Big, big bird.

brentan comments on May 10, 2019:

For some strange reason, I don't.

Eureka! Bacon!!

brentan comments on May 11, 2019:

No doubt.

The art of the deal. Guess who's the better deal maker?

brentan comments on May 11, 2019:

He's the best at everything!

These would all be really good band names.

brentan comments on May 11, 2019:

I'll bet God never conceived the shit people get up to these days.

There is no gold, but I would be happy to find this at the end of a rainbow.

brentan comments on May 11, 2019:

I think a leprechaun would be happy with that.

I'm probably doing it now....

brentan comments on May 11, 2019:

A mortal sin!

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. - Albert Einstein

brentan comments on May 12, 2019:

Yes indeed. Scientific knowledge begins with an act of faith.

This gave me a good laugh this morning.

brentan comments on May 13, 2019:

.... or not.

The shame of it

brentan comments on May 14, 2019:

Jesus H!

Quaintrelle

brentan comments on May 14, 2019:

It's not the leader of the Civil War renegades then.

LOL.

brentan comments on May 15, 2019:

The gay community are a scapegoat to make Christians feel good about missing the mark.

Some people think that science has all the answers that matter, and that things that cannot be ...

brentan comments on May 16, 2019:

People need meaning in their lives. Religion used to provide it. Science doesn't do it. So now almost nobody is providing answers except for a few writers and intellectuals.

The secret🤗😊❤

brentan comments on May 18, 2019:

That's a lot of responsibility!

Man, spring is finally here! I can finally let my dawgs breath 😂

brentan comments on May 18, 2019:

It's a new lease on life. I've been deliberately walking on grass.

Having a party.

brentan comments on May 18, 2019:

That pictures the need so well!

Leviticus 26:22 (NRSV): I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave you of ...

brentan comments on May 18, 2019:

He can be very testy at times.

You level 8 people are quite up there and hard to please but thanks for the posts, It warms my heart...

brentan comments on May 18, 2019:

Surely our higher level just came from starting to post before you did. Is there a pissy attitude to newer people?

My son sent me this......

brentan comments on May 19, 2019:

No. Just no. This book is a history of human thought. In fact, the human thought of the Western world.

Just grooving on a ... [youtube.com]

brentan comments on May 21, 2019:

Quality music. I was amazed at how classical the album was.

And since I can't stop...

brentan comments on May 22, 2019:

Positive negative thinking.

The civilized world is a lot less civilized these days.

brentan comments on May 23, 2019:

Kevin is clearly a winner. He knows how to play the game.

Not sure it would actually work...

brentan comments on May 23, 2019:

Make sure the car is in neutral!

Not sure it would actually work...

brentan comments on May 23, 2019:

Return of A Man Called Horse.

School Police Officer Told Bullied Student She’s Going To Hell For Being Gay | Michael Stone

brentan comments on May 23, 2019:

Who would ever have thought America could be so like the Middle East?

I LOVE Saturdays!

brentan comments on May 24, 2019:

I'm thinking of the Jewish Sabbath, the day of rest, and what a wonderful concept it was! R & R, rest and re-creation.

What should we call it? Alex maybe?

brentan comments on May 26, 2019:

I'm just glad someone is listening to me.

Jerry Falwell Jr. plus 6 other church leaders ensnared in sex scandals [queerty.com]?

brentan comments on May 26, 2019:

We really need to wise up to where these guys' heads are at. Not just priests but all these people with access to vulnerable people. It used to be put down to having a vocation. We were very innocent. I wish we understood the psychology of these people. I watched the new film from Norway and I hoped that some priest might say something explanatory but all I heard was 'if only you had come to me earlier, you could have got money'.

I'll ask a neighbor who likes to hunt.

brentan comments on May 27, 2019:

'Just Eat!'

The sign above the late, the great Hugh Heifner's door bell: Si junctura fabrefacta, et non tinniant...

brentan comments on May 27, 2019:

He was no ignorant hedonist.

Weltschmerz: worn down by the world's ills.

brentan comments on May 27, 2019:

The Germans have some great words!

FFS. 🤣

brentan comments on May 29, 2019:

I guess it wasn't Aslan.

Is racism in our veins?

brentan comments on May 30, 2019:

Wow, and we were just talking about why black people don't go hiking.

Perform an abortion in Alabama and you get 99 years in prison.

brentan comments on May 30, 2019:

In one situation, you destroy a life before it is born and in the other, you do it after they are born.

I hate all politics, I don’t like either political party.

brentan comments on Jun 1, 2019:

I think we can see that the moment we enter into a relationship with at least one person, our freedom to express ourselves honestly is compromised.

As they say down south, Vote Early, and Vote Often.

brentan comments on Jun 1, 2019:

Was there something about voting early that made a difference?

And on the 8th day, god created the remmington bolt-action rifle.

brentan comments on Jun 1, 2019:

A lot of people think Sodom was destroyed over homosexuality. It happened, according to the prophet Ezekiel, because of pride, greed and general immorality (Ezekiel chapter 16). I think society is destroying itself these days for the same reasons.

This says it all

brentan comments on Jun 3, 2019:

That sounds fair enough and a big help in a challenging world.

The goose that kept the golden egg....

brentan comments on Jun 3, 2019:

Words is all those losers are getting!

I don't remember the book.

brentan comments on Jun 3, 2019:

That story has everything!

I always liked the term "to gain purchase".

brentan comments on Jun 3, 2019:

Get a grip!

They've got heart beats..

brentan comments on Jun 3, 2019:

I guess this is another way of looking at the growing creature as a parasite which I'm told is technically accurate. I think children will become potentially more useful than worms in the long run. The mother and child relation will be like the present creating the future and the future supporting the past. This is mutual dependence. I don't think of this as anything other than a general principle, me being pro-life in general and pro-choice in the particular.

I'm doing my part! Y'all?

brentan comments on Jun 5, 2019:

He didn't die for the sins people would commit. He died for the sins already committed so they could start again fresh. Christians better wise up and get with the program if they really believe in salvation.

It's how to seperate'em

brentan comments on Jun 6, 2019:

There's a time to talk and a time to say absolutely nothing.

"An elder is wise, not because they are always right, because they have more experiences of being ...

brentan comments on Jun 6, 2019:

I blame old people for the disrespect they get from the young. So many people older have not learned a darn thing from their mistakes, often not even accepting they made mistakes.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

brentan comments on Jun 6, 2019:

“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing". - Oscar Wilde

One of basic flaws of arguments against religion as such put forward by Richard Dawkins and other ...

brentan comments on Jun 7, 2019:

I look on religion as an earlier form of psychology. If we want to understand the development of our thinking and shared 'grammar' in how we express our human experience, knowing religion's huge place in our history is important. To narrow the focus down to the atrocities caused by religion is definitely reductive.

A single parent, I was planning to marry an Air Force captain, and we wondered how my two children ...

brentan comments on Jun 8, 2019:

"You're in the Army now!"

Just curious. Who would not have joined this forum if it was called atheist.com?

brentan comments on Jun 9, 2019:

I would have joined and tested the water. Hell, I even joined the Conservative Atheist group. P.S. They have treated me very well.

What are YOUR doomsday fears??

brentan comments on Jun 11, 2019:

That was an interesting way of putting it: 'The limbic system of the brain versus the frontal cortex'. Curiously, I've heard several good thinkers claim that the frontal cortex is the problem rather than the solution.

Lucky indeed

brentan comments on Jun 12, 2019:

It's true. Sex is fine but you can't beat the real thing.

It matters only✌❤

brentan comments on Jun 14, 2019:

That sounds great but a bit puerile.

“I am a bit skeptical about what we call blessings.

brentan comments on Jun 14, 2019:

It sounds good to me. It sure is nice to receive blessings (for want of a better word), especially when we are in need but the very best thing would be to be able to generate our own.

Throbbing Hood

brentan comments on Jun 14, 2019:

Lots of wood in Sherwood.

I didn't hear nothin'.

brentan comments on Jun 14, 2019:

Bouncers are not the most imaginative people. They can't follow us into the worlds we create to experience our true nature. Especially if we display our privates in public. They truly are the guardians of the matrix.

I must confess that this is pretty accurate for me:

brentan comments on Jun 14, 2019:

Is it a cop out to just think fuck the world and let it stew in in its own juice?

"Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." H.L.Mencken

brentan comments on Jun 15, 2019:

Sin and fun in unholy marriage Go together like horse and carriage

Well , I will like mention , actually not sorry at all .

brentan comments on Jun 15, 2019:

Uppity atheists!

That will be me talking to HR one of these days. Lol

brentan comments on Jun 15, 2019:

I guess it's technically different.

Pretty much part of the human condition

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2019:

They did, and the level of sophistication of the shit has been awesome.

Romans 13:1 (NRSV) - Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no ...

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Here's a bit more: Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed (Romans 2-7).  This is meant to be inspired? I think it was an effort to make Christianity more acceptable to Rome.

This is a feckin' joke, it's both very Jewish and very English, OK?

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Fit to be killed!

Doctors: Then and Now

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2019:

How can we rely on these guys? I guess we don't anyway, now that we know how many mistakes they make.

Metalhead222 is almost a level 8! Let's help him get there!

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Don't encourage him. He needs to get a life.

Thanks Science!

brentan comments on Jun 16, 2019:

Science is a good thing. It doesn't do everything and isn't entirely reliable but we should be very grateful for what it does.

It's quite lonely here in the 50+ group, tumbleweed just went passed my screen along with whooshing ...

brentan comments on Jun 17, 2019:

I died in here so I could see what it was like.

I hope everyone does

brentan comments on Jun 19, 2019:

Not to be sniffed at.

Found this amusing.

brentan comments on Jun 19, 2019:

What's good for the gander is good for the goose and the other gander.

In the Midnight Hour.....

brentan comments on Jun 20, 2019:

I guess it's the haircut.

Lol.

brentan comments on Jun 20, 2019:

Thank goodness French wine is better than French philosophers.

agelast Noun.

brentan comments on Jun 21, 2019:

That baby looks like he's doing some serious thinking.

Good advice.

brentan comments on Jun 21, 2019:

You mean a shake isn't enough!

[youtu.be] This is an intetesting take on religion.

brentan comments on Jun 22, 2019:

'What would it take us to get beyond that kind of solution to the real needs people have? That cuts to the heart of the matter. Socialism tried a secular alternative which was disastrous. Sam Harris says socialism wasn't really atheistic; he says it was religious in its psychology. Social democracy is well worth a try. It is a feature of Irish society. Real poverty is controlled well but it doesn't remedy the hole left in the spiritual lives of people. I wonder what it would really take.

Love your.....

brentan comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I'm on it. Better late than never.

The things some people believe!

brentan comments on Jun 22, 2019:

It's lonely out there.

"Christian" TV host defends child concentration camps, calls kids "unclean" "debased" "god-haters"

brentan comments on Jun 22, 2019:

I hope that the freedom these people have to express their lunacy will take its toll on them and send people running away as fast they can.

Irony at its best

brentan comments on Jun 22, 2019:

You have to be more understanding where teenagers are involved. They would try the patience of a saint.

Canada.

brentan comments on Jun 23, 2019:

I like the idea in principle, not being sure what all the ramifications will be.

Forgive me if this has been here before, but it cracks me up every time

brentan comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Top priority: get home safe.

Definition: one who steals books Biblioklept is, in at least some sense of the word, fairly ...

brentan comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Proper order. Justice for words.

Nail Salon's Hilariously Risqué Name Sparks Controversy and Laughs [thrillist.com]

brentan comments on Jun 25, 2019:

Home of Happy Endings.

Has this been your experience too?

brentan comments on Jun 25, 2019:

And I've got years of experience of justifying my own shit.

Uh oh..........

brentan comments on Jun 25, 2019:

You Want It Darker.

Hello group! My intro post will be an original joke, so fair warning how funny could it possibly ...

brentan comments on Jun 26, 2019:

Terrible. Just terrible. Welcome to the forum!

Christianity is a fraud religion since it is based on two events that never happened; a virgin birth...

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Heresy!!! The mother and child reunion was only a moment away.

I watched the BBC news and they discussed the way those children at the US border are being treated.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I think it's happening because the threat to the immigration system is so big that if something is not done, they might as well just forget control and open the country to the world. Granted, what's being done at the moment is not the right response, to say the least. I'm told Obama had a different approach by not allowing the situation to develop. He just deported immigrants en masse. I think the government is desperately in need of ideas but the ideological divide hinders that happening.

Stolen Milk Duds

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

People can be such judgmental fuckers.

High Revolution Cameras (Some Restrictions May Apply)

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

That's very clever!

It took nature 4.

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

That fits in well with the idea of a cosmic consciousness, apart from the time element.

Yesterday, while cooling my heels in the ER.

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

There is no avoiding the man when we are ill.

Wow. Very nice

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

1800-How's-My-Arresting?

So someone from this site messaged me to "Die slow." Because I did not want to call him.

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

The poor man! Had you no heart?

Cajuns and christians can never be clear in their speech.

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I guess they couldn't resist getting apocalyptic about it.

Mebbe sometimes....

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Oh, that's so weak!

It's so hot that mussels are cooking in their shells and highways are buckling [cnn.com]

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

So where are we at now? Have we gone from deciding what is causing it to deciding whether we give a fuck or not?

There is no “we” in homocidal

brentan comments on Jul 5, 2019:

That really cold. Really funny too.

Nature is infinitely more wonderful than any religious concept. - Oliver Sacks

brentan comments on Jul 6, 2019:

I'm not so sure about that but there is one way that nature trumps a religious concept - it is real and I'm convinced religious concepts are part of our wonderful imagination.

Forgiveness is a form of letting go, but they are not the same thing.

brentan comments on Jul 6, 2019:

I think positivity is at the core of your post. I remember not being ready for so many years so stolidly keepin' on truckin' was the order of the day, just to exist. I wish positivity came for everyone eventually but I'm not sure about that. I'm lucky and I guess you are too. Forgiveness, I think, comes from a good place.

Sunday science with A.

brentan comments on Jul 7, 2019:

eureka: Greek for "Can you get it"?

Logorrhea - log-uh-RI-uh: Noun, An excessive flow of words.

brentan comments on Jul 8, 2019:

That brings logos down to size.

Growing up thru adolescence in the 90s i was told by my teachers that we get angry over those we ...

brentan comments on Jul 9, 2019:

I'm sure it's often comes from a good intention but I wonder what the net benefit, if any, is.