In the absence of theism what are the big questions in life you contemplate?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 19, 2020:

The big question that plagues me most is that in world no one has an excuse to be ignorant or ill informed "Why are so many people so fucking stupid" ?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 20, 2020:

@anglophone SWOT, brainbox (hurls wet toilet rolls at the nerd) Hurhurhurhur, hyuk, raspberry!

History repeats itself

Dark-blue comments on Apr 19, 2020:

This is not what is happening though, I don't know if "they" learned from this but they are slowly opening up big by bit adjusting to the current situation. There is also consequences of the shutdown that might overshadow the damage of the coronavirus. So its not just either or.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 20, 2020:

@Dark-blue Thanks I genuinely was not sure what you were refering to, appreciate the answer.

Care Minister MP Helen Whately LAUGHS as Piers Morgan confronts her over 4,000 coronavirus care home...

Flowerwall comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Let's be fair. She could not see the paper being held up by Piers. Anyone who makes light of the death of constituents is unworthy to hold the seat. But let's not confuse what we are seeing. I do understand your anger. We have to remain clear-headed in our perceptions.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 20, 2020:

@Flowerwall Basic safety standards are not being able to be followed. The Uk government has denied even basic PPE to care homes, and when hey buy it privately have taxed them on it, saying they can claim back the VAT AT THE END OF THE TAX YEAR, instead of simply scrapping it. The way the UK government has handled the purchase and distribution of essential medical supplies in this crisis is so shameful, inefficient and ineffective that one could almost believe they are hoping a lot of senior citizen simply die off, I do not think that is the case, it is too horrific to contemplate, but when the minister in charge of this very thing, laughs for any reason, when confronted with such facts, on a public television broadcast I frankly think Piers Morgan showed greater than normal restraint, she is an utter disgrace, especially when her own family are all medial professionals.

The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion [google.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 19, 2020:

"Prominent atheists Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins have awful reputations for misogyny, as does the late Christopher Hitchens. Bill Maher, the comedian and outspoken atheist, is no (nonexistent) angel, either." GABE BULLARD WOW, four guys are in your opinion a bit ...spurious so ATHEISM MUST BE ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@Geoffrey51 He is hardly a reporter at all he is a radio presenter and editor on WAMU Radio

History repeats itself

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 19, 2020:

I have the constitutional right to be dangerous fuckwit damn-it

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@dalefvictor there is usually a workaround, religious freedom , the second amendment, people are so in love with their perceived right to be a nasty fool

History repeats itself

Dark-blue comments on Apr 19, 2020:

This is not what is happening though, I don't know if "they" learned from this but they are slowly opening up big by bit adjusting to the current situation. There is also consequences of the shutdown that might overshadow the damage of the coronavirus. So its not just either or.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

consequences? Care to elaborate?

Care Minister MP Helen Whately LAUGHS as Piers Morgan confronts her over 4,000 coronavirus care home...

Flowerwall comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Let's be fair. She could not see the paper being held up by Piers. Anyone who makes light of the death of constituents is unworthy to hold the seat. But let's not confuse what we are seeing. I do understand your anger. We have to remain clear-headed in our perceptions.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@Flowerwall The daily mail article I linked has a cut down version showing exactly what happened

Care Minister MP Helen Whately LAUGHS as Piers Morgan confronts her over 4,000 coronavirus care home...

Flowerwall comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Let's be fair. She could not see the paper being held up by Piers. Anyone who makes light of the death of constituents is unworthy to hold the seat. But let's not confuse what we are seeing. I do understand your anger. We have to remain clear-headed in our perceptions.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@Flowerwall I marked the time point in the comment above after editing Edit sorry it is closer to 2.47

Care Minister MP Helen Whately LAUGHS as Piers Morgan confronts her over 4,000 coronavirus care home...

Flowerwall comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Let's be fair. She could not see the paper being held up by Piers. Anyone who makes light of the death of constituents is unworthy to hold the seat. But let's not confuse what we are seeing. I do understand your anger. We have to remain clear-headed in our perceptions.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

You obviously did not watch all of it, at the 3.00 minute mark when Piers asks her again is it true that 4000 people have died in care homes she sneers and laughs openly, setting him of on a rant demanding to know what she is laughing at, at which point after being filmed doing so she simple says "I am not laughing" ad then goes on to make a pigs breakfast of the rest of the interview.

The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion [google.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 19, 2020:

"Prominent atheists Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins have awful reputations for misogyny, as does the late Christopher Hitchens. Bill Maher, the comedian and outspoken atheist, is no (nonexistent) angel, either." GABE BULLARD WOW, four guys are in your opinion a bit ...spurious so ATHEISM MUST BE ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@Gatovicolo I dislike inaccurate sweeping generalisations, especially when claiming to be news.

History repeats itself

Freespirit64 comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Geeze, the general public is stupid. How have we gotten even this far?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

Sheer weight of numbers

My contribution for Sunday: UNAKITE Unakite First discovered in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 19, 2020:

named for the Ukana Mountains north of Tennessee with the Greek suffix -ite, meaning belonging to

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@t1nick The only thing I object to is when words are retained but their meanings are changed for no good reason other than laziness, meaning the root of the word is corrupted. I don't like it but I accept it is inevitable. Such as "Jealousy" being used in place of "envy" when it is infact its antonym and "awful" having its meaning completely reversed.

My contribution for Sunday: UNAKITE Unakite First discovered in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 19, 2020:

named for the Ukana Mountains north of Tennessee with the Greek suffix -ite, meaning belonging to

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@t1nick I am glad that so many Native American language Nouns have survived and been assimilated in to American English. Utah & Ukana mountains both incorporate the Navajo word for sky which I find beautifully descriptive.

Thoughts on globalization.

Moravian comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Even worse than the effects of religion is the rise of nationalism or "populism" as it is called for some reason. People like Modi in India,Bolsanaro in Brazil.Orban in Hungary, Trump in the USA are using the current pandemic to cement their own positions and causing substantial damage in doing so.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

religion is a politically useful smoke screen to hide economic and social control behind, sometimes as a saviour, sometimes as a threat.

Thoughts on globalization.

motrubl4u comments on Apr 18, 2020:

Never happen. Period.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

for the elite it would be economic suicide

Thoughts on globalization.

SeaGreenEyez comments on Apr 18, 2020:

"By the end of the Civil War, European aristocrats thought America—and democracy-- were a failed experiment." Crazy! I wonder if the crystal balls they used to predict the absolute exact truth about America, all those years ago, are still fully functioning. Maybe they could predict the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

Democracy was a system devised for the control of city states with populations of thousands divided in to two stratas, plebeians and patricians, with the latter trusted to vote with a mandate from the former, who they owned. We pretty much have the same idea today in representative democracy, and it ticks along constantly teetering on the verge of collapse, self "correcting" every few years, and occasionally allowing itself to fuck up completely to frighten the plebs in to voting the right way next time. Universal democracy never works, because the people will always vote in their own self interest, not that of the society, hence Brexit. This is why referendums are rare, unless you want a huge cock up, the answer to solving which will be mass submission to authoritarianism, just to get back to a semblance of normality and the promise of freedom... but not freedom to, freedom From!

Thoughts on globalization.

Triphid comments on Apr 18, 2020:

I often see the ideology of Globalization as being a ploy to increase the reach, etc, of the rich and powerful and the erosion of the individuality of the peoples and their nations, i.e. a type or version of George Orwell's 1984 one might suggest. Yes, ensure that every man, woman and child is ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

@Green_Chile_Type he who controls the flow of information and "truth" available, creates the individuals. That is why eradication of dissidents is essential.

Thoughts on globalization.

Triphid comments on Apr 18, 2020:

I often see the ideology of Globalization as being a ploy to increase the reach, etc, of the rich and powerful and the erosion of the individuality of the peoples and their nations, i.e. a type or version of George Orwell's 1984 one might suggest. Yes, ensure that every man, woman and child is ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

No the whole point of 1984 was divide and conquer, it was anti-globalist, lots of "nation" states and empires perpetually fighting one another as an excuse for exploitation and control of the masses.

Thoughts on globalization.

DenoPenno comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Globalization is a desirable thing but it is hard to have it when you are afraid you and going to be murdered or overrun by those crossing our Southern border. This and many other things in the current regime might take years to overcome. Now I quote you: **Our only advancement is Trump saying, ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 19, 2020:

he is pragmatic in his self interest, you've got to give him that. Then, of course, most tyrants are.

This is the story of the Barn and Grill Restaurant in my area.

Omnedon comments on Apr 18, 2020:

Many restaurants have closed because of the pandemic. In particular, none of the Chinese restaurants in my area are open.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 18, 2020:

Unfortunately this has happened in my area too after a series of idiotic attacks and abuses of Asian owners and employees and their children.

I just watched this old movie called "Good Will Hunting" It's a story about a super smart guy as ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 17, 2020:

"Good Will Hunting" The name says it all, this movie went hunting for good will by being the most pretentious movie of 1997. So much so that it's writers/stars even parodied it themselves in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001 by portraying a fictional sequel "Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 18, 2020:

@MissKathleen Absolutely, I judge a film or movie on how well it achieves what it sets out to achieve, I agree totally Home Alone and some of it's sequels are fine movies that amused harmlessly and are suitable for family viewing. I'm personally a big fan of the Police academy movies, and see no point in trying to judge them alongside Gone with The wind using the same criteria. Good Will Hunting however as a drama fails, as art fails, it is slow, self aggrandizing and inherently flawed, in my opinion, it therefore fails as a film. I rarely listen to "professional" critics and if I recommend a film it is because it worked for me and lived up to it's promises.

Let's play a little travel game.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

try this

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 17, 2020:

@Lorajay and we have a winner

UCKG - A Christian scam in my neighbourhood.

PortlandWes comments on Apr 16, 2020:

I'm an American who was an evangelical missionary in South London (Bromley) for many years during the 1970s. Though I found a British wife there and now live back in Oregon (and became an atheist 12 years ago), I am so sorry for the time I did spend there trying to convert Brits to my toxic ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 16, 2020:

I feel very much the same about my time as a stake missionary and the poor people I fooled in to joining the LDS cult.

I’m sure most of you are really feeling down about everything that’s going on.

Geoffrey51 comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Media rely very much on what is termed ‘moral panic’. Discontent, disaster and violence sell advertising space See the work of Theodore Adorno and the critical theory of The Frankfurt Scholl.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 16, 2020:

Adorno was a great thinker, and so many of his predictions about "predigested" media and music were utterly spot on.

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

Triphid comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Personally I stand even taller when some poor, deluded, God-bothering believer calls me an Apostate because I take it as a compliment given that I, for one, have had the inner strength, will-power and determination to throw off the shackles of religion and enter into the REAL world and they are ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

True, it is not so much being called one it how religious institutions use the words to bully and intimidate existing members in to fearing that they might become "infected" with apostasy by "The godless"

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Huskygirl4ever comments on Apr 15, 2020:

It's so sad that everybody is worried about the fucking economy what about the people

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

@Huskygirl4ever Exactly only if three ghost tried to visit Scrooge McGingerwig he would probably bore them back to the afterlife.

[nbcnews.

Huskygirl4ever comments on Apr 15, 2020:

It's so sad that everybody is worried about the fucking economy what about the people

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." Charles Dickens 1843

Are aware of the space between who you and who you think you are? Thoughts?

WilliamFleming comments on Apr 15, 2020:

I lean toward the idea that our true self is something we all have in common, and that the individual selves are illusions.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

Is the little chap at the end you Bill? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Flr-hQHcY

Are aware of the space between who you and who you think you are? Thoughts?

Word comments on Apr 15, 2020:

I thinks I am who, wherefore, who am i?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

I think where I am, therefore you are here?

Are aware of the space between who you and who you think you are? Thoughts?

AmyTheBruce comments on Apr 15, 2020:

If I was aware of this gap, wouldn't it disappear?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

I would assume that to be the ultimate aim, to gain a true and honest awareness of self. To be who you are not what you think you should be.

Would you want to move to or live in a country, State, or society that is basically the same as your...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 15, 2020:

Bad thought experiment. Believers in America have been wanting to do the exact opposite now for many years. Their dream of a "Christian Nation" drives me nuts.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

The idea of a christian caliphate of the American states... nightmarish

Would you want to move to or live in a country, State, or society that is basically the same as your...

Nuke comments on Apr 15, 2020:

I would not care to live in a country that bans religion. I wish I lived in a country that does more to maintain a separation between state and religion.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

you would not need to ban it, just remove any privileges religion enjoys that secular institutions do not. Most would collapse in a matter of months, without sociological indoctrination an tax exemption.

Would you want to move to or live in a country, State, or society that is basically the same as your...

BestWithoutGods comments on Apr 15, 2020:

How about just banning churches from taking money (or other, non-monetary contributions) from people? Do that, and the mythology will eventually disappear.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

They could start with an international agreement to make religious tax exemption illegal and each institution charged for retrogressive evasion at 15% of their current holdings for however many years they have existed.

Let's play a little travel game.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

try this

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 15, 2020:

@CarolinaGirl60 too far north, it is in England and was built to defend a famous Abbey, often pillaged by the Viking King Eric Bloodaxe.

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

dare2dream comments on Apr 14, 2020:

The meaning of the word Apostasy is a mater of one's point of view. I'm sure if someone renounced Islam and became Christian the Christians would be okay with it!

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

An apostate becoming a Christian is a "Convert" not an apostate, in the same way in war the enemy has filthy spies, but we have brave intelligence agents.

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

SeaGreenEyez comments on Apr 14, 2020:

The first I learned exactly how godawful that word translates into being personified was a BF that was a former Mormon. He was scarred, deeply. Messed up. PTSD among other things like alcohol abuse, risky sexual behaviors, irrational fears of being murdered, and so on. And this was 2 decades ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

I must admit I was relying very much on the Mormon use of the word and how it is bandied about in the manner Leper was used in ancient times.

Let's play a little travel game.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

try this

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

@Lorajay It is an 11th century coastal defence built by the Normans to repel Viking Invaders, one of the oldest still intact castles in England

Let's play a little travel game.

Pralina1 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

St. John’s ?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

too far south

Let's play a little travel game.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

try this

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

@Lorajay much older and further north, you are in the right country though

Well watching the news today It really pointed out the difference between British and Americans.

FearlessFly comments on Apr 14, 2020:

. . . color me skeptical of your "rant" . . . The picture on the left. Without attribution, it could be from any where/time -- no one is wearing masks -- despite being very close to others in line. The picture on the right. It does not show your allegations of obesity, snacks, etc. On the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

@FearlessFly If you really believe this is fake news, you are as foolish as your president

Well watching the news today It really pointed out the difference between British and Americans.

JackPedigo comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Pretty sad commentary. However, in the UK distances are not as great as in the US (Texass) distances are often very great. Went to our building supply/nursery building this morning and, as I have been told, there is almost nothing in the way of planting starts and even vegetable seeds. This is 4 ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Yes of course we all remember those films of the pioneers traversing the great planes of the USA with their push carts and covered wagons tied to the back of their SUVS,

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

dumasarok comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Is it possible to be an apostate if a person has never held theistic beliefs of any kind? Has never attended a religious service of any kind except the wedding or funeral of a friend or family member? I am describing myself.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

I expect they would most likely call you a heretic

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

Gatovicolo comments on Apr 14, 2020:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27433241

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Disgusting barbarism

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

Marionville comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I always rather liked “fallen woman” ...fallen from the grace of god. It sounds a lot better than whore or harlot! It was bandied about a lot, by do-gooders in Victorian Britain.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

There is an apocryphal story among people who teach English as a foreign language that in an essay one student wrote "The woman fell down stairs and lay prostitute on the ground" The teacher returned the essay with the comment "Please learn the difference between a fallen woman and one who has temporarily lost her balance"

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

PadraicM comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I always liked how the word sinner rolled off the tongue. You have to say it with pizazz. SIN-errrrrrrr like how you can overemphasize the diner in Winner, winner, chicken diner. Ok, so it is mostly about words that end in -ner.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vDZsABHUbQ

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

Larry-new comments on Apr 14, 2020:

And do they ever heap them on. Blasphemous is my least favourite. When they could, they burned us.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Yes but only because they love us so much. Christian love what an oxymoron

There is a word I hate beyond all others and that is Apostasy It is a word expectorated like ...

DenoPenno comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Yes, the babble speaks of apostasy. As for "sinner" I remember a person who came to our church while I was a teenager. He had been in war and had killed people, but he really got into god and church. He could not forget his past and one day a good Christian found him drunk and crying outside the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Disgusting Christian hypocrisy

Well watching the news today It really pointed out the difference between British and Americans.

FearlessFly comments on Apr 14, 2020:

. . . color me skeptical of your "rant" . . . The picture on the left. Without attribution, it could be from any where/time -- no one is wearing masks -- despite being very close to others in line. The picture on the right. It does not show your allegations of obesity, snacks, etc. On the ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Skepticism is a good thing, but you yourself must be aware that there is genuine poverty and genuine need in your country, I am and I live on the other side of the world. When middle class people in huge cars dressed in expensive clothes are queuing up like this burning fuel they had to pay for at massive outdoor charity events and claiming poverty you surely can draw a parallel with inner city getoes, internment camps for immigrants, genuine need, the actual poor your system of welfare and government have studiously ignored for decades and derided as unworthy? You can see why I was so angry when I wrote my initial post last night? I grew up in the industrial North of England in the mid 20th century and I saw and experienced poverty, I knew what it was to eat meat once a week, and fish once a week if we were lucky. I knew what it was to be forced to stay at the table and eat every scrap because the family could not afford waste and or fussiness. In short I know what it was to actually go without and to be so used to hunger you don't notice it anymore. In those days the only people to help you, where the others round about who were in the same position and who would spare what extra they had in the certain knowledge you would do the same for them when you had extra. That is why I was angry.

Well watching the news today It really pointed out the difference between British and Americans.

Marionville comments on Apr 14, 2020:

I work as a volunteer at a Food Bank in the U.K...I can vouch for the fact that nobody comes and gets food unless they are really desperate. Some of the stories I hear first hand would break your heart. Most of our “clients”, that is how we refer to them, carry bags to the bus stop or trudge ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

My point exactly, I too have worked with the truly desperate, to see people in gas guzzlers, pleading poverty, while wearing $200 trainers and seeking charity with no inkling of how fortunate they actually are breaks my heart. It is purely my opinion but the loss of a sense of priorities, in both the UK and USA is what has landed us both in the political mess that lead to the mishandling of this crisis.

Does anyone else have a memory of when they fully became what a Christian would call a "hard hearted...

MissKathleen comments on Apr 13, 2020:

I am an Agnostic, as I cannot fully discount the POSSIBILITY of god(s). I was seven years old when I formed the OPINION that it was all a bunch of malarkey, but was many years into adulthood before I came to recognize the inter-connectedness of EVERYTHING. I believe that supports the improbability...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

@MissKathleen The problem is that "everything" is not possible. Sometimes things are apriori facts, 2+2 =4 it cannot = 7,999, 485,706 no matter how much you want it to, you cannot have a three sided circle, or a naturally occurring thriving hamster fish hybrid. Some things are simply impossible, once you accept this, you adopt the default position that what cannot be proven to exist probably does not. Therefore the agnostic position that there "may" be a god is not logical, there either is or is not a god and without evidence it is more reasonable to assume there is not. However if people choose to ignore reason and logic that is their right, when Christians do it we feel justified in opposing and mocking them.

Does anyone else have a memory of when they fully became what a Christian would call a "hard hearted...

anglophone comments on Apr 13, 2020:

I have no issue with being called a "hard hearted atheist". Moreover, I make no apology for my ruthless application of reason and logic to "the God question". If people want to be so soggy brained as to claim the existence of their particular god in the complete absence of any supporting falsifiable...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Well said.

Does anyone else have a memory of when they fully became what a Christian would call a "hard hearted...

MissHazel comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Becoming an atheist for me was traumatic. I was angry and sad. It it was all because I decided to really devote my time to God and read the Bible. And the first thing my pastor told me when she saw that I was a deep thinker was: lean not on your own understanding. I find that kind of manipulating ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Big, BIG red flag when a "holy" person starts telling you to stop thinking, and that obedience and blind faith are virtues that will bring blessings. I hate this sort of blatant manipulation and moral bribery.

NONCE (1) - Adjective.

AgnoBill comments on Apr 14, 2020:

For the time being?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

Talbot Rothwell was fond of using the word Nonce in its original sense in several of the carry on movies, notably in "Carry on Henry" 1971 Mistress Scrub - Will that be all, m'lord? Thomas Cromwell- For the nonce.

NONCE (1) - Adjective.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

Meaning number two was pseudo cockney rhyming slang for a Ponce, the British word for a pimp, especially for male prostitutes or child sex traffickers, by the mid-sixties it mainly meant the latter and and or a pædophile. Replacing Ponce with nonce was created by the writers (Clements and La ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 14, 2020:

@Marionville 😊

Religion may very well be the death of us all if they don’t stop social fucking gathering!

DavidLaDeau comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Not really, most only experience a mild flu if anything.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 13, 2020:

@DavidLaDeau https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/new-study-of-covid-19-patients-immune-response-could-inform-future-treatment/

Quidnunc noun A person who is eager to know the latest news and gossip; a gossip or busybody.

HippieChick58 comments on Apr 13, 2020:

What ever the opposite of that is, I am.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 13, 2020:

that would be "Non curamus" (Not interested)

Religion may very well be the death of us all if they don’t stop social fucking gathering!

DavidLaDeau comments on Apr 13, 2020:

Not really, most only experience a mild flu if anything.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 13, 2020:

Depends on the virus load you contract, if the density of exposure increases, more and more people will need hospitalisation, when that need overwhelms the medical facilities available more and more people will be dying in public and spreading the disease in public in larger amounts, leading to a much more deadly second wave, while current evidence seems to show having had the disease only provides immunity for a couple of weeks and will leave to open to relapse and a possibly much more severe second bout.

My father taught me the proper way to do a handshake.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2020:

We may take the eastern tradition of bowing?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 12, 2020:

@FearlessFly a handshake is a tradition too, and at the moment there is good reason not to do it.

[rollingstone.

t1nick comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Hey its Florida, what do you expect. Florida has the strangest collection of personalities and intellects (or lack thereof) of any place on the planet. Lol

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 12, 2020:

@t1nick I love Yarmouth one of the nicest seaside towns in the UK

[rollingstone.

t1nick comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Hey its Florida, what do you expect. Florida has the strangest collection of personalities and intellects (or lack thereof) of any place on the planet. Lol

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 12, 2020:

@t1nick Unless you have someone in you family called Cousin Dad, or Auntie Sister, You are probably far enough removed not to have to worry about it;

[rollingstone.

dalefvictor comments on Apr 11, 2020:

All one has to do is look at the statistics and they will find that only people who were born in odd years, are over 25, younger than 90, and have preexisting conditions are dieing. It is all for the will of dog and the Apocalypse, we have to bring it on so all the good people can go to heaven. Damn...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 12, 2020:

"I think you are a god. And I will die for you or kill others."

[rollingstone.

t1nick comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Hey its Florida, what do you expect. Florida has the strangest collection of personalities and intellects (or lack thereof) of any place on the planet. Lol

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 12, 2020:

You have obviously never been to Norwich.

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR EVERYONE: With the danger of Covid-19 we are seeing conservative governors ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Trump has constantly self abnegated himself from all responsibility for the state of this crisis in the USA, and recently has been completely ignoring the whole idea of the "United" states Federal government, and has foisted off responsibilities for action and inaction on to state governors and city...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 11, 2020:

@sassygirl3869 I hope for your sake she stays safe, keep in touch with her and support her in her decisions.

Thaumatology The study of the bringing about supernatural events, such as feats of magic, miracles,...

itsmedammit comments on Apr 11, 2020:

Lock down might turn some really bored people to Thaumatology.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 11, 2020:

Already has only call it evangelism

KRAKEN.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR7-ANzBHb0

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 11, 2020:

@Marionville Doubly so since he is referring to "Clash of the Titans" where the monster was renamed the Kraken for some reason, when in the myth it is the beast of Poseidon "Cetus" who was sent to destroy Jopa and consume Andromeda

Thaumatology The study of the bringing about supernatural events, such as feats of magic, miracles,...

FrayedBear comments on Apr 11, 2020:

You mean like Trump followers keep saying that he will thaumatologically make America Great Again?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 11, 2020:

or that covid19 will miraculously vanish

We have a country to save.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Why is it, that in a country of 327.2 million people, the vast majority of who are eligible to stand for office the choice seems to ***always*** comes down to two lying, rich, dubious, spurious and seemingly corrupt, moronic arseholes? Are these really the best you have to offer your people?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 11, 2020:

@Cyklone Also in our country campaign spending is strictly limited and in theory over spending on a campaign is a criminal offence. (That said it did us little good in the referendum where both sides grossly over spent and both should have been prosecuted, but neither prefered charges as that would in effect of been putting their own neck in the same noose. Corruption to the corrupt is fair.)

We have a country to save.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Why is it, that in a country of 327.2 million people, the vast majority of who are eligible to stand for office the choice seems to ***always*** comes down to two lying, rich, dubious, spurious and seemingly corrupt, moronic arseholes? Are these really the best you have to offer your people?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 11, 2020:

@MissKathleen No we have our share of upper class nerks, but none wield any thing near the sort of unaccountable power your president does, the election of a prime minister is not done by the people but by the party that holds the greatest amount of seats in parliament as voted for by the people of individual constituency. The main problem is the first past the post system of counting, which is almost but not quite as stupid as the electoral college, and should be replaced by proportional representation in both countries.

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Bierbasstard comments on Apr 10, 2020:

I remember reading about the light from stars as being a huge stepping stone on my journey to atheism. I wonder what Carl would be saying if he were still alive today.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 10, 2020:

"Let me out of this box I'm not dead" perhaps?

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Geoffrey51 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Brilliant mind. The great breadth of humanity can be clearly seen when you put Sagan at one end of a spectrum and at the other you place Trump. What a vast chasm!

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 10, 2020:

There is no metaphorical line long enough to adequately express the space between them

Am I the only one who wants the covid 19 to take it's natural coarse?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

No, you are not, unfortunately. Our "fearless leader" Boris was all for the "herd immunity" course of action, until he caught it and then it was a very different story.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 10, 2020:

@Chickenwing I was joking too, what good will a hamburger do?

Solastalgia: The pain of losing the solace of home.

Marionville comments on Apr 10, 2020:

New one for me.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 10, 2020:

@JackPedigo admirably gregarious

Am I the only one who wants the covid 19 to take it's natural coarse?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

No, you are not, unfortunately. Our "fearless leader" Boris was all for the "herd immunity" course of action, until he caught it and then it was a very different story.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 10, 2020:

@Chickenwing So you are going to shoot the virus? or offer it a burger?

More selfish idiocy from the godbotherers Council's ban on grieving relatives attending funerals ...

altschmerz comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Do these people not understand there's a pandemic out there?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 10, 2020:

oh yes but it doesn't apply to them, only other people

JUNTA - Noun.

TheGreatShadow comments on Apr 10, 2020:

Interesting. I was gonna ask if it was pronounced with a J or H sound. Clique I have only heard of as being a group of people. Like cliques in HS. These people hang out with these other people. This clique does not get along with this clique, etc.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 10, 2020:

and the Scandiwegian languages, thanks to the vikings.

Far too many have abandon intelligence for false hope!!!!!!! Anybody agree?

WilliamFleming comments on Apr 9, 2020:

There is every reason for hope. Hope and intelligence are not mutually exclusive.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 9, 2020:

@Fred_Snerd I never do until I have fully assessed the available evidence

Far too many have abandon intelligence for false hope!!!!!!! Anybody agree?

WilliamFleming comments on Apr 9, 2020:

There is every reason for hope. Hope and intelligence are not mutually exclusive.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 9, 2020:

Hope and false hope are very different things. One is based on a genuine probability or even a possibility , the other is based on a deliberate lie.

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LenHazell53 comments on Apr 8, 2020:

Might be something o do with Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father)having been a bootlegger, mafia Don and a Nazi collaborator.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

@sassygirl3869 or consequence

There was a time that I needed this.

dare2dream comments on Apr 7, 2020:

If someone is self-tormented by expecting too much from things in life those Twelve Ways will help achieve inner peace. The Twelve Ways are Buddhist-like in that they teach us to let go and detach. However, the Twelve Ways can also lead to complacency and lack of achievement. As always we need ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

@MissKathleen Thank you

My contribution for Wednesday; JACTITATION jactitation the act of bragging ...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 8, 2020:

This was one of those words Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was very fond of, his other favourite was Ejaculation used in its original sense of a shout or yell. Sherlock Holmes was fond of both, Ejaculating Jacktitations at the drop of a hat.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

@t1nick He always felt Holmes undermined his more serious works, my personal favourites are the Professor challenger books, especially "The Day the Earth Screamed"

There was a time that I needed this.

dare2dream comments on Apr 7, 2020:

If someone is self-tormented by expecting too much from things in life those Twelve Ways will help achieve inner peace. The Twelve Ways are Buddhist-like in that they teach us to let go and detach. However, the Twelve Ways can also lead to complacency and lack of achievement. As always we need ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

@dare2dream If you will pardon my butting in, after I long struggle I personally found that for me that progress and achievement stem from coming to terms with what it is you personally "really" want out of life, as opposed to what society, family and tradition tell you that you should want. I worked very hard for a lot of my life and ended up a company director, making good money and one day I woke up and realised the ONLY part of the job I like was providing security for my employees and that pushing for greater success, higher profits and less tax, was making me miserable. When my wife became ill and needed full time care I quite and sold the business, and became her carer, in time I also took to caring for other aged members of the family too, and for the past ten years I have never been happier, nor felt more successful. I progressed and I achieved by my own standards, make sure you also are doing that and I am guessing from you profile that you are.😊

Oleaginous.

itsmedammit comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Slimy as an elected official.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

Nice simile

Bi-sacksual (bye-sack-shu-ul) adj.

Marionville comments on Apr 7, 2020:

No, no....plastic is definitely not a choice any more!

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

@Marionville That is good to know, this crisis has brought out the best in so many people.

Bi-sacksual (bye-sack-shu-ul) adj.

Marionville comments on Apr 7, 2020:

No, no....plastic is definitely not a choice any more!

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

Yes I have gone back to old fashioned shopping bags, and thermal lined cold bags for the freezer. Don't know about anyone else but delivery is not even an option now unless you want to shop three weeks or more in advance.

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Petter comments on Apr 7, 2020:

That broad a definition means it also applies to men.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

@Lorajay I disagree, many boys do not even realise this has happened to them because it was "just a bit of fun" or in more extreme cases something they have to claim to have enjoyed so as not to look like a "queer" or a "poof" when a much older woman takes advantage or as she might put it "makes a man of you"

GUMPTION.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 8, 2020:

I remember my Grandma using this when I was a nipper

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 8, 2020:

@Marionville Yes the smell of Gumption or Swarfega mixed with motor oil is a very strong sense memory (my Dad was among other things a mechanic)

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Petter comments on Apr 6, 2020:

How can a supposedly advanced nation have so many backward people?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 6, 2020:

Just add religion

My contribution for Monday: HABOOB I was caught in one of these in 1991...

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I wonder if hubbub has the same root?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 6, 2020:

@t1nick Thanks for that, it makes sense the Irish have all sorts of joyous words for riotess behaviour.

With all the "miracles" that Religion touts to be true why has "god" never healed an amputee?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2020:

Also a fine example of the failure of intelligent design, if god will heal the lost limb if a lizard, jellyfish or even a tree, why do humans not share this genetic trait.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 6, 2020:

@Bierbasstard Trees are Satanic? Bu' Geezuz was ah carpenter!

MAGNILOQUENT adj Spoken or expressed in a grandiose style; bombastic; grandiloquent (From ...

Marionville comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I think we may describe this style of speech as OTT!

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 6, 2020:

or flowery

Who were you named after?

AmyTheBruce comments on Apr 5, 2020:

I was named Amy because my parents wanted an uncommon name, that I wouldn't have to share with a dozen other kids at school. Amy was the second-most popular name, the year I was born. Go figure. 🙄 To be fair, this was in the days before the internet. I can't really blame them for not ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 5, 2020:

Amy was also my mother's name, though it was a close run thing, at the font apparently my grandfather tossed a coin to decide between Amy and Hazel, just as well it turned out as it did or else once she married my father she would have been Hazel Hazell

Words With Friends thinks ghibli is a valid word. Is that where Studio Ghibli in Japan got its name?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Ghibli in Studio Ghibli is an anglicisation of Oji buri オジブリ (pronounced Oh Jib Uri) meaning Uncle Yellowtail (as in the bird) and is an equivalent of Mother Goose in the west for a mythical storyteller. The fact that it is an homonym for qibli and again by anglisiation pronounced Ghibli...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 5, 2020:

@Beowulfsfriend A former writing partner of mine Phred, was German by birth and was naturally bi lingual, I mentioned once to him that another friend of mine who had had worked in Germany in his youth and had come home proudly boasting the local Prostitutes in Berlin had nicknamed him Brilliant Schlong. Phred laughed and told me the next time I saw my friend I should point out the word is Brillenschlange and is the German equivalent of 4 eyes (Literally Spectacled Snake)

Ain't this the truth?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2020:

And those other forgotten commandments about not molesting kids and the one about not owning other people for example

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 4, 2020:

@Lilac-Jade Most definitely, the babble has some glaring omissions

Words With Friends thinks ghibli is a valid word. Is that where Studio Ghibli in Japan got its name?

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2020:

Ghibli in Studio Ghibli is an anglicisation of Oji buri オジブリ (pronounced Oh Jib Uri) meaning Uncle Yellowtail (as in the bird) and is an equivalent of Mother Goose in the west for a mythical storyteller. The fact that it is an homonym for qibli and again by anglisiation pronounced Ghibli...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 4, 2020:

@altschmerz So do I

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LenHazell53 comments on Apr 3, 2020:

It is based on the film V for Vendetta, the character in the movie was played by Hugo Weaving. The mask has been adopted by the Internet conspiracy theorist "Anonymous" and this film is elaborating on a favorite idea of theirs know as agenda 21 I am assuming the this agenda 2030 is a follow up on...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 4, 2020:

@of-the-mountain You know full well what I meant, don't be a ridiculous pedant it only makes you look a fool

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LenHazell53 comments on Apr 3, 2020:

It is based on the film V for Vendetta, the character in the movie was played by Hugo Weaving. The mask has been adopted by the Internet conspiracy theorist "Anonymous" and this film is elaborating on a favorite idea of theirs know as agenda 21 I am assuming the this agenda 2030 is a follow up on...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 4, 2020:

@of-the-mountain Yes but the intellectuals and politicians of 1933 did not base their ideas on plagiarism of old Judge Dredd comics.

Hey everyone, I'd love to get your opinion here.

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 2, 2020:

Why does it matter?

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 2, 2020:

By the way @DavidSilverman are you sure you mean Askenazi? Askenazi is a family name from Northern Europe, Ashkenazi were and are a Yiddish speaking people originating from what today is known as Germany whose descendants make up the vast majority of today's Hebrew peoples.

Engineer tried to crash train into USNS Mercy in Los Angeles: Feds

SpikeTalon comments on Apr 2, 2020:

Heard about that one, sounds like that guy was a lunatic.

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 2, 2020:

@chiara23k sounds like you may already be well on the way

Pentru Terra-Horti-Sofia, gândire comună.

LenHazell53 comments on Mar 30, 2020:

Terra-Horti-Sapientia Sofia is Greek for wisdom, Terra and Horti are Latin

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 1, 2020:

@Noemi Languages are not "sisters" many are completely unconnected, there is no similarity for example between Arabic and Japanese, or Romanian and Persian. Even in languages that are superficially connect by common roots mixing words from two or more languages in a single sentence when neither have been commonly accepted in to the parlance of the other is simply pretentious at best. to address your examples Agronomy has a purely Greek etymology Agros (land) and Nomos (arranging) and has been accepted in to most European languages as a co-opted word. There is no such word as presocratism it is a poor translation for the correct word Presocratic originating in some very poor translations of Heidegger. However Presocratic is in itself a hybrid word, something I shall address as you are I believe talking about portmanteau hybrid words, usually created out of ignorance and a poor understanding of linguistics For Example Television from the Greek Tele and the latin Vidi meaning distance and to be seen respectively or Vexillology – from the Latin vexillum, meaning "flag", and the Greek logia, meaning "study" Such words that have nonetheless entered the mainstream, usually as brand names or by other popular means. I believe, therefore my original criticism is valid, as is my correction.

Hat off to President Putin and the Russian people who have just sent a large plane full of much ...

Varn comments on Apr 1, 2020:

Man … it appears Russia’s Assets have awakened! Get this - had those Russion pieces of shit not fucked with our last presidential election - and were not in the process of doing it again - **President H.R. Clinton** would have moved on this epidemic months ahead of time - thus saving ...

LenHazell53 replies on Apr 1, 2020:

"had those Russion (sic) pieces of shit not fucked with our last presidential election ... President H.R. Clinton would have moved on this epidemic months ahead of time" LOL that is hilarious, tell me another 😃😃😃😃😃😃