of mine put this on Facebook.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

DO ATHEISTS AND HUMANISTS HAVE SACRED VALUES?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

DO ATHEISTS AND HUMANISTS HAVE SACRED VALUES?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

Duel after that he sold out and went very commercial

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

who ever wrote this in bed tonight

Origin of god

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

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

What is reality?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

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

If I, as an agnostic looking for guidance.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

Neither, I recommend Douglas Adams

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

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

I want to hear what people have to say.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

put another way

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

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

Questions

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

a truly beautiful sentiment

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

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

Reality of Deities

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

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

Thinking vs Understanding

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

Understanding is the product of critical thinking applied to accurate data

About blocking.. Am I being harsh?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

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

Anybody for classic movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

Why religion still exist in today's adavance era?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

Sounds legit!

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Holy men are so full of shit.

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

Remember this

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

Is there meaning to your life?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

Proselytizing

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Only when they try and convert me first.

Has Christianity ruined crosses for you?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

So it is imagining things then?

? Never...mind

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

I wonder if Superman gets morning steel?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

Are atheists criticising the wrong things about religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

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

George Carlin

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

genius

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

or conversely if you are an evangelical

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

The angel Nephimoron?

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

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

Men's underwear

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

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

Christian Message

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

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

What's your favorite name?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

Ben and Klaus for a man Nicola and Rose for women

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

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

My son is hilarious.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

this was always one of my favourite variations

AA is agnostic.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

Is that even in English? ^^^^^

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

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

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

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

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

The Bible-abridged

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

The Whole Bible in 100 words. First God makes the world and then drowns it, apart from one floating zoo. Abraham goes to Egypt and Moses gets lost coming home. Joshua invents demolition and genocide. Judges rule, Ruth gets married and Samuel creates Kings. Esther kicks ass and how God gambles on Job is Chronicled. Musical interlude. Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel lament going to Babylon, Daniel becomes a lion tamer. Loads of weird prophets moan a lot. Jesus is born, talks, does conjuring tricks, dies, comes back, goes away, so his friends write letters. John moves to Patmos, eats some magic mushrooms and sees the apocalypse. The End

If you could start a religion/group what would it look like?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

this guy had the right idea maybe ;) When I go to confession I don't offer God small sins, petty squabbles, jealousies... I offer him sins worth forgiving! Grigori Rasputin

Found this amazingly informative pamphlet in a store today.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

Yuk!

What do you think about the mandella effect?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

Case in point, when I read this article earlier Mandela Effect was capitalised and had only one L now it is not!!!!! I must have jumped time lines.

Does anyone else enjoy balancing their checkbook as much as I do? :s

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

Most places in the UK will no longer accept cheques, some of the young'uns don't even know what one is. As if to prove a point my spell checker does not recognise the word Cheque.

I've been debating online quite a bit with family.

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

The simple point is in the name, a near death experience is not a death experience, if it were the subject would be dead and unable to report, if you were not dead you were still alive, had brain function and so have no proof anything spiritual, at least no more than falling a sleep for a few minutes.

How does the brainwashing in televangelism work?

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

It is called Shock induction technique, a trick used both by psychologists, hypnotherapists and stage hypnotists. The idea being to cause a sudden panic that opens the mind up suggestion for survival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7-0VHQyFm8

Christian Hate Preacher Will Be Deported from Australia After Harassing Muslims – Friendly Atheist

LenHazell53 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

This is what religion does to people, turns them in to hate filled dangerous madmen. All religions are alike in this, just the jargon changes, when we live in a world where Violent Extremist Buddhist are a thing, I can make that opening statement with a degree of certainty I never thought would be plausible.

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.