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LenHazell53 comments on May 27, 2018:

"how many religious organisations have been using the charities act to regroup organisations registered under other acts such as the Corporations Act to avoid investigation and then slip from charity scrutiny into something else to stay one step in front of the law". All of them

LenHazell53 replies on May 27, 2018:

@FrayedBear Yup my late mum was a paramilitary tambourine bashing, Sunday morning wrecking, warcry selling, Salvation army, godbotherer par excellence.

Ever notice how Christians are always crying persecution, but are the main ones damning people to ...

Gwendolyn2018 comments on May 26, 2018:

Not all Christians are doing this. I have no love of Christianity, but to blanketly label all people in any group as doing one thing or another is a fallacy.

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

Not all Christians do, but technically those that don't are heretics and according to the bible should be killed. In short most Christians don't practice Christianity

Spot the false prophet

Theskeptic comments on May 26, 2018:

I vote for number one! ?

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

Trick question they are both dishonest lying bastards

Does anyone believe in aliens?

Slappy_Longarms comments on May 25, 2018:

I accept the possibility there may be life forms on other planets. I do not think ET was involved in our evolution.

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

:)

Does anyone believe in aliens?

Slappy_Longarms comments on May 25, 2018:

I accept the possibility there may be life forms on other planets. I do not think ET was involved in our evolution.

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

Makes for a good story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)

They never got their hooks in me but half of my immediate family succumbed.

Happyatheist comments on May 25, 2018:

Have you succeeded in rescuing any family members-- or otherwise-- from the FLDS? IMHO they're even worse than the LDS, who at least live in the free world and have the option of leaving.

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

Main stream LDS are more subtle that's all, and while not officially shunning you they will they will endeavour to make your life miserable and to isolate you from family, label you as a vexatious person, encourage a still active spouse to leave you and marry a worthy LDS person so as to facilitate going to the CK.

How do we end misogyny?

MattHardy comments on May 26, 2018:

One prick at a time

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

ha ha

Even this is child abuse. Makes me sick. [facebook.com]

Sapiophile comments on May 26, 2018:

He was kind and loving to the little boy. That matters, in my humble opinion.

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

@LetzGetReal If he was not a f*cking hypocrite he would have stood by what his church actually teaches and told the truth. Mark 3:28-30: "Truly I tell you, all sins and blasphemes will be forgiven for the sons of men. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin." I like all atheists am guilty of this, old spooky don't exist y'all.

They never got their hooks in me but half of my immediate family succumbed.

NancyW comments on May 19, 2018:

They got their hooks in me around age 21. It took me 10 years to get out and even longer to get over it.

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

@Happyatheist "Thanks, but no thanks" Freaks them out, that one. I had one guy scream at me "Well you can't stop me!"

Are you a friendly or unfriendly, atheist or theist?

LenHazell53 comments on May 25, 2018:

"The believer may not be in possession of all of the relevant information. The believer may be basing her conclusion on a false premise or premises." In a free society with unrestricted access to accurate information no one has the right to blame their ignorance on anything but the desire to be ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay Hence the qualifier at the start of my assertion.

So many great lines....

LenHazell53 comments on May 25, 2018:

....several large yellow somethings, that hung in the air in exactly the same way bricks don't.

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

@RavenCT Prepare the poetry appreciation chair "Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

Welcome new members

Theskeptic comments on May 25, 2018:

Hello, just a curious old soldier. My daughter was married to a LDS until he wanted to poly with her, then she divorced him! ?

LenHazell53 replies on May 26, 2018:

Old school. Was he FLDS, RLDS or Utah Lds or one of the smaller ringe groups?

Apologetics Students Call in for Extra Credit | Josh and Jax - Colorado | Atheist Experience 22.

DarrelScott comments on May 25, 2018:

Video must have been deleted

LenHazell53 replies on May 25, 2018:

I can see it

A friend of mine, Hugh Gallagher, published a one-shot tribute to Mad magazine called Mean magazine.

Palacinky comments on May 24, 2018:

Heeee-larious... see, them womens love their shoes so much that, even though her friend is going through a double amputation, this clueless gal just cares about her own shoe collection! Got it? Something you, the LOLing observer, never would do. Is there any way to block the entire Silly, Random...

LenHazell53 replies on May 24, 2018:

:)

Any funny or creepy stories re Alexa or Google interactive devices?

Hitchens comments on May 24, 2018:

??? You shouldn't need reminding for that, there is too much reliance on technology!!

LenHazell53 replies on May 24, 2018:

When the machine tells you that come the revolution you will be first up against the wall, it might be time to start worrying about that

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it is egotistical for people who believe in God(s) to think...

nicknotes comments on May 24, 2018:

Man is in the image of God.... Look here if you were inventing a God wouldn't you make him look like you?

LenHazell53 replies on May 24, 2018:

“God created man in his own image, and man, being a gentleman, returned the compliment.” Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Do you believe that all non-believers will go to hell?

DPWAZ comments on May 24, 2018:

We're already in hell :)

LenHazell53 replies on May 24, 2018:

Gnostics would say so

When is no evidence, evidence?

LenHazell53 comments on May 22, 2018:

The burden of proof always rests on the person claiming the presence and existence of a person, thing, phenomena or concept. I don't need to prove phlogiston does not exist, since no evidence can be provided to indicate that it does, the insistence that its intangibility, invisibility, ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 24, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay Your problem is that you seem to be labouring under the falsehood that simply denying a proposition constitutes a counter proposition and this shifts the burden of proof. That is simply not the case. If it is proposed that X exists, the proponent should be able to provide evidence of the existence of X Replying that I see no evidence of the existence of X and therefore cannot concur, does not amount to a counter proposal. The burden of proof therefore remains with the original proponent. On your drug example, the burden of proof is on the accuser, the accused is presumed innocent til proven guilty. This is page one philosophical analysis and law, and I am prepared to waste no more time on this.

When is no evidence, evidence?

LenHazell53 comments on May 22, 2018:

The burden of proof always rests on the person claiming the presence and existence of a person, thing, phenomena or concept. I don't need to prove phlogiston does not exist, since no evidence can be provided to indicate that it does, the insistence that its intangibility, invisibility, ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 23, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay saying you are drug free is, if true, a statement not a claim, and it is not a negative statement it it is a positive statement I AM drug free, I think you are equivocating now.

When is no evidence, evidence?

LenHazell53 comments on May 22, 2018:

The burden of proof always rests on the person claiming the presence and existence of a person, thing, phenomena or concept. I don't need to prove phlogiston does not exist, since no evidence can be provided to indicate that it does, the insistence that its intangibility, invisibility, ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 23, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay So why do we assume insanity as the most likely cause of some one claiming he has an invisible and undetectable hedgehog called Mr Pigglepog, following him about? Do we really need to prove Mr Pigglepog does not exists, other than as a delusion, a fantasy? It is not necessary to prove the none existence of anything when there is no evidence at all that such a thing does exist. In such a case the default position is the assumption that it is highly unlikely that said thing does exist and so can be assumed not to, until proven otherwise. Again the burden of proof lies with the claimant of existence. To do other wise is to invite chaos and a world where the most time consuming activity of all science is to continually prove there are no unicorns, hobgoblins, hipporhinostracows, and anything else anyone can dream up on a whim.

When is no evidence, evidence?

LenHazell53 comments on May 22, 2018:

The burden of proof always rests on the person claiming the presence and existence of a person, thing, phenomena or concept. I don't need to prove phlogiston does not exist, since no evidence can be provided to indicate that it does, the insistence that its intangibility, invisibility, ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 23, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay Michelson and Morley did not set out prove it did not exist, they employed the scientific method to test the hypothesis to see if it could be falsified. This is not shifting the burden of proof it is testing.

Why it's important to be anti-theist and not passively agnostic or atheist.

LenHazell53 comments on May 22, 2018:

His parents need to be prosecuted for child endangerment, exploitation and mental cruelty. I was shocked when I first saw this years ago and still am made nauseous by it today.

LenHazell53 replies on May 23, 2018:

@MsDemeanour There is a BIG difference between training a child to regurgitate your beliefs without explaining their meaning and then exploiting that for personal profit, teaching your child to think for themselves and make their own choices.

I've obviously been living under a rock but I've only just discovered that Hugh Laurie who played ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 22, 2018:

Fry and Laurie are one of my favourite modern double acts.

LenHazell53 replies on May 22, 2018:

Try watching "Peter's Friends" (1992) featuring the two of them, a terrific film.

Looking for some help on this one.

LenHazell53 comments on May 22, 2018:

Personally I believe the problem comes from generation after generation of people brought up to believe they are more and more "entitled" with each successive iteration. Entitled to have (and to be given) Entitled to wants (as opposed over needs) Entitled to greed (and not to be criticized for ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 22, 2018:

@UUNJ true, but 4% of mass shooting is the average for female perpetrators of mass shooting, there are no statistics for women participating non actively that is to say initiating or instigating or encouraging, less intelligent men to "prove themselves real men". Elsewhere in the world female shooters and terrorist , especially in the 1970s at the height of the female emancipation movement, were much more common. Large numbers of the Red Brigade, Baader Meinhof, Black September, the Weathermen and up to date Modern Islamist groups all had large and very active female contingents and even founders. During world war 2 many resistance cells were solely run by women. This was because, I feel many women felt oppressed, without a clearly defined role in a modern world and so adopted the only role model they had, that of the warrior male. They fought back on the men's own ground, with their own weapons. Today I believe the current trend for such acts being greatly the province of men, is that American men, especially young men are the group feeling threatened and oppressed, without a place in the world that is clearly defined for them and they are striking back in the only way they know how, the supposedly oppressed lashing against the source of their pain. This is not "Toxic" masculinity, it is frightened and confused masculinity, that is on the one hand being told to soften (by women and SJWs) and on the other to toughen up (by older men and the sort of women publically demanding "real men" as mates), a no win situation for those without the educational equipment to deal with such turmoil, or the maturity to be themselves. However, all that aside. if anything your point does add weight to my proposal that as the most "self entitled" group in US society are white men, brought up and encouraged to prove themselves superior, by previous generations to whom might makes right was a doctrine are the main perpetrators because of the ideology of entitled youth, not in spite of it.

To save the world requires.

VAL3941 comments on May 19, 2018:

We now know we can leave faith out of the equation ?

LenHazell53 replies on May 21, 2018:

Faith used as a proper noun, is something unique to religion, evolved linguistically, specifically for use in religion and ideology. Religious or ideological Faith, is to be accepted as belief without reason or evidence and is ideologically indicated honestly by capitalisation of the initial F as it is in use a Proper Noun not a simple noun. This is comparable to "faith" the colloquial noun meaning trust or fidelity which is the more common usage. Confusing the two is a recipe for confusion and contention. Since first and foremost Russell was a linguist he knew this and knew what he was saying.

To save the world requires.

NotConvinced comments on May 19, 2018:

Nothing good requires faith...

LenHazell53 replies on May 21, 2018:

Russell never used a word without thought, and in this case and at the time of writing he was not using faith in it's religious context but in its original uncorrupted meaning as a simile for trust.

What are your views on meaningless sex?

Anonbene comments on May 21, 2018:

Oh please. What a bunch of nonsense in this thread. Conveniently ignoring your use of masturbation dildos and vibrators. Everyone likes meaningless sex. Some of you have to rely on it. All sex is beneficial.

LenHazell53 replies on May 21, 2018:

@Ellatynemouth "Self Rape" according to some sects ;)

Hitchslap we miss you Hitch

LenHazell53 comments on May 19, 2018:

Of course if he had lived a few more years he would probably now have been arrested for hate speech, for saying just that.

LenHazell53 replies on May 21, 2018:

@JustinShaw That's the point really, but the way hate speech laws stand in the UK at the moment if anyone finds anything you say or do, regardless of intent and context, offensive, then it is offensive. Free speech in the UK is dead.

During slavery, whites used Christianity to force slaves to accept their situation.

Bierbasstard comments on May 20, 2018:

Most are not informed as to where their religion came from. I have gotten so many excuses from aplogists. One even went as far to explain that jesus was Ethiopian therefore xianity began with black people. (Honestly I dislike using "colors" to describe humans). I posted this pic before but it ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

@Jessipoo Like how white women have claimed the standard of beauty and black women are made to feel as though their hair is "unprofessional" Well if it any consolation in the UK some of the most widely acknowledged most beautiful celebrities are not white women, and they don't have to emulate white ideals of attractiveness, they don't need to they are gorgeous. On the subject of hair, I was born with very curly hair and have been through all the nonsense a lot of black people like to claim is unique to them, people patting my head uninvited and cooing that it is like a sheep, being called a golliwog etc, people are idiots, its true unfortunately, but bare in mind how many idiots telling you a black woman's hair is "unprofessional" will pay a fortune to have their own hair "acid" permed and dyed black, envious much maybe? Also if it is any consolation I agree with almost everything you say, especially about Police and president cheeto. Christianity and to some extent the other Abrahamic religions are control mechanisms, encouraging oppression by common consent. We here have been wise enough to see that, have broken away and our kids and grandkids will probably put the nail in the coffin of organised religion. I won't live to see it, but you likely will, :)

During slavery, whites used Christianity to force slaves to accept their situation.

LenHazell53 comments on May 20, 2018:

This is not new, even in Rome, Constantine made Christianity the official religion of th the empire because of it's obvious pro slavery stance. Suffer now, be rewarded in heaven. The Egyptians enslaved Jews for exactly the same reason, they saw it as their lot to suffer.

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

@Jessipoo You will not find me disagreeing

Make Love Not Porn

Deveno comments on May 6, 2018:

Not gonna lie, I watch porn. Most of it kind of disappoint me, though. For one, it's too...prosaic. You can only see so many penises and vaginas before you realize they're not that special. For another, it's too fast and frenetic. Three counter-examples come to mind, however (two of them might ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

The hysterical literature series was probably the most original porn idea in years, I really liked them. The Beautiful Agony (from the French expression for female Orgasm, yes I know the French are weird, they also call an orgasm the little death) series is pretty good to, no nudity, no dialogue simply using sound and facial expression to convey the slow and sensual build up to a joyful orgasm.

Would you rather see a movie turned into a book or a book turn into a movie?

CuriousCreature comments on May 20, 2018:

Book into a movie. Then I can bitch about how much it didn't follow the book,lol. Actually, I've become much better about that.

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

The best adaptation I have ever come across was the 1968 adaptation of the Ira Levin novel Rosemary's Baby, the dialogue is word for word and the plot follows the book exactly. Polanski loved the book and when Levin refused to write the screenplay, just admitted he had the book transcribed in to a script word for word. Personally I think it was because there is a character in the novel called Roman and Polanski liked not being the only one.

Would you rather see a movie turned into a book or a book turn into a movie?

Charlene comments on May 20, 2018:

I'd love a book about a book that became a moviebook.

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

Well, Little shop of Horrors, started out as a bet to write and make a movie in 7 days, became a stage play, that became a stage musical, that became a musical film and went back to being a sell out west end stage musical that was then filmed and streamed as a live performance. I dare say sooner or later someone might write a book about it.

Atheists are good or bad persons?

ErebusVincent comments on May 10, 2018:

I've never raped or enslaved anyone (two actions the bibel seems just fine with,) so I am damn confident that I am a good person. In the United States, studies have shown that evangelicals are the most immoral group of Americans.

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

There is no such thing as prosperity atheism, other than the money you save on tithing

Atheists are good or bad persons?

GeorgeRocheleau comments on May 12, 2018:

While there are good and bad atheists and good and bad Christians, I tend to trust atheists more.

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

Well they don't take advice from the voices in their own heads for a start, that has got to a point in their favour when considering how much you want to trust them.

It says on the internet that 2/3rds of us (brits- I suppose) were not interested in the royal ...

weldingguy comments on May 20, 2018:

Seemed like a tremendous waste of money and government resources.

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

the TV rights for the rest of the world will have paid for most of it.

What's it all about?

sassygirl3869 comments on May 20, 2018:

Can u be more specific?

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

A Killer clown in Derry maine called Pennywise

As a non-believer, what are your feelings on the Satanic church?

Paul_Clamberer comments on May 20, 2018:

Could Satanism exist without Christianity? If not, isn't it a just branch of Christianity. After all, Christians and Satanists both worship beings from the same Pantheon. Just wonderin'.

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

Actually most popular images of Satan predate Christianity by hundreds of years. Below is the earliest ever known depiction of the devil in christian iconography (in the church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna), and he is the one in blue, Jesus is in red and the purple guy (a mix of the two) is God The common image of the devil is lifted from the Pagan Horned god Cernunnos/Herne Lord of the Forest and known as the resurrected God, the trident comes from Neptune god of the sea (The fisher of men) and the hooves from The god Pan, also known as the Good shepherd.

Leave it to the government to take a fun activity like a clusterfuck and turn it into something ...

FrayedBear comments on May 19, 2018:

Please what's a fustercluck?

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

here you go

An interesting algorithm

Heraclitus comments on May 19, 2018:

Thanks for sharing this. Older Mormons have told me that the semi-deification of Joseph Smith is a relatively recent phenomenon. When they were growing up JS was talked about as a more failable human being and it was only gradually that it got to the point that you didn't dare say anything even ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 20, 2018:

I realised I had used the wrong term about an hour after I posted it, but I was in bed then. Thanks for pointing it out ;) I can only go as far back as the 70's but in my stake JS was always looked upon with awe and my (then to be) wife did go and complain to the stake president that jesus was being pushed in to second place by Holy Joe. We had a member in our stake (stake mission president) who was in his 80s then and had been a member since the 20's, he complained a lot that the church had been changing for the worse for decades, that admin had taken over from passion and that the Americanism were pushing out what it meant to be a UK Mormon. But he kept his mouth shut figuring he was too old to keep fighting. That generation is long since gone, and when I was on the "Lost sheep" programme I met endless older people who had left the church or gone inactive simply because of as you say the apotheosis of Joe S.

Hitchslap we miss you Hitch

GoldenDoll comments on May 19, 2018:

Marvellous. How is it possible that his brother is such a pompous dick?

LenHazell53 replies on May 19, 2018:

I have often thought that, to me Peter Hitchen is an insult to his brothers memory. did you ever see the debate they had? spoiler Chris wiped the floor with the smug git.

They never got their hooks in me but half of my immediate family succumbed.

NancyW comments on May 19, 2018:

They got their hooks in me around age 21. It took me 10 years to get out and even longer to get over it.

LenHazell53 replies on May 19, 2018:

I was 14 when they first roped me in, street preaching. By the time I left they had been told to stop recruiting kids, at least in the UK.

Christians on this website

LenHazell53 comments on Apr 26, 2018:

It is an actual missionary practice for Mormons to join sites like this and attempt to proselytise but also and more disturbingly to find doubting Mormons and report them to their local stake.

LenHazell53 replies on May 19, 2018:

@BettyColeman Believe me I do enjoy my life, a lot more since I stopped allowing imaginary gods, priests and preachers to stop trying to bully me. I bully no one anymore, I did when I was a Christian, I am ashamed to say I actually believed and told strangers they deserved to burn forever in eternal punishment just because they did not agree with my beliefs. I have seen families destroyed, people driven to suicide and unimaginable horror done in the name of the "loving God" of the Bible, and I do not think it is bullying, or even unfair of me to tell others there is a better more joyful moral way to live than subjecting yourself to the monstrosities of the foul scam that is religion. In this I am happy to say I have not wasted a moment of my post religious life, especially not on a Sunday morning.

Hi! Does anyone have funny stories to share?

JeffMesser comments on May 19, 2018:

I have a joke that I stole ... What did the orphan asthmatic double-amputee get for Christmas? Cancer.

LenHazell53 replies on May 19, 2018:

I love jokes like that. Why did the octopus fall out of the lemon tree? Because I shot it! What is green, got four legs and wears a tartan scarf? Rupert the snooker table Why did the psychopathic hedgehog cross the road? Because It had nailed itself to the chicken!

If you have not read it yet, give it a go [cesletter.org]

NancyW comments on May 19, 2018:

Glad to see an exmo group on the site. The CES letter is a great place to start.

LenHazell53 replies on May 19, 2018:

Welcome, tell your friends ;)

Hey There Fellow Aggies! I’m proud to say that after 33 years as an active member of the Church...

BSquared comments on May 17, 2018:

My girlfriend is a passionate believer in the LDS church. I am nonreligious and have no desire to become a religious person I am very happy in my life and thinking. The more I know about this religion the more isolationist and repressive I see it to be. I am a sociologist by training and have ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 18, 2018:

Be prepared if your relationship gets more serious to face a lot of pressures, to join up or let her go, mormon women cannot get in to heaven if they are not married to a worthy priesthood holder, who can take them through temple ordinances and be sealed eternally in the temple. You can't do any of this because you are profane and unworthy, also even if you do convert, and she wants a temple wedding, your family will have to wait outside, because they cannot profane the temple with their unworthy presence at your own wedding. They are a bunch of sick evil puppies, better to try and get her to out too, if you want logical ammunition, read the CES Letter written by an ex mormon Bishop, who demanded answers from the Church Educational section and got bugger all. It lists several MAJOR problems with church doctrine and history, and has already forced the LDS to address some of them (badly) and has been responsible for about a half million apostasies since publication. Or message me, I'll gladly help furnish information and web sites to help another poor dupe out of the SCC (so called church) https://cesletter.org/

What YouTube channel is great to binge?

LuckyCharms comments on May 18, 2018:

John Oliver

LenHazell53 replies on May 18, 2018:

Trevor Noah is good too

Dirty jesus

NicoleCadmium comments on May 18, 2018:

Also...

LenHazell53 replies on May 18, 2018:

Brilliant

Let's say "God" does exist.

Gwendolyn2018 comments on May 17, 2018:

I think that, perhaps, you need to explore polytheistic religions. The first religions had goddesses: Egyptian, Sumerian, Hindu, and later, Greek, Roman, and Celtic myth had many images of the feminine divine, as did cultures all over the world. Even Judaism has "Elohim," which is feminine and...

LenHazell53 replies on May 17, 2018:

You beat me to it, we must have been typing at the same time :)

I believe in energy which can neither be created nor be destroyed and that’s how the universe ...

bigpawbullets comments on May 14, 2018:

So, can pure energy be sentient?

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

@Jenmcjen True matter is energy in potentia, hence e=mc2 expresses the total amount of potential energy capable of being release from any given quantity of matter.

Who is your favorite Atheist?

Stealthbeard comments on May 16, 2018:

48 comments and I haven't seen any mention of Terry Pratchet. Please please let me know someone else here agrees with my suggestion. I was reading his work long before I became an atheist. He was one of the greatest influences in my adolescence. Without his writing making me laugh, think & cry I ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

@Stealthbeard I think after the publication of "Why I am not a Christian" he became the trail blazer for the high profile atheist who came after him, but it was "A history of western Philosophy" that set me on my life path and gave me a role model follow. Cheers

@Admin a few photos for all Senators to ponder on to use to promote the presence of agnostic.

LenHazell53 comments on May 16, 2018:

All well and good, but where is the subpoena for the evil swine who covered for so many child molesters for so many years

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

@FrayedBear Oh Utah then?

Hi everyone.

LenHazell53 comments on May 16, 2018:

God idea

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

@FrayedBear Typo lol

Bible Facts

Unfoldingchaos comments on May 16, 2018:

I lost it at "iron chariots".

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

It's true, it's all true I tells ya

I'm the bad man in the group I see being Agnostic as neither believing nor disbelieving there is/are...

Kafirah comments on May 16, 2018:

Schrodinger's agnostic.

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

lol brilliant

What's occurring?

LenHazell53 comments on May 15, 2018:

Oh nothing much, just world war three like as not to break out on three fronts imminently, the wholesales emasculation of the western male by third wave feminist extremists, Belgium about to become a Muslim country, London is imploding and my dog has the farts. Other than that things are pretty ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

@numanrace "I never thought I was making a documentary,” "idiocracy" screenwriter Etan Cohen

Who is your favorite Atheist?

Stealthbeard comments on May 16, 2018:

48 comments and I haven't seen any mention of Terry Pratchet. Please please let me know someone else here agrees with my suggestion. I was reading his work long before I became an atheist. He was one of the greatest influences in my adolescence. Without his writing making me laugh, think & cry I ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 16, 2018:

Love Pratchett, but primarily he comes to mind as a satirist and humourist, his atheism though a facet is not my primary memory of the great man.

I've always been supportive of LGBTQ rights, and I've always been very open about it.

Omen6Actual comments on May 14, 2018:

"god's love." "Hate the sin but love the sinner." I hate those fucking retards.

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

Bravo ;)

I've always been supportive of LGBTQ rights, and I've always been very open about it.

Rugglesby comments on May 14, 2018:

My ex wife is the same as your friend's mother, my daughter is gay and getting married next year. You can guess how things have gone down in recent years. Of course, me being the atheist obviously caused my daughter to be gay according to my ex and all her friends and family. My daughter is ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

I empathise, my niece is gay and engaged to be married, her family have utterly rejected her, so my wife and I are now the closest family she has. They now hate us as much as they hate hr for "enabling" her, which is frankly BS. I have no time for this need to feel superior to others by allowing festering hate for a triviality to become an all consuming negative passion. Life is too short for negative shit like this to be important.

I've always been supportive of LGBTQ rights, and I've always been very open about it.

SLBushway comments on May 15, 2018:

I'm going to be honest here - I don't understand bisexuality and while I'm not going to get into the reasons why - I do have this other view and that is - it's none of my damn business - it's not my place to judge and it's not my place to offer an opinion either way and I carry that into the voting ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

Nice, and you are right, but in a world where the generations that had one to hide who they were for fear of litigation and imprisonment for being in love with the wrong person still live, so "coming out" to many is still a rite of passage. It won't be in a few years, and people will look back and wonder why all the fuss, but for now demanding normalisation by exposure is a still necessary. As for understanding someone else's sexuality, why bother, acceptance is needed understanding is not. A person can love a girlfriend and a boyfriend, and so long as the relationship is non abusive, who cares? Yes there will be bad relationships in any mix of genders, some people people are just arseholes, gay, straight, bi, whatever, but lots are not and so sharing the love is surely a good thing, especially in this hate filled mad world we are surviving in at the moment. Cheers. :)

I believe in energy which can neither be created nor be destroyed and that’s how the universe ...

bigpawbullets comments on May 14, 2018:

So, can pure energy be sentient?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

I doubt it, life tends to be comprised of both energy and matter, a being made of purely either one or the other is unlikely, however since on earth most life sentient or otherwise is matter with an energy component enabling it, in a different environment a sentient being comprised primarily of energy with a matter component enabling it, is highly probable. Neither however necessarily connote an after life or eternal being, matter and energy cannot be destroyed but can be converted in for one to the other or alternate forms of the themselves, everything in flux at al times.

I believe in energy which can neither be created nor be destroyed and that’s how the universe ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 14, 2018:

Evolution has nothing to do with energy, it an explanation for biodiversity. I believe you maybe talking about ‘Creatio Ex Nihilo' and/or abiogenesis

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

@Agr8m8 Of course everything requires and stems from energy, but once are have passed the point of primary energy splitting into energy forms, potential and active, and matter, using that as your basis, don't you think, is a trifle pedantic and rank equivocation by reductionism? By that logic, everything can be reduced to speculative quantum theory, without accounting for cumulative effects or the context of differing fields of study at the macro-level?

I am keenly interested in discussing the, "Social Brain Hypothesis," by British zoologist, Robin ...

LenHazell53 comments on May 14, 2018:

I personally have fondness for the aquatic ape theory as an explanation for the evolution of both the human brain structure and the reasons behind hominid social cohesion. Though largely dismissed, a few others and I, still find it a satisfying explanation by reason of diet and the ingestion of ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

@mudhen here you go https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aquatic-Ape-Hypothesis-Credible-Evolution/dp/0285635182/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8=1526373742&sr=1-1=Elaine+Morgan

The "Birth" Of Jesus.

nicknotes comments on May 14, 2018:

One of the most ridiculous Christmas stories is found at Luke Chapter 2. 1And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 3And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. In order to understand the scope of this ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

@Coldo It was and is also at the bottom of a valley, not on a cliff edge as stated in the gospel of Luke 4:29

The "Birth" Of Jesus.

Novelty comments on May 14, 2018:

This meme is a failure in the history department. Not because it says Jesus never lived, I tend to agree with that, it's just all wrong from there on. Jesus was initially a Jewish creation, not Roman and we know Christians were around a couple of centuries before the 1st council of Nicea. Why ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

@Coldo Excellent point Paul, a Greek speaking, Jewish, entrepreneur popularized the use of the Title Jesus in its modern form simply because pronounced E-seus it was easy to fudge it in to με Ζεύς (*Mezeus* literally "By Zeus" as in fathered by Zeus) in order to sell his brand of religion to the Greek speaking world and especially Greece itself.

Do you celebrate Christmas? Why or why not?

LenHazell53 comments on May 14, 2018:

@moNOtheist By the way according to the old testament ( Jeremiah 10:1-5) If you bring a decorated tree in to your house at the winter solstice YOU GOIN' TO HELL SINNER! But then again what doesn't send you to hell in that book of filthy crap?

LenHazell53 replies on May 15, 2018:

@crazycurlz It was a joke. And yes in my household growing up reading the bible OT and NT every night was mandatory. So yes I have read the bible more times than I care to remember.

Please share your most laughable experiences of things Christians have seriously told you are ...

SpikeTalon comments on May 14, 2018:

Magic The Gathering card game. Some looney tune once told me I was going to hell because that card game promoted satanic images.

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

The Mormons say the same thing about ordinary playing cards and D&D

Here are 5 representations of God and yes, one of those representations is God as a woman, extra ...

Heraclitus comments on May 14, 2018:

I'll have to go with Marianne Faithful in Absolutely Fabulous.

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

Yup she played it twice in the episodes Donkey and The last shout (parts 1 and 2)

This is me.

LenHazell53 comments on May 14, 2018:

Never try to be someone else, find your own voice, not a pale imitation.

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

@ProudMerry Maybe not, but maybe sometimes it is better, it is what we as writers, musicians artists and creators strive for, to learn how best to get the feelings inside out, so they can be shared with others.

Religion In Politics And Constitutional Issues. Do they gel?

AncientNight comments on May 13, 2018:

Here, in the USA, we have Separation of Church and State in our Constitution. In that same Constitution, we have a Bill of Rights that says we, also, have Freedom of Religion. I believe that implies Freedom FROM Religion, too. As far as I've been able to find, there's only one christian nation in ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

@AncientNight totally agree, any system that explicitly forbids the progress of human thought, impedes the expansion of scientific knowledge, history and natural history then actively encourages the teaching and the learning by rote to enable the retention of ludicrous imaginary bullshit, bigotry and wilful ignorance as being virtuous in the 21st century can not go the way of the phlogiston and Velikovsky theories fast enough.

Had to put this here. Cause we've all tried it.

Seeker55 comments on May 13, 2018:

OK, I am going to show my ignorance by asking what this is referring to...because...I just don;t know.

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

@RonWilliam53 ^^^ What he said, but if it is to believed my wife thinks I must have been eating a lot of rotten mackerel

Anyone else observe the intersection between kink, poly, and swingers?

NicoleCadmium comments on May 14, 2018:

It always tickles me watching the contempt that some of the kink community show for swingers, while engaging in swinging like activities themselves. Only when they do it with a regular 'plus one', they call it 'poly', even though they're not in anything more than a 'friends with benefits' ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

A poly? Norwegian blue, beautiful plumage.

There once was a force more than others, Much stronger than sisters or brothers, Her love was so...

LenHazell53 comments on May 13, 2018:

Can I suggest one more beat in lines 1,2 and five and you will have perfect iambic pentameter

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

@Silverwhisper I know, but since since you were going 9,9,5,5,9 anyway, I thought the transition from pseudo Limerick to Pentameter was worth pointing out, simply as a courtesy as a classic Limerick is 8,8,5,5,8 so perhaps lose a beat from 1,2,and 5? Good luck.

The Prayer of a Desperate Man Len Hazell Oh Lord won’t you help me Find my re-mote control ...

SimonCyrene comments on May 13, 2018:

Janis Joplin influenced i suspect ??

LenHazell53 replies on May 14, 2018:

more a parody than an influence ;)

Religion In Politics And Constitutional Issues. Do they gel?

AncientNight comments on May 13, 2018:

Here, in the USA, we have Separation of Church and State in our Constitution. In that same Constitution, we have a Bill of Rights that says we, also, have Freedom of Religion. I believe that implies Freedom FROM Religion, too. As far as I've been able to find, there's only one christian nation in ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2018:

There are in fact 17 countries that are constitutionally Christian, in that they have Christianity or a form of it proclaimed as the state or as the preferential for the populous Argentina RC Costa Rica RC Denmark Christianity England Anglican C of E Faroe Islands Christianity Greece Greek orthodox Greenland Christianity Iceland Christianity Liechtenstein Christianity Malta RC Monaco RC Norway Christianity Samoa Christianity Tonga Anglican Tuvalu Christianity Vatican City Christianity Zambia Christianity There are a few others that recognise themselves as Coptic Christian Ethiopia being a prime example and a few that have Vatican concordats, that recognise them as having an understanding with the RC church but nothing in the constitution Such as Hungary, Spain, The republic of Ireland and until reunification West Germany. Most Commonwealth of the UK countries acknowledge the Queen of England as their spiritual leader, again with constitutional back up, such as Canada, New Zealand etc.

Why are we here?

busterboy comments on May 13, 2018:

No condoms

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2018:

Catholic Parents?

Had to put this here. Cause we've all tried it.

Seeker55 comments on May 13, 2018:

OK, I am going to show my ignorance by asking what this is referring to...because...I just don;t know.

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2018:

Okay Just googled it and it is the same thing they used to say about eating Bananas if you are expecting oral .

Had to put this here. Cause we've all tried it.

Seeker55 comments on May 13, 2018:

OK, I am going to show my ignorance by asking what this is referring to...because...I just don;t know.

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2018:

Neither do I

Why are we here?

Connolly42 comments on May 13, 2018:

To paraphrase Yoda... Is or is not, there is no why.

LenHazell53 replies on May 13, 2018:

love it

How do you feel about your partner helping themselves along during sex?

HeathenFarmer comments on May 11, 2018:

Just don't scratch my tongue with your nails!

LenHazell53 replies on May 12, 2018:

lol

How do you feel about your partner helping themselves along during sex?

Cherie44 comments on May 11, 2018:

Part of foreplay for us, but he digs watching me more.

LenHazell53 replies on May 12, 2018:

Many of us men do, and it is a learning experience if we pay attention, that we can put to good use on a future occasion.

Lucky number 7!

ErichZannIII comments on May 12, 2018:

Lucky 7. Why is 7 supposed to be lucky? Is there any scientific backing for that?

LenHazell53 replies on May 12, 2018:

It is because it it is the most likely outcome of throwing two dice, or of selecting any two numbers between 1 and six inclusively. It is mostly considered lucky in Europe and America, ele where in the world 8 tends to be the luck number.

Anyone else here involved in ' Street Epistomology' or is this simply an American activity?

NickNakorn comments on May 12, 2018:

I had to look it up. As far as I can tell it's using Socratic methods to challenge claims based on belief. What we in the UK call 'conversation' :-)

LenHazell53 replies on May 12, 2018:

Conversation connotes an equal and consensual exchange of ideas this is much more akin to propaganda or high pressure selling.

Anyone else here involved in ' Street Epistomology' or is this simply an American activity?

GoldenDoll comments on May 11, 2018:

Can't be bothered to look it up - what is it?

LenHazell53 replies on May 12, 2018:

@Flettie perhaps, but if you check it out on You Tube, you might see what I mean, or perhaps because I don't like being accosted in the street, I would not do it to others for any reason, but yes perhaps it is just a personal foible.

Anyone else here involved in ' Street Epistomology' or is this simply an American activity?

GoldenDoll comments on May 11, 2018:

Can't be bothered to look it up - what is it?

LenHazell53 replies on May 11, 2018:

It is basically a technique that can be learned whereby unwitting believers can be stopped on the street under the premise of taking a survey / interview and cajoled and tricked into rhetorical traps that undermine their faith.

Are there any Gnostic Atheist out there besides me?

McVinegar comments on May 11, 2018:

Any technology can appear to be magic to the unaware. Would that make the possessor of the tech god?

LenHazell53 replies on May 11, 2018:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" One of the few reasonable things Arthur C Clarke ever said

"And a Man wrestled with him until dawn The genius of the Torah lies not merely in its stories, but...

Jolanta comments on May 10, 2018:

They certainly are stories and that is all they are, just like Game of Thrones.

LenHazell53 replies on May 11, 2018:

not as many dragons so a poor second at best I'd say.

Here is a pretty useful rhyming dictionary for those of you who like to write lyrics.

TheMiddleWay comments on May 11, 2018:

"move" was paired with "unloved". Not perfect but I really like how they use extant examples in music instead of just being a thesaurus like affair.

LenHazell53 replies on May 11, 2018:

it's called an eye rhyme

A sexy looking dark angel for all to enjoy :-)

LenHazell53 comments on May 9, 2018:

Here's another

LenHazell53 replies on May 10, 2018:

@Randi one of my collages

Irony Melania Trump promotes an anti bullying stance with a "be best" slogan.

gater comments on May 10, 2018:

Love Melania, and her popularity is rising around the world!

LenHazell53 replies on May 10, 2018:

Perhaps so, but all her actions and wisdom should be taken in light of who she chose as a life partner, her toleration of his "opinions" expressed "as locker room talk" and her tolerance of certain funds administered by her husbands lawyers for the sole purpose of heading off "problems" that he (the president) knows nothing about, but is none the less willing to large amounts of hush for the suppression of under a false name.

Irony Melania Trump promotes an anti bullying stance with a "be best" slogan.

cava comments on May 10, 2018:

Well think about it...her husband is a Tweeting bully if nothing else. And, of course there is the fact that the companion pamphlet to her "Be Best" program appears almost entirely copied from the one the Federal Trade Commission released in 2014 under Obama.

LenHazell53 replies on May 10, 2018:

good catch, I would never of thought of that, but she does have a record of plagiarism since coming to the the white house.

Got a Catholic a beauty.

LenHazell53 comments on May 10, 2018:

I too once had a catholic literally screaming at me that the Eucharist was not ritual cannibalism as it was only a symbolic act, for which I had one answer Transubstantiation. Shuts them up every time.

LenHazell53 replies on May 10, 2018:

@Heraclitus agreed, but I've met a lot who rely on the ignorance of others and simply will not discuss the "T" word

If three men working on a train track had a train heading toward them they couldn’t see and you ...

JiveMasterB comments on May 8, 2018:

Tough one. I would try to weigh the positive activist potential of any of them first. For instance, if the one guy has leadership potential and a helpful heart, keep him alive. Or if the three dudes are douches...

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

I believe the question implies that time is a factor and the only available information is that contained in the initial post, carrying out an in depth analysis and assessment of the moral worthiness of the participants would perhaps be infeasible?

Do you agree?

CallMeDave comments on May 8, 2018:

It's from The Second Coming and decribes that mythological event. Everything is backwards from normality in the poem. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world," Taking it out of context changes it a lot.

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

What novel or novels do you frequently go back to and read over?

LenHazell53 comments on May 8, 2018:

The four I have read most for pure enjoyment are Dracula Bram Stoker A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Treasure Island Robert Louis Stephenson Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams But my guilty pleasure books are Manitou Blood Graham ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

@ProudMerry you won't be disappointed, it is hilarious, for me only "the great pursuit " comes near it in terms of humour.

My wife became disabled several years ago and sexual intimacy became too painful for her to ...

Gonzogopher comments on May 8, 2018:

I can so relate to your situation. My wife has a neurological disorder which is slowly causing her more confusion as well as having put her in a wheelchair. Physical intimacy gets more problematic as her condition has worsened, but more so the emotional and intellectual connection grows more tenuous...

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

Thanks for sharing, take care

What novel or novels do you frequently go back to and read over?

LenHazell53 comments on May 8, 2018:

The four I have read most for pure enjoyment are Dracula Bram Stoker A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Treasure Island Robert Louis Stephenson Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams But my guilty pleasure books are Manitou Blood Graham ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

@cmadler I believe there is a case to be made for it being the technically greatest British novel ever written.

Why aren't relationships 50/50?

bleurowz comments on May 8, 2018:

Sometimes it's 50/50, sometimes it's 60/40, sometimes 70/30, etc. The bottom line is finding overall balance, and to know that it goes both ways.

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

@Sarahroo29 First time I've ever heard a woman complaining about looking younger than she is, lol.

Why aren't relationships 50/50?

LenHazell53 comments on May 8, 2018:

Why aren't relationships 50/50? ***They are*** if you find a good one. No. 1 warning signal of trouble brewing If you are living together and one of you is still talking about, *your money and my money *instead of **OUR** money, one of you is being taken for a mug and the other is a greedy ...

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

@Sarahroo29 You'll get older, just give it time.

I am a big fan of listening to the whole sex act and also watching it from a hidden vantage ...

NicoleCadmium comments on Apr 29, 2018:

I've never been particularly interested in watching. I do enjoy being watched.

LenHazell53 replies on May 8, 2018:

Good for you, nothing better than being unashamed, I used to enjoy being in a room with multiple couples, no swapping but everyone watching and enjoying one another's pleasure.