Shakespeare, "First we kill all the lawyers"

brentan comments on Sep 10, 2019:

*First *, then everyone else!

I sold a story!!!!! I've been a ghost writer in the past, but have always written other people's ...

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

This is terrible news! A little part of me died. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/11/friend-succeeds/ No seriously, congratulations!

Quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be ...

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

It's as if God throws us out of paradise and says 'forget your troubles for a bit, have a beer'.

An old tune from the late 1940s-early 50s.

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

I think she might eat me! Great voice, though.

Sinclair Lewis, "When fascism comes to America, it will come carrying an American flag & carrying a...

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

I can't help thinking extreme liberalism is responsible for Trump but nobody wants to compromise so what to do? I doubt even Bernie has any ideas other than economical.

Matthew 21:2 (NRSV) - saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will ...

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

What I get from it is that it's pre-arranged to fulfill the prophecy in Zechariah 9:9.

Since it's controversial, I'll join in. New profile picture:

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

I'm just here for the bruhaha.

Coffee is vital for survival. The dinosaurs didn't have coffee, & look how that turned out

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

Here's a good one I came across recently. It translates 'water is essential for life - without it you can't make coffee'.

Does anyone have a favorite book that helped you in your transition out of your religion?

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

It was Crisis of Conscience for me, written by an ex-member of the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses, Raymond Franz.

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

That brought tears to my eyes. Talented, troubled Sinéad.

Anyone know what happened to @AmiSue?

brentan comments on Sep 8, 2019:

You don't have to anything but disagree with her and she's offended.

A good thing to keep in mind. ❤

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

Why not? It's an act of faith fit for an atheist.

Some folks just do it out loud.

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

I think it helps that we give ourselves away little by little.

Just helped my neighbor....

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw7gNf_9njs

Can't wait

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

It's a lot better than going around breaking windows.

Good morning all

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

You bet, and not necessarily in that order.

Articulate Neill

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

No gravity - no gravitas.

Perfect ad

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

By Pink Cherry lol!

Maybe we should start a petition!

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

I'm the built-in obsolescence in my Hanes.

End of Life Washington - From a member: “In honor of our volunteers who serve in these beautiful ...

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

I lived in Seattle for a few years. Because I'm Irish, people would often remark how beautiful Ireland is. I could not get across to them how beautiful I thought Washington State is.

I can see it happening:

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

She was lovely!

Now at last I can have the vicar to tea, because finally I have something really suitable to wear.

brentan comments on Sep 7, 2019:

I hope he would have the good sense to enjoy the challenge!

just answer with the name, for me Jack Daniels at 17.

brentan comments on Sep 6, 2019:

I hope you were drunk and you just thought you were going to die. With more practice, you'll know everything will be fine.

Funny four pack

brentan comments on Sep 6, 2019:

That joke about Descartes and the horse is very clever!

Today is a not so bad day. I hope this is true for all of you too.

brentan comments on Sep 6, 2019:

It's all relative, I think. Not so bad can be a big improvement. Good can be great.

Coming into Denver The Rocky Mountain-caused windshear plummets the plane, tosses and ...

brentan comments on Sep 6, 2019:

That's me. I did it again a few days ago. I just love the rush of take-off but once up above the clouds, it just seems so wrong! I get weak and start thinking 'God willing' and other shameful things. Once we land, I'm a skeptic again.

Halloween trends? This year- think ... TROPICAL!!!!!!! [popsugar.com]

brentan comments on Sep 6, 2019:

Like Haiti? Oh mummy!

Let's see who will piss and moan about my new profile picture.

brentan comments on Sep 6, 2019:

But what about my FEELINGS?

Book em Dano

brentan comments on Sep 6, 2019:

I think that's really funny and not just because I'm drunk.

Gautama Buddha, "Self applause, belittling of others, or encouragement of sin, some such is sure to...

brentan comments on Sep 5, 2019:

The fat bastard!

"But he that dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose." Anne Bonte

brentan comments on Sep 5, 2019:

There's a price for everything, I guess.

Well thanks god..you fake prick!

brentan comments on Sep 4, 2019:

To be fair, there is no justification in Christianity for killing the non-believers. Sadly, there is in Islam.

Am I entitled to my mental health records?

brentan comments on Sep 4, 2019:

I don't want to know how mad I am. My suspicions are bad enough!

Alexa.........

brentan comments on Sep 4, 2019:

Alexa, be my baby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9iIxC62f4c

Voltaire, "Religion started when the first scoundrel met the first fool"

brentan comments on Sep 4, 2019:

I don't think he's right unless he's talking about how it turned out. It might be semantics on my part.

Ballmer peak.

brentan comments on Sep 4, 2019:

That's true for me too. Maybe not for everyone.

I have tourettes at opportune times!

brentan comments on Sep 4, 2019:

I keep shouting out 'broccili' and 'cauliflower'. I think I've got florets. - Winner of best joke at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival this year.

Will You Still Love You When You're No Longer Young and Beautiful?

brentan comments on Sep 4, 2019:

I usually don't give my appearance much thought. I booked into an appartment yesterday for a vacation and the room has a big mirror facing the bed. Quelle horreur!! I'll avoid it like the plague.

Pinterest Trailer Park Shit ...

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I think they might be nice. But I lived in a trailer park.

Being an Aspie and loving an Aspie is so hard.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I'm pretty sure I'm one too (you can't a test here unless you're a child). It's only easier now that I'm elderly and in a position to walk away.

Good idea lol

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Full marks for giving them the authentic experience.

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

That's love. Or something.

Beautiful...

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

He's a gent.

I bumped into this dicks in the Fringe Festival at the Royal Mile, Edinburgh!

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Here's a few more jokes from Edinburgh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKstdMbRDpU

[friendlyatheist.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I guess their problem must be with the white spouse.

Here I'm back from two weeks in Europe with no WiFi, This is a Youtube video from last year because ...

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Wow! Is that like dying and coming back to life? Seriously, I hope you had a nice holiday. You need to add the video!

There are lots of love songs about places.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

That's great, real quality. My favourite is Copperline by James Taylor. Even though the song is about North Carolina, I think it's a fictional place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLjn3FSKohE

[friendlyatheist.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I can't decide whether people were always this mad or the political climate is bringing it out.

Depends on your perspective.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I think there's truth in that, if it was racheted down a lot.

Groooan!!!

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Absolutely dreadful!

Gotta look your best for the ascention!

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Thomas needs things to look right.

From the heart ❤️

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I think that word 'special' has the two meanings there.

Unfuck yourself

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Heck, I can't remember who that was.

Horrors upon horrors from the Catholic Church... will they never end?

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

That's the type of Ireland I was born into. There are people here, going under the name of 'patriots', who would like us to go back to that Ireland.

OK who keeps causing the hurricanes?

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

It's tension. Stop sending the hurricanes.

Five simple rules for happiness 🤗

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I hope 4 out of 5 is OK.

Do you get a spiritual experience when you look at the night sky.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

It certainly make me wonder. It's awesome.

WAIT! WHAT?

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

The mark of the beast and all that stuff. I can imagine the chaos if everybody could make demands based on their private interpretations of the Bible.

😂😂😂. Dad joke of the day

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

That's terrific!

Is there phenomenology without a self?

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

I'm working my way through Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I'm only about 100 pages in but I would say from what I've read that every experience, from the five senses or formed in concept, is subjective.

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Darn commie!

Sexy tune [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

Excellent. Song of a Nephilim.

Deracinate dē-rasə-nāt Part of speech: verb Origin: French, 16th century 1 To uproot 2...

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

That's a good one! I assumed it would be a bad thing but I guess not necessarily so.

History buffs will understand

brentan comments on Sep 2, 2019:

That's awful!

How come the Dislike emoji was changed? :(

brentan comments on Sep 1, 2019:

I miss the Browse Posts.

Exodus 22:18 (ASV): Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

brentan comments on Sep 1, 2019:

Scapegoats are very necessary at every level of society.

Nailed it... I am going to hell (not scared because it doesn't exist...)

brentan comments on Aug 31, 2019:

Straight to Hell. Do not pass Go...

I thought that this news from Canada’s Supreme Court would be of interest here.

brentan comments on Aug 31, 2019:

I think it's the right decision in principle. I guess the market couldn't sort it out for reasons I don't know.

Time to lay off the Cuban Musicians and go with Puerto Rican Musicians.

brentan comments on Aug 31, 2019:

Terrific - from his heart, as always.

Vigil Held for Christian Supermarket Cashier Told to Stop Praying With Customers ...

brentan comments on Aug 30, 2019:

Priceless! An incredible sense of entitlement.

Existential fly

brentan comments on Aug 30, 2019:

The Fly by William Blake: Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath, And the want Of thought is death, Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die.

Tots and pears! Churches in America are being transformed into mosques, Buddhist temples, and ...

brentan comments on Aug 30, 2019:

I would like to see them converted to philosophy centres, a la Alain de Botton's School of Life idea.

I had an interesting conversation with a believer last evening.

brentan comments on Aug 30, 2019:

I they they say the trinity was always there but the concept wasn't articulated until the time of Jesus. My guess is that Jehovah, his active spirit and wisdom were the 'old' trinity. It isn't obvious that Jesus is the Logos as well as wisdom but Philo links the two: In his doctrine of God Philo interprets the Logos, which is the Divine Mind, as the Form of Forms (Platonic), the Idea of Ideas or the sum total of Forms or Ideas. Logos is the indestructible Form of wisdom comprehensible only by the intellect (Det. 75-76; Mig. 103). https://www.iep.utm.edu/philo/

Rough neighborhood.

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

What would Dave Chappelle make of that?

Just when you were thinking that the Christian far right could get more stupid they up their game ...

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

I expected better from satanists.

Boz Scaggs We're All Alone [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

Quality.

Yep that's me!

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

I remember when normal seemed to be a good thing. Dangerous times.

I grew up on Jesus Christ Superstar. Yes, yes I did. I still like musicals. 😁 [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

"What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening". Oh never mind. It's fake news anyway.

Yikes cannot unsee that may go blind and lost my appetite

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

I'll bet he did in response to a dare.

Let them explain that

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

He doesn't even dignify a question by replying with a word salad. He just shits on the plate.

My state collects property tax.

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

Give to Caesar what is Caesar's. Not likely!

I thought this was a funny little post

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

It probably hasn't had a good shit since it was on four legs.

Know your knives.

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

Carrie's mom got pinned to the wall with most of them.

I really liked @Marionville 's word this morning - "autodidactic" so I thought I'd go along with ...

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

It's interesting too, I think, that the word was bound up with teaching children.

But you made the wine

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

We've all heard about drinking responsibly. Nobody spoke about responsible miracle-making until now. Jesus should be ashamed of himself!

An astonishing, animated Bob Dylan performing It Ain’t Me Babe.

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

That was just terrific! Bob's voice is so nasal subtitles wouldn't go amiss. I saw him once at the Gorge in Washington. He came across as a hard-working musician with none of the messianic notion that was put around him 'in the great folk-scare of the 60s', as James Taylor called that time.

stentorian adjective sten·​to·​ri·​an | \ sten-ˈtȯr-ē-ən \ : extremely loud spoke...

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

I like that one. I think it has an onomatopoeic feel to it.

Can't wait to ditch this caliginous state of the union.

brentan comments on Aug 29, 2019:

That's a good one! I thought it was going to have something to do with Caligula and Trump would be the example.

First day of being a waitress and sigh.

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

Do tell.

How many Michael Jackson fans? today his birthday 🎂

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

I separate the man from his art. Did you see Dave Chappelle is in trouble for bad-mouthing Jackson's accusers? I wonder what possessed him to do that?

What exactly was the reason for Europeans toaccept a god from the desert over the local gods who ...

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

Emperor Constantine made it the religion of his empire.

I'm sure the B-thumpers are seeing Jeebus, but it is clearly Aunt Mildred!

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

I think it's Robert Smith:

The Unique Isabel Pantojas from Spain with the Copla Symphony.

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

That's sung with great passion! Is it about a man who chases a rich woman and loses his true love in the process?

[youtu.

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

That's a great song. I love the intention in the words even though I love the difference in people. For me 'love sees all the colours'.

Thank goodness for eyeglasses!

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

Yes indeed. I read so much I can't take it for granted, especially now I'm getting older.

The spread of Christianity.

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

What can you do if people won't listen?

Mores - Pronunciation is moray - but please don't confuse it with the tropical eels which have no ...

brentan comments on Aug 28, 2019:

Developed from the saying "what's more.....", usually followed by "we've always done it this way". Not to be confused with the scouts' delight - smores - which seems to have come from 'somethings more to eat'.

Hilarious ad enjoy

brentan comments on Aug 27, 2019:

Gosh. Where's the fun in that?

The real story

brentan comments on Aug 27, 2019:

Oh she of little faith!

Some of those names...

brentan comments on Aug 27, 2019:

I can understand people being big into sex before TV. BTV should be a thing. After TV (ATV), it's an optional extra.