I like the new setup on how to see who voted on posts, much easier having a separate option to view ...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Thanks for putting the hover over back, appreciate it. EDIT okay it is back on some pages but not on others?

Posted on a hospital internal meeting.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

I like Stephen King's version in "Christine" Above the register in the garage where Arnie works is a notice reading "In God we trust, You fuckers pay cash!"

2020 in review...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Good old Lucy 😃

I like the new setup on how to see who voted on posts, much easier having a separate option to view ...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

How do I put it back how it was, so the names show by default instead of having to ask for them every time?

People will believe anything.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Dad who is me, can I asked me a question? *Yes my son, who is also me* Why am I/you sacrificing me/you to us? *So I/you can forgive all of the people for the sin of Eve* But Dad who is also me surely that does not make any sense *Watch it boy* I mean for a start Eve didn't exist, I know that so you know it too *I'm warning you* And people cannot be held responsible for what other members of their family did. *Can they not, we'll see about that me* And anyway even if they could, couldn't I/me/you/us just forgive them anyway? *HEY JUDAS HE'S OVER HERE, GET BUSY AND CRUCIFY THE LITTLE BASTARD!*

Is France's unapologetic 'freedom to blaspheme' in peril? [france24.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

You do not need to oppress the people if you can convince them oppress themselves. This is what is happening all over the world, freedom too being overpowered by freedom from, feelings over facts, style over substance. Oppression by common consent

God's loophole

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnecAxpZvI=chrisstandish

Good morning all. Enjoy ☺

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Remarkable lighting in that photo's composition.

"Embiggen" has been added to a US dictionary - a word first heard on The Simpsons in 1996.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Apparently only Shakespeare and Star Trek in the cultural media of the English speaking world, have added more words to the dictionary than The Simpsons

As always, remember that my post could be applied to any gender.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Thank you for that, that sums up exactly the abusive relationship I suffered under, in my first marriage and as an insecure young adult, exactly the excuses I made for staying with her. I learned, that I did deserve better and in my second wife I got not only better, but the best.

Cromulent: acceptable or adequate

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

One of a number of words contributed to the language by the writers of "The Simpsons" **"Cromulent first appeared in the February 18, 1996 episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa the Iconoclast,"**

US sanctions International Criminal Court officials - CNNPolitics

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

"whah, whah, you're not my mom, you can't tell me off, whah" Says the Trump.

religion is answers that can not be questioned.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Science gives answers that can always be questioned, improved upon or dismissed depending on where the evidence takes you.

[aol.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 3, 2020:

Leading by example? "Being a violent fuckwit for dummies" by C lay Higgins?

Q:529784 Celebrity pics group

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Best Bond movie ever IMO

It looks like I'm not the only one that fears for my country. [eand.co]

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Yes on every count. However it is not simply Trump's doing, it is the fruition of a long term plan that began with Reagan and Thatcher, a steadfast dripping of corrosive policies that took away rights, values, ethics, and re-branded empathy and concern as weakness, charity as theft and heroism as foolishness. Where the strong no longer protect the weak, they trample them as lesser, because strength no longer means fortitude of character, determination and fitness in mind and body, it means the power of cash, the will hate and a form of fear filled pragmatic paranoia against those who MUST NOT be trusted! Who are they? The kind, the compassionate, the altruistic, the generous, the poor, in short the WEAK and the different. Even those who call themselves left wing or liberal have been changed. Motivated by anger and frustration in to abandoning their traditional ways in favour of "direct action" they submit to radicalisation. They rely on the thrusting forward of he or she with the loudest mouth in the hope of being heard, a policy that has backfired spectacularly, turning the left in to a lunatic fringe, a hoard of minutia obsessed busy bodies and nitpickers. People who in the eyes of "the common folk" are a more terrifying threat to "normal life" than the covert fascism of the right. So why facilitate the rise to power of utter morons like Trump and Boris? Well for exactly that reason, they are morons, uncontrollable but highly dangerous. They were aimed like guns and fired in to the heart of democracy in the sure and certain hope that they would kill it dead. Who will ever trust a system again that could deliver men like this in to high office? "It will have to go," the survivors will say. "We cannot take that risk again!" Moreover, the Conservatives of the UK and the Republicans of the USA will, tut, sigh, and say "reluctantly"- "Quite so, these terrible men were tragic anomalies, but they did not represent REAL right wing politics, only we can deliver that, only we can save OUR society. Put us in charge indefinitely and we shall put things right, and after we do we will usher in a new form of safe reliable governance, "eventually" and we will all live happily ever after, for ever and ever amen." Make no mistake, western society as we know it is already dead, it is a chicken running about with it's head cut off, ready for the plucking and roasting. Who we allow to do that and how badly we get burned is the main worry for the future

Christian Host says to avoid smart women since you have to consider their sexual needs : ...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Damn, he broke the Bro code, dumb chicks are not supposed to know about this shit.😠😠😠😠😣😣

A good dose of the Philosophy pf Religion is enough to make anyone an atheist.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2020:

Modern religion is as guilty of this as ever, I cannot count the times when the religious have asked if I am mentally ill, because the existence of gawd is so obvious only a liar or a lunatic could dispute it. That is of course until you demand to see the evidence, at which point you either get the standard responses of "Just look around you" or "I'll pray for you" or else they get angry and start building a metaphorical bonfire for the blaspheming heretic.

“Defund Police” Doesn’t Mean Hire Private Guns — But Cities Are Doing Just That

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 2, 2020:

One step from government sanctioned mercenaries. Well if it good enough for POTUS?

A supercomputer analyzed COVID-19: [elemental.medium.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Very interesting, it would explain a lot.

“Christians Against Dinosaurs” Target Arizona McDonald’s T.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

There is no parody so obviously ridiculous that there is not someone somewhere stupid enough to believe it.

Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine, republishes the cartoons showing Mohammed as the trial...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

It is simple fear. If the religious (fanatics of any faith or denomination) admit to an over reaction, or leave a "blasphemy" unpunished then they have as much as admitted that they have allowed themselves to be fooled in to a life time of servitude, worship, study and belief that is of no consequence to most of the rest of the world. They have denied themselves worldly pleasures for nothing, been obliged to part with large sums of money they could have put to better use, allowed themselves to be bullied in to relationships they did not want, and been persuaded to hate those they did not wish to hate. Therefore defense of the indefensible is there only option, discussion is worthless and foolish for they have no evidence or logical argument so they fall back on "if not by discussion, then by the sword" in order to feel justified at their total waste of a life.

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LenHazell53 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Living up to your name again then are we FEARLESS?

Aliens; why should we "listen" for them? Have they ever visited us?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

Both Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawkins have expressed the idea that communication with extra terrestrial beings would probably end very badly for us. Especially id the the said AET's were anything like humans in temperament. We need look no further than the history of our own planet to see what happens when a technically more advance "civilization" comes in to contact with a more primitive one, almost inevitably conquest and exploitation, when they were lucky, extinction and extirpation when they were not. We have to consider what the motivation for contact and visitation would be? To make such a huge investment of time and technology, to say nothing of expense if they have the concept, there must be an expected reward or pay off. Be it land, minerals, alternate tech, slave labour, food or something beyond our ken, there is going to be an expected reward. If we can assume they are technologically savvy enough to have faster than light or interdimensional travel then we are going to have little to trade to them that they might actually want. We will probably be unable to fight back in the face of aggression, so chances are they will simply take what they need until there is nothing left. If by some chance they are benificent, can we expect compassion, we need to consider how we will be perceived, a dangerous, warlike, race of angry apes, who have knowingly poisoned out own air, land, sea and sky with toxic waste. A race of beings so arrogant that we have driven hundreds of other species resident here with us to extinction, a society who deliberately keeps 90% of our own species in servitude, poverty and want for the sake 10% who have so much of the planet under their control they cannot possibly use it all. If I were them I would give this world a wide berth until the monsters all consumed each others and the nicer rabbit people took over.

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

***Recipe for disaster*** You arm a population to the teeth You promote a culture of fear, hate and paranoia You demonise several section of society against each other You equate strength with violence in the minds of the people Light blue touch paper and stand well back while fanning the flames Finally feign outrage and promise a quick solution .. at a price

[rawstory.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Error 404! The page you requested does not exist or has moved.

If there were no bible, would there be no "end times?"

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

End times myths long predate Christianity.

Can an atheist and an Evangelical be friends?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

They "Can" but they probably would not want to be, unless both were willing to compromise..A LOT. I know many religious people and get on fine with them, but evangelicals? That is a whole other kettle of literalist loaves and fishes.

Think they over did it

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Don't you just wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlZQhNlwc7U

Exeter, NH - Historical and Political Phillips Exeter Academy Prep School is here.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

And they admit to it?

Martha and Betty were at lunch in their Senior Living facility.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

A streaker runs past three old ladies at the ball game 2 of them had a stroke on the spot, the other one could not quite reach.

Biden wants a debate.. Don't believe the lies. [cnn.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSZgbJsSxU

Are police disproportionally killing (unarmed) black men?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

You are completely ignoring the context of the killings. In many cases the black person having been shot has been doing nothing more than driving a car, all be it one the policeman who killed them has judged to be too "nice" to be being driven by a black person and is therefore in a situation to be considered "suspicious". I have been myself stopped like this, but only when traveling in a car, or when walking the street with my friend and colleague Courtney, who I have known since the age of 12 and who was born on the Island on St. Vincent. Apparently a white man walking or driving with a black man needs to be checked upon, just in case he is under duress. White people shot and killed are usually already in the act of, or have been caught immediately after committing a criminal act far in excess of driving while in possession of a larger than expected amount of melanin

Anyone else listen to the podcast "God Awful Movies"?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

You might also like "The Cinema Snob" he often satirically reviews Prureflix Christian movies and the like from Chrisitian cinema outlet and a couple of years back made his own parody of them "Jesus Bro' which is hilarious.

Many rehabs rely on religion.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

It is simply replacing one crutch with a more socially acceptable one.

Anyone ever heard of this one? vilomah A parent whose child has died is a vilomah.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

That is one of the uses, it simply means "something that happens against the (understood) natural order of thing" and is a Sanskrit word as are widow, Jungle and Swastika among many others. It has also been used for "perceived" sexual deviance, class distinction and interracial marriage.

I strongly think that a person is a coward to be science educated on one side and believe in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 31, 2020:

in the words of of the late Spike Milligan

What do you think? Who is Dr. Antony Flew? [baileylineroad.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Anthony Flew was an Athiest for 50 odd years, he died in 2010 in his mid eighties resident in a home for people suffering extreme dementia where he had been resident for almost a decade. So this guy's arguement is that an eminent philosopher in his dotage turned to god and that proves everything else he ever said while still sane was irrelevant. What a convincing arguement.

Falwell can hire 2 or 3 pool boys with that kind of cash.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Never has the maxim "God helps them as helps themselves" seemed more apt.

Trump-Loving Anti-Mask Pastor Threatens Dunkin’ Donuts Employee With Assault | Michael Stone

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Father Thug

Here’s a question.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2020:

No, if you can't cope with reality with out some sort of collectivism crap, you might as well go back to believing the god shit

Why has it taken this long for someone to be honest?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2020:

Who really cares anymore, so long as they are safe from assault and practice safe sex.

ACROLOGICAL AK-rə-LAH-dji-kəl Part of speech: adjective Origin: French, early 19th century...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 30, 2020:

An acrological poem or lyric is called an acrostic An acrostic where the poem or acronym defines the word being spelled out is called a bacronym In the rock opera musical by Tim Rice "Blondel", one song lyric spells out Margaret Hilda Thatcher as a Thank you for his Knighthood in the new years honours list.

Catholic Priest Kicks Autistic Child Out of Church During His Sister’s Baptism | Hemant Mehta | ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 29, 2020:

could have been worse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKzmhHHx9kE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdawpDZD-Ro

Wife Takes Nonbeliever Husband to Court to Block His Medically Assisted Death | Val Wilde | Friendly...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2020:

If it were not so tragic it would be hilarious.

Why, we have so much bad luck, it's almost as if we're built on top of an Indian graveyard. /s

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2020:

You were, literally

This from my fundie sister .

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2020:

She is a fuckwit, don't bother arguing with her, you cannot reason with one so brainwashed that her actual brain has dissolved and leaked out of her ears.

Question on Nietzsche

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2020:

My personal interpretation, and I emphasise this is MY interpretation, of the will to power is the defining characteristic of the Ubermensch, the force of the functioning mind to discover and then pursue the true meaning of one own life, to create and to contribute something new to the collective whole, to assert change. This contrasts with the mind of the herd human whose own will does not drive them to power, but to serve, to "borrow" the will of the Ubermensch and to act upon it and constuct the new to the pattern provided. The opposite of the will to power, the will to depower is the characteristic of the Letzter Mensch, the determination to half progress, to be reactionary, to regress the collective whole.

So where did that water in the oceans come from?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2020:

It's a plausible hypothesis, however the water got here, I'm just glad it did.

Question on Ayn Rand...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 28, 2020:

Rand was a realist in denial, vainly trying to combine pragmatism, hedonism and idealism in to a system that explained her own own life experience but hampered by being a product of her times and prejudices.. As a philosopher she was a great speculative novelist. Her major achievement was Ellsworth Toohey one of the greatest literary villains of all time.

Identities, mainly race, gender and sexual orientation, are today's substitute for religion.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Not really, however there is a movement to turn identity politics in a cult if for no other reason than to shun and hate the heretic and the mis-believer. The desire to Hate is always the real reason and motivation behind the preacher against "sin"

as an atheist, i find the idea of Satan appealing.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

"Better to reign in Hell than be a slave in Heaven." Satan in Paradise Lost - Book II by John Milton

Everyone need to check out this news article.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Lock the bastard up and throw away the key

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

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I always enjoyed that story from history. I did however once hear a news reporter describing how during the Arab spring police were drive back by protesters using mazel tov cocktails. Something of a Freudian slip?

Does any one else's doggy sleep or relax in odd bodily positions?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

Yes all of my dog past and present will sleep in the weirdest positions, including flat on their back with all four paws in the air

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

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

It boils down to two choices God's is an Evil Fucking Wanker, who enjoys making people suffer and loves to point and laugh, Or There is no god and religious people are victims of long term theological scam.

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

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

I guess I was lucky, when I left the LDS I feared it would end my marriage. However my wife loved me enough to ask why I felt I had to leave and when I told her she looked in to my reasons with an open mind and decided that I was justified, she followed me out of the church a couple of months later. I think it came down to her loving me more than the church and so trusting me to have a good reason, she then took her own time to do some serious research and then decided I was right. She was also wise enough to know it was a pointless exercise to try and bully someone in to pretending to believe something they don't. Our relationship is all the better for religion being out of our lives and we are fast approaching our Pearl wedding anniversary.

It's all for the money 💰?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

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

CHAGRIN.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 27, 2020:

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

If Trump was the captain of the Titantic. LOL>

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 26, 2020:

Missed out the bit where he claimed the iceberg was his very good friend and he had no reason to disbelieve it when it said it had nothing against ships.

Melania in her Soviet style and Putin approved uniform for her RNC speech.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 26, 2020:

odd how dictators like to put their trophy wives in uniform

Aroint verb (imperative) Obsolete. Begone: Aroint thee, varlet!

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 26, 2020:

I feel this must be connected to exeunt an archaic theater direction for people to leave the stage

I have a suggestion.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Excellent suggestion

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

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Well there go ten minutes I'll never get back

por·tend /pôrˈtend/ verb be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

A nicely ominous mystical word GLOUCESTER These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects. King Lear: Act 1, Scene 2

If 2020 was a drink...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Alcohol free light beer A weak, disappointing, fraudulent bilge water of no discernible use to anyone.

what do you think people?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Yesterday I was happy unaware of my cage Today I can see the bars And I am no longer happy I am angry. Graham Masterton "Ikon" (1983)

AMELIORATE.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 25, 2020:

Nice word

Muslim ICE detainees forced to choose between expired meals or eating pork - CNNPolitics

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Another case of religious people not knowing their own scriptures. According to the Quran in times of captivity, crisis, starvation or disease it is perfectly permissible to eat pork if forced or left with no other choice than to do so. However that aside, all Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Egg, and Dairy are Halal, so they need not eat the proffered pork or spoiled Halah meat but can switch to a vegetarian diet for as long as needs be. Growing up my best friend was a Muslim and to be honest he, his father, and his five brothers never missed a chance to say they had no choice but to eat a bacon sandwich given the opportunity.

Best People Cell!!!!!!

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Steve Bannon AKA The incredible Sulk

How I Fall Asleep!!!!

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

No shortage of them and the number keeps on going up.

Look at these beautiful kaleidoscope patterns.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Funny in't it how the nice and the beautiful and helpful bits of life are miracles of Gawd, but ugly and dangerous thing and happening are nothing to do with "Him" and are surely happenstance, coincidence or just darn bad luck.

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

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

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

Since God gives life, he can take life.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

My usual response is "By that logic anyone can kill their own kids and has a perfect right to do so."

what do you think people?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

A few years ago I would have despised this sentiment, but between 2016 and now my attitude has changed and yes, I can see where this guy is coming from. **"You're born, you keep your head down, then you die, if you're lucky!"** *Edward Elizabeth Hitler* 1991

Another Question on Nietzsche

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

'Master morality' is the moral code practiced by The Übermensch. This means basing you moral code on your duty to contribute to the greater good of society by practicing a greater degree of individuality, leadership or supervisory skills such as planning, teaching, training, creating and innovating. "Slave morality" is seeing a greater value in conformity, contributing, cooperation and contributing to the greater good of society by serving as a part of a greater whole and taking pride in the achievement of the group rather than personal glory. An example is perhaps seen on a building site when the architect provides the pattern, the site project manager coordinates the the various skill sets and acquisition of raw material and so forth all showing "master morality" while the work force cooperating with one another, integrating their skill to produce a single or multiple tangible results as a joint effort are practicing "slave morality" Looked at in modern anthropological circumstances some have speculated that Master Morality is seen more in those with higher levels of Neanderthal DNA in their make up and slave morality is a feature of those with predominantly cro magnon ancestry. The two types complimenting one another for success sociologically.

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

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

The Ubermensch as described by Nietzsche was not the Superman of today or the Perfect Aryan of Hitler's vision. The Nearest version in literature was the Pulp adventuring character Clarke "Doc" Savage. The Ubermensch is the person who has achieved their full potential as a human being, one who lives on an optimised scale, educated to the highest degree they are capable of, as fit as their physically allows, with a mind unhindered by social or religious programming, but driven by logic and reason, tempered by compassion. The Ubermensch therefore is not a thing it is an ideal to be striven for, and that those that who get closest to that ideal should be the natural leader of those happier and more productive in the environment of "the herd"

What were Friedrich Nietzsche's views on politics?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Nietzsche was fairly apolitical, however his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche was a raving fascist. It was her who allowed the Nazi's access to all of Nietzsche's unpublished work after his death, and personally presented them to Hitler. Thus allowing the corruption of his work and misrepresenting him as a pro-nationalist fascist for a time.

Kellyann Conway leaves the white house, husband leaves the Lincoln project, daughter wants to be ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Wow, there has got to be a sit-com in that.

WONGA.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

Even commonplace words for money have interesting back stories for example Salary actually means "money for salt" and dates back to ancient Rome, where salt licks were needed for health. So originally your salary was money paid in addition to your wages, hence "worth his Salt"

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

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 24, 2020:

A good example of the hypocrisy of the the 19th century clergy, an apparently "faith promoting" poem warning of the dangers of damnation awaiting the "profane" that however is filled with mysticism, Greek and Egyptian mythology and contemporary gnosticism/Theosophy so popular and powerful at the time.

Would you like us to have an Agnostic online magazine?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

I would be interested in contributing

The story goes that one evening, Jesus and his groupies find themselves on the eastern side of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

"The question is: why do people do this?" Because everyone living a work-a-day normal boring hand to mouth existence wants to believe that one morning they are going to wake up to find they have become Spider man, Superman, Jesus or have won the lottery. Which means you get hoards of adoring fans, sex and cash on demand and the ability to stuff your boss in the local garderobe. The easy way is always appealing if all you have to do is buy a ticket, have faith or find a radioactive spider. It is wishful thinking and the power of the hero story.

Don't forget if you don't sin Jesus died for nothing.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

"When you go to confession don't offer God small sins, offer him sins **worth** forgiving!" Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin

California judge orders trump to pay legal fees of Stormy Daniels!! Woohoo!! [cnn.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

I love this, only Trump would argue that he should not pay her legal fees because he had "Forgotten" to sign Ms Daniel's NDA, thus invalidating it and allowing this whole mess to reach the courts. If ignorance of the law is no defense, does he really think he can have stupidity in the face of the law work instead?

[forbes.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

Agree, it was an obviously stupid idea to remove them. It is like telling a race car driver, **"You're not fired, but we've taken away your car, but you can have a skateboard, if you buy your own skateboard, but we still expect speeds in excess of 250 mph. Now get too it."**

Beautiful poetry...Lord Byron

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

*O Cloacina, Goddess of this place, Look on thy suppliants with a smiling face. Soft, yet cohesive let their offerings flow, Not rashly swift nor insolently slow.* Lord Byron, 1816. Written upon the wall of a public toilet in the Hotel Grande Bretagne on the Grand Canal Venice

Members of this community...do you agree?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

No We ***are*** all human and *should* treat each other as such Despite divisive social constructs such as race, religion, politics, wealth and class trying to fool us in believing otherwise by promises of privileged superiority.

Read this post in another format.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 23, 2020:

"Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself." Confucius 500 BCE

Does anyone really care that there is no afterlife?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Lots of people care, I care because I sincerely hope there is no afterlife, because the whole idea of never ending aware existence is a fucking nightmare. If It turns out I am wrong and there is an afterlife, I will spend it trying to find a way to commit suicide.

Question for you all concerning the terms atheist and agnostic.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

I have had this discussion so many times I am sick of it. I no longer care what people call themselves, if they will explain to me what they mean by the title they use I can tie that definition up to the word I use and think of them as that and assign an level of respect accordingly. Words and there definitions sadly no longer seem to matter to people, the English language maybe in the toilet, but I refuse to swim in the sewer trying to turn a pile of shit back in to three course meal.

A favorite quote of mine from Hitchen's and Fry's savage gutting of the Catholic Church: "How can ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

It is easy to claim moral superiority, when you also personally claim the right to define and personify morality.

One for @Charlene?

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

not unusual, history abounds with stories of female warrior who fought alongside the men.

A Catholic Mother Asked If Punishing Her Atheist Son With No Internet Was Fair | Hemant Mehta | ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

If I were the son, I would go to church, fart loudly at every opportunity, laugh raucously at every biblical or sermon nonsenses, and scream "cannibalism!!" during the eucharist. See if Mommy insisted I go again next week.

Been meaning to bring this up for some time now.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

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

So when I was a kid and forced to go the mormon church by my parents they were always telling the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 22, 2020:

Mormon big fish stories are so full of shit. "the only place he was burned is where his magic underwear didn't cover." so basically everywhere important then?

I'm working on a case for demonstrating that all morality is ultimately subjective.

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2020:

The vast majority of religious people, do not gain their moral objectivity from their religion, they simply ascribe it to their religion. Most have never read their holy books and know nothing about what is actually written in them. If you tell a Christian the bible contains advocation for slavery, misogyny, murder, child beating etc, they will say "Well not that bit obviously, just the good bits." But what are the good bits? The bits they agree with. Meaning ultimately Christians like everyone else are the ultimate arbiters of their own moral codes, only they have abnegated themselves from the responsibility of the same.

In fairness, if a society accepts religion, it should accept any organization that warps a child's ...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2020:

In fairness society needs to understand that it's fairy tales and its religions are far more alike than they are different.

Stay single. Until...

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2020:

Only commit to marriage or such like when you are sure that above all else, your partner is your trusted best friend

For members who have received their Agnostic .

LenHazell53 comments on Aug 21, 2020:

Got mine in the UK within a week, normal postal service