Society teaches "Don't get raped" vs. "Don't rape."

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Don't rape. Fuck off. I will. Don't get raped. Don't tell me what to do.

Offer me that deathless death and good God let me give you my life....

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Those communion wafers tasted awful and the darn thing stuck to the top of your mouth.

I think this says it nicely.

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Rusty Cohles are everywhere.

I admit that I agree with liberals on a number of issues but I simply cannot go along with the ...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

I'm a lefty. They put up with me (so far). I hope you enjoy the group.

The Stunned Chicken

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Perfect for Easter.

Oops! ??

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

She has a cute bum.

I'm not religious but someone was looking over me today. I kept having premonitions of a car crash ...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Wow! Thank goodness you got out in one piece.

A woman's place is in the house.

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

They'll always need housemaids.

I posted this in the politics section of the main forum and the vote results are a pretty good ...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

It's good to hear from both sides. That's why I come in here.

[agnostic.com] thoughts?

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

I doubt it.

Simple problems have a way of spiraling out of control and that's when you realize you are on your ...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Which of our workers made this mess? The black guy.

"You atheists have no purpose in life without God" How many of us have heard this during debates or...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Never do today what you believe you can do in the afterlife.

It's Sunday, let's start things off with...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Oh dear. That one 'the best way to the top is on your knees' could be taken as approval of the Weinstein school for career advancement.

325 mass shootings in the US last year

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

You who build these altars now To sacrifice our children, You must not do it anymore. - Leonard Cohen's Song of Isaac.

I love the movie Cabaret and this is one of my favs from it. [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Decadence is very inviting - a dark pleasure.

Israeli Soldiers beating Palestinians - YouTube

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

God's chosen people creating goodwill among the nations.

Morning comes too soon!

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

It's a hell of an adjustment.

Dark Energy and Expanding Space. The expansion rate of the cosmos is apparently accelerating ...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Perhaps waves keep getting created that push the universe on even though the initial burst of energy is diminishing.

karma can be a ....

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Well now!

the walking dead

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

In Christian belief, those without faith in Christ are the walking dead.- Ephesians 2:, 1,5).

How important is the role of the mysterious in your life? Do you think that science de-mystifies ...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

I've been watching YouTubes videos about quantum mechanics recently. Even if it's a scientific fact and even if we understood it completely, a sense of awe would compensate for the loss of mystery.

Gary Moore - I love you more than you'll ever know ???❤ [m.youtube.com]

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

It's good to see he's still remembered.

I’m a great believer in the crossover between popular and classical music. Here we have ...

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

Me too, ever since Deep Purple performed Concerto for Group and Orchestra.

I just learned this from my latest Android update. At any time and within earshot, you can say, OK...

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

Mine says it won't do emergency calls. I put the local number of the police station into Contacts and I trust that will work. I don't want to call the cops just to test it! I must do likewise for the hospital.

is it time to put a cap on the number of posts someone makes everyday. some of us have other lives ...

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

No. Keep scrolling.

Sometimes I don't want to say anything, I just want to post the damn picture.

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

Clever.

Elbow - One Day Like This [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

I really like that band. I only have the Take and Landing etc.album. That first song about predestined love is a doozy!

Rod Stewart and The Faces. - Maybe I’m Amazed 1972. I prefer this version to the original ...

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

Rod's gritty voice has enhanced many a good song.

I've been told by friends that I'm the most militant atheist they know. All the while I'm thinking, ...

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

I think I'm the most pacifist atheist, agnostic really. I got a lot from religion and I appreciate what religion was trying to achieve. So I've moved on without the bitterness a lot of people (justifiably) feel. I think the self-righteous type still get on my nerves but that's not entirely limited to the religious. Especially nowadays with the attitude of extreme lefties dictating what's true like old-time Puritans.

IT's Carole King's birthday! Posting a full album, as She and it are so meaningful. Tapestry. ...

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

Wonderful album. She comes across as a lovely woman. When ever I listen to the album, I feel emotionally wiped after. Maybe that's because I'm a man.

"Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." -Mark Twain

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

When I think of some of the awful or very stupid things I did in my life, I could wince never mind blush.

Anyone got a problem with this statement / definition? It seems spot on to me...

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

That's it exactly.

Well, we were just inundated with a slew of bad puns, & I was admonished for some of mine, so in the...

brentan comments on Feb 9, 2019:

Well in all fairness, it's bad. Bad but not criminal. It's just the nature of the beast.

1963 - The Tymes - So Much In Love [youtube.com] I was on the phone with my aunt, and she had ...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I remember that magical feeling. I hope cynicism never takes over.

Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It sounds like Noddy Holder. Maybe it is.

And maybe a wine fridge?

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Oh gosh, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I just can't handle alcohol like I used to.

I often wonder how priests guilty of sexual molestation perceive themselves. I wonder if they ...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I think they see their situation like ancient Egyptians entering into the court of Maat who weighed their good deeds against their bad ones. Christian doctrine doesn't allow for that, because salvation is by faith, not be works,

In the UK we have Brexit, which is taking up an obscene amount of time and tax payers money, perhaps...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It could be the greatest load of bollocks in both countries. I've more empathy with Britain trying to keep the country British than America trying to keep the country WASP.

On the Zodiac I'm a Gemini. Whats yours?

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I'm a Libran and it fits with my personality.

Reunite Pangea![agnostic.com]

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I'm not sure everybody lived in America in the beginning.

Loneliness is watching a great movie without someone telling you what's going to happen next.

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It's a trade-off, I guess. I'd put up with it.

I'll take the footlong...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I guess love sees something in the ordinary.

So all you really smart economists out there , why wouldn't it work to use the subsidies that now go...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Maybe that's what AOC wants to do.

Would you say that, given your knowledge, etc, of the Goat-herder's Guide to the Galaxy ( Bible) and...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

In all fairness, goat-herders did not write the Old Testament scriptures. The scriptures were conceived and written by educated, pious people who wanted to project meaning into their lives at a time when they were living in exile around the 6th century BCE.

Endless war . . .

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It's unreal how bad homelessness has become in first-world countries. I can only guess it's down to a widening gap between the upper and lower income groups.

Nina Simone- I wish I knew how it feels to be free (live 1976) [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

That's Nina who was so angry at the white race that she would insult the white portion of her audience at concerts. I think people understood and stayed to listen to her talent anyway.

!Warning! Total nudity... Look at your own risk..

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

And it has such a cute little face!

Clutch - Emily Dickinson [youtu.be] Emily Dickinson Won't you lay your hair down low? Staring ...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I really enjoyed the sentiment in that song. Emily came across very strait-laced for someone whose family life was full of 'complications' as anyone else's. Here's another song about her written by Duke Special from a poem by Michael Longley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCztMBruLRY

How many of you support Ocasio Cortez’s “Green New Deal” to make it an emergency priority to ...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It's only a suggestion from what I've read. But some ideas are better than none in this situation.

Bryan Ferry - Make You Feel My Love [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Am I being really awful saying I think he's very overrated?

Mrs Browns Boys?

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Yes. There's more to life than being sensible.

The Band, The Weight [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It's a classic song but what the hell is it about? I loved The Last Waltz, especially Joni Mitchell singing Coyote.

Morning Person or Night Owl?

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Night owl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpNY3UblOr0

This is funny but it actually makes me want to cry because ....

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Oh lonesome me!

The Eagle will crash, the dragon shall rise. Beware of the year of the wild Boar

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I will. Thanks for the warning.

Why is the hard-Left so conservative? - UnHerd

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It might be because they've taken on the mantle of righteousness that used to belong to conservatives.

No idea whether Einstein actually said this, but interesting nonetheless

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I guess that means we can tell what kind of soul a person has by what kind of music they listen to.

I'm sure that we are all opposed to this:

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I never thought of republican and democrats in terms of believers and atheists but maybe that's how it's got.

My studies tend to make me concur...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I blame free education. That taught everybody to know how bad they have it.

Now that my hard work has put me in office, we're going to have some changes around here. ahem...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

First let's kill the lawyers - I mean the bishops.

The humbling psychology of being a mere bit of data in the Matrix

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn't care - Frank Zappa. I guess a lot of the data is got at school.

Im evil he he he!

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

That'll learn them!

Muh peoples!

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Ok. No, not Ok.

CAUTION The study of astrology causes the external anal sphincter to tense. Prolonged exposure ...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I think it's more about socialising than belief in it. It's daft but it gives people something to talk about, like football.

The new magazine is out. It's a liberal political magazine that I've been publishing since February ...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

That looks very interesting - thanks!

Get to sprinkling! Let's make someone's day! ? &Positivevibes

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I think the whole world should have a Global Kindness Day. It might be so surprisingly pleasant that new days could be added gradually.

What do you choose?

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I think seeking happiness directly is counter-productive, like desperately trying to go to sleep. Maybe we should choose to do things that make us happy as a result of those things. I'm not sure about getting happiness through thinking good things but it might work like meditation.

I fucking love her! Just because something is legal doesn't make it moral. [m.facebook.com]

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I hope she isn't shot.

Gaetano Donizetti. - Luciano Pavarotti....Una furtiva lagrima, L’elisir d’Amore [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It's exquisite. That was a massive applause. I had a fleeting tear myself.

Naming your dog.

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I suppose Rover is a bad choice.

Maybe things are looking up

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

I guess you're not doing jury service.

Some advice

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

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

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.....Jane Austen.

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Is it Emma?

yes it is Friday

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

That should be Monday.

Yesterday was my birthday. I am proud to say I turned 53. I went hiking for the first time in many ...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

Happy Birthday, young 'un!

happy people

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

That would be ideal. I wonder, though, how many of us come to peace through isolation in our old age?

I think I'm finally coming out of a Looong spell of non-drinking...

brentan comments on Feb 8, 2019:

It's great being able to carry your own laboratory around with you.

In case of fire...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Every bit helps.

You might be a hillbilly if...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

I think I guess what ROFL means now.

Don't do this!

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

So that's what I'm doing!

Well we have a whole bunch of snowy icy weather rolling in here in the Pacific Northwest looks like ...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Sounds good. I'm finishing Wolfenstein at the moment and have Red Dead ready to go.

Coping with S.A.D. and Depression at the same time. Any suggestions?

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Get up early to see as much daylight as possible Shower regularly Find something you love I hope those darn clouds clear off soon!

It is all in the Reality of the Marketing...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

If that's how it is, I think I'll be wiping my own arse til I kick the bucket.

Poor Javert...he was only doing his job :'(

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

I love how his thinking is encapsulated in Stars.The lyrics are epic, Miltonian, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urxk4mveLCw

Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez unveils bold plan to fight climate change | Environment | The Guardian...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

She'll be lambasted for this but it's just a suggestion and I think the world, not just America, needs to come up with something. Many Americans will likely think of it as a communist plot, like universal health care.

Meaningful silence.

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

It reminds me of 'empty barrels make more noise' but it's more positive.

Monty Python

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Yes. My favourite is The Lumberjack Song.

How romantic!

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

A problem shared.....

In praise of famous men A wonderful writer was Herr Friedrich Schiller Though he never produced ...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

That's very clever. I guess a carol had the meaning of a story at one time.

Or maybe Tech9ne.

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Yes indeed! If 'Yo Mama' was a real curse, the world would be in trouble.

Opening title theme from Neil Simon's Murder By Death 1976: composer David Grusin [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Excellent! Somehow or other, I haven't seen the film and there's lots of great names in it.

Enthralling to me anyway! [facebook.com]

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

It really fooled me. What a trick!

Headmaster of Christian school arrested on suspicion of child molestation - ABC News - via @ABC ...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

We need to change our attitude about people in positions of authority who have vulnerable people in their control. We need to assume that the wrong type of people are attracted to these jobs and we'll be right most of the time.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

It's entitled to *some* privacy.

Musical chairs

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

... and there's one for everybody.

I might have a couple other skills like this!

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Q.E.D.

Consciousness... Can it be measured objectively?

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

I read that it's the universe's way of recognising itself. I think religion was the only way to understand it for ages, then psychology and philosophy had a bash at it followed by physics. The latest efforts come from the old pagan animist thinking but they're calling it panpsychism now.

Some walks you have to do alone.

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Jeez, I must have legs of steel!

Well I got a 1/5. How did you do?

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

Don't forget they need to support the abuse of Muslim women too!

I think it's time i get a literary agent. I have been actively writing for 10+ years. (in ...

brentan comments on Feb 7, 2019:

I can't help because all I know about books is reading them. I just want to wish you well and hope you get published.