I'm trying something on Youtube That I have not seen and would like your feedback! Today i put up a ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

https://gfycat.com/RevolvingTotalBengaltiger

I've been following the story of the teenage boy in Alabama who was pronounced brain dead.

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

So a teenage boy refuses to get out out of bed until threatened with a fate worse than death? Happened five days out of seven when my kids were at school.

I'm trying something on Youtube That I have not seen and would like your feedback! Today i put up a ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

I am always amazed that very few Christians don't know there is not just one Bible canon and not just one translation. You ask "which Bible?" They will almost certainly say "The Holy Bible!"

I saw this ad on TV and couldn't believe my ears, but found it on you-tube.

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

What a scumbag

Dating after 50

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

I've been very happily married since I was in my late twenties, when I turned fifty some many years back I started getting random contacts from old girlfriends and old female school friends who all find themselves now single, asking if I was still married and if so was it a happy marriage, and to let them know if I ever find myself free. Came as an unwanted shock I can tell you. It's weird because as a young man I was always the one who got friend zoned, "I like you but not in that way" and the classic "I would but you're too nice." YuK!. So I am assuming that should anything ever happen to my lovely wife, I won't lack company, but obviously I'm in no rush for that.

Should public nudity be legal?

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

Yes but not for my dad!

What if you are wrong and there IS a god

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

I just ask "What if you're wrong and the real God is Zeus? ready for the thunderbolt up the bum hole are we?"

Any former Mormons here?

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

Yes former TBM here, to my everlasting shame. Joined at 14,attended sporadically, married two Mormon women (not at the same time, was not THAT kind of Mormon) went totally TBM at 25, left at 30. Hate and loath the LDS with a passion, evil cult of business men running a multinational company funded off the back of gullible fools, unfortunates and desperate people. Homophobic, misogynist, bigoted prick Liars, who would not accept the truth about their stupid religion if it came out on national LDS truth day, wearing a Mormon Truths R Us t shirt and kicked them up the arse while singing Mormon truths are here again!

Religion is a business and should pay taxes like any other .

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

Religion is the only industry that produces nothing but fear and misery and sells it for an awful lot of hard cash and free service. There's no such thing as something for nothing? Tell that to the fricking pope!

What’s the one song you wish you would’ve written.

LenHazell53 comments on May 7, 2018:

Between the Lines by Janis Ian

Would you want a Christian God to be real?

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

NO The Christian god is a monster, eternal life is a curse, especially his idea of eternal bliss which is basically stroking his ego forever and ever amen. You would have to be as insane as he is described to be to want that. What a freaking nightmare.

There are 5 fucking churches on my block ... ?

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

Yup

My four-year-old nephew thinks Spider-Man is real (and lives in Queens) and has no idea who Jesus ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

Equally valid contention

Was jesus a white gay jew living in the middle east ?

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

It is an idea that has been around since the 16th century. One of the reasons Christopher Marlow attracted the attention of the Star Chamber was his published assertion that St. Peter was Jesus' "Alexis" (younger gay lover)

You decide!

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

Just have a care when encouraging the canibal to perform oral sex, probably best not to use the word "eat"

Finally! A lecture worth posting here for comment.

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

Shlain seems to conveniently forget that reading and writing were not universally available to the majority of people until the latter half of the 19th century, only to the elite, and yet misogyny existed and flourished anyway, and that when literacy flourished it was only then that feminism became popular and fought back. He also seems to not notice that all writing systems are not alphabetically based, some are pictographic, such as in ancient Egypt and eastern Asia and yet the same pattern of male dominance rose up there to, based on simple "might makes right" sociology. To me this seems a very dangerous path aimed at encouraging ignorance, demonising education and blaming feminist woes on "clever dick" (excuse the word play) men, when the very thing they are blaming is actually the fuel that drove the equality engine, literacy!

I'll put this here.

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

If Hitler had been a good man he would never have risen to power. To become a dictator by necessity involves traits that are fundamentally not good. Ruthlessness, the ability to instill hate and fear in others, the ability to rabble rouse, the ability to put ones conscience on hold, the ability to lie convincingly, the ability to scapegoat effectively, nationalism disguised as patriotism and the ability to recognise and reward similar traits in others. Had Hitler risen to power and then changed to be a "good" man he would undoubtedly have met with an unfortunate accident or illness and Eichmann (or someone equally ruthless and ambitious) would have replaced him.

What is the difference between a cult and a religion?

LenHazell53 comments on May 6, 2018:

The other famous quote (not sure from who) is that both worship a powerful founder, supposedly sent by God, the only difference is that in a cult that person is still alive.

What is the difference between a cult and a religion?

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

1000000 people talking to god is a religion 100000 people talking to god is denomination 10000 people talking to god is a sect 1000 people talking to god is a cult 100 people talking to god is a congregation 10 people talking to god is a prayer circle 1 person talking to god is a paranoid schizophrenic

Riddle Time 4

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Religious denominations

Would you date a vegan that though that its immoral to kill and eat animals.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

I doubt it, because in my experience people so committed to such views expect you to not only respect their views but conform to them too. It tends to be a one way street, my way or the highway, I've no problem with them eating what ever they like, but I will not put up with them not extending the same privilege to me.

Altered States

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Most drugs simply break down the barriers between the conscious and subconscious areas of the brain they invoke nothing, but evoke things probably suppressed for good reason.

Are you a competitive person or the opposite?

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

I am *the* most uncompetitive person ever, I am far more uncompetitive than you or any other person and I'd lay money on that!

So.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

When some evil so and so comes and tells me uninvited that I and my family, including my grandchildren, deserve to burn forever in a lake of unquenchable fire because they are so evil for not accepting their zombie god's sacrifice, I am gonna have a problem with them. How dare they say things like that? When they tell me my niece deserves to be stoned to death, because she married another woman because their bloody book of immoral bronze age fairy tales say they deserve to die and burn forever...I am gonna have a problem with them. When they and their fellow believers get together and petition (a nice euphemism for bribe, cajole and blackmail) elected legislature in to forcing their twisted morality on to the population as a whole ...I am gonna have a more than problem with them and I am going to do more than argue with them!

The VATICAN is nothing but a bunch of corrupt queers and pedophiles.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Some women use the word as an affectation. It has a troubled and mixed etymological history, but it is generally agreed that a a base level it all relates to having gathered knowledge either by age or study. Most so called witches persecuted at one time or another in history were midwives and herbalist, being put out of business by the churches. Medicine, healing and midwifery was becoming the province of monastic and orders of nuns, and frankly they did not want the competition. Today it seems to be used as a catch all term for practicing new age and neo pagan women.

I am curious about superstitions amongst people who are not mentally affiliated with a religion.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Many superstitions had quite practical ideas behind them. Breaking a mirror is 7 years bad luck, because at the time a mirror was probably the most expensive thing in the house Don't walk under a ladder, because you might get something dropped on your head, or knock down the poor sod up there Don't put shoes on the table, because shit tends to spread germs Don't light three cigarettes from one match, because it is likely in war time to give a sniper time to find you and kill you.

Jesus loves you? What does it mean to you?

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

A 2000 year old dead Jewish carpenter wants to tell em that?

Jesus loves you? What does it mean to you?

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

I got so sick of this and people saying "God is love" that I made this meme to send back at them

A Good Time is Guaranteed for None.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Two cans of real root beer (almost impossible to get in the UK), the phone turned off, a good subbed not dubbed Japanese movie on the wide screen TV, my recliner chair and everybody and the dogs all out of the house for two hours.

Someone just accused me of plagiarism. His words, not mine.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Someone just accused me of plagiarism. Fie! A plague o' both your houses! say I

I've been in a passionless relationship for 5 yrs.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

I sympathise and am in a similar situation, is your wife's situation related to health issues, and have you discussed the situation?

Do u think Christianity is bad ? What's your opinion on it

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Christianity is a cult based on the idea that utter submission of life and liberty to an ancient, xenocidal, capricious, jealous fertility god will buy you an eternal life of servitude and condemn everyone who disagrees with you to eternal punishment. What is not to love?

Do you believe in free will?

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Of course we can control and understand what we want, if that was not the case, there could be no acts of deliberate rebellion such as hunger strikes, self sacrifice over coming fear or nature.

What do people in this forum think about "bad" words?

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

There is no such thing as a "Bad" word, word is just a symbol to signify a meaning. Only the intent with which use a word can be negative or positive and even then a word is nothing until heard, interpreted and reacted to. You are always free to ignore or not listen. The meaning and impact of words alters too over time. Uttering Strueth, bugger or blimey would have at one time carried a blasphemey charge, now few people even know what they mean, other than as silly "swear" word replacements

Christian teachings warn against worshiping false idols.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

Yes this is why the protestants dreamed up modern Trinitarian ism and why the Catholics rewrote the Ten Commandments and took out the one about worshiping idols. New improved churchifying folks with added platitudinousness

The Unholy Trinity: Martin Luther, the Nazis and God To this day the Lutheran Church is ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

The only thing churches are better at than hating is rewriting their own histories.

This is God's response to child rape.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

The other prime example of this is that if Hitler accepted Jesus on his deathbed he would be in heaven where as everyone he had killed would be burning in Hell. The forgiveness by grace is the ultimate religious get out clause.

We have had two very famous very sick children lately Charlie Guard and Alfie Evans.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

This has become typical of British society now, the lack of trust in professional people when they do not agree with you is ludicrous. Yes a doctor can make a mistake, which is why any doctor will offer a second opinion from another doctor, however asking a doctor for second opinion from a Priest is an insult. It is like a mechanic telling you you need a new gearbox and you saying no because you aromatherapist has sprinkled lavender oil on the clutch. In a case where every single doctor has told you your child is effectively dead, and is only alive and in pain because of life support, saying no keep them alive and suffering based on nothing but the fact that the person objecting is a parent is an act of cruelty you would be prosecuted for it were a dog and not a child. We have to learn to have trust again in our health professionals with nearly a decade of training behind them and huge amounts of experience, and not doubt everything they say on principle, or on the say so of so called holy men.

All relationships have ups and downs.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

MY first marriage ended badly, when I was in my early twenties after five years. The marriage and relationship was all totally on her terms, I was isolated from everyone, family friends to such an extent, that later, I realised I was subject to cultish brainwashing techniques. Ultimately the relationship collapsed on her terms too, for reason I won't go in to, she found someone better able to provide for her wants. I was left with literally no one and nothing, even my relationship with my immediate family never fully recovered, they saw me as having deserted them, and I felt they abandoned me (my brother I believe even had an affair with my ex behind my back). Afterward it took five years of therapy, new friends and getting my head straight to come to the conclusion that you cannot actually rely on anyone other than yourself, that you have to stay strong in will, protect yourself, be assertive and never submissive. Marriage and a relationship (be it romantic or friendship) is a partnership, if one or the other is constantly trying to get the upper hand, it is not going to work in the long term. Mutual Love is and has to be the basis, it must be based on honesty, trust and determination.

I’m curious about whether and how people set age parameters for potential romantic partners.

LenHazell53 comments on May 5, 2018:

My rule of thumb is that if someone is dating or married to someone young enough to be their child, it is a bit creepy. I don't doubt that their are legitimate and strong relationships built on the so called "May to December" age gap, but I cannot see what they can possibly have in common. Years ago I dated a woman eight years younger than me and it was not a pleasant experience, though we liked one another, she understood none of my terms of reference, nor I hers, our tastes in films, music, culture were vastly different and so were our expectations of one another. I can only imagine a 16+ age difference would be so much worse.

A friend sent me this.

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

I bet this Dennis bloke would have a totally different outlook on this if he was a horse.

What is our real purpose here?

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Why would you think the universe owes you a purpose?

Putin on The Ritz [facebook.com]

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Owww friction burns

Hold tight!!!

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Of course

Now I have a heart...

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

I always suspected as much, damn cyberman!

Shamone, shamone, shamone, hehe...

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Woman on the left is asking who the pale chap is?

Did UUU Kno?

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

And the cat said Meee? Howwww?

A photo that perfectly sums up Britain in 2018...

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Here Russian joke da? Why is Teayesco wodka like making love on Volga river bank? Is firkin close to water! Daylee Mail is capitalist prop-E-gander rag, no collusion wid comrade Trump, no Russian hacker here... Hail Putin!

We all have that one fantasy celebrity cheat. Who is yours? Mine is Rachel Maddow.

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Bonnie Langford or Mayim Bialik

It's unbelievable how many people don't know when to use ur and u'r these days.

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Ur was a Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, who doesn't know that

I say are you English

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

UK here and there is no such thing as American English, there is correct English and incorrect English the speakers of which feel they need a geographical euphemistic excuse for their linguistic shortcomings.

My friend and I laugh about how competitive we are. But I laugh a little bit more.

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Ah brother, I am far more humble than thou art.

We say the ends justify the means... but if we poison the means, do we not also poison the ends?

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

"The ends justify the means" Is an excuse doctrine, enabling pragmatism to be used as an excuse for any and all atrocities. The true problem occurs when the end is genuinely useful and even desirable, such as when a medical breakthrough comes from something like the holocaust. Is the end tainted by the means or can we look upon the end as atoning for the means by which it has been discovered? This I believe is the essence of your question. I feel that such discoveries may well have been found by other means at another time and that knowledge is knowledge regardless of the source, facts are neither good nor evil, the end may not justify the means but in such cases to deny those in need compounds the atrocity. One can admire and mitigate an end while condemning the means by which it was incidentally discovered.

Outside the FT parochial house in Ireland.

LenHazell53 comments on May 4, 2018:

Brilliant... watch out for the exploding drain Bishop

Help! I just asked a nice old lady in a hardware store if she knew if they had good hoes there.

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

You might appreciate this classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu9MptWyCB8

Worship or fight?

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

I have no place in life for any higher power that demands worship, makes threats, or imposes its will. It is simple bullying, you never back down to a bully.

I am NOT a sex addict. I just have restless groin syndrome...

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

Which is like calling a plumber a U Bend Gynaecologist ;)

Is there any song that when you hear it ALWAYS reminds you of something?

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

Yes, there are many, but the song Mississippi by pussycat, holds a place in my heart as the song that was playing the very first time I ever fell in love ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZEPIpTpoPs

What do you get when you cross a dyslexic, an insomniac, and an agnostic?

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

Conversely is a bestial, sadist, necrophile beating a dead horse?

What do you get when you cross a dyslexic, an insomniac, and an agnostic?

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

Leaf us exilydcs aloon U winkler!!!?*^%$

Let us pray.

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

Hour farmer who art in Devon Harold be thigh name Thy Klingons comes And they will be dumb On Earth as Inez and Kevin Drive us this day our Haley said And forgive us our crisp asses, As four gibbons that push past against us And feed us Nottingham temptations, delivered to us from Granville For fine is the King Kong, Powerful and gory So clever forever Ramen

Question: How many yogis does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Into what?

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

You'll be lucky, they're all out stealing pic-a-nic baskets

If at first you don't succeed, try drinking wine while you do it.

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

If at first you don't succeed, cheat If at first you don't succeed, give up it's probably not worth it anyway If at first you don't succeed, pay some one to do it for you If at first you don't succeed, face it, your just useless

Do you think dreams have meanings?

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

Yes I do believe dreams have meanings, but hose meanings can vary. Sometimes it is subconscious turmoil attempting to resolve itself, sometimes wish fulfilment fantasy. With me if I have a cold or flu, I have nightmares such as you describe, which I assume is symbolic of the fight between the disease and the anti-bodies of my immune system. Without knowing more about you life and current situation, I would not hazard to guess at an interpretation.

Hmmm...how odd (not really)

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

The odd thing is that if you study occult history Demonic Possession meant that you as a sorcerer Possessed (that is had control of) a demon, not that the demon had control of him. King Solomon was supposed to be possessed of many demons and he used them to build the Temple of Solomon with no metal fixings at all. It is not until the New Testament times that the idea of a demon taking over a person and needing to be cast out became popular. Technically this is called obsession not possession.

Should Atheist be tolerant of religion or should it be treated as unacceptable social behavior?

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

What some one does in their own home of their own free will is none of my business. However when someone tells me what I do in MY own home is their business because I am doing it wrong, and their invisible imaginary friend is going to burn my children forever because of it, then I have a right to get a bit miffed!

I'm gonna quote my favorite author, Robert Heinlein.

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

True

Greetings all! I am passionate about crocheting and am usually working on a blanket to give as a ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 3, 2018:

I'll give you a like for the word Yarngasm, something new to add to my vocabulary :)

Piggy-backing off of @thinkwithme’s and @Kojaksmom’s last posts: what about cyberlove and ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 2, 2018:

My late best friend met his second wife on line, fell in love and then after only meeting her twice moved to Japan and married her. Worked out well for him.

What do you think about "helpers", ie auto tuners, and what I "band in a box"?

LenHazell53 comments on May 2, 2018:

I was a purist, using only acoustic guitars and drums when I was young, insisting on "real". Now I figure spend hours and days in a studio arguing, or do it at home with five or six programmes on my computer and get exactly what I want in a matter two or three hours.... sod reality.

A friend of mine was victimized by a medium.

LenHazell53 comments on May 2, 2018:

I spent some time training with mediums in the SNU it was fascinating, so many are absolutely sincere and believe utterly in their own "powers". They see what we call "cold reading" as using your intuition and spiritual gifts. The level of self-deception is incredible. There were others like myself who could see through it for what it was and could analysis the techniques for exactly what they were and then a good proportion of charlatans training for a career.

A prize to anyone that can find a clip father ted cheering up father Kevin (Tommy tiernan) by ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 1, 2018:

Short but sweet ://i.imgur.com/GIHihkg.gif

Bet you haven't seen this [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on May 1, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQAci92fIEM

Priestchat [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on May 1, 2018:

Hahahaastoopidpreesdss!!!!

In the pursuit of happiness, the hard part is knowing when you've caught up.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

A late friend of mine defined happiness as those moments of relief in life when the misery is more bearable than it has been.

Started watching My Hero Academia a few days ago. It’s amazing!

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

Just keeps getting better and better

If a new series of Father Ted was to be made, a Ted tribute if you will - Go on, go on, go on.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

How about Colm Meaney as Jack Chris O'Dowd as Ted Joe Tracini as Dougal Aisling Bea as Mrs. Doyle Peter Capaldi as Bishop Brennan Graham Linehan as Tom

So of course no spoilers but..Ouch Marvel...Ouch

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

I've been saying that since the start of "All New, All Different". But I'll assume your talking movies not comics?

What's the best fiction novel that you've recently read?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

I'll admit to the guilty pleasure of being a big fan of Graham Masterton. His books range from appalling "did it for the money" written in a week horrors to works of near genius. If you have never read him, I suggest starting with IKON an extra ordinary thriller that begins with the assassination of Marilyn Munro in 1986 and proceeds to play a game of cat and mouse with late twentieth century history that will have you hooked till the last page. The Hell Candidate has turned out to be frighteningly prophetic, set in the late seventies it follows the progress of a billionaire who sells his soul to Satan in exchange for the presidency of the USA. His "Night Warriors" series mixes Occult powers and psychology (not to mention body shock horror) in a way practically unknown since HP Lovecraft.

Someone posted a quote from Lord Byron, I've dug into my ancient memory and remember the missing ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron, 1788 - 1824 There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin--his control Stops with the shore;--upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man’s ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths,--thy fields Are not a spoil for him,--thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth’s destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send’st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: —there let him lay.

Someone posted a quote from Lord Byron, I've dug into my ancient memory and remember the missing ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

Did you ever read the play Cain by Lord Byron, overlooking the usual incest propaganda he was prone to placing in his work, the play itself stands as something esoterically between the book of Enoch and Dante's inferno. If nothing else it is a beautiful linguistic construction, an occult exploration and and incite in to the mind of a great poet

Looking for recommendations.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 30, 2018:

Part of the Joy of reading is finding inspiration in every kind of book, it is in the gift of the great writer to pass on his message in the most unlikely of genres, stories and approaches to even non fiction. Find writers who speak to you.

Christians wage war against Sweet Jesus

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 29, 2018:

Easter cookies with your sweet Jesus ice cream anyone?

Anyone here into Asian film? Please say, yes.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 29, 2018:

Yes

I started watching the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale and.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 29, 2018:

Have not like either adaptation, loved the novel.

I'm fairly new too - checked out music/books/TV - not one post for books! I'm suprised, have all got...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 29, 2018:

Which aspect of literature are you wanting to discuss?

What are the things that you think would make your life perfect.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 28, 2018:

Perfection is a journey not a destination.

Is there any truth to the "laws of attraction"?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 28, 2018:

Sure there is, write a book promising you can get anything you want just by wishing it, and BOOM, you will attract loads of money from gullible idiots who want life handed to them on plate. Badabing, badaboom.

How do you handle people who tell you that they will keep praying for you?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 28, 2018:

"Your time to waste bucko" Or "I'll ask drop dead Fred to watch over you in return" Or "Ah prayer, the most sanctimonious, vainglorious way of doing fuck all ever invented. knock yourself out."

Odd Shows

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 28, 2018:

Here are few to be going on with First that comes to mind is "Spaced" especially series 2, seriously weird, but brilliant "Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy" is even more off the wall than Boosh. or you might like "the IT crowd" if you can find it in the USA the original series from the 1970s of "The Goodies" Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a forgotten classic of weirdness. This Is David Lander (TV Series) A bit of Fry & Laurie Black Books Father Ted The Fast show Smack the Pony or the Kevin Turvey segments of A Kick Up the Eighties

Mistaken Identity

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

In my youth I sometimes got mistaken for Leo Sayer. I did have an afro back then and whiskers.

CHANGING YOUR OPINION Sometimes it's hard to change your opinion of a performer, celebrity or ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

I don't think it your opinion of people that changes in the light of relations about their abhorrent personal lives, but your esteem. Comedy is reliant on the likeability of the comic or the comedian. When you don't like them as a person anymore, or lose respect for them owing to evil behaviour, their talent, while remaining unaffected is tainted. A case in point was Fatty Arbuckle. Once accused of rape and manslaughter his reputation suffered so badly that he could never work on screen again, even after being found innocent (the girl in question Virginia Rapp died of a drug overdose) however he did work as a producer, director and writer under his actual name Roscoe Arbuckle with no change in the opinion of his actual talent.

I read once that people who have a mental illness such as depression actually see more of reality ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

I have long held, as a diagnosed bi-polar person, that my "problem" is actually an inability to filter, blinker or otherwise ignore the reality around me, in favour of a comforting wilful ignorance. "Just don't think about it" is the worst advice imaginable for me, closely followed by "Try and concentrate on the nice things" and "Ignore it and it will go away, things tend to work themselves out in the end." Perhaps this too, is why it seems to be more intelligent people who suffer depression and stress and the why the truly stupid always seem to be happy?

How did you tell your family you were agnostic (or a form of non-religious)?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

Religious maniac mother asked which church I was attending, I said none, she asked why not, I said because I am an atheist, she said don't be silly, I'll pray for you. Matter never raised again until my son was born, when she asked when was he being christened, I said never he can arrange it when he is old enough to decide for himself if he wants to, and I saw her sneak off in to his room with a glass of water an hour later in order to save his soul with a DIY baptism. A grown up middle aged woman, who still believed in magic water and demons with red hot pokers. Pathetic.

I was on another platform when I saw an account celebrate the mythological rape of Persephone by ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

**Persephone raped by Hades** *stupid immoral mythology* **Mary raped and impregnated by the holy spirit** *world changing miraculous event and the basis for the two largest "moral" religions in the world.* Such is the "critical reasoning" of the theologian

I've always liked Ricky Gervais.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

Ah but you see, GAWD commanded them to share their "good news" that Gawd has saved us all ....from what **He** will do to us if we *don't* let him save us. Perfectly logical when you think about it.

Have you ever had someone ask you what religion you were raised in as a child before you became an ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

It's not new. I know people who still insist on calling Hitler a lapsed Catholic, still a Catholic, just a very bad Catholic. True the bastard was raised a Catholic, and made deals with Pope Pius XII to have Church Cannon Law imposed via the Reich Concordant, but Hitler had been a member of the Thule society since the early 1930s so basically was a form of secular esoteric Teutonist. Not an actual atheist but certainly not a "Lapsed Catholic" Catholicism is, like certain other Christian denominations impossible to leave. Once your parents have you Christened as far as they are concerned you are in for life (and after life) there was a case a few years ago where an ex Mormon went through the set procedure to have his name removed from the church roles, then discovered that he was Christened catholic as a child and tried to do the same. Though the RC in the USA agreed to remove his name from all records in the US, they simply sent them to to the Vatican and proclaimed the US courts had no Jurisdiction over records kept there. You're baptised a catholic without your permission, you remain a registered Catholic without your permission forever. Anglicans will remove your information from computer records, if you ask, but will keep a hard copy of your baptism on file forever, whether you like or not. So Technically I suppose even as a active anti-theist I am STILL in the eyes of the church a Methodist, just yet another level of delusional behaviour by the religious!

Why doubt God's existence if God doesn't exist?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

One does not start out with the conclusion "God doesn't exist" you begin with the question "does God exist?" From that doubt you investigate and seek real evidence, when that is not forthcoming (and it never is) then you come to a conclusion that either "God doesn't exist" or "it is probable that God doesn't exist" You inquiry places the cart before the horse, the effect before the cause, the answer before the question.

Do Muslims Jews and other religions hate and despise Christians as much as Christians hate them?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

I grew up with a Muslim best friend, however his mother was a white Christian and his father was a sunni muslim, so he was possibly atypical, but I never felt unwelcome in their home or company.

Movie Star Crush

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 27, 2018:

Alive Bonnie Langford Dead Louise Brooks