Absolutely not.

brentan comments on Aug 17, 2019:

Make her a spit-roast.

The Trump administration recently argued (and lost) in court the legality of withholding soap and ...

brentan comments on Aug 17, 2019:

The apostles were stopping the children from 'bothering' JC so he told them to let the children alone.

Projection much?

brentan comments on Aug 17, 2019:

You must have complained.

I've had a shyte day. Memes . :)

brentan comments on Aug 17, 2019:

Everything's better now!

Be brave young fella

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

A massacre through boredom.

Makes sense.

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

After D bold thing.

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not a single event - but a habit." Aristotle

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

That's what I think too. I've usually thought of it in terms of a pattern, not just to determine if someone is consistently excellent but to judge if they're consistently any particular way.

Mondegreen män-də-ˌgrēn Part of speech: noun Origin: English, 1950s 1 A word or ...

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

I thought it would be something about ecology! The only one I can think of is Bob Marley's 'with a roofrack over our heads'.

Prayers needed for a quick recovery. 😂

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

Should there be a comma after stand?

It was wrong back then too

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

Mohammad doesn't fall into the category of pedophile.

Plumber ad brilliant

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

Just how we like it - down and out. There's something wrong with that statement that I can't quite put my finger on. And maybe shouldn't.

Digital phenotyping: A revolution or a privacy breach? - MedCity News

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

That seems a very liberal way to use the word phenotype - adapting it to mean a type of behaviour instead of a type of organism. Anyway, it might well be completely correct. On a more layman level, I was surprised that understanding other people did not bring about the wholly positive results that were expected. I really hoped education would teach us to be kinder to one another but it seemed to work the other way. So I'm not too optimistic about this level of analysis bringing only good results.

I remember my mother, a nominal catholic, occasionally explaining her lack of faith.

brentan comments on Aug 16, 2019:

She'll have to get a pass come Judgment Day!

Join, or else!

brentan comments on Aug 15, 2019:

West Bro Story.

Ungrateful little punk

brentan comments on Aug 15, 2019:

Fatherhood is a thankless job.

Makes sense to me

brentan comments on Aug 15, 2019:

Sound analytical thinking is very tiring. I would take a nap too.

Christian Reality Stars Todd And Julie Chrisley Indicted For Tax Evasion, Fraud 😂 tots and pears!...

brentan comments on Aug 15, 2019:

It's persecution, I tell you!

The less shitty religion

brentan comments on Aug 15, 2019:

I will. I promise.

It clicked in my head just now.

brentan comments on Aug 15, 2019:

Well now!

Quitting religion freed me to be kind to myself. I was soon able to be kind to others.

brentan comments on Aug 15, 2019:

I think it came about through using the focus on God as a licence to treat others badly. This is, though, in defiance of a creed that said you couldn't love God unless you loved your neighbour: Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. - 1 John 4:20.

There were giants then.

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

I wonder what true freedom is. Probably not being a wage slave.

[yahoo.

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Go git 'em!

I think they still call some wine barrels butts.

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Here's a reference to a butt being used to collect rainwater in rural Northern Ireland. It's at 3:44. 'the wind creaming rainwater off the butt' from Brothers, a poem by Michael Longley and sung by Duke Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2CDPWr5bR4

Here's Carlos and the boys [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Superb! I saw them in Ireland in the 80s, I think, supporting Bob Dylan.

Would serve them right if this were true.

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Yes indeed. You have to walk the walk.

Stitched up heart...lost [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Lord have mercy! Yeah I said it.

Three points!

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Wow! That wasn't in 50 ways to leave your lover.

So... who ARE the domestic terrorists?

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

I guess it's the difference between talking about it and doing it.

Alien Abductions?

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

I'm bored. I would volunteer.

Hang in there everyone.

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Caesar would be disgusted with us. He would use a Latin word for snowflake.

Do we have an obligation to correct non-malicious misgendering?

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

Kindness is becoming rare. I wouldn't mess with it.

I know what I saw and I am certain it is a reliable memory, or is it?

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

We see what we attend to. Is it any wonder two people can see the same thing and totally disagree about it.

Why, I've been invited into his home...

brentan comments on Aug 14, 2019:

That's attributing your own guilt on to people who are probably fine with it.

dendrochronology - a method of archeological dating using the growth rings of trees A great word ...

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

I thought it worked out the age of dead people from their teeth.

For the women here

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

That's really nice!

All with Native Blood in the Americas (North, Central, South) should Rejoice with the News of This ...

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

Darn crackers!

I need a long saunter, how about you?

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

Well now. That's really interesting!

So what would you do with this or where would you put it?

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

Oh mummy!

We haven't grown much.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

The strange thing about it is that bad as we are, we have come a long way. I'm going to try to keep faith that we can continually do better as time goes by.

Photographs and fashion As I have got old I've noticed that through the years I have looked at ...

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

It's not too bad if it's a generational thing and everyone looked like a dick at the time. I remember myself in flairs and platform shoes - Jesus H!

Given the subliminal name of his business, I'd say he's about 6 months from being found nuts deep in...

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

'Death AND the grave'. Two things. Wow!

I'd be willing to bet that the monkeys could probably make better gods.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

We seem to have always made them like us. I mean that they changed as we changed. But it stopped at Jesus with no new god for 2000 years. Perhaps, as Jordan Peterson says, Jesus is the consummate archetype of a god. I mean that (and think Peterson does too) in the sense of bringing god-types to a pinnacle of perfection. If so, that means we couldn't improve on him so the only way forward was discard him. I realise there was a lot more going on historically, Deism for example, but I find it very curious that there was no attempt to update Jesus with a newer version.

This needs no explanation.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

Run. Hurry. No need to tell me twice.

A quick little spelling lesson

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

Oh. I mean oh.

Yes please.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

She's a pizza slut!

Sean is now hiding in the luggage rack out the door.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

I guess you can love nature too much.

Your memes for Tuesday (You'll see I slid that dank one in there.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

From trauma to reassurance in two seconds flat.

Epic Neil Young & Crazy Horse playing Cortez the Killer! [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

I couldn't resist this one. I really like his long songs.

The clergy should not go to IKEA!

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

At least he doesn't need to figure out if the nails go through the hands or the wrists.

ABOUT MUFFINS.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

No worries. Holy spirit will guide you to choose the right muffin.

This shall be my new door mat. And the number of the counting shall be Three.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

That's much nicer than 'FUCK OFF'.

One of my favorites: palimpsest.

brentan comments on Aug 13, 2019:

Atwood's use of the word is really good. I don't know if it's technically correct, but it works very well as 'cultural strata'.

Yup like trump said

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

It must have been Assassin's Creed.

Makes my blood boil! - The Jehovah’s Witnesses Want the Supreme Court to Help Them Cover Up Sex ...

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

The most recent thing I heard is that they want the word 'victim' removed from the court's vocabulary while the case is being judged. They claim it prejudices the court which is true, I think. What I dislike is the cold legal stance of an organisation claiming to Christian. To put it in the vernacular, they don't seem to give a fuck about members who claim to be hurt.

Laughing so hard

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

If this was Assassin's Creed, it would be Level 5 taking on Level 30.

A little levity; still, the planet goes on being round...

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

That's the problem with arguments - the best at arguing win even if they're wrong.

Not all of them but you get it!

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

The original Hill Street Blues.

Miasma mī-ˈaz-mə Part of speech: noun Origin: Ancient Greek 1 An unpleasant ...

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

I read about this in the Oresteia. In this context, it was the odour remaining from an act of murder that could only be removed by a revenge killing.

Had this you ?

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

Cheese and beetroot.

Do trees have gender?

brentan comments on Aug 12, 2019:

Walking through a wanton wood I saw a tree and there it stood

I like her version better than Elvis's. 😁 [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Things like this make me sure humanity is worth saving.

That looks kinda like...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

They just couldn't be bothered.

In the blink of an eye...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Mama says it's like an engine going up through the gears. Slow going at first then put on your seatbelt.

Took a little trip down memory lane today, and went to my hometown of Germantown, Ohio and visited ...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Oh, you're too modest!

Tonight I am spending my atheist money on the play book of mormon.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

If that's the lyrics of the show, it will be a hoot! But why not watch the video?

The Christian ethic is to nurture the sick and the elderly, amongst other teachings.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

I think American Christianity has become political rather than Biblical. The spirit of Christianity and its lack of interest in politics is well expressed at James 1:27: Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. 

Another oops moment

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Be strong. Be kind. It might save your life.

The divide between Democratic candidates for the Presidency: Moderate vs.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

I think the one good thing Trump did is show ordinary people the contempt the ruling class has for them.

Had a nice day with my new girlfriend, Renzie, up at Lake George on a brunch cruise.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

That's great - long may it last!

So which is it?

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

BOMDAS says 16.

ARRIEREPENSEE or arriere-pensee A french word I would not have posted except for seeing it in an ...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

I hope you're enjoying the story. A 'back-thought', I think.

🤓😳😣🥳😂😄😀😅😇😍😚

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Can't condone it. Sure understand it.

Right?????

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Yes indeed. Mentally ill too!

Spot on!!!

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Imagine - unarmed and more likely to live!

Low tolerance for whiners.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

But what about my rights???

Sometimes the planning stage is a lot of fun!

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

A new interpretation of Ephesians 4:26  "Be angry but do not sin;" do not let the sun go down on your wrath.

If you don't like this song, I don't know if we can be friends. [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediment(s) - Sonnet 116.

Portals to Hell

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

The problem is you create illegitimate spirit creatures with your thought-sperm.

Full Woodstock recording to air on WXPN at exact time of original festival.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

That's good news. I must get drunk and convince myself I was there.

Let It Rain - by me [soundcloud.com]

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

That's really good!

Revenge of the sleep deprived

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

For some reason, probably dementia, I thought the joke was about a guy selling his own lawnmower so his neighbour couldn't wake him up looking to borrow it! Then it dawned on me he was selling his neighbour's mower.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (ASV) - for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, ...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

It is possible to join the two ideas but the interesting thing for me is that it shows the split in the New Testament between those (James' group) who think Jesus came to preach obedience to the Mosaic Law and those (Paul's group) who believed the Law was made obsolete because Christ fulfilled it.

House party!

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Lucky bricks.

...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

I think all these laws are an attempt to deal with the symptoms of a social malaise instead of treating the cause. If they think the cause is incurable, that's tragic, but they might be right.

Is the term "Christian White Supremacy" appropriate?

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Yes it is. They're not claiming superiority just because of skin colour. They are conflating their colour with their Judeo-Christian heritage which brought about their supposed cultural superiority.

Hahahahaha! What a dufus! 🤣 Megachurch Pastor Claims Teaching Children Evolution Causes Mass ...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

He's not connecting the dots at all.

Good article. [dailysignal.com]

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

That reads like an article in The Onion.

Two highly interesting offerings from Netflix: The Great Hack documents the Cambridge Analytica ...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

I don't have Netflix but maybe I'll get lucky and find them somewhere else.

Hello.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Not me. I'm too busy reading to write. Welcome to the forum!

Dog is worse than kids.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Canine incorrigibility.

"Capitalist economies have been an enormous boon to human welfare.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Competitive economies seem to work great to encourage innovation in just about everything. And I trust it's true that people all over the world are rising above the poverty line. Nonetheless, the neoliberal market economy sorely needs to be controlled because I think it trades money for meaning, sucking the meaning out of peoples' lives as it raises them out of poverty.

Misery loves company.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

I'm fulfilling my obligations, if that's any consolation to me.

Raconteur ra-ˌkän-ˈtər Part of speech: noun Origin: French, early 19th century 1 A ...

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

In other words, Peter Ustinov.

Nintendo, you so crazy!

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

Roll on PS5. I can't wait.

[bigthink.

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

He is a hoot, both highly intelligent and humorous, despite that sniffle. I really enjoyed his recent discussion with Jordan Peterson, where he showed himself to be a less than enthusiastic Marxist.

Who needs a savior when we have science and Hitchens wisdom?

brentan comments on Aug 11, 2019:

The saviour was the person who offered eternal life to humanity, making life in this world meaningful. Now that most people suppose there is no existence after death, we have to find meaning enough in this life. Will people like Christopher Hitchens help people achieve this? I'm watching Jon Vervaeke's YT videos at the moment called Awakening from the Meaning Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY

What more is there to say? ✌❤

brentan comments on Aug 10, 2019:

Such a pity it's a big ask.

Caption this.....

brentan comments on Aug 10, 2019:

As different as we are, we're all the same.

Today's cheese 🧀🧀🧀🧀

brentan comments on Aug 10, 2019:

He's a Stoic.

Steady.....steady...

brentan comments on Aug 10, 2019:

Don't tell me nobody invented a thingy to do that easily.