Any one into B movies ?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 9, 2018:

Some of the best films ever made were originally put out as supporting features.

"Folks, we have a winner ! "

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 8, 2018:

this sort of thinking is known as doctrine of signatures, it has been debunked since the third or fourth century, but holds on because people find patterns in things were they don't exist.

How do I fight a cult when my offspring thinks it's grand?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 8, 2018:

If it where my son in law indirectly accusing my other daughter of being some kind of child molesting pervert for wanting to care for her nephew, he and I would be having some serious words in private, a conversation including such words as, Fucking, idiot, pervert and sledge hammer" This is nothing to do with religion, this is a seriously twisted individual who need putting straight now, before this goes any further.

Want court representation?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Blasphemy, every one knows Jesus only speaks through stuffed Pandas!

Remember how hotly Brigham Young's curse of Cain pronouncement was debated when Spencer W.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Oh, they got around that one by announcing a few years ago that it turns out, the priesthood ban on the blacks was in fact NEVER a doctrine at all, it was just a "suggestion" by Brother Brigham, well meaning but misguided, and the fact that almost every other prophet after him up until SWK said it was a doctrine of the church, was just a mistake, and the fact that it took a revelation from God to rescind the ban by revelation was just to ensure it was rescinded were DEFINATELY NOT ass covering bullshit. Apparently all the black brothers and sister get into the CK now, if they have baptisms for the dead done for them and they accept it in the afterlife.   Is it just me or does all this sound just a little bit fucking stupid?

Who is your favorite existentialist philosopher and why?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 8, 2018:

JEAN BAUDRILLARD Yes, I know he is a postmodernist, but there is more to connect his philosophy of existentialism than might at first be apparent.

Look what my aunt got for me

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Cool

New movie called, “Upgrade”.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Looks good, even if it is very derivative of the old 200 AD comic series M.A.C.H. 1

So, is anyone else glad that Moffat is done being the head writter of Doctor Who?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

Yes, he had some great ideas, wrote some of the best episodes ever, but very quickly started repeating himself. That said, replacing him with Chibnal is worrying, I was hoping for Mark Grattis

The only horror movies I can stand are the old ones.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

Their greatest roles where I think Vincent Price- Dragonwyck 1946, though not technically a horror film it was the gothic sinister role that broke him into the field (for genuine horror Witch finder general 1968 ) Christopher Lee- I Monster 1971 best version of Jekyll and Hyde ever, with Lee playing the part as a delusional psychotic who only believes he has physically changed Peter Cushing - Fear in the Night 1972

The only horror movies I can stand are the old ones.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

Three wonderful men, great performers and gentlemen. I believe that still is from the house of the long shadows, which also featured John Caradine. It seems to work like this, you get four or five breakout horror stars every generation, for instance : 10/20 Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Max Shrek, Conrad Veidt, The Gish sisters 30/40 Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Fay Ray, John Caradine, Elsa Lanchester, Lon Chaney Junior 50/60 Lee, Cushing, Price, Robert Quarry, Barbara Steel, Karen Black, Linda Blaire, Donald Pleasance 70/80 Robert Eglund, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Cambell, Zelda Rubenstien, BradDuriff 90/2000 + Jeffrey Combs, Larry Drake, Danny Trejo, Tobin Bell, Katee Sackhoff, and Lin Shaye the big break out horror star of the last few years

Any thing new about the " look" through a key hole onto oneself before you hear sb approaching and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

Are you referring to existentialism? Sartre's theory of "The Look," ?

Do you ever link unrelated movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

The lead characters played by Simon Pegg in the Cornetto trilogy (and Spaced) are all deluded fantasies of Gary King, the only part of the three films that takes place in the real world is the first half of The World's End, when Gary breaks out of the Asylum and tries to get the gang back together. When Gary is beaten up in the toilets of the pub, he falls back into his fantasy world and things start to go right for him again. Sean of the dead, is his way of making sense of the Zombies, his fellow patients in the asylum, Hot Fuzz is his dream of being a policeman a dream ruined by his bent copper uncle the drug dealer. Bill Nighy appears in all three as a father figure who hates him, Nick Frost is always his best friend, David Bradley is an unintelligible older figure who tries to help but usually makes things worse, Former James Bond actors appear as villains, Martin Freeman always plays sellouts. There are other connections, but the overall feel is of a man trying to make sense of his past, present and future, through a gauze of insanity and disillusionment.

Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga. A STAR IS BORN - Official Trailer 1 ://youtu.be/nSbzyEJ8X9E

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

1937, 1954, and 1976 and now 2018, how many times are they going to beat this tired old story to death,

How many has seen this movie? It is one of my all-time favorites.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

See it, but as with most James Dean movies, I was not overly impressed.

Am I wrong for comparing the religious to Nazism?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

Both Professor Stuart Hall in 1979 and in 2004 by Dr. Laurence Britt wrote articles defining the major points in identifying extreme nationalism and or fascism, just as a thought experiment I took their criteria adapted and applied it to the LDS and to a lesser extent to religion in general 1. An easily identifiable symbol to rally too. 2. Specific terms/ code words or euphemisms exclusive to the group. 3. Powerful and continuing expressions of belonging to a chosen or special race. 4. Praising of a Mythological golden age of your ideology that give rights of rule by dynastic or spiritual heritage to all members and especially to leaders 5. Being included in and party to sacred mysticism denied to less worthy others 6. Physical Body Worship combined with reminders of spiritual unworthiness 7. Disdain for the importance of human rights especially those of outsiders 8. Suppression of the rights of the individual in favour of the group and the greater good 9. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause  10. The supremacy of the physical and or spiritual power broker 11. Institutionalised sexism  12. A controlled mass media  13. Obsession with internal security and or secrecy  14. Religion and ruling elite tied together  15. Power of corporations protected  16. Power of labour suppressed or eliminated  17. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts  18. Obsession with crime and punishment  19. Rampant cronyism and corruption  20. A pretence at democracy including Fraudulent elections or sustaining of the leadership  If you accept the above as indicative of a fascist state then the LDS and to a lesser extent all religions are fascist institution.

Anyone her struggle with being an Atheist in Mormon culture?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

You have my sympathy, though not living in a Mormon community, I had to threaten them with harassment law suits in order to get them to leave my wife and I alone after I left.

I watched “Casablanca” tonight.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

There is no greater experience in cinema than watching a classic as it was meant to be seen, on the big screen with booming sound and a lap full of snacks.

When Kim Kardashian declared her allegance to Satan, what did y'all think?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

Are we talking about the imaginary red Satan in Hell or the nightmarish orange one in Washington?

This fellow was standing on a street corner shouting "I am Jesus Christ" over and over again.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 7, 2018:

Jesus walks in to a Bar in the poor end of town. He sees a man suffering a skin condition walks over to him and "pow" healed. Thank you Lord cries the man Jesus sees another man who is blind, "Pow" Jesus heals him. Thank you Lord cries the man Then Jesus sees a man in a wheelchair, as Jesus approaches the man raises his fist "Keep away from me you liberal do gooding bastard!" he yells "What is wrong my son?" asks Jesus "Took me four years to get on disability benefit," he cried."And you're not fucking it up for me!"

11 "unanswerable" questions for atheists - answered - YouTube

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

There are so many religious people making these unanswerable questions for atheists videos and all they are really are an excuse for smug gits to pat one another on the back and say that there is no point looking at the answer video, because the questions are unanswerable. Ray comfort’s banana video is still the best one, half an hour explaining why god made the Banana perfect for man, only to have it explained to him a few days later that the Banana is in fact a cultivated, eugenically created fruit designed by people not god. Every time he appears in public now it is to a chorus of “cough, cough, bananas, cough, cough”

Not big into newer horror movies but I am kind of looking forward to this [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Cannot be worse than the Rob Zombie monstrosity

Why would the word "kill" be mentioned 416 times in one version of the bible ?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Because it is the holy book of a death cult?

This fellow was standing on a street corner shouting "I am Jesus Christ" over and over again.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Lol, an oldie but goldie

What are your top 3 current favorite TV shows?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

It is odd but when I was young I was a "tele addict" We had three channels, later four and then five, before everything went digital. Every night there was good stuff to watch, interesting documentaries, news and current affairs, drama and films. Today there are 70 channels on freeview, before you start on streaming services, cable and satelite. You know what, there is next to nothing worth watching anymore. I watch Doctor Who, when it is on. I like Big Bang theory I watched the new season of Will and Grace, which was not bad. Everything else I watch is reruns of shows from the 70's and 80's. Of the modern shows, I rarely watch them live because I hate the commercials, so buy them on DVD and watch them later, same with films.

When 1 in 20 deaths occur from suicide surely politicians must realise that their policies and laws ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Utterly shameful

How do you handle religious in-laws?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

I fought for years with mine, then when my Father in Law was diagnosed with early onset althsiemers and his wife became wheelchair bound all in the same few months I got really close to them, I visit most days and handle their day to day financial management, help with their shopping and independence needs and spend a lot of time actually talking to them. Actual problems put relationships and differences in perspective she still thinks I might go to Hell but is now willing to put in a good word for me when the time comes.

I tend towards thinking that: The flow of time is a illusion.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

It is interesting to postulate as a thought problem, that the whole of your personal reality exists as one single complete entity in an utterly different reality and that time is simply the way consciousness makes sense of it, but even if that is the case, **what difference does it make?** From a conscious POV time is real, reality as imparted to our brains through our sensory perception is real (If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? ) Even if this reality is simply a perception of something else, or a hologram or a though in the mind of a higher being, as far as we are concerned time, space, matter, energy and thought are all we have, and determine our state of being.

Documents Reveal the Mormon Church Has Investments Worth At Least $32 Billion – Friendly Atheist

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

"The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion." L. Ron Hubbard founder of Scientology, probably talking about Joseph Smith.

Neanderthal dna

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Both my son and I have many Neanderthal traits, shorter body and legs, longer arms than the average, strong bones, and a tendency to heal from disease faster than our Cromag cousins and a more individualist and creative nature.

Here is my all-time favorite classic movie. What is your favorite classic movie?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Scaramouche

God is watching over you .

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Might Sobek is not mocked!

Is social media ruining peoples ability to connect?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

Writing a letter had a formal etiquette that was taught in school, likewise using the telephone had rules and customs that had to be learned. Even at first e-mail was treated like a form of postal communication akin to a letter. Then came text-ing and instant messaging and mobile phones that for some reason are longer considered by the younger people as an actual phone but as some form of telepathy that people are supposed to pretend they cannot hear in public. No one teaches you how to behave in communications anymore, simply how to access it. There was a short-lived movement for "Netiquette" but it was simply too much bother for the instant gratification crowd. When being bad mannered on line became the norm, it spilled over in to real life. People actually now say LOL to each other, or BRB instead of excuse me, even air quotes which were bad enough have given way to just saying "Hash Tag" and worst of all, meeting someone's eye, making eye contact, even when talking directly to someone is utterly Taboo and has even been referred to as a form of assault, or an unwanted advance. I enjoy the use of social media, but it is not the template for my life, as seems now to increasingly the case, with so many others people.

You and your kid are at the fair waiting in a long line.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

I find these days confronting someone will most likely cause more trouble for you than it does for the offender. I recently told some older guy pushing past a bus queue to get on first, that there was a queue and was told by others in the line I was a bully, complained about and the man was allowed to get on by someone further forward in the queue. A day later the same thing happened and this time I just stood aside to let the person on and was bawled out by a woman behind me for allowing queue jumping. I'm getting taxis from now on.

Is Bill Maher the best (living) atheist comedian that does Intelligent humor?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

Bill Maher is perhaps better classified as a satirist rather than a comic or comedian; his wit is sometimes sacrificed for the sake of ridicule, humour for criticism and his intellect for a cheap laugh. My problem with him is his inconsistency he wants to be George Carlin, will settle for being Jack Benny but use childish shock when all else fails and bawls like Bernard Manning.

One of the greatest comedians of all time!

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

Simply amazing

The Ten Commandments Moses, fresh from his meeting on Mount Sinai, sets off on a tour of the world ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

*A Rabbi gets a letter from his son, informing him that the boy has become a Hindu, distraught he calls his brother who tells him that he should be so lucky, his son has recently become a Mormon. That Sabbath they go to the Synagogue and pray to Gd for comfort and help, in the matter of their boys. Suddenly thunder cracks, the heavens open and the voice of the Lord is heard in the land declaring* ## "You two want to talk to ME about YOUR SONS!"

Caption this

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

Never try feltching on acid

Anyone ever asked you if you're ashamed to be an atheist?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

I don't bring it up unless asked directly but: Catholics and Anglicans are either curious or repelled by it Muslims tend to either be confused or appalled and say it is impossible Hindus tell me I have not found the right god yet Buddhists tell me that is my way Baptists get angry Methodist throw water at me and Jews just tell me no I'm not I'm attention seeking.

If i was your supposed all knowing and all powerful God, i would just take down the one single enemy...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

To hear some godbotherers The Devil is just God with a hangover

Why must we respect people's religious beliefs when such respect is not reciprocated?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 5, 2018:

We respect their right to believe so long and so far as it does no harm to others. They however as part of their doctrine as obliged to believe that our lack of faith means we have either given or ourselves, or been taken by the Devil and are therefore a danger to their immortal souls, as we shall be be forced to try and drag them down to the pit with us. As has been said before, having an imaginary friend is childish, however having an imaginary enemy is just fecking stupid.

The claim that racist, sexist, or xenophobic speech is protected free speech is a manifestation of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 4, 2018:

There is no such thing as hate speech. There is speaking truth And There is speaking lies If people were honest no problem, they would determine truth, by discussion, observation and experimentation and act according But When a Lie is considered true because it is preferable to an inconvenient truth And When truth is called a lie because it does not fit with a current trend of thinking Honesty has lost all meaning When an innocent can be judged guilty, or a guilty person found innocent for the sake of preserving a profitable lie There is no justice, there is only profit. When we lie to our children in school, church and home for the sake of a quiet and monetarily prosperous life, why are we surprised that they grow up with no respect for anything but their own ego, wants and desires. In a world of liars, the dishonest man becomes a necessary evil and the honest man is a dangerous criminal.

Gal Gadot Reveals ‘Wonder Woman 2’ Training In New Photo [heroichollywood.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 4, 2018:

so long as she doesn't miss a day

Jesus not only hated the Jewish religious leaders but also hated the gentiles.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 4, 2018:

Yup most Christians don't realise they are more Paulists than actual Jesus followers. Today in the RC church Paul is revered as a true apostle, but look a little closer and you will find he was reviled by the RC for centuries, and his epistles were only returned to the RC Cannon as a concession to the Marcionites, a rival faction of Christians the Church of Roman was so fearful of, and were so unable to massacre as they did with so many others, that they had to sue for peace and amalgamate with them; though ultimately this did not happen a large number of Marcionites were absorbed in to the mother Church and their teaching whittled away over the next few centuries, until today the few Marcionites still existence are again reviled, but Paul has stayed in the Canon of scripture. Seems the little shit was too useful to be dispensed with entirely when it came to petty rules and making money.

Mo Salah's Injury:- Apparently some Imam has blamed Mo’s recent injury on the fact that he ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 4, 2018:

Well a certain Bishop has said that the floods in the south of England are due to gay people being happily married too so perhaps god or whatever sobriquet it is using at that moment in time is a total fuckwit or these so called holy men are all full of shit?

In surveying the questions i notice that women are mostly asking/posting about intimacy of emotion ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 3, 2018:

Men see sex as the ultimate physical intimate act (well I do) and the ultimate act of love as mutual commitment, which is why so many of us are scared of it. Sex is important to men as it is the final expression of masculinity according to social norms, though it may not be so to each man individually, either way a great deal of importance is placed on it during our youth and adolescence by our peers second only to physical prowess and the ability to be a protector/provider impressed upon us by our parents. Thus psychologically it has in years gone by shaped our psyche and sense of worth and self identity, so that now in an increasingly genderless society many of us find it hard to know our place, and who or what we are expected to be. Since we are all in the same boat as men, we follow our instinct from childhood to ask our mothers or failing that trusted females. Unfortunately the way things are at the moment most of the females are completely lost too, and so we a society of person knowing very well what we are *not* expected to be, but with very little idea of what **is** expected of us.

The man Jesus can also be accused of hatred for the Jewish leaders, or maybe it was jealousy because...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 3, 2018:

Look it's all perfectly Straight forward, when you are your own dad who was born to a female type girl who was 14 and didn't agree to it, who you definitely did not rape, because you are god and god's son at the same time as you are a ghost, you don't have to follow your own laws, even though breaking them is worthy of burning forever in a place of ultimate evil that you created even though you are completely good and without sin, and so could have had no conception of evil in the first place. See, QED it's all so simple!

There was a discussion a few days ago of men sending women dick pics.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Most guys these days think a sonnet is a high speed hedgehog. Still for the time some of those sonnets were pretty spicy.

Beer drinkers. What is your favourite beer brews ? L like Pilseners or Lagers.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

I haven't drunk alcohol for many years but when I did, I loved mild ales, especially Theakston's old Peculier

Jesus the judge- The bible is clear that judging other people is not only wrong but is also a sin! ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

The 11th commandment thou shalt Do as I say, not as I do

From my notebook of collected wisdom, I thought some of you on here might like this PHILOSOPHY- ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Variation on an old Dave Allen comedy routine. :)

I've found this to be very true.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Nice little parable

Attention; 8 posts on rosanne cancellation today-please scan posts before you post

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

She apparently has seven distinct personalities so that explains all but one?

Do you have an interest in comparative religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Only in so far as how it impacts sociologically and anthropologically on the human race.

Are we heading into a mure puritanical time?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

-It is an alternate form of "Puritanism" more based on public perception of virtue by public display, it is odd a very left wing form of Puritanism in a very right wing society. You can be simultaneously thought a saint and a sinner, fact are valued except when in conflict with feelings. As a feminist you must abhor the suppression of women, but at the same time you must support the oppression of women when it is seen as racist to speak out against it. As a libertarian you must oppose the suppression of free speech while at the same time demanding the silence of those doing and promoting the same thing for the "wrong" reasons. Those of an alternate sexual orientation must not be persecuted, unless it is done in the name of freedom of religion, then you must persecute in order to support another persecuted group. Make ignorance derisible, but make knowledge dangerous. You begin to see the pattern here? You cannot do right for doing wrong. It is Caligula making his horse a senator and arresting people for not obeying him while claiming that claiming not to understand a senator is in itself treason. Keep the people frightened, keep them fighting one another, and let no one know what is wrong and what is right but make everything illegal and prosecute only when expedient. Vilify those not outraged and castigate those who are outraged, control the language, control the media, control the people until you have a pliant, passive, docile populous of those crying out, "for goodness sake TELL ME WHAT TO THINK!"

I've always had a problem with the story of Abraham.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Abraham is a very spurious character, willing to practice polygamy, willing to abandon his first born child and second wife because of his other wife's jealousy even when his fathering a child by someone else was her idea, willing to kill his son because the voice in his head told him to. Willing lie in the name of god and claim his wife was his sister... twice so if she was raped he would not be killed, he changed his name and hers, he was a megalomaniac with a superiority complex, he is hailed as a patriarch of Judaism but was in fact a Zoroastrian, he claimed to have aged ten years over night when king Nimrod carried out the slaughter of the innocents in order to be saved, but save none of the other thousands of boy children the king slaughtered, and on and on it goes.

I've always had a problem with the story of Abraham.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

to get back to the OP

I know that we're all just a bunch of profile pics, posts, and comments, but there are a few people ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Like minds call out to like minds, physical expression and dress send out subconscious messages to those attuned to receive them. Vocabulary and word choice are another indicator of like potential compatibility.

They want him to wear leggings but hes protesting his right to bear legs [theguardian.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

Is this seriously all some people have to get concerned about, in this and age? Pathetic.

Police Squad! (In Colour) - Name Confusion - YouTube

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 2, 2018:

I'm amazed some one is even considering doing a remake of this, Frank Drebin will always and **only** ever be Leslie Nielsen :)

Has anyone heard of Pastor Gino Jennings....

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

The man is verbally abusive pig, who like most old fashioned religionists wants to govern every aspect of other people's lives down to the type underwear they wear and is so sexually frustrated he wants everyone else to have to do without too.

So today, the LDS church is celebrating 40 years of them not being racist.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

40 years, still no apology, still institutional racism, no black apostles, no vilification of Brigham Young for condemning mixed race coupes to death and still the pathetic excuse that the priest hood ban never actually was doctrine, even though every prophet from Young to Kimball said it was, and even in the case of Ezra Taft Benson, called the civil rights movement "A commie plot to weaken the country" Yeah lots to celebrate, you bunch of bigoted blow hard bastards

Here is a question for men: how do you react to a woman crying?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

Depends, genuine emotional and empathetic sorrow I will comfort, crying because she is hurt because she did not get her own way and is trying to elicit sympathy and her own way after all, will be ignored.

I've always had a problem with the story of Abraham.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

Totally off topic I love your avatar pic of Billy Cornelius as Odd Bod Jnr. Carry on screaming is my favourite carry on movie ever.

The Apotheosis Of D Trump

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

President Trump, who art in Washington Donald be thy name Thy Republic come Thy Willy be done In Real life as in thy Brainstorms Give us this day our daily tweet And give us our real news Not that of those who fake against thee And lead us not in to the leftists But deliver us from liberals For thine is the money, the power and the glory forever and ever SO happy Amen

Catholicism 101: "I'm a Roman Catholic And have been since before I was born And the one thing ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat, All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot. Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings, He made their brutish venom. He made their horrid wings. All things sick and cancerous, All evil great and small, All things foul and dangerous, The Lord God made them all. Each nasty little hornet, Each beastly little squid-- Who made the spikey urchin? Who made the sharks? He did! All things scabbed and ulcerous, All pox both great and small, Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all. Amen.

Too Much Information

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

Try looking them in the face and saying "I'm really sorry to interupt but I'm having a really heavy period, my head aches, my piles are playing me up giving me a massive pain in the arse and so I can't really pay attention to your inane twaddle, so excuse me while I go change my jam rag" Smile sweetly and walk away.

The first miracle that Jesus performs should show everyone exactly what Jesus' ministry really ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

There's a good case for Jesus being the one who was pissed. Would you shout down your own moher and call her "woman" at a public event if you were sober? And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? John 2:1-5

Why Are Atheists Generally Smarter Than Religious People? | HuffPost

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

I believe Atheist are not more intelligent than religious people, religious people deliberately act, or feel obliged to act dumber than atheists in order to show and parade their* faith *in their imaginary friend, imaginary enemy, the flying guys with wings, the red anally fixated guys with pokers and their book of bronze age fairy tales. It is generally more about being socially acceptable than actually being religious. Nine times out of ten once they stop being so farcical it turns out they were pretty much on an average with everyone else intelligence wise.

Does intelligence lead to atheism?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

Everyone is born an atheist, to return to atheism requires one to overcome brainwashing, conditioning and indoctrination. To achieve this requires knowledge, intuition/instinct and a competing ideology

On the flip side of the last question: who's your /least/ favourite companion?

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

Could not stand Perri, hated her voice and accent and dress sense. That said I have seen Nicola Bryant in other stuff since and she is really good, does not talk like that at all and the character seems to have come out of bad directing.

Some interesting news about the new series has surfaced, with the reveal that a signed Copy of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

Okay so if anyone does want the spoilers message me

So, the previous host of this group has left, leaving me in charge somehow.

LenHazell53 comments on Jun 1, 2018:

If you are really unhappy about it, I'll do it, cheers

What is your definition of intelligence?

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

The ability to be able to select, retain, cross reference and apply accurate knowledge in a practical and useful manner, thus generating more accurate and useful knowledge whilst garnering tangible results.

Ok, folks - what are the five most influential, or transformative books you've read?

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Non Fiction A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell. Why I am not a Christian Bertrand Russell. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Christopher Hitchens The Divine King in England by Margaret Alice Murray Fiction Small Gods Sir Terry Pratchett The Great Pursuit Tom Sharpe The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Ardath Marie Corelli Sorrows of Satan Marie Corelli

James Bond

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Though I favour Dalton as the most faithful rendition, it is a toss up for me between Goldfinger and Live and Let Die for the greatest Bond film ever.

James Bond

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Timothy Dalton was the most faithful to the books, and then again if going by the character as written and appearance as described Daniel Craig would have been a perfect Felix Leiter, but was nothing like Bond.

This was a response to someone's post, but being new to the site, I thought I'd post it here to see ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

" atheism, itself, just being another absolute position and sitting in precisely the same place as any religious faith." You seem to be under a severely mistaken view of what it means to be an atheist if you can put the words faith and atheism together in such a sentence. In no way shape or form is atheism anything but the total antithesis of faith.

I always thought by now the major religions Will the world ever stop believing in a fictitious man ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

" is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as ***useful***." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

NOT RELIGIOUS, but something in common among many religions is a great life lesson for all humanity.

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

## Do unto others, only do it first, do it harder and then don't let them get up to do it back to you!

Any anti-natalists here?

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

No answers yet? Perhaps hey are all too busy not having sex? ;)

Does intelligence lead to atheism?

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Intelligence is simply the ability to gather and apply appropriate knowledge in a critical and practical way. If you have no knowledge, or inaccurate knowledge or decide not to gain certain knowledge for the sake of an abnegation of responsibility and a peaceful life you can be very intelligent and still an utter fool. This is how you can have a brilliant author and physician who writes intelligent and wonderful detective stories, and yet in real life thinks fairies live at the bottom his garden and that his wife can talk to dead people. (Arthur Conan Doyle in case anyone did not get the reference)

How do you transition from being the center of the world, to not?

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

I find it is simply the innate ability to face reality. Pragmatism is a great help in dispelling delusions.

Paige Patterson fired by Southern Baptist seminary over handling of sex abuse allegation - The ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Link is dead try this one https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2018/05/30/southern-baptist-leader-paige-patterson-fired-texas-seminary/658449002/

Atheists Are Sometimes More Religious Than Christians - The Atlantic

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

# "cough, cough" Bullshit "cough, cough"

Here is a question I have wanted to ask african americans for years but have never been able to find...

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

As I understand it, in the USA Christianity was forced on the slaves with the promise that suffering in this life was a blessing, and would result in greater rewards in the next, that the chance to be slaves in a Christian country was a blessing since they could hear and accept the gospel and be saved, unlike those left behind in heathen savagery. In short the con of jam tomorrow is worth plain bread today, and plain bread today is better than starvation yesterday. Since those who accepted this shit "prospered", that is were allowed to have children, got feed and were not beaten to death and those who did not died in great pain, a few generations of this lead to a pliant, readily obedient populous accepting the "normality" they were born in to.

I never understood, even when I was an Evangelical, how christians loved warmongers and ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Is it no a great irony that the three most popular hymns (discounting xmas carols) ever written are Onward Christian soldier Battle hymn of the republic and All things bright and beautiful Sort of, become a Christian, admire the wonder, splendour and beauty of god's creation, and then blow the fucking shit out of it!

Would you rather live 100 years in the future or 100 years in the past? timetravel

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Well given that 100 year in the past would mean being in the run up to world war two and the rise of fascism, McCarthyism and the cold war, neither.

All powerful God!

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Perhaps, given it exists at all, the god thing finds it easier to see its own faults in others?

This is agnostic.

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Surely the whole point of this site is for us to BE ABLE to talk about it without busy body religionists butting to tell us we are all damned (literally) fools who should read a book of bronze age fairy stories in order to please sky daddy.

What do yall think about what happens after death?

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Natural recycling

No dino in bible land! Lol

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

Lol

I recently posted this to this site's Memes 'R' Us group and was disappointed with the response, but...

LenHazell53 comments on May 31, 2018:

1. Take no thought for the 'morrow' Matthew 6:25-34 2. He came to turn brother against brother Matthew 10 3. You should love him more than your family Matthew 10 4. He came to uphold every jot and tittle of the Old Testament Matthew 5:18 5. He would return within the lifetime us those who lived in his time Matthew 24:34 6. He came not to bring peace but a sword Matthew 10 7. If you don't follow him you'll burn in hell for eternity John 14:6 8. He promoted the idea that men should castrate themselves to go to heaven Matthew 19:12 9. If your eye offends you (lust), pluck it out Mark 9:47 Matthew 5:29 10. Whatever you pray to for will be granted if you truly believe Matthew 7:7 these and other disgusting quotes of jesus and his successors litter the new testament

Are you offended by the term "Ape"? Im not - im proud to be an Ape man.

LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2018:

In the 50's and 60's in the Uk it was common to hear parents call their child "a cheeky monkey" or a "daft apeth" it was actually quite endearing.

If the Christian god is just, then how can their god choose a group of people (Israel) and say that ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2018:

The more you know

So.

LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2018:

Insert name of said dingus here

Can atheist and believers be best friends?

LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2018:

OF course they can, I am an anti-theist my wife is a druid, I think she is stupid in that respect she thinks I am ignorant, but other than that we have a 27 year marriage, two kids (one is an atheist one is a born again) four grandkids and a plethora of mutual interests. The problems only come when you make your religious/spiritual/ideological beliefs the centre and the whole of your life, which frankly is a waste of 99.9% of your life.

Hello , Tonight I am exploring that some of the great spiritual thinkers were not trying to make a ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2018:

I feel some thinkers were seeking truth, some were seeking answers, some sought spiritual betterment, but the majority sought, power, prestige and lots of cash from the frightened gullible uneducated masses.

Is a believer welcomed?

LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2018:

The believer will probably be treated with more respect and tolerance than a non believer going on to a Christian site.

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LenHazell53 comments on May 30, 2018:

Single colleagues dating no problem Married (to other people) colleagues dating not advisable One married, one not colleagues dating not going to end well.