Christ Calls Off Plans For Return After Realizing It’s Been So Long It’ll Be Weird Now

brentan comments on Sep 23, 2019:

They've milked that old prophecy in Daniel for long enough.

Games can be annoying AF.

brentan comments on Sep 22, 2019:

I wouldn't have known it was wrong.

What's going on here?

brentan comments on Sep 22, 2019:

I'm horrified! The great unwashed need to get put back in their place.

Might not be reciprocated

brentan comments on Sep 22, 2019:

The important thing is never to let the water run. I wouldn't dare!

In Latin it’s “Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ...

brentan comments on Sep 22, 2019:

I think this would be a good read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/14729599

[youtu.

brentan comments on Sep 22, 2019:

I must contact YT and tell them that guy's video upset me.

Signs of the times...

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Mixed messages. Makes you think.

Europe without the naughty bits

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

I wish Britain well if it returns to a theoretical democracy. I hope the British people understand now how fragile democracy has become and self-governance isn't necessarily democracy.

Funny but true

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

White people relieved to see the yerno come along.

See you on the bus! <you know who you are> 🍷👌😎

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

'Soylent Green is people!'

Excellent and comprehensive article on oldest living site in America, over 16,000 years old.

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

Unavailable in Europe 'due to legal reasons'. It's a pity they do that.

General De Gaulle, "The cemetaries are full of indispensible people"

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

If that comment isn't taken out of context, it's a cold, cynical one.

Sexy iceberg

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

That ship has no moral direction.

I'm flying out on a one week business trip to the Netherlands.

brentan comments on Sep 21, 2019:

I spent a few years in Seattle (moving from Ireland) and came away with the notion that there are different pros and cons to the different ways of life. Just as important, I think, is getting some understanding as to why people do things the way they do.

Where we may be headed.

brentan comments on Sep 20, 2019:

Here's a song I think could be easily adapted from the loss of a loved one to the loss of the world as we know it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBB7AMHCxYY

🤪🤓🤣🥴🤓😂😆🤩🤤😸😹

brentan comments on Sep 20, 2019:

I'm in Spain. I'm doing a lit of tirar-ing and empujar-ing my way through shop doors.

Irish teen invents a process to remove micro plastics from water. [returntonow.net]

brentan comments on Sep 20, 2019:

Well done! That's great news.

"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

brentan comments on Sep 20, 2019:

I guess it's not easy to fulfill Manifest Destiny and be altruistic at the same time.

Einstein, "What part of E=MC2 don't you understand?"

brentan comments on Sep 19, 2019:

Energy = 2 Big Macs.

I have mixed feelings about bluegrass, but this music video is sublime [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Sep 19, 2019:

I enjoyed that! There's a solid Scots/Irish thing going on, but also, I think a certain je ne sais quoi from France.

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but to skid in ...

brentan comments on Sep 19, 2019:

I agree with him but I haven't the energy.

beg the question--circular reasoning in which the conclusion of an argument is assumed, an informal...

brentan comments on Sep 19, 2019:

I thought it meant the proposition was either taken to be correct, bringing up another issue, or needed to be verified against the coming question.

Sadly, this is the status quo: 🙄

brentan comments on Sep 19, 2019:

We have a great system in Ireland. The police don't protect us and we're not allowed to own guns unless we're farmers. But they assure us that justice will get done so there's no need to worry.

I told the doctor that I suffer from kleptomania when visiting electrical stores.

brentan comments on Sep 19, 2019:

That'll end in a charge.

Calvin and hobbs

brentan comments on Sep 19, 2019:

I wondered what a religious zealot and a philosopher could have in common.

Too true mad

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

Oh, he's just misunderstood.

Going to drop this here in hopes of offending someone....

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

That's dreadful. You can't show cartoon pictures of Mohammad!

Stupid is as stupid does.

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

Society helps by always making sure there's an uneducated underclass.

The French Revolution, besides being a war against the ruling class, was also a war against the ...

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

It seems Reason is a more terrifying God than the traditional ones.

Netflix and...

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

What will he be like when he emigrates?!

Shaken, not stirred.

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

Daniel Craig wouldn't be such a pussy!

Seriously, why is this in fashion?

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

I suppose we have to keep in mind the stupid shit we used to wear.

When there’s something more evil than you...

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

Will he relent, I wonder.

Hard to argue

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

Oh well. No problems, no life.

I get it now! ;)

brentan comments on Sep 18, 2019:

That's really clever!

Good morning from the East Coast Of Canada. [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

Oh, that's right - she's a great singer too!

What are you going to do about it.

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

He should never get out!

Do we need religion to provide a sense of justice?

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

Probably not anymore but I think we need to remember the religious notions that brought us to this point. I'm saying that because I feel respect for justice is falling in direct proportion to the fall in respect for religion.

Drop the Old testament?

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

Jesus makes no sense without reference to Adam, unless he's seen in a Gnostic light.

Gay couple violently attacked & held hostage in a church to ‘turn them straight’ ...

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

Their ignorance of their own religion is unforgivable. Jesus would have been against all types of fornication. If they think they can take the laws of Christianity into the secular world, they should also be hauling adulterers, unmarried fornicators, even masturbators into the churches to be bullied into changing their lifestyles. It's terrifyingly close to what would happen under Sharia law.

[dailykos.

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

I don't understand it. Maybe that's how it should be. I think the best person to explain that mentality would be someone who had it and later changed their mind.

Hi.

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before obscure men." Proverbs 22:29 We used to trust that our leaders had that extra something. .It's difficult to believe that anymore. Will the cream rise to the top, as Proverbs says, or is the time of the bullshitter?

Hmmm, good question

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

I think we tend to underestimate how much people moved around in those days.

Your fucking horoscope.

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

Lord 'a mercy! Libra sums me up completely.

I had a conversation with a coworker.

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

I really would like to meet someone and maybe sense that 'click' that means things are right. That would solve the problem right away!

Eponym... Naming a person, place or thing after another person...

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

I came across this first in a reference to 'Nicholas Nickleby, the eponymous hero of the book'.

For 1 in 16 US women, their first experience with sexual intercourse was rape, study says [cnn.com]

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

That's outrageous!

No comparason

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

She's gorgeous!

Does history run in endless cycles or never-ending loops?

brentan comments on Sep 17, 2019:

I think it's more the latter these days. There was a man called Giambattista Vico who said there are 4 phases - times of gods, heroes and men - continually running through history. The fourth phase was a return to the first. Perhaps we're in the fourth phase now.

[facebook.com] Al Bundy was a straight up savage

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

It was a funny show even though it was frightening to see how far we could sink.

What’s a Jew to do during the high holy days when they question the existence of a higher power?

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

Just remember that even if they suspect that the Jehovah god is nonsense, they very often still support the 'right' of Jews to occupy Palestine.

Aristotle, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence ,then, is not an act, but a habit"

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

Anagoge - leading yourself upwards. I couldn't help thinking of Iain McGilchrist's 'our minds are what we attend to' and the poet William Blake's 'they became what they beheld'.

No, you cannot have my rights.

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

Maybe we should let people borrow them for a while, until they get their own.

James Taylor - Secret o' Life A bit of Monday morning wisdom from that great philosopher James ...

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

He's great!

peccadillo--a small, rather unimportant offense or sin

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

We used to call them venial sins. The really bad ones were mortal sins.

I love this! Forge your own path! 💕

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

The impudent bitch!

“Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

It's also a haven for predators who understand this.

Francoise Hardy: from 1969, Comment Te Dire Adieu .... which in English means? [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Sep 16, 2019:

'How do I tell you that was awful'?

Be happy🤗

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

'Miss November I detect a frown Close your eyes and turn it upside-down' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMUfe-lIrsk

Stalin, "When one person dies, it's a tragedy. When millions die, it's a statistic"

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

That's that political morality again.

The Divine Comedy - I`ve been to a marvelous party A great take on the old Noel Coward song which ...

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

From gay to manic. Neil is a very clever composer!

Shall we tell them?...

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

Oh they of little faith!

fulsome--offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive, overdone, or gross, unctuous, ...

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

That's a good one! Johnny Cash once used that word in a song about a prison he didn't like.

Numbers 25:4 (NRSV): The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and impale them ...

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

He certainly was a jealous god. They say when he's jealous, it becomes a good thing.

How to keep your man warm:

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

We could end up shooting blanks.

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

brentan comments on Sep 15, 2019:

Political morality, I think, is a perverse thing. Macchiavelli understood political necessity; how it was unavoidable for rulers to hurt some people at some times to maintain social stability. This is a kind of collateral damage. Machiavelli believed that because of this necessity, it was not just more effective, but also kinder, to get this harm done quickly. The other morality is individual. It doesn't allow for collateral damage. I don't know how individual morality might work on a societal basis.

How humans were created according to the History Channel.

brentan comments on Sep 14, 2019:

Enki + Monkey = Baby.

Life has a very funny way of teaching us.🤗

brentan comments on Sep 14, 2019:

I would kick it's ass but I would just be kicking my own.

This is a statement of hope that gives me great inspiration.

brentan comments on Sep 14, 2019:

I'm not a philosopher and I don't know. I only know what to try out myself. I like the poet William Blake's imaginative take on Christianity and find it very useful.

Wisdom from our friends at Hundred Acre Woods

brentan comments on Sep 14, 2019:

I really like that!

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the ...

brentan comments on Sep 13, 2019:

I can't help thinking that we bring a lot of it on ourselves.

To paraphrase Walt Whitman, "Do I contradict myself, very well, I contradict myself, I am large--I ...

brentan comments on Sep 13, 2019:

I'm sure the man doth protest too much.

Latest US , Russian summit talks

brentan comments on Sep 13, 2019:

That's very well done!

zaftig--(of a woman) having a fully rounded figure, plump

brentan comments on Sep 13, 2019:

Just right for the coming winter.

Oldest DNA data from a 1.

brentan comments on Sep 13, 2019:

Getting the DNA from protein - wow!

So much religion

brentan comments on Sep 13, 2019:

They would bring you back down to earth.

I'm 64 next month and as I have reached this ripe old age have become aware of how much we are the ...

brentan comments on Sep 13, 2019:

I came across this humdinger recently - apperception - the mental process by which a person makes sense of an idea by assimilating it to the body of ideas he or she already possesses.

The brain is defined by a sprawling network of 100 billion neurons with at least 100 trillion ...

brentan comments on Sep 12, 2019:

I have a suspicion critical theory and sociability are mutually exclusive.

Sapiophile--someone who is attracted to intelligent people

brentan comments on Sep 12, 2019:

I must be one of those.

Good afternoon my Hippies.

brentan comments on Sep 11, 2019:

A hippy going to work! What's the world coming to? Seriously, best of luck with this new endeavour!

Patriots' Day today, just a reminder of why firearms are necessary for our household.

brentan comments on Sep 11, 2019:

They could come in handy if there's a family fight during the celebrations.

It tells us something

brentan comments on Sep 11, 2019:

Penny doesn't need to be bright - she's perfect!

Everything old is new again.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

'Every girl crazy about a sharp-dressed man'.

Stupid people.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

Vote for Bernie!

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

I've just been reading a poem called Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth. It's all about losing that imaginative spark that makes life magical. It's beautifully written.

memeoftheday

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

Kingsbury rules, no doubt.

Fractal of the day.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

Spooky fractal.

It's not a lie

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

Dreadful nonsense. I wonder what he would write if a leg on the chair broke and he hit the floor.

Glad someone stopped him.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

The cop was right. That's a threat to public order.

Not a meme exactly, but a fine offering none-the-less. Crafty & Noodly

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

It's very nice, despite the spaghetti monster in the centre!

And it's not even noon yet.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

Maybe we should do more reading than texting.

Been There ;-)

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

I'm sure there's no judgement involved.

Well, I cut my already small dose of Lexapro in half recently, and I was shocked at how quickly my ...

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

It might be a bad deal if Lexapro is for your mental health.

Ignorance curiosity and unity what made us evolve this far.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

Let's start here. What'll we do?

Would be great if this is true

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

No, I can't aspire to that.

Matter of fact

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

LOL! Seems right.

I laughed unreasonably hard at this.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

We make very distant mental connections these days and understand them.

How to be a grown-up at work.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

40 years too late!

Everyone's favorite huckster, Anti-Fred, is back. How long do you think he will last this time?

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

I hate this shit - Fred's fine.

An attempt to settle any doubts.

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

Cutie, hide that booty!