(I stole this from a FB group I'm in called "we are all gods children and he left us in a hot car" ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Ok, ok, after this I'll leave this thread alone... Why haven't the cops given this person an equipment violation for driving with an obstructed rear windshield? Afraid they're going to violate the 1st Amendment? (I could actually buy that explanation...) How does this guy parallel park, ffs? What happens when he backs out of the driveway? I'm waiting for the headlines when he backs over his own kids. "Jesus Sticker Kills." I'm out.

(I stole this from a FB group I'm in called "we are all gods children and he left us in a hot car" ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

So, reading from left to right: "Honk Jesus Honk If U Saves If U Love Love Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus." Right? Or did I miss a "Jesus" in there somewhere? (This actually sounds like someone having a really good time in bed... other than the honking part)

(I stole this from a FB group I'm in called "we are all gods children and he left us in a hot car" ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Jesus H. Christ....

Welcome to Out Of The Illusion.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

What you're saying is, don't trust the media unless it agrees with you. The mainstream is the mainstream for a reason; it has the most resources, it's most reliable, and it checks its sources. I'm extremely dubious (not to mention suspicious) of anyone claiming to have found "the hidden truth" all by themselves, for the world to see. That's the stuff of great fiction and mythology, but not real life. Woodward and Bernstein uncovered Watergate because they had a huge staff of researchers and assistants and editors backing them up. That's how investigative journalism works. Not a lone wolf reporter who knows The Truth Is Out There.

The Burden Of Proof Is On The Russiagaters [caitlinjohnstone.com]

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

There's a point at which skepticism is justified, and then one at which it's skepticism for the sake of skepticism. Multiple indictments have been issued in this case. Guilty pleas have been taken. It's safe to say the burden of proof is being met. And it's also completely fair to ask, what's your alternate scenario? If not Russia, who? At some point, if you just go on rejecting evidence, you have to come up with a theory of your own that fits the facts.

Terrified by Progressive Enthusiasm Sweeping the Nation, Corporate Democrats Have Begun Planning a ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Is "progressive enthusiasm" another phrase for "far left wackiness" like Abdul El-Sayed here in Michigan? Candidates whose positions are so far to the Left that, although they can win a primary, have no chance of winning a general election. We don't need that. We need centrist candidates who have broad appeal, not just to Democrats.

Facial hair or No facial hair?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

I'm not here to vote, I'm just showing off this goatee... ;)

Democratic socialism surging in the age of Trump | PBS NewsHour

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

Okay, but you can't just get rid of ICE. Get rid of their boss if you don't like the policies they're having to enforce. Agents don't set the policies. As for the rest, that's mainstream Democrat politics for the most part.

I think it's funny when me, the atheist, defends the Pope to people of his own religion.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

I don't know. Has he come out and actually apologized for the decades of the church covering up and condoning child abuse (why mince words- it was rape)? Has he promoted women to the clergy? Has he gone about dissolving the massive wealth of the Vatican Bank and the Church as a whole and making it a tool to help the needy, or is the Catholic Church still just a money machine? Has he overturned the Church's ridiculously antiquated opposition to birth control, which is especially hurtful to those poor he professes to care about the most? Until these steps are taken, I don't see how his "modernization" is any more than cosmetic. Beyond which, I don't believe in his God, obviously.

Be Careful What You Wish For: Trump’s Tax Plan Has Led To Churches Facing Taxes - The ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

“The whole idea of tax exemption for nonprofit organizations that are doing charitable, religious and educational work is... to incentivize the good work they do to make our society better." Well, that's a massive assumption, isn't it? Whether they're doing "good" work is a subjective judgment. That's been the problem all along with the tax-exempt status. I don't agree that churches agitating to outlaw choice and de-fund Planned Parenthood, for example, are making our society better. I feel as if they ought to pay taxes like any other special interest group.

Have you ever been stabbed?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 23, 2018:

I was once threatened by a young bloke in a dark side street in Glasgow. He thought his pocket knife was some kind of trump card. I explained to him that he wasn't anywhere near as frightening as he thought, and the risk of having every bone in his skinny body broken wasn't worth the 20 quid in my pocket. He thought it over, performed a risk assessment, said "See you, Jimmy!" and went the other direction. They weren't used to dealing with Americans in those days, I guess.

Have you had a life experience which seemed to be mystic or so inexplicable in some way that only a ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

I've had numerous cases of confirmation bias, coincidence, and random chance. None of these are supernatural or supernormal.

OMG, Becky, look at that group.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

I'm in love with Becky now....

Manscaping???

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

My chest hair grows as nature intended. I trim under my arms when it starts getting too much like a jungle in there. I also trim (not shave) my pubes, knowing what it's like to have a face full of hair myself... I think nicely trimmed is... nice. Not that there's anyone right now to be bothered one way or the other, but I have my hopes.

God, Trump and the meaning of morality - The Washington Post

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Two of these parishioners summed up everything wrong with the fundamentalist Xian worldview. "In the end it doesn't matter." "A true Christian doesn't have to worry about that." Since the world is going to end, and God is controlling everything, we don't have to make choices. We don't have to worry about consequences. We don't have to *think for ourselves*. The fact that this President is violating every moral principle the Xians claim to stand for, doesn't mean he can't still be a good Xian President. It's revolting.

What is Reality?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

"Reality is what you can get away with" - Robert Anton Wilson

Tina Turner - Better Be Good To Me - YouTube

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Always loved Tina

Celebrity Crushes

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

How far back do you want me to go? :) I clearly gravitate towards science fiction stars. In my teen years it was Carrie Fisher, no question. Since *Firefly*, Jewel Staite and Morena Baccarin are my fantasy women. Partly because they're beautiful, mostly because of being in *Firefly*...

Would you raise your children religious just to fit in?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Well.... When my daughter was born, I was attempting to be religious myself, sincerely seeking to believe (or seeking something to believe in). By the time I realized I was an atheist, she was already going to Sunday school and enjoying it, making friends, appearing in plays, etc. These days I just model atheism for her, providing logic and science and making sure she understands that religion can't be literally true. She's already there, realizing that evolution happened, the world is much older than the fundamentalist sect I used to belong to says, and so on. I just have to make sure she has the tools to make up her own mind.

What is your response when people threaten you with religious punishments? (i.e. Hell/Jahannam)

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

"You first, asshole..."

How comfortable are you with the word "Atheist" ?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

I had to visit the ER last week and found my hospital system doesn't have a box for "Atheist" in their religion list. The closest the guy could find was "Not Affiliated". I was tempted to snatch the clipboard out of his hand and look for myself, except that my leg was in a crapton of pain and I couldn't be bothered. How about "Nay-Theist"?

Should I attend a wedding at church as an atheist?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Since you ask for opinions... There's no god, so there's no significance about the building to you, right? I've gone to funerals with religious services and gritted my teeth. I've gone to see my daughter in church plays. It's not about me... it's about other people. I can't be so hung up on myself as to let myself miss out on the lives of people I love. You, however, should do what you feel comfortable with.

Australian politics copied from the world role models?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Sounds like something I might have written a dozen times, as sarcasm or satire. If I were ever to run for office, how much of what I write as humor could be dredged up and taken out of context? Maybe she doesn't think people have a sense of humor. Maybe she just doesn't have the character to come clean and say "I wrote it, I thought it was funny, can we move on?" This is why I don't have Facebook. ;)

Sometimes it is so hard to figure it out!!!!

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Thing is, humans tend to see conspiracies everywhere. It's not just Trumpites, it's the times we live in. People would rather believe a conspiracy killed JFK (a conspiracy which has remained silent for 55 years, not a single member going to the press or publishing his memoirs or bringing out credible evidence) than believe that a single unbalanced man could shoot the President. They would rather believe that corporations conspire together to keep people poor, instead of the simpler idea that CEOs are greedy. Yes, there are "conspiracies", in the sense that people work together, one hand washes the other. There are cover-ups like Watergate and Bill Clinton's fiasco. Russian hackers did influence an election. But I pretty much guarantee that CNN and the Washington Post (the mainstream media) are going to find out about them before the internet buffs.

What if you are the GOD ?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

The Martian philosophy from Heinlein's *Stranger in a Strange Land*: "Thou art God." Every self-aware being is God. You, me, everything and everyone that has this awareness. ("Grokking", in the vernacular of the novel.) In the novel, this came with magical powers (due to Martian discipline and training, it was science fiction after all) but the principle that knowing you're God and all things around you are also God means essentially the same thing as being an atheist. You have no responsibility to an external deity, you bear complete responsibility for your own actions, and also responsibility to conduct yourself rightly.

How sure are you there isn't "gods"?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

It's almost completely certain that there is no god/goddess/spaghetti monster/holy toaster. It is possible, just barely possible, that a demi-urge exists who created the Universe and set it in motion, set up the laws of physics so life is possible, did all these things and then sat back and is watching the process. Maybe even started the process of evolution. But it's entirely certain to me, and (in my opinion) to any thinking person, that there's no personal deity, no old man in the clouds picking winners and losers, granting wishes based on the merit of the person making the wish. This can be seen by a simple fact: *there are no miracles*. Prayer doesn't work. Any supposed miracle or answered prayer, on closer examination, is revealed as confirmation bias and random chance. The "holy" books are the tribal mythology of desert peoples centuries ago, glorifying their bloody deeds and codifying their hatred of outsiders. Even Christianity is filled with hatred for those outside the religion. Accidents of history, not a divine plan, led to the rise of the three Middle Eastern cults to dominance in the West, and then over much of the world. I picked 99.9% because there isn't a 99.9999% option.

How religious family members "support" you.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Nicely done ? Saying there's a divine plan means that bad things happen for a reason, so it's somehow supposed to be a comforting thought. In my book that just means God is kind of a dick. A benevolent God, if there were any God, would have a plan that didn't involve so much meaningless pain and suffering.

I really hate people that act like they are super geniuses and if people say something slightly ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

If I were one of them, could I still read your posts? I'm not sure how that works...

Trump said in a tweet, .

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Lincoln? He had many faults. As did FDR. Not to mention Ike, the last good Republican. And Clinton, best president of my lifetime. Every president does something wrong. But not on the scale of this one.

Because I am a glutton for punishment, I signed back up on POF today.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 22, 2018:

Well, it's not a lie that you're beautiful.

Be aware of the signs: emotional abuse.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Okay, yes, obviously... and yet some of these are vague and subjective. Clearly not every single instance of teasing is emotional abuse, for example. Context matters.

Let's say tomorrow, the government told us that aliens do exist and that they have been interacting ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Useless fucking aliens, if they haven't given us the technology to build flying cars. :) ***I WANT MY FLYING CAR, DAMMIT!!!***

Does aggressive antitheism beget anti-atheism?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

Franklin Graham, James Bakker, John Oliver, Ken Copeland, Benny, Hinn, Joyce Meyer, etc, etc, don't seem too worried about their aggressive theism creating a backlash against Christianity. I don't think we should be worried, to that same extent.

Tell us something that might be considered contradictory about yourself.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 21, 2018:

I like most individuals I know, but I hate people in general.

When I used to post more memes....

Paul4747 comments on Jul 20, 2018:

When your memes shock Satan, you've accomplished something special.

Too soon?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 20, 2018:

Nah, no problem. I don't know who that is anyway.

Don't worry so much over Trump's relationship with Putin.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 20, 2018:

That's a shocking attitude.

Have You Saved Someone's Life?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 20, 2018:

On 5 separate occasions, in my work, I've found prisoners in their cell with improvised nooses around their necks. At least twice I'm certain these were staged "suicide attempts" that got out of hand, the guy lost balance and found he couldn't get back up once his weight was on the noose and his air was cut off... the others I don't know for sure. Either way, it leaves you shaky afterwards knowing you were 3 to 5 minutes from finding a dead person. On a happier note: When my daughter was an infant, we had just brought her out of the hospital from what was supposed to be a routine checkup (she was 11 weeks premature and we had taken her home just a couple weeks before, after 8 weeks in intensive care) when her baby monitor went off, as we were loading her into the car seat. She had no pulse and wasn't breathing. My wife started infant CPR at the curb, since she was holding her already. I stayed just long enough to see that she had things under control, then sprinted back in to the reception desk, and, as icy calm as I have ever been in my life (and I will never know how I did that), relayed the information: "infant female in cardiac arrest, at the curb by the front entrance, CPR currently underway by her mother, send an emergency team NOW." Then sprinted back to the car. Less than two minutes later a crash team arrived and took over. I was told later that they had never had anyone deliver emergency information so clearly and effectively, and between my (ex) wife and me we saved our daughter's life. She's going to be a high school freshman this year. :)

What's inside a $5000 Scientology E-Meter? [motherboard.vice.com]

Paul4747 comments on Jul 20, 2018:

**Science!!!!** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIMvSp01C8

This is a screen shot of the results of a Google image search for "idiot."

Paul4747 comments on Jul 20, 2018:

"Fake screen shot", right? :D

Devin Nunes Exposed!

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Ok, my eyes first read this as "Devil Nuns Exposed!" Too much time in the checkout line, staring blankly at supermarket tabloid headlines. :|

Why is it expected to respect the opinions and comments of those who preach/post God, but not ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

A social fiction says that religion has a "special place" in our discourse, and must be "respected" even though it has no rational basis.

[youtube.com] Like these guys. Energy and funky.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

My only question is how OP looks just like me, only 5 years younger & better looking :)

Only one word.☺

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Footrub

What are your thoughts about religious waivers for complying with public health or safety policies?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

There shouldn't be religious exemptions, period. As for helmet laws, adults should be free to wear helmets or not, who cares? I'm against a Nanny State watching over peoples safety in their every act. Those who have something worth keeping safe under there will wear a helmet; otherwise, it's natural selection.

So has anyone made it to level 10 yet? What's the perk for a level 10?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Your face on the dollar bill.

You can be patriotic and not have to pump your chest, yelling about how patriotic you are...right?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

The chest thumping morons actually are.... sort of appalling. Of course this is "my country, right or wrong," but that doesn't mean it has a license to *go around doing wrong.* When my country does wrong, it's my patriotic duty to point that shit out and put a stop to it! I love my country, and want it to do right! Just like loving my child, or my friends... I love them, and I want them to be the best they can be! I hope they tell me if I do something wrong, so I can change my ways! And because I love my country, I have to point it out when we are fucking up! That's what a patriot does.

Hope everyone is having a fantastic evening! Wrap my wings around the deep purple satin darkness of ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Well alrighty then

Very first concert you attended?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 19, 2018:

Some band that performed at my high school on a Friday night. 50s revival rock. As I recall they weren't that great, it was a fundraiser thing.

I still feel ' quite in the dark here '.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 17, 2018:

This site, is not as other dating sites, for one thing. It doesn't really put people together. That's pretty much based on your initiative. The other factor here is that younger singles (20s and early 30s), in my observations, mostly don't go to a site like this because the name and description don't scream "dating!!" It's mainly a discussion forum with some dating features. So if you're looking for younger people with similar views, maybe you'd have better luck on a different site just specifying "agnostic" or "atheist" as a match preference. But even then you'll have tons of Xians thrown your way. There's no foolproof solution, I'm afraid.

Here's the sequel. Such a giving couple ;-)

Paul4747 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

Oh yeah. You bet. Nothing happier than giving happiness.

Where's your favorite place to bite? Be bitten?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

I don't like a hard hard bite (at least so far, I haven't... maybe the circumstances haven't been right) but teeth scraping... anywhere. Favorite spots are neck, earlobes, nipples (!!!), and the soles of my feet, where I'm incredibly ticklish and those nerve endings go everywhere. I'll give a light bite anywhere it seems to be welcome...

Do you ever have recurring dreams?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 16, 2018:

I can tell when it's time to take some days off because I'm dreaming about work. I'm at my usual place, but the buildings are different, non-geometric, stairs lead nowhere, and no matter where I go I can't get out. Rooms increase in size to the point I can't even see the far wall... and all the while people are making demands of me. That's just one. There are others... maybe I'll post when I feel up to it. If I could figure out some way to have a *happy* recurring dream.

Since I am not in church....I can have some internet fun...lol

Paul4747 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

That carrot makes me feel inadequate by comparison...

I am curious if anyone ever wonders how can this really smart person believe in God?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 15, 2018:

Highly intelligent people over the centuries have put great effort into explaining and proving (to their own satisfaction) the existence of God. It's not a matter of intelligence. It has to do with a belief system and the premises of that system.

Poll: Is bad sex better than no sex at all? Bad sex, as in NOT reaching climax.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

Bad sex, as in when I was able to tell my ex clearly had lost whatever interest I'd been able to engender in her and was now an inactive party waiting for me to finish so she could go to sleep? At that point I couldn't even finish. I felt like I was committing rape. I wished I had never started. So at least in that case "none at all " was preferable.

Proud to be union!

Paul4747 comments on Jul 14, 2018:

MCO/SEIU (Michigan Corrections Organization), member 19 years, 12 of them as a steward.

Does anybody else watch foreign language films even though their first language is English and their...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Kurosawa, definitely. Watching those films dubbed would be like watching Godzilla without the monster.

Do you believe in superstition? Does today’s date have any reason to be fearful of careful?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Only if you're one of the Knights Templar (and it's 1307 again). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Knights_Templar#Fall

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Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Reminds me of OG Destiny...

Closed minds...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Funny, a reverend making comments about people being closed-minded... Although, give him his due, this guy seems fairly unorthodox.

I have had three different men pm me on POF the past two weeks.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Coming from the opposite side, I feel like you were lucky to have so many messages in 2 weeks. That's as many as I got over 2 months at one point. :) I have to send about 15 messages to get a reply unless it's the rare person who messages me first. And then, only 1 in 3 leads to meeting someone in person. This is over the course of a year now, on 3 different sites. 4 counting this one. I was starting to think it was me... (maybe it is, of course).

Just another day in Konservative Kansas Klub Kansas man is sentenced to life in prison for child ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Well, *yeah*... I mean, Hilary is an actual *murderer*. Plus, she helped Bill cover up all those murders when he was Governor, it's on a videotape. You can't talk about it on a videotape unless it's true. (Unless it's about my team, then it's all liberal media lies.) They had teenagers run over with a train, you know, just like Snidely Whiplash! This concludes our monthly test of the emergency sarcasm detector system. Your sarcasm detector should be functioning properly. This was only a test...

Respecting movies that are musicals

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Maybe just hates that movie. I could understand that. Or possibly is diabetic and has to avoid it, due to the high sugar/saccharine content?

Guy who says God sends natural disasters to punish gays has his home destroyed in a natural disaster...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

> "Although no one wants to celebrate a person losing their home"... I kinda want to celebrate this bozo losing his home.

So I read in the news about the attempt to reunify families separated at the US Mexico border.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

What's my take on it? Criminals doing illegal and horrible things is sort of expected. They're criminals, after all. And desperate people do desperate things, like hiring smugglers to get their kids over a border, fooling themselves into believing they'll be okay. Victimized kids, afraid to ask for help because they expect the authorities to victimize them again if they do... that's a sad and familiar story. And it's been addressed over and over. The nightly news has addressed it. CNN and NPR and PBS and even Fox have addressed it repeatedly. (Although Fox generally blames the kids, but let's not get into that.) What's new, lately, is the government itself taking families apart, instead of human traffickers doing it. I sense your post is some oblique reference to this being a big story, while you think the other is being ignored. Well, it *should be* big news when our government does a heinous thing. Don't you agree?

Trump in England

Paul4747 comments on Jul 13, 2018:

Knowing me, knowing you... that's the best they can do...

I keep getting email alerts someone has messaged me, but there are no messages in the inbox...?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

My app often shows a message in my inbox, but there's nothing new. Possibly something similar. As Marty Krompier (the Harlem policy broker who was shot on the same day as gangster Dutch Schultz) told the police, "It must be one of them phenomena..."

Stormy Daniels was arrested in Ohio because a customer touched her.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

I wish I had the energy (and the stomach) to search their laws for the definition of "semi-nude dancer". I mean, if you go dancing on a beach, in swimsuits, can you be arrested if you slow dance?

Trump upends NATO summit, demanding immediate spending increases or he will ‘do his own thing’ ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

Would all those women who "didn't trust/didn't like Hilary" in 2016, who therefore voted for this orange douche, and all those who protested against the 2-party system by voting for a candidate who didn't have a chance in Hell (that's Hell, MI, up near Pinckney) of winning, and all those who figured the election was a done deal and stayed home because their vote didn't matter... in other words, will all those who threw the election to this moron who is a danger to our security and the world's... Please, folks, go down to the fish market, buy the largest whole fish you can find, and give yourselves a good smack in the head with it. Don't blame the Republicans. Blame yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s

Favorite bible verse

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

Luke 7:8 (KJV) "For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it."

Cremation or burial for your funeral?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

Viking funeral. Rowboat, a few cords of wood, 5 gallons of kerosene, and push it out onto Lake Superior when the tide is right. I have many friends who will shoot the flaming arrows. Probably have a competition for it.

I'll have to do this. Yes I am that twisted..lol

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

What... no mint? You're supposed to leave two mints for eyes...

Who lives in Arizona?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

I thought that was a term out of Frank Herbert's *Dune*

What is the craziest, most impulsive thing you've ever done?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 12, 2018:

Drove 65 miles through a blizzard warning to see my *ex* fiance, and her girlfriend (yes, that's right)... just to prove we were still friends. Then drove home again. On the way back, I was almost run off the road by an 18-wheeler merging onto the freeway, found myself in the grassy median strip, braked to a halt... and when the snow cleared I saw, 12 feet in front of me, the steel barricade for the underpass. I had stopped just short. About 3 seconds more and I would have been wrecked, injured or dead.

No wonder they are extinct!

Paul4747 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

The tall guy appears to be an allo-sore-ass... And I bet she's thinking, "What a complete ass."

The Supreme Court Has Destroyed the Principle of the "Consent of the Governed" - Foundation for ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

"Imminent civil unrest" over Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? I think we're being a tad alarmist here. The time of the strict constructionists is over and done. The founders also did not envision a standing Army. Times change.

Alex Jones...fucking idiot.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

What am I gonna do about it? Party hearty in Hell if it turns out he's right, I guess. But consider the track record of making up shit as he goes along, on every topic under the sun. Claimed the Sandy Hook victims were child actors... that Democrat judges erase votes in computer files... that the Charlottesville riots were instigated by liberals (using more actors, dressed up as white supremacists) to create racial hatred. So it's no surprise that he knows jack about atheists as well. What am I really gonna do about it? Ignore this clown.

Overweight shows weakness?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 11, 2018:

I can only add... there's no connection between "moral strength and willpower" and your weight. Be as "strong" as you like, if your body doesn't cooperate, too bad.

Now this is my type of protest poster!

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

Mornings and evenings after 11, round at my place, please. Appointments are appreciated but not necessary.

What I want is to hear a valid argument that their is a God.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

I saw a bunch of them in some movies recently. Film doesn't lie. I think the big blond one was... ummm... Thor, maybe? Yeah. So the Norse gods definitely exist.

I look at Preacher Jeffries who is in Dallas.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

I assume you mean Robert Jeffress. Well, he seems quite sincere... which makes him no less ignorant and bigoted. As for his ignorance of the Constitution... we can say the very same of Trump, now can't we?

Hey boy you must be a summer night because you make me sticky and uncomfortable Step right up and...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

Hey, I know where there's a GREAT motel near here!!

Why Are Most Guys Single?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

Here I was, wondering "Why are most women unavailable?"

The humbling of the atheists: How religion survived the progress of science "Not so long ago, ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

So who's humble already? (Feel free to read that in a Jewish-sounding voice.) I'm a proud atheist. I'll put my atheism up against anyone's theism in 10 rounds, last one standing. Religion! Bah! A lot of fairy tales it is! Who needs it? Nobody, that's who!

'Had Republicans not obstinately blocked Obama’s own supreme court nominee, Merrick Garland, in ...

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

Spot on. McConnell was frustrated in his stated goal of making Obama a "one-term President". Even in Obama's first term McConnell set a course of doing everything possible to frustrate the Democrat agenda and make it impossible to compile a record of achievements, thus keeping the economy as slow as possible and preparing the field for a Republican victory in 2012. When that failed, he simply, bitterly, refused to accept the will of the people and saw it as his role to frustrate Obama by any means possible. Even G. W. Bush was accorded more respect by the Democrats as to the prerogatives of his office than was Obama by Republicans, who frequently treated Obama with open, public contempt. That should have been no surprise to anyone who paid attention during Clinton's presidency, though, when the Democrat was accused of being a rapist, a murderer, and an incompetent by Republicans on their flagship cable network, night after night. Yet any criticism of a Republican is "liberal bias". And so it goes...

This is me. For real! Anybody else feel the same? ;)

Paul4747 comments on Jul 10, 2018:

I was at a loss for words for... okay, I lost track of how long. I crave this kind of person. Of course, the relationship goes both ways... I want to put out too. ;) (With my ex, I was the giver... if I was very very lucky I got. If it was my birthday. Maybe.)

Some Americans are ignorant and proud 136 Should We Send Troops To Wakanda?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

No, but we should definitely support relief efforts for Gondwona. The whole continent is breaking up, for cryin' out loud!!!

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Paul4747 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

Bada- boom.

What I'm going to say is controversial .

Paul4747 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

A., I'm very sorry for what you went through. Nobody should suffer that. B., the occasional spanking in my childhood did not have that effect on me. Looking back on it, it's rather humorous now. Nor did a couple of occasions years ago have any effect on my child or our relationship. She's about to go into high school this year and we've never been closer. Every situation and every family is different. There's no blanket way to say "spanking is abuse", because it's not. Clearly you were abused. I wasn't. My kid wasn't. Every situation is different.

Just how much do you think religion is holding back fundamental scientific research and advancement?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 9, 2018:

Religion in the US has certainly held back stem cell research. The idea that god is sending signs of the End Times has certainly made Xians resist the truth about climate change. As has the idea that we don't need to care for our planet, because we're appointed rulers over it. Religion worldwide has meant people ignore scientific explanations and cures for disease and even epidemics. Lead to our demise? Well, that's a stretch.

Peaceful Protest....

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Go go Godzilla!! https://www.youtube./watch?v=RTzb-sduiWc

are you afraid of death?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Ask me after it happens... Mark Twain wrote, "I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." Who am I to argue?

Spain’s new atheist Prime Minister spells trouble for the Church | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

I see the Church wanted to "abandon stereotypes connected with the past"... yes indeed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF1OtP2Svk

Spain’s new atheist Prime Minister spells trouble for the Church | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Time for an amendment to allow foreign-born citizens to be sworn in as President in the US? I thought Jennifer Granholm (Canadian, former Gov. of Michigan) would make a swell Pres...

Would you get married if you met the right person and what would the marriage actually mean to you?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Never say never again. But it's going to be a while.

Jim Bakker: God Personally Told Me He Sent Donald Trump to Delay the End Times – Friendly Atheist

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

Waitaminutewaitaminutewaitaminute.... If anybody is the Anti-Christ (in the sense of being the exact opposite of the most famous things Jesus says in the NT, you know, love your neighbor, give to the poor, and so on)- it's Chump. I mean Trump. So the Anti-Christ is supposed to be delaying the Antichrist?? I'm so confused...

Pence will attend Southern Baptist Convention meeting amid turmoil over gender - The Washington Post

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

When I got to the line " women should serve churches in 'biblically appropriate ways,'” all that hit me was the story about Lot's daughters getting him drunk and sleeping with him to continue his line... that would be the Southern Baptists to a T.

So I haven't made a post yet but today seen a church sign and felt I needed to.

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

A professional counselor, not using a 12-step program, would be the one to seek out in my opinion. If I recall, the very first step of the 12 is the "higher power" one. That's essentially admitting a person has no control over themselves and asking an outside, fictional being to run things. As an atheist, I have real issues with that. Behavioral counseling would be the way to go.

When a non-believer dies, what can one say instead of "Rest in Peace"?

Paul4747 comments on Jul 8, 2018:

At my friend's wake, a rabid Blue Oyster Cult fan, we played Don't Fear the Reaper It seemed satisfactory for everybody, religious or not.