Yes - Roundabout [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Feb 13, 2019:

Such a talented band. I love their music.

Yep... an anal probe will earn you an ursine VIVISECTION, you alien motherfuckers!

brentan comments on Feb 13, 2019:

That's a good laugh and I learned a new word too. I'm just not sure how to use motherfucker in conversation.

Inspirational af!

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

That really appeals to the cynic in me. It is really, really overdone these days.

Heyr Himna Smiður, Iceland's favourite song.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

That's a lovely, heart-felt poem from an Icelandic warrior who was Christian. I was particularly interested because I'm in the middle of reading Beowulf which is also a mix of Nordic hero and Christian sentiment. I found the lyrics and I'll paste them here. I'm not convinced that 'smith of the heavens' means God as the craftsman of creation. Listen, smith of the heavens, [to] what the poet asks. May softly come unto me, your mercy. So I call on thee, for you have created me. I am thy slave, you are my Lord. God, I call on thee to heal me. Remember me, mild one, Most we need thee. Drive out, O king of suns, generous and great, every human sorrow from the city of the heart. Watch over me, mild one, Most we need thee, truly every moment in the world of men. send us, son of the virgin, good causes, all aid is from thee, in my heart.

Bye bye kitty.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Pussy takes on new meaning.

Thug life ????

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

What did she do right?

[washingtonpost.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Murder in Saudi Arabia wasn't going to stop America dealing with the country. I don't think abuse of freedom will matter. Plus, feminists don't usually care about the rights of Muslim women.

Not sure that's what she meant

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Another body hanging from a door.

George Michael and Elton John - Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

I'll bet that's the only thing they didn't want to go down on them.

Finger guns

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Think of the responsibility!

Fooling them.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Self-esteem is everything.

My Friday evening with a bag of chips, beer and Netflix. [reddit.com]

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

That sounds good to me.

The attack on Trump's border wall is everyday more rabid.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

The only other wall I know that was built in recent times and manned the whole way along it was the Berlin Wall. It divide family members from one another and divided Germany into the haves and have-nots.

I was doing research for one of my books today and came across this.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

I must look it up.

Beautiful quilt? Love the colors!

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

I thought immediately of Marrakesh Express. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzB5eRu6HOk

A little raunch today, so CW & all that shit...

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

I would like somebody to hold my Mjolnir.

Excellent summary of privacy invasion, free speech suppression by tech companies, and media ...

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

If the likes of Apple, Patreon and PayPal are the new bishops of righteousness, I wonder who the new Pope is. Here's a link to Google closing Gemma O'Doherty's YouTube platform in Ireland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzhUISN6HA

Do you think , IQ people are better lovers ? Why ?

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

I have no idea. Maybe they could do a survey and ask the partners of high IQ people how they performed in bed.

Walking barefoot allows you to feel the heartbeat of the earth with every step you take.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Walking on grass is therapeutic.

Yay me!!!!

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

It's like bringing coals to Newcastle.

@titanicluv019 Lives in a world of confusion Agnostic, Humanist, Freethinker Open to meeting men...

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

She's very pretty! I might convert.

Happie Hippie Tuesday!!!!! Its snowing in NY -inside for the day.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

It's been a very mild day in Dublin - 13 degrees and a little overcast. I'm reading the last part of Henry VI then I'm going to watch it on the TV.

Don't expect anything back.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

That's romantic.

Happy Darwin Day!

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Gloucester (later to be the evil Richard III) waxes lyrical on his propensity for adaption: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to school.

Just ask for directions! Sheesh....

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

A long delivery.

E-card.....

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Uppers and downers.

Valentine plans

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

That made me laugh. Thanks!

I am so ready.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

That's great news. I had no idea it was that soon.

Joni Mitchell - Blue Motel Room [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Poor Joni could never fit her career and love-life together. I love how she expresses her feelings about her dreams and reality of her life in Song For Sharon.

Researchers are resetting the part of the brain that can shift mood [sciencenews.org]

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Isn't that amazing? You could have your own little in-built ECT shocks. Even though electricity has been understood for a long time to effect the brain, I've read nothing about how electricity is fundamental to the operation of the brain. I think the shocks might be affecting the brain's electrical processes as well as affecting the areas dealing with mood.

FUNICULAR.

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH0TMmgPtjg

Joni Mitchell - In France They Kiss on Main Street [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

'thrilling to the Brando-like things he would say'

Morrissey...[youtube.com]

brentan comments on Feb 12, 2019:

Morrissey has always struggled to accept his homosexuality.

Jesus, historical figure behind the legend or straight legend?

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Have a look at Tacitus on Christ and see what you think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ

Sooooo I’ve got under 700 points to go to get to Level 8.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Are we there yet?

PJ Harvey - Dress [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

That's great but I know you're working up to posting Rid Of Me.

Allegedly it is UK National Pun Day.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Puns should always come with an apology.

Listen, Listen, Listen...

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16 King James Version (KJV)

I am becoming a Rambo.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Head for Seattle. Contact the police.

What?

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Gosh, that's strange!

I think he may be in trouble.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

I hope Costco sell them in bulk.

What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano - YouTube

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Putting this information together with a book I've read recently called The Master and His Emissary, I would think that the left hemisphere is making the models from sensory input and determining the focus. The book suggests that after creating the response, the right hemisphere updates itself with the new information from the left side. Maybe this means that the right hemisphere does the thinking while the left hemisphere tells us what it is thinking. And 'what it is thinking' is consciousness. Here's a breakdown of the video as best I can understand it: PS damaged the right side of her brain Saw no difference in the two pictures of the houses Damage to the right-side of her brain left her unaware of everything on her left side The flames are on the left side of her vision so she doesn’t see them Nonetheless, her brain processes both fields of her vision Her brain can see the difference but she didn’t know it So she would duck from a ball that she didn’t see and wasn’t aware of So our brain process information that we may not actually experience Experience of the processing is called consciousness We are aware of an image in the same way we are aware of ourselves looking at an image It might be the brain’s imperfect picture of its own activity The brain processes sensory input and builds models from it The models are imperfect, just enough for the brain to create responses Seeing white light is a model because light is really lots of colours The brain is aware of the configure of our limbs but not extra unnecessary data The brain needs to make models of its own attention It needs to be able to focus attention and change it if necessary

Good Morning my Beautiful Hippies - Its grey and overcast possible snow/freezing rain tomorrow.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

As many hippies as will fit in it.

To live??

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

Human AI.

The Roots, Jill Scott, and Erykah Badu - You Got Me [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

I like The Roots, especially Undun.

What Syndrome?

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

It's a pain in the ass.

Elvis Costello 'She' [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

I love the original but Elvis did a fine rendition there.

No one has written me a poem, so I can't say I would have this expression.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

The ungrateful hussy.

True enough.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

I guess the least we can do is articulate it well.

Is Social Democracy a revised version of Socialism by capitalists?

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

No. It's a good balance between extreme capitalism and extreme socialism. It lies far closer to capitalism than socialism because the money is generated by capitalism but some of it is used for public services.

Mysterious explosion- perhaps anti-matter- blows dancers from stage in mini-Tunguska event! ??

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

It's probably God's spirit doing away with gays.

A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.....Mahatma Gandhi.

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

I feel there's a danger that it is often miscontrued and becomes intellectual snobbery. I've read recently another way of putting it: 'what the brain attends to'. I've lived in enough severely deprived areas to have seen what the choices are that people can turn their attention to and it is heartbreaking. I'm convinced that the paucity of worthwhile things to attend to is at the root of the drugs epidemic.

Reality check for modern music producers

brentan comments on Feb 11, 2019:

I'm sure she's right and I think it's true of all businesses these days. The trouble is that nobody knows the damage that is done to people in the ordinary business world or what a world without art might look like.

Joni Mitchell is one of my favorite song writers and performers.

brentan comments on Feb 10, 2019:

She's a super talent!

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!