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LenHazell53 comments on Dec 5, 2020:

Delores Cahill former vice chair of the Scientific Committee of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) was "requested" to resigned from position after revelations about her association with violent Alt Right groups. Heiko Schöning, M.D arrested numerous times for defying rules related to public gathering and endangering life. Maneka JC Helleberg self professed Freedompreneur and internet "New earth" self help guru Martin Byrne AKA Randy Roxx failed X factor contestant and heavy metal singer Mads Palsvig, former Banker from Morgan Stanley(no longer employed), founder of Danish political party called JFK21 noted self professed "conspiracy theorists". JFK21” ~ “Earth Freedom Knowledge”, and has been revealing conspiracy secrets about hidden agendas orchestrated by elite “banksters” and members of secret societies, who “run the world” behind the scenes and who are responsible for the covid "hoax" to enable vaccination to implant tracking chips in everyone. Fiona Hine, Political Activist and Events Manager, Founder of CoviLeaks (a blog for anonymous bloggers to sahre the "Truth" about the covid "Hoax" unchallenged) a twice arrested lock down breaker, former catering manager now bankrupt **Yup a fine upstanding group of failures, arrestees, firees, new age weirdos and Alt right mouth pieces, I can hardly wait to avoid their next broadcast.**

I want to know what the fuck kind of cocaine was the director snorting when he decided to make A ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

Which film?

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Thank Gawd I'mma country boy!!!

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

I don't have the words to express how hilarious that is.

I was curious about the.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

O.F.F.S.

Please say hello to @bubbegrey who has just joined the group.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

Hi

Grace Kelly in the 1950's

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

A truly elegant lady.

Do any CT members agree with my sentiment that the long term and most profound effects of this ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

***...the long term and most profound effects of this pandemic will be psychological as well as economical.*** Inevitably yes, it is already causing the uneducated to revert to superstition and hostility in defiance of all evidence. ***Also, will governments make ample provision for a wave of "disturbed" citizens in their mental health care systems as a result of this?*** In a few countries such as Switzerland and New Zealand yes they will, in larger/richer countries like the UK and USA definitely not, they will simply throw people in prison or drug them up to the eye balls and call them antisocial deviants. Rich countries governments don't actually believe in mental illness other than when it can be exploited for entertainment or science. For Christmas sake they did not even acknowledge the existence of PTSD until 1980 when most people suffering from it because of the 2 world wars were dead can could not sue over it.

Felicific calculus: The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful, pure— Such marks in pleasures and in pains endure. Such pleasures seek if private be thy end: If it be public, wide let them extend Such pains avoid, whichever be thy view: If pains must come, let them extend to few. Jeremy Bentham the "mnemonic doggerel" an aid to calculating The felicific calculus

WIDDERSHINS-counterclockwise in Scots-the dog ran widdershins around the yard

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

Terry Pratchett made this one popular again in his Discworld novels. the Discworld compass consists of hubwards, rimwards, turnwise and widdershins.

I would like to ask members to read my post of April 27th concerning the mental health impact of the...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

link please?

The 25% Tipping Point - Yes! Magazine

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

I feel that this very subjective and very much depends on which conventional beliefs and behaviors are under consideration.

You just know it's there.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Dissolvisti omnes vestimenta

@LenHazel53 I thought of this from your post. Goodman, Krupa and dancing. [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Damn how did Fred do that, the man actually floats

GotCha, Whoosh.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Robert Alverado is flavour of the month at he moment, but I feel a true pin up needs to be actually painted, rather than be a retouched photo. That said he does have an eye for beauty :)

I DO like heavy balls but...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

I'm tempted to say that is an Alberto Vargas, but it looks a little too modern.

Boooo to you too

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Some one is playing a wish fulfilment there, Caroline Jones was gorgeous, but never quite so blessed in the bust.

Good Puppy.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

could be an Art Frahm work, certainly his style

Do you like red hon?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Gil Evgren's work perhaps the best ever in the pin up field

52 years ago, a young Welsh woman popularised a Russian song, composed by Boris Fomin 95 years ago, ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE=AhmadFElyan

John Lettieri plays Medley on Roland V-Accordion FR-7X, March 2011.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

*"Yes. Definitely. On the funny side there are the Marx Brothers, except Zeppo; the Ritz Brothers, no exceptions; both Laurel and Hardy; and Woody Woodpecker. On the unfunny side there's anybody who has ever played the accordion professionally.”* My favourite year 1982

It needs a woman's brain?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

"And don't you ***dare*** go dyin' in there fool!"

A slightly old "Good Morning Britain" pre US election segment with John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Yeah Johnny Rotten is work class. He's been filthy rich since the 1970s, and only a few years ago copped out and started advertising butter on ITV TV in a hypocritical display of two facedness of the Punk ethic he practically figured headed. What a fucking dildo.

NURDLE nər-dl Part of speech: noun Origin: Unknown, 1990s 1: A very small pellet of plastic ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Nurdle is a VERY old Cornish word, first popularised in the 1950's by "Rambling Sid Rumpole" a character played on radio by Keneth Williams. The word was also made in to part of his catch phrase by Michael Bentine in his TV comedy programme "It's a Square World" in the 1960's and later in "Potty Time" in the 1970s, where when frustrated with some one he would exclaim "You Nikki nine Noddling Nurdle!" It is another word for yokel, or village idiot and can also mean to play cricket over cautiously.

Who here has seen the movie The Crucible? What are your thoughts on it?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Which version, there are at least seven remakes counting TV movies.

Eager Beavers or Wolf Whistling Cub Scouts?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2020:

Ah nostalgia.

What is freedom of expression?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2020:

If you have not read it, I highly recommend Rushdie's book "Haroun and the sea of Stories" written during the time he was in hiding for his children it is remarkable and poignant story of a boy traveling in to the world of imagination to reconnect his writer father to the story water supply, after he is unjustly cut off from inspiration by the villainous Khattam-shud (THE END) who aims to stop all stories from ever being told. It is a marvelous modern fairy tale.

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2020:

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Here's to our wives and girlfriends... may they never meet! I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception There are some ugly people in this world but you abuse the privilege Who's responsible for this washout? (his first line in "Duck Soup" after entering his inauguration by fireman's pole.)

What’s round and nasty? A vicious circle.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2020:

What’s round and nasty? Various unspeakable parts of the outgoing president?

It won't work in a NY state case against these assholes. [mediaite.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2020:

To do so would be to openly admit premeditated wrong doing, though it would preempt CRIMINAL charges, the civil suits would put him in the poor house.

This faker deserves to lose the special election. [independent.co.uk]

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2020:

When Lincoln said " you cannot fool all the people all the time.” it was not supposed to be a challenge.

The mysterious silver monolith in the Utah desert has disappeared, as fast as it appeared

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 30, 2020:

It has been taken up! Hail messiah! No it's over there

The Missouri Mormon War; who knew???????

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 30, 2020:

I did, but it amazing how many Mormons and ex Mormons don't know about it, how it came about and what the consequences of it were.

Are religions similar to capitalist businesses?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 30, 2020:

Religions are not similar to capitalist businesses Religion is the archetype to capitalist business.

The Russians have been vaccinating for Covid -19 with limited side effects

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

D'oh!

Aidan Ellison: A man fatally shot a teenager in Ashland, Oregon for playing loud music Thanksgiving ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Just goes to prove the absolute validity of the reason given by so many NRA member that they NEED guns to protect themselves and their property ..., from noisy kids armed with MP3 players.

For the record, I have problems with C.S. Lewis, but this has a humanist feel to it.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

This quote is mis-attributed, Lewis never said it at least not in print. James Sherman in his self help book for authors "Rejection" published in 1982, wrote “You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.” This is widely believed to be the source of the quote.

For the record, I have problems with C.S. Lewis, but this has a humanist feel to it.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

I loved Lewis as a child and read his works voraciously. Looking back now as an adult I find him very problematic in so many, many ways. His books read like a fundamentalist, theocratic, misogynist dictators wet dream.

What was the point of actual animal killings in the Italian cannibal films?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

It was probably cheaper.

Sleep well, Lord Vader... :( Dave Prowse: Darth Vader actor dies aged 85 [bbc.co.uk]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

I'll always remember him as the Frankenstein monster, which he played on the separate occasions in feature films a feat only achieved by two other actors Boris Karloff and Glenn Strange.

Emulous EM-yə-ləs Part of speech: adjective Origin: Latin, mid 16th century 1: Seeking to ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Trump's administration has at best been Emulous of poor humanism.

(It's) The 7th member of Monty Python's Flying Circus; the always-radiant Carol Cleveland, ladies & ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Carol Cleveland, is and was lovely, just a delightful and talent person.

What are the benefits of having religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

From the point of view of a religious hierarchy the benefits of "owning" a religion are obvious Wealth A willing unpaid workforce Being worshiped or at least being give undue respect Vainglorious self importance. There are few or no actual benefits to "belonging" to a religion, and those that may be mistakenly thought to be so are at best comforting delusion and at worst crimes requiring your participation as a willing victim.

What are the aspects of religion which should be removed from any good religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

The question presupposes he possibility of a "good" religion. Since religion literally mean to place in bondage, I would say the term is probably oxymoronic.

Sex and religion. What should an ideal religion say about sex?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Religion has always either had sex at the heart of it, either as a taboo, or as a central precept. Fertility cults and hedonist cults sell sex, traditional monotheist religions tend to demonize sex in order to subjugate women as being tempters and the cause of all trouble, something to be controlled as inherently evil.

Some religious leaders get very wealthy from their churches.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

The Mormon's tried unpaid clergy, it was an excuse just to divert all the cash to the leadership. I don't think you can design a better religion, because the concept is inherently flawed. A better religion is only ever going to be a polished turd, no matter how pretty you make it look it is still essentially a pile of shit.

75 years ago: People’s Republic of Yugoslavia proclaimed On November 29, 1945, the Federal ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Seeing children armed, uniformed and brainwashed breaks my heart.

VERBOSE - Adjective.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Mine own idiosyncratic and individualistic verbosity and lack of conciseness has upon numerous or even super numerous junctures has brought about and engendered criticisms, to a more abundant intensity than is, mayhap to mine own partiality? Translation: Yeah I've copped for that.

I wonder if my thought is true that a sequel to a horror genre will always be an action genre.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

I don't think it really sets a precedent, for example it might be argued that Dawn of the dead is more action based than Night of the living dead, but not that Halloween 2 is more action based than Halloween. Your thesis is probably more applicable to science fiction/horror than to horror generally, that said of course in some cases, vampires for instance the whole genre has moved more toward Sci-fi/ horror anyway with films such as Ultraviolet , Priest and Day breakers.

Maggie Thatcher, first female Prime Minster of England, resigned this day in 1990: ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2020:

A day only surpassed in joy by 8 April 2013 when the news broke that the evil old baggage had finally fucking died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0TuXLrvyE4=maestro66uk

I just found the first academic job that I am barred from applying for due to my lack of faith in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2020:

Why would you want to work for such a disreputable establishment in the first place?

I would not doubt it!!!!

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2020:

"There are very fine people on both sides of the argument"

Nudism around the World: Africa, Asia and Oceania - Naked Wanderings

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Ironic that an article lauding the uninhibited, free, natural and unashamed lifestyle of the naturist, refused to show frontal nudity and even censors the cartoon boobs on a surf board.

Today's Mass Shooting Totals Gun violence has taken a sharp turn for the worst this year.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

and yet still the US refuses to accept that their are systemic civil problems inherent in the societal system.

Trump Flips Out at Reporter in Thanksgiving Tantrum: “Don't Talk To Me That Way!” | Vanity Fair

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

"I am d' pressy-dent, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, d' prezzy dunt! WAH!"

Why can't we all just be decent to each other? [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Perhaps we should do it like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQIRD57lls8=CyberChaosCrew

my olde tyme bulldog puppy playing with one of my ten-year-old sharpei brothers. [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Beautiful

Is there any significant difference between the view that the existence of (fairies at the bottom of...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

"I for one welcome our fairy overlords if, as and when they choose to reveal themselves." Kent Brockman

Number 6 😴

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 25, 2020:

I've woken up in all of those positions

[youtube.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 25, 2020:

Spiral dance do a version of the witches chant as part of their track The Burning Time from the album "From the Mist -- A Retrospective" The chant starts at 4:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438sIIv0whI=RD438sIIv0whI=1&t=5=PaganMusicChant

The dog needs a Lab coat.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 25, 2020:

Is that Lab work with a built in Cat scan?

[rawstory.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 25, 2020:

The irony being that this whole policy is totally against Trump's own interest, he being a mentally defective old fart, he is likely to be his own first victim.

November 25, 1986 As President Ronald Reagan announces the Justice Department's findings concerning...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 25, 2020:

The classic ballad of Olly North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFV1uT-ihDo=Mr.Divery

Seriously? Can she really be this clueless? [rawstory.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2020:

Like father like daughter, what a pair prize pillocks!

Is this a trick? If not, it's about time. [rawstory.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 23, 2020:

He will never admit to having lost, and probably already has a book deal line up (and a ghost writer) about how democracy died when "they" stole the election from him. He has said that he is allowing the transition to "prepare", since there are threats being made to the team at the GSA, so as a humanitarian he is allowing some movement.

Covid baptismal protocols.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 23, 2020:

Feeling lucky Punk!

Is respect earned or simply demanded by the undeserving & Government desirous of destroying society?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 23, 2020:

"Respect" that is demanded under threat of consequence is a misnomer, a pathetic euphemism for intimidation.

Couth A word that many do not know as they are uncouth.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 23, 2020:

It used to be a running joke in the Beano comic to call naughty children an uncouth youth

Evangelical Mom in Canada Sues School Over Indigenous Smudging Ritual | Val Wilde | Friendly Atheist...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2020:

Well of course it is heathen blasphemous bullshit, those kids should be practicing ***decent rituals*** like the cannibalistic eating the flesh and blood of their man god king, and worshiping statues of his bloody mutilated body nailed to a plank!

Janis Ian - Married in London [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2020:

MY hero and inspiration the GREAT Janis Ian and I use that word advisedly

Timeless from Jake.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2020:

was going to post this myself lol

When I was small , Mom would read us stories from a book of Greek and Roman myths .

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2020:

As in the phrase "Trump is a disgusting narcissist!"

Regale verb (used with object) to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2020:

A word that has become very much associated with hunting stories, told by "brave" huntsmen about how they risked life and limb, armed only with semi automatic military grade weapons, lazer sights and a land rover they engaged in a life and death struggle with a deadly giraffe located *only* half a mile away.

I watched a few episodes of Quantico on Netflix last night.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2020:

Reminds me of a Missionary I met who was a former drug dealer who saw nothing wrong with "atoning" for past sins by using the money made from poisoning kids with crack to pay for his mission.

Tonight at my bedtime I’m leaving you with the epic double talents of Freddie Mercury and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2020:

one of the all time greats

“We can’t direct the wind but we can adjust the sails”............Cora L.V. Hatch.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2020:

Cora L. V. Hatch said this in 1859 Thomas S. Monson was a lying, bigoted, homophobic fuckwit. An electrocuter of Mormon homosexual children with the blood of a thousand youth suicides on his hands. A man who never had an original thought in his life, who as the late prophet of the LDS church almost makes me wish there was a god, just so that there might be a hell for Monson to be burning in.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2020:

How blessed is the pessimist for he shall never be disappointed Anonymous

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a quote, it's pretty long.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2020:

very wise I had similar moments of epiphany myself.

How does your Government respond to highest level enquiries?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

"800 citizens have been killed by the C19 virus" Our government would be jumping for joy if that were our death toll. as of today 54,286 have died of Covid 19 15,699 in elderly care homes Our government considers this a successful containment.

Our democracy is in great danger as long as the orange turd is in power.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

I will be very surprised if he does not at least try to start a war before Christmas in order to declare marshal law and suspend the constitution. He is far from finished. "Tempt not a desparate man" Shakespeare Romeo and Juliette (Act V, Sc. III)

Anal Wax [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Everything we eat comes from somewhere and was once alive, or still is. Is it not cognitive dissonance to object to eating one living thing while happily munching down on another?

Pastor Wiles Warns Florida Liberals We’re Coming After You In a recent telecast to his many ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Pastor Wiles/ pasta willies

Yes Ivanka, as all investigators should be, ruthless.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Oh she is SO her father's daughter, dumb as fuck and as self entitled as a sinking boat load of millennial douches complaining about the the amount salt water in the prawn cocktail.

Comment from a CA trumper in Orange County regarding the curfew ordered by Governor Newsome from pm ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Another millennial genius from the generation who learned life from reality TV.

OH MY!!! Mei Ziang and the baby panda are finally two entities, doing what Mom and kids do! He's...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Trump probably thinks this is a Chinese plot to undermine the election by smuggling in multi ethnic, sino espionage agents inside illegal alien nationals disguised as bears carrying forged mail in ballots!

Watch your fingers Joe!

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2020:

That is feckin' WONDERFUL! Best laugh all day.

There is actually a book with that title! [amazon.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2020:

Love it

Whether or not God exists, Christopher Hitchens is still a scumbag

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2020:

OH fuck off, what a waste of time and eyesight.

One for Joe to read?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2020:

Oh dear me, someone read far to much Jean Baudrillard at university and did not understand a word of it. The very idea that Trump was some kind of nationalist messiah simply ignores the in indisputable fact that Trump is a selfish narcissist who does nothing for any kind of "Greater Good" but simply knows how to sell a pig in a poke to a hungry man on the promise that it will one day turn in to a bacon sandwich all by itself. Many have compared Trump to Nixon, but other than the fact that both were impeached there is very little similarity, Ms Chang in this article implies that they are of equal wit and sagacity,which they are not and that Trump has a legacy that will live on comparable to Nixon ending the Vietnam war "an honourable end..." that in time it has come to be realized was the right time, since it stopped sacrificing American lives and forced at least in part Vietnam to give up on communism simply because they could no longer afford it. Nixon's last act of honour was to resign when he knew he was beaten and preserve the dignity of the office, Trumps last act by comparison is to cling on to power as a drowning man will cling on to a barb wire fence, refusing to use the rope thrown to him for fear of it not matching his tie. Trump is not a patriot, he is not even a nationalist he is simply a used car salesman who knows the way to appeal to the widest demographic is not to offer quality or even quantity but to appeal to vanity, base instincts and snobbery. The Trump brand offers not economy, reliability or sturdiness, it offers false self esteem, the promise of admiration and the promise of consequence free, sheer, raw power. Once he has gone his legacy will be like that of Aldolf Hitler, not in that he committed atrocities, but in that he is best remembered by the jokes made about him. Like Hitler in the minds of many is Mel Brooks, Trump will be forever Alec Baldwin.

I was wondering where this term came from. Did anyone else know this?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2020:

Dawkins did name and introduce the concept of the meme in that way, but the idea of the Internet meme, a picture bearing information and humour owes far more and goes back far further to the 19th century mimeograph, a quick way of producing pictures from acid etched brass plates, used for made to order advertisements, joke cards and holiday souvenirs later replaced by picture postcards and photocopy machines.

Trump is determined leave America in the most vulnerable position possible since he was not ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2020:

He is calling home his praetorian guard because he believes the armed forces will protect their god king emperor when he refuses to leave his temple palace next January.

[rawstory.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2020:

Will Mitch? I doubt anyone has been within six feet of him voluntarily for decades

I just heard that Guillani is getting $20,000.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Nothing, Trump does not deal in "good" anything.

Here's something to think about.....

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Prayer Because an omnipotent god knows what you want and need, but really likes to hear you beg for it.

Hello Bruce, I'm a "Nice" Evangelical | The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Fred Phelps, the perfect answer to the question "Can you show me the perfect example of a faithful Bible believing Christian?"

Can agnosticism be expanded to include all knowledge because nothing can ever be proven?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Agnosticism can be expanded to all things that have not YET been proven yes. However there are things that can never be proven to be true but can be proven to be false such as lies and things that can be proven to be true such as axioms and things which are conceptual that all fall outside of the realm of agnosticism in the true sense of the word. Agnosticism as a proper noun however is commonly held to apply uniquely to religion because as in so many other instance religion is given a privileged position in discursive dialog exempting it from commonly held rules of academia and intellectual study for no good or sound reason.

F. Scott Fitzgerald.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2020:

MY favourite story about Fitzgerald is related in David Niven's autobiography "The Moons a Balloon". In 1938 MGM had been using Fitzgerald as a staff writer and script doctor largely uncredited, but the studio decided that having such a famous writer on staff and not exploiting his name was unacceptable. As a result Fitzgerald was ordered to turn in a script for the next years big movie, an adaptation of "Raffles, the gentleman thief". It was believed that the famous book combined with the name of one of the countries greatest living writers would guarantee a sure fire hit. Fitzgerald did not want to do it and tried every way he could to get out of his contractual obligation all to no avail. So slow was he eventually the studio called in two stalwarts to "help" the great man John Van Druten who wrote the 1930 adaptation & Sidney Howard who had famously just saved the originally disastrous adapted script for "Gone with the Wind" at the request of his friend John Van Druten who had his name taken off the script after huge amounts of studio interference kowtowing to Margaret Mitchell the author of the book. Finally Fitzgerald delivered ten opening pages for a read through and everyone waited with baited breathe as Niven (Raffles) read out the great man's words. The scene opened in the apartment of A.J. Raffles, Raffles and Gwen (Olivia de Havilland) sit on a chez lounge, lit by candle light which makes her many diamonds sparkle. **Raffles** Close your eyes She does so demurely RAFFLES strokes her ear and ear ring **Raffles** Smile She does so seductively **Raffles** wider She prepares to be kissed **Raffles** That reminds me, could you give me the name of your dentist, I have a shocking toothache. Fitzgerald was fired on the spot.

Release the Turkraken.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 16, 2020:

Chickulhu

[rawstory.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 16, 2020:

HA- HA

Who remembers Winifred Atwell?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 16, 2020:

Yes, she was great. Along with Fat's Domino and Eartha Kitt her records were played a lot in our house when I was a kid. Odd that while my dad was such a Bigot who hated "our tinted brethren" (his term not mine) he sure did love black music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJagAMtp6AE=MikeWoollett