I'm unsure as whether or not this subject has been brought up on this Site before or not, but here ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 27, 2019:

christ! I didn't know Broken Hill was in USA. I never heard of such blatant discrimination except when it's me, tossing out the door knockers at my own front door (apart from when I see it on the telly)/ Anyway, I have to say I watched Life of Brian more than once or twice and I believe I can ...

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@MsDemeanour Nope, definitely not the heat since he is exactly the same type of obnoxious creature no matter what season it is.

I hear from my brother frequently about how concerned he is I'm going to hell.

evergreen comments on Dec 27, 2019:

Good points ! I like to use a FB meme I saw a while back, saying : Since humans began , they have created over 4000 gods. And for each one, there were/are people who believed in them absolutely, without any doubt. That alone proves to me that man created god(s), not the other way around ...

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

I don't mean to be pedantic here my friend BUT your total of Gods/Deities created by humans since they first evolved and became somewhat aware is missing at least 2 zeros given that the Hindu Religion alone contains approx. 30,000 Gods/Goddesses both major and minor ones. And if one were to include, logically, the Saints that Catholics have then their 'pantheon' would not contain merely the 3 of the 'Trinity' but a sum of approx. 2,000+ Demi-gods at least. It would not stretching it to say that Homo Sapiens have created/invented at least 2.5 million gods/deities approx. in the years that we have been around.

I'm unsure as whether or not this subject has been brought up on this Site before or not, but here ...

Bierbasstard comments on Dec 27, 2019:

Wow! Your neighbor is a real piece of work. Does he not have any skeletons in his family closet that he should be held accountable for?

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

At a rough guess, I'd say he'd have more 'skeletons in his closet' than any Museum of Natural History could EVER hope to have.

Oh those crazy christians, what will they think of next?

Triphid comments on Dec 27, 2019:

Now if that had happened here where I live I'd be the one running around outside shouting " It burns, it burns." LOL.

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@Surfpirate Oh I'd believe it no problems, met on like that when he was a house-guest at my Evangeloon neighbor's house a few years back now. Thank the stars that they are males and couldn't breed otherwise the world would be in a real shit-load of trouble if they did.

I'm unsure as whether or not this subject has been brought up on this Site before or not, but here ...

Jnei comments on Dec 27, 2019:

Personally, I'd have gone on the offensive immediately - but rather than the whole "same God/Torah/Romans" argument I'd have got straight to the point and told my evangelical neighbour there and then that he's an antisemitic asshole who ought to feel ashamed of holding such views. I'd have followed ...

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

Under normal circumstances I would have "gone on the offensive" but Isaac was patently becoming quite stressed out and very emotionally upset so instead I continued to usher him into my house. though I have put a terse letter in the mailbox of that Evangeloon's house informing him of my intent to e-mail a record of his outrageous behavior and blatant racist remarks to the Anti-Discrimination Board in N.S.W. on Isaac's behalf and mine.

Brain Sees Men As Whole, Women In Parts.

Triphid comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Save me from those skinny scrawny women who are so thin they could give you paper-cuts every time you touched them. Give me a 100% natural woman any day, it is NOT aesthetic outside that attracts me for that usually hides all kinds of faults and flaws, especially when they are liberally covered ...

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@Stephanie99 "Skinny and Scrawny" in Aussie parlance means a whole different to what you are envisaging I think. Possibly Cadaverous/ virtually Skeletal might better suit those whom I was describing, i.e. ( and again in Aussie speak) So bloody thin and bony that they have to run around in circles under the shower just to wet,

I'm unsure as whether or not this subject has been brought up on this Site before or not, but here ...

CarolinaGirl60 comments on Dec 27, 2019:

Your neighbor sounds like quite an, um, asshole. IMHO. Lacking empathy and kindness, to put it another way. I’m thinking you’re basically right about the history of religions but there are many here more learned than me. My point is: we’re all HUMAN. Except maybe that neighbor😬😬😬

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

Sorry but I think you are being way to kind by simply calling him "an asshole," I can think of countless better descriptive words that would apply perfectly to him BUT considering there are ladies present I refrain from using them here.

I'm unsure as whether or not this subject has been brought up on this Site before or not, but here ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 27, 2019:

christ! I didn't know Broken Hill was in USA. I never heard of such blatant discrimination except when it's me, tossing out the door knockers at my own front door (apart from when I see it on the telly)/ Anyway, I have to say I watched Life of Brian more than once or twice and I believe I can ...

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

Hey, not ALL of Broken Hill as totally dumb, stupid, etc, as he is, the majority of us Hillites are just normal everyday average and friendly people but that dipshit of a neighbor actually migrated ( more likely exported or deported imo) here from the east coast of N.S.W.

I'm unsure as whether or not this subject has been brought up on this Site before or not, but here ...

AnneWimsey comments on Dec 27, 2019:

Your neighbor needs a home visit from Social Services to determine if he is mentally fit to live unassisted. Call the non-911 police number and ask for one, explaining he is acting erratically.

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

He has already had an assessment, had 3 weeks in a Psychiatric Hospital and was released to come home after that.

Are there any Atheist writers on here?

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

i am an atheist and i am a writer. i don't know if that makes me an atheist writer lol. i charge for my editing services but i wish you luck! i have not seen anything about specifically minority writing so if you have stuff to share, go for it! and again, good luck! g

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@genessa You, my friend are as welcome to utilize it when and where ever you so desire, just as are any others here on this site.

Are there any Atheist writers on here?

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

i am an atheist and i am a writer. i don't know if that makes me an atheist writer lol. i charge for my editing services but i wish you luck! i have not seen anything about specifically minority writing so if you have stuff to share, go for it! and again, good luck! g

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@genessa Yeah I know and may Fate, Destiny and whatever else always stand at my side and help repel off any temptations that religions may seek to place in my way and may they do the same for you.

Are there any Atheist writers on here?

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

i am an atheist and i am a writer. i don't know if that makes me an atheist writer lol. i charge for my editing services but i wish you luck! i have not seen anything about specifically minority writing so if you have stuff to share, go for it! and again, good luck! g

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@genessa Ah, but one can write from a 'Christian' perspective and still not a Christian, just as there those who can write from the Ancient Roman perspective, for example, and are most definitely not Ancient Romans,

Brain Sees Men As Whole, Women In Parts.

Triphid comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Save me from those skinny scrawny women who are so thin they could give you paper-cuts every time you touched them. Give me a 100% natural woman any day, it is NOT aesthetic outside that attracts me for that usually hides all kinds of faults and flaws, especially when they are liberally covered ...

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@LiterateHiker It ALL was a compliment. "Fair Go" is an Aussie saying that can mean anything from. " Come on that was great why stop," " We're having fun and enjoying it so why stop now," etc, etc, right through to similar to " Hey ease up there, you're being a harsh, mean, etc, etc, " But I wrote to mean simply that I was enjoying our debate immensely and didn't want it to stop.

Are there any Atheist writers on here?

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

i am an atheist and i am a writer. i don't know if that makes me an atheist writer lol. i charge for my editing services but i wish you luck! i have not seen anything about specifically minority writing so if you have stuff to share, go for it! and again, good luck! g

Triphid replies on Dec 27, 2019:

@genessa Hey, I hate chilis but I don't write about them either but I do write/compose poetry and am an Atheist so as an Atheist and a Poet in can call myself an Atheist Poet if I wish vice versa IF I were Christian and a Poet I could then call myself a Christian Poet not that day nor title would ever happen thankfully.

Brain Sees Men As Whole, Women In Parts.

Triphid comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Save me from those skinny scrawny women who are so thin they could give you paper-cuts every time you touched them. Give me a 100% natural woman any day, it is NOT aesthetic outside that attracts me for that usually hides all kinds of faults and flaws, especially when they are liberally covered ...

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

@Gwendolyn2018 Aw, fair go, I was enjoy this 'fun' debate.

Are there any Atheist writers on here?

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

i am an atheist and i am a writer. i don't know if that makes me an atheist writer lol. i charge for my editing services but i wish you luck! i have not seen anything about specifically minority writing so if you have stuff to share, go for it! and again, good luck! g

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

@KayaSummerland Well was not the entire Goat-Herders Guide to the Galaxy merely a work of fiction anyway? Ergo, since you say your ARE an Atheist and are writing a book then you are an Atheist Writer are you not?

Brain Sees Men As Whole, Women In Parts.

Triphid comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Save me from those skinny scrawny women who are so thin they could give you paper-cuts every time you touched them. Give me a 100% natural woman any day, it is NOT aesthetic outside that attracts me for that usually hides all kinds of faults and flaws, especially when they are liberally covered ...

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

@Gwendolyn2018 No, not in any way at all. In actual fact I know and am good friends with many women who are either my age or older and they are in excellent 'shape' given the ravages of time, etc. Yet I know many younger women, much, much younger in fact, for the sake of an example, If they were a car then any Insurance Company would class them as being a Complete and Total Write-Off mostly due to the fact that they have ' used and abused' to an extreme extent both the inner workings and the outer body as well. Personally, I much prefer to look directly at the face and eyes of anyone I'm talking to, etc, be they male or female, rather than to scan/ogle the body as ever so many other men appear to do.

Logic is not a common thing in the minds of religious zealots.

HarrySlick comments on Dec 25, 2019:

It’s called BLIND faith

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

And with the GREATEST emphasis on the BLIND bit in my opinion.

Brain Sees Men As Whole, Women In Parts.

Triphid comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Save me from those skinny scrawny women who are so thin they could give you paper-cuts every time you touched them. Give me a 100% natural woman any day, it is NOT aesthetic outside that attracts me for that usually hides all kinds of faults and flaws, especially when they are liberally covered ...

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

@Gwendolyn2018 No, not meant as 'objectification,' but merely as a compliment to her ratio of physical health and fitness in relation to her years.

Brain Sees Men As Whole, Women In Parts.

Triphid comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Save me from those skinny scrawny women who are so thin they could give you paper-cuts every time you touched them. Give me a 100% natural woman any day, it is NOT aesthetic outside that attracts me for that usually hides all kinds of faults and flaws, especially when they are liberally covered ...

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

@LiterateHiker Ah shit no, you're not what I'd class as being the 'paper-cutting ' type of woman, I can easily see that there is REAL meat on the bones, all the curves in the right places, etc.

Aw, more sad news has emerged from the local 'Bush Telegraph' here in Outback New South Wales.

HerbertNewsam comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Lets have a party... On celebrating such sad news...lol Where's my vape and popcorn...

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

Sorry Mate, but I kind of started the party as soon as I heard the news, I broke out and had an extra coffee, a Scotch and Dry, wrote myself a reminder note to block my phone number when I ring the Jehovah's Witnesses next Sunday and invite them all to attend the next LDS meeting.

Aw, more sad news has emerged from the local 'Bush Telegraph' here in Outback New South Wales.

Redheadedgammy comments on Dec 26, 2019:

Sad news? Nope, this is another good news story. I am assuming you were being facetious, so thanks for bringing a smile to my face!!!

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

You are right I was being very facetious.

This popped up on another site. Does anyone know anything about this study?

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

I seem to remember such a study being conducted in Australia a few years ago that came back with very similar results. The study went as far as including both Public Schools and Private Religious ones as well. The result showed, overwhelmingly, that non-religious children were more apt to be ...

Triphid replies on Dec 26, 2019:

@TheMiddleWay I'm fairly sure that IF you search long enough you will find somewhere in the backblocks of Information on the Internet, but I actually read it an article in a Scientific Magazine I was reading in the Waiting Room at my G.P's Surgery if memory serves me correctly.

G'day Fellow aussie sceptics, we have yet another new member joining our sceptical little group.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 25, 2019:

Whadya mean giving them 2 seconds off! G'day Liz.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Yep, more than likely BUT as far as anyone knows these days has never ever actually bred thankfully.

G'day Fellow aussie sceptics, we have yet another new member joining our sceptical little group.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 25, 2019:

Whadya mean giving them 2 seconds off! G'day Liz.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Oh yeah he was most definitely a LIFE member.

G'day Fellow aussie sceptics, we have yet another new member joining our sceptical little group.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 25, 2019:

Whadya mean giving them 2 seconds off! G'day Liz.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Perhaps, just perhaps, try feeding it to the local Politicians, tying them to posts and using them as Street lights might be a well worth idea....LOL. At least then they WOULD be doing something useful for a change....LOL.

G'day Fellow aussie sceptics, we have yet another new member joining our sceptical little group.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 25, 2019:

Whadya mean giving them 2 seconds off! G'day Liz.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Lucky you found a decent 'McCulloch' then, hey. We had a Fitter and Turner ( Diesel Mechanic btw) on the State Rail Authority here named McCulloch, nicknamed 'Chainsaw' mainly because he made a whole of noise, did very bloody little and was about as much use a using a butter knife to cut through a wooden fence post.

This popped up on another site. Does anyone know anything about this study?

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

I seem to remember such a study being conducted in Australia a few years ago that came back with very similar results. The study went as far as including both Public Schools and Private Religious ones as well. The result showed, overwhelmingly, that non-religious children were more apt to be ...

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@TheMiddleWay " You also said that I presented overwhelming evidence in favor of the non-religious." Err, could you PLEASE elucidate as to WHERE EXACTLY I made that comment?

What I do not understand is the fact that although the Prime Minister is in denial and devoid of ...

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

Probably because he, the Government, would have to pay actual wages.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Guess it most probably was a case of 'Orders from Above' and knowing this 'Commander' to be a 100% Arse-kisser that he is it'd be his " go to default" position to try ensure that HE wouldn't be in any position where he MAY have to get either dirty or sweaty, after all, he isn't known as " Never Sweat" locally for nothing. Butt given the Bush-fire emergency situation, the nation-wide feelings and that some other Army Units are already involved in fighting the Bush-fires, etc, I doubt if there will a Courts Martial of the Local Contingent on the horizon BUT I'm thinking 'Never Sweat' may be considering moving to a new location now this has leaked out.

This video of an Australian "Firenado" may, because of copyright, not be available outside of ...

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

Ooh shit a brick that is bloody terrifying, never seen one like that but have seen more than enough Willi-Wllies in my time in the bush that picked up literally everything in reach and tossed them into the like feathers. I still remember clearly watching as one about 20' across roared through the ...

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Not even remotely close.

The (Legal) War Against Nonbelievers

FearlessFly comments on Dec 25, 2019:

SCOTUS 101: Prayer in Public Schools https://www.historynet.com/scotus-101-prayer-public-schools.htm

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

At least in Australia they had the sense and decency to legislate that 'Prayers in PUBLIC Schools' was no longer a 'necessity' but an Individual Right. Praying in Public Schools in Australia became 'phased out' in the mid to late 60's as did Compulsory Public School Scripture Classes, thankfully. But, sadly, we now have had successive LNP Governments here and, in opinion, a GUTLESS ALP and equally GUTLESS other minor Parties in Opposition, there has been numerous 'pushes' by the LNP to re-instate Religion/s into Public Schools under equally numerous disguises.

The (Legal) War Against Nonbelievers

NoPlanetB comments on Dec 25, 2019:

There's a war alright but it's not on the religious... The problem with the religious idea that they are being oppressed is that to them lack of privilege feels like oppression. They have been in power with their privilege so long that being "only" equal feels like powerless. It isn't but that's ...

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@twill The majority of Christians, it seems, thrive upon screaming 'Persecution' at every possible opportunity they can find or imagine. But they never have been truly persecuted, even way back in the days of Ancient Rome BECAUSE the Romans did NOT seek to persecute those whom they conquered for their 'non-Roman' systems of belief, many 'non-Roman' belief systems and Deities were actually adopted and adapted into the Roman Pantheon, Mithras, Isis, Osiris, etc, etc, to name but a very few. There were NO episodes of 'Christians' being fed to lions, crucified in the Arenas, etc, even the myth of Peter being crucified upside down was contrived in fact, all this 'persecution' was contrived as an attempt to get the populace on their side and to make the populace become a part of their 'new' religion.

What I do not understand is the fact that although the Prime Minister is in denial and devoid of ...

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

Probably because he, the Government, would have to pay actual wages.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Just heard on the 'Bush Telegraph' that our local Army Reserve Contingent has 'disobeyed' orders and gone off to help fight the Bush-fire down in the Adelaide hills. Word has it that they unanimously told their local 'Commander' to "shove his orders" and marched off in unison taking 2 trucks loaded with fire fighting equipment with them as well. Bloody GOOD show by these young men and ladies in my opinion.

This video of an Australian "Firenado" may, because of copyright, not be available outside of ...

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

Ooh shit a brick that is bloody terrifying, never seen one like that but have seen more than enough Willi-Wllies in my time in the bush that picked up literally everything in reach and tossed them into the like feathers. I still remember clearly watching as one about 20' across roared through the ...

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@FrayedBear Mate, I doubt that the 'Susie' experience could ever be told accurately in a movie. No actress could manage to have the look on her face that Susie had when we first spotted her. It took the best part of 3 days before Susie actually uttered a word after it happened or to stop crying as well. Now days she lives in town, has 3 great kids and every time there's a hint of a Willi-Willi within miles of her she flatly refuses to go out side or let anyone open a door until it has passed by. The movie, "Twister" was pretty good SFX wise but could never come within Coooee of what Susie went through in my opinion. Last time I was up at Kars, about 12 years ago, the foundation posts of the Long-Drop Dunny were still there with the twisted and broken off, now rusty remnants of the 1" thick bolts that held the Dunny to them still in place along with the hand-made wooden seat over the hole in the ground.

G'day Fellow aussie sceptics, we have yet another new member joining our sceptical little group.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 25, 2019:

Whadya mean giving them 2 seconds off! G'day Liz.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

I was being generous there Mate. 2 minutes for them to clean themselves off, catch their breath and prepare for the next 12 months of Mulloch that WILL be coming their way. Oh, btw, for those who aren't aware of it, Mulloch is a Broken Hill mining term for unwanted, useless dirt and rubbish that is dug out of the mines and dumped in huge piles, the word 'Mulloch' was derived from the name of one of the Founders of the Broken Hill Proprietary ( yep, that IS B.H.P. and none other) Mining Company Limited, George McCulloch, and is meant as an insult to him and his name by the Old-time Miners and their families in Broken Hill.

The latest news from the desk of Fearful Freddie, Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy ScumMo is that ONLY the ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 25, 2019:

a picture tells a thousand words. I shouldn't have to make a comment but Agnostic.com forces me to.

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

LOVE IT, the 'Crowned Prince of Turds.'

This popped up on another site. Does anyone know anything about this study?

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

I seem to remember such a study being conducted in Australia a few years ago that came back with very similar results. The study went as far as including both Public Schools and Private Religious ones as well. The result showed, overwhelmingly, that non-religious children were more apt to be ...

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@TheMiddleWay As I said the study was done A FEW YEARS AGO.

This popped up on another site. Does anyone know anything about this study?

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

I seem to remember such a study being conducted in Australia a few years ago that came back with very similar results. The study went as far as including both Public Schools and Private Religious ones as well. The result showed, overwhelmingly, that non-religious children were more apt to be ...

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@TheMiddleWay Do you think I'm a library or something perhaps?

Is 'god' an impersonal force of nature, a 'universal consciousness' similar in quality to other ...

HerbertNewsam comments on Dec 24, 2019:

The first 2 words are a problem, " is 'god'" no, god isn't. The force of nature already is impersonal, so that doesn't work well. A "universal consciousness" is a stab at mystifying the simple fact of not understanding how our brains work. The fact we use sound, sight, and touch for communication ...

Triphid replies on Dec 25, 2019:

@HumanistA Yes BUT that is still a long way down the track, atm and as it stands, like it or not, the body we get is the body we are stuck with until we kick the bucket.

No one teaches a newborn human to breath.

Jolanta comments on Dec 22, 2019:

Why indeed, but there are a lot of people who have the "need" of finding the meaning of life, instead of just being and enjoying. They seem to think that humans are oh so very "special and important" that there can not possibly be nothing more to we are born, we live and then we die.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

YES, this planet went along as it should long, long before Humans evolved and it will continue on long after humans are gone.

No one teaches a newborn human to breath.

Cutiebeauty comments on Dec 22, 2019:

Why do people teach children to be racist, homophobic, mysogonistic, etc... ? Because that's what they know...

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

I remember once reading this said by a Philosopher, can't remember his/her name though, "It takes a village/community to truly raise a child, But it only takes one ideology, religious or otherwise, to ruin the child and destroy the village/community." Somewhat quite apt given Human History in my opinion.

Is 'god' an impersonal force of nature, a 'universal consciousness' similar in quality to other ...

wordywalt comments on Dec 23, 2019:

God isn't. It does not exist, but a false human conception.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@Omnedon All hail the Mighty and most Magnificent Spud Murphy, aka the Potato, btw, I'm a 'spud' loving person, fried, steamed, mashed, etc, just love and enjoy eating them.

Is 'god' an impersonal force of nature, a 'universal consciousness' similar in quality to other ...

rogueflyer comments on Dec 23, 2019:

Non of the above. God is a figment of your imagination.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@Storm1752 Sir, Cut me and I bleed, kill me and I die, no figments can ever bleed or die and that is a fact. As the Latin saying goes, " Cogit ergo sum, " I think therefore I am."

Is 'god' an impersonal force of nature, a 'universal consciousness' similar in quality to other ...

HerbertNewsam comments on Dec 24, 2019:

The first 2 words are a problem, " is 'god'" no, god isn't. The force of nature already is impersonal, so that doesn't work well. A "universal consciousness" is a stab at mystifying the simple fact of not understanding how our brains work. The fact we use sound, sight, and touch for communication ...

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@Storm1752 My friend, the body any of us inhabits is the one made by the union of 1 single sperm cell and 1 single ovum that is ALL there is to it. The fertilized ovum develops into an embryo, then into a foetus and finally into a human baby, what becomes of that tiny baby is a matter of what it eats, learns and does as it grows, that is the only and major choice we have in life, we cannot inhabit any other body EXCEPT the one we are born as.

Is 'god' an impersonal force of nature, a 'universal consciousness' similar in quality to other ...

FiliusInfernum comments on Dec 24, 2019:

I'm not sure, but I do know that a perfect vacuum, hypothetically, is a truly unrivaled and one of a kinda anomaly.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@FiliusInfernum So, would say that there was a point contained in the Greek Legend of Sisyphus having to spend eternity pushing a huge stone up-hill every day only to have it roll back down hill every night?

Sickening and unfair to those of us that pay taxes.[religiondispatches.org]

ADKSparky comments on Dec 24, 2019:

I'm in the wrong business. :-(

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

Yep, but like me I reckon our innate senses of honesty, integrity and decency, etc, would prevent us from ever joining the throng of Lying, Cheating, Thieving and totally Unscrupulous Religious leaders.

Married to a JW

LiterateHiker comments on Dec 24, 2019:

What does "JW" stand for? I speak English, not Acronym. Just Wondering. Urban Dictionary says "JW" means "just wondering." Jewish Woman Jehovah Witness Jizz Wizard

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@BitFlipper, @Eazyduzzit Or simply " Jeho's" in the Aussie vernacular....LOL.

Married to a JW

LiterateHiker comments on Dec 24, 2019:

What does "JW" stand for? I speak English, not Acronym. Just Wondering. Urban Dictionary says "JW" means "just wondering." Jewish Woman Jehovah Witness Jizz Wizard

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@BitFlipper I personally refer to them as being Jehovah's Witlesses.

What I do not understand is the fact that although the Prime Minister is in denial and devoid of ...

Triphid comments on Dec 24, 2019:

Probably because he, the Government, would have to pay actual wages.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@FrayedBear And, probably to protect him in case the nation wants to exact a bit of justice for him pissing off overseas when half the country is fighting raging bush-fires. Remember when Tony Budgie-Smugglers Abbott ( I think it was Scabbott) decided to stay in the Army Barracks on the pretense that the Lodge was being re-furbished.

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

EyesThatSmile comments on Dec 21, 2019:

That meme is awesome.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 " Blushing and Speechless" you say? Now, in my opinion and give your recent ravings I'd say that is TRULY an undeniable miracle.

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

Triphid comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Hey, that depends on in which hemisphere you are living, e,g. in the Northern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is the Shortest Day of the year and the days begin to lengthen after that, in the Southern Hemisphere it is the opposite way round.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 Actually my daughter and I were invited to be guests of the Cherokee People on the Reservation in Oklahoma in January, 1998 after researching our family history and my contacting them to resolve a few questions we had. We actually got to meet our long lost Cherokee relatives/cousins, were accepted Officially by Cherokee Lore into the Nation and through the ceremonies of Sweat Lodges and Animal Spirit Guide Searches, etc, were given our Cherokee Tribal names. Plus we also discovered that we also have a familial connection with the Navajo Nation as well so we were invited to their Reservation and accepted into the Nation as Navajo people and given our Navajo names, which I choose NOT to tell you since you are definitely NOT either Navajo nor Cherokee in my opinion.

It's all about DEATH, every one of the major religions are at their core - death cults.

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

every one of the major religions? not true. that doesn't apply to judaism, which has no heaven or hell, no rapture, and DOES have a focus on the living and the here and now. whatever problems judaism may have, it most definitely is NOT all about death. g

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@genessa Are not Islam and Christianity more concerned with the Death of the members and what happens AFTER Death than how they live since a Christian, for example can commit sins, confess those sins, gain Divine Forgiveness, sin again, confess again, be forgiven again in a seemingly endless cycle BUT when death comes they will automatically get a ring-side seat in Heaven. Very similar, imho, to what the Hebrew God told the 'chosen Hebrews' to do when they arrived in the lands of such Heathen, Pagan Non-Believers as the Canaanites, etc, i.e. go out and put them, men, women and children to the sword in my Name, spare none but the Virgins and take them unto thy selves. And yet that self-same God commanded to Moses just 40 Generations before " Thou shalt Not Kill." Are not the present day Jews doing almost precisely the same, as did their ancestors, on the Traditional Owners of the lands they now occupy and call Israel when such a land called Israel NEVER existed in history UNTIL the Balfour Accord of 1947-48?

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

Triphid comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Hey, that depends on in which hemisphere you are living, e,g. in the Northern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is the Shortest Day of the year and the days begin to lengthen after that, in the Southern Hemisphere it is the opposite way round.

Triphid replies on Dec 24, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 FYI, ALL Aboriginal Sacred sites are deemed to be protected both by Australian Law and Aboriginal Lore as well, hence NO-ONE of Aboriginal Origin, no matter small their 'blood heritage' can reveal where such sites are. Now, is it ALL possible that you can understand that tiny bit of information? Btw, my familial Cherokee Ancestry dates way back to the mid-16th Century when my Welsh Ancestor, Royston Stanley and 2 of his crew members were on a Trading Expedition to the East Coast of Nth. America and were stranded on what is now the Carolina Coast after a Spanish Galleon attacked and sank their Trading Ship. To cut a somewhat long short, they headed inland and came across a group of Indian males attacking 3 females, they killed 4 of the Attackers and took 2 captive, the women took them to meet their tribe, one of the women was the daughter of the High Chief, Grey Bear Claw, of the Cherokee Nation. After a little over 2 years of living with the Cherokee peoples, Grey Bear Claw permitted Royston Stanley and his daughter 'Singing Bird' to wed under Cherokee Lore and the rest of the story is family history. Royston Stanley, who last name IS the same as mine was my Great, Great Grandfather, many times removed by the way, a Ship Owner and Captain from the Glamorgan region of Wales also from precisely where my Great Grandfather was born and my Grandfather who later moved to Australia where my Father, Stanley Royston was born in 1905.

It's all about DEATH, every one of the major religions are at their core - death cults.

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

every one of the major religions? not true. that doesn't apply to judaism, which has no heaven or hell, no rapture, and DOES have a focus on the living and the here and now. whatever problems judaism may have, it most definitely is NOT all about death. g

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

@genessa Yes BUT does not the Pentateuch of the bible, taken from the Torah itself, openly claim that the Hebrews ARE the chosen Peoples of God?

It's all about DEATH, every one of the major religions are at their core - death cults.

mordant comments on Dec 22, 2019:

I think the suicide taboo evolved early in Christianity to keep it from becoming a literal death cult. After all -- if heaven really is such a wonderful place then why not go there immediately? Occasionally of course, as with Jim Jones, David Koresh, etc., some offshoot cult gets cornered and the...

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

After my years of studying Theology and Comparative Modern Religions, I'd say, with almost 100% certainty, that of the 3 main Abrahamic based religions Christianity and Islam in particular ARE at least 80% primarily biased towards the 'Life after Death' concept/ideology rather than 'instructing/teaching' their adherents that how one lives the life they have is more important since their dogmas/tenets simply preach that 'If you sin and confess to your sin/s you ARE forgiven and will be welcomed into the 'After-Life in Heaven.' I.e., to my mind and therefore it matters not how bad/terrible you wrong, so long as you beg forgiveness then you will be okay to do it again and again, continue to confess over and over and when you die, you WILL get a Ring-side seat in Heaven/Paradise.

Aw, Scummo Shouty Shittypants Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'offered' an apology for taking his ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 21, 2019:

I hope people remember this when next they hit the polls. Not meaning to make light of your comments but a gf sent me this link this morning which made my day. ...

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

@MsDemeanour They also had to 'shop around' to get enough clean clothing for everyone to wear while waiting for the next available flight. Virgin informed them on Sunday that a container load of lost luggage was due to arrive on Boxing Day, be sorted through and their luggage would be forwarded to the Motel where they are staying. Henry's Dad, Matt, told them to forward it to them in N.Z. because he had already booked a flight with N.Z, Airlines and they were flying out that Sunday afternoon and Virgin would be getting a Bill from their Travel Insurers for the WHOLE costs incurred, including the costs of the NEW airline tickets, replacement clothing, Taxi Fares, etc,

It's all about DEATH, every one of the major religions are at their core - death cults.

genessa comments on Dec 22, 2019:

every one of the major religions? not true. that doesn't apply to judaism, which has no heaven or hell, no rapture, and DOES have a focus on the living and the here and now. whatever problems judaism may have, it most definitely is NOT all about death. g

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

@genessa What, you mean the self-same Abraham who was more than willing to sacrifice his OWN child to prove his love and devotion to his Invisible, Imaginary God?

It's all about DEATH, every one of the major religions are at their core - death cults.

brisjulian comments on Dec 22, 2019:

With all the bush fires consuming Australia & a revivalist Prime Minister - this is a very apt meme !

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

Yeah and just got on my Newsfeed that Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy ScumMO has done the usual LNP 'backflip' and blamed it all on Climate Change which he previously denied. With ALL the 'gymnastic' abilities these LNP politicians seem to exhibit these days I can't see why we spend good money training real Gymnasts for the Olympics when we could just send the LNP in their place.

Aw, Scummo Shouty Shittypants Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'offered' an apology for taking his ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 21, 2019:

I hope people remember this when next they hit the polls. Not meaning to make light of your comments but a gf sent me this link this morning which made my day. ...

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

@MsDemeanour Nice idea BUT going on what my nephew Henry and his parents have endured since leaving for N.Z. last week, lost luggage, cancelled flight, having to find accommodation for the extra nights needed to await another flight, losing 2 days of their planned trip around N.Z, and ALL courtesy of Virgin Airlines I think I'll stay right where I am.

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

Triphid comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Hey, that depends on in which hemisphere you are living, e,g. in the Northern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is the Shortest Day of the year and the days begin to lengthen after that, in the Southern Hemisphere it is the opposite way round.

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 So much that you THINK you know versus so much you do NOT know, is truly astounding my friend.

Aw, Scummo Shouty Shittypants Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'offered' an apology for taking his ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 21, 2019:

I hope people remember this when next they hit the polls. Not meaning to make light of your comments but a gf sent me this link this morning which made my day. ...

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

@MsDemeanour Geez wouldn't mind a bit of snow out here at least it be a whole cooler until it melted....LOL.

First we cop Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy ScumMo Morrison denying the Volunteer Fire-Fighters any and ...

FrayedBear comments on Dec 22, 2019:

Is she Australian?

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

Possibly, but who knows these days with a debacle about Dual Citizenship that went on in 12 months and more?

Aw, Scummo Shouty Shittypants Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'offered' an apology for taking his ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 21, 2019:

I hope people remember this when next they hit the polls. Not meaning to make light of your comments but a gf sent me this link this morning which made my day. ...

Triphid replies on Dec 23, 2019:

@MsDemeanour Thanks for that BUT 39 is predicted for Wednesday unfortunately. But we will do what we have always done, make the most of it anyway, here's hoping the weather is nicer for you.

Aw, Scummo Shouty Shittypants Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'offered' an apology for taking his ...

powder comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Don't like skid mark but storm in a teacup he was having holidays. Prefer him and all polly's fuck off out of country personally. Media's going skitzo about it, dunno why. We all knew he was a tosser anyway.

Triphid replies on Dec 22, 2019:

Well Mate, you know the old saying about Politicians don't you? Politicians are like blow-flies, get rid of one and at least a dozen will come along to replace it.

Aw, Scummo Shouty Shittypants Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'offered' an apology for taking his ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 21, 2019:

I hope people remember this when next they hit the polls. Not meaning to make light of your comments but a gf sent me this link this morning which made my day. ...

Triphid replies on Dec 22, 2019:

@MsDemeanour Nearest 'beach' is just over 520 kilometres from Broken Hill, though we DID ONCE have a nice fresh water sort of beach about 120 kilometres from here UNTIL successive Governments allowed the Menindee Lakes Water Storage Scheme, fed by the Darling River, to become nothing more dried out, dead dust-bowls caused by permitting the Cotton and Rice Growers around Bourke and further north to literally suck the river dry. As for the temp. out here, well it's summer but this year the heat is far worse than I can remember. Used to that December was tolerable, heat -wise, and the worst of it hit in January and February but in the last few years it started getting much hotter, much earlier and for much longer each year. Around here, like almost everywhere else in Australia, it is a dry as a Dead Nun's nasty, everything that was once covered with native grasses and scrub is now brown and dead, even the trees along the creeks are struggling, the highway sides are littered with skeletons of 'roos, emus, etc, as are the paddocks, etc. But hey, how are this up your way around Brissie ? Here's hoping the Bush-fires don't get that far up and are dealt with very soon for the sakes of the people, properties, animals and, most importantly, the Firies who are battling them 24/7.

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

Triphid comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Hey, that depends on in which hemisphere you are living, e,g. in the Northern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is the Shortest Day of the year and the days begin to lengthen after that, in the Southern Hemisphere it is the opposite way round.

Triphid replies on Dec 22, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 What, just a measly dollar, must be a lot of tight wads in your area in my opinion. Since we don't have 1 dollar bills here, we have metal 1 dollar coins it would be unkind to try filling a ladies G-string since the load would either pull them down or they'd bounce around and bruise or injure her most sensitive parts. As to the 'Lap Dance' offer/reward, well there are still a lot of us Aussie males who learned from our fathers to see women as equals, respect them and ADMIRE them as people rather than as Sex objects to be ogled and stared at. Since most Aussies actually care about our Native Fauna, "putting a Sugar Glider into a Striptease Dancer's Thong" would classed as Animal Abuse and a downright disgusting thing to do, both for the Glider and the Dancer, wouldn't you agree? Since I am part Aboriginal, from your comment regarding my Ancestry, to which I took some offence btw on their behalf, they managed this land ecologically well for over 30,000 years, they were Seasonal Nomadic People moving from area to area following the rain cycles, the seasonal growth, etc, of plants, they could tell and often predict when and where the rains would come simply by watching the skies, the behaviours of animals, etc, the position of the sunrise and sunset at certain times of the year, they created/made circles from small and manageable stones and rocks that aligned with the sunrise/set as well corelating them with the movement of what we now call the Milky Way. So I hope you now SEE that they were just 'dumb, black niggers' as I tend to think you may have been inferring. As for my Native American Indian Ancestors, well they also looked after their country really well UNTIL the Arrogant, Land-grabbing, Self-righteous, Disease-ridden, Europeans came along and forced them to march from the Land of the Blue Smoke Hills, where you are now living and squatting, technically illegally, to the Oklahoma Territories, a march that cost them, my ancestors, over FOUR Thousand INNOCENT lives of Women, Children, Babies, Old Men, etc.

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

Triphid comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Hey, that depends on in which hemisphere you are living, e,g. in the Northern Hemisphere the Winter Solstice is the Shortest Day of the year and the days begin to lengthen after that, in the Southern Hemisphere it is the opposite way round.

Triphid replies on Dec 22, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 Oh my goodness, was that an attempt at witty sarcasm I seem to detect in your reply? Many thanks for trying BUT all I got from it was a good laugh.

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

yamaha45701 comments on Dec 21, 2019:

The Native American stone rings, Stonehenge, and Mayan pyramids all were part of trying to figure out the cosmos. Many cultures considered the moon, stars, and sun gods and worshiped them since the sun brought light and made crops grow. It was not hard to imagine that there were great powers at work...

Triphid replies on Dec 22, 2019:

@WonderWartHog99 Well at least the Ancient Egyptians kind of figured out that "ball of fire" ( Ra/Aton) went below the western horizon at night, travelled through the darkness and returned in the east every morning.

Aw, Scummo Shouty Shittypants Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'offered' an apology for taking his ...

MsDemeanour comments on Dec 21, 2019:

I hope people remember this when next they hit the polls. Not meaning to make light of your comments but a gf sent me this link this morning which made my day. ...

Triphid replies on Dec 22, 2019:

Where a lot of Aussies used to take a 'sickie' from work, I think that will soon, hopefully, be changed to taking a 'scommo' instead. I realise that it sounds sick and very nasty, but it would ironic, would it not, IF perhaps either the Lodge or the Hillsong Church was on fire and when Scummo rang the Fire Brigade the receptionist were to answer with, " I'm sorry Sir, but we are very understaffed at present because 50% of our Fire crews and Firefighters have Volunteered to help fight the Bush-fires you went to Hawaii to escape from but we will send a crew as soon as possible, in the meantime you could just offer those thoughts and prayers or simply try using the nearest garden house until we have a crew free to attend."

Boeing's Starliner Won't Reach Space Station, NASA Chief Says: [livescience.com]

IamNobody comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Well, every step is a learning lesson.

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@IamNobody I try to respect the right of agreement or disagreement of everyone, Mate. I was just saying that it completely alludes me how having so many 'experts, etc,' they can stuff up with just one programming 'error.'

Boeing's Starliner Won't Reach Space Station, NASA Chief Says: [livescience.com]

IamNobody comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Well, every step is a learning lesson.

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@IamNobody How is that other private concerns can get it right but Boeing can't seem to manage it then? Struth, I held a small, 6 seater maximum Commercial Pilots License for 20+ years flying Tourists around the Australian Outback and the aeronautical knowledge you needed for that was bloody immense to say the least.

Ancient Evenings Fun!

EyesThatSmile comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Very nice! (But my second thought was...doesn’t a tigress usually have more than two teats?)

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@MoonTigerII Yep, I corrected, edited, amended and offered my apology for the 'brain fog.' Sekhmet did indeed form the Desert in which Set/Sutek/Seth was to banished after he dismembered his brother, Osiris, she did so at the request of Amun ( Khnum). Which, like the Hebrew Gold Calf, is where the Christian go their tale of Cain Abel from more than likely plus their idea that Satan/Devil has horns ( the erect ears of the Mule depicted on Set), the red skin, since Set ( depicted as being a Mule-Headed man with a deep reddish colored hide) and the numerous other mule like 'attributes' accredited to Satan and Set/Sutek/Seth as well. Though the Christians seemed to have 'conveniently forgotten' that the Rule of Ma'at ( the Law of Universal Harmony) was paramount in Ancient Egypt and NO-ONE could have, own nor be enslaved to another hence there were NO slave used in building either the Pyramids, Temples, etc, they WERE all well cared for, well -respected and well paid Workers. The ONLY circumstance where a person could 'bonded' into a kind of servitude under Ma'at was to pay off a debt owed and the term/length of the servitude was determined by the amount owed and could ONLY last until the Judges deemed the debt to be paid in full.

Boeing's Starliner Won't Reach Space Station, NASA Chief Says: [livescience.com]

IamNobody comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Well, every step is a learning lesson.

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

How many 'learning lessons' do they really need to get things right? Shit, count up the number of their passenger aircraft that have gone down tragically over the decades from these so-called 'minor hitches.'

Boeing's Starliner Won't Reach Space Station, NASA Chief Says: [livescience.com]

Triphid comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Oooops, yet another stuff up by Boeing Industries.

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@gsiamne Yeah, Billions upon Billions of Dollars and 'experts' by the hundreds at their disposal and STILL they couldn't one small piece of programming right.

Ancient Evenings Fun!

Triphid comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Ah, Anubis and Sekhmet having a little 'Afternoon Delight' hey!

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@MoonTigerII Sorry my mistake, grey cells still a bit foggy from sleep atm, Sekhmet was the Lioness-Headed one, Hathor was indeed the one the depicted with the head of a cow. Anubis, depicted as being a jackal-headed man was the Elemental Guardian of the Dead, Judge of the Truthfulness/Righteousness of the Soul and Guide of the Embalmers.

It's official: tonight is the longest night of the year.

yamaha45701 comments on Dec 21, 2019:

The Native American stone rings, Stonehenge, and Mayan pyramids all were part of trying to figure out the cosmos. Many cultures considered the moon, stars, and sun gods and worshiped them since the sun brought light and made crops grow. It was not hard to imagine that there were great powers at work...

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

In actual fact, it was the Catholic Church that deemed and ORDERED that ALL non-Christian systems of 'belief' should be considered to have Gods and Goddesses so as to show how Primitive, Savage, Barbaric, Heathen and Heretical these people they 'conquered and brought to God and Jesus' were and to try and 'justify' the slaughters they committed against the so-called Heathen Heretics. When Jean-Francois Champillion was decoding the Rosetta stone, the reigning Pope sent 2 Cardinals and 3 Bishops to threaten him with Excommunication for his entire family and incarceration for LIFE if he did not show clearly and plainly that the Egyptians were " Heathen Heretics who worshipped FALSE Gods/Goddesses."

Ancient Evenings Fun!

EyesThatSmile comments on Dec 21, 2019:

Very nice! (But my second thought was...doesn’t a tigress usually have more than two teats?)

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@Fernapple Sekhmet, Elemental (NOT Goddess as deemed by the Catholic Church btw) Giver of Dancing, Protector of Young Girls and Unwed Women, Consort of Ra, also known as the Eye of Ra, Nemesis of the Unlawful and sworn enemy of Set/Sutek/Seth the Bringer of Famine, War and Diseases. Always depicted as being a Lioness, a Lioness-head Woman or a very Beautiful and alluring woman. The Elemental Giver of the waters of the Nile was Nepthys, sister of Isis beloved, (since the Ancient Egyptians used the hieroglyph meaning beloved to mean both brother, sister, wife, daughter, son, etc, simply because they had no word/hieroglyph for each of separate words as we do) wife of Osiris. The Ancient Egyptians ALWAYS had only Elemental Givers/Guardians and NOT Gods/Goddesses, that was an attempt by Catholicism to defame the Egyptians, their 'beliefs' and understandings of the natural world around them. You were pretty close to the mark though, congratulations. Sorry, Fernapple, slight brain fog there, have edited and replaced 'Hathor' with the correct name now.

So it seems that the Great Orange Crested, Yellow-backed Drongo, aka PotUS 45 has been impeached ...

MissKathleen comments on Dec 20, 2019:

You’re such a dreamer.

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@MissKathleen Sack the lot of them in my opinion.

How does one get their ex-pastor to leave them alone?

Triphid comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Mate, with these God-bothering Faithfools, once they've gotten their hooks into you they'll use any means possible to hang on to you. One thing that may just work, and I've known numerous people who done it btw, is walk into the Church during a service, go up to the Preacher, ask if you may say a ...

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@Snake91 The most recent ones I know who did that were 2 young women, both in their late teens and they did in front of entire Mormon Congregation just 6 weeks ago tomorrow Australian Central Summer Time. So I reckon it's a NO Balls needed situation IF one really wants the God-bothering Preachers to leave you alone. Oh btw, they did it under guise of the Mormon thing of " Offering a Personal Testimony. " and they did it jointly with hands held as well since they are a Lesbian Couple these days.

Just trying to get a head count here. Who's an atheist and who isn't, and why?

Triphid comments on Dec 20, 2019:

Uhm, pardon me for asking, but your profile comments show that you claim to be both Atheist, Agnostic and a Believer plus a few others as well, so how does this relate to your trying to get a head count?

Triphid replies on Dec 21, 2019:

@Storm1752 Not so I think. I, for one, want know WHY exactly he wants this 'head-count.'

I am just beginning to understand how interesting this site could become.

Storm1752 comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Just the normal human desire to explain who we are, where we came from, and the meaning of it all. Plain as the nose on your face. Religion happened when someone somewhere wrote one explanation down and declared it THE explanation. Why everybody else AGREED is another story.

Triphid replies on Dec 20, 2019:

@Storm1752 Actually, according to UNTAINTED Scholars the foundations of Christianity were written by Flavius Josephus in his writings about the " Divine Trinity" i.e. Flavius Vespasian, his son and his Grandson ( The Father, the Son and the Divine Spirit) whereby and from those writings Christianity 'created' their Holy Trinity. Flavius Josephus was originally a turn-coat to his own Hebrew peoples, a slave to the Flavians, granted his freedom and adopted the name 'Flavius' and wrote his "Divine Trinity" to heap praise upon his 'adopted' family and to attempt to have them Deified. Personal/Familial Deification was one of the major things that the Roman Noble families always strove to have endowed upon their family.

I am just beginning to understand how interesting this site could become.

WilliamFleming comments on Dec 18, 2019:

There are forms of religion that are meaningful. I consider myself to be a Religious Naturalist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_naturalism

Triphid replies on Dec 20, 2019:

@Larry-new Yes but it eventually builds up in the body and while it is building it also wipes countless brain cells, nerve cells, etc.

So it seems that the Great Orange Crested, Yellow-backed Drongo, aka PotUS 45 has been impeached ...

MissKathleen comments on Dec 20, 2019:

You’re such a dreamer.

Triphid replies on Dec 20, 2019:

Well we are allowed to dream, aren't we.

It's all about the marketing, you can sell refrigerators to eskimos if you know how to market your ...

DenoPenno comments on Dec 19, 2019:

I liked the cartoon meme where they brought gold, myrrh, and Frankenstein

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

Ah, the old 'Dyslexic Wise man' joke, haven't heard that in ages, thanks for that Mate.

I am often told that god is unknowable.

Bn4fE5 comments on Dec 19, 2019:

Circular logic on their part? "You just have to believe."

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

Yep, a bit like this meme I found a while back, I always get a wee chuckle when I see it.

The plight of the Ignorant and Superstitious.

Bn4fE5 comments on Dec 19, 2019:

Very interesting. I have always thought that those goat herders, etc were probably pretty stupid and easy to take advantage of. Compared to what the average American 3rd grader knows today, they must have really been many standard deviations below the norm. Can you imagine how they would react to ...

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

As was once said when a party of Englishmen were sent to meet with Chaka, King of the Zulus, and saw how superstitious, etc, the Zulus were in comparison to them, " A Man without scruples could quite easily become a God in this land."

I am bemused that people would talk so much about religion, mostly Christianity, on here.

joeandbarb comments on Dec 19, 2019:

I do enjoy the discussions because sometimes points are made that I have not thought of. I have fun exchanging ideas on how to communicate with people who have found themselves in the cults and are dead set on converting " godless heathens" like myself. Quite often I find comments here that are ...

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

@Grahame IF you were to actually compare history (???) as per the bible to REAL recorded History you would find that this 'historical diary' is about as accurate as would a completely blind man be in find his glasses in a darken room so he could read a newspaper. E.g. A few hundred years ago, Bishop James Usher correlated the ages of the biblical Patriarchs ( added them all together) and calculated the age of the Earth, at his time, to 4,004 years old and was 'created' approx. at nightfall approx. BEFORE Sunday, October 23rd in the year 4,004 B.C. Ergo and according to Usher, the Earth is now a little over 6,023 years old, which sciences have since proven to absolutely ridiculous BULLSHIT. That IS the accuracy of this 'historical diary that people believe to be the 'gospel' truth.

If Jesus saves, why are all of his human representatives alway asking you to give them money?

RiverRick comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Jesus has a REALLY expensive coke habit!

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

@Bn4fE5 No probs Mate, happy to spread a little a joy around.

"You shouldn't judge people!" I have often heard this from my Christian friends.

Triphid comments on Dec 19, 2019:

I tend to think that one of the examples of irony would be what happened with 'Evangeloon' neighbor in mid-winter 2013. He was erecting a structure made up of full length railway sleepers ( railways ties in the U.S. I think) whilst wearing his usual footwear, i.e, soft and unprotective canvas ...

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

@DavidLaDeau, @Storm1752 Then that God of his truly has a sick, sadistic will does he not.

"You shouldn't judge people!" I have often heard this from my Christian friends.

Triphid comments on Dec 19, 2019:

I tend to think that one of the examples of irony would be what happened with 'Evangeloon' neighbor in mid-winter 2013. He was erecting a structure made up of full length railway sleepers ( railways ties in the U.S. I think) whilst wearing his usual footwear, i.e, soft and unprotective canvas ...

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

@DavidLaDeau Errr, out of curiosity here, have you ever tried lifting an Australian railways sleeper, aka railway tie in America, they are made from the very hardest of hardwoods available in Australia, are about 7" thick, 8' long and 12" wide, they average out at roughly 80 - 90 kilograms each and usually need 2 -3 people to lift and carry them. To actually hammer a nail into one, first you NEED to drill a hole in the wood with a Tungsten tipped drill bit or you'll just spend your time bending nail after nail.

If Jesus saves, why are all of his human representatives alway asking you to give them money?

RiverRick comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Jesus has a REALLY expensive coke habit!

Triphid replies on Dec 19, 2019:

@Bn4fE5 Okay just for you and anyone else who might need a laugh at this time of the year. Jesus is getting bored up there in Heaven so he decides to have a bit of a 'Rave Party' to liven things up. After noticing that people on Earth are taking 'substances' to boost their enjoyment, he delegates his Apostles to go to Earth and return with samples of those substances. Peter returns first with a 10 kilo bag of weed, "the best on offer in Mexico, " he claims, John returns with a months supply of Columbias best Coke, Paul hands over a 5 kilo bag of E Pills, and so it goes on until all the Apostles have returned except Judas. Suddenly, there's a loud knocking on the door and voice shouts out, " DEA Officers here, open up, we have a Search Warrent." Jesus gives a huge shrug of his shoulders and yells back, " Fuck you Judas, you've ratted on me again you Scumbag."

Thoughts on the Australian Prime Minister in the Aim: "The real Morrison cannot tolerate ...

Triphid comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Well it seems that Happy Clappy Jesus Chappy has 'deserted the ship' and is taking a 'holiday' overseas while the country burns according to the latest news reports. Nice to know just how much we can depend on our 'Captain' in times of dire troubles, isn't it? At least Emperor Nero had the decency...

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

@MsDemeanour Yeah, but the Emergency was happening before he left which, imho, say a whole of negatives about him and how much the people and country matter to him.

So coming up to Christmas please tell me Athiests what you think of the Holiday season since you ...

KKGator comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Not much. It's a commercial marketing scam, ripped off from a pagan solstice festival. But the kids enjoy it.

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

@KKGator Yep. me too, always a Cash only person this way.

So coming up to Christmas please tell me Athiests what you think of the Holiday season since you ...

Triphid comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Well, and I do NOT mean this to be disparaging nor sarcastic, etc, we Atheists don't spend the very precious hours of our short lives, and short they are even for Believers as well btw, on our knees or in Church Pews, etc, offering up prayers and gratitudes to something that has ONLY ever existed in...

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

@Merseyman1 Thank you and much appreciated as well.

Please allow me to express my most sincerest sympathies to everyone considering that it most ...

ZantiMisfit comments on Dec 18, 2019:

That's OK. One more won't make much of a difference.

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

Have you read his comments made in the Australian papers? Reading them may just change your mind on that one I think, he'd, imho, rate far far worse than Ham could ever manage in a billion life-times.

So coming up to Christmas please tell me Athiests what you think of the Holiday season since you ...

KKGator comments on Dec 18, 2019:

Not much. It's a commercial marketing scam, ripped off from a pagan solstice festival. But the kids enjoy it.

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

Too bloody right there, it just cost me about half or more of my fortnightly Pension buying Xmas gifts, most of them for my 6 year old Nephew though, so I don't mind him benefitting at all.

So coming up to Christmas please tell me Athiests what you think of the Holiday season since you ...

BitFlipper comments on Dec 18, 2019:

I'm really getting tired of these insincere, accusatory questions. WTF don't you have Google in Australia?

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

Yeah we do, but sadly the 'odd' Faithfool slips through the cracks, kind of like the do elsewhere, including America.

The perfect gift idea for your irreverent friend(s) !

djs64 comments on Dec 18, 2019:

does it come with a limited edition of designer nails?

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

@evergreen LOL, " Ask and thee shall receive," so sayeth Jeebus.

The perfect gift idea for your irreverent friend(s) !

djs64 comments on Dec 18, 2019:

does it come with a limited edition of designer nails?

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

Nope, sorry but designer grade nails only come in 3's, are all Nine Inch ones and ONLY available to those with proven Roman Descent....LOL.

Just in case you might possibly have forgotten; we are god damn lucky to be here.

Fernapple comments on Dec 18, 2019:

A merry winter solstice to everyone too. The light returns and the season of new life is on the way. And for our Australian friends, it will cool down soon.

Triphid replies on Dec 18, 2019:

Hmm, any idea as to when that might happen....LOL.