Gauff, 15, ousts Venus in 1st round of Wimbledon

brentan comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Had she no respect?

No one has ever really said Native Americans originated here either.

brentan comments on Jul 2, 2019:

That Asiatic look is a bit suspicious.

Men can't cook!!

brentan comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Change filter: 1. Twist and turn canister 2. Drain contents Prepare meal: 1. Twist and turn can 2. Drain contents

THE CURE - A Forest (lyrics) [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Helluva band. Masterful performance at Glastonbury last Sunday.

South Africa does not have a land problem !!!

brentan comments on Jul 2, 2019:

Can South Africa feed and house its population?

Inspirational quote of the day...

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I'll try.

How do you respond when somebody you have never met in person and only exchanged a sentence or two ...

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Best be careful.

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?

What is the best way to meet people like ourselves?

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Covertly, at night.

Slavery - Chapter and verse... [patheos.com]

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Wow. The Old Testament clearly endorsed slavery (Exodus 21, for example). The New Testament was different in that the priority was not the abolition of slavery in a revolutionary way but the development of new human relations in an unfair world which they believed was about to be brought to an end. The apostle Paul's letter to the slave-owner Philemon regarding his runaway slave Onesimus is very interesting, especially these verses: For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,  no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord - Philemon 15, 16). 

Enlightenment does not demand disenchantment with the world | Aeon Essays

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I guess that's a gnostic way of thinking. I like the idea of general enlightenment making the world a better place. I'm sure the gnostics would say that's not possible and history would seem to prove them right but still, maybe some day.

Mebbe sometimes....

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Oh, that's so weak!

Are there any Satanists / members or allies of The Satanic Temple present?

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I'll bet that's fun!

Portland: total fascist control by antifa ::: [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Sargon doesn't understand that people who have wrong ideas must be re-educated.

My opinions have changed on satirical news stories

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Yes, that is crossing the line between humour and false information.

If evolution were true..

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I think it's because chairs are the genus and the different types of chairs are species of the genus.

Disappointment.

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Truth might not always be the biggest virtue.

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.

Black Women, Let Your Anger Out Chronic stress is killing us.

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I never got the impression black women were noted for keeping their anger under wraps.

A 'two-tune' medley from the 1942 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy," sung by James Cagney.

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

A very fine actor.

The only triplet multithreaded oxymoron of which I’m aware.

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Little heathens!

Object-oriented ontology / hyperobjects?

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

I think I would enjoy the inner logic of these sub-programs but I wonder would it just bring us back to The Great Programmer In The Sky.

Do Americans Know How Close They Are To Dictatorship? [opednews.com]

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

They say the best type of government is a benevolent dictatorship. You're halfway there!

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?

Dodgey translation

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

That looks like Benny Hill's German.

Found on Reddit...

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

That's great. No shit.

Birds of prey...

brentan comments on Jul 1, 2019:

Best to get up early anyway.

Wow. Very nice

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

1800-How's-My-Arresting?

As one of my favorite writers put it

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

The need to think a god answers the prayers in people in need must be very, very strong to persevere in the face of historical evidence that nobody out there is intervening in our affairs

A good reminder

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Wood that be emotional baggage?

Compassion is the basis of morality.......Arthur Schopenhauer.

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

I'm not sure that's true. I think survival of the tribe is the basis for morality.

Enjoy life ✌❤

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

He had a great time before they put him in prison.

What about ice cream?

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Now just a minute!

Maybe you are a coconut person...

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Well, it is destroying the integrity of the fruit.

Ezekiel 14:9 (NRSV) - If a prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that ...

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

Sometime a less confrontational approach works better.

"You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by ...

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

The power of mockery!

Time is the coin of your life.

brentan comments on Jun 30, 2019:

'They'll take your soul if you let them Oh yeah, but don't you let them' - Carole King.

Yesterday, while cooling my heels in the ER.

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

There is no avoiding the man when we are ill.

A "perfect world" is theoretically possible, is it not?

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

This is the idea underlying William Blake's prophetic poems. There is no one world; the world is what you think about it and you can use your powers of perception to raise it up to perfection if you want to.

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.

A lone wolf will always be a lone wolf.

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

Getting older has been a great help.

Melania Made A Complete Fool Of Herself, Said She Fell In Love With Trump’s "Amazing Mind" ...

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-9lSEBBm0

Ethics is the attempt to rationally establish morality and to distinguish between meaningful and ...

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

I am really enjoying listening to the intellectuals on the Internet talk about morality and go over how we got to where we are today. I'm not so enthusiastic about business getting in on the act.

Better than Jesus, Peter could heal just with his shadow.

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

No wonder he got the top job.

I believe humans are naturally sexually promiscuous and perhaps bisexual, tho typically ...

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

It might be that humans lived that way too according a book called Saharasia. The book claims things changed after an ecological disaster about 6000 years ago.

Just a little worried

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

It's good of him to care.

Sums it right up. 😁

brentan comments on Jun 29, 2019:

That might be a contradiction but I'm not sure.

Thursday Afternoon The incomprehensible million cycles, rhythms, revolvings, pulsings, that ...

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

No wonder I get tired. That's very good!

Spoil sport..

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

LOL Correlation v Causation.

High Revolution Cameras (Some Restrictions May Apply)

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

That's very clever!

To all of you offensive people out there. We made it to another weekend.. Happy Friday!

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Try not to. It's giving up on people. And could get you addicted to the bottle. (Go on, tell me that's another reason to be that way).

Richard Dawkins interviews Saudi Arabian atheist author Rana Ahmad - YouTube

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

That saying from the Gospels that ‘you will know them by their fruits’ says it all for me. It cuts right through the false virtues (I’m thinking of honour killings) of any religion, including Christianity.

See he's joking about Putin's "help" again. That really must be some pee tape

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Putin in one of those rare pics where he's not stripped to the waist.

I enjoy sharing information and learning about wine.

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Hi. The only wine I ever drink is Cabernet Sauvignon. It's just that it's the only one I know. If you are familiar with others like Pino Noir, Chianti etc., I'd be glad to hear your opinion.

Truth. Kind of looks like at least one of us:

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

That reminds me of O. Henry's short story about the tramp who would commit a crime at the start of every winter to get fed and out of the cold. I might think of it in terms of always having someone around to talk to but the price could be too high!

Zucchero.

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I was fortunate enough to do some work a few days ago with a delightful young Italian girl. I tried to find common ground with her bringing up the Italian singers I know but it seems I'm just hopelessly old and out of touch. It seems this young man is all the rage at the moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2izsbwDEsk

Karmasutra.

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

That's clever!

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them........David Hume.

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

There's a huge amount of talk about this 'perception is reality' idea on the internet. It's as if the poet William Blake got a new lease of life now that we're catching up with his insights. A lot of the interest stems from mostly looking outwards for meaning in life and people coming to a dead end so the talk now is to try looking inward to the imagination and project it back out to the world. This is snippet of Blake's way of looking at things: To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

Just saying

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Give it back to the Dems. No, the other guys. The good guys Shit, there are no other guys.

Lord Chesterfield besuchte eines tages Lord Strafford, und Lord Chesterfield visited one day ...

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Vell, Gott in Himmel, Sweinhunder Englich and Rause Juden Rause, that's fucked up.

I like the older version, because that way I wouldn't have to worry about the bad wolf doing ...

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Would it help to shoot both wolves?

Stolen Milk Duds

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

People can be such judgmental fuckers.

Exactly...

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

The whole thrust of the New Testament was that God was manifested to the world in the figure of Christ and 'the world knew him not'. So Jesus organised disciples to go out in pairs to teach the world about God.

Are you talking about me ?

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

LOL. Is that a good thing?

a-ha - Take On Me (Official Music Video) - YouTube

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I doubt they'll ever get anywhere.

The country cannot rely on states to legislate themselves when it come to Civil Rights.

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

What do you think the federal government should do where civil rights are concerned? In what way are states failing to uphold civil rights?

So take my flesh And fix my eyes A tethered mind free from the lies [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

Very enjoyable!

The look, the sound and... [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

The challenge is huge. I don't think it's primarily about how to manipulate the female sexual organs. First, I think it's about love, not in the abstract, I feel sure, but love in a good all-round knowledge of the other person that shows as.....what? Maybe just affection, or maybe an intuition that the two minds share a certain amount of a perception of reality. That would be nice. That would lay down a shared blanket of security, enjoyed by men and loved by women. I say that almost as a challenge to see who might think that the different ways the sexes perceive that blanket is sexist. This could all be hifalutin nonsense. What if the porn videos have their fingers on the pulse and the best experiences to be had sexually come from the hands of an experienced partner rather than a lover? I'll leave it at that because the only way to know is to hear what people think about these things.

Do you know if there is a way to sue WT for the time wasted?

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

I'm almost certain that the law recognises an implicit legal agreement between publisher and organisation that their participation is voluntary. I think this legal notion applies in every religion. The implicit agreement is probably manifested publicly in baptism but I'm not absolutely sure of these things.

Shirikodama: A mythical ball that according to Japanese folklore is said to contain the soul and ...

brentan comments on Jun 28, 2019:

That's a hoot. Could it possibly mean the prostate? And what would that mean for the female soul?

you're....

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Sometimes I get it first time but this one was a bit different.

Question.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

That's a hard problem. Not Tom Stoppard's play. What does it mean 'she is working harder to focus her emotions in overtime'? I don't think the husband is suffering from loneliness. I think he's very sexually frustrated. Could they make a deal? I'm reading William Blake and this is exactly the problem he had with his wife Catherine. Catherine couldn't have children so she wasn't into sex just for pleasure because of her religious beliefs. They were happily married despite this. There are vague intimations that odd remedies entered into the Blake's domestic life from time to time and maybe Catherine was complicit in them.

I don't remember that one.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Damn! Must I assume they have a sexual relationship?

Socialism Throughout History ....

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

It's dreadful to see the devious advance of socialism in our time.

Someone here has ever thought about the origins of mythical creatures?

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I think they are representations of ourselves as the extremes of our potential to behave good or bad. Right now I can't think of any good mythological creatures from ancient myth but I can't help thinking Christ is a good mythological creature from the not so distant past. Dragons, basilisks and creatures like that seem to me to be figments of our wonderful imaginations that were drawn into post-pagan mythology. These allegorical, metaphorical creatures are a tribute to our capacity to encapsulate ideas as archetypes and it is a real pity that the metaphor was converted into the literal during the Axial Age. I don't understand what seems to such a backward step but it's probably because I don't understand how humanity was developing its relationship with abstract thought at that time.

10:00 pm and the debate has me parroting Trump.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

What have us libtards done now? Was it in a chat room?

My husband says, google is his god, because it knows everything and always has an answer for his ...

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I'm always thinking in terms of the old guy with the beard. I don't rule out the idea of god in the religions of the East.

Funny need that lately

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Litigation, I guess.

What ? Holy shit

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

You can meet people and they have this look in their eyes like they know life on a higher level than you. And then there's cats, who look the same way but who knows what the heck they're thinking.

Yeah in todays climate of hate

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Best to move to Portland.

God loves you so much that he created....

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

He really is good at love. He's just hopeless at rejection.

Astrology.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I'm sure it's mostly nonsense but I'm a Libran and I love justice.

The look, the sound and... [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I'm appalled, frightened, shocked and I'm going straight back to my cave. This shouldn't be allowed.

This has been in my head ALL damned day!!! Might as well do my train of thought since I walked into...

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Better out than in, eh?

Science-based medicine vs. alternatives [sciencebasedmedicine.org]

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

What to say? I don't know. Modern medicine is a marvel. It's also motivated by profit and this causes distrust in medicine and vaccinations. I think big pharma can be a monster.

History repeats itself on mexican border

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Darn untermenschen causing hygiene issues.

Whats more important being on a social media site or having a good stimulating conversation with ...

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

It's pretty cool they can't hit you.

NC lawmaker says Lincoln ‘unjustly invaded’ the South, a ‘sovereign nation’

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I suppose it was another version of the 'just war'. The latest version might be Iran.

A little morning humour.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Ah, when sex was a good, enjoyable thing. How in hell did it ever come to have such a negative connotation? It's amazing how we still relate to both meanings of the word and bring their contradictory meanings together to describe what? Perhaps the dissonance we feel about love and sex. Maybe it's just a loss of confidence in words. Bear with me, I'm just thinking out loud. I'll take my tablets with my coffee.

Makes me so fucking mad

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

This is only a shame for America if America is responsible for the poverty in the countries these economic migrants come from.

Poor girl...

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Ah, I see her legs now.

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.

Thought some would appreciate this

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

He's just misunderstood.

@sitesupport, we are back to getting doubles and triples on post and replies.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

That seems a net gain.

HPV vaccine may put an end to cervix cancer [nbcnews.com]

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

I wonder is this put out to combat the huge lack of trust in HPV at the moment.

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.

How many of us could make it?

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Pirsig Rides Again.

Dance of El Gato.

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

Maybe people in the Middle Ages were right about those little devils.

I am a sinner because something happened 6,000 years ago?

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

That was yo mama. No joke.

I'm not sayign Trump is stupid, but...

brentan comments on Jun 27, 2019:

"Nobody knows thoughts better than I do". "Nobody does thoughts better than I do".