The Last of the Mohicans "The Kiss" (music & scene) [youtube.com]

BufftonBeotch comments on Nov 10, 2018:

Why is an obvious European skin stealing the soul of an indigenous person again. I guess we can be grateful we didn't paint his face.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 10, 2018:

@Zster Does no one ever read books anymore, I read last of the Mohicans when I was 7, Hawkeye is a great character.

Of Course religious people have a better moral compass than Atheists, that's why they do things like...

WilliamFleming comments on Nov 9, 2018:

Sometimes people like this Kelly guy murder people in churches, but it would be totally irrational to ascribe that behavior to atheists in general: “Kelley attended the First Baptist Church in Kingsville, Texas, from May to June 2014 and volunteered as a helper for one day of Vacation Bible ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

@WilliamFleming I see, no I was pointing out with satire the falsity of the religious cliche that only religious people (of whatever faction) have a moral compass, and that without god no one can be morality. This case illustrates there is no truth in such contention of moral absolutes and that the morality gained from religion is completely subjective when the mere mention of a "confession" of atheism can drive a theist to feel it moral to attempt to kill an infidel with a crowbar.

Of Course religious people have a better moral compass than Atheists, that's why they do things like...

WilliamFleming comments on Nov 9, 2018:

Sometimes people like this Kelly guy murder people in churches, but it would be totally irrational to ascribe that behavior to atheists in general: “Kelley attended the First Baptist Church in Kingsville, Texas, from May to June 2014 and volunteered as a helper for one day of Vacation Bible ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

I'm sorry I don't get what your point is in relation to my post.

Who is your favorite Existentialist?

Untamedshrew comments on Nov 8, 2018:

Metallica.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

If I were going to take a popular musician as an introduction to existentialism it would more likely be Leonard Cohen

Were you religious at any point in life?

Drewesque comments on Nov 9, 2018:

Hell, I was a youth pastor for a bit. Kinda got encouraged to leave after I taught that doubt should be okay. Apparently, questioning the sky daddy is a big no-no for the Pentecostal types.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

Yes, I was in a Pentecostal church once and walked out when the Pastor sent around the offertory with the words "I don't want to hear that bag chink, I want to hear it rustling.

Were you religious at any point in life?

WilliamFleming comments on Nov 9, 2018:

I am just as religious as ever, though I disagree with the basic tenets of Christianity and don’t believe in the god of the Bible. For me, religion is not about believing this or that thing. To be religious is to be aware of the staggering implications of the mystery of reality—to live in ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

"to be aware of the staggering implications of the mystery of reality" Yes we have something for that, it is called science, why dress it up in mumbo jumbo?

Who remembers this fucknut? [youtube.com]

indirect76 comments on Nov 7, 2018:

All I have is compassion for this person that seems to be suffering from some kind of mental illness. How nice it would be to dismiss this as something simply caused by religion, when the root of the problem is something probably far more complicated that just so happens to take a religious shape.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

@indirect76 if someone went about professing fanatical belief in anything other than god, talking to imaginary beings, giving them money and tell everyone else they were going to suffer eternal torture Would you think them sane?

Who remembers this fucknut? [youtube.com]

pasha-one-nine comments on Nov 8, 2018:

What the hell is this all about?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

@chucklesIII There was a similar celebrity version when when Ted (I am so not gay) Haggard and Gary Busey swapped wives, Mrs. Haggard sat in a corner gibbering when Busey invited a native American Medicine man to bless her and help her have strength to support her disgraced husband in a time of trouble, and Ted himself was trying to surreptitiously exorcise his home after having a "pagan witch" within it's walls. Freaking hilarious

MAUDLIN.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2018:

Reginald Maudling was home secretary in the British government in the 1970, a definite case of by name as by nature.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 9, 2018:

@Marionville He was a strong supporter for the reintroduction of capital punishment and openly lied in parliament about the bloody Sunday massacre, he was not the most positive of people.

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indirect76 comments on Nov 7, 2018:

All I have is compassion for this person that seems to be suffering from some kind of mental illness. How nice it would be to dismiss this as something simply caused by religion, when the root of the problem is something probably far more complicated that just so happens to take a religious shape.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 8, 2018:

@KKGator spot on diagnosis

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pasha-one-nine comments on Nov 8, 2018:

What the hell is this all about?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 8, 2018:

@chucklesIII He and his wife were not devil worshipers they were pagan nature worshipers and were very nice people who did nothing but maker her welcome.

"I have just unfriended a number of people on facebook that gave a positive response to a meme that ...

GuitarDoctor comments on Nov 8, 2018:

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 8, 2018:

Just like aluminium plane wings cannot smash through steel girders leaving a Hanna Barbera style plane shaped hole in the side of a building.

I will not be using this word because I do not get in those discussions.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2018:

That is incorrect. A quodlibet is a musical composition the employs two separate melodies that during the song are combined to counterpoint one another. The word dated back to the fifteenth century and means "that which pleases" in Latin. Bach, Beethoven, Bernstein, Cole Porter and others have ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 8, 2018:

@schway I am a composer too, but I was taught this in music lessons at school some fifty years ago. I also hold diplomas in English, my late writting partner was a professor of English and my son holds a masters in English, neither he or I have ever heard it used in the definition given except in the obsolete logical fallacy ‘Ex Falso Quodlibet’ and even then we had to look it up.

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Jalnor comments on Nov 8, 2018:

Beware, however, that incidents like this are generally used by the religious far right to turn the public against the ECHU, which was created by the UK after WW2 to prevent a recurrence of the human rights abuses that happened under the Nazis. When an individual incident isn't judged the way we ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 8, 2018:

Very true, however when a legal institution deliberately and obviously decides to ignore both the spirit and letter of the law in order to pursue a course of appeasement, financial and political expediency at the cost of undermining the whole basis of western jurisprudence (ie freedom of expression and speech) we risk far more than an increases public ignorance and prejudice, we risk the destruction of our entire way of life, social ethics and an semblance of justice, in favour of plutocracy under the ,ask of theocracy.

Holy fucking shit! I know this guy! Another good move from the Catholics. [ketv.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2018:

That link is blocked from viewing in the UK

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 8, 2018:

@TheGreatShadow Thanks

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John_Tyrrell comments on Nov 7, 2018:

I just wanted to find something better than a youtube video for this - and to try an put it in context.... Here's a couple of links: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/calling-muhammad-paedophile-not-protected-by-free-speech-1.3678825 ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

Cheers, it is reported but not in any of the big mainstream media outlets, I used the atheist republic video simply because it does draw on other sources and I have been a member of AR for years.

What is it with Religious leaders molesting kids?

RichieO comments on Nov 7, 2018:

Maybe it has to do with the amount of trust most folk have in them or should I say had, the more trust they have, the greater the shock when it is betrayed, but it makes you wonder about their motives and the dark side of human nature... The same could be said of those we trust with our money, ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

in the words of Graham Linehan

Just thought I'd mention that I have quite a lot of degrees, unfortunately they are all in ...

Xanadutoo comments on Nov 7, 2018:

I have always remembered one thing form school what two temperatures are the same in both F and C?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@Xanadutoo -40

She Stands Up For All Women

Anniemae comments on Nov 7, 2018:

Love Maya!

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

me too very talented and wise lady in the true sense of the word

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Heraclitus comments on Nov 7, 2018:

I am insulted by that.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@Heraclitus If insulting a prophet is a criminal offence you and I as Ex-mos are likely to find ourselves in Utah being burned at the stake in temple sqare for pointing out Holy Jo Smith was a paedo, conman man pervert witch. :)

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LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2018:

dawg gone it

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

or perhaps the piece of dawg that passeth all understanding?

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brentan comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I'm thinking how our recent referendum that removed blasphemy as a crime from our laws has been a cynical waste of time on the part of our politicians. I don't believe Muhammad was a pedophile. I want to say that first. Of course, that is not the point. It's a question of principle. Is it a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@brentan Ah, I see, I'm so sorry, for a while there I actually thought you knew what you were talking about. I see no reason to further continue aiding you in your prolonged period of noetic Onanism Good night

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brentan comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I'm thinking how our recent referendum that removed blasphemy as a crime from our laws has been a cynical waste of time on the part of our politicians. I don't believe Muhammad was a pedophile. I want to say that first. Of course, that is not the point. It's a question of principle. Is it a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@brentan I'll add this that marriage to sexually mature young women was a world wide practice during a time when the average life expectancy was 35 and many women died in child birth. HOWEVER marrying SIX year old was NEVER a wide spread practice in any culture, as it is pointless does not propagate the species and is only the province of the perverse.

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brentan comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I'm thinking how our recent referendum that removed blasphemy as a crime from our laws has been a cynical waste of time on the part of our politicians. I don't believe Muhammad was a pedophile. I want to say that first. Of course, that is not the point. It's a question of principle. Is it a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@brentan Then what are you arguing about? We agree it is not right, was not right, was the practice of twisted religious perverts, and that pointing out that one of them from however long ago did it make he or she a pervert who should not be venerated or emulated and certainly should not be used as an excuse to sneak in blasphemy laws by the back door under another name, allowing religious fucktards rights and privileges over and above everyone else in the name of so called "religious freedoms". I am fudging nothing.

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brentan comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I'm thinking how our recent referendum that removed blasphemy as a crime from our laws has been a cynical waste of time on the part of our politicians. I don't believe Muhammad was a pedophile. I want to say that first. Of course, that is not the point. It's a question of principle. Is it a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@brentan And that makes it right does it?

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CeliaVL comments on Nov 7, 2018:

It all depends on definitiuons. 'Insulting' Mohammed is surely not the same as criticising Islam in general and what we are told was the behaviour of Mohammed. We can do the same with any religion. I am a great believer in 'religious hatred' - I hate all religions. I think they are harmful and ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

Very well put, however in this case I am not concerned with which religion or religious personage feels itself insulted, I am worried about the destruction of free expression and the reporting of truth bu the perverting of existing laws under the guise of religious freedom, in to de facto blasphemy laws placing religion both outside of and above secular law.

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NickNakorn comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I've read the judgement and the two guys in the video are missing the point entirely (or deliberately stirring things up) because 1. Blasphemy is not illegal according to the ECHR. 2. The ECHR is not part of the EU. 3. The judgement was concerning the context of the comments and the intentions of ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@NickNakorn There has been no mention of Blasphemy laws in this case, my point is that it is worrying when public order offences are being used as de facto blasphemy laws to erode freedom of expression where religion is concerned, I am sorry If I did not make that clear.

Should Women Get Guns and Defend Themselves? I'm Not Sure.

silverotter11 comments on Nov 4, 2018:

As long as men like trump, kavanaugh, grassley,etc. refuse to believe the victims how can the idea they were defending themselves get anywhere.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

It is not that they choose to not believe the victims, they KNOW the victims are telling the truth, they just lie about it to protect their power, prestige and wealth. Do away with the statute of limitations on sex crimes and make them face their day in court and justice, in the UK we have seen a string of these perverts sent to jail for crimes committed 30, 40, even 60 years ago, and this was well before the rise of #metoo

Should Women Get Guns and Defend Themselves? I'm Not Sure.

PalacinkyPDX comments on Nov 4, 2018:

Better idea, how about making guns illegal nationwide for anyone with a restraining order, conviction for assault/battery or a history of domestic violence. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides-women/534306/

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

an excellent suggestion

Should Women Get Guns and Defend Themselves? I'm Not Sure.

LiterateHiker comments on Nov 4, 2018:

Since age 15, I have been harassed and assaulted by men. Will never buy a gun.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

I would say you have since the age of 15 been harassed by bullys, perverts and disgusting foolish cowards, who happen to be male. Part of being a man is the instinct to protect and respect our mothers, wives, daughters, nieces, cousins and their spiritual (forgive the use of a ridiculous but appropriate word) sisters. To keep safe the mothers of the next generation. The majority of us would never harm, harass or make continued unwanted advance to any women. Just as the the majority of women would not either. But having been the object of domestic abuse, physical, emotional and mental, for five years by an abusive souse, I believe I can say, their are exceptions made notable only by their wrong doing, who shame the majority of both sexes.

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brentan comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I'm thinking how our recent referendum that removed blasphemy as a crime from our laws has been a cynical waste of time on the part of our politicians. I don't believe Muhammad was a pedophile. I want to say that first. Of course, that is not the point. It's a question of principle. Is it a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

@brentan A tradition that even then was not applied universally, *most* of his other wives (Note he was a polygamist too) were adult women, so it was not usual even for him to marry children, but he did and openly announced the consummation of the same, without regret of shame, even by the Islamic laws what he did was forbidden to everyone else, a girl must be 15 under exceptional circumstance but 16 as the norm to marry and consummate a relationship, Aisha was 6 at the marriage and 9 at the consummation, he was over 50.

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Heraclitus comments on Nov 7, 2018:

I am insulted by that.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

I am not only insulted, but frightened, in effect this is a ruling and precedent that says religion is above the law, above social convention and above criticism. this is a ruling that applied universally means everyone is in danger from everyone else, anyone can be arrested and disgraced on trumped up charges and imprisoned upon an expedient whim, for saying or even thinking the wrong thing.

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MLinoge comments on Nov 7, 2018:

Religion is the death of truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7hCshWVo4I

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 7, 2018:

We need Chris now more than ever, an island of sanity in an ocean of madness

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Jaydee123 comments on Nov 6, 2018:

Ban all religion.Look at all the problems it creates.I don't mind what belief an individual has..just dont ram it down my throat..political correctness is a bloody joke..especially in the UK...you can hardly speak without causing offence to whatever minority ... Rant over. .. Deep breathe .. ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

Your right, the intrinsic problem is that other peoples feelings are (ironically) becoming sacred. However since everybody IS somebody else, everyone even by the fact of their own existence is a cause of offence and hurt feelings to at least one other person. This leads to a fear ridden society, ripe for the plucking by the first dangerous lunatic to garner enough followers, who will do literally anything to feel safe again. The west has sown it's own seeds of destruction with of course the best of intentions and no reasoned foresight what so ever.

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rcandlish comments on Nov 6, 2018:

Why on earth should we be forced to tolerate a religion that stands in direct opposition to Western Enlightenment values? Mohammed was a dirty, lying, backstabbing bastard, ever ready to murder to propagate his delusions. Are these the qualifications of a prophet? Muslims deserve no respect for ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

Why should we be forced to tolerate undue privilege given to any religious institution born of primitive superstition and ignorance.

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David_Cooper comments on Nov 6, 2018:

All that will do is make the hate grow. Protecting primary hate while punishing secondary hate which is a reaction to the primary hate will not produce peace, but just set things up for a bigger conflict. Hitler's genocide will look like a picnic compared with where the world's now heading.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

Sadly I believe you are correct. People or at least a faction, have become so obsessed with hate they have begun to fight hate with hate, while another faction have become so cowardly they are trying to appease everyone by attempting to please everyone and so have only succeeded in enraging every one.

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andykb3 comments on Nov 6, 2018:

This says it all....

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

thanks for that.

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ipdg77 comments on Nov 6, 2018:

It seems to be the thin edge of very large wedge. Is Muhammed the only prophet you can't insult or does it include all prophets, which would include Jesus Christ who, if memory serves, was the 7th prophet. You may be right, perhaps peace was the prime directive, but how forcefully will this ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

Exactly, thank you. I have for years decried Joseph smith, the prophet of the Mormon church as a Paedophile for marrying a 14 year old, and I have heard the same excuses made for him as for the prophet of Islam. Am I to be taken to Utah and tried for Blasphemy for telling the truth too?

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snytiger6 comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I doubt they are presenting that in the correct context, but putting their own spin on it to make it moe controversial.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

@webspider555 So? He is held up by Muslims as the perfect man, one to be followed and emulated, incapable of wrongdoing FOR ALL TIME so pointing out his faults (and he still did want to marry and consummated a marriage with a child) is for Muslims as relevant today as it ever was. We are probably talking about a time when it was okay to sacrifice babies are you saying that was okay too, because it was a long time ago? Of course you are not, time does not mitigate barbarism, on the alter or in the bed chamber.

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Druvius comments on Nov 6, 2018:

No, not what the ruling said. It said that calling the prophet a pedophile in a public forum was not protected free speech. Their reasoning seemed sound to me.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

@Druvius by all means enlighten us

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PhillipLee77 comments on Nov 6, 2018:

Unbelievable

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

frighteningly so

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brentan comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I'm thinking how our recent referendum that removed blasphemy as a crime from our laws has been a cynical waste of time on the part of our politicians. I don't believe Muhammad was a pedophile. I want to say that first. Of course, that is not the point. It's a question of principle. Is it a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

"I don't believe Muhammad was a pedophile." So what do you call consummating a marriage to a nine year old by a fifty odd year old man? In almost all European countries you cannot slander the dead, of how ever long deceased, this was challenged and defeated in the proposed amendment to the Defamation Act 2013 . Yes the over turning of the blasphemy laws was a waste of time IF you are simply going to replace blasphemy ywith public order offences that in effect do exactly the same thing.

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NickNakorn comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I've read the judgement and the two guys in the video are missing the point entirely (or deliberately stirring things up) because 1. Blasphemy is not illegal according to the ECHR. 2. The ECHR is not part of the EU. 3. The judgement was concerning the context of the comments and the intentions of ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

*1. Blasphemy is not illegal according to the ECHR. * No one said anything about blasphemy, this is a matter of freedom of expression being inhibited and other laws being deliberately misinterpreted in order to serve the purposes of de facto blasphemy laws under expedient euphemisms *2. The ECHR is not part of the EU. * We are not talking about the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) We are discussing the European Court of Human Rights one of the two superior courts of the European union along with the ECJ *3. The judgement was concerning the context of the comments and the intentions of the defendant, not the veracity of the history. * How can an undisputed piece of historical fact, not even disputed by the Koran, be decontextualized? *4. The historical facts were discussed as were the literal meanings of the defendants words and it was found that the defendant did not offer a serious argument. * There was no argument, Mohammed did marry a seven year old girl, and consummated that marriage when she was nine years old, she used the correct modern terminology for that act, what was in dispute was her right to use a modern term for an historic act, which though accurate was deemed unnecessarily provocative because of religious sensibilities. That is not acceptable, words cannot be redefined to fit with religion in a free society. *5. the defendant's words were spoken in the context of a far-right Freedom Party meeting in which non-members and the public were also invited. In other words, it was not the literal meaning of her words but the context in which she used them that was found to be in error.* Again words have meaning, if those words are used accurately in a factual statement, the location and audience cannot be used as "context" without redefining the word context. Historical truth is often distasteful and unpleasant, that does not mean history can be rewritten to fit with modern sensibilities, that is a very dangerous path.

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Flettie comments on Nov 6, 2018:

There's just too much fear here. Some of the disgusting "facts" from the old testamant are glossed over. The US has its very own group of religious fanatics, see Waco etc. Here in Europe we take a dim view of anyone undertaking activities which might lead to a public order offence. In the US ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

I am not simply pointing at Muslims, I am pointing at the power of religion to wheedle it's way back in to a privileged place in the law, where they hold an untouchable position that would not be tolerated for any other institution, organisation, individual or ideology. Stating facts cannot be allowed to become a legal offence, no matter how offensive some people may find it.

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PBuck0145 comments on Nov 6, 2018:

On October 25, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that to "disparage" (AKA objectively evaluate) Muhammad or Islam is a prosecutable offense. I am not (yet) subject to the ECtHR. As a Kafir, a promoter of free speech, and to illustrate "The Streisand Effect", I submit the following: ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

Thank you so much for that

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Willreef comments on Nov 6, 2018:

Yep, you're doomed. This cannot end well. Have an exit strategy. Currently working on mine todays election will hopefully slow down the carnage here in the US.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

I have never been pro brexit, but after this I'm beginning to feel the sooner the better.

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Xanadutoo comments on Nov 6, 2018:

There are too many of them so do not offend them or they will eat all your food.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

Appeasement, well that has a fine history of success when dealing with fanatics doesn't it.

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snytiger6 comments on Nov 6, 2018:

I doubt they are presenting that in the correct context, but putting their own spin on it to make it moe controversial.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

IN what possible context is it permissible for someone to be arrested for stating an historical fact? The Prophet Mohammed did marry a six year old girl and consummate that marriage when she was nine. No one disputes that, not even Islam itself, that makes him a paedophile, how is stating that an illegal action?

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Marine comments on Nov 6, 2018:

This is terrible and the influence of the Muslims is just beginning to show it's place soon it will be against the law to criticize any religion.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

True, this sets a precedent, a dangerous precedent when the highest is openly backing a decision to make telling truthful comments on the lives of religious figures is an illegal action, punishable by law. OTHER than when it is done by another or the same religion. Religion is not above the law, but is being afforded the privilege of being so. WHY?

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Druvius comments on Nov 6, 2018:

No, not what the ruling said. It said that calling the prophet a pedophile in a public forum was not protected free speech. Their reasoning seemed sound to me.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

How is it not free speech to publicly discuss something that is EVEN IN ISLAM a historical fact. Mohamed had a consummated relationship with a nine year old child, what the hell else do you call that? This woman was arrested and fined in Austria for this, she appealed to the European court of human rights and was told by them that her arrest did not infringe on her right to free speech, meaning critising the prophet by telling the truth about him IS an offence punishable by law. Please elaborate on how that is reasonable in western free society?

Christianity’s Bona-Fides Christians, True Believers one and all (well most anyway) believe ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 5, 2018:

"Christians, True Believers one and all (well most anyway) believe that Christianity is the be-all-and-end-all of theology - the one and only one true religion." But of course it has to be the CORRECT form of Christianity and only (insert denomination here) is the right one, the rest are heretics...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 6, 2018:

@johnprytz Well said, and completely true

I will tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years.

Heraclitus comments on Nov 5, 2018:

Good 'ol Madalyn O' Hair. Except that one day she just disappeared off the face of the earth.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 5, 2018:

@SKH78 She and her family were murdered, their bodies were found in 2001, along with parts of the body of one of their murderers, the rest of him being found in a river some years earlier.

Kevin, one of our reviewers, gave this bomb the lowest possible rating The characters can be ...

Minta79 comments on Nov 5, 2018:

My sister saw this over the weekend and raved about it! ?????

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 5, 2018:

Even "The Room" got one good review.

Tonights episode is called The Tsuranga Conundrum Which is in it self a puzzle as Tsuranga is a ...

Umbral comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I'm excited. Really liking the new series!

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

To my own surprise, so am I, Chibnall really seems to have got a handle on what the fans want ... so far fingers crossed.

DECIMATE: I actually saw "decimate" misused in the New York Times recently.

Marionville comments on Nov 4, 2018:

Yes, it has, through common usage. It now means to drastically reduce something....a lot more than ten percent usually. I use it myself, so am probably guilty in contributing to the change in meaning, I looked in the dictionary and it gives the original definition which was how Roman soldiers ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

@Marionville Yes language evolves and that is a good thing, but when language devolves, using Americanisms for instance that completely ignore the etymological and lexicographical roots of words and instead claim "Alternate spelling" or simply assign a new meaning to an established word, it does tend to irritate me.

DECIMATE: I actually saw "decimate" misused in the New York Times recently.

Marionville comments on Nov 4, 2018:

Yes, it has, through common usage. It now means to drastically reduce something....a lot more than ten percent usually. I use it myself, so am probably guilty in contributing to the change in meaning, I looked in the dictionary and it gives the original definition which was how Roman soldiers ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

@itsmedammit I love this sort of discussion, English words are an endless source of wonder to me.

IMPEDIMENT.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2018:

The literal origin of the word is quite sinister, an impediment in Greco-Roman times was the shackle on the legs of slaves and criminal. (pedi = feet mentum = movement im/in = negative) [Of course today we would never do something as inhumane as that ] Edit thanks to @Davekp Of course ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

@Davekp I stand corrected

The Atheist Atrocities Fallacy – Hitler, Stalin & Pol Pot

Matias comments on Nov 4, 2018:

Much more common - at least on this site and other non-religious platforms - is what one could call the 'theist atrocities fallacy: to claim that religion is the most important cause of violence.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

War and atrocities are most often brought about in pursuit of power in one form or another (money, land, control etc). Religion like politics is the a common and convenient mask of respectability worn by the power hungry.

DECIMATE: I actually saw "decimate" misused in the New York Times recently.

DoDapper comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I love "decimate". It's origin was a Roman military practice, essentially that in a century or legion that had behaved shamefully one tenth of the men would be chosen by lot and harshly punished (or killed depending on the severity).

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

@DoDapper The Decimatus was the payment made by all citizens of the empire to the gods via the Pontifex Maximus a role once fulfilled by the young Julius Caesar, an office so famously open to corruption it was fought for by all high ranking Roman nobles. It became a joke that failure in battle meant the displeasure of the gods so a Decimatus was require to regain their favour, of people. Pleasing the gods and disciplining the men in one fell stroke. In Judaism giving offertory was a voluntary activity and as can be illustrated by the parable of the Widow's mite the amount was arbitrary, however after the Roman invasion the Sanhedrin adopted the Greek word Dekato which is translated from the new testament Greek in to the Saxon teoþa pronounced phonetically as Tithe (a tenth) from which point on became a word for god's 10%

Lithesome Legged Lovely

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I think that is Sharron Davies the Olympian and one time "Gladiator" Amazon

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

@Rossy92 A Britain please ;)

DECIMATE: I actually saw "decimate" misused in the New York Times recently.

DoDapper comments on Nov 4, 2018:

I love "decimate". It's origin was a Roman military practice, essentially that in a century or legion that had behaved shamefully one tenth of the men would be chosen by lot and harshly punished (or killed depending on the severity).

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 4, 2018:

Yup taken in a darkly humourous way from the religious practice of decimatus tithing one tenth

I have to grocery shopping this morning. I hope i remember the baby carrots.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Anyone noticed how reports of flashing have all but vanished since the invention of the web cam?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 3, 2018:

@RichieO You may well be right

VENAL.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Not to be confused with Venereal relating to sexual desire or sexual intercourse from the Latin name Venus goddess of love and marriage ;) Though the name Venus actually is a subjunctive of Venum meaning related to that which is for sale. Says a lot about how the Romans viewed marriage.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 3, 2018:

@Marionville you are right when I thought about I added that is was probably just a serendipitous pun thanks

VENAL.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 3, 2018:

Not to be confused with Venereal relating to sexual desire or sexual intercourse from the Latin name Venus goddess of love and marriage ;) Though the name Venus actually is a subjunctive of Venum meaning related to that which is for sale. Says a lot about how the Romans viewed marriage.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 3, 2018:

@Marionville Check out my edit, something I only just noticed when writing my post, though it is probably a pun

A mother worries that her teenage daughter is having sex and might get pregnant, so she consults ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

Still might be useful if they forgot their shower caps

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@RichieO 100 and 1 things to do for pleasure and profit with an unused condom

Leaked latest official conference portrait of president Nelson

Lilac-JadeCanada comments on Nov 2, 2018:

About right.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 2, 2018:

Honestly I think he has never looked so good

Why?

Matias comments on Nov 2, 2018:

There is a way out of this conundrum about God and Evil: The "Chain of Being" as in the philosophy of Plotin. "God" - according to this philosophy - is just what we might call the highest order of the *Chain of Being*, the lower orders are all necessary manifestations of Being, and what we call ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 2, 2018:

That being the case this a valid statement about the Judeo-Christian God as it is within their Theology that their God exists outside of time and space, a fair analogue for being, or reality and existing outside of it.

I know people who would use this method

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 2, 2018:

What then is the logical argument against diapers?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 2, 2018:

@moonmaid

organogram a diagram that shows the structure of an organization and the relationships between ...

Charlene comments on Nov 2, 2018:

And here I was thinking it involved orgies..damn?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 2, 2018:

No that would be an Orgasogram ;)

Excerpts from the blathering of President Dallin Hoax First Counsellor in the First Presidency ...

RussRAB comments on Nov 2, 2018:

It was when I understood that these supposedly most faifhful of men who would tell church members to trust them implicitly because they "would never lead them astray" were willing to lie and deceive the membership in order to maintain faith in the chuch that I decided this church was not what it ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 2, 2018:

Yup it was usually quoting this load of tripe The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the programme. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty. (President Wilford Woodruff Sixty-first Semiannual General Conference of the Church, Monday, October 6, 1890, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reported in Deseret Evening News, October 11, 1890, p. 2.) So basically if we lie about God not letting church authorities lie, you can trust that we are not lying because we told you god won't let us lie. Only in religion is a circular argument acceptable proof of itself.

Any fans of Charles Laughton here?

273kelvin comments on Nov 2, 2018:

You omitted his one time as a director but boy was it good. "Night of the hunter"

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 2, 2018:

Terrific film.

EMBOLDEN: em·bold·en: VERB 1.

Charlene comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Fuck Nazis, Fuck Trump..

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@Charlene I know, I was simply using a literal reading to call Trump on being as disgusting as a nazi

EMBOLDEN: em·bold·en: VERB 1.

Charlene comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Fuck Nazis, Fuck Trump..

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 1, 2018:

I could not begin to estimate which would be more distasteful

Pakistan, the worst country in the world for an atheist.

fear6911 comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Sorry about the bad language - but I can't be polite for what they made me go through for something as innocent as not living my life according to their version of life and beliefs

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 1, 2018:

You swear as much as you like mate, these maters are emotive for a reason and deserve emotional responses.

Pakistan, the worst country in the world for an atheist.

rogueflyer comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Pakistan's right up there. We could name a list of middle eastern and African countries. Their common thread seems to be extreme religion. Include evangelical Uganda.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 1, 2018:

Uganda is a nightmare of a place for anyone even slightly "different", such as being gay or non Christian. It demonstrates that at heart ALL religions long for dictatorial authority and power over life and death.

Political correctness was not even the original term it was called Alternate insert target here.

alanalorie comments on Nov 1, 2018:

Maybe things in your county are different than mine. Political correctness is a way of being polite and changing language. When a person changes their language, they change how they think about a person or group. I do not think your "thinking" is based in fact. Please engage in civil discourse only ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 1, 2018:

I too have been diagnosed with Bi-polar disorder since the age of 14, though in those days they called it manic depression, so I empathise. I think you may have misunderstood me, I was rather angry when I originally posted this. I completely agree Political correctness WAS a successful effort to change attitudes by moderating language and have people think about what they say before and as they said it. That however is a far cry from what is happening now, where suppression and censorship of speech as being "unacceptable" and "provocative" has replaced reasoned discussion and explanation as to why some intents behind words and phrases can be seen as perpetuating and stereotyping negative myths about groups of people. As with everything else a loud minority of people with extremist views or simply a desire for personal aggrandizement have become the face of movement remolded in their own image. When I ask a woman why she is not a feminist and she says because she is not one of those horrible man haters, some thing has gone wrong with the general perception of feminism. When I ask anyone what they think of Political correctness and they say it is dangerous and bloody stupid, something has gone wrong with the general perception of political correctness, in peoples minds it is not the abolition of racism and sexism they think of as those being wrong seems to go without saying for the vast majority of people, it is the general perception that the entire western way of life is under threat by a dictatorial, censorial regime of humorless, easily offend idiots who want a world of carbon copy "perfect" people appointed to jobs not by ability or desire but in order to fulfill equality quotas.

scissorbill noun: scissorbill; plural noun: scissorbills an incompetent and/or objectionable ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Fascinating word, I could not quite understand its etymology at first and I assumed it was something to do with cutting up legislation or not paying you accounts. Not the case as it turns out, it is a much older form of the word bill, meaning an axe or pruning hook, considered in battle as the type...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 1, 2018:

@paul1967 I agree completely, I cannot understand why so many cannot see what is right before their eyes, and still claim he is a great president, it is like half of the USA is under a compulsion spell.

Happy Halloween ???

tgcarter2 comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Michael, Freddy, or Jason?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 31, 2018:

Michael every time

What is the most terrifying movie you know?

Residualspirit comments on Oct 31, 2018:

Depends what scared you but tag is pretty mental. https://youtu.be/HzcGkGuSs0U

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 31, 2018:

Wow I love Japanese movies, how did I ever miss this one. Thanks

What is the most terrifying movie you know?

242Foxtrot comments on Oct 31, 2018:

The Haunting (1963) with Julie Harris Burnt Offerings (1976) with Oliver Reed

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 31, 2018:

Burnt offering is it really creepy, one of Oliver Reed's best performances.

As a survivor of multiple traumas, MeToo is profoundly important to me.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 25, 2018:

Upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty is a slap in the face to no one, it is the very foundation of a just and fair legal system. Trial by media is an affront to civilisation which ever direction it leans and is basically mob rule. A false accuser is a guilt of injustice as a ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 31, 2018:

@MST3K @silverotter11 All of which is perfectly true and I have no disagreement with anything said. However the point of my post is that innocent until proven guilty is the default position of the law and rightly so. My point being that one injustice is not corrected by swinging so far in the other direction that another injustice is committed. The whole point of equality demanded by feminists (or what used to called feminists) is to be equal with men, that all people should be equal under the law. If our aim is equality and it should be then that is right and proper, but should one group or another demand preferential treatment and demand guilty until proven innocent for themselves alone be that group demand it by reason of gender, religious affiliation, race or and any other reason, I think we can all agree that is wrong and undermines the whole concept of justice for all.

Is there anyone here that values the teachings of the bible, but rejects it's supernatural elements?

Speakeasy comments on Oct 30, 2018:

I value any good point made regardless from where that point comes, and the bible is no exception to that rule for me.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@Nardi "i don't see any Muslim protests demanding they be released." conversely we did not see any Muslims shopping their perverted brothers to the police either, did we? So in the end that answer is just a variation on the "No True Scotsman" logical fallacy, which does not address the contention at all. Contention: Religion gives you morals Counter: Here is proof religious people behaving in an immoral manner Counter contention: If said people behave in an immoral manner they cannot be religious as religion gives you morals. Circular reasoning, self supporting lie. It is reminiscent of the the old theological excuse for war The Bible says though shalt not kill, however, you may kill and god will forgive you afterward if it is politically or religiously expedient.

Is there anyone here that values the teachings of the bible, but rejects it's supernatural elements?

Speakeasy comments on Oct 30, 2018:

I value any good point made regardless from where that point comes, and the bible is no exception to that rule for me.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@Nardi You might then ask your friend to explain the Pakistani grooming gangs in Telford, Rotherham etc? Apparently they were all devout brothers who the message of moral behaviour failed reach despite religion in abundance.

The Sumerian writings talk about the Anunnaki taking their dna and mixing it with the dna of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I find Exogenesis an interesting idea that at the present is no more than a hypothesis, unfortunately a lot of quacks and followers of the con man von Däniken have dragged the whole concept in to disrepute by passing of fantasy and speculation as evidence. There are circumstantial reason to keep ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@david75090 Fair enough, you know what I have and have not read, you really want to believe things people tell you in fictional books, your faith cannot and will not be shaken. Man, you would have made a great Mormon, want to buy some alien proof undies? Very reasonable price :)

The Sumerian writings talk about the Anunnaki taking their dna and mixing it with the dna of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I find Exogenesis an interesting idea that at the present is no more than a hypothesis, unfortunately a lot of quacks and followers of the con man von Däniken have dragged the whole concept in to disrepute by passing of fantasy and speculation as evidence. There are circumstantial reason to keep ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@david75090 I am an atheist, I have no interest in the Bible only fact, of which these gentlemen have none, just speculation and avarice, I could care less if one load of bullshit contradicts another load of ancient bullshit. They ask the gullible to replace one delusion with another, one drain on their time and resources with another. The only difference being that these modern charlatans don't have the excuse of being ignorant primitives, they are just amoral.

@Admin a friend just told me about a fella she thought could be a scammer - but she couldn't block ...

RavenCT comments on Oct 30, 2018:

So in the meantime (Until whatever it is gets fixed) you can go to the "gear icon" and click on it - and then open the block tab - and enter a member name and block from there - this is a screen shot of that from my block page:

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

I did this and it still does not block them completely

The Sumerian writings talk about the Anunnaki taking their dna and mixing it with the dna of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I find Exogenesis an interesting idea that at the present is no more than a hypothesis, unfortunately a lot of quacks and followers of the con man von Däniken have dragged the whole concept in to disrepute by passing of fantasy and speculation as evidence. There are circumstantial reason to keep ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@david75090 And you have the gal to say **I** don't know what **I** am talking about, next you'll be asserting the Velikovsky hypothesis was viable too. Stichin has been debunked by every reputable scientist and historian who had read his pseudo intellectual, inaccurate, money grubbing, waffle. His source material has been translated and commented on many times since with none of the "imaginative" reinterpretation found in the texts by him, yet he is held up as an authority by the ancient astronaut-er, as guys like William Curtis and Ted Driggers are held up as "Creationist scientist" by the Adam and Eve crowd, except of course they are not because their doctorates are in totally unrelated subjects (Theology and Business respectively) Stichin's doctorate is not in archaeology, history, linguistics or any of the sciences it is in ***Economics.*** Would you let a doctor of economics operate on your child, just because he the right to call himself Doctor? Much of Von Däniken work has been shown to be deliberately dishonest and since the eighties he has been almost universally accepted as a clever writer of mockumentary fiction, with photos taken from odd angles to make a small knee cap of a chalk carving bird look ten times the size and appear like a helicopter pad, plaques flipped upside down to make house hold items look like (vaguely) space crafts and out right lies about where items were found to shove them in to his frankly ridiculous "theories" and I use the word ironically. He is a quack, and inspired subsequent generations of quacks to follow him on to the gravy train of public gullibility and I am sorry mate but you are obviously one of them.

Can you identify that movie- Part 7?

Cutiebeauty comments on Oct 30, 2018:

The howling?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

Don't quote me but I seem to recall the Bar in the Howling is called OLY's

Name your favorite?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 29, 2018:

Ace of Wands A great horror kids show, unfortunate all but a few episodes of series three are lost.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 30, 2018:

@Sheannutt Not a lot of people have unfortunately, but it was a huge hit in the UK and Australia in the early 70s, very much touted as ITV's answer to Doctor Who. Tarot is a stage magician and inventor many magic trick, he is also however a psychic detective and able to communicated telepathically with his stage assistant and his pet owl Ozymandias. Over the three series he and his assistants and road manager faced everything from a resurrected ancient Egyptian gods, the London Mob, the rouge sorcerer Mr Stab, a group of Technomancers and a powerful psychic named Mr Peacock able to create illusions so real in the minds of his victims that they are driven to suicide or madness. Many of the episodes were written by horror and Sci Fi master P.J. Hammond . The show was pulled after three seasons thanks to complaints from professional busy body Mary Whitehouse and her "National Viewers' and Listeners' Association," (commonly known as the blue rinse mafia) who claimed it was encouraging satanism and sexually permissiveness. Then most of the episodes were "accidentally" destroyed. It was replaced by the much tamer "Tomorrow People" and until the early 21st century when an Australian TV Station found copies of the whole of Series three and one episode each from series one and two, which were released to great demand on DVD.

PERNICIOUS: per-ni-cious.

brentan comments on Oct 29, 2018:

Tr...............Iago, the villain in Othello.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 29, 2018:

Very apt

An all powerful "god" who can do everything:

Heraclitus comments on Oct 28, 2018:

Superman had his kryptonite, and Yahweh had his iron. :)

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 28, 2018:

Strangely an aversion to Iron is a consistent theme in many mythologies, Satan for instance has three natural enemies salt, silver and Iron, elves and fairy folk are supposed to be repelled by iron especially magnetic iron which is why coffins were bound with iron straps and horse shoes over doors forbid entry to faeries.

The Sumerian writings talk about the Anunnaki taking their dna and mixing it with the dna of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I find Exogenesis an interesting idea that at the present is no more than a hypothesis, unfortunately a lot of quacks and followers of the con man von Däniken have dragged the whole concept in to disrepute by passing of fantasy and speculation as evidence. There are circumstantial reason to keep ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 28, 2018:

@david75090 Giving credence to Sitchin because he is not von Däniken is like saying cat poop does not smell because it is not Horse dung. ;)

Do you celebrate Christmas as a family social gathering without God?

WilliamFleming comments on Oct 27, 2018:

No, it’s Yule. Call it Yule please.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@brentan and he had not answered so I did, if you find acts of kindness rude, I invite you to block me.

Do you celebrate Christmas as a family social gathering without God?

WilliamFleming comments on Oct 27, 2018:

No, it’s Yule. Call it Yule please.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@brentan If you ask a question and don't want it answered why ask it?

Do you celebrate Christmas as a family social gathering without God?

WilliamFleming comments on Oct 27, 2018:

No, it’s Yule. Call it Yule please.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 27, 2018:

My niece only ever calls this time of the year as Yule

Do you celebrate Christmas as a family social gathering without God?

WilliamFleming comments on Oct 27, 2018:

No, it’s Yule. Call it Yule please.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@brentan North western Germanic, including the Gauls and southern Scandinavia

Perfect movie for this time of year.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 27, 2018:

One of my wife's favourite films

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@Sheannutt So does she, almost always gets played on a double bill with either the Witches of Eastwick or The Craft

Has anyone seen this?

Charles1971 comments on Oct 27, 2018:

I saw Halloween last weekend. It was a fairly decent slasher/horror movie. I've seen better horror movies and much much worse ones. This one falls in the middle. It's worth watching if you're in the mood for a fairly typical slasher movie. Just an FYI, this movie completely ignores Halloween 4 ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 27, 2018:

Not typical at all, in fact it breaks every trope of the slasher genre, deliberately and completely.

Has anyone seen this?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 27, 2018:

Saw it yesterday, really enjoyed, great new take on the franchise.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 27, 2018:

@GuyKeith There is a lot in the film, but since it successfully tries to be both a sequel and a remake, this is to be expected. I have noticed a trend recently of older actresses and former scream queen becoming the major players in horror films in the last few years (notably Lin Shaye in Blumhouse productions and Meg Foster returning in Jeepers Creeper 3 etc ) So Jamie Leigh Curtis here reprising an older mentally scarred Laurie Strode is neither surprising nor disappointing suffice to say she dominates the film completely. The opening scenes are nightmarish and draw the viewer in immediately, this film like the original more than tips a wink to Psycho but plays with those references cleverly. The foreshadowing is both subtle and clever and the underlying theme of obsession ties the tangled subplots together logically and with suspenseful tension. If you go in to this expecting Halloween resurrection, or Rob Zombies blood fests you are going to be disappointed, if you are prepared for an intelligent psychological horror thriller with an intelligent script and indiscriminate violence against not only teenagers but people of all ages, you will not be disappointed. With this film the slasher movie belatedly comes of age.

"What is normal?" Gordi La Forge. "Normal is what is everyone else is and you are not." Dr. Soran.

powder comments on Oct 26, 2018:

Median average. Need a group to judge normal. We are all individuals.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 26, 2018:

Brian: Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves! You're all individuals! Crowd: [in unison] Yes! We're all individuals! Brian: You're all different! Crowd: [in unison] Yes, we are all different! Man in crowd: I'm not... Crowd: Shhh! M. Python