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

A Handmaids Tale

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

I studied the book at college, but have never been impressed with either adaptation, they just don't carry the same sense of fearful menace and brooding resentment the text stirred up in me.

Does anyone out there love to get together with other musicians on a porch over a river to jam?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Now that sounds like a kind of heaven on earth I could get behind.

Movies: Just revisited a young Pacino at his best.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Dog Day afternoon is a classic(in every sense of the word), true realist cinema at its best.

Christians on this website

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

It is an actual missionary practice for Mormons to join sites like this and attempt to proselytise but also and more disturbingly to find doubting Mormons and report them to their local stake.

Are you a skeptic?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Hmmm have to wonder why you ask, and are you who you say you are? And before you ask, I'm not paranoid either.... just cautious >:O

Born again Christians.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Hey it is completely unfair to expect believers to actually understand the religion they believe in, or to have read the holy book they profess to live their lives by. How unreasonable is that.

Is anyone else sick and tired of all the Superhero movies?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Nope, for those of us who petitioned for decent superhero movies since the late 60's, and were constantly disappointed (with a few notable exceptions) by cheap jack, TV movies made by people who never read a comic book in their lives..... This is a golden age.

I'm somewhat ambivialent towards the Avengers movie.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

I can't wait. Loved the first one, this looks likely to surpass it.

2001 anniversary showings

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Personally I find 2001 to be probably the most over rated film of all time. It is over long, meandering, pretentious, self indulgent, confused and ultimately unsatisfying in execution, delivery, philosophy and is needlessly Messianic. I first saw it on the big screen on the ten-year anniversary cinematic re-release and was grossly disappointed. I watched it again in anticipation of its sequels and found my appreciation did not improve with age. Though it undeniably had an influence on all that came after it within the genre, but is now largely known for being parodied for its faults, which are many, and the line "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." delivered in the menacingly soothing tones of Douglas Rain. To many younger science fiction fans with whom I have interacted and communicated it holds a place of grudging admiration at best and is treated as a kind of art film, that has to be acknowledged, but holds no real interest or enjoyment for modern fans, and I'm afraid I tend to agree. For the themes it and its sequels attempt to address, I feel better served watching "The Day The Earth Stood Still" 1951

How do you answer Pascal’s Wager?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

I just ask, why this only applies to the Christian God and not to every other god ever.

Is science & religion compatible?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Reading down here it gets confusing when people answer the title of the post without addressing the actual question extrapolated under it. For clarity here, my answers are based on the question Shouldn't religion be classified as 'Paranormal : fraud' along with psychics, mediums, spiritists & mystics? not Is science & religion compatible? which I have addressed elsewhere and to which the answer is obviously, not under any circumstances.

Is science & religion compatible?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Put it this way everything that is described as a godly miracle in the bible, is described as black magic in the same book when anyone other than a Israelite or Christian does it. Oddly most Christian claim belief in magic is blasphemous, even though the bible acknowledges it enough to order the death of its practitioners

QUOTE: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Religion started when some genius figured out you can barter nothing for a lot of somethings.

Ever wonder, for no particular reason, if you will make it through the night?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

There have been morning when I have woken up and thought "Shit, still here!"

Philosophy vs Religion...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Philosophy = Philo(Love) Sophia(wisdom) Literally: the love of learning Religion = re (again) Ligare (To bind) Literally: to bind one self again (in servitude as in a bondsman ie. a slave)

Now There's A Paradox.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

A variation on Given that I am incapable of ever telling the truth What does it mean when I tell you "I am lying"?

I gotta know.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

Some men do it, and do it for exactly the same reasons some women do it.

What would you ask Nagilum?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 23, 2018:

Isn't that Muligan spelled backward?

Are you 100% certain that there is no god?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 23, 2018:

I may not be 100% certain that there are no gods, but I am 100% certain there is not enough evidence to convince me that a god or gods do exist.

Listen To Jimmy Carter about Christians and Homosexuality

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 22, 2018:

I agree totally with the sentiment and in no way shape or form condemn or even dislike homosexuals, However the only problem with using "Jesus never condemned...." as a basic for doctrinal reform in primitive, bigoted barbaric religions is that argument can also be used for slavery, bestiality, child molestation, rape, intellectual property theft (something Jesus did a lot), wife beating, dope smoking, animal cruelty, pornography, etc. Also in Matthew 5:18 Jesus says all the old testament laws still apply and that he has not come to abolish them, in which case the implication is that the condemnation of Homosexuality as part of that law still carries a death sentence. All I am saying is you can use the Bible to prove anything you like, it is a self contradictory book of bronze age nonsense.

How about Synchronicity?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 22, 2018:

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Ian Fleming

Which way to the Asylum?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 22, 2018:

“It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.” ― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish It is worth noting Wonko the Sane lived in a house with a notice on the inside of his front door, saying "This way to the asylum" because beyond that door was where all the mad people lived.

I think the bible is a novel and I don't think it is possible that god exists.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 22, 2018:

If it is a novel, they need to sack the editor

I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 21, 2018:

"New" atheist is a euphamism used by angry believers for an atheist who will not shut the fuck up no matter how much you want them to. They no doubt long for the good old days here and current days in Islamic nations, where Atheists and heretics could be publicly executed as a warning to other troublesome free thinkers that using your own brain is NOT a good idea when it stops you from staying quiet, staying obedient, paying up and not killing other atheists.

I I am leaving room for the possibility of a god that produced The Big Bang.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 21, 2018:

The near unlimited capasity for comforting self deception among humans never ceases to amaze me.