Like
Haha
Sad
Hug
Wow
Hmmm
Grrr/Dislike
Send SmileNavigation
Bio
‘Open to meeting women’ means:
-
For sharing ideas, conversation and comparing perspectives.
-
Personally meeting some showing mutual interest in cultivating friendship and social activities. There is no sexual or 'relationship' agenda.
-
a possibility of exclusive intimacy eventuating, should in particular become special;. Don't count on it because the 'last train' has probably already left the station. But it doesn't hurt to keep an ear open for a distant whistle..
So, for women in my age range still seeking ‘that ’ as sole motivation for screening, it is vital to point out that I’m not him.
I’m leaving the ‘off feet sweeping’ and hip attachment to other generations.
I avoid rituals as much as possible.
Full BioAmong them are holidays, prayers, pledges, birthdays, anniversaries, special ‘Saint Days’ like Valentines, Patrick’s Day, etc. I wear no jewelry as it is personally meaningless. Suffering being given a piece of Jewelry means a new responsibility to safe-keep something someone else values and its loss would be embarrassing. .
Wealth is highly over-rated. I don't seek it, don't possess it, am not impressed by it and don't hold it in any special regard. It is just another potentially addictive concept that often results in becoming self-definitive.
I reject not theological herd identity but ALL IDENTITY over which control and choice can be exercised. Simply being human ought to be good enough but in our world its more often bad enough.
Personal work background:
All FOH restaurant operations, unskilled labor, sales, modeling for print, fashion and commercials, voice-over, graphic and electrical sign design, singing, volunteer and civic volunteer work.
I’m an autodidact with eclectic interests that don't include spectator sports, mechanical devices, typical guy crap or personal objectification of women. I love women, not as hobbies, sports, pets or flavors as in ice cream; but with awe and appreciation. They are better specimens, in general, of our 'kind' and in more ways superior to males; save a few specialized male abilities often misused.
.
Most important friendship elements are personal integrity, mutual respect, admiration and appreciation of differences as well as commonalities. Last but not least, kindness and respect for living things.
Favorite historical figures are social and scientific pioneers who were unappreciated and misunderstood in their times.
One was Wilhelm Reich, M.D. favorite Reich quotations:
"Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our life. They should also govern it."
“In the act of thought, life comprehends its own essence.”
Rejecting androcratic theologies and gods is a first step toward independence of thought.
Our overseers in this brine we call civilization have more than fear based management tool.. What's called politics differs from religion; being dominated by this world, faith-based, secular ‘parties’. Theology promises 'pie in the sky' and political fanaticism 'pie on earth'. worships invisible gods above and the other, tin-gods and functionally identical ideologies below.
offers theological identity; the other is ideological. Membership prices for both are identical. Simply abdicate all or part of your reasoning faculties and intellectual autonomy in exchange for adopting pre-packaged, off-the-shelf recipes for living (read faith) shared as though they are your own, original product.
How much progress is there in rejecting theology if we cling to its social artifacts, rituals or equally false secular faith systems? They never actually deliver the pie... Blind followers are like Alice in Wonderland:
“There is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.”
“It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected.
“No, it can’t,” said the Queen. “It’s jam every other day: to-day isn’t any other day, you know”
― Lewis Carroll
Atheists surrendering to unexamined theologically rooted social mores, or to partisan doctrines of the political Left or Right are COMEDIC; especially when ridicule of believers is claimed to be the result of THEIR independent thinking.
It is falsely believed that prostitution is ‘the world’s oldest profession’. dominance and the fall in status of females and children to the level of livestock about 6,000 years ago made prostitution sort of a cottage industry. The real oldest profession is the practiced by theologians, politicians, insurance companies, labor unions, pimps and dictators. It is called protection. ‘Join us’ and we’ll protect you from the very fears we instill in you and your imagination. Human imagination has too fertile and vital a role in Nature to be bargained away for fears and formulas for safe captivity. It's time for a big reset.
Comments
Where do you think most of the Agnostic/Atheist type of non-believers live in the civilized world?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 17, 2018:
It is because the world is *not *civilized that we become atheist in the first place.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 17, 2018:
It is because the world is *not *civilized that we become atheist in the first place.
I just cleared level 8. I also just realized I have a "brown star." Ummm, that's funny...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 17, 2018:
Brown is the ribbon color for bullshit awareness. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 17, 2018:
Brown is the ribbon color for bullshit awareness. :)
Porn Hub- Trump and Putin
Silver1wun comments on Jul 17, 2018:
When I was growing up the last people one would expect to 'rattle sabres' were the people on the Left. But when they are out of power and their erstwhile dependents become self-sufficient, I can understand their frustration and urges to become violent; even at the risk of nuclear war.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 17, 2018:
When I was growing up the last people one would expect to 'rattle sabres' were the people on the Left. But when they are out of power and their erstwhile dependents become self-sufficient, I can understand their frustration and urges to become violent; even at the risk of nuclear war.
So what is everyone doing ( or thinking, or drinking ) tonite?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
Jacuzzi with a Corona. Who needs to think? Wannah join me?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
Jacuzzi with a Corona. Who needs to think? Wannah join me?
‘“They said they think it’s Russia; I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia,”...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
A substantial part of 'his' intelligence services has demonstrated intent to undermine his presidency while obstructing due process and justice on behalf of his criminal former opponent. The Left wants it both ways, always. George III was savaged by them over trusting HIS intelligence services on Iraq. (Clinton covered on that error too) They actually can be in error and with an absent server nobody can actually prove how the DNC lost information. If it
was 'in-house' (the late Seth Rich) and high speed or one or more hacks we cannot be known for sure. Then again it might be and corrupt intelligence leadership could be obstructing information getting out yet again.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
A substantial part of 'his' intelligence services has demonstrated intent to undermine his presidency while obstructing due process and justice on behalf of his criminal former opponent. The Left wants it both ways, always. George III was savaged by them over trusting HIS intelligence services on Iraq. (Clinton covered on that error too) They actually can be in error and with an absent server nobody can actually prove how the DNC lost information. If it
was 'in-house' (the late Seth Rich) and high speed or one or more hacks we cannot be known for sure. Then again it might be and corrupt intelligence leadership could be obstructing information getting out yet again.
I want to thank all that replied to my post.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
Personality cults exist on both Right and Left. Fortunately for the country, they are limited to the lunatic fringes. From here, close to the center, it appears a lot more lethal to our system on the system opposing Left than the religious fanatics on the Right.
One can actually vote for one of the two usually abominable choices offered by partisans on each side of the spectrum without being a worshipful sycophant; something else because of their special herd orientation, the majority on the Left cannot grasp. One can also bitterly disagree with some policies of the former candidate, once hired, without condemning him/her as tantamount to being criminal; as hero worshipers tend to do.
Extremism belongs to the partisans regardless which fringe they comprise. They reveal it by the extreme ways they either vilify the opposition personality or deify their golden heroes.
When I detect personality cult minions from either side it is daunting to the hope that someday people will finally reach a starting point wherein our special human gift located between our ears will be cherished instead of abdicated to this tin god politician or that superstitious guru.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
Personality cults exist on both Right and Left. Fortunately for the country, they are limited to the lunatic fringes. From here, close to the center, it appears a lot more lethal to our system on the system opposing Left than the religious fanatics on the Right.
One can actually vote for one of the two usually abominable choices offered by partisans on each side of the spectrum without being a worshipful sycophant; something else because of their special herd orientation, the majority on the Left cannot grasp. One can also bitterly disagree with some policies of the former candidate, once hired, without condemning him/her as tantamount to being criminal; as hero worshipers tend to do.
Extremism belongs to the partisans regardless which fringe they comprise. They reveal it by the extreme ways they either vilify the opposition personality or deify their golden heroes.
When I detect personality cult minions from either side it is daunting to the hope that someday people will finally reach a starting point wherein our special human gift located between our ears will be cherished instead of abdicated to this tin god politician or that superstitious guru.
So today's odd thought.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
It is one of the most prevalent symptoms of the sexual sickness afflicting every member of society. Some overcome. Some hobble about carrying it within. Many have been crippled by it and some of them to the point of very destructive behaviors.
It is not by pure accident or coincidence that the most violent and destructive behaviors related attitudes about sexuality are committed by males. It is also no accident that punishment for natural drives is inflicted by male leaders and damaged female followers wherever evidence of those drives emerges. Naturally loving, spontaneous expressions of love, acceptance and affection 'break-out' now and then. As one sees in the press and around us, they cannot be tolerated and instead of being seen as liberating and instinctive they are ironically condemned as pathological.
It kinds of reminds me of a line at the opening of a movie, with which many of you are sure to be familiar. "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got left to hang on to." When we are stripped of our naturally occurring instinctive ability to express life and love, sometimes all that is left is to say 'fuck it'...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
It is one of the most prevalent symptoms of the sexual sickness afflicting every member of society. Some overcome. Some hobble about carrying it within. Many have been crippled by it and some of them to the point of very destructive behaviors.
It is not by pure accident or coincidence that the most violent and destructive behaviors related attitudes about sexuality are committed by males. It is also no accident that punishment for natural drives is inflicted by male leaders and damaged female followers wherever evidence of those drives emerges. Naturally loving, spontaneous expressions of love, acceptance and affection 'break-out' now and then. As one sees in the press and around us, they cannot be tolerated and instead of being seen as liberating and instinctive they are ironically condemned as pathological.
It kinds of reminds me of a line at the opening of a movie, with which many of you are sure to be familiar. "Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got left to hang on to." When we are stripped of our naturally occurring instinctive ability to express life and love, sometimes all that is left is to say 'fuck it'...
How did you become an atheist and at around what age??
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
When I was a zygote is when it all began. There were a few misguided notions accepted before my capacity to evaluate reality became fully developed, bit unlike so many who were permanently crippled, I survived.
The delusions were only temporary.
Political delusions were tougher because they mix with a few things one can actually see and hear. So, lying and misleading by political gurus is more complicated but no less exploitative and duplicitous.
Crippling political religions operate on a deeper fear level than those propagated about the next world because people can see some actual Hells many places on earth. The scare factor more easily distresses the cattle and causes lots if stampedes and suspicion within the herds.
Indepent thought still has some escaping to do.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
When I was a zygote is when it all began. There were a few misguided notions accepted before my capacity to evaluate reality became fully developed, bit unlike so many who were permanently crippled, I survived.
The delusions were only temporary.
Political delusions were tougher because they mix with a few things one can actually see and hear. So, lying and misleading by political gurus is more complicated but no less exploitative and duplicitous.
Crippling political religions operate on a deeper fear level than those propagated about the next world because people can see some actual Hells many places on earth. The scare factor more easily distresses the cattle and causes lots if stampedes and suspicion within the herds.
Indepent thought still has some escaping to do.
What is your opinion on dating sites? I have mine. Would like yours.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
There are no such things by my definition. They can't be more than meeting sites. At best they can be called blind dating sites. People haven't met first so how is it called dating? Sounds kind of juvenile anyway.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 16, 2018:
There are no such things by my definition. They can't be more than meeting sites. At best they can be called blind dating sites. People haven't met first so how is it called dating? Sounds kind of juvenile anyway.
‘how far will Trump be allowed to go before leaders of the western democracies finally draw the ...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Get used to it. Pretty soon you'll be begging him just like he said. "President Trump! Please stop winning! We're so, so tired of whining!
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Get used to it. Pretty soon you'll be begging him just like he said. "President Trump! Please stop winning! We're so, so tired of whining!
What is the worst thing for a child to see in an R rated movie?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Depends, yup, Depends; especially if they're full.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Depends, yup, Depends; especially if they're full.
Love And Friendship Meet
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Astonishing! Every once in awhile a little cartoony meme comes along to express a profound perspective in a way that it seems no other medium can match in efficacy. Thanks for this.
Now I'm going to steal it for facebook, et al. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Astonishing! Every once in awhile a little cartoony meme comes along to express a profound perspective in a way that it seems no other medium can match in efficacy. Thanks for this.
Now I'm going to steal it for facebook, et al. :)
What are your opinions about technology?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Technology has both put us in better touch with Nature and has helped us escape it. The latter influence seems to be prevalent today and in this generation's 'watch'. I hope it ultimately turns around toward the original path and soon before it becomes a permanent escape from human life itself on the planet.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Technology has both put us in better touch with Nature and has helped us escape it. The latter influence seems to be prevalent today and in this generation's 'watch'. I hope it ultimately turns around toward the original path and soon before it becomes a permanent escape from human life itself on the planet.
Intelligence in others ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Who knows? The human race and other closely comparable species might be naturally programmed with this attitude to suit both perpetuation and advancement of the 'kind'. Seems entirely reasonable to me.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Who knows? The human race and other closely comparable species might be naturally programmed with this attitude to suit both perpetuation and advancement of the 'kind'. Seems entirely reasonable to me.
Them and Me-Women and Men
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Oh, this is sooooo good. The statement seems to indicate that loving people as people is more something taught than untaught; which is the hallmark of male controlled systems.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Oh, this is sooooo good. The statement seems to indicate that loving people as people is more something taught than untaught; which is the hallmark of male controlled systems.
How to recognize my soulmate!
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
There has to be an abundance of those with 'soul mate' qualifications. The difficult part seems to be that they are probably measurable only in parts per thousand or as we use for gases, 'PPM'. I think how we recognize and are drawn to them probably compares to how atoms and compounds of which we are all comprised do it; something similar to 'outer orbit' numbers of electrons.
We use terms variously like animal magnetism and, coincidentally, 'chemistry'... :)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
There has to be an abundance of those with 'soul mate' qualifications. The difficult part seems to be that they are probably measurable only in parts per thousand or as we use for gases, 'PPM'. I think how we recognize and are drawn to them probably compares to how atoms and compounds of which we are all comprised do it; something similar to 'outer orbit' numbers of electrons.
We use terms variously like animal magnetism and, coincidentally, 'chemistry'... :)
Today's question was inspired by MissKathleen.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Terms or one term modified slightly for male/female that express a positive, loving and non-clinical regard would help break the chain of sex negative orientations imposed by family and cultures. Except for the most isolated surviving, so-called primitive societies in which women have parity with men, attitudes toward ANYTHING sexually related have been poisoned from the root up; from the polluted ground of Patrist domination.
As we return to a natural acceptance of ecstatic shared discharge of love and life energy, unimpeded by superstition, more appropriate terms should emerge.
Your suggestion seems to have some 'naughtiness' suggested and playfully so. It is, however, a wonderful project idea! Wouldn't it be great to arrive at something that can literally 'light people up'?
As one who is seldom at a loss for words, I'm stumped so-far and might check-in on this later. Thanks for such a good idea and food for thought.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 15, 2018:
Terms or one term modified slightly for male/female that express a positive, loving and non-clinical regard would help break the chain of sex negative orientations imposed by family and cultures. Except for the most isolated surviving, so-called primitive societies in which women have parity with men, attitudes toward ANYTHING sexually related have been poisoned from the root up; from the polluted ground of Patrist domination.
As we return to a natural acceptance of ecstatic shared discharge of love and life energy, unimpeded by superstition, more appropriate terms should emerge.
Your suggestion seems to have some 'naughtiness' suggested and playfully so. It is, however, a wonderful project idea! Wouldn't it be great to arrive at something that can literally 'light people up'?
As one who is seldom at a loss for words, I'm stumped so-far and might check-in on this later. Thanks for such a good idea and food for thought.
"Civilization is only three weeks old" , my father said many times.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 14, 2018:
The statement also works in a broader scope when applied to our kind; as in our species surviving on this planet. About 6,000 years ago +/- Earth began a period of accelerated desertification that continues into the present.
It is soundly theorized that resulting famine where there had been plenty and the damage it caused peoples overtaken by it accounts for the advent of male social domination and the even greater ultimate damage to our kind. Want for satisfaction of survival needs meant mass migrations and disputes over survival enabling territory.
This new era of intense competition for what was once plentiful called upon specialized abilities possessed by males; placing males with the most aggressive traits in roles of leadership formerly held by females when the environment was filled with life, love of life and abundance.
There is a book for any interested in more accurately detailed inquiry into my admittedly simplistic description. It is the above observation in macrocosmic form with plenty of scientific data to support it:
'Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of the Old World'
by James DeMeo, Phd.
There are other theories attempting to account for the advent of male usurpation of female leadership in human societies. This one, to me, seems most credible as a fundamental cause. It is a story of an entire species descending into destructive, pathogenic social formations caused by sudden deprivation, first out of need for physical survival; followed by unbalanced, self-destructive male domination and want for conquest.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 14, 2018:
The statement also works in a broader scope when applied to our kind; as in our species surviving on this planet. About 6,000 years ago +/- Earth began a period of accelerated desertification that continues into the present.
It is soundly theorized that resulting famine where there had been plenty and the damage it caused peoples overtaken by it accounts for the advent of male social domination and the even greater ultimate damage to our kind. Want for satisfaction of survival needs meant mass migrations and disputes over survival enabling territory.
This new era of intense competition for what was once plentiful called upon specialized abilities possessed by males; placing males with the most aggressive traits in roles of leadership formerly held by females when the environment was filled with life, love of life and abundance.
There is a book for any interested in more accurately detailed inquiry into my admittedly simplistic description. It is the above observation in macrocosmic form with plenty of scientific data to support it:
'Saharasia: The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of the Old World'
by James DeMeo, Phd.
There are other theories attempting to account for the advent of male usurpation of female leadership in human societies. This one, to me, seems most credible as a fundamental cause. It is a story of an entire species descending into destructive, pathogenic social formations caused by sudden deprivation, first out of need for physical survival; followed by unbalanced, self-destructive male domination and want for conquest.
Advice for parenting a first born teen?? So....much.....drama.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 14, 2018:
My observations and personal experience more than a few times have been that if one is a single female parent and the child is male, it can be the breeding conditions for monsters.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 14, 2018:
My observations and personal experience more than a few times have been that if one is a single female parent and the child is male, it can be the breeding conditions for monsters.
I may be off the market soon: Jason at the nail salon has great hands. manipedi shouldermassage
Silver1wun comments on Jul 13, 2018:
Often comes from doing those massages with pedicures. I used to do that in the 1970's. We were licensed to massage to the elbow and knee.
Failed to specify from which direction though. ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 13, 2018:
Often comes from doing those massages with pedicures. I used to do that in the 1970's. We were licensed to massage to the elbow and knee.
Failed to specify from which direction though. ?
Is this just me but when I go to a cafe or bar with a woman, I like to sit where I can see the door.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 13, 2018:
Only in a bar for me. Back to a wall is good enough in a dining room.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 13, 2018:
Only in a bar for me. Back to a wall is good enough in a dining room.
How the Religious Right indoctrinates its followers with a false version of history
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
False historical narratives and atrocities are not monopolies. Every major religion propagates lies and contains counterfeit lunatic fringes of murderous vermin. Whilst remeniscing about Christian atrocities we ought not forget that they are only various sects descended from Judaism. We ought also point out that political Zionism counterfeits itself as Jewish; propagating a false historical narrative and committing criminal atrocities against humanity too. Let's not be narrow and stingey with recognition. ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
False historical narratives and atrocities are not monopolies. Every major religion propagates lies and contains counterfeit lunatic fringes of murderous vermin. Whilst remeniscing about Christian atrocities we ought not forget that they are only various sects descended from Judaism. We ought also point out that political Zionism counterfeits itself as Jewish; propagating a false historical narrative and committing criminal atrocities against humanity too. Let's not be narrow and stingey with recognition. ?
How do you deal with Door-knockers?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by and follow his recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by and follow his recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
How do you deal with Door-knockers?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by an follow hos recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by an follow hos recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
How do you deal with Door-knockers?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by an follow hos recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by an follow hos recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
How do you deal with Door-knockers?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by an follow hos recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Depends on how much time is available and my mood.
Some fun things might be asking them if they are Christians. Further inquiring about whether they just talk about Jesus or actually live by an follow hos recorded example can be fun.
If they calim to live by his example, that's when it's time to invite them in with a big welcoming smile. Offer them a seat while you fetch soap, a foot tub with warm water and a towel.
"My feet are pretty grubby. Who wants to be first?" ?
How do you tell religious people that you're an atheist?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
I say 'I'm atheist'. As long as they understand English, it works well.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
I say 'I'm atheist'. As long as they understand English, it works well.
I am so fucking sick of the fondling father.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Is such abyssmal lack of clear perception congenital or was it intentionally acquired?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Is such abyssmal lack of clear perception congenital or was it intentionally acquired?
So Asset Trump is meeting his handler Putin in private soon.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
This from somebody who doesn't believe in heaven??
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
This from somebody who doesn't believe in heaven??
Looking for Ex JW's?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
As many as possible. ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
As many as possible. ?
Sometime all you want is to be wanted.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Isn't there really anything else? ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
Isn't there really anything else? ?
How many of you pronounce the "t" in often?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
We stopped pronouncing it over here because the high tax made it too expensive.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
We stopped pronouncing it over here because the high tax made it too expensive.
What was your funniest first date?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
I only had one first date. ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
I only had one first date. ?
Former secretary of state Kerry says Trump is ‘destroying our reputation in the world’
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
The reputation we had was in dire need of destruction. We're not going to be weak-knee'd suckers any more.
The country was in political and economic chaos under the Obama/Clinton regime. We dumped them and things are better practically over night.
The Democrats still embrace them (while whining and throwing tantrums) and their party remains in political and economic chaos.
Go figure.... ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 12, 2018:
The reputation we had was in dire need of destruction. We're not going to be weak-knee'd suckers any more.
The country was in political and economic chaos under the Obama/Clinton regime. We dumped them and things are better practically over night.
The Democrats still embrace them (while whining and throwing tantrums) and their party remains in political and economic chaos.
Go figure.... ?
You don't need a perfect relationship.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 10, 2018:
I don't believe that 'relationships' with any others on any level that qualifies for the term can be any better than the inner relationship with self.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 10, 2018:
I don't believe that 'relationships' with any others on any level that qualifies for the term can be any better than the inner relationship with self.
Understanding your mind.?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 9, 2018:
It is the best, first and most important kind. With regard to physical intimacy, if a pair has not gotten emotionally mentally and historically naked before one another, it is too soon to remove a stitch.
Unless, that is, one is willing to settle for less.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 9, 2018:
It is the best, first and most important kind. With regard to physical intimacy, if a pair has not gotten emotionally mentally and historically naked before one another, it is too soon to remove a stitch.
Unless, that is, one is willing to settle for less.
A question for men: 5 women from a singles group went out dancing at a local bar tonight, and not a...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 8, 2018:
We can't help being crippled in our abilities to interact honestly as people of either sex. However, in an egalitarian, reasonably close to secular society, we are all free to reach out to one another.
There is a built-in assumption in the description that females must be asked and not males. To ask, in the first place, opens up the possibility of rejection. Males, we already know, (I certainly do) aren't comfortable with rejection. Personal experience has taught that females tend to be even less able to absorb rejection.
If the women didn't dance and are complaining about it because they weren't asked, are the males really automatically culpable for their unhappiness?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 8, 2018:
We can't help being crippled in our abilities to interact honestly as people of either sex. However, in an egalitarian, reasonably close to secular society, we are all free to reach out to one another.
There is a built-in assumption in the description that females must be asked and not males. To ask, in the first place, opens up the possibility of rejection. Males, we already know, (I certainly do) aren't comfortable with rejection. Personal experience has taught that females tend to be even less able to absorb rejection.
If the women didn't dance and are complaining about it because they weren't asked, are the males really automatically culpable for their unhappiness?
Hello all you godless heathens! Nice to find such a community of free thinkers.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 8, 2018:
Please consider broadening identification of overseers. Theologians aren't the only self-appointed masters of our little earthly universe. Science, reason, history and successful outcomes are as threatening to propagators of false, failed political ideologies as they are to those deluded by religious bunco artists. Individual examination of their sacred dogma or questioning/criticism of their holy sees brings retaliation that is just as lethal. Religion runs part of the world and whores itself to the part of the world run by counterfeit secularity.
Finding pure secularity and government based entirely on reason and lessons of history isn't ours to be enjoyed. It has yet to be earned. Should our kind not destroy itself first, it won't likely happen before centuries into the future; before we're viewed as so many ancestors yoked by intellectual slavery.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 8, 2018:
Please consider broadening identification of overseers. Theologians aren't the only self-appointed masters of our little earthly universe. Science, reason, history and successful outcomes are as threatening to propagators of false, failed political ideologies as they are to those deluded by religious bunco artists. Individual examination of their sacred dogma or questioning/criticism of their holy sees brings retaliation that is just as lethal. Religion runs part of the world and whores itself to the part of the world run by counterfeit secularity.
Finding pure secularity and government based entirely on reason and lessons of history isn't ours to be enjoyed. It has yet to be earned. Should our kind not destroy itself first, it won't likely happen before centuries into the future; before we're viewed as so many ancestors yoked by intellectual slavery.
Collective Identity of Non-theists
Silver1wun comments on Jul 8, 2018:
But for the use of 'trends' I would have voted on the second choice. I have to acknowledge the trends but without allowing them to qualify as making non-believers a 'community' in broad terms. Trends are birthplaces of doctrines and people craving control of others and their points of view for personal benefit and aggrandizement are the parents. Unfortunately, most of these self-appointed leaders and definers of who is more and less legitimate are almost always male.
Rejection of beliefs in doctrines established like so many bridles for us by these would-be teamsters isn't complete evidence of independence of thought. It's only mere rejection of gods and such. What is described as our 'community' would be more pleasant and stimulating if it was closer to a complete escape.
An improvement over agnostic/atheist in filtering out people deluded by theologians would come from adding to it rejection of politogians and their fabrications about future paradises right here on the planet. I've pointed out the similarities making political ideologies functionally identical with their superstitious cousins called religions before.
Bottom line, as in function and outcome, is politically addicted lickspittles are just as captive as are the most ignorant back-woods snake handlers with the added feature of actually worshipping the snakes. They bring their saints and devils into conversations as alleged free thinkers, so proud of themselves for having rejected only one social club because it is superstitious; while proselytizing for their favorite political party or constantly failing political ideology (talk about superstition).
Trying to reason based on individual thought with a far-Right, Fundamentalist Christian or a far-Left Democratic Socialist is like trying to discuss double rainbows with the congenitally blind. If it isn't part of their darkness it not only doesn't exist; but doesn't deserve existence.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 8, 2018:
But for the use of 'trends' I would have voted on the second choice. I have to acknowledge the trends but without allowing them to qualify as making non-believers a 'community' in broad terms. Trends are birthplaces of doctrines and people craving control of others and their points of view for personal benefit and aggrandizement are the parents. Unfortunately, most of these self-appointed leaders and definers of who is more and less legitimate are almost always male.
Rejection of beliefs in doctrines established like so many bridles for us by these would-be teamsters isn't complete evidence of independence of thought. It's only mere rejection of gods and such. What is described as our 'community' would be more pleasant and stimulating if it was closer to a complete escape.
An improvement over agnostic/atheist in filtering out people deluded by theologians would come from adding to it rejection of politogians and their fabrications about future paradises right here on the planet. I've pointed out the similarities making political ideologies functionally identical with their superstitious cousins called religions before.
Bottom line, as in function and outcome, is politically addicted lickspittles are just as captive as are the most ignorant back-woods snake handlers with the added feature of actually worshipping the snakes. They bring their saints and devils into conversations as alleged free thinkers, so proud of themselves for having rejected only one social club because it is superstitious; while proselytizing for their favorite political party or constantly failing political ideology (talk about superstition).
Trying to reason based on individual thought with a far-Right, Fundamentalist Christian or a far-Left Democratic Socialist is like trying to discuss double rainbows with the congenitally blind. If it isn't part of their darkness it not only doesn't exist; but doesn't deserve existence.
Ok, so I have a lunch date tomorrow.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
If this is a first meeting, why call it a date? I know it is common for people to do this. A date just seems to be something one arranges with another person with whom you have enough familiarity to begin with, to want to get to know more about them.
In the absence of that familiarity, such as only Internet contact, it seems at least to me that the more one can communicate ideas before meeting, the better are chances to make it a good one and to also avoid wasting time by going anyway 'when already annoyed'.
Two people asking/answering questions about one another after establishing mutual interest should be easily done over 'lunch'.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
If this is a first meeting, why call it a date? I know it is common for people to do this. A date just seems to be something one arranges with another person with whom you have enough familiarity to begin with, to want to get to know more about them.
In the absence of that familiarity, such as only Internet contact, it seems at least to me that the more one can communicate ideas before meeting, the better are chances to make it a good one and to also avoid wasting time by going anyway 'when already annoyed'.
Two people asking/answering questions about one another after establishing mutual interest should be easily done over 'lunch'.
Since the age of 17 I've only been single for about 6 months, not counting the time since my husband...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
It is one of those states of being that came far too late. It is wonderful to awaken each morning to a world in which nobody is presuming authority to monitor my comings and goings and social contacts. It is also comforting to know that nobody is reading my trust and respect for them as 'not caring' because of no interest in monitoring them.
Should have happened so much earlier, but I'm not ungrateful. ;)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
It is one of those states of being that came far too late. It is wonderful to awaken each morning to a world in which nobody is presuming authority to monitor my comings and goings and social contacts. It is also comforting to know that nobody is reading my trust and respect for them as 'not caring' because of no interest in monitoring them.
Should have happened so much earlier, but I'm not ungrateful. ;)
Singles Chat Room is a great way to meet Singles in your geographic area or expand your horizons and...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
Been there about three times. I don't know why it is called a 'chat room', based on those experiences. Lat time, seven people were there and nobody was chatting about or discussing anything more substantial than hello and goodbye.
Will try again.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
Been there about three times. I don't know why it is called a 'chat room', based on those experiences. Lat time, seven people were there and nobody was chatting about or discussing anything more substantial than hello and goodbye.
Will try again.
I learned , I needed to pay attention to what others had to say about other people , in order to ...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
Lacking additional categories. Love and respect are either priceless or they are counterfeit.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 7, 2018:
Lacking additional categories. Love and respect are either priceless or they are counterfeit.
Why is it so hard to break patterns?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 6, 2018:
There is always time to learn. It is about time itself and how precious it is. Time shouldn't be wasted. If you think it feels bad now, reflecting on it later is worse.
Other than in an acedemic, clinical or once removed attitudinal sense, sex as a focus between strangers is (sorry) ridiculous if your reasons for contact have deeper meaning. Include friendship in that.
Don't want to be used? Don't volunteer. Don't 'settle'. Don't waste time that is priceless in any genuine human relationship.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 6, 2018:
There is always time to learn. It is about time itself and how precious it is. Time shouldn't be wasted. If you think it feels bad now, reflecting on it later is worse.
Other than in an acedemic, clinical or once removed attitudinal sense, sex as a focus between strangers is (sorry) ridiculous if your reasons for contact have deeper meaning. Include friendship in that.
Don't want to be used? Don't volunteer. Don't 'settle'. Don't waste time that is priceless in any genuine human relationship.
Don't go there
Silver1wun comments on Jul 6, 2018:
Gets even better when the answer 'flies over'. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 6, 2018:
Gets even better when the answer 'flies over'. :)
So I haven't made a post yet but today seen a church sign and felt I needed to.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 6, 2018:
As addictions go, religion is probably the least harmful (to the addict that is) of them. It beats substance and other compulsive substitutes in that it isn't quite as self-destructive and might facilitate long enough life to eventually become free of all of them, including religion. A crutch is a similar example.
Religions love addicts also because the 'trade' benefits them. Successful or not, at least some of the addict's substance money goes to new pushers and grateful families kick-in too. It's a win:win for awhile at least.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 6, 2018:
As addictions go, religion is probably the least harmful (to the addict that is) of them. It beats substance and other compulsive substitutes in that it isn't quite as self-destructive and might facilitate long enough life to eventually become free of all of them, including religion. A crutch is a similar example.
Religions love addicts also because the 'trade' benefits them. Successful or not, at least some of the addict's substance money goes to new pushers and grateful families kick-in too. It's a win:win for awhile at least.
What stops you cold when you read a profile?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
Far Left or Right political indoctrination dripping from their chin. Getting here takes rejection of religious indoctrination. Both masters demand the same price and deliver the same returns.
I don't choose to associate with ideological minions. Too many friends and family are already addicted. Who needs'more?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
Far Left or Right political indoctrination dripping from their chin. Getting here takes rejection of religious indoctrination. Both masters demand the same price and deliver the same returns.
I don't choose to associate with ideological minions. Too many friends and family are already addicted. Who needs'more?
Some People Stay In Your Heart and Not Your Life
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
If we are fortunate and don't believe that people are disposable, sometimes they can remain in both the heart and life; just in a different role or at a different level.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
If we are fortunate and don't believe that people are disposable, sometimes they can remain in both the heart and life; just in a different role or at a different level.
How do you feel about parents spanking their children?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
Before a child is equipped to reason, toddler age, yet is able to run and climb is the only stage at which 'spanking', never in anger but possibly feigned anger or sternness, works.
No MUST mean no! Stop MUST means stop. Come here MUST mean come here. To a little mind that cannot yet reason and perhaps has also discovered the fun of running away to be chased, it can mean life and death near a street with lots of traffic or a sheer edge in a high place, etc. Sorry, but I don't know of anything that works better on those little munchkins than a stern vocal warning and a firm 'potch' or two on the rump, usually through a diaper anyway, when they disobey those three commands. It isn't abuse.
Once reasoning begins, natural consequences like being ostracized or deprived of loved, non-necessities and limiting freedom work better, with less hostility and harbored anger than spanking.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
Before a child is equipped to reason, toddler age, yet is able to run and climb is the only stage at which 'spanking', never in anger but possibly feigned anger or sternness, works.
No MUST mean no! Stop MUST means stop. Come here MUST mean come here. To a little mind that cannot yet reason and perhaps has also discovered the fun of running away to be chased, it can mean life and death near a street with lots of traffic or a sheer edge in a high place, etc. Sorry, but I don't know of anything that works better on those little munchkins than a stern vocal warning and a firm 'potch' or two on the rump, usually through a diaper anyway, when they disobey those three commands. It isn't abuse.
Once reasoning begins, natural consequences like being ostracized or deprived of loved, non-necessities and limiting freedom work better, with less hostility and harbored anger than spanking.
I read some recent figures that in 26 states of US (mostly Southern)
the death rate is higher than ...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
There have always been more women than men. Nature assures it in a number of ways besides the foolish stunts and violence associated with too much testosterone.
I've told one of my grandson's countless times when he shouts-out a "Hey Grandpa, watch this!", on his bike, at the pool or on his scooter, with 'Dustin, that is why girls live longer'.
As far as the Southern USA population goes, people with African ancestry are in abundance and the majority in many places. They have more children than other groups except possibly Latinos. Both groups would over-shadow the 'white' population. So be it. It's America. As long as the people of ANY race are here legally and love this country, who cares?
America isn't a race or religion. It is an idea and an ingenious one at that.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
There have always been more women than men. Nature assures it in a number of ways besides the foolish stunts and violence associated with too much testosterone.
I've told one of my grandson's countless times when he shouts-out a "Hey Grandpa, watch this!", on his bike, at the pool or on his scooter, with 'Dustin, that is why girls live longer'.
As far as the Southern USA population goes, people with African ancestry are in abundance and the majority in many places. They have more children than other groups except possibly Latinos. Both groups would over-shadow the 'white' population. So be it. It's America. As long as the people of ANY race are here legally and love this country, who cares?
America isn't a race or religion. It is an idea and an ingenious one at that.
Read this first!
Wilkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! C'mon in!
Want to introduce yourself?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
Hi, I'm Robert. Stompin' grounds are the Desert Pass, Banning/Palm Springs.
Retired from 42 seasons at Palm Springs BEST and most established restaurant, careers in the sign/graphics business and professional modeling/voice over. Now living the good life with 'projects' sculpting and fabricating in different media and with a fledgling agricultural project growing rare tomatoes and peppers. That's fledgling because it's probably for the birds but fun anyway.
I also sing and love the music from the 1920's and 30's; which means most accompanists aren't familiar with the material. I'm here more to meet friends with similar interests than to find 'love'; being a very strange man. :) Lots of women in the Desert area; the most attractive seem to be Republicans or Jewish Democrats. Love happy hour 'sprees' to live entertainment venues and interesting get-togethers anywhere wi a couple of hours. Best to you all!
Silver1wun comments on Jul 5, 2018:
Hi, I'm Robert. Stompin' grounds are the Desert Pass, Banning/Palm Springs.
Retired from 42 seasons at Palm Springs BEST and most established restaurant, careers in the sign/graphics business and professional modeling/voice over. Now living the good life with 'projects' sculpting and fabricating in different media and with a fledgling agricultural project growing rare tomatoes and peppers. That's fledgling because it's probably for the birds but fun anyway.
I also sing and love the music from the 1920's and 30's; which means most accompanists aren't familiar with the material. I'm here more to meet friends with similar interests than to find 'love'; being a very strange man. :) Lots of women in the Desert area; the most attractive seem to be Republicans or Jewish Democrats. Love happy hour 'sprees' to live entertainment venues and interesting get-togethers anywhere wi a couple of hours. Best to you all!
I've noticed this last week before the 4th of July there are a lot less fireworks going off than in ...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
I think it is more likely due to more adults being busy working this year than in MANY YEARS because our president has effected so many improvements to the economy. More people are working by far and minority employment figures are 'off the charts', never so high. In fact, there are now more job openings in our country than qualified people to fill them.
Who's got time to be prematurely playing with fireworks?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
I think it is more likely due to more adults being busy working this year than in MANY YEARS because our president has effected so many improvements to the economy. More people are working by far and minority employment figures are 'off the charts', never so high. In fact, there are now more job openings in our country than qualified people to fill them.
Who's got time to be prematurely playing with fireworks?
It's a mini heatwave in the UK right now.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Yes, I think Al Gore does. Watch out for the sky to fall. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Yes, I think Al Gore does. Watch out for the sky to fall. :)
Why do men want younger women?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
That men want, as in prefer, younger women is attributable to what male dominated, superficially focused 'kultur' has done to men, women and human sexuality. That would be damage.
The many kinds of damage cannot be adequately addressed in a small comment section. On this specific topic, my personal views are naturally colored as much by personal experience as study.
Some of the damage done to women takes the form of body dissatisfaction; even body shame and dislike. It begins early and cripples many a woman's ability to be proud of what she 'brings to the table'; since so much of sexuality in our society is treated as a business deal. Some of the male damage is inflicted with false notions of superiority and diminution of women as existing for us and our purposes over any of her purposes. These may seem to be but are not meant as exclusive causes. I see many others.
As generalized effects of these kinds of damage, I also see women in more advanced years 'doing without' sexual activity for long periods of time. This coupled with body image aspects in romanticizing and nostalgia, but distancing from actual sexual involvement by ages when males are still arrested in teen era fixations on hard bodies and self pleasuring. All too many men have never felt a necessity to even bring something to the table that couldn't be measured with a ruler... It sounds gross and simplistic, but personal perspectives have that kind of license and emotion.
What can possess deeper beauty for men who love women than soft, nurturing affection and wisdom? It is and ought to be absolutely mother-like; primal and stirring of the best we have to offer. The greater part of beauty, perhaps by far the greatest, cannot be perceived by the eyes alone. Unfortunately for all, we males are by nature or by conditioning visually oriented; at least to begin with.
All males are not automatically drawn to younger; to skin-deep attractions; to a role of domination. Most though do and those who don't tend to look toward younger women because (depending on the man's age) many contemporary or elder females have unnecessarily taken themselves out. Females are greater in number and many younger women actually do seem to be attracted to older men. (also part of the damage) Hope my views at least provide a peek at some answers.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
That men want, as in prefer, younger women is attributable to what male dominated, superficially focused 'kultur' has done to men, women and human sexuality. That would be damage.
The many kinds of damage cannot be adequately addressed in a small comment section. On this specific topic, my personal views are naturally colored as much by personal experience as study.
Some of the damage done to women takes the form of body dissatisfaction; even body shame and dislike. It begins early and cripples many a woman's ability to be proud of what she 'brings to the table'; since so much of sexuality in our society is treated as a business deal. Some of the male damage is inflicted with false notions of superiority and diminution of women as existing for us and our purposes over any of her purposes. These may seem to be but are not meant as exclusive causes. I see many others.
As generalized effects of these kinds of damage, I also see women in more advanced years 'doing without' sexual activity for long periods of time. This coupled with body image aspects in romanticizing and nostalgia, but distancing from actual sexual involvement by ages when males are still arrested in teen era fixations on hard bodies and self pleasuring. All too many men have never felt a necessity to even bring something to the table that couldn't be measured with a ruler... It sounds gross and simplistic, but personal perspectives have that kind of license and emotion.
What can possess deeper beauty for men who love women than soft, nurturing affection and wisdom? It is and ought to be absolutely mother-like; primal and stirring of the best we have to offer. The greater part of beauty, perhaps by far the greatest, cannot be perceived by the eyes alone. Unfortunately for all, we males are by nature or by conditioning visually oriented; at least to begin with.
All males are not automatically drawn to younger; to skin-deep attractions; to a role of domination. Most though do and those who don't tend to look toward younger women because (depending on the man's age) many contemporary or elder females have unnecessarily taken themselves out. Females are greater in number and many younger women actually do seem to be attracted to older men. (also part of the damage) Hope my views at least provide a peek at some answers.
Is religion a delusion?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Yup
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Yup
://[www.businessinsider./science-of-cheating-2017-8]
Infidelity.
Your thoughts?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Fidelity and self-esteem are mutually dependent aspects of character. There is no relativism in that regard as long as respect for oneself and belief in the value of commitments is firm.
We are subjected to a system that compromises self-esteem as early as possible; not the least of them being 'original sin'; of being told that we're inherently weak and evil without salvation, Earthly and ethereal..
To see such relativism of character values in popular publications is no surprise.
To the extent that we live, respect and cherish concepts of fidelity and integrity, we'll despise them in others who demonstrate the opposite. That includes anyone we, per chance, behold in a mirror.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Fidelity and self-esteem are mutually dependent aspects of character. There is no relativism in that regard as long as respect for oneself and belief in the value of commitments is firm.
We are subjected to a system that compromises self-esteem as early as possible; not the least of them being 'original sin'; of being told that we're inherently weak and evil without salvation, Earthly and ethereal..
To see such relativism of character values in popular publications is no surprise.
To the extent that we live, respect and cherish concepts of fidelity and integrity, we'll despise them in others who demonstrate the opposite. That includes anyone we, per chance, behold in a mirror.
Good morning and Happy Independence Day from @MrLizard and me! Be safe!
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9rQrbU-HM Today is George's date of birth.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9rQrbU-HM Today is George's date of birth.
Good morning and Happy Independence Day from @MrLizard and me! Be safe!
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Oh yes, this one is special.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Oh yes, this one is special.
I have to share because I know y'all will understand.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Look at the bright side. It could have said Andrew...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 4, 2018:
Look at the bright side. It could have said Andrew...
I am about to do a float in a sensory deprivation tank (starts in 30 mins) and I'm curious what ...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 3, 2018:
Reminds me a bit of marriage. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 3, 2018:
Reminds me a bit of marriage. :)
Here's the thing: Time is never patient; As it has no reason to be.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 3, 2018:
'Twelfth Sonnett'
Silver1wun comments on Jul 3, 2018:
'Twelfth Sonnett'
Now that I finally got into my own digs again (was sharing a house) I am starting to know about ...
Silver1wun comments on Jul 3, 2018:
If 'hooking-up' isn't actually the primary goal, I know of no way to reach it in a natural progression WITHOUT meeting and acquainting for some time. Maybe lunch or dinner isn't the best way. I prefer simpler, more creative ways like a picnic, zoo, double date afternoon, bike ride someplace of local interest, afternoon shooting pool, afternoon bowling; anything that doesn't suggest even a kiss upon first meeting and subsequent first date.
Males, like me, have less to be concerned about in 'shaking' a female who might be interested when were not. We being, and being expected to be, the more aggressive make the process a bit more difficult for women. (I think) We tend to be more frequently obnoxious and 'thick' when it comes to taking a hint. Women tend to feel early rejection somewhat more painfully. I know they are generalizations, but it's the way I've seen it.
One can get to know somebody and screen-out more easily if the meeting and especially subsequent date aren't in the 'traditional' out for of dinner and a concert, etc. that end at the end of the day and when one might be more likely to do more than kiss the frog and suffer 'kisser's remorse'.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 3, 2018:
If 'hooking-up' isn't actually the primary goal, I know of no way to reach it in a natural progression WITHOUT meeting and acquainting for some time. Maybe lunch or dinner isn't the best way. I prefer simpler, more creative ways like a picnic, zoo, double date afternoon, bike ride someplace of local interest, afternoon shooting pool, afternoon bowling; anything that doesn't suggest even a kiss upon first meeting and subsequent first date.
Males, like me, have less to be concerned about in 'shaking' a female who might be interested when were not. We being, and being expected to be, the more aggressive make the process a bit more difficult for women. (I think) We tend to be more frequently obnoxious and 'thick' when it comes to taking a hint. Women tend to feel early rejection somewhat more painfully. I know they are generalizations, but it's the way I've seen it.
One can get to know somebody and screen-out more easily if the meeting and especially subsequent date aren't in the 'traditional' out for of dinner and a concert, etc. that end at the end of the day and when one might be more likely to do more than kiss the frog and suffer 'kisser's remorse'.
This works both ways.❤
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
Yup! Now go out and find him! :)
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
Yup! Now go out and find him! :)
There are many in here who have confused not believing in the judeo Christian God with atheism.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
Rejection of deities and religions propagating such notions is atheist. Adornment with other qualifications is personal/subjective and doesn't apply at large.
Attempts to set qualifications are the roots of orthodoxies. Why abandon one orthodoxy only to find oneself conforming to others?
Not believing in deities is sufficient.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
Rejection of deities and religions propagating such notions is atheist. Adornment with other qualifications is personal/subjective and doesn't apply at large.
Attempts to set qualifications are the roots of orthodoxies. Why abandon one orthodoxy only to find oneself conforming to others?
Not believing in deities is sufficient.
Which movies have you watched more than once and enjoyed them every time?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
'What About Bob'
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
'What About Bob'
Do you even read the previous responses before you spout your opinion on the topic?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
No
Silver1wun comments on Jul 2, 2018:
No
Pick One-Where Are You ?
Silver1wun comments on Jul 1, 2018:
Other than staying single, guess I'm nowhere..
Silver1wun comments on Jul 1, 2018:
Other than staying single, guess I'm nowhere..
If Your Ex Started Dating.....
Silver1wun comments on Jul 1, 2018:
Doesn't matter as long as the question is qualified by 'after'. No crime in finding attraction and interest in another person under any set of circumstances. What counts to me is honesty and that means terminating intimacy (if that is the understanding) with someone before cultivating the possibility of it with another person.
It can happen to anyone at any time, male or female and people would do well to acknowledge that as a fact of life before entering into an understanding of sexual fidelity.
What I see as seriously wrong is deception and carrying-on with another or self-deception in pretending one doesn't know something is not right. Telling the other person that it isn't working for you is honest. It doesn't matter if attraction to somebody else is part of the reason; in fact, all the better reason.
Silver1wun comments on Jul 1, 2018:
Doesn't matter as long as the question is qualified by 'after'. No crime in finding attraction and interest in another person under any set of circumstances. What counts to me is honesty and that means terminating intimacy (if that is the understanding) with someone before cultivating the possibility of it with another person.
It can happen to anyone at any time, male or female and people would do well to acknowledge that as a fact of life before entering into an understanding of sexual fidelity.
What I see as seriously wrong is deception and carrying-on with another or self-deception in pretending one doesn't know something is not right. Telling the other person that it isn't working for you is honest. It doesn't matter if attraction to somebody else is part of the reason; in fact, all the better reason.
Video date from the 80's, how could you turn this down?
[youtu.be]
Silver1wun comments on Jun 29, 2018:
poor thing :(
Silver1wun comments on Jun 29, 2018:
poor thing :(
So after reading some comments on an FB post, I became very curious.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 29, 2018:
1. Nature hasn't done such a bad job with our species and it appears that we are the most advanced on this planet. However evolved we believer ourselves to be, I don't believe we are going to outdo Nature at her own game on any level. When we try, it almost always ends unsuccessfully.
By any name, permanent modification of genitalia for any reason is mutilation. A parent's duty is to protect and foster a child's healthy development. Religion or any other sets of ignorant, superstitious notions do not trump what Nature has ordained without consequences. Genital mutilation in all forms is barbaric, anti-life and anti-Nature.
2. Circumcision is an assumed norm alright; just as female genital mutilation is in some parts of the world. The roots are religious; as are all too many social practices thought to be 'custom' or secular. Both practices, along with so many other archaic and contemporary ways children are afflicted, are crimes against humanity.
3. 'Women's reproductive rights' is a narrow, misleading term substituted for political reasons. All people have (theoretically under our system) bodily sovereignty. Being personal sovereigns includes but is not limited to 'reproductive rights'; as though women are privileged in the matter. The labels 'pro-choice' and 'pro-life' are disingenuous and merely politically motivated dodges from the real issue directly related to power. As in the case of bodily sovereignty, the scope has been limited for political reasons.
Pro this or that is a dodge. The broader, comprehensive issue is this. Who shall have the POWER to determine/define all conditions under which homicide is legally acceptable as remedial choice? The rest is window dressing.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 29, 2018:
1. Nature hasn't done such a bad job with our species and it appears that we are the most advanced on this planet. However evolved we believer ourselves to be, I don't believe we are going to outdo Nature at her own game on any level. When we try, it almost always ends unsuccessfully.
By any name, permanent modification of genitalia for any reason is mutilation. A parent's duty is to protect and foster a child's healthy development. Religion or any other sets of ignorant, superstitious notions do not trump what Nature has ordained without consequences. Genital mutilation in all forms is barbaric, anti-life and anti-Nature.
2. Circumcision is an assumed norm alright; just as female genital mutilation is in some parts of the world. The roots are religious; as are all too many social practices thought to be 'custom' or secular. Both practices, along with so many other archaic and contemporary ways children are afflicted, are crimes against humanity.
3. 'Women's reproductive rights' is a narrow, misleading term substituted for political reasons. All people have (theoretically under our system) bodily sovereignty. Being personal sovereigns includes but is not limited to 'reproductive rights'; as though women are privileged in the matter. The labels 'pro-choice' and 'pro-life' are disingenuous and merely politically motivated dodges from the real issue directly related to power. As in the case of bodily sovereignty, the scope has been limited for political reasons.
Pro this or that is a dodge. The broader, comprehensive issue is this. Who shall have the POWER to determine/define all conditions under which homicide is legally acceptable as remedial choice? The rest is window dressing.
I need some advice.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 29, 2018:
What instrument/s do you play well enough to pass as professional? Is your voice one of them? Do you live in an area that has venues for live entertainment? Are you good at composing and/or with lyrics?
Music, if you're really good, offers so many options for employment while going to school. Depending on your virtuosity and talent, you might be able to 'have it both ways'.
I know many entertainers, most of whom have tough lives financially and some for whom it has been the opposite. Consider teaming-up with another music major for gigs. The whole is always greater than the sum of it's parts, the saying goes and it's true.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 29, 2018:
What instrument/s do you play well enough to pass as professional? Is your voice one of them? Do you live in an area that has venues for live entertainment? Are you good at composing and/or with lyrics?
Music, if you're really good, offers so many options for employment while going to school. Depending on your virtuosity and talent, you might be able to 'have it both ways'.
I know many entertainers, most of whom have tough lives financially and some for whom it has been the opposite. Consider teaming-up with another music major for gigs. The whole is always greater than the sum of it's parts, the saying goes and it's true.
Rant time, at the ripe old age of 62 I find myself back in the dating pool, oh to joy! Hard not to ...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
This IS an attempt at humor, right? There is a 'Silly, Random & Fun' category; click on the wrong one?
Maybe it's different where you live. Even without the Internet, especially for a straight youngster of 62, great women are everywhere. I'll grant that few might be suited well enough to become that special one, but she IS out there somewhere several times. (kind of like with air, expressed in ppm)
We males really have SO MUCH MORE FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE and because of their sheer superior numbers alone, it is a lot tougher for women. I'm not even touching on the religiously rooted system of reciprocals they've been stuck with in the process, if they adhere to them. The content of obnoxious, alone for a reason folks is well represented on both sides. With males dying earlier and so many of us arrested in sexual development at 19, even in our eighties and later, women by far have the tougher 'row to hoe'.
One thing that will probably help you is that you project a sensitivity, almost vulnerability, in your post. It should endear a lot of women. :) Good fortune in your endeavor.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
This IS an attempt at humor, right? There is a 'Silly, Random & Fun' category; click on the wrong one?
Maybe it's different where you live. Even without the Internet, especially for a straight youngster of 62, great women are everywhere. I'll grant that few might be suited well enough to become that special one, but she IS out there somewhere several times. (kind of like with air, expressed in ppm)
We males really have SO MUCH MORE FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE and because of their sheer superior numbers alone, it is a lot tougher for women. I'm not even touching on the religiously rooted system of reciprocals they've been stuck with in the process, if they adhere to them. The content of obnoxious, alone for a reason folks is well represented on both sides. With males dying earlier and so many of us arrested in sexual development at 19, even in our eighties and later, women by far have the tougher 'row to hoe'.
One thing that will probably help you is that you project a sensitivity, almost vulnerability, in your post. It should endear a lot of women. :) Good fortune in your endeavor.
Please make me laugh.?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Would a horse laugh do?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Would a horse laugh do?
It seems to be accepted practice to aim criticism toward the other person when a friendship or ...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
One person alone cannot be culpable for voluntary actions participated in by two people. The saying goes learn from history or repeat it. And, how many folks do we all know (some selves) who live their lives in repetition, blaming the other ALWAYS?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
One person alone cannot be culpable for voluntary actions participated in by two people. The saying goes learn from history or repeat it. And, how many folks do we all know (some selves) who live their lives in repetition, blaming the other ALWAYS?
Would you ever date a religious person?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
"Oh God!" Just doesn't come out with the same level of enthusiasm from an atheist woman. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
"Oh God!" Just doesn't come out with the same level of enthusiasm from an atheist woman. :)
You may; Hate. Despise. Ridicule. Mock.
But he's doing what he said he'd do if elected:
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
I like the one from Baby Huey Bush: "Donald Trump is not a serious candidate." :)
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
I like the one from Baby Huey Bush: "Donald Trump is not a serious candidate." :)
Karaoke picks?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Begin the Beguine
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Begin the Beguine
When you think of it, churches are simply political parties, each with their own agenda, each ...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Religious and political ideologies are functionally identical. They are prescribed sets of doctrines for which price of membership is abdication, all or in part, of individual reasoning faculties and subordination to the thinking of 'leaders'.
Sad that so many who've abandoned phony religious organizations are so blind to their bondage to political pastors.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Religious and political ideologies are functionally identical. They are prescribed sets of doctrines for which price of membership is abdication, all or in part, of individual reasoning faculties and subordination to the thinking of 'leaders'.
Sad that so many who've abandoned phony religious organizations are so blind to their bondage to political pastors.
Where my night owls at? How do y'all get to sleep? I don't recommend my methods...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
There is a method as sure as it is rare. Lest we forget, full orgasmic discharge of energy is followed by a soothing, intense relaxation period including sleep. Unfortunately there are no substitutes and half strength can be even more stimulating/agitating.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
There is a method as sure as it is rare. Lest we forget, full orgasmic discharge of energy is followed by a soothing, intense relaxation period including sleep. Unfortunately there are no substitutes and half strength can be even more stimulating/agitating.
Listening to the news and there is a large problem called Trump.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Want a suggestion do you? I suggest that you consider 'listening' to *real* news. It takes individual effort to find it though. CSPAN helps a little. For all of the boo hooing, FOXNEWS, unlike CNN, MSNBC, NYT et al. Isn't having to retract stories every few weeks. Al Jazeera and RT are pretty good too.
Our domestic pap passing for news is mostly distraction; kinda like a Punch and Judy show for the kids. People hear lots about supposed 'trade wars' just around the corner, Stormy Daniels, poor children at the border about twenty years late and they sop it up like manna.
Watch the hearings in congress if you want to see real news. Uninterpreted, non-spoon-fed events are a great way to exercise individual judgment. If you want to cry about children mistreated by the United States Government, consider also the FACT that we pay over $10 Million a day to the Israeli regime; making it possible for them to indefinitely detatain and torture Palestinian children and shoot them in cold blood for getting within thirty meters of a fence that keeps them out of THEIR OWN COUNTRY and blockaded inside ghettos like Gaza. You won't see any of that in baby's breakfast either.
Trump has many undesirable aspects to his personality, but no more than many of his predecessors. We, non-partisans in the middle ALWAYS determine which partisan candidate will be president. Guess what. We're going to do it again sooner than you think. Polls are as wrong this year as they were in 2016.
This November will put safe spaces in high demand because there will be a blue wave with a smallness of staggering enormity. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
Want a suggestion do you? I suggest that you consider 'listening' to *real* news. It takes individual effort to find it though. CSPAN helps a little. For all of the boo hooing, FOXNEWS, unlike CNN, MSNBC, NYT et al. Isn't having to retract stories every few weeks. Al Jazeera and RT are pretty good too.
Our domestic pap passing for news is mostly distraction; kinda like a Punch and Judy show for the kids. People hear lots about supposed 'trade wars' just around the corner, Stormy Daniels, poor children at the border about twenty years late and they sop it up like manna.
Watch the hearings in congress if you want to see real news. Uninterpreted, non-spoon-fed events are a great way to exercise individual judgment. If you want to cry about children mistreated by the United States Government, consider also the FACT that we pay over $10 Million a day to the Israeli regime; making it possible for them to indefinitely detatain and torture Palestinian children and shoot them in cold blood for getting within thirty meters of a fence that keeps them out of THEIR OWN COUNTRY and blockaded inside ghettos like Gaza. You won't see any of that in baby's breakfast either.
Trump has many undesirable aspects to his personality, but no more than many of his predecessors. We, non-partisans in the middle ALWAYS determine which partisan candidate will be president. Guess what. We're going to do it again sooner than you think. Polls are as wrong this year as they were in 2016.
This November will put safe spaces in high demand because there will be a blue wave with a smallness of staggering enormity. :)
Why can't a man have a friendship with a women like he does with another man?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
I have a few too few of such female friends. It makes appreciation of them so much greater knowing how rare they are. One in particular is a best friend relationship as close as it gets without sexual intimacy.
We once had it as well but mutually recognized some differences in living and outlook that weren't a 'fit' at that level.
We are afflicted by religiously and patriarchally based social canon and erroneous notions that prevent both formation and salvation of close heterosexual, platonic friendships.
Barriers can be overcome with honest examination and refusing to allow others who are not part of the friendship to interfere. It's no easy task for those who've already succombed to being 'saddled' and branded.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
I have a few too few of such female friends. It makes appreciation of them so much greater knowing how rare they are. One in particular is a best friend relationship as close as it gets without sexual intimacy.
We once had it as well but mutually recognized some differences in living and outlook that weren't a 'fit' at that level.
We are afflicted by religiously and patriarchally based social canon and erroneous notions that prevent both formation and salvation of close heterosexual, platonic friendships.
Barriers can be overcome with honest examination and refusing to allow others who are not part of the friendship to interfere. It's no easy task for those who've already succombed to being 'saddled' and branded.
There is no such thing as a 'humble' opinion.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
It makes good sarcasm, also inverted. I highly prize my opinions because most to almost all are personally thought-out and question specific; excluding as much 'group think' as possible.
What passes for personal opinion on most questions today is spontaneous regurgitation of group doctrines and 'identity' based answers that people actually believe are their own; things like talking points.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
It makes good sarcasm, also inverted. I highly prize my opinions because most to almost all are personally thought-out and question specific; excluding as much 'group think' as possible.
What passes for personal opinion on most questions today is spontaneous regurgitation of group doctrines and 'identity' based answers that people actually believe are their own; things like talking points.
Question to atheists: Do you attend religious family events or decline on principle?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
An opinion you want?
Non- believers by any title are thought by most devout believers to be morally adrift. Atheists know that morality is inborn and love is instinctual. The best teacher is example. The most eloquent way to express one's morality is to live it assertively and respectfully; honestly answering why.
Would you attend a 'religious' based genital mutilation ceremony? For me, polite rejection of being a participant or supporter of rituals, initiations, etc. that are personally disturbing is a moral imperitive. For less harmful or silly custom type occasions like birthdays, Christmas parties or St. Patricks Day nonsense, I don't participate in the ritual aspects of them but don't reject being present either.
Honest, straightforward explanations to family and close friends has worked for the most part. Example has worked even better. One close, devout friend in a 'Protestant' cult has told me that he thinks I act more like a Christian than most of the people with whom he attends church.
I politely accepted the insult in the kind, loving way he meant it. :)
Silver1wun comments on Jun 27, 2018:
An opinion you want?
Non- believers by any title are thought by most devout believers to be morally adrift. Atheists know that morality is inborn and love is instinctual. The best teacher is example. The most eloquent way to express one's morality is to live it assertively and respectfully; honestly answering why.
Would you attend a 'religious' based genital mutilation ceremony? For me, polite rejection of being a participant or supporter of rituals, initiations, etc. that are personally disturbing is a moral imperitive. For less harmful or silly custom type occasions like birthdays, Christmas parties or St. Patricks Day nonsense, I don't participate in the ritual aspects of them but don't reject being present either.
Honest, straightforward explanations to family and close friends has worked for the most part. Example has worked even better. One close, devout friend in a 'Protestant' cult has told me that he thinks I act more like a Christian than most of the people with whom he attends church.
I politely accepted the insult in the kind, loving way he meant it. :)
Soulmates: do they exist?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 25, 2018:
It is only a commonly used term, whatever the etiology, describing a bond so apparently compatible that those experiencing it feel as though 'fate has taken a hand'. Sometimes others call especially compatible people soul mates. Given the size of populations, there must be many people who, under the right circumstances, would qualify.
I think the way people bond is similar to how chemicals bond. An atom or compound will have what we used to call (possibly still) an 'outer orbit'. The right number of electrons in that outer orbit was thought to determine the presence or absence of attraction in forming chemical bonds; some more and less complicated and some more and less stable.
In living and observing life while also aware that we literally are walking chemistry sets, I see functional similarities in how some people attract for solid bonds and others weaker. Soul mates seem to be the optimal situation but not perfect; there really being no such thing.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 25, 2018:
It is only a commonly used term, whatever the etiology, describing a bond so apparently compatible that those experiencing it feel as though 'fate has taken a hand'. Sometimes others call especially compatible people soul mates. Given the size of populations, there must be many people who, under the right circumstances, would qualify.
I think the way people bond is similar to how chemicals bond. An atom or compound will have what we used to call (possibly still) an 'outer orbit'. The right number of electrons in that outer orbit was thought to determine the presence or absence of attraction in forming chemical bonds; some more and less complicated and some more and less stable.
In living and observing life while also aware that we literally are walking chemistry sets, I see functional similarities in how some people attract for solid bonds and others weaker. Soul mates seem to be the optimal situation but not perfect; there really being no such thing.
So, I put myself out there on POF, briefly, and as usual, became completely discouraged and went ...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
I think you're veey interesting, attractive personality and picture as well. Unfortunately, like ypu say, there are aboit 40 things between us called states. :(
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
I think you're veey interesting, attractive personality and picture as well. Unfortunately, like ypu say, there are aboit 40 things between us called states. :(
When it's hotter than heck?
What's your favorite hot hot weather activity?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Wet bellies slapping... Did I say that!??
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Wet bellies slapping... Did I say that!??
Your favorite dog breed!
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Funny, I was thinking Basset hound and clicked intending to answer that and VOILA!
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Funny, I was thinking Basset hound and clicked intending to answer that and VOILA!
Your favorite dog breed!
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Funny, I was thinking Basset hound and clicked intending to answer that and VOILA!
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Funny, I was thinking Basset hound and clicked intending to answer that and VOILA!
Do you believe that white people are born with unearned privilege?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Privilege, like other words, has undergone some absurd expansion of meaning the more it is misused. Some call it expansion but come to think of it, decay also applies.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Privilege, like other words, has undergone some absurd expansion of meaning the more it is misused. Some call it expansion but come to think of it, decay also applies.
What’s the best thing about you?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
The ability to see point of view expressed by a group and support it without taking out a membership or accepting an 'honorary' one; usually conferred by the opposition.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
The ability to see point of view expressed by a group and support it without taking out a membership or accepting an 'honorary' one; usually conferred by the opposition.
Does anyone know who the author of this quote is?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Reminds me a little of Tempest. Act 4 Scene 1
"And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself—
Yea, all which it inherit—shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
Reminds me a little of Tempest. Act 4 Scene 1
"And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself—
Yea, all which it inherit—shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
Well, it IS the day of rest.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
My kinda Jesus.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 24, 2018:
My kinda Jesus.
Quiz: What's Your Sense of Humor? -- Science of Us
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
Being 'affiliative' fills me with an uncomfortable sense of belonging.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
Being 'affiliative' fills me with an uncomfortable sense of belonging.
Why are you athiest?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
Most 'common beliefs' go against us and it has been happening for over 6,000 years. Atheism is tha nascent, natural state until fantasies are induced by family and society.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
Most 'common beliefs' go against us and it has been happening for over 6,000 years. Atheism is tha nascent, natural state until fantasies are induced by family and society.
If you have been called out for mansplaining or microaggressions, if you resist calling people by ...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
None of us possess an inherent right to be humored in our departures from reality. If I choose to be called Theodore Roosevelt, like you or any other individual, I have the freedom to do so. What we do not and should not have is a requirement of any kind placed upon others to treat it with respect. That is a matter of prevalent manners, but no more.
If I want to be atheist, it's my business and right; as would be titling myself His Heathenness. To expect others to address me in such a fashion would cause a great deal of eye rolling. I might be offended by it as well. But I have no privileged power to impose upon them a requirement to address me as 'Your Heathenness'.
All males have been female until androgens cause us to develop as males. Females have NEVER been males and, save a few special differentiations, are the better functioning and more survivable humans. For a male to merely 'think' himself to be female is perhaps vivid and real subjectively, but in this real world of life function and scientific fact, the notion is absurd.
All of the whining and cross-dressing and hormones and surgeries that can ever be developed will not rid us of the Y Chromosome. All of the pretending and cooperation of others with it we can devise cannot give a male the experience of growing up female or certain circumstantial conditions of extreme vulnerability felt by females. The list goes on but objective reality needs no arguments for the overwhelming majority of people who live it.
One cannot define or legislate good or poor manners for others; especially when it is based on fantasy. That is the very battle atheists fight against theologians who try to impose respect and the force of law upon others because of THEIR fantasies.
It is just as much a disorder as anorexia. In one case one sees a woman in the mirror. In the other, regardless of how gaunt in reality, one sees fat. Because nobody else sees a person starving as over-weight isn't their deficiency, they might sympathize or try to politely disagree, but they owe no apologies or humoring.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
None of us possess an inherent right to be humored in our departures from reality. If I choose to be called Theodore Roosevelt, like you or any other individual, I have the freedom to do so. What we do not and should not have is a requirement of any kind placed upon others to treat it with respect. That is a matter of prevalent manners, but no more.
If I want to be atheist, it's my business and right; as would be titling myself His Heathenness. To expect others to address me in such a fashion would cause a great deal of eye rolling. I might be offended by it as well. But I have no privileged power to impose upon them a requirement to address me as 'Your Heathenness'.
All males have been female until androgens cause us to develop as males. Females have NEVER been males and, save a few special differentiations, are the better functioning and more survivable humans. For a male to merely 'think' himself to be female is perhaps vivid and real subjectively, but in this real world of life function and scientific fact, the notion is absurd.
All of the whining and cross-dressing and hormones and surgeries that can ever be developed will not rid us of the Y Chromosome. All of the pretending and cooperation of others with it we can devise cannot give a male the experience of growing up female or certain circumstantial conditions of extreme vulnerability felt by females. The list goes on but objective reality needs no arguments for the overwhelming majority of people who live it.
One cannot define or legislate good or poor manners for others; especially when it is based on fantasy. That is the very battle atheists fight against theologians who try to impose respect and the force of law upon others because of THEIR fantasies.
It is just as much a disorder as anorexia. In one case one sees a woman in the mirror. In the other, regardless of how gaunt in reality, one sees fat. Because nobody else sees a person starving as over-weight isn't their deficiency, they might sympathize or try to politely disagree, but they owe no apologies or humoring.
Will Trump win in 2020?
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
Sometimes it really is disappointing to realize how self deluded I was; delighting in the discovery of this site because I found quite a few people focused in reality. Then a post like this draws so many comments demonstrating the opposite.
There is such a long way to go. Purveyors of 'faith' have nothing about which to feel anxious in our times.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 23, 2018:
Sometimes it really is disappointing to realize how self deluded I was; delighting in the discovery of this site because I found quite a few people focused in reality. Then a post like this draws so many comments demonstrating the opposite.
There is such a long way to go. Purveyors of 'faith' have nothing about which to feel anxious in our times.
Famous sex robot can now refuse sex if she’s not in the mood | SYFY WIRE
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
A dubious step up from cadavers.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
A dubious step up from cadavers.
Two ex-Agnostic.com singles concerting in Gainesville.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
Looking good.
:)
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
Looking good.
:)
Ann Coulter says the children crying after being separated from their parents at the border are ...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
Want real children crying and tortured, by the way, in captivity? The US government supports it, so get mad about it too. And while you're at it get mad about the children also shot in cold blood, not for crossing a 'border' but by getting within 30 meters of one. In Gaza, wholesale cold blooded murder us supported by our government and not a single politician has ANYTHING to say about it.
This border situation isn't new but it's all the Left has left to distract people from real news going on in Congress every day; real news revealing the vile corruption at highest levels of the FBI and our 'intelligence community'... By all means whiners, don't look at that. I'm sure you won't n0t just because it isn't getting coverage in state/corporate media, but because you really don't want to know.
I fully inderstand; having dealt with frightened Christian Fundamentalists who also don't really want to know anything conflicting with what THEIR overseers tell them.
November will be a 'come to Jesus' opportunity for all of the sycophants after another historic election victory for the GOP. You don't have to be a Republican to see that.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
Want real children crying and tortured, by the way, in captivity? The US government supports it, so get mad about it too. And while you're at it get mad about the children also shot in cold blood, not for crossing a 'border' but by getting within 30 meters of one. In Gaza, wholesale cold blooded murder us supported by our government and not a single politician has ANYTHING to say about it.
This border situation isn't new but it's all the Left has left to distract people from real news going on in Congress every day; real news revealing the vile corruption at highest levels of the FBI and our 'intelligence community'... By all means whiners, don't look at that. I'm sure you won't n0t just because it isn't getting coverage in state/corporate media, but because you really don't want to know.
I fully inderstand; having dealt with frightened Christian Fundamentalists who also don't really want to know anything conflicting with what THEIR overseers tell them.
November will be a 'come to Jesus' opportunity for all of the sycophants after another historic election victory for the GOP. You don't have to be a Republican to see that.
And, just to be clear, crossing the border illegally is a MISDEMEANOR!! You know, like jaywalking!...
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
Only a misdemeanor on first offense; then a felony. We're far too lenient and should follow Mexico's example.
Silver1wun comments on Jun 22, 2018:
Only a misdemeanor on first offense; then a felony. We're far too lenient and should follow Mexico's example.
You like Silver1wun
X
Details
Atheist, Humanist, Secularist, Skeptic, Freethinker
Here for community - BirthdayMarch 24
- Interested InFriends Only
- EnjoysDrinking, Food, Music, Science, Books, Outdoors, Art, Love, Sex, Theater, Pets, Travel
- EducationPrefer not say
- Top tags#god #world #reason #video #children #religion #friends #society #sex #religions #religious #DonaldTrump #relationship #Atheist #existence #fear #laws #hope #atheism #parents
- Level7 (49,331pts)
- Posts181
-
Comments
Replies 1,537
913 - Followers 24
- Fans 0
- Following 21
- Fav. Posts 5
- Joined Feb 11th, 2018
- Last Visit Very recently
Silver1wun's Groups
Topic of the day
94620 members
Just for Laughs
3328 members
Out Of The Illusion
1736 members
Singles/Mingle/Chat
1653 members
Paleontology, Archeology, and Anthropology
659 members
This Day In History
165 members
Godless Musicians
145 members
The Union, Dues and Mod Free
33 members
Community Senate
382 members