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This is really good - on 'zombie ideas' and how they affect and maintain religion, conservatism, ...
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 29, 2020:
This is an obvious piece about the obvious fact that the "successful" capitalist people are an infinitely renewable free resource, a commodity in to which you feed pennies and out of which you demand a lifetimes worth of labour, effort and the pennies you put in to start it going. People die ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 29, 2020:
@Allamanda Jesus god and fried kippers on a bike, you are always looking for a fight aren't you? Just don't bother answering my posts any more you miserable person, I cannot be arsed with you.
Well the GOP is going to jump on this. Biden faces sexual assault claim. [yahoo.com]
mischl comments on Mar 28, 2020:
It's a bit late to come forth with this, don't you think? After all the years he was the Vice President? It sounds fishy to me.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 29, 2020:
@mischl "But my way of handling it (in almost all cases) is to get the two people in a room with me, and both parties get to tell their story completely and try to communicate openly and honestly." With all due respect which in this case is very little, that is the most bloody stupid thing I have ever heard! I too hold qualifications in counselling, gained after the final end of my horrific first marriage, in an attempt to help myself and other, especially men in a similar situation , and I am am horrified you would suggest such a course of action. I spent years in an abusive relationship with a violent and predatory woman, my first wife. Getting the two of us in to a councilors office would have been impossible without dire consequences for me, even if we had I would have been coached beforehand on what to say with again the promise of consequences if I deviated from the script. Confidentiality would have meant nothing, and all our family and friends would have been informed of how I had dragged her through an utterly traumatic event because I was a liar and a bastard. In sexual matters you want a woman to sit with her uncharged abuser or rapist, who will be taking notes and making tacit threats? You are criminally naive I dread to think how much damage you have caused. Edited for spelling and grammar
Wont adjective Accustomed; used (usually followed by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at ...
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 28, 2020:
I won't go to church as is my "wont"
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 28, 2020:
since when did this site start having autocorrect unless you put the word in quotation marks?
Well the GOP is going to jump on this. Biden faces sexual assault claim. [yahoo.com]
mischl comments on Mar 28, 2020:
It's a bit late to come forth with this, don't you think? After all the years he was the Vice President? It sounds fishy to me.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 28, 2020:
Apparently she has been trying to get the story taken seriously since 1993, but was fired and intimidated. She was only taken seriously when other women began talking about his groping and harassment.
SATRAP sa·trap /ˈsāˌtrap/ noun noun: satrap; plural noun: satraps...
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 28, 2020:
So would it be fair to say a synonym for "Prefect"?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 28, 2020:
@t1nick You are braver than I, the most challenging poetry I have attempted were petrarchan sonnets
SATRAP sa·trap /ˈsāˌtrap/ noun noun: satrap; plural noun: satraps...
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 28, 2020:
So would it be fair to say a synonym for "Prefect"?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 28, 2020:
@t1nick Thank you very much
THRAWN.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 28, 2020:
Thrawn is a Caledonian form of the Old English þrawan "to twist, turn or distort" originally spelled with a thorn as opposed to th as in thrown past participle of to throw or cast away. Applying it to people as a character trait is a Scottish invention. The root word is thraian and is Saxon.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 28, 2020:
@Marionville A good trick when researching any word that starts with the TH sound is to check for alternates spelled with the obsolete þ (pronounced thu rather than th pronounced with a harder vowel sound Theh) Most words that did begin with þ are now pronounced with a Y instead (thank William Caxton for that) but some retain the original pronunciation.
Linda and her sewing club are making face masks for our paramedics and ER staff.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 27, 2020:
"Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc" or "We Gladly Feast on Those Who Would Subdue Us." Family motto of the Addams Family
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 27, 2020:
It actually translates as "So George (or Georgian) has a mouse's big toe (down)below" perhaps a comment on someone who upset one of the writers?
The headline should have read: Delusional Old Man in a Dress Wanders Streets of Rome During ...
afrogonalog comments on Mar 27, 2020:
He meekly tells everyone that he has asked God to stop the epidemic but obviously God just ignored him. I think it is time for him to act more decisively on behalf of mankind and demand God explain why the hell he created this virus in the first place. Tell God to get his act together and pull his ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 27, 2020:
"He meekly tells everyone that he has asked God to stop the epidemic " Funny that almost like he was just talking to himself
Coronavirus: Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive [twitter.com]
Charlene comments on Mar 27, 2020:
The Drumpster's next..
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 27, 2020:
No the Virus would be scared of catching daftness off him if it went too close
SPROG.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 27, 2020:
We used this at senior school for first years, I always understood it to be a contraction of F(rog) (Sp)awn
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 27, 2020:
@Marionville Didn't come from anywhere official just school chatter.
Pastor defies coronavirus order, draws over 1K people to services
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 26, 2020:
There have been psychiatrist who have claimed religion is a mental illness, I think there is no longer any doubt.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 27, 2020:
@p-nullifidian except when the leader making irrational claims about invisible powers is still alive, then it is a cult.
REVANCHISM.
Cutiebeauty comments on Mar 26, 2020:
If the American Indian heard about this, the USA is in big trouble...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 26, 2020:
@Marionville There is a movement in Hawaii, to claim back the land stolen by the indigenous people who operate under the slogan "When you property is stolen, you don't go to the thief for justice"
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
Geoffrey51 comments on Mar 25, 2020:
I can’t understand why so many people responding to this post can’t get passed a word. Make a new one up for yourself so that the message is not lost for you. Too many things going on in real life to get bogged down with semantics. And if you are as smart as you think you are you ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 26, 2020:
@Freedompath "Would you agree that humans have in their personalities a ‘psyche?’ " No I would not, psyche is a myth, it is simply a Greek euphemism for soul, the soul like god lacks any evidence of it's existence and so can be safely dismissed until such time as evidence is forthcoming. Humans have functioning brains that form personalities based on experience and knowledge, and in some unfortunate cases physical damage.
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
Geoffrey51 comments on Mar 25, 2020:
I can’t understand why so many people responding to this post can’t get passed a word. Make a new one up for yourself so that the message is not lost for you. Too many things going on in real life to get bogged down with semantics. And if you are as smart as you think you are you ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Freedompath I know enough about the man to agree that yes he is a decent and generous man, I never said he was not. However based on this piece of writing, he has spiritual leanings, something I find not very admirable in a man of his obvious intellect. No one is perfect, I agree and if I ever found such a thing as a perfect human I imagine it would at best be boring and at worst a mess of impossible contradictions, perfection is such a wooly concept.
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
Marionville comments on Mar 25, 2020:
I agree with everything he has said. I cannot understand why most people reading this are so hung up on the word “spiritual “...that is just his choice of word to express that he believes that this present crisis may be the opportunity to reset our compasses and focus our minds on what is ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Marionville Had the piece been written in the same concise way that you just put it I would have agreed with it 100% Well said.
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 25, 2020:
And so it begins, in time of crisis people who at other times would not even have entertained such ideas start clutching at straws, seeking meaning and reason in perfectly natural events over which we as species have no control. The pathetic cowardice that leads to such arrogance never ceases to ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Allamanda Language has been my life since the age of 8 when I was diagnosed as dyslexic, words have history, roots and meanings. I am afraid you you are the one who cannot grasp that, and why you are thus the one being called upon it by all us "old codgers" who actually do know what we are talking about. There is only one other colloquial definition of the word spiritual and that is relating to alcohol. Spiritual connotes supernatural and or religious influence, that cannot be disregarded, especially within the connotations of this article.
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
Geoffrey51 comments on Mar 25, 2020:
I can’t understand why so many people responding to this post can’t get passed a word. Make a new one up for yourself so that the message is not lost for you. Too many things going on in real life to get bogged down with semantics. And if you are as smart as you think you are you ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Marionville Well that is your choice, but personally I find it to be the neo-religious waffling of a man with to much money and time on his hands, trying to find a meaning in his stagnant life, that does not involve throwing obscene amounts of money at pet causes.
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
Marionville comments on Mar 25, 2020:
I agree with everything he has said. I cannot understand why most people reading this are so hung up on the word “spiritual “...that is just his choice of word to express that he believes that this present crisis may be the opportunity to reset our compasses and focus our minds on what is ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Allamanda @Marionville Sorry but Spiritual has a clearly defined meaning, and in the context of the article as a whole that is the sense in which it is being used. Much of the piece is new age bull masquerading as pseudo profound hippy twaddle. You are really trying to defend the intellectually indefensible here, by using the age old theologian trick trick of claiming we old codgers are "misinterpreting" the message.
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
Geoffrey51 comments on Mar 25, 2020:
I can’t understand why so many people responding to this post can’t get passed a word. Make a new one up for yourself so that the message is not lost for you. Too many things going on in real life to get bogged down with semantics. And if you are as smart as you think you are you ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Marionville Come on @Marionville, someone with a vocabulary like you? Are you seriously arguing the one can hold a private definition of words as being superior to the actual linguistic, lexicographic and philological meaning?
Posted with some trepidation: Bill Gates on the Spiritual opportunity given us by the coronavirus.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 25, 2020:
And so it begins, in time of crisis people who at other times would not even have entertained such ideas start clutching at straws, seeking meaning and reason in perfectly natural events over which we as species have no control. The pathetic cowardice that leads to such arrogance never ceases to ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Allamanda Words have meaning, if you decide you can personally define any word to mean whatever you want it to mean, there is no common frame of reference and so language may as well not exist.
QUO VADIS ?
Cutiebeauty comments on Mar 25, 2020:
Crucified again? Never heard that story before... 🤔
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 25, 2020:
@Cutiebeauty Christian myth says that st. Peter was crucified in Rome (upside down) in place of his lord as penance for thrice denying Jesus.
I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore [youtube.com]
Novelty comments on Mar 24, 2020:
Interesting clip, I disagree that the smart money is on loosing your shit in public, we've had enough of that with the current administration. 💋
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
@FearlessFly sorry I meant to address that to @Novelty
I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore [youtube.com]
Novelty comments on Mar 24, 2020:
Interesting clip, I disagree that the smart money is on loosing your shit in public, we've had enough of that with the current administration. 💋
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
@FearlessFly watch the whole movie "network" 1976, it is a masterpiece
On·to·log·i·cal relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
WonderWartHog99 comments on Mar 24, 2020:
## "I think that I think, therefore I am, I think" is their closest concept of being sure of anything.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
@WonderWartHog99 lol clever
Should people be criminally charged or sued if they have coronavirus and still leave home?
Charlene comments on Mar 23, 2020:
No, especially Kkkristians going to turch or Redhats going to Drump rallies...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
@Charlene only if they eat one another.
Socialism for Boeing but not for Grandma?
St-Sinner comments on Mar 24, 2020:
Is grandma a job creator? :)
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
@St-Sinner so my point still stands, republican capitals are monsters
Should people be criminally charged or sued if they have coronavirus and still leave home?
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 24, 2020:
Intent is everything, deliberately infecting another with intent to do harm is criminal offense, infecting others without your own knowledge or genuinely in ignorance of your status is more of a civil offense and should be punished accordingly.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
@LaDizdeOdd once testing is widely available free of charge, choosing not to be tested would be criminal negligence
Should people be criminally charged or sued if they have coronavirus and still leave home?
Charlene comments on Mar 23, 2020:
No, especially Kkkristians going to turch or Redhats going to Drump rallies...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
how about organise a Trump rally with free junk food and beer for all, herd them all in, then seal the doors, cover the whole building in fast setting concrete and then go home.
Should people be criminally charged or sued if they have coronavirus and still leave home?
Cyklone comments on Mar 23, 2020:
They are rushing legislation through in aussie at the moment to make it a $20,000 fine if you violate quarantine and I'm sure they'll make an example of some.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
@Lorajay that is what I was thinking too
Socialism for Boeing but not for Grandma?
St-Sinner comments on Mar 24, 2020:
Is grandma a job creator? :)
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
Perhaps, perhaps not but without fucking grandma there would be no fucking you, that alone is worth a little respect from mercenary idiots who say things like " Is grandma a job creator?"
On·to·log·i·cal relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
WonderWartHog99 comments on Mar 24, 2020:
## "I think that I think, therefore I am, I think" is their closest concept of being sure of anything.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 24, 2020:
and even that is wrong, because it makes too many presumptions, "I am aware of thought, therefore there is an awareness of thought" is as far as you can logically go with any degree of certainty.😉
How many sincere atheists are on this site? Click on 'like' fer yes & 'wha' for wha!
WilliamFleming comments on Mar 23, 2020:
To stick some label such as “atheist” on yourself and pretend that’s your identity is the height of silliness.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 23, 2020:
for most it is not a label, it is a descriptor of one aspect of your personality
[boredpanda.
Philip21 comments on Mar 23, 2020:
details please? how are they doing it?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 23, 2020:
read the linked article
Hypermnesia noun The condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory.
Marionville comments on Mar 23, 2020:
Does this apply to the memory of one specific event or thing, or in general across all memories.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 23, 2020:
The inability to forget anything is anamnesis (the term also has pseudo medical meanings in the field of regression therapy.)
I understand everyone wants something more after we die but I have to be realistic.
WilliamFleming comments on Mar 22, 2020:
We are in heaven right now. Every moment of conscious awareness is timeless. “We” just don’t know what we are. That’s all.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 22, 2020:
"We are in heaven right now. " Seriously? Wow that is fucked up man.
NURDLE.
AnonySchmoose comments on Mar 22, 2020:
Had not heard of this, yet like the funny sound of it.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 22, 2020:
@Marionville As the late Michael Bentine might have said, "You nicky nuin noodling Nurdlum" 😉
It all about your point of view.
Killtheskyfairy comments on Mar 22, 2020:
I thought he wore some sort of wrap pants like he wore on the cross?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 22, 2020:
commando christ?
While everything is taken place in the world right now, how many of you have starting talking to ...
Imatheistically comments on Mar 22, 2020:
Wait- a "god" thing showed up TO pray to? When? Where? What's it look like?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 22, 2020:
somebody call?
UTTER FILTH!!! Pastor Steven Andrew of the USA Christian Church "God Sent Coronavirus because of...
icolan comments on Mar 22, 2020:
So god is angry about homosexuality, abortion, and atheism. Then why is the virus he sent worse for the old folks, most of whom do worship and are too old for abortions?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 22, 2020:
hush now, don't go spoilin' good ole hellfire an' brimstone preachin' wi' that there heathen logic shit.
UTTER FILTH!!! Pastor Steven Andrew of the USA Christian Church "God Sent Coronavirus because of...
Lilac-JadeCanada comments on Mar 21, 2020:
This bs is so bloody old!!!!!
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 21, 2020:
Literally ancient.
The virus is not bio-engineered. [forbes.com]
AnonySchmoose comments on Mar 21, 2020:
Wow ... it is good to know the virus was not engineered.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 21, 2020:
@Marionville I will admit to idle speculation, because of the effects of the disease being so politically convenient, especially for our pragmatic republican/conservative friends, but also to dismissing the idea as being unthinkably callous even for them. To be reassured is a relief.
UTTER FILTH!!! Pastor Steven Andrew of the USA Christian Church "God Sent Coronavirus because of...
freeofgod comments on Mar 21, 2020:
Ignorant bastard.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 21, 2020:
you are too kind
These are my "Comparisons of Religion and Fascism" Both have one supreme leader.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 19, 2020:
I wrote this piece comparing the LDS to fascism some years ago, but it applies equally to religion in general Both Professor Stuart Hall in 1979 and in 2004 by Dr. Laurence Britt wrote articles defining the major points in identifying extreme nationalism and or fascism, just as a thought ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@fishline79 What the fuck are you talking about?
I understand that the only requirement for being an atheist is not having a belief in any deity.
WilliamFleming comments on Mar 18, 2020:
No, it isn’t idiotic. The Republican Party doesn’t need to support putting prayer back into schools because under the constitution anyone can pray whenever and wherever he chooses. Government can not establish an official religion, and for that reason schools can not require or conduct prayers, ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@Omnedon yawn, diversion and deviation is really pathetic
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine ...
Moravian comments on Mar 19, 2020:
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. Emma Goldman Love this quote
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@Moravian you are right, but the quote actually comes from a 1910 piece titled "The Traffic in Women" condemning the sex trafficking of women finally being legislated against not because it was in itself immoral but because the sex slaves were not married to their owners and so were not legitimised by holy writ and sanction. She was right of course, but this was a case where the twisted means were justified by the end result, or at least partial result as sex trafficking over a century later is still a thriving industry.
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine ...
Moravian comments on Mar 19, 2020:
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. Emma Goldman Love this quote
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@Varn She died in 1940 and was no great loss to anyone other than a few Anarchists who more or less deified her
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine ...
Word comments on Mar 19, 2020:
Atheism is an -ism. It comes in many forms. - ism means: a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy, typically a political ideology or an artistic movement. Atheism is a practice of a life that no gods exist. Atheism is a system of debate against anything god. Atheism is a philosophy that ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@Word -ism. a suffix appearing in words derived from Greek, where it was used to "form action nouns from verbs" You are using it in a more modern form where it is used to form nouns from words of proto germanic (or indo european) origin that use the Greek suffix -ist to denote a person who practices or is concerned with something usually in a derogatory sense eg racist, sexist etc. Since Theist from Theo (God) and hence Atheist is a pure Greek word predating the modern convention it is still beholden to rules of classical grammar, therefore your using it in the proto germanic fashion is pure equivocation, thus rendering your contention invalid. (EDITED FOR SPELLING)
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine ...
brentan comments on Mar 19, 2020:
As time goes by, it seems that atheism has left a void that is filled (or unfilled) with a sense of meaninglessness and nihilism. This problem has resulted in many trying to fill the void with meaningfulness and other practices. Sam Harris is a good example. Rupert Sheldrake's Science and Sacred ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
I believe it was the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who first speculated that the rise of atheism would cause a rise in consumerism as people struggled to fill the void left in their life by loss of faith. As it turned out most of the most ardent capitalist where religious people trying to cash in on this expected windfall. EDIT Correction it was Reinhold Niebuhr, expanding on ideas presented by Bonhoeffer
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine ...
Mcflewster comments on Mar 19, 2020:
This is good but remember it only says ONE thing about the barer of that label. We have to guess the rest- and most Americans guess that the atheists have horns
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
A fundamental misunderstanding, we do not have horns, but our lack of religious inhibitions mean we often get the horn
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine ...
twill comments on Mar 19, 2020:
I thought that philosophy was philosophy
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@Mb_Man to be pedantic it is the love of knowledge from the Greek Philo = love and Sophia = wisdom
Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...
Dougl35534 comments on Mar 7, 2020:
Wow. Had a cardiac arrest and was "clinically dead" except my co-workers were able to shock me back. Didn't face death, I died and basically it cemented my atheist beliefs. There was no white light, no dead relatives, nobody saying it's not your time yet.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@bklynite53 Everyone knows he is a truck driver in Arizona
Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...
t1nick comments on Mar 7, 2020:
There is an old axiom, "There are no atheists in a foxhole". I do not believe it for many, but I could imagine a lot of people losing their professed ideals when faced with death.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@anglophone “And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, as equals, they departed this life.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...
t1nick comments on Mar 7, 2020:
There is an old axiom, "There are no atheists in a foxhole". I do not believe it for many, but I could imagine a lot of people losing their professed ideals when faced with death.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
"I could imagine a lot of people losing their professed ideals when faced with death." a lovely euphemism for fucking cowardly hypocrite
Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...
ml58n2 comments on Mar 8, 2020:
I'm going to be strong. and not give in to invisible gods that don't exist, and hope the scientists can find cures so that people can not get diseases, and live forever, and have eternal youth, death is a disease, that I hope science can cure someday
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@ml58n2 "we would have to colonize other planets so that everyone will have room" "When I take charge of Germany, they (the German master race) must have room to breathe and room to work." Adolf Hitler's *Lebensraum* the ideological principle and justification for the German territorial expansion into the lands of "lesser" races.
Christian Film “20 Minutes” Falsely Suggests Atheists Find God When Facing Death | Hemant ...
ml58n2 comments on Mar 8, 2020:
I'm going to be strong. and not give in to invisible gods that don't exist, and hope the scientists can find cures so that people can not get diseases, and live forever, and have eternal youth, death is a disease, that I hope science can cure someday
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 19, 2020:
@ml58n2 yes so long as we were willing masacre all the creatures who actually already lived there, you know like we did with America and Australia and so on
I understand that the only requirement for being an atheist is not having a belief in any deity.
WilliamFleming comments on Mar 18, 2020:
No, it isn’t idiotic. The Republican Party doesn’t need to support putting prayer back into schools because under the constitution anyone can pray whenever and wherever he chooses. Government can not establish an official religion, and for that reason schools can not require or conduct prayers, ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
@Omnedon I deliberately did not name the KKK but used their identifiable traits for hate groups generally if you are determined to be pernickety and pedantic :)
I understand that the only requirement for being an atheist is not having a belief in any deity.
WilliamFleming comments on Mar 18, 2020:
No, it isn’t idiotic. The Republican Party doesn’t need to support putting prayer back into schools because under the constitution anyone can pray whenever and wherever he chooses. Government can not establish an official religion, and for that reason schools can not require or conduct prayers, ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
@Omnedon just making the point that people tend to be judged as simpatico with those they choose to affiliate with and to be in line with the publicly declared objectives and opinions of the organisation they join voluntarily. I know of no official connection between the KKK and the republican party, but circumstantially the KKK did endorse Trump and the republican party, indicating that many of their member are likely also republicans. However as we all know Correlation does not necessarily imply causation.
When you finally realize that your imaginary friend is going to let you down because they are ...
Marionville comments on Mar 18, 2020:
I’ve just watched an item on the news about the Covid 19 pandemic in different countries. In Iran a certain cleric who ranted and raved about the restrictions on prayers and assembly at the mosques and who preached that the faithful should put their faith in god and ignore any instructions about ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
Call it Karma or consequence it's a bitch
I understand that the only requirement for being an atheist is not having a belief in any deity.
WilliamFleming comments on Mar 18, 2020:
No, it isn’t idiotic. The Republican Party doesn’t need to support putting prayer back into schools because under the constitution anyone can pray whenever and wherever he chooses. Government can not establish an official religion, and for that reason schools can not require or conduct prayers, ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
@Omnedon There are millions of people who like to join a club where they dress up in white sheets and silly masks who enjoy burning crosses, I don't need to know each one individually to know how complex they are. They want to to belong to that organisation, they are filth.
Truth be told....
Lilac-JadeCanada comments on Mar 17, 2020:
But Alf is hilarious.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
@Petter Don't forget the talking donkey, he is my favourite
I understand that the only requirement for being an atheist is not having a belief in any deity.
WilliamFleming comments on Mar 18, 2020:
No, it isn’t idiotic. The Republican Party doesn’t need to support putting prayer back into schools because under the constitution anyone can pray whenever and wherever he chooses. Government can not establish an official religion, and for that reason schools can not require or conduct prayers, ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
@Omnedon If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck....
Has anyone else noticed that religion is portrayed as truth and real history on most TV ...
sirbikesalot06 comments on Mar 18, 2020:
Yeah, why do Atheist use the Bible as a historic reference? When you show me the birth place of civilization, you show me Iraq, aka the Bible. When I show you the birth place of civilization, I show you India.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
@kiramea there were many varied races of the homo erectus. The proto human Yuanmou Man was the first known in China this is true, they existed pretty much contemporaneously with Homo habilis in the west from about 2,000,000 BCe, and like their western cousins were overthrown and interbreed with by a cousin (Peking man) of what in north africa would become the Cro Magnon Homo erectus, the most successful human species and (after interbreeding with and assimilating all of the other hominids) the primary ancestor of the modern human.
Has anyone else noticed that religion is portrayed as truth and real history on most TV ...
sirbikesalot06 comments on Mar 18, 2020:
Yeah, why do Atheist use the Bible as a historic reference? When you show me the birth place of civilization, you show me Iraq, aka the Bible. When I show you the birth place of civilization, I show you India.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
Both are right, civilisation (for want of a better world) as we would recognise it originated at around the same time in a number major centres Sumer, predynastic Egypt, Norte Chico, Ancient China and the Indus Valley all emerged roughly about 4000 bce However there is evidence of Mesopotamian agrarian civilisations as early 10,000 Bce and the aborigines of Australia have signs of nomadic civilisation going back to 75,000 Bce
[66.media.tumblr.com] We need humor right now!!!! A friend just posted this on FB!!!!!
Petter comments on Mar 18, 2020:
Who's that bloke - captain America?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 18, 2020:
lol, The late great Robert Stack
Dead Sea Scrolls at Museum of the Bible are forgeries
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 17, 2020:
It has been widely spread about that the Dead Sea scrolls are fakes THIS IS NOT SO. The forgeries are the the fragments sold to the Green family (Hobby Lobby) for a huge amount of money as being genuinely a part of the dead sea scrolls for their "Biblical museum". They are not, they were forged in ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 17, 2020:
@SeaGreenEyezI refer to the validity of the artifacts as to dating from the time they are assessed to have been created. The literary content is not what is important here, the origin and dating of the papiri is what is in question and has been proven to be a forgery. I apologize if I was unclear.
Interesting I have tried twice this morning to post this comment in general and Hellos, and yet it ...
FrayedBear comments on Mar 16, 2020:
It's not showing up here either or did you forget to paste it?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 17, 2020:
@FrayedBear and yet it is still been downplayed, doctors are being ignored in favour of the comforting lies of politicians to whom this disease is a "god" send, as once it subsides the "aging population" problem is gone, the social care and welfare funding crisis is ended, the insufficient resources risis is alleviate, and only the most productive remain along with a whole generation that will grow up frightened it might all happen again.
Interesting I have tried twice this morning to post this comment in general and Hellos, and yet it ...
FrayedBear comments on Mar 16, 2020:
It's not showing up here either or did you forget to paste it?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 17, 2020:
@FrayedBear That was the advice we were getting too, a week ago.
Dead Sea Scrolls at Museum of the Bible are forgeries
Novelty comments on Mar 16, 2020:
Ha! Now why exactly do we have a Museum of the Bible in D.C. in the first place? 🥀
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 17, 2020:
Because the Green family are a bunch of horrible, despicable virtue signalers.
IDIOCRACY.
Outlier comments on Mar 17, 2020:
Hehehehe
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 17, 2020:
@Marionville King Lear: Act 4 Scene 2 Shakespeare *Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. Filths savor but themselves. *
COVID 19 is forcing governments to close down mass gatherings, which will have to include all that ...
Petter comments on Mar 16, 2020:
Trump dares not do so, he would lose too many votes. He will probably suggest everyone prays extra hard, and hand out big marquees for outdoor services.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
he'll lose the votes anyway if the god botherers all hallelujah virus spittle over one another.
Interesting I have tried twice this morning to post this comment in general and Hellos, and yet it ...
FrayedBear comments on Mar 16, 2020:
It's not showing up here either or did you forget to paste it?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
@FrayedBear After the "reassuring" speech made in parliament today by our minister for health and social welfare, which basically amounted to give up most of your rights and freedoms to combat the dread "VIRUS" voluntarily or else we "Impose draconian measures" (his words). Then followed up only an hour or so later by Boris the bastard assuring us all that before all this is over there probably will be legally enforced curfews, the enforced closing of pubs clubs, cinemas and theatres, as well as what amounts to internment of the over 70s for the next four months, as well as the breaking news that all this has been easily put in to place because the government had already prepared a civilian clamp down procedure and put in place civil control measure in preparation for wide scale civil unrest in the event of a no deal brexit. Paranoia is becoming a somewhat redundant term.
It was no surprise to me in finding that the Dead Sea Scrolls are mostly forgeries.
DenoPenno comments on Mar 16, 2020:
Is it any surprise to us that the Green family started this museum and built it from the ground up. They are the religious owners of Hobby Lobby and built their lying monstrosity in Washington, DC.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
I agree the green family are despicable people
Interesting I have tried twice this morning to post this comment in general and Hellos, and yet it ...
girlwithsmiles comments on Mar 16, 2020:
Is this one for @admin ?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
not anymore, since I posted here my original post has become available, must have been being "moderated"
I came across this in the German Press, this is the first English Language version I could fine ...
Cutiebeauty comments on Mar 16, 2020:
Hey, I see your post now! 😊
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
thanks, I think it was being moderated
EVANESCENCE.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 16, 2020:
The modern secondary meaning is "Fizzy" as in Pepsi cola is fizzy
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
@AgnoBill you are right, I misread, my dyslexia has been really bad today, sorry
I came across this in the German Press, this is the first English Language version I could fine ...
1of5 comments on Mar 16, 2020:
*The Guardian* also reported it. I'm having trouble thinking Trump tried to bribe then extort in order to make a problem he has go away. Not his style at all, no sirreee.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
the sarcasm is strong with this one
Interesting I have tried twice this morning to post this comment in general and Hellos, and yet it ...
Cutiebeauty comments on Mar 16, 2020:
Here's the linkhttps://agnostic.com/post/471222/i-came-across-this-in-the-german-press-this-is-the-first-english-language-version-i-could-fine-an But when I click on it, I get post not available...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 16, 2020:
yes seems it was undergoing moderation, for a while there
I won't attack everyone with a religious or "spiritual" view.
DavidLaDeau comments on Mar 14, 2020:
Please define "Rabid militant atheist".
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 15, 2020:
Hello, you called?
PATOIS (Fr.
Marionville comments on Mar 15, 2020:
When my husband and I visited Montreal a number of years ago, we found the Québécois French spoken there hard to completely understand, my husband, who spoke fluent French, told me that was because it was actually a patois and not exactly the same as the French spoken in France.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 15, 2020:
@Marionville Just as American "English" is not actual English, especially when written down, Don't-cha-Know.😉
Scordatura noun, Music.
Charlene comments on Mar 15, 2020:
Drump does this with his hoards. Then plays them like an out of tune guitar..
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 15, 2020:
That's who Trump reminds me of
Seneca . . . events
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 13, 2020:
Tell that to Julius Caesar
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 14, 2020:
@Archeus_Lore I was referring to the event of him being stabbed 23 times. Whatever view he took of it, he was pretty much going to die.
Why do the faithful fear coronavirus?
abyers1970 comments on Mar 14, 2020:
Probrably the same reason why a Pastor needs a gun when preaching a sermon. Gods protection is not enough you need a 9 mm. https://youtu.be/NDSDpGlU1Ec
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 14, 2020:
Holy shitting himself Batman
[pbs.org] "I didn't do it." Trump lies of disbanding pandemics office.
Barnie2years comments on Mar 13, 2020:
Like god, he only wishes to be worshipped for the good things that happen. Bad things are the devil’s fault/free will. Just heard on the news he is sending out a rallying cry to his Evangelical base, calling for prayer and a day of prayer to make the virus go away. Apparently he figures Europeans ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 14, 2020:
Hey give it it chance if it works and proves you can pray horrible things away, guess for what we all be praying to fuck off the very next day, clue it rhymes with Ronald Gump
Well, it's official.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 13, 2020:
people: WE need to be educated so that we do not panic, what do we do? govt: Close all the schools!
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 13, 2020:
@KKGator I was referencing Trump promising help to those suffering from hardship during the corona virus while in the same breathe taking 70,000 people off food stamps.
Well, it's official.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 13, 2020:
people: WE need to be educated so that we do not panic, what do we do? govt: Close all the schools!
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 13, 2020:
@KKGator It was a Joke
Why do the faithful fear coronavirus?
Drew69 comments on Mar 13, 2020:
Me and my friend discussed about God that I said to him that religion is a sham that what would work better in preventing a pandemic going to a church and praying to a god? or going to a store and buying a mask and gloves which would you first choose. It seems they all choose the church. Logic ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 13, 2020:
and when they go to church, there is notice on the door saying "closed to prevent the spread of coronavirus" lol
Why do the faithful fear coronavirus?
creative51 comments on Mar 13, 2020:
Well, ya see, god is on spring break right now, so they have to fend for themselves, kinda disturbing to them.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 13, 2020:
Hi you've reached the god prayer hotline, we're all at the beach at the minute, after the beep leave your name and fatuous request and we may get back to you sometime
Why do the faithful fear coronavirus?
maturin1919 comments on Mar 13, 2020:
Why do the faithful fear anything at all?
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 13, 2020:
Exactly, when push comes to shove faith is garbage and they know it, very few of them would trust to faith over practical protection, and those that did learned the hard way that they should not have. The creed of the modern Christian "Say your prayers at night, but keep your good given gun loaded and under the pillow"
Gobsmacked Astonished in to silence by an unexpected turn of events.
Charlene comments on Mar 13, 2020:
Also related to gobshite..i.e..I am constantly gobsmacked by the amount of gobshite that pours from Drumps gob..
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 13, 2020:
Ah gobshite Ireland's gift to the world of linguistics
New Jersey Catholic church lambasted for denying autistic boy, 8, First Communion 'because his ...
AmyTheBruce comments on Mar 12, 2020:
I'm afraid that I don't see the problem here. I mean, if he can't know right from wrong, doesn't that mean that he can't sin? Presumably he was baptized at birth, and everything afterward is of no consequence due to disability, right? So what would communion even be for? My knowledge of ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 13, 2020:
He is an 8 year old child being told he is "not right" and cannot do what all his friends are doing, this "priest" is setting the boy up for disappointment, derision and bullying from his peers and ignorant arseholes in the congrgation who will see his denial of the communion as evidence of possession or evil spirits.
Darwin's doubt, is evolution a theory in crises? [youtube.com]
aquaheal comments on Mar 10, 2020:
Maybe I should have posted this in academic.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 10, 2020:
No you should have checked out what a fuckwit he was before spreading his verbal manure
A little bit of history
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 10, 2020:
Yes I pointed this out once an was told the Horus story, like those of Tammuz and Mithras were Devil's mockeries of the "true" Christ story done back in time before Christ in order to discredit him.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 10, 2020:
@AmyTheBruce not really, these were the same guys who told me in all seriousness that satan buried Dinosaur bones all over the word to propagate the lie of evolution. Not worth pursuing reasonable discussion with fanatics
A Pastor Assaulted Her When She Was 17; Watch Her React To His Pseudo-Apology | Hemant Mehta | ...
Cutiebeauty comments on Mar 9, 2020:
The video isn't available
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 10, 2020:
try again friendly atheist have reuploaded a mirror of this after the NY times took it down
Cun·ni·lin·gus stimulation of the female genitals using the tongue or lips.
AgnoBill comments on Mar 10, 2020:
Yeah now you can go for the "f" word. No, not that one -- the eight-letter one.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 10, 2020:
fellatus, past participle of fellare "to suck," is the root etymology of the german word fellation used in a sexual sense, since approximately 1884 the anglicisation fellatio has been in common use
I will grant you the words are not uncommon, but I did not know the history.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 9, 2020:
funny but untrue, the same story has been used for the history of the two finger salute used in the UK for the same purposes of the middle finger and the thumb click on the front tooth used in Italy. None are true because there is no culture known for cutting off the fingers of enemy archers, they ...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 10, 2020:
@AgnoBill because the first records of this story being told only date back to the 1980s
Right-Wing Pastor: God Sent Us Coronavirus Because of Homosexuality | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly ...
NoPlanetB comments on Mar 8, 2020:
Then why did gawd not just give it to homosexuals. Such ignorance just needs calling out.
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 8, 2020:
He tried that wid de Aids, but dem sneaky queeroseuxals wen bout givin' it to straight folk too, Satan is devious, that's why him invent biseuxal too
[alternet.
bobwjr comments on Mar 7, 2020:
Complete moron
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 7, 2020:
you are too kind
TAUTOLOGY.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2020:
Tautologies can become so complex that they hide in plain site usually mascaraing as ontology such as the well known proof of god given by St. Anselm Existence is a necessary attribute of Perfection God is by definition perfect Therefore God exists It does not look like a tautology but it is...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 6, 2020:
@WonderWartHog99 nope that is an inverse syllogism fallacy
TAUTOLOGY.
LenHazell53 comments on Mar 6, 2020:
Tautologies can become so complex that they hide in plain site usually mascaraing as ontology such as the well known proof of god given by St. Anselm Existence is a necessary attribute of Perfection God is by definition perfect Therefore God exists It does not look like a tautology but it is...
LenHazell53 replies on Mar 6, 2020:
@WonderWartHog99 No circular reasoning is when both parts of an argument are reliant upon the other to prove such as supposedly true or untrue *The bible is true because it is the word of god and we know this to be true because it says so in the bible.* is circular reasoning, however if I were to possit instead *The Bible is the inspired word of god inscribed by men, because men wrote the bible under the influence of god* that is a tautology because it simply says the same thing twice, neither statement backs up or proves the other The difference is subtle

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