Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, the man selected by Pope Francis to investigate clerical sexual abuse in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Well I suppose the pope feels that it takes one to know one. No wonder he wears that mitre, it hides the shape of his dick head.

How true this is!

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

very true

Critics Fear Ohio Bill May Allow Students' Religious Beliefs To Trump Facts

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

WTF is wrong with these people?

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Nietzsche was my introduction to philosophy and is still my go to guy, his works form the basis for my ideas and inspirations for my literary efforts.

DO YOU THINK DISORGANIZED (NEW AGE) RELIGION IS AS BAD AS ORGANIZED RELIGION?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Give them time and a chance and they will be committing atrocities with the best of them

What religion is....

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Proselyting: The art of selling, specifically being able to sell fuck all to a shit load of people for a crap ton of money.

How is intelligence measured?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

First of all intelligence has to be defined. Intelligence is not knowledge, you can have a wealth of knowledge and still be completely idiotic in your behavior Intelligence is not aptitude, savants can be completely incapable in all but one aspect of life in in that display genius levels of aptitude. Intelligence is not "common sense" or cleverness to terms as equally undefinable as intelligence itself. Personally I define intelligence as *the high functioning ability of the brain to take in, absorb, retain and combine knowledge for appropriate use at an appropriate time in order to create by application new knowledge without further exterior tuition or guidance.* That is to say problem solving ability Therefore the only true measure of a person's intelligence is by their success rate in achieving stated objectives. Eg. The inventor is judged by his inventions that succeed in their intended purpose as to his or her intelligence. The chef who creates a new taste experience and improves the nutritional value of food is intelligent. The scientist who combines known mathematics with other seemingly unrelated facts to create an explanation for an as yet unsolved mystery in the natural world by noticing evidential patterns in both for the first time, has performed an act of intelligence.

QUANTITATIVE EASING.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

So.... Cheating?

What a wonderful reminder I received today , from a unexpected source .

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Equivocation and quibbling

As Bill Maher rightly pointed out last night, one of the only good things Donald Trump has done in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 16, 2019:

Oh so true

"I'm spiritual not religious"

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 16, 2019:

Yeah and I'm a drunk but I'm not an alcoholic.

Trump intervenes in military justice cases, granting three pardons

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 16, 2019:

He might as well have hired skywriters to fly over every military base spelling out "Open season on brown folks lads"

I really hate when I read things by people I agree with that are full of unexamined, specious ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 15, 2019:

Agree 100%

I feel similarly. I find it to be a comforting thought.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 15, 2019:

A beautiful sentiment that highlights the true wonder of life and the importance of valuing every moment

DARVO Deny Attack Reverse Victim Offender DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrong...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 15, 2019:

These days known as Trumpery or doing a Trump

Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister).

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 15, 2019:

Burger is a wonderful word that has over time in English changed from meaning a citizen of an area to a Beef pattie with onions in a bread bun. Mainly due to people thinking that a Hamburger was named for its contents and not for the name of the City of Hamm where the beef dish was invented.

OBJURGATE.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 15, 2019:

Often confused with Obdurate, which means to stubbornly hold on to a disproven opinion regardless of evidence.

“You and me are real people, operating in a real world.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 15, 2019:

This quote is so often taken out of context it is unbelievable, Especially the last sentence. Sartre himself was finally required to give a public lecture in 1945 to point out that he was not advocating for a license to do any thing than everything and was not promoting anarchism. See "Existentialism is a Humanism," Jean-Paul Sartre 1946 We can each do any damn thing we want, but we must be willing to A)accept and face the consequences of our actions B)Extend the same privilege to everyone one else.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful god, who creates faulty ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 14, 2019:

The Christian god is, whatever way you look at it, a lousy bastard

Yep... feeling better after cancer treatments... Hammer Time again:

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 14, 2019:

I like that, I've been going along with the late Terry Pratchett for years now and referring to humans as Pan Narrans the story telling ape. Congrats on your successful treatments.

Anybody else over retrograde?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 14, 2019:

Are you talking about Mercury retrogrades?

Overall not too bad, but in America, disappointing.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 14, 2019:

Greatest country in the world y'all

What is the difference between being religious or being spiritual. Is there a difference?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 14, 2019:

What is the difference between being credulous or being gullible. Is there a difference?

NOISOME.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 14, 2019:

Osmia is the Greek word for the sense of smell, the condition of Anosmia is the condition of having no sense of smell, and became one of those words were the antonym survived while the root word was lost. In time the English prefix "an" (none) was mistaken for the Greek "a" (without) and is was assumed incorrectly that "Nosmia" was a word meaning the function of the nose a similarity that was pure coincidence (nose comes from the proto-european Nas) Therefore we have the compressed hybrid word Noisome meaning offensive to the nose by the combining of Osmia (Greek smell) and odio (Latin Hateful which is also the root word of Odious and Annoying as stated above)

[jta.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 13, 2019:

Why not they already named a housing estate after him Trump heights

Article about when the concept of homosexuality was actually introduced into translations of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 13, 2019:

In the widely used Douay-Rheims and KJV both dating for at least two to four hundred years past the words Man and Mankind are used in the translations. Vayikra 20:13 in the Torah which is the equivalent verse uses the Hebrew words Ish and zachar, the closest translation in modern English is "a guy" and "a gentleman" respectively (common word for a male and formal word for a male). Vayikra 20:13 If an ish also lie with zachar, as he lieth with an isha, both of them have committed to’evah; they shall surely be put to death; their dahm shall be upon them. It is therefore to me at least fairly certain this always refered to homosexuality, but not between the patricians and the proles. So some Septuagint translations in to Greek may have thought it more prudent to admonish against pedophilia rather than homosexuality by translating Zachar as αρσενοκοίτες which does actually mean male, but young man rather than gentleman. It certainly does not mean boy child as is pushed in this article as that would be Agori. Luther however may well have decided to make the translation in to knabenschander which does indeed mean shamer of boys IF you split the word in to knaben and schänder however if you leave it as one word it means sodomite.

Hate-Preacher: Girls Who Look Like Rachel Maddow Are “Repulsive” to “Normal” Men | Hemant ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 13, 2019:

What a disgusting, little blob of pustule excrescence, only his visage exceeds his words in odiousness, such a person is a waste of the very shit and mud he sprang from.

Within or without you ?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 13, 2019:

Define what you mean by god, then provide evidence that it exists.

Following on from FGM and Circumcision is the barbaric practice of lesbians emasculating their sons ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 13, 2019:

"Is There Anything More Evil Than LGBTQP Pride?" Are you fucking kidding me????!!!! Well of course two deranged lesbians mutilate and kill their son so OF COURSE ALL LGBTQ people are EEEEEVVVVILLLLLLLL. Just like that endless parade of straight couple who beat, starved, tortured and killed their kids PROVES ALL straight people are EEEEEVVVVILLLLLLLL!!!!!! For goodness sake, it is bad enough that this child died, without prejudice rags like this Alex Jone shit wipe (news wars) and conspiracy pedalers (Natural News) trying to politicize the horror he went through to demonise all LBGTQ people. The real story dates from June of this year and the motive was nothing to do with a sex change it was a psychotic woman who killed her son because he looked like her abusive father.

Really interesting - on how the scriptures are mis-read in modern times: [nytimes.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 12, 2019:

It is irrelevant really, since they are all ancient writings recording oral traditions that where the rantings for the most part of mentally disturbed ignorant bronze age desert dwellers. What matters now is that the ignorant and gullible are still open to the influence of the unscrupulous who claim these writings as infallible god given truth and will kill and persecute in their defense and will not change or edit them to fit with the times and the science thereof, because it is expedient not to when generating hate is so profitable.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 12, 2019:

A loss of hope, a loss of respect, a surety that it is too late to avert disaster and the feeling that whatever is done by yourself as an individual will make no difference. Sit back enjoy the show, a front row seat to the end of the world and society. So long and thanks for all the fish.

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 12, 2019:

Are they really that frightened of the neon orange turd?

It is rememberance day. 11/11. The war to end all wars. What do I believe in?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 12, 2019:

The inerrant (and inherent) driving force behind human nature is selfishness, the need to survive, the need to pass on the genetic line, the satisfaction of basic human needs : shelter, food etc. To this end even altruism is selfish, I can't kill a saber tooth tiger, but ten of us can and one tenth of the meat is better than none of it. War, nationalism, patriotism, religion, tribalism, ethnic prejudice are all subversions and manipulations of this basic state of human nature to rise the few over the many, to ensure dominance of certain bloodlines and favourable genetic survival traits.

How does it affect you when religious people proudly proclaim “god has blessed me” and you are ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 12, 2019:

I tend to think the speaker is either being unduly modest about their own achievements or simply is anthropomorphising pure chance and blind luck by crediting a deity. Asking about suffering children I am afraid tends to bring forth disgusting and disturbing answers guaranteed only to lower or destroy your opinion of the person you are listening to.

If god is willing to condemn the devil what makes people think god wouldn't do it to them?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 11, 2019:

***If*** the Christian god did exist, he would be an utter monster, and only monstrous people would serve him, her or it.

If humans are allowed to repent then why can't Lucifer?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 11, 2019:

If you go by semitic mythology "Lucifer" as Christians insist on referring to the archangel Samael, was exactly that an angel. God apparently created three races of beings The Djinn first who where creatures of dust, they had no free will but did have magic, they immediately abused it and so were cast out of heaven in to the pit of fire, secondly the angels who were made from fire, they had no freewill and no magic but who were brave and strong, however they were also willful and some gained freewill by becoming jealous and envious when god created humans from water and air and was so delighted by them that he gave them the earth to live on. The Angels were ordered to serve and protect the humans and Samael saw this as a slight against his people since they the angels were stronger, more beautiful and immortal, why did god love the humans more? When god warned him to know his place, Samael lead a rebellion of one third of the angels against god, but were defeated by the Angel Michael. Samael and his hoard were thrown out of heaven and in to the pit, where they drove out the Djinn and made the pit of fire their own. In a rage god decreed that Samael would become the first Satan and would be allowed to try and tempt man to sin and away from god, if they succeeded in this the spirits of such men were theirs to consume, however they could not kill people this was known as the rule of gold. The now homeless Djinn could go to earth but could not use magic against man, but if trapped by men the Djinn must obey them as slaves and must serve the spirits of men as pets. Though the Djinn too were subject to the golden rule, if men were greedy and asked too much of the Djinn they were allowed to deceive humans in to destroying themselves. For example if a man asked for a mountain of gold, the Djinn could give it to him all at once in one big nugget that might crush him to death. If a man asked for his pain to stop the Djinn could turn him to stone. Man alone can repent, because he or she has freewill by nature and must earn eternal life. The Djinn and the Angels were blessed with eternal life and paradise, so had no motivation other than greed and sin to desire freewill and so can never repent and never be forgiven for going against their nature

BILLET-DOUX--A love letter, " She was in constant receipt of billet-doux from the boys in the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 11, 2019:

Literally translates as a soft letter, or note

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 11, 2019:

All you need to publish a book these days it seems is a marketable name and a third rate ghost writer who will work for free as an intern.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 10, 2019:

He's probably wondering why they are not playing the red flag

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 10, 2019:

Agree, destruction of private property is a criminal offense, just because you don't like the thing you attack that does not give you the right to destroy it.

Oh, yes. I've done the chair thing many times!

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 10, 2019:

"Every member a janitor" remember that shit after they fired all the cleaners

I sold a story!!!!! I've been a ghost writer in the past, but have always written other people's ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 10, 2019:

Great feeling isn't it, congratulations

This $46,000 snow crab is the most expensive in the world

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 10, 2019:

Capitalism and status flaunting gone to insane levels

Battle-Scarred Viking Shield-Maiden Gets Facial Reconstruction for First Time | Live Science

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 10, 2019:

Wonderful

FLIBBITY-JIBBITY--absurd, ridiculous, nonsensical

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

FLIBBITY-JIBBITY I have never heard of However a **flibbertigibbet** is another matter, though in later times it has come to mean a gossip, or over talkative person it originally had an all together more sinister meaning. A gibbet was a gallows from which a body was hanged alive but without a drop so the person was slowly strangled by their own weight, taking anything up to an hour to die, the lighter you were the longer it took to die, since a flibbert means something small or light to call someone a *flibbert-i-gibbet* meant some one who the speaker believes deserves **a very slow and very painful death.**

The image asks the question, "Why didn't god just kill the pharaoh?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

Because the whole Moses story is mythological bullshit, loosely based on the legend of Horus. None of it ever happened.

What do you all think about reincarnation?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

Genetic memory is a possibility, as is quantum entanglement of two beings over time and space. But since I do not believe in souls, reincarnation in the traditional sense is a none starter for me.

Virtual reality games are the model "T" stage of avatars.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

Ever seen Forbidden Planet? Such a system did not end well for the Krell

Anyone think we need a church of Atheism/Agnosticism in Saint Louis?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

Atheists going to church is akin paying to enter a brothel in order to wank yourself off

I was brought up as a Protestant in the old country having had to go to classes once a week for ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

You were lucky, if I had so much as set foot in a catholic Church my mother would have tried to drown me in a bath of holy water while singing singing Salvationist hymns over me and tanning my hide with fragments of the one true cross. Even when my Catholic great great Aunt died she prayed over us for fifteen minutes and insisted we not listen to the Papist liar in the pulpit and instead pray constantly for the soul of Auntie Biddie while inside the temple of Mammon.

The argument of intelligent design is very popular among the religious because on the surface it ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

We are told so many lies as children, that after the loss of Santa, the easter bunny, magic and all their ilk, people tend to draw the line at Adam and Noah for some inexplicable reason. "Something has GOT to be real" seems to be the cry. Once you have accepted that here was a pensioner who built a floating zoo and could talk to birds, two nudists in a garden with a talking snake and magic apples is hardly a stretch and makes a carpenter zombie who can walk on water seems positively sane.

[aeon.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

So the almighty, all powerful and all loving god decided that he made a mistake in giving boys foreskins and girls clitorides (yes that is the plural believe it or not) and rather than stop children being born with them orders the "faithful" to start cutting bits off and sewing up their infants. Real nice god they have there. The fact they anyone would want this abomination performed on their own or any child beggars belief.

Who keeps writing KillroyWasHere under various posts?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

The saying took on a whole new meaning in the UK with rise in popularity of Talk show host /wannabe politician and Human/hagfish hybrid Robert Kilroy Silk

INSOUCIANCE.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 9, 2019:

What me worry? Mad magazine R.I.P.

Solitaire is an unfair game.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

That is why I play free cell, it is always possible to win.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

Hannity is Trumps court Jester who erroneously believes himself to be the Lord High Chancellor, unfortunately he has not realised this has prevented him from gaining a "fools license" and so he is responsible for his lies, tomfoolery and for hitting the courtiers over the head with his inflated pigs bladder.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

Why doesn't the GOP care? Because by definition right wing politics does not care, it exists purely for pragmatic economic reasons.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward, backs up much of the same

I believe "Central New Jersey" exists, more that any deity exists. Can anyone prove me wrong?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

Why would anyone want to?

Birds of a feather... Paula White: Trump's televangelist in the White House [cnn.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

When all else fails appeal to a god Pathetic

brutalgirth -- who is this dipshit?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

Well if this nitwit thinks London is in North Yorkshire I doubt he is even English.

The World's Thickest Mountain Glacier Is Finally Melting, and Climate Change Is 100% to Blame | Live...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

Wait for it, wait for it

Quodlibet a lighthearted medley of well-known tunes also

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

A word that literally translates as "anything, everything and each" or if you split it to Quod libet to The Happy, Happiness or That which pleases.

Has anyone got any ideas?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 8, 2019:

Contact the Freedom From Religion Foundation https://ffrf.org/ they can advise you, or join Atheist Republic https://www.atheistrepublic.com/ for organisations in your area.

MELANGE--a mixture, a medley,---a melange of tender vegetables & herbs

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2019:

Or in Frank Herberts Dune novels the name of the spice upon which the economy of the entire galaxy relies "The Spice must Flow" Family motto of the Padishah emperor Shadam V

On missing Leonard Cohen, on protest and democracy - I don't know where to post this.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2019:

Long time big fan of Leonard Cohen

THE INVITATION I am an Agnostic.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2019:

What a great post, you sir are gifted story teller😊

Anyone see the movie Unplanned?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2019:

Brad Jones as "The Cinema Snob" did a satirical review of this film, as he does on principle with all Pureflix movies (From the makers of "Gawd's not dead 1 to 745, I'm not ashamed and Sarah's Choice an anti abortion rip off of "A Christmas Carol" where a pregnant woman is visited by the spirits of three aborted fetuses I kid you not). They hate hate hate Brad especially since the release of his own Microbudget film "Jesus Bro!" a few years back that mocked every Pureflix trope in the book and made considerably more money than their (forgive the pun) gawdawful films ever do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWAqn4Ww8a0

I feel that a perfect being can't exist.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2019:

"Perfection is a road not a destination" Tibetan proverb

GIMCRACK.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2019:

Gibecrake is a completely different word, it literally means a scarecrow (in Norse) but at some point became a word for a signature carving on a piece of woodwork, such as for example the Mouse carved on to furniture especially made for York Minster. Presumably at some point a carpenter used a carving of of a scarecrow or simply a crow (Norwegian Crake means crow, Gibe means to taunt or intimidate) on his work as a similar signature and it became a universal term. Gimcrack or Jimcrack (both spellings are acceptable. however comes Crack middle English to break apart or break open and Jim short for James a word used in English for Anyman or Everyman, similar to the term "every Tom Dick and Harry" Gimcrack = could be broken by anyone, much like the modern "Jerrybuilt" EDIT Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (7 May 1876 – 8 December 1955) was a British furniture maker. He lived in Kilburn, North Yorkshire, where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture, which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece. Unlike I said above his furniture was not Just for York Minster, but was and is still widely available as his family have carried on the business.

taximeter cabriolet taks•IM•it•er CAB•ree•oh•lay Where the words "taxi" and "cab" ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 7, 2019:

Sorry but the writer of the link is totally wrong and has mislead you. Taxa does not mean tax or charge it means an arrangement of a system of organization hence Taxidermy (an Arrangement of skin) taxonomy (arrangement of names) Taxation (arrangement of payments) A "cabi stercoris" was a roman cart for hire with a cloth roof, the name literally translates as "protection from dove shit" hence cabi becomes Cabby and the thing he drives is a Cab. Thus Taxicab is enclosed transport for hire by arrangement. Cabriolet means to leap like a goat, and was taken as a brand name by the Handsome company for their small two wheel single horse cab (see above) partly as a play on words, but also because it was the first cab to have comfort suspension, that they claimed made their product comparable to riding a leaping goat. See History of the London Taxicab by G.N. Georgano 1972

@admin I can’t upload photos. It may be my phone but think it’s the site

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

This has been pointed out many times now, the site has a one meg size limit for pictures. Just reduce the size of the picture, there are a number of free programs that will let you do this available for download.

Turophobia noun an irrational or disproportionate fear of cheese.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

No a phobia is an irrational fear, your fear is very rational, therefore not a phobia

Dia de los Muertos

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

No more so than singing jingle bell at xmas

The afterlife and beyond

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

I find the concept of an eternal afterlife nightmarish and without any sort of evidence to support the notion. When I see the ghost of a broken DVD player leaving the machine I might consider the same may be possible for the bio-organic machines that are our bodies once they have been turned off. Up till now I have looked in vane for any such sign.

Prejudices are interesting things--there are socially acceptable prejudices and socially ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

I once worked for a guy who owned a newsagent, off license and general dealer who had to beg an employee who was Indian by birth to leave his employ because the local ignorant people boycotted the shop until he got rid of the "P@>i". He was not prejudice, but did have a family to support and so had to undergo humiliation and heart break to save his business by asking her to leave and when she would not he had to fire her. From that time on he did not dare hire anyone who was not white, but sold the shop as soon as he could. The irrational prejudice of some people is horrific and unfounded.

Typical - barely educated preacher from semi-developped country comes to lay waste to what little is...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

I Believe the technical term rhymes with Mucking Foron

When a religious person says I’ll pray for you.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

It makes me realise that this person actually believes that I DESERVE to burn in hell, because their foul deity is a capricious petty and jealous infant... and that I don't want to know such an immoral person anymore.

So this might be for Brits only but would love a general opinion.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

Bonfire night was instituted much as Christmas was to replace a pagan festival. In the case of Christmas it was Yuletide, in the case of Bonfire night it was Samhain. Though Samhain was overlaid with All Hallows eve, much to the anger of the church the Bonfires and burning of the wicker man that were such a feature of the festival of the dead continued. After the arrest of Guido Fawkes in 1605 and his subsequent Hanging, the tradition of the Bonfire and the burning of effigies was moved away from Samhain five days forward and stripped of all occult trappings, instead becoming celebration of god's divine intervention in saving the king from the machinations of the evil catholics.

Delusional religion at its finest

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

One of those moments when you have to laugh or else you would scream

FORNENT or FORNENST.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

The Scots had some beautiful names for directions Deosil and Widdershins for circling right and left respectively come to mind

Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

The Onion is hilarious

Picture Not Perfect

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

I had this problem but by trial and error I discovered that this site will not allow pictures over 1mb to up load, if you reduce the size of the picture it will up load fine.

Proposition: No one is totally pro-life.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

Faultlessly logical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3fVj8A-K8E

For all my Queens who wore a hijab or know someone stuck in one, this is for you.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 6, 2019:

One day being forced to wear the Hijab will, I hope, be seen as being just as silly as Mormon women being force to wear their Bra over the top of their magic long johns. There is nothing wrong with a head scarf, my mother wore one for years, and the design and colours of some Hijab are exquisitely beautiful, but telling anyone they should wear anything or be shamed will rob any garb of its beauty and make of it only a shackle, and a golden manacle is still a manacle.

V For Vendetta (memorable, a recurring internet meme) [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

Guy Fawkes the only man ever to enter parliament with honest intent

Man made religions, HOWEVER man did NOT make the Universe!!!

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

And your point is?

I received this gem on my door a couple of weeks ago.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

The Bible would you say it is... 4 too thin for the pages to be used as effective toilet paper

Recording Purportedly Captures Richard Spencer Melting Down After Charlottesville | Talking Points ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

So the shit is now turning on the shit, shows how little notice the rest of us are willing to sacrifice to their obsessional childish need to be the center of attention anymore. Go to your room boys and think about what you have done.

Eldritch - weird, uncanny, ghostly.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

I first came across in the works of Michael Moorcock, specifically "StormBringer" The black Eldritch blade wielded by Elric of Melniboné. The very blade who whispers in to his master's mind after betraying and slaying him the awesome line "'Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!'"

EXCRESCENCE.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 5, 2019:

Reminds me the line from "Carry on Henry" Thomas Moore: You must not upset yourself Majesty or else you will again break out in poisonous excrescences Cardinal Wolsey: that's furuncles and Boils Thomas Moore: I know what I am talking about!

Religion and philosophy are only projections of what is reality..? Any Thoughts..?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2019:

Religion is an attempt control perceived reality Science is the attempt to explaining perceived reality Philosophy is an attempt at understanding perceived reality Reality for all intents and purposes is our brain's interpretation of data perceived.

Socialism or Capitalism?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2019:

To simplistic, all kinds of ideologies fall under the banner of capitalism and even more under socialism. For example National Socialism is more akin to Ultra Capitalism than it is to to Soviet Socialism which is in itself more akin to National Socialism than it is to British socialism. European trickle down capitalism as expressed by Gramsci is basically consensual oppression in exchange hegemonic socialism. All this before you even get in to other forms of government which despite what Politicians would like us to think is not a 2 horse race between Socialist and Capitalist ideologies. Personally, representative democratic socialism works for me

Over the span of 6 million or so years of man-not-kind do you think you have had an original ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2019:

Likely but impossible to test

It may actually be time to move to Italy.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2019:

Oh the temptation

ANTHROPOMORPHIZE--to envision something in a humanized image, which is most people's conception of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2019:

A bad habit of mine especially where my dogs are and have been concerned, I often get caught having long and involved conversations with Khokho on why it is wrong to dive head first in the garbage looking for chicken bones.

Commentary: Recall how America built a transcontinental railroad in 6 years?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2019:

Great things can always be achieved when fueled by the desperation of the poor and starving. I read some where once that the Great Wall of China was built at a cost of up to three thousand lives per mile and that the corpses were used a building materials. The empire state building cost the lives 42 residents of Hooverville and countless more who died of pneumonia and frost bite after construction was ended, injuries ran in to hundreds. 1,200 deaths are in the officially recordings as having died in the construction of the TCR, but that is only those who actually died on the job, not those who died of illness, of injury, of malnutrition or in their sleep or in fights, or killed by raiding parties or snakes. Most were Chinese, Irish or former slaves. It is none the less a remarkable achievement and life was a commodity to be traded in those days. I pass no judgment as the the canal network in the UK cost the lives of thousands of Navies, textile mills measured the number of acceptable employee deaths in their yearly accounts and the whole industrial revolution was the product of mass sacrifice of the poor. It was a different time and impropitious morality lead the innovator of the day to genuinely believe sacrifice was necessary for progress, so long as those dying were the poor who had a life expectancy of only 45 anyway, so were likely to only loose out on a decade or so at most.

Maybe the difference between Agnostic & Atheist is the same as "I don't know" vs. "I don't care"?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 4, 2019:

I like this analogy, an excellent starting point for discussion.

Where do we go when we dream?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 3, 2019:

I have usually gone to bed

Obumbrate verb (used with object) to darken, overshadow, or cloud.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 3, 2019:

I like this word, thanks for bringing to my attention.