Question on Ayn Rand...

barjoe comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. She stresses the pursuit of happiness. Objectivism as opposed to collectivism. I don't agree in as much as pursuit of happiness for others is a form of collectivism. She feels the most important thing in life is to provide for oneself. Every man for ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 28, 2020:

@barjoe good points

Question on Ayn Rand...

barjoe comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. She stresses the pursuit of happiness. Objectivism as opposed to collectivism. I don't agree in as much as pursuit of happiness for others is a form of collectivism. She feels the most important thing in life is to provide for oneself. Every man for ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 28, 2020:

@barjoe Ever considered the idea that she displayed the classic traits of asperger's syndrome? If this or something similar were true she would exist in a time incapable of diagnosing her and her writings were her only form of therapy. This is what I meant by damaged.

This is one of my favorite quotes.

Matias comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Sounds good, but it does not make sense, given that there are no "good" people versus "bad" people (as if there was such a thing as an intrinsic quality or character)

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 28, 2020:

In any given social system of culture there are contextually "good" and "bad" people and within such the quote makes sense. Your criticism can only be true within a conceptual state of perfect objectivity, such as that used by idealist philosophers for the construction of abstract concepts.

Question on Ayn Rand...

barjoe comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. She stresses the pursuit of happiness. Objectivism as opposed to collectivism. I don't agree in as much as pursuit of happiness for others is a form of collectivism. She feels the most important thing in life is to provide for oneself. Every man for ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 28, 2020:

I feel she was endeavouring to be a good person but was fundamentally damaged by her life.

I recently watched Alex O'Connor's debate with two Muslims and as expected they used the usual ...

freeofgod comments on Aug 27, 2020:

God loves ya. But he will burn you in hell. lol

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

That tenet alone should set alarm bells ringing

I’ve realized I can’t change my religious wife.

Geoffrey51 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

..,.and what does she say when you tell her you won’t tolerate it? Sounds like the dictator just rode into town!

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

@Geoffrey51 I'm not a follower of Bentham, but I do gauge my personal morality upon intent to contribute to the general well being on both a social and personal level. This is how I can differentiate between criminal activity and so called "sin" finding the former contextually reprehensible or excusable and the latter irrelevant other than when it is genuinely harmful.

I’ve realized I can’t change my religious wife.

xenoview comments on Aug 25, 2020:

If she says there is a god, then she has to proved objective evidence that a god exist. You can lead a theist to reason, but you can't make him/her think.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

@Geoffrey51 I would if she were part of those trying to turn her bigoted religious shit in to legislation.

Molotov cocktail ˈmä-lə-tȯv noun a crude bomb made of a bottle filled with a flammable ...

RoboGraham comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Very interesting. The Finns really stood up for themselves during that war. Made the Soviets pay dearly for the territory taken. That seems to be a very dangerous weapon. What's to stop the flame from running down the rag and setting it off while still in the throwers hand?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

Nothing, that's why you light it and throw it ASAP

They just don't get it.

Green_Soldier71 comments on Aug 26, 2020:

I don't get it...is the picture saying that letting prayer back into schools could potentially open a Pandora's Box (especially for the Religious Right)?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

The same people who demand prayer in schools, go fucking apeshit when they find out there are muslim prayer mats in schools for the pupils who desire them. "Prayer" is only prayer to to these fuckwits when it is to the right, white, christian god who appointed DJT to the presidency.

It's all for the money 💰?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

The LDS (Mormons) had the best excuse when they were caught doing this "It's not our money it God's money, and after the second coming we will give it all back to Jesus to do with as he will, in the mean time we are just looking after it for him."

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

@Happycanuck Not really, the LDS are primarily a business concern that uses religious status as a tax dodge, if their followers will swallow all the Kolob shit, the ancient submarine journey to the new world and the interminable shit that came out of the mouth of Joseph Smith, asking them about opening a deposit/savings account for Jesus' return visit is a doddle.

I’ve realized I can’t change my religious wife.

xenoview comments on Aug 25, 2020:

If she says there is a god, then she has to proved objective evidence that a god exist. You can lead a theist to reason, but you can't make him/her think.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

@Geoffrey51 If my wife had bought a ferrari without telling me it would be my business, if she was lying about it to me it would be my business. What she chooses to believe is not my business but it would lessen my respect for her critical faculties if she chose to believe something without evidence and if that belief not only took over her life but affected mine, then it would be my business too.

I’ve realized I can’t change my religious wife.

SCal comments on Aug 25, 2020:

We do not let people believevin gods. People are free to think and do what they please. You either accept them, or you don't. No one needs your permission.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

Are you saying people have the right to be homophobes if they excuse it with religious doctrine?

I’ve realized I can’t change my religious wife.

Geoffrey51 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

..,.and what does she say when you tell her you won’t tolerate it? Sounds like the dictator just rode into town!

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

Well I don't know about the OP but if I were in a relationship with a homophobe I would not tolerate it either, I would be on my bike and leave the bigot, no matter what their reason. Nothing dictatorial about being a good person. There is no excuse today for irrational prejudice, if you do it, it is because you are an evil fuck by nature and you want to hate.

The Christian Creed for dummies 1.

OnlyAGhost comments on Aug 27, 2020:

You had me at the first point. I am ready to give my life to Zombie Jesus.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

Amen

CHAGRIN.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Interestingly it is also the Bengali/Indian word for green tea

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

@Marionville chai is the plural, Cha is the singular

CHAGRIN.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Interestingly it is also the Bengali/Indian word for green tea

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 27, 2020:

@Marionville It is where we get the expression a cuppa cha, chagrin is green tea, chakappa is ordinary tea, the chai wallah (seller of teas), would ask grin or kappa? and the British soldiers inevitably replied " a cuppa chai wallah"

We need, as basic philosophies, rationalist, democratic Pantheisms (all Cosmians, all evolving ...

Green_Soldier71 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Who is Pinker?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 25, 2020:

He's a little wooden pig puppet who made a name for himself in the 1960's with his brother Perker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMw5jzO_lv0

What were Friedrich Nietzsche's views on politics?

Matias comments on Aug 24, 2020:

If Nietzsche were alive today, and if he were proficient in the English language, then he would probably be a good speechwriter for Trump.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

I doubt it, he would find Trumps advocacy of Evangelical Christianity repellent, often saying that the Christian Doctrines were second only to Buddhism, in their innate denial of human kinds true nature and insistence on using the illusion of free will as a catch all scapegoat.

Juberous adjective uncertain and reluctant; dubious; undecided: I was feeling mighty juberous...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

One of those words originating from a southern American mispronunciation. Originally "Dubious"

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

@Marionville I had to go back on to one of your old posts for the correct word for this phenomenon, it's called A Mondegreen

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

MissKathleen comments on Aug 24, 2020:

It IS hard on us old folks, who learned “proper” language skills. I propose that young people, and old, agree that there are standards for both formal and informal situations. Personally, I do not mind that on social media, little attention is given to grammar, spelling, and language. But I ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

Thank you, I could not agree more.

Who are your favorite authors? And please recommend books!

Hages comments on May 26, 2020:

H.G. Wells is one of the greats. Here are some great books to start: The Time Machine The Island of Dr. Moreau The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds The First Men in the Moon

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

In the Days of the Comet (1906) is my favourite Wells book, are you familiar with it?

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

hankster comments on Aug 24, 2020:

language is undoubtedly going to change cuz of texting and electronic communications.if some don't keep up they just get left behind. it's really that simple.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

That being the case I would rather retain my dignity than stoop to using "cuz" or not capitalising the first letter of my sentences and painting myself as ignorant buffoon.

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

Apunzelle comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Responding as someone with an English degree who works as a copy editor. Firstly, this entire article is talking about *texting*. It doesn’t mention anywhere that people will change the way they write prose in other circumstances (I would take that to mean work reports, school essays, and ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

In the comments, you may see that this is not just about texting, it is expanding out into everyday life, that HR departments are having to contact management to tell them correct English in official memos is upsetting and even intimidating to younger staff, because they EXPECT the same use of punctuation as in texts. Such pandering to ignorance is NOT evolution of the language it is a deliberate degradation of standards.

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 24, 2020:

The times are changing as is language and the way we communicate, especially online...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

@Cutiebeauty You think so? I see no difference in writing a post and writing a letter, for the most part I take equal care over both. However since I have suffered from dyslexia all of my life, I do perhaps value the written word more than most, I feel careful, comprehensible writing is a duty and consideration I owe to my correspondent (s)

What does it mean to be an Ubermensch according to Friedrich Nietzsche?

barjoe comments on Aug 24, 2020:

It was a member of a super race. Hitler spoke of this of course.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

Hitler corrupted the idea for his own purposes. What you are describing was the Nazi eugenics plot known as the Sonnenkinder an attempt to build a race of "perfect" people by selective breeding.

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

ZantiMisfit comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Correct punctuation is a sign of anger? 😂🤣

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

All hail the Hypnotoad.

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 24, 2020:

The times are changing as is language and the way we communicate, especially online...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

Times maybe changing but no previous generation would have been so arrogant as to demand to be allowed to redefine the basic rules of grammar and punctuation, simple because they could not be arsed to learn it's proper useage.

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

bingst comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Isn't "period" synonymous to "full stop?" I think with both of these terms, it depends upon context as to its tone. Neither is inherently angry.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

@bingst I did not know "full stop" was a common expression the USA, good to know thanks.

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

altschmerz comments on Aug 24, 2020:

I hope this only applies to stuff like text messages and not, say, magazine articles or books or whatever. I mean, nobody says "lol" in any formal written correspondence, right?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

Sadly no, I have even known people at a gathering SAY "Lol" after hearing a joke. And again no in response to this article a woman tells the story of how she as a HR officer was reprimanded for using a full stop in a works memo, because it upset younger employees who thought she was being rude to them.

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

bingst comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Isn't "period" synonymous to "full stop?" I think with both of these terms, it depends upon context as to its tone. Neither is inherently angry.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

"period" is the American term for the "full stop"

Full stop is 'intimidating' to young people because they interpret it as sign of anger, linguists ...

hankster comments on Aug 24, 2020:

what about the arrogance of the generation that can't deal with change. why should the evolution of language stop right now?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

This is not the evolution of language, this is the destruction and degradation of the language. If you cannot tell the difference we have nothing to discuss.

This is to say hello & is an experiment to see if the following post receives more response from a ...

Mofo1953 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Fishing for likes now? Pathetic.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 24, 2020:

Please keep personal insults and insinuations in DMs

Well, I have completed my experience at slug.

Theresa_N comments on Aug 23, 2020:

I looked at the home page posts and immediately decided there was no sense in being there.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@silverotter11 have not heard that reference in a donkey' years

Been meaning to bring this up for some time now.

KKGator comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Why would a member, especially a higher-level member, be posting anonymously? I don't get it.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@WonderWartHog99 It matters not who is elected, the government alway ends up in charge

Been meaning to bring this up for some time now.

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Wah wah wah. The echo chamber broke. Wah. We don't have control... !! Wah. The level of anonymous does not indicate the level of the poster lmao

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@SpikeTalon ~I am wondering if you have not noticed how creepy and stalker like that last post reads?

Been meaning to bring this up for some time now.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

why would anyone want to post anonymously? Cowardice, bigotry, shame? Can't think of many other reasons.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@MarkiusMahamius "I can think of many reasons members would want to avoid personal replies/harassment " This is a discussion site, discussion implies conversation, if you do not want personal replies then you do not want conversation you at best want to "Talk at" people, at worst you want to preach. That amounts to the same thing I said earlier you are frightened of it being pointed out that you are indulging in Cowardice, bigotry or shame. The same way people do when they create sock puppet accounts. Personal I have no time for such childish stupidity and bullshit, however should one wish to luxuriate in scatalogical undulation, feel free.

Members of this community...do you agree?

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 23, 2020:

No, we are still humans but many forget that we are also animals...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 23, 2020:

Many Chridiots disagree. When I was six years old my mother invaded my primary school class room to give my teacher "a piece of her mind" because we had been taught that humans are animals, in contradiction to the bible. It may have been a mistake on my mother's part since she barely had any mind to spare, and because the teacher having listened to her replied "Mr. H we are all animals, but in your case I will make an exception and conceded you may indeed be a vegetable."

something got my attention while i was watching one of closer to truth's episodes, the opinion ...

Cyklone comments on Aug 23, 2020:

Logjstically, you'd state you're premises first and then the conclusion, but there is nothing wrong with stating the conclusion and then the premises that led to it. Good paragraph structure would suggest the latter in a well written thesis. I think the problem with many fallacies of god's ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 23, 2020:

@Wallace @Cyklone There is a big difference between *reporting* your conclusion first and then explaining the premises that prove it and deciding on a conclusion FIRST and then creating or manipulating false premises to "prove" it

Does anyone really care that there is no afterlife?

Dyl1983 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

when I was eight, my parents thought that I was dead.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 22, 2020:

Did they try and bury you?

Does anyone really care that there is no afterlife?

jwd45244 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

There was no before life.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 22, 2020:

The Mormons preach that there was a premortal existence, but they are even more nuts than your average godbotherer

SCATOLOGICAL.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Aug 20, 2020:

## In jazz concerts one sometimes encounters "scat" singing.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 20, 2020:

@Marionville oops sorry

Really getting tired of the sites spell check telling me words are misspelled when they are not.

phoenixone1 comments on Aug 20, 2020:

Good news is it forces you to proofread which in this day in age is a lost art. I have read news articles that would make Media Owners of the past roll over in their graves.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 20, 2020:

@WonderWartHog99 To which I would reply "You are stupid and you are ***DAMN*** proud of it"

I gave up on my old riding lawnmower last week and today a friend took me to buy a new one.

Bierbasstard comments on Aug 20, 2020:

Would you feel the same way about a customer refusing to tip a gay/lesbian waitperson? How about a republican confronting someone wearing a Biden mask?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 20, 2020:

@Bierbasstard Prejudice is by definition based on irrational hatred of something the recipient has no control over. Blanetly parading your own opinions in a public place where they are uninvited and unsolicited is an invitation to counter opinion. Comparing political preference to homosexuality is spurious and disgusting false equivalency, you really should be ashamed of yourself @Bierbasstard

Notice is Served.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2020:

unfortunately, once read this will almost certainly get what we used to call the FTWPB stamp (File to the waste paper basket)

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 20, 2020:

@FrayedBear No just a HTML glitch, sorted now thanks

Really getting tired of the sites spell check telling me words are misspelled when they are not.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 20, 2020:

The spell checker on this site uses so called "American English" (there is no such thing, it came about because Webster was a fucking moron who could not spell, but insisted on writing a dictionary anyway) Therefore the "Spell checker" registers all words containing -ou- as a final vowel sound as...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 20, 2020:

@Petter same spelling subtly different pronunciation, UK All-thO USA Aul-thO UK Troff USA Trauf. Webster also neglects the secondary meaning of Trough, pronounced TrO, which means a river (hence the surname Troughear (TrO-here) meaning a boat builder) Ough is a real bugger with endless pronunciations

SCATOLOGICAL.

WonderWartHog99 comments on Aug 20, 2020:

## In jazz concerts one sometimes encounters "scat" singing.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 20, 2020:

Scat in musical and poetic terms does not come from the Greek skatos, it comes from Latin Scansio and Tempus specifically as in scantion the implementation of poetic or rhythmic metre to a specific time signature. Since scat singing uses no words just sounds, the scantion and tempo are all important hence SCA (ntion) T (empo)

Today's Most Disgusting Person (not a cop today! A Prosecutor instead.

LucyLoohoo comments on Aug 19, 2020:

How can anyone ''injure'' a statue? "Property damage," maybe...but injury? Did the thing bleed?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 19, 2020:

Here injury is a perfectly correct legal term in this context from Latin iniuria/injuria "wrong, an injustice, insult, unlawful violence, assault, damage, harm," in (in opposition to) juria (the law) = illegal, against just behaviour Damage is simply the archaic french translation of injure, or the loss incurred from an injury.

Hate is a strong form of love; it enables life to protect its young from danger, such as predators ...

Cyklone comments on Aug 18, 2020:

I think you're confusing hate and anger.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 18, 2020:

and/or hate and outrage

[rawstory.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2020:

Himself?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 17, 2020:

@LovinLarge he could do it in the fashion of a plenary indulgence, pardoning himself for any offence he may be found to have committed in the past at a future time, as well as pardoning himself in advance for any offence he may commit at some point in the future.

What would you say

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 17, 2020:

I have never been presented with sufficient evidence for the existence of a god or god to feel justified in accepting even the possibility of their existence. Gods rank in the same level of likelihood, for me as pixies, goblins and pussy trolls.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 17, 2020:

@AmyTheBruce So you have never seen Clerks two then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YaX2jLc_ko

I have been reading posts on Facebook, and I feel like crying over the ignorance of the American ...

Amzungu comments on Aug 16, 2020:

I don't think this has anything to do with the public school system. The American public is being grossly and constantly manipulated by those whom we used to be able to at least somewhat trust in their authority. This is a product of the American sociopolitical construct, not public school ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 16, 2020:

@Bobbie63 It has always been that way, social media has simply made them more noticable, because idiots don't know they are idiots and think parading their stupidity on social media, makes them wise.

Twice tonight I have experienced "trigger warnings" broadcast before films made in the 1980's ...

Theresa_N comments on Aug 16, 2020:

You take the trigger warnings too personally. Just ignore them. I've never even seen the trigger warnings, but they wouldn't bother me if I did. I'd take it as something intended for someone more sensitive than myself.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 16, 2020:

You misunderstand me, it is not the warnings that worry me, it is the necessity for them. A society that needs to have it's feeling protected to such an extent, because it feels that that is the worst thing that can happen to them has lost touch with reality, and ultimately is doomed.

Them pesky Russkies at it again - you've gotta love them!

barjoe comments on Aug 16, 2020:

What they did was skip phase 2 and phase 3 of the trial stage and are launching production by trial and error. It may work. While other vaccine programs are preparing to go to phase 3 this vaccine is going directly into production. It's being produced in Brazil. We shall see.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 16, 2020:

@barjoe so the whole thing is a propaganda exercise for dear old uncle vlad?

Them pesky Russkies at it again - you've gotta love them!

barjoe comments on Aug 16, 2020:

What they did was skip phase 2 and phase 3 of the trial stage and are launching production by trial and error. It may work. While other vaccine programs are preparing to go to phase 3 this vaccine is going directly into production. It's being produced in Brazil. We shall see.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 16, 2020:

When you start to manufacture a biological product as far away from your own people as is about as humanly possible, one has to wonder just what the fuck they are afraid of going wrong? It is like announcing you are about to begin building a new form of nuclear power station to supply power to New York in antarctica, and that really is not a safety precaution it's because the penguins economy really needs it.

Honest Question

BitFlipper comments on Aug 9, 2020:

It's my understanding that atheists are certain that there is no god or gods. I call myself an agnostic because I'm not certain, and I genuinely don't care.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 14, 2020:

@BitFlipper The "You" in this case was a simple neutral pronoun that could have been easily replaced with "we" "one" or could have been left out all-together and simply have had the sentence read " to indulge in the modern penchant for labelling" How fucking paranoid does one have to be to assume that I was attacking you personally? What possible reason would I have had to do so? Jesus man, as I said grow the fuck up! Moreover, yes I do acknowledge my hostility in this reply because bloody stupidity and petulance in a grown adult does anger me!

So there is now a Biden Pinata group too.

Theresa_N comments on Aug 14, 2020:

It'll be hard for the biden pinata group to compete with the trump one. While there's some material with biden, there's not nearly as much as there is with tRump. There's something everyday with tRump. Maybe if biden really starts campaigning there will be more.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 14, 2020:

True since I put up the original post Trump has started another Birther conspiracy against Sen. Harris

This is the explosive change of perspective that has happened for me, personally, after I became an ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 14, 2020:

Ricky speaks well for atheist, but I take exception to his trans jokes he's smart enough to do better and a dick for not trying.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 14, 2020:

Perhaps you could send him a list of subjects unsuitable for humour or mockery? I'm sure he would be glad for your reasonable and conscientious censorship and thought policing. 😊😊😊😊😊

@Admin or whomever runs this site.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 14, 2020:

WTAF?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 14, 2020:

@FrayedBear that smacks of sabotage

We navigate a very complex world when it comes to human relations.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 13, 2020:

A recipe for a world filled with exploitable idiots.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 13, 2020:

@Green_Soldier71 Yes, a person fooled into believing this set of belief is ripe for the plucking. It includes false dichotomies, easily misinterpreted phrasing, a call to subservience and guilt and is basically the same tripe the churches have peddled for thousands of years to keep their flock as obedient sheeple.

This is very disturbing.

richiegtt comments on Aug 12, 2020:

The autopsy indicates that Floyd had so much of a variety and quantity of drugs in his system that this contributed to his untimely death.He was incapable of making any errors in judgment because the drugs took away all his ability to utilize any judgment at all The video clearly indicated that the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 13, 2020:

@HarrySlick The second autopsy reported Floyd died of "asphyxiation from sustained pressure" when his neck and back were compressed by Minneapolis police officers his arrest. The pressure cut off blood flow to his brain, that autopsy determined. "Whether or not he was intoxicated or had medications in his system is irrelevant to the cause of death, which is homicide, which is death by the hand of another," "They knew they were employing restraints that could or might cause death," @HarrySlick " he was tweaking like a crazy man." Yes he was there is a widely used old medical term for that involuntary movement when dying of suffocation it is called ***"A Gallows Dance"***

This is very disturbing.

richiegtt comments on Aug 12, 2020:

The autopsy indicates that Floyd had so much of a variety and quantity of drugs in his system that this contributed to his untimely death.He was incapable of making any errors in judgment because the drugs took away all his ability to utilize any judgment at all The video clearly indicated that the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

kneeling on someone's throat until they asphyxiate is not restraint it is fucking murder

I heard about a trump tweet that said Kamala was going to be the real power if Biden was elected.

Fred_Snerd comments on Aug 12, 2020:

All the literally conservative actors in Washington better do more than put on a leftist show. There are some people, Democrats even, who will hold their feet to the fire. It's sad that this is my government. You guys have fun with it. I'm off to build utopia.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Lorajay A utopia is not a religious idea, it was created by Sir Thomas More 1516 as a fictional ideal nearly perfect society based on his own philosophies some see the book Utopia as a fanciful pastiche of Plato's republic

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I'd like to discuss sexism.

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 12, 2020:

The Graham and Harris statements are sexist..

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Cutiebeauty Some very insecure men, who cling to an unpleasant and outdated past unfortunately

Is it possible that god punishes those that speak out against religion?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 12, 2020:

No, not possible at all. We don't get punished or rewarded by imaginary beings. There is no god, no santa claus, no easter bunny, no gremlins, fairies, or leprechauns.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

Har yow speak fer y'self Colleen

Are men under attack? [natepyle.com]

barjoe comments on Aug 12, 2020:

In family court sometimes men get screwed over but for the most part this is bullshit.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

Less so than they used to thankfully

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I'd like to discuss sexism.

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 12, 2020:

The Graham and Harris statements are sexist..

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Cutiebeauty Yes that is my point, this Victorian idea of the manly man is a total myth and attacking it by feminising is utter bollocks. I am secure enough in my sexuality to ignore idiots who think calling me a Poof or such like is an insult, since more than half of my heroes and role models from history were homosexual or women or both. I grew up with a Father to whom the idea of my becoming an actor or writer or musician was a sure sign that I was a "filthy gayboy" yet who when I asked him what I should be suggested that I be a wrestler or a boxer or a footballer, and was shocked when I pointed out that he wanted me to spend time grabbing on to near naked men, or running about with men in shorts who I would then bathe naked with, to prove I was a "real" man. I saw through this projection and hypocrisy very quickly, and soon realised those who insist on finding feminine traits in other men or masculine traits in women ARE LOOKING FOR THEM. Personally I accept people for who they are if they are honest and so long as they are not hurtful or abusive to others, they are free to be who they want to be without comment or judgement from me or anyone else. Use of belittling words like **Snivelling** are not attacks on my masculinity, they are attacks on my maturity, there is nothing gender specific about them, certainly nothing sexist. They are the mocking of age related inappropriate reactions and a lack of self reliance.

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I'd like to discuss sexism.

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 12, 2020:

The Graham and Harris statements are sexist..

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Cutiebeauty no as an attack or criticism of my behaviour, whether it was justified or no is another matter. Are you seriously contending that people do not act childishly at times? That aside how could anything be an attack on my "manhood"? What does that even mean?

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I'd like to discuss sexism.

Cutiebeauty comments on Aug 12, 2020:

The Graham and Harris statements are sexist..

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Cutiebeauty Personally I think Sniveling is gender neutral since it refers to brattish spoiled child like behaviour, faking crying out of temper, whining and demanding your own way. The Literary epitomes of a Sniveling brat are "Veruca Salt" and "Draco Malfoy", the unholy offspring of those two would almost certainly be comparable to Lindsey Graham. Kamala Harris is a lawyer, abrasivity is a job requirement.

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I'd like to discuss sexism.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 12, 2020:

None are sexist because they simply refer to personality traits except for the Biden statement which MIGHT be considered ageist depending on the context in which it was used, none the less it is a statement of fact regarding his age. The other comments are all opinions.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Cutiebeauty Yes they can but they need not be Everyone has the right to be an arsehole, regardless of what dangles between their legs, never because of it. Besides which of course in this new woke world is not biological sex based on genitalia and chromosomes only supposed to be a social construct? In light of which are you not being sexist/homophobic yourself by enforcing traditional gender prejudices?

Any one get dizzy when sober?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 12, 2020:

Yes it happens, especially if I am concentrating hard and forget to breathe

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@FrayedBear lol

At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest, I'd like to discuss sexism.

St-Sinner comments on Aug 12, 2020:

None is sexist.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 12, 2020:

@Sgt_Spanky careful you'll sound like you are mansplaining

Honest Question

BitFlipper comments on Aug 9, 2020:

It's my understanding that atheists are certain that there is no god or gods. I call myself an agnostic because I'm not certain, and I genuinely don't care.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 11, 2020:

@BitFlipper Oh grow up it was just humour pointing a lesser known classification. NO ONE was attacking you

Honest Question

BitFlipper comments on Aug 9, 2020:

It's my understanding that atheists are certain that there is no god or gods. I call myself an agnostic because I'm not certain, and I genuinely don't care.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 11, 2020:

If you wish to indulge in the modern penchant for labeling that position of "I'm not certain, and I genuinely don't care." makes you **Apatheist** one indifferent to the existence or non existence of deity

Honest Question

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2020:

It is a redundancy, if you are not sure about the existence of god(s), you by definition doubt its existence. If your doubts are honest you are an atheist, if they are not you are a theist. Atheism is the position for bet hedgers and fence sitters. EDIT Correction, first word of the last line ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 11, 2020:

@JeffMurray Possibly, you meant to say, "The post makes no sense." "The post is nonsense." or "There is no sense to be discerned in that post." In addition, the ellipsis neither is needed nor is it the correct punctuation, which ironically in and of itself "makes no sense".

Honest Question

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 10, 2020:

It is a redundancy, if you are not sure about the existence of god(s), you by definition doubt its existence. If your doubts are honest you are an atheist, if they are not you are a theist. Atheism is the position for bet hedgers and fence sitters. EDIT Correction, first word of the last line ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 11, 2020:

@LovinLarge I have added a correction, thank you

Someone asked the great question about whether or not we believed in things we had not seen.

hankster comments on Aug 10, 2020:

see any gravity? 😋

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 11, 2020:

@JeffMurray did you actually read the article you linked to? the head line is "how the brain ‘sees’ dreams" the quotation marks indicating a non literal use of the word. Of course if you want to interpret words to mean anything you want them them to then Eggwhisk, flounder and Ermintrude to you with rhubarb knobbs on.

Putin announced a viable vaccine for corona virus.

t1nick comments on Aug 11, 2020:

My fiance and her aunt are stuck in Mexico and recovering from COVID. They have been in the hospital for the last four weeks. They gave her aunt the Russian vaccine beginning two weeks ago and according to my fiance she is recovering. My fiance begins treatment tomorrow. Her doctor predicts a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 11, 2020:

I am pleased to hear your family is recovering, but find it highly unlikely they are being treated with this same product, they may be being vaccinated against RE-infection but not as a curative that is not how vaccines work. There has been a medical "holy grail" of a therapeutic vaccine since the 1960s, but it has never come to reality yet. Antigen vaccines. Dendritic cell vaccines. Tumor cell vaccines. Have been developed to treat and prevent the growth of active cancers but they are completely different to antiviral vaccines.

Someone asked the great question about whether or not we believed in things we had not seen.

hankster comments on Aug 10, 2020:

see any gravity? 😋

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 10, 2020:

@hankster neither mine nor other people's no, I have experienced my own but never seen them, as my eyes are usually closed at the time

Someone asked the great question about whether or not we believed in things we had not seen.

hankster comments on Aug 10, 2020:

see any gravity? 😋

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 10, 2020:

😣you don't see gravity, you see the gravitational effect. You might as well ask if you had seen thought

Christian Activist: Country Music Contains Magic ‘Spells’ That Change Human DNA | Michael Stone

Mitch07102 comments on Aug 9, 2020:

Let her listen to this. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXPDmK5eNvg=PLUfScstVAokuv57tbgzw0pe6USGyigKYf=3&t=0s

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 10, 2020:

They need to sack their sound man, the recording levels were way out and the amount of blare makes it almost intolerable

The hubris of man sometimes shocks me! Just because we are sentient, we assume that no other ...

Charles1971 comments on Aug 10, 2020:

I'm not really sure that all humans are actually sentient.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 10, 2020:

The evidence would seem to be against it.

Reminds me of the time my ex and I conspired to give my son a “naughty” Latin phrase to put in ...

Fred_Snerd comments on Aug 9, 2020:

"Reminds me of the time" I'm reminded of another cultural appropriation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9G09eeI6o4

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 9, 2020:

@Fred_Snerd Hans Christian Andersen was hugely prejudice against all sorts of people (especially women)and was a self loathing closet case

Reminds me of the time my ex and I conspired to give my son a “naughty” Latin phrase to put in ...

Fred_Snerd comments on Aug 9, 2020:

"Reminds me of the time" I'm reminded of another cultural appropriation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9G09eeI6o4

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 9, 2020:

THis happened in 1992 too, when Disney tried to copyright the Name Aladin to differentiate it from the public domain story Alahdin/Alladdin/Aladin/Haladin/ or as it was originally a pun on *A La di* and the magic Lamp. When it is known that the original tale was a very racist anti-chinese story written by a Christian missionary priest named named Dionysios Shawish, alias Dom Denis Chavis in India in 1703 the name is revealed as a Chinese dirty joke meaning "Just had his first pull" combine that with rubbing a lamp and something amazing coming out and you get the picture. Disney sued UK pantomimes, other productions and films or TV versions of the story and basically made utter fools of themselves. It was eventually gotten around by Disney trademarking their own spelling of "Aladdin" which worked for a while until Webster's dictionary accepted the disney spelling as the correct one, thus rendering the word public domain again.

One thing is certain above everything else and that is: this madness will end soon.

MakeItGood comments on Aug 9, 2020:

What madness? Everything okay? Death, in terms of no longer existing in any shape or form, may be an option according to Ray Kurzweil. Maybe there a way to continue to exist albeit in a different form.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 9, 2020:

As ash or rot, nothing more.

Doctor Stella Emmanuel/Immanuel When I saw this woman talk first I assumed she was a doctor in some...

MyTVC15 comments on Aug 8, 2020:

I thought she was in Houston.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

Yes I did correct that in the OP

Doctor Stella Emmanuel/Immanuel When I saw this woman talk first I assumed she was a doctor in some...

Marionville comments on Aug 8, 2020:

I can’t access the video!

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

You tube has taken it down, I'll try and find an alternate New one listed above

While watching TV this morning, I saw a commercial for Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water"!! I ...

redwash comments on Aug 8, 2020:

The apitamy of pure religious ignorance is displayed daily and dangerous to the common good of all world wide

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

@redwash Thank you

While watching TV this morning, I saw a commercial for Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water"!! I ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2020:

Hey. I know some places where they give you grape juice, which is only pretending to be wine, and they will tell you it is in fact blood, and that it will make you live forever if you drink it. Surely that has to be against the trade descriptions laws, fake goods or what.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

This has been tested in court and unless the church actually charges you directly for the product, it is considered to be implied that the claims are metaphorical and is being gifted, therefore Trades descriptions laws are not applicable, since tithing or donating to a church is not considered a purchase but a charitable donation given voluntarily.

While watching TV this morning, I saw a commercial for Peter Popoff's "Miracle Spring Water"!! I ...

redwash comments on Aug 8, 2020:

The apitamy of pure religious ignorance is displayed daily and dangerous to the common good of all world wide

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

Do you mean the "Epitome" of pure religious ignorance, or is apitomy a word I am unfamiliar with?

Doctor Stella Emmanuel/Immanuel When I saw this woman talk first I assumed she was a doctor in some...

altschmerz comments on Aug 8, 2020:

She *is* practicing in a third world country. 🤡

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

@AnneWimsey You are correct see my edit to my original post

Doctor Stella Emmanuel/Immanuel When I saw this woman talk first I assumed she was a doctor in some...

Charlene comments on Aug 8, 2020:

She's practicing in Boston?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

Sorry I fact checked this and though she did Work in Boston and Louisiana she currently is a registered physician in Texas with an active medical license from the Texas Medical Board, as of 2019 she is employed at the Houston's Rehoboth Medical Center.

Doctor Stella Emmanuel/Immanuel When I saw this woman talk first I assumed she was a doctor in some...

altschmerz comments on Aug 8, 2020:

She *is* practicing in a third world country. 🤡

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 8, 2020:

wow ouch!😉

John Pilger reveals more warmongering US propaganda he believes will lead to nuclear bombing of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Truman wanted to drop the second bomb on Tokyo an was only talk out of it by a group of his advisors who convinced him Nagasaki was a better target. He was so arrogant and ignorant he believed them and ordered the second attack to change targets. It was as if Hitler had been talked out of bombing ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 6, 2020:

@Green_Chile_Type Four cities were the potential target, Tokyo was removed as it had already been firebombed and Truman wanted an undamaged city, to demonstrate his destructive power, Kyoto was personally forbidden by Truman as he and his wife had visited the city on their honeymoon and Mrs Truman objected, Kokura was then the chosen target but Truman was persuaded to send a last minute order to change to the port of Nagasaki under (false) the impression that the port was being used as an arsenal, which was ironic as Kokura did have an enormous weapons cache inside of the city. As for peace overtures, the first was made in 1943 by the Japanese once it became clear that the USSR would attack Japan after the defeat of the Germans. Hirohito incorrectly thought his people would face far less retribution from the Allies than he would from the soviets, having already been informed by the German ambassador to Japan that with the entry of the Russians in to the war on the allied side Hitler was finished, as his insistence on fighting a war on two fronts was utter folly. BY 1945 Japan was begging for peace, had already signed away their empire and offered unconditional surrender, but Truman wanted a show of strength, that would have the whole world terrified of the USA, and so ignored the Japanese until after August 9th bombing.

Let's play a game.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Entertainer Bonnie Langford Actor Christopher Timothy Actor Ben Kingsley Writer and TV Personality Lynn Picknett

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 6, 2020:

@LovinLarge Christopher Timothy I met on the set of All creatures great and small, Bonnie and I corresponded for years and have met up a few times, Lynne is a face book friend and we used to belong to the same ex-mormon group which is where we met, she has also given me technical advice on a couple of my scripts an extraordinarily clever woman.

Let's play a game.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Entertainer Bonnie Langford Actor Christopher Timothy Actor Ben Kingsley Writer and TV Personality Lynn Picknett

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 6, 2020:

@LovinLarge Correct he was in a play at an art centre in my hometown in 1978 and fell on my girlfriend in the bar after ward, but we never actually spoke.

Snowflake disease is spreading or simply another C19 pandemic symptom?

barjoe comments on Aug 5, 2020:

My considering that advice and subsequently going in a different direction isn't necessarily a reflection of my stupidity either.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 6, 2020:

@barjoe If you say so, but from your posts I would judge you to be one of the least cynical people I have ever encountered, perhaps too nice for your own good. I mean that as a compliment by the way

More fun/funny religulous stuff...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 6, 2020:

Satan does not create evil He buys it up cheap, asset strips it and then leaves some poor dumb human to deal with all the fallout. In the Bible Satan is Gods hedge fund manager.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 6, 2020:

@Robecology That's what he WANTS you to believe bwahahahahahaha

Jesus and George Floyd I was thinking .

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 4, 2020:

why have you posted this three times?

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 6, 2020:

@abyers1970 You are a liar

Snowflake disease is spreading or simply another C19 pandemic symptom?

barjoe comments on Aug 5, 2020:

My considering that advice and subsequently going in a different direction isn't necessarily a reflection of my stupidity either.

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 6, 2020:

@barjoe That puts me in mind of the old maxim A cynic is the name given to a realist by an idealist who would rather suffer than admit he is obviously wrong

Why would a lifelong atheist suddenly decide to become baptized into Mormonism and be going on a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 5, 2020:

If he has a Mormon lady friend and she is unmarried, she requires a husband who is a priesthood holder in order to get in to the highest mormon heaven known as the Celestial Kingdom. (Women cannot get in on their own merits) Therefore she has probably pushed him in to it by emotional blackmail. I ...

LenHazell53 replies on Aug 5, 2020:

@Julie808 I left Mormonism many years ago, and have in the years since helped many people leave and or cope with the consequences of leaving. It is a truly evil cult and Mormon women are brainwashed from birth to seek only to snare and hold on to a man, because their eternal happiness depends on it, which is why in fringe mormon denominations and even in the mainstream church women are willing to accept polygamy so readily and accept the idea that in the hereafter they will have sister wives as a blessing. This is because a woman cannot enter the kingdom without a man, but a man cannot enter the kingdom without multiple wives. Actual polygamy has been outlawed in the LDS church since 1895, but widowed men are expected to remarry immediately to save another sweet sister. Female Mormons outnumber male mormons almost 4 to 1