The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Etching by Francisco Goya

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

I wouldn't have thought that.

Are you suffering from PMS: patriarchy, misogyny and sexism?

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Everybody should be a victim!

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it Henry David Thoreau

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

I started my bucket list of reading the classics when I became conscious of getting old. I value those books enough to spend most of my remaining life reading them.

VITUPERATION.

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

I always have the image of a viper in my mind when I read this word. I'm sure though there is no connection. Perhaps I just see it in the letters.

And Hadrian's wall didn't keep out the Scott's.

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

I hope the wall is aesthetically pleasing.

Why do metal detectorists spend endless hours slogging about in the mud, digging up modern junk for ...

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

It was a very pleasant TV show - very human.

Something about Neanderthals - How Neanderthal are you? [bbc.com]

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

Best not to get into that. We might start a new form of racism.

This is me.

brentan comments on Dec 29, 2018:

That's a good one - it must be the river Lethe and logos put together.

A social history question .

brentan comments on Dec 28, 2018:

I have a great interest in this topic too. I think it's safe to assume we started off in Africa but I don't agree anymore that we moved from Africa and then became farmers and cultured people in the Middle East. I think the route took hundreds of thousands of years, people moved north as far as the ice caps and then when the Ice Age ended, millions died in the resulting floods and the survivors built up their civilisations again much further south. Recently I've been watching Maria Kvilhaug's (Lady of the Labrynth) YouTube videos on the time when the different hominids and the Neanderthals co-existed and interbred.

Hi, I am 56 years old and independent.

brentan comments on Dec 28, 2018:

I think it's too big a burden for one person to bear. I understand that this is your son but I think it's a job for professionals. Please forgive me if I misunderstand the situation.

The wisest have the most authority. Plato

brentan comments on Dec 28, 2018:

My guess is Plato is talking about legitimacy, truth.

Shout out if you recognize yourself here.

brentan comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Whatever you do, don't try to integrate them.

I am Not a Professional but I Wrote this years ago.

brentan comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Excellent! Could you post the lyrics?

Good morning! With New Year's Eve fast approaching, what are some of your regional traditions?

brentan comments on Dec 28, 2018:

Dinner For One is a hoot!

Probity Pro·bi·ty /ˈprōbədē/ noun formal the quality of having strong moral principles; ...

brentan comments on Dec 26, 2018:

This comes from the notion of probing a person's anus to see if their rectitude was the result of something stuck up there.

A tiny carved representation of a bird discovered in Hohle Fels Cave, Germany.

brentan comments on Dec 26, 2018:

It is so good to see information growing about Ice Age peoples.

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

brentan comments on Dec 26, 2018:

Rumi has some lovely little poems. Here's the link to the book to save someone the effort of searching for it. https://www.apnamba.com/Ebooks-pdf/Mortenson_Greg_-_Three_Cups_Of_Tea.pdf

😊 keep going!

brentan comments on Dec 26, 2018:

I'll bet she was too tired the next day as well.

Pedant: person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying ...

brentan comments on Dec 24, 2018:

I h8 dem peeple.

Atheist Christmas Memes? Merry Christ-Doesn't-Exist-mas!

brentan comments on Dec 23, 2018:

I still want a present!

The Surprising Benefits of Being an Introvert [time.com]

brentan comments on Dec 23, 2018:

I always suspected that I am a wonderful person and now I know it's true.

What wine are you going to drink for the holidays? Regale us with your libation!

brentan comments on Dec 21, 2018:

I've got 2 bottles of Isla Negra Merlot for Christmas. It's usually out of my reach financially but I saw it discounted and snapped them up!

I find that I’m now host of yet another group, and didn’t even know it! It seems Balou has ...

brentan comments on Dec 21, 2018:

I can't imagine!

I run a film group through Meetup where we watch foreign and independent films in the greater ...

brentan comments on Dec 20, 2018:

I would love to have access to foreign movies.

I have started to replace ‘I am sorry’ with ‘thank you for understanding I.

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

I might be tempted because I'm pretty sure I'm somewhat autistic. But really, what the heck would I apologise to the 'neurotypicals' for when they are steadily reducing civilisation to ashes? I don't know what your 'weakness' is but you need to tell me why your weakness is perhaps pathological and everyone else's is justifiable.

Some things you have to experience for yourself to truly understand, not everything can be ...

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Is it drugs, madness, perhaps death?

@brentan -- Hello, and welcome to the group.

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Thank you both very much!

Dave Chappelle "3 a.m. in the Ghetto" [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

That must be the one about the baby! I love his super-relaxed delivery style.

Who are these musicians, and artists, for 100, alex ?

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Oh, there's Robert Smith. Who's them old fogies?

When hunters get old

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

How education can lead to feeding us.

Deal with it...

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Bye-bye Disney dreams, but still, we all live in hope.

Yup, happens all the time.

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

That extends to the justice system too.

Wow! This is not easy...

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

He probably got other people to beat them up.

T'is the season to drink wine, copious amounts of wine.

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

I'm dreaming of a red Christmas, just like every other day of the year. When it comes to wine, it's just about always Cabernet Sauvignon' the brand almost always Casillero del Diablo. Sometimes I end up with a Merlot.

Living in a big world. Is this you?

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

Or suck with greater ease.

Natalie Merchant - Kind and Generous [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

That's a nice surprise. I really enjoyed it!

Look closer...

brentan comments on Dec 19, 2018:

I heard that men learned to exploit other people's vulnerabilities after learning about his own. I think that's also the reason why education didn't teach us to appreciate each other through understanding, but rather to dislike each other more.

This is beyond outrageous. How is this not unconstitutional?

brentan comments on Dec 18, 2018:

That's a dreadful human right's violation!

Never Forget! The Same Rethuglicans Who Impeached Clinton Over a Blow Job Are Now Saying Trump's ...

brentan comments on Dec 17, 2018:

Those guys tend to focus on sexual sins. I think ever since the story of sodom, religious leaders have ignored the weightier matters of social morality. You'll be pleased to know old Jehovah wasn't impressed by their lousy attitude.

He said, she said. She right ...

brentan comments on Dec 17, 2018:

She's drunk, I suppose. She probably always is.

"The planet is fine, the people are fucked" ---George Carlin

brentan comments on Dec 17, 2018:

I think the planet is ok but could be better. We're about as good as we can be because it's not that long since we were apes.We have become very inward-looking animals and self-critical. With our comfortable lifestyles and high-falutin religious values we are always focussing on how better life might be if we were closer to moral perfection. We should appreciate that in the luckier parts of the world, life is very good.

I am extremely sensitive to loud, cacaphonous noises which, on Mondays, means the grounds ...

brentan comments on Dec 17, 2018:

That's a nice example of live and let live through good will.

Lol... I think of my son when I see this.

brentan comments on Dec 17, 2018:

And yet the whole idea *is* to take something somewhere.

Its beginning to look a lot like fuck this.

brentan comments on Dec 16, 2018:

Time to get out in the country, sit by a river or under a tree.

Somehow I missed seeing this chatroom until today.

brentan comments on Dec 16, 2018:

Is it like Feng Shui for books?

I always celebrate longest night aka the winter solstice, not because I consider myself a witch just...

brentan comments on Dec 16, 2018:

There's something nice about being in awe of things bigger than us. I would have enjoyed being a pagan.

Somedays it's hard to find!

brentan comments on Dec 16, 2018:

'Miss November I detect a frown Close your eyes and turn it upside down' - James Taylor Love Has Brought Me Around. Bah. Humbug.

"God is just another word for everything," [ncronline.org]

brentan comments on Dec 15, 2018:

I think so too.

I’ve been gone for two or three days. Did I miss anything?

brentan comments on Dec 15, 2018:

You'll never catch up on the memes.

I'm so sorry, but it appears I'm just going to have to leave the site and try my damnedest to see if...

brentan comments on Dec 15, 2018:

You're a victim, Mary!

"River" JONI MITCHELL (have a safe and sane weekend) [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Dec 15, 2018:

Poetry in motion.

When you just aren't all about the holidays and you run across the office Xmas Nazi.

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

I remember that when I was a Jehovah's Witness.

I think I need to officially apologize to everyone who wrote "stay cool" in my high school year ...

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

I suspect you did, Duke. They're alive, aren't they?

Who will walk into this one? Are you board?

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

Sometimes you guys make me feel very autistic.

Just a word of advice to all the ladies that receive household appliances as christmas presents this...

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

I'm told 'squirting dick' is hard to beat!

Don't be fooled @VAL3941 only pretends to be a grouchy dude. He's really a kitty cat.

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

Ooh, suck, suck, suck, suck, suck!

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas...from the bottom of my heart.

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

I had to work on that one!

Ladies, of your man is performing for you in the wheat field, is it ever too much?

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

Get a grip, Patrick!

Well after a couple bumps in my life.

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

Wonderful film!

Ha ha ha, to funny!

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

He sure is - the little brat!

The Yellow Vest movement in France seems to be catching hold in spite of limited and biased ...

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

The gilets jaunes can't say what the protest is about because of political correctness so they claimed it was about the price of fuel. The French government can't say what the protest is about because it might inform the public about political issues so they claim it is about extremist thugs.

Some Flower Power

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

Does it bite?

“Compassion hurts.

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

I think this is why the world needs all sorts of people and we survive because of the balance/tension between the different types.

I have a touch of Seasonal Affect Disorder.

brentan comments on Dec 12, 2018:

No, I don't. I hadn't heard of them. I had started turning the light on early in the afternoon to try to inject some brightness into these dreary Irish winters. I must check out light boxes online and see what they look like.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half educated speak to the half converted.

brentan comments on Dec 11, 2018:

I was there. I saw it. And I saw how they placed fools on high and congratulated each other on their credulity.

Never Use Romans 1:20 with Non-Believers! - Paulogia [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Dec 11, 2018:

I understand the apostle Paul saying in Romans 1:20-32 that: people once all believed in god peoples turned to other gods their thinking became corrupt they became homosexual

People seem far more concerned about the song ‘Baby, It's Cold Outside’, than people who are ...

brentan comments on Dec 11, 2018:

We get sentimental/guilty around Christmas but the new year will be the same for homeless people.

This sums up rather well a heated conversation I had with someone on FB.

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

I think a lot of people think it means they are not just right, but righteous to boot.

Having an especially hard time right now.

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

I'm sorry to hear this and I can empathise to a certain extent. I have a feeling you'll be in a large group here who will find the Christmas season a challenge. Many of us won't have many others to talk to over this period so maybe we can be of some use to each other. Be strong!

Uh Oh, William Barr [patheos.com]

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

I was reading about Trump's family since they came to America, yesterday on Wikipedia. I was reminded of Michael Corleone in one of the Godfather movies telling a senator 'We're all part of the same hypocrisy, senator'. I dread to think what the public will do when they finally wake up to the fact that they are being encouraged to do right so as to clear the field for those who want to do wrong.

A good interview with Jordan Peterson.

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

That's Marian Finucane, one of our Irish media veterans. She's not the worst by any means. I think she was really out of her depth and it helped in a way, because she was forced to ask all the 'stupid' questions. That might have been very helpful for people, like Marian's listeners, who probably had no idea where Peterson was coming from.

Just a thought.

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

Our government always told us that, especially when there were no jobs.

Obviously, I wasn't paying attention..... what's with the "baby it's cold outside" thing?

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

We used to refer to a certain lager popular with women as 'a leg-opener'. There was a very predatory attitude back in the day which was acceptable. It was your job to get sex and her job to stop you. I think this is the big question now: is trying to get a woman drunk so she will be more agreeable to sex the same as spiking a drink or using date-rape drugs?

Christmas is coming, happy holidays !

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

A boy with high aspirations.

axiom--/ˈaksēəm/ noun -a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, ...

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

I had always thought it was more complicated. I was thinking of mathematics, the x and axes in school. But maybe one has come from the other and if so, which came first?

I'm 62, When I was 5 we were poor and there were 5 kids under 8.

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

Poor you! And poor Dad! That's a lot of sorrow. I'm glad life is better for you now.

Do you watch America Unearthed on the History channel?

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

It's so difficult to separate fact from fiction but The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail was a fascinating book! It must be 30 years since I read it, but I think the gist of it regarding modern times is that a Jesus will come from a French family who are descended from Merovingian kings who got their royal status by being descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

"When overseas you learn more about your own country, than the place you are visiting.

brentan comments on Dec 10, 2018:

You have a great opportunity to compare and contrast. You get to see that countries have things in common, such as decency and flaws, and you get to see how different people do different things, and more importantly, why. I didn't end up choosing one culture over another but learned to appreciate both.

Impecunious.

brentan comments on Dec 9, 2018:

It sounds like the name of a Roman goddess. Gilbert & Sullivan were great fun!

I'm watching a video on quantum mechanics and consciousness that I think you will find thought ...

brentan comments on Dec 9, 2018:

That certainly forces you to think! It is very interesting. I'm intrigued by the concept of panpsychism and also that consciousness and matter might be expressions of the same thing. I wonder, though, would quantum mechanics inform us about consciousness or just help us understand the neurophysiology of the brain.

When my wife is in the nude complaining about how hot it is, I reply so take off all your clothes ...

brentan comments on Dec 9, 2018:

Alexa is the perfect wife.

I woke up with this on my brain and it popped up in my list, hope it sounds as good to you as it ...

brentan comments on Dec 9, 2018:

That was a great pop song!

check this out twice, no?

brentan comments on Dec 9, 2018:

Such wonderful childish innocence.

Many atheists believe that John lennons " imagine " represents the best atheist anthem.

brentan comments on Dec 8, 2018:

Here's a curious and very serious song about disbelief from Crosby, Stills and Nash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeGgABjH_A

The same goes for doesn’t belong.

brentan comments on Dec 8, 2018:

Lonely road, though.

[yahoo.

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

I'm surprised he tried that type of defence. I thought he would try for a manslaughter charge based on extenuating circumstances.

Are Women Sometimes Too Much Woman?

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

Strange to read this when I'm watching a documentary on Barbra Streisand.

Macgyver vs O'Neil.

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

He was probably the last Great American Hero. I'm not surprised he was promoted to the space program.

Something very bad happened tome this morning.

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

Gosh, that must be no joke. It seems like you're a long way, at least psychologically, from 'smelling the roses' or sitting in the park. Something sure is wrong if you're letting telemarketers get to you. They might be shitty people but what an awful way to try to make a living. I wonder how the therapist goes about helping you to help yourself. Does he try to get you to focus on good things, or try to ignore the bad stuff, or something more complex? Also, is there a biological issue too? Maybe the meds need changing if you take them. I do, and I dare not go off them. I hope you find the way forward, or at least share what's happening here for a bit of fellow-feeling, if not a miracle cure.

What is an asshat in your opinion? Don’t google it damnit.

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

Maybe it's just a euphemism for asshole.

Mind control

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

What - and never fall in love?

Sandbag.

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

When I was a young man in the territorial army, the regular army soldiers would refer to us as sandbags.

So... We are missing one of our members again. Has anyone seen or heard from @nikkir?

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

Mummy!

Who else has done this?

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

Sounds good but who will keep us real?

What do atheists put on the top of their christmas tree?

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

I would put whatever people usually place there - a star or an angel, I think.

Had Bernie Sanders run as an independent, had he not endorsed Clinton, the antithesis of most of ...

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

Cut to the chase and vote for Bernie.

Howard Zinn

brentan comments on Dec 7, 2018:

He must be a communist.

Other sites have failed me, let's see how bad this one does...

brentan comments on Dec 6, 2018:

What should this site do?

The Most Offensive Song Ever [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Dec 6, 2018:

That shit looks so real! The song reminds me of 'I'm taking it up the ass for Jesus' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NicfLmpYuy8

On a naughty scale of 1 to 10....

brentan comments on Dec 6, 2018:

The almighty bitch! Millions of children are waiting on the poor man!