There is a common thread in many of the posts I have seen here, that being you can't get people to ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Ultimately nature will solve the problem itself, if we do nothing about climate change, nature will sort it and many of us won't survive, if we do not stop guzzling antibiotics nature will evolve stronger diseases and many of us will not survive it in tact, if we insist in not vaccinating a whole generation will die of avoidable illness, if we don't stop following religion's stupid rules we will kill each other. Ultimately the cumulative effect will be a massive rebalancing of resources and vastly reduced population numbers. Action needed to be taken a century ago, then we did not understand the necessity, fifty years ago we did but were unwilling to believe it ans twenty years ago it was all ready too late but was considered a threat to capitalism. It is still not too late to mitigate the inevitable, but the sacrifices will be hard and unpleasant and a lot of people will die, but millions can be saved if we act, but we won't if it means giving up the three cars, the right to be obese and the HD TV because those are what makes life worth living

My wonderful and sweet dad drove me to work because my car battery died.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

So basically your dad is telling you his god is going to burn you forever if you don't tow the line and yet he is still willing to worship the bastard. You obvious have more love for your father than he does for you.

THE PRAYER OF ST.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Sorry I can't hear that prayer any longer without hearing it in the voice of the arch bitch Margaret Thatcher arriving at 10 Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister, May 4, 1979 and then spending the 11 years doing exactly the opposite, utterly destroying British society and sowing the seeds of greed and inequality that are still bearing the fruits of ignorance and want to this day

Run for your life

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

People will for some reason tolerate this, but if they were chanting hail Satan, for exactly the same result, would want them all fired. Though to be honest they look more like they are singing the Hokey Cokey

As Christmas approaches I seem to sense a rising anger and rigidness toward the Christians and other...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

I have nothing against anyone until they start trying to infringe on my freedoms and the freedoms of those I love. If you want to live your life being deluded, fine, you want to live your life hating people because a bronze age book of fables says you should, hate away. If you start telling me my family members deserve to die and try to change the law so you can kill them, torture them or imprison them, don't be surprised if some one kicks your bible down your throat and leaves you to choke on it. Christians can be as Christian as they like so long as it stays in their own heads and homes, and they respect my right to tell them to fuck off with their shitty belief when they try and impose them on me and mine in public.

A 92-year old woman who helped hide a Jewish family during WWII meets the 40 family members of those...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Utterly marvelous, wonderful story

When you're the only Agnostic at Thanksgiving dinner and they ask you to say "Grace":

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv1_XGd2aVk

A classmate, who is my partner for a school project, is a Christian.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

No death = no food= eternal mass starvation

Happy thanksgiving.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

yes

I've already said more "Happy Thanksgivings" than I intended to, and I'm sure I'll say more before...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

OH Lard this day we give thanks that you did not see fit to give the injuns, tanks, cannons or machine guns, (or an immunity to small pox) so as when our ancestors landed here and started stealing every damn thing they could get their filthy paws on them heathen savages could not fight back. Aaaaaaa- men!

I see a lot of hate for what people describe as FREEMASONS. What is the story with that?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

IN and around the 17th century the myth of the ancient order of Freemasons began to appear all over Europe and the Americasin the three forms Scottish Rite Freemasons York Rite Freemasons and Reformed Scottish Rite Freemasons. All claimed decent from the guild of Freemasons that built the First temple of Solomon and their three leaders the Brothers Jubal. York rite has 5 levels of membership, Scottish rite has three official levels and an a fourth grade for the "special" members. Reformed Scottish Rite has 33 level, and claims an even more illustrious history claiming decent from not only the masons but from the Knights Templar. None of them are any such thing of course but from the 17th century establishment of the first Lodges and Temples, Mason's have had ways of recognising each other by secret signs and symbols an by their oaths of fidelity are obliged to help one another in business, commerce, law and politics. This lead in the 1800's to the catholic church outlawing catholics from becoming masons as they too expected their male members to do the same thing for each other thus being a mason was a conflict of interests worthy of excommunication. I other religions however, Freemasonry became integral, especially in Mormonism, where the Temple rituals of the Freemasons were stolen wholesale for the Temple ordinances of the LDS Priesthood. The Mormon church also provided an escape root for fleeing catholics via what they called the Perpetual emigration fund, allowing catholic Freemasons to flee to America. In Europe, especially London Freemasonary became so rife in the Judiciary and the police that in 1920 the whole of (old) Scotland Yard was arrested for corruption and running a vice and pornography ring. Though there is still Masonary entwined with the law in Britain, it has never been made illegal for police or judges to be members. From these instances and a number of others the myth that the Freemasons rule the world sprang up and has formed the basis for many thrillers in fiction throughout the last 150 years. They have been blamed for everything from the raise of fascism to being responsible for Jack the ripper, from being responsible for the American two party system and the civil war in the USA to building secret bases under the Vatican so the original illuminate could spy on the pope. In truth it is pretty much a boys club (Girl's too since the founding of the Lodge of the eastern star and The Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons) for doing favours, getting drunk and holding big dinners two or three times a years.

In Boston, Mass, a milkshake is called a "frappe." "When is a milkshake not a milkshake?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

In the north of England Frappe is chilled coffee (short for Frappachino I presume) where as frapping is something totally different.

Indigenous student praised after altering 'European discovery of Americas' worksheet

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Yup truth hurts don't it, they were luck she did not correct it to Christopher Columbus begins committing war crimes, infanticide and enslaving the indigenous inhabitants.

How would you personally define an 'intense person'?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

they live in a collapsible linen house held up by poles?

Is there a difference between a fundamentalist theist and a fundamentalist atheist?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

ONE OF THEM FINDS IT MORE FUN TO BE COMPLETELY MENTAL

Postprandial adjective After a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

I like the Victorian expression "a postprandial constitutional" meaning an after dinner stroll.

Christianese From Wikipedia: refers to the contained terms and jargon used within many of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

There is also Mormonese, a term we ex-mo's have used for years for the gibberish spouted by missionaries and authorities in the LDS

Pictionary Fun: Okay, the last one was too easy. How about this one?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

The War song

Pictionary Fun: Okay, the last one was too easy. How about this one?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

The Men Behind the Wire

coprophagia /ˌkɒprəˈfeɪdʒiə/ the consumption of feces Derived from the Greek ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

Bleurk

Saudade a feeling of longing, melancholy or nostalgia. The presense of absense.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

New one to me thanks

How many people are familiar with Plato's Republic?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Plato's cave is simply a warning that unless you are able to freely access all information you can be fooled from birth into believing what you are allowed to perceive is the normal and is all there is. It is a allegory these days better summed up in the adage that the best form of maintaining government control is the so called Mushroom method ...keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit. Modern electronic communications and wide spread dissemination of knowledge has largely put an end to this, except for those poor souls so accustomed to their shackles and the darkness of cave that they prefer not to turn around and look outside. The blissfully and willfully ignorant.

Has someone ever told you to give your problems to god?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

I just say I tried giving them to Batman to, they were both equally fucking useless.

This is a question.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Sorry I cannot understand a word of that post

Horologium noun a timepiece, as a clock or sundial, or a building supporting or containing a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Hence Horologist one who studies and collects clocks

Most common/ridicuous argumento pro religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Here are a few of them You cannot be moral and atheist as morality is god given without god you are by definition immoral regardless of your actions Something can not come from nothing except god who simply is The bible is true because it is the word of god and we know this because god tells us so in the bible God does not send people to hell, they send themselves People need to be saved because of the fall of man (Adam and Eve) which is why god sacrificed himself to himself to get around a law he made, BUT you still can't take advantage of this unless you enslave yourself to him to say thank you.

Assuming an intelligent force (not God necessarily) created the Universe, is it still there?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

If it is, it may as well not be for all good it does. It obviously could not care less about the universe as a whole and about tiny life forms like us especially, we are perhaps, given that it does exist, just some form of novelty night light, that if we are lucky it will not tread on, kick or break by accident one morning. I don't think there is one personally, but if there is it is completely irrelevant, other than to serve as an inspiration for arseholes who want a pointless excuse to go to war and extort people.

GOP Senator Joni Ernst Blocks Violence Against Women Act [patheos.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Some people are simply self destructive, self loathing or are of the mentality that "If I had to suffer this why should others be spared it." If this seems improbable bare in mind that One of the most horrific things in the study of modern history was that there was a regiment of the German SS during World War 2 made up Jewish descended people who had one or more Hebrew grandparents and who would therefore of gone to the camps by law, yet who as card carrying Nazis were spared this in order to persecute and execute their own families and those like them.

Not just a despised president but slowly overturning basic wrongs - [abcnews.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Well even Hitler loved his dog. One good law however does not over turn an administration of horrors

Yet more proof of consciousness being real

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Of course the problem is that any collapsing phase space probabillity still only leaves you with one final outcome that is observable and memorable and a whole host of unresolved realities that have not come to pass because they were not or could not be measured and then can not be proven to have been viable, simply existing only in potentia. We are therefore left with the aim of preselecting a desirable outcome and bringing it about by observing and measuring, which is for the greater part what we do anyway. We are of course then faced with the problem that on a greater scale there is not simply one observer, there are literally billions all exerting an influence and producing a cumulative result. The experiment can only present the possibility of a microcosmic and localised result dependent on the will of the eponymous "friend". In finality we are left where we started with the idea that the world is what we make of it and the old maxim that "Creation is an act of sheer will”

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

insane

The plot to wage war on Christianity and Christmas is a wholehearted conspiracy theory that has no ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

It's all Bullshit. Call it what you will all people have ever cared about during the winter solstice is getting pissed, eating too much and getting better presents than you gave. I love it and can't wait for it

Woman sues Christian school over same-sex marriage expulsion

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Romans 1:26-27 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. More bigoted shit from the Holey Babble Of course she is justified they kicked her out of a paid for course for getting married. Sick bastards

There is a movie called The Ghoul starring Peter Cushing, that came out in 1975.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

The Ghoul is a magnificent film, made by Tigron pictures and featuring the first on screen appearance of the late John Hurt and Don Henderson. In the film as you say Cushing as the ex-Missionary has lost his faith because his son who died in India could not be saved by god or science, but was resurrected by Kali worshipers with the need to feed on human flesh to stay alive. Cushing as the reverend Doctor Lawrence, is more traumatized by the fact Hinduism seems more true and powerful than Christianity than he is by his son's condition, thus leaving his son in the care of his Hindu Nanny of twenty years.

Are Believers Better Citizens?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_JoE2GioXY

Are Believers Better Citizens?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Oh so that's why the prisons are full of them

Kanye West snaps at Joel Osteen’s congregation: ‘Be completely silent as God flows through me ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Kanye West telling folks to stfu? 😅😅😅😅😅😅 Physician heal thyself

Should the USA try to keep Muslims out of their country?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

The USA should like all other countries try and keep out criminals and fanatics, after all they have more than enough of there own. If those evil bastards are Islamic, Buddhist, catholic, taoist or any thing else is completely irrelevant to the question.

Why Do So Many Hate Religion? What's ToHate?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

It causes both directly and indirectly death on an industrial scale It corrupts laws and legislation in every country to benefit itself It practices and preaches hatred and prejudice It steals time and money from its adherents by extortion and threats It attempts to forcibly destroy other versions of itself in favour of itself It destroys families It (and its "holy" books) advocates for the extermination of homosexuals, transsexuals, transvestites and anyone it perceives as being in any way different for its own definition of "normal" It forces lies and ignorance upon children in order to defend its own preposterous claims It defames women It is racist Look I could go on and on, but advise your simply paying a little attention to what is going on around you and by all means continue to ignore this filth if you wish to, but in all good conscience I cannot do so.

What's The Soul?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

A con invented by religion to frighten you in to paying up in this life to avert eternal torture in the next. Nothing more.

I had to do a Google search to make sure this was an actual quote and not a hoax.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Well what do you know Anne Summers and Victoria's Secret have save the world from demonic babies?

Isaiah 63:3 (NIV): I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

But oh no god does not interfere in human affairs that would be a denial of free will. 😣

The words "free thinkers" do not exist in developing countries.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

"This is so because humans, according to the majority, are incapable of thinking" and yet we still allow all people to vote. When you let apes vote, why are you surprised when they elect an uran-utan

The words "free thinkers" do not exist in developing countries.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Not according to the Christian scientists there isn't no. Are you saying the USA is a developing country?

A 2018 paper argues the condition now known as “dissociative identity disorder” might help us ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Bernardo Kastrup "Independent Scholar" (his description not mine) From his own website *My work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. I hold a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). * **On peer reviews of his work, again from his own web site** *I have had mixed experiences with reviewers so far. On the positive side, one of the three accepted papers has been much improved by critical and extremely thoughtful reviews at SAGE Open, a journal I now consider a prime example of high professionalism in publishing.* (** Please note Sage open is just that a self publishing site for academic journals, NOT a peer reviewed publisher of same ** anyone can contribute and review it is basically an an amateur scientists face book.) *I also had a **rejection** by Neuroscience of Consciousness that was worth more than an acceptance: although my submission was considered not to match the journal's focus,* *There have been less fortunate examples, though. Another paper of mine was rejected by AIMS Neuroscience on the basis of a single reviewer report, * *There is one journal, however, whose treatment of my submission has made me feel so disrespected that I want to share details with you. **The journal is Metaphysica.*** ( METAPHYSICA: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics. is a semi annual journal publication of academic Philosophy NOT science as the other journals mentioned are) * "With regret, I must inform you that your submission cannot be accepted for publication in METAPHYSICA: International Journal for Ontology and Metaphysics. Please find below the referee’s" report. Reviewer 1 *I recommend rejection because the paper does not present **sufficient quality** for the journal.* * The above is the complete reviewer report. I did not edit or shorten it; this is all there was to it. Apparently, a complete review of a 9000+ word manuscript had somehow been started and completed overnight ...for a journal that sat on my manuscript for 9 weeks. * This guy actually boast about the prestigious journals he has been REJECTED by on his own site and boast about self publish works. to be fair Has written a few books on new age bullshit including the oxymoronic "Rationalist Spirituality," "An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem", and "The Idealist View of Consciousness After Death" So about neuroscience and the functions of the the diseases of the human brain, this person knows about as much as I do.

I like it. [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqmdGTOg9t0

White Alabama officer convicted of manslaughter in death of unarmed black man

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

Well the man's name was Gregg Gunn, what was the officer supposed to do, he might have shot him with himself. (that was a Joke for the hard of thinking)

Jesus He Knows Me: Huge church statue in Mexico is Phil Collins lookalike | Ents & Arts News | Sky ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9zj11gf9Qk

Filature: The process by which silk is obtained from silkworms; a place where such a process takes ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

fascinating

Egypt animal mummies showcased at Saqqara near Cairo - BBC News

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

I wonder sometimes if these were practice pieces for Ancient Egyptian morticians, though cats were very much venerated in the culture so perhaps the reverse is true.

Serious Problems With Preschool 🤣🤣 [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

More and more of these frighteningly intelligent children coming in to the world, next step in evolution?

What on Earth Were They Talking About? A Quote Quiz | HowStuffWorks

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

7

Dog puts car in reverse and drives around in circles for an hour | Offbeat News | Sky News

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 24, 2019:

love it

A Shot in the Dark - Henry Mancini [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 23, 2019:

Probably still my favourite Pink Panther movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0DWmSrGYMA

[newsweek.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2019:

Apparently they also spent $100,000 on copies of Trumpty jnr.s book "Triggered" to get it to appear at the top of the New York Times best-seller list this month

[newyorker.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 22, 2019:

Agree definitely

Lecherous Italian priest outsmarted by his victim.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2019:

Sick, disgusting man

How can some one explain how great humans have being transformed to sheep? I don’t understand

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2019:

The Lord is not my shepherd for I am not a sheep!

NOT.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2019:

Hasa Diga Eebowai!

TARRADIDDLE.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2019:

loverly word slides off the tongue like hot bacon fat

The Bible is a manual for misogyny.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2019:

Oh yes

Hard to let go of racism. :o

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2019:

Ah truth will out, but also this proof that he IRS can bring about prophesy in the LDS church more efficiently than god can

[friendlyatheist.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

Good!

[msnbc.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

Ah the age old cry

Conservative Christians Rage After Chick-fil-A Promises To Stop Hating Gays For Jesus [patheos.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

I love the Christian logic that He who condemns hatred is in himself a bigoted anti Christian hate monger He who stops hating is a coward because hating is the Christian thing to do **Not** wanting to stone to death LGBT people is just political correctness gone mad. Because god is all loving, all forgiving and loves chicken sandwiches spiced with gay blood money

Baby Dik-dik (Toooooooo cute!) [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

One of the all time great quiz show questions of all time was "what did the Dik-Dik do the the Do-do didn't?" Answer being Survive extinction

Most Christians I know, including my mom and grandma, actually do believe that the Bible is "The ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

The Judeo-Christian religions were the first to hit upon the idea that their holy books are true because god says they are, we know this because the holy book is the word of god and the word of god tells us that god does not lie when he tells us the religion is true as expressed in the holy book, which is the word of god proving that god exists and so on and so on for ever and ever amen. if one link is broken in this chain the whole thing falls apart, therefore even the most stupid idiotic ideas MUST be retained and excused no matter how immoral or evil they might be.

Word to that!

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

Religion, heaven and hell, have never been about good and evil, it has always been about defining piety and sin so as to control the minutia of life and by extension control everything else.

Atheists Sue TN School District for Constantly Pushing Christianity on Kids ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

Utterly disgraceful

Justice Dept. to Abolish Movie Distribution Rules Dating to 1949 [nytimes.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2019:

There were good reasons for these rules being instituted to prevent extortion by the larger studios, separating, manufacture distribution and display of cinema. Repealing these laws will allow corporate dominance of the large cinema chains and eventual mergers with studios, electively killing small cinemas and picture houses, independent film makers who will be forced to distribute only through streaming services and DVD/Blueray and distributors will become surplus to requirement. I smell Disney's malodorous mouse prints all over this.

Welcome new member reindmay

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

Welcome

Working on your day off can be a killer.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

So from this we can deduce that either A) God is a right twat or B) Moses was an insane Cv^T And yet millions still hold them in esteem as the very embodiment of love, mercy and law. On top of all that death by public stoning? An inhumane punishment ordered by evil men and enacted by fucking savages.

CNN reports one in Six American adults believe the earth is flat.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrD16CBEJRs

I had EPIX free this month so had access to some new things, new to me.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

My son saw this at the cinema when it was released he loved it

Leave it to Moronism....

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

Salamander lol

Let's discuss reincarnation.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Npo0cmp-VY

[newyorker.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

Hilarious 😃😃😃😃😃😃

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

Dear Don, have your successor calls me when the impeachment is over, thanks for all he laughs Kimmie

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

So if indigenous Americans or anyone else decides to annex his back garden, that is okay too presumably?

"Velocipastor" is the must-see bad movie according to this review.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

Oh yes gotta see that one

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 19, 2019:

Trump: as he sees himself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLl-hOFYIfI

Handy household tips.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2019:

Still going on today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofvvb438Ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFhSAcnXjFY

Just a quick introduction - lifelong member, served a mission (Tennessee Nashville; 91-93), married ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2019:

Welcome to the outer darkness

Very interesting article about the usage and origin of thee and thou and pronouns. [nytimes.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2019:

Mostly completely wrong, thee and thou became Ye and You owing to the fact that printers (when printing was invented) used Y in place of the old letter thorn lowercase þ uppercase Þ, pronounced (Th) because they had only 26 letters to select from. Quakers still tended to use older and non mechanically produced bibles, where such changes had not been made. This lead to confusion and the gradual replacement of Thou with You and Thee being confused with "the" leaving us with the non existent word Ye being used only by people trying to appear to be of a higher station. Similarly the long s (ſ) pronounced ess being replaced in print with the ornate form of the capital F leading to many amusing misunderstandings, though in time this gave way at the insistence of the church to the double ss, since people misunderstanding were calling nuns Fister and asking for "sucker" in the new pronunciation.

"It is interesting to note that the men who, in the teeth of history, proclaimed that, if you want ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 18, 2019:

I am afraid that experience does teach “Si vis pacem, para bellum” People for the most part are greedy, violent and dangerous and will be kept in check only by greater displays of force and violence IF all their needs are not met. This is why we still have armies and police forces and why dictatorships not only exist, but exist by common concent of the people living within them.

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

Hmmm matter of national security? I mean how much trouble would the country be in if our leaders were forced to tell the truth even some of the time?😉

Matthew 5:32 (NRSV): But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2019:

As my later writing parter found out when he wished to remarry, even the RCC is okay with remarrying divorced people so long as you let them call it annulment and make a large donation to mother church as penance

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%