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How Can Someone be an Agnostic and an Atheist at the Same Time? | Courtney Heard

genessa comments on Feb 8, 2019:

i will belatedly add a thought: atheist has two definitions. one is someone who does not believe there are any gods. the other is someone who believes there are no gods. either way, the atheist doesn't claim knowledge, just belief of lack thereof. an agnostic is also someone who does not claim ...

genessa replies on Feb 24, 2019:

@TheMiddleWay maybe grammatically, but i am not making the distinction grammatically. functionally they do not always have the same meaning. real world trumps grammar. and i'm an english teacher lol but still...! g

How Can Someone be an Agnostic and an Atheist at the Same Time? | Courtney Heard

genessa comments on Feb 8, 2019:

i will belatedly add a thought: atheist has two definitions. one is someone who does not believe there are any gods. the other is someone who believes there are no gods. either way, the atheist doesn't claim knowledge, just belief of lack thereof. an agnostic is also someone who does not claim ...

genessa replies on Feb 24, 2019:

@TheMiddleWay the difference is that one atheist says "i don't believe in any gods," which doesn't mean that s/he believes there are none, just that there are none in which s/he believes, and the other says "i believe there are no gods," which means there is an act of belief going on. the latter includes the former but the former doesn't necessarily include the latter. one element is the confidence s/he has that there are no gods. g

How Can Someone be an Agnostic and an Atheist at the Same Time? | Courtney Heard

genessa comments on Feb 8, 2019:

i will belatedly add a thought: atheist has two definitions. one is someone who does not believe there are any gods. the other is someone who believes there are no gods. either way, the atheist doesn't claim knowledge, just belief of lack thereof. an agnostic is also someone who does not claim ...

genessa replies on Feb 24, 2019:

@TheMiddleWay no, there is a difference. it isn't a HUGE difference but it's a difference nonetheless. g

Quick question for the room: Does it actually say anywhere in the proposals made by politicians like...

EskieMom comments on Feb 24, 2019:

It's interesting that people who get hot and bothered by food stamps and welfare are seldom offended by the trillions that disappear into the Pentagon never to be accounted for. Nor does the corporate welfare seem to phase them. I assume it's because they actually see the people paying with food ...

genessa replies on Feb 24, 2019:

indeed. i know people who just about pee themselves if they're standing behind someone using an ebt card (why are they snooping closely enough to see how someone is paying?) and that person isn't vegan or something, but don't even blink at amazon's not paying ANY taxes, or our taxes going to build an imaginary wall, or buy a dining table for a cabinet member (or is that a cabinet for a dining member?) out of sight, out of mind, or out of their mindless minds. g

Quick question for the room: Does it actually say anywhere in the proposals made by politicians like...

motrubl4u comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Free money? Hell yes our government gives people free money. Ask Is real. Their entire economy is propped up by our tax dollars. All jokes aside, there will ALWAYS be those people to pervert and take advantage of a system. Such as people on food stamps buying the most unhealthy and disgusting ...

genessa replies on Feb 24, 2019:

@motrubl4u i see you're seriously one of those people who pretend to know anything about a total stranger, including their emotions, from calm typing. you need to learn to stop pretending to know me. you don't. and if by chance i was excited (i'm not, not by anything YOU say) my state of mind also would be none of your business. thanks for telling me what i need. as if you know. ANYTHING. oops, i used caps. i must be dreadfully excited. g

Quick question for the room: Does it actually say anywhere in the proposals made by politicians like...

motrubl4u comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Free money? Hell yes our government gives people free money. Ask Is real. Their entire economy is propped up by our tax dollars. All jokes aside, there will ALWAYS be those people to pervert and take advantage of a system. Such as people on food stamps buying the most unhealthy and disgusting ...

genessa replies on Feb 23, 2019:

@motrubl4u it doesn't have to be acceptable to you. it's not actually your business. you also don't know if those people subsist on that or if they're treating themselves. in addition junk food is cheaper than healthful food. apart from not necessarily knowing about the dangers of junk food, some people/families may be making the decision to eat every day instead of eating twice a week healthily, as it's not healthy, especially for children, not to eat regularly. it's a tough choice and there is no good choice to choose, but it's NOBODY'S DAMNED BUSINESS unless someone wants to HELP those people instead of criticizing them. g

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evidentialist comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Here is an interesting argument I have had used against me when I have voiced support for the woman's right of choice in this matter. ME: Yes, I support the woman's right to determine what happens with her body. THEM: You've also said you don't support the death penalty. How can you justify...

genessa replies on Feb 23, 2019:

@evidentialist i have seen anne's comments on other topics and can only conclude that she mistook which side of this issue you are on. it appears y'all agree with one another and don't realize it! (but yeah anne, the sweetie was uncalled for, even if you'd disagreed -- but ev, if i may call you that, this IS a hot-button issue so i hope anne can be forgiven even so! y'all were AGREEING!)

Donald Trump fan fiction exists! I couldn’t get through the first story, but I may try the My ...

genessa comments on Feb 22, 2019:

omg is it mary sue? is it slash? that would be what trump/manafort? trump/putin more likely! but without a hint of irony, no doubt. oyoyoy. i have written fan fiction (about fictional characters within fandoms), including crossover (but NOT including slash; i was commissioned to write a mary...

genessa replies on Feb 23, 2019:

@Closeted i think i'll be having nightmares now. g

watched an excellent movie last eve on HBO.

genessa comments on Feb 22, 2019:

i am a big fan of stanton's (i was sad to hear, in recent years, that he had died). he had a small but memorable part in "the rose" but you're right, it took "paris, texas" to get him a lead, which he well deserved. i had no idea who he was at that time; i was just a wim wenders fan! g

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

@callmedubious wow. well at least he lived a long life. but i'm selfish. i miss people who die even if i don't know them personally, because i want more from them, be it movies, books, whatever. i want more. g

"So what if you were traveling with the Doctor and happened to be back on earth hanging out with ...

Lucy_Fehr comments on Feb 22, 2019:

\Pretty sure I have never seen the humans able to do that while on their own planet/time/space; the translator only works off world.

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

@Lucy_Fehr lol well that's fair enough! no, i think it's quite consistent in this regard. but yeah, if you hadn't seen or didn't remember those instances, then it might seem inconsistent, right? but it's always nice to meet a whovian at any stage of whoviana :-)) g

trump loves the poorly educated too.... g

Moravian comments on Feb 22, 2019:

The reason that the Roman Catholic church had bibles written Latin. Only the clergy could read them so the populace were kept ignorant. King James fucked that up with his English translation

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

@Moravian that would be me, to an extent. i have my random familiaries with torah. the christian bible... nah. g

I was raised in a Mormon family and I currently attend a Unitarian Universalist.

Dietl comments on Feb 21, 2019:

There can't be any evidence that God does not exist. An atheist can't know with 100% certainty that God wasn't hiding behind the next cloud all along. In other words "You can't prove a negative". So being an atheist is just the position that you don't hold the belief that a God exists. If that is an...

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

@Dietl well yeah, lots of god claims can be disproven by evidence. those that cannot are usually ridiculous anyway and can apply to any nonexistent nonentity, but you can't convince a believer that way 'sigh. lol. i don't try. i don't care what people believe as long as they don't behave in ways that interfere with others because of it, including but not limited to legislating, executing or adjudicating religion into my life. i guess that means i'm not militant as far as atheism goes, but i am militant in terms of separation of church and state, as well as church and my mind and body.. g

trump loves the poorly educated too.... g

Moravian comments on Feb 22, 2019:

The reason that the Roman Catholic church had bibles written Latin. Only the clergy could read them so the populace were kept ignorant. King James fucked that up with his English translation

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

i don't think having the bible in english helped people to be less ignorant. look what it taught them! g

"So what if you were traveling with the Doctor and happened to be back on earth hanging out with ...

Lucy_Fehr comments on Feb 22, 2019:

\Pretty sure I have never seen the humans able to do that while on their own planet/time/space; the translator only works off world.

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

@Lucy_Fehr what glitch? i don't actually see a glitch. the tardis translates everywhere, every time. i am sure there were more times than i remember offhand when it wasn't available to translate, but i can think of a couple, ALL with explanations: it could not translate judoon because it wasn't in the hospital with the doctor and martha; it was too far away to translate ood when we first met them (although they could also speak english); and the aforementioned christmas invasion when the doctor was unconscious. those are not glitches. those are consistent with the reality of the show. so... what glitch do you mean? g

"So what if you were traveling with the Doctor and happened to be back on earth hanging out with ...

Lucy_Fehr comments on Feb 22, 2019:

\Pretty sure I have never seen the humans able to do that while on their own planet/time/space; the translator only works off world.

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

not so. christmas invasion took place only slightly offworld (just above earth) and once the doctor had a nice cuppa, the tardis translated sykorax. in pompei all those italians spoke suspiciously british-sounding english, and van gogh's dutch was pretty british english too. many adventures took place on earth with aliens speaking understandable english, even if the time was the relative present. the tardis translated wherever, whenever. g

I was raised in a Mormon family and I currently attend a Unitarian Universalist.

mordant comments on Feb 21, 2019:

A skeptic (of which an atheist is a subset) don't form beliefs that can't be substantiated. I don't disbelieve in gods, I simply don't believe because there's no basis to do so. As such ... I think we're on the same page and can both be called atheists. If there were a preponderance of evidence for ...

genessa replies on Feb 22, 2019:

@mordant if we stated things alike, we'd be scary lol g

Monkees singer Peter Tork dies at 77 after being diagnosed with rare tongue cancer 10 years ago | ...

JackPedigo comments on Feb 21, 2019:

My brother was diagnosed with this form of cancer several years ago. He had some of his tongue cut out (he told us the icky story) but seems fine now. There is usually a cause but my brother did not smoke and his drinking was moderate. I see Peter Tork was a heavy drinker. My aunt died from ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

@JackPedigo definitely a lot of stress, including the pressure to drink and drug up. which report, though? i'm pretty sure in his interview he didn't say he'd cut back but rather said he had stopped. anyway i am sorry about your aunt. g

I was raised in a Mormon family and I currently attend a Unitarian Universalist.

Dietl comments on Feb 21, 2019:

There can't be any evidence that God does not exist. An atheist can't know with 100% certainty that God wasn't hiding behind the next cloud all along. In other words "You can't prove a negative". So being an atheist is just the position that you don't hold the belief that a God exists. If that is an...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

i disagree. there is plenty of evidence that no gods exist but there is no PROOF that no gods exist. the evidence is that people have caught their parents putting presents under trees and quarters under pillows and those things are strong evidence, although not definitive proof, that there is no santa claus and there is no tooth fairy. this can be extrapolated to apply to deities as well, since every description of a deity can be busted as soon as the deity is ascribed an action, and the action doesn't happen. also, as i have said above, an atheist can simply fail to believe in deities OR actively believe that there are no deities. every atheist is not alike, and i think those are the two main types. furthermore, as isaac asimov points out, he doesn't need to waste his time being unsure when he feels so sure (and there is nothing to counter that feeling). it's just not worth it. g

I was raised in a Mormon family and I currently attend a Unitarian Universalist.

Pedrohbds comments on Feb 21, 2019:

You can't find evidence of a non existence. There can be a shy God that do not inntreffer in reality. But then, why try to please it?

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

@bbyrd009 why would you interpret not trying to please a deity as actively trying to displease it? that is a false conflation. g

I was raised in a Mormon family and I currently attend a Unitarian Universalist.

mordant comments on Feb 21, 2019:

A skeptic (of which an atheist is a subset) don't form beliefs that can't be substantiated. I don't disbelieve in gods, I simply don't believe because there's no basis to do so. As such ... I think we're on the same page and can both be called atheists. If there were a preponderance of evidence for ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

i think there are two types of atheist. there are those who do not believe in any deities and those who also believe there are no deities. i am the latter type. i find the nonexistence of unicorns, the tooth fairy, santa claus, leprechauns and all that jazz compelling enough, despite lack of proof that they don't exist, that i feel able to apply the same criteria by which i not only don't believe in them but believe firmly in the lack of them to any deities as well. that's me. i'm not alone so i won't say JUST me, but i won't say that every atheist feels that way along with me. thus is think there are two types. i'm not horribly worried about it. g

I was raised in a Mormon family and I currently attend a Unitarian Universalist.

laura5054 comments on Feb 21, 2019:

If you doubt the existence of God, you may ask "Can you prove to me that God created the earth,the sun,the stars, and all there is" ? My answer is," What in the nature of proof will you accept?". You may ask"Must I believe in God?". My answer is, " You ought to.God has given you good reason to ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

i do not think most of us have any problem with your being a believer and being here, but i do not think i am alone in having a problem with your preaching at us. please stop. g

Monkees singer Peter Tork dies at 77 after being diagnosed with rare tongue cancer 10 years ago | ...

JackPedigo comments on Feb 21, 2019:

My brother was diagnosed with this form of cancer several years ago. He had some of his tongue cut out (he told us the icky story) but seems fine now. There is usually a cause but my brother did not smoke and his drinking was moderate. I see Peter Tork was a heavy drinker. My aunt died from ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

i don't think tork had been drinking in recent years, maybe even in recent decades. i think he did say something about being an alcoholic. an alcoholic remains an alcoholic but does not have to remain a drinker and while my memory isn't perfect on this, i seem to recall he had long since stopped drinking. g

[jta.org] An idiots guide to anti-semitic tropes.

dan325 comments on Feb 21, 2019:

Helpful article. It does get problematic when criticism of Israel is conflated with antisemitism. The "Israel can do no wrong" crowd has done a good job of muddying up the waters in that arena. As a secular Jew who is appalled by much of what Israel is doing, I really resent being labeled as ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

@dan325 it gets harder and harder too! g

[jta.org] An idiots guide to anti-semitic tropes.

dan325 comments on Feb 21, 2019:

Helpful article. It does get problematic when criticism of Israel is conflated with antisemitism. The "Israel can do no wrong" crowd has done a good job of muddying up the waters in that arena. As a secular Jew who is appalled by much of what Israel is doing, I really resent being labeled as ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

me too, but the problem is that so many who criticize israel are not criticizing it based only on its awful policies, or its awful administration, which i also abhor. they go farther and start talking about how israel stole the land from the palestinians, how israel should not exist, and that's not only historically inaccurate, it IS antisemitic, because it's the jews who stole the land, all of us, even me, not yet born then, and american. yep, even me. so it's case by case. i think aoc's remarks were NOT antisemitic but i have heard anti-israel talk that is also anti-jewish. g

Rush is 100% accurate on this. I don't think I posted this because IIRC I ran out of posts.

genessa comments on Feb 20, 2019:

he is wrong in one detail: the people did NOT elect trump. his supporters were and are in the minority and could not elect him. russia elected him. the electoral college, with help from russia, elected him. rush is right (wow does that sound wrong!) about trump's supporters' continuing and ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow metal, feh! but i like rush. g

Rush is 100% accurate on this. I don't think I posted this because IIRC I ran out of posts.

genessa comments on Feb 20, 2019:

he is wrong in one detail: the people did NOT elect trump. his supporters were and are in the minority and could not elect him. russia elected him. the electoral college, with help from russia, elected him. rush is right (wow does that sound wrong!) about trump's supporters' continuing and ...

genessa replies on Feb 21, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow i don't even like heavy metal as genres go, and yet somehow i like rush. but while tom sawyer is good, a song that is way more meaningful to me is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6-ViPrEeFk g

Rush is 100% accurate on this. I don't think I posted this because IIRC I ran out of posts.

genessa comments on Feb 20, 2019:

he is wrong in one detail: the people did NOT elect trump. his supporters were and are in the minority and could not elect him. russia elected him. the electoral college, with help from russia, elected him. rush is right (wow does that sound wrong!) about trump's supporters' continuing and ...

genessa replies on Feb 20, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow oh i thought you meant a band that plays for limbaugh. yes, actually i like the band rush. g

Rush is 100% accurate on this. I don't think I posted this because IIRC I ran out of posts.

genessa comments on Feb 20, 2019:

he is wrong in one detail: the people did NOT elect trump. his supporters were and are in the minority and could not elect him. russia elected him. the electoral college, with help from russia, elected him. rush is right (wow does that sound wrong!) about trump's supporters' continuing and ...

genessa replies on Feb 20, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow haha i wouldn't know the band. but rush is an emetic. g

I never cared for any of these how about you?

genessa comments on Feb 20, 2019:

i never tried them, but if i had a toothache i'd be tempted to try clove, not for the flavor but for cloves' toothache-easing properties. g

genessa replies on Feb 20, 2019:

@Hathacat i was pretty unhappy! i was so glad not to have a needle anesthetizing my gum and then in the end i had to get stuck anyway. g

I never cared for any of these how about you?

genessa comments on Feb 20, 2019:

i never tried them, but if i had a toothache i'd be tempted to try clove, not for the flavor but for cloves' toothache-easing properties. g

genessa replies on Feb 20, 2019:

@Hathacat i visited a dentist in japan, where i lived, a few decades later, and that dentist looked at that tooth and said it needed root canal. i told him it did NOT, it was dead, and suggested -- radical idea i know -- an x-ray. he thought i was just brilliant, and followed my advice. oh, that tooth is dead. quelle surprise. oy. g

I never cared for any of these how about you?

genessa comments on Feb 20, 2019:

i never tried them, but if i had a toothache i'd be tempted to try clove, not for the flavor but for cloves' toothache-easing properties. g

genessa replies on Feb 20, 2019:

@HippieChick58 it works nicely, doesn't it? root canal isn't as bad a some other procedures, although it oes depend on which tooth is being fixed, too. i had root canal in 1971 without any anesthesia at all and it didn't even hurt... until the dentist (who had the WORST breath) broke his sharp little instrument way up inside my gum. THEN i needed anesthesia. to this day i have a tiny piece of metal in my gum. g

[yahoo.

genessa comments on Feb 19, 2019:

one has to wonder who they think would be providing authentic medican food if not mexicans.... g

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@irascible 'blush g

[yahoo.

genessa comments on Feb 19, 2019:

one has to wonder who they think would be providing authentic medican food if not mexicans.... g

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@irascible i apologize for even remotely intimating that there was such a possibility. g

[yahoo.

Biptu comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Didn't see any where in the article that she was a trump supporter. What difference would it make anyway. You don't call pedophiles Catholics. Just another nut job who can't control their emotions

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

false conflation. all catholics are not pedophiles and all pedophiles are not catholic. anyone who supports racism is a racist. trump is a blatant racist and his supporters are at best passive racists. we can't prove by this report that she is a trump supporter and yes it is an assumption but it's not a stretch. g

OK...here is the question...WHO do you all want to see on the 2020 Democratic Ticket?...President/VP

genessa comments on Feb 19, 2019:

i like almost everyone who has declared, and a couple who're thinking about it. i would love to see a female president and i have nothing against any of the female candidates except maybe tulsi gabbard, but eric holder hasn't declared yet (and might not) and if he does... well, i really REALLY like...

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@Charlene are you referring to the doj's filing (under holder's supervision) lawsuits to reinstate the parts of the voting rights act that the supreme court dismantled? because that is the OPPOSITE of what you're saying. he most certainly did not turn a blind eye to that. g

OK...here is the question...WHO do you all want to see on the 2020 Democratic Ticket?...President/VP

genessa comments on Feb 19, 2019:

i like almost everyone who has declared, and a couple who're thinking about it. i would love to see a female president and i have nothing against any of the female candidates except maybe tulsi gabbard, but eric holder hasn't declared yet (and might not) and if he does... well, i really REALLY like...

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@Charlene tell me more, because that doesn't sound the least bit right to me at ALL. g

OK...here is the question...WHO do you all want to see on the 2020 Democratic Ticket?...President/VP

genessa comments on Feb 19, 2019:

i like almost everyone who has declared, and a couple who're thinking about it. i would love to see a female president and i have nothing against any of the female candidates except maybe tulsi gabbard, but eric holder hasn't declared yet (and might not) and if he does... well, i really REALLY like...

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@Charlene to whom do you refer? g

The DNC set up some very wise standards for participating in their debates.

altschmerz comments on Feb 19, 2019:

With 20 candidates running, we need all the help we can get.

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

... and still counting. g

I don't care if you like, love, dislike or hate bernie sanders.

Jay1313132018 comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Go Bernie! Can't wait to start helping his campaign. I'm an Independent but will vote Democrat if the DNC doesn't piss me off.

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@Jay1313132018 i do not find any of the democratic candidates evil, nor did i last time. but even if i did, trump is WAY beyond evil. getting rid of him is NOT being held hostage. voting in such a way that keeps trump in power is being held hostage. i mean that literally. russia and the republicans are holding us hostage, and some of us are dying i captivity. g

I don't care if you like, love, dislike or hate bernie sanders.

Jay1313132018 comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Go Bernie! Can't wait to start helping his campaign. I'm an Independent but will vote Democrat if the DNC doesn't piss me off.

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

i will vote democratic whether the dnc pisses me off or not, because there is no comparison between how they might and how the republicans and trump do. perspective! g

I don't care if you like, love, dislike or hate bernie sanders.

AstralSmoke comments on Feb 19, 2019:

I personally like the color dark green the best. Green is a child of blue.

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@AstralSmoke that is the correct side, m'dear! g

I don't care if you like, love, dislike or hate bernie sanders.

AstralSmoke comments on Feb 19, 2019:

I personally like the color dark green the best. Green is a child of blue.

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@AnneWimsey just lame explanations of the photo of her at that russian dinner with putin, and her assertions that trump is doing better than hillary would have. right. g

I don't care if you like, love, dislike or hate bernie sanders.

AstralSmoke comments on Feb 19, 2019:

I personally like the color dark green the best. Green is a child of blue.

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

jill stein is a russian tool and a big gaping asshole -- and anyone who votes third party is reelecting trump. g

I don't care if you like, love, dislike or hate bernie sanders.

GinaKay comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Are you suggesting that we shouldn't speak out and express our opinions? I'm sorry, I don't appreciate that advice. Our participation in our democracy is a two way street. We are not simply receptacles for everyone else's opinions and ideas. It is not just a Right, but a Responsibility to speak ...

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

you can't stop bernie from running again. you can stop him from winning, but he has a right to run, and he has a right to run as a democrat. and i think most people know that when i say "don't go saying" i'm not censoring but advising. geez. g

Hey everyone! I'm a new member here, and I'm looking for some guidance from someone who has been ...

SLBushway comments on Feb 19, 2019:

*If you're not "out" a phrase that doesn't belong to this group - why did anyone think of asking you to participate in this debate?*

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

actually, "out" is a word (not a phrase) used quite often on this site to indicate that the person in question is no longer hiding his/her lack of theism. it is a perfectly appropriate word on this site. g

I see lots of discussion here of religion-originated words and phrases, most of which can be looked ...

Jay1313132018 comments on Feb 19, 2019:

I agree with you. But, old habits die hard

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

they sure do. that is why i am being selective about which ones are more irksome than others :-)) g

Japan nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize after White House asked, newspaper reports ...

Mofo1953 comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Because Japan pretty much will do anything that the US government asks in exchange for letting them arm themselves again (threats China and North Korea)

genessa replies on Feb 19, 2019:

@Mofo1953 ah no, i came back in 1995. so things have changed. g

in case you hadn't noticed that roger stone is an idiot, he posted a picture of the judge hearing ...

Ron_R comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Yikes. If it wasn't so preposterous, it would be funny.

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

the whole thing would be. imagine we're back in the 1960s and someone makes a movie with our current reality for a plot. the critics would pan it as beyond belief. g

Japan nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize after White House asked, newspaper reports ...

Mofo1953 comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Because Japan pretty much will do anything that the US government asks in exchange for letting them arm themselves again (threats China and North Korea)

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

well, i lived in japan 20 years and i didn't see that happening. things might have changed. i think it's likely something else. no one could POSSIBLY be so stupid they did whatever TRUMP asked! g

Japan nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize after White House asked, newspaper reports ...

genessa comments on Feb 18, 2019:

abe won't say whether or not he did that. according to abe he's not allowed to say, which incomprehensibly leads me to think maybe he actually did! either that or he's being cagy to keep trump on his side. g

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

@chalupacabre amazing concept, eh? g

sometimes i see posts (not here of course) that say we are only mad about the stuff trump says and ...

Robecology comments on Feb 17, 2019:

There's Love, Like, dislike, hate, and indifference. Trump's election was borne of dislike for Obama (and probably his Afro-American heritage) and H. Clinton (her being an intelligent, agressive woman). -Both of those things "stick in the craw" of the undereducated/#Religulous of America....

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

@Robecology i admire that. i truly do. i also envy that. i want to feel it but i don't. i wish i wish i wish. g

Help me out here.

GreatNani comments on Feb 18, 2019:

I don't have commercial tv. Wish I did so I could count. It is interesting that no one used the word twice.

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

i've already heard them say "two times" instead of twice TWO TIMES today! g

Help me out here.

Marionville comments on Feb 18, 2019:

You’ve got me intrigued...but as I will be watching UK TV...will the same apply ? I will try to find out, although I don’t watch much commercial TV, preferring the BBC, which is advert.free. Will certainly be interested in why you think this is going on.

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

@Marionville with a great salary, too! zero, in any currency! but our curiosity will be satisfied, except as to WHY. why why why is there this conspiracy? g

Help me out here.

Marionville comments on Feb 18, 2019:

You’ve got me intrigued...but as I will be watching UK TV...will the same apply ? I will try to find out, although I don’t watch much commercial TV, preferring the BBC, which is advert.free. Will certainly be interested in why you think this is going on.

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

you tell me! i'd be curious whether this phenomenon has crossed the pond. (i like the beeb too -- used to work for bbc's language school in nagoya, japan, also sometimes in osaka branch). g

I see lots of discussion here of religion-originated words and phrases, most of which can be looked ...

WilliamFleming comments on Feb 18, 2019:

There are a few of us who claim to actually be religious in our own peculiar ways. That is not looked upon with benevolence. Not at all.

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

i was talking about "bless you" and "oh my god" being looked upon (or not) with benevolence, not someone's personal creed. g

I see lots of discussion here of religion-originated words and phrases, most of which can be looked ...

AstralSmoke comments on Feb 18, 2019:

I don't like them either and never have, even when I was a professed one of 'them'. My dad, a minister who knew the ends and outs of historical facts and fictions told me that Jesus was probably born in the spring or summer of 4 AD. Go figure. I think we should just have days of the years (no ...

genessa replies on Feb 18, 2019:

enough time for me to run out of fingers and toes when calculating days! bce and ce would work just fine for me; there are those who already use those terms and then there's the rest of the world lol g

Happy Random Acts of Kindness Day! Are you out there helping others today?

genessa comments on Feb 17, 2019:

i don't get out much. in addition, when i feel as i do today, not going out and subjecting others to my presence IS an act of kindness! (but i'm going to see a movie and then work out in the pool and THEN sit in the jacuzzi tomorrow, unless i am too sick to go. thus i will be kind to myself!) ...

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@Redheadedgammy it's chronic, so there is no "get well" for me, but i appreciate the thought, and just because i cannot get well that does not mean i do not try to get better! g

sometimes i see posts (not here of course) that say we are only mad about the stuff trump says and ...

LucyLoohoo comments on Feb 17, 2019:

There's no way that any of us could ''like'' or ''respect'' the bloated buffoon because he's a despicable ''example'' of humanity. Hateful, bigoted, dishonest, totally without empathy, compassion or even kindergarten-level manners...he's merely an example of the worst we can be. I suspect he'd ...

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

with luck, his own digestive system will do the deed and you won't have to! g

Please share this to a trump supporter.

genessa comments on Feb 17, 2019:

won't work. anyone who still supports trump is immune to facts or deliberately eschewing them. g

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow yay! good news! now it's a race against time, because that sort of thing really can't wait. here is something that happened to me that is not even remotely comparable in severity but is worth mentioning because it shows that you have to push sometimes (my happy ending was fortuitous, though; my pushing didn't help me because i had nowhere to push anymore, but someone else intervened). my insurance, through which i receive my medicare and medicaid benefits, sent me a letter at the end of last year saying that although they had not been providing transportation to the silver sneakers providers (health clubs with special memberships for seniors) -- they DID pay for the membership, just not the transportation -- starting in january this year they WOULD be providing transportation. yay! good news for me! so i called to schedule transportation for a day i wanted to go and was told, no, we don't do that. yes, you do. you sent me a letter. really? let me check. hold. hold music. ho hum. are you still there? i checked and we don't do that. but you sent me a LETTER! well, hold again and let me check again. hold. hold music. the upshot was, i was placed on hold while the employee checked thrice, and it turns out that the letter didn't say what i clearly saw that it said; it said that they'd send me a bus pass for public transportation. well, first of all, i can't walk to the bus stop. it's FAR. second of all, even if i could walk that far, it's SNOWY and ICY out! and third of all, the bus doesn't go to the health club. oh and fourth of all, they had sent me a letter saying they'd PROVIDE transportation, just as they already did for medical services: door-to-door service via a cab or other transportation service. she wasn't willing to put me on hold and check anymore so i gave up. but a couple weeks later i got a notice of denial for the ride i had never taken! not only were they not going to give me the ride, they were going to rub it in and maybe charge me for it! so i called and got a person with a brain. she said that the company has to send a letter every time they deny a service, even if it's just saying "no" on the phone, and it didn't mean i owed anything -- but she felt she had to apologize because that service should NOT have been denied, the company DOES pay for door-to-door transportation to and from the health club, on my plan only, not other plans. and the person to whom i spoke could clearly see which plan i was on. i was told what to say if it happened again. again, yay! so two days ago i called to schedule a ride for monday, that is tomorrow, and i had NO problem at all. i'm gonna go work out in the pool and sit in the jacuzzi (and there is a free movie with free popcorn at the other end of ...

Please share this to a trump supporter.

genessa comments on Feb 17, 2019:

won't work. anyone who still supports trump is immune to facts or deliberately eschewing them. g

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow https://www.military.com/benefits/veterans-health-care/veterans-medical-benefits-package.html this is not TOTALLY clear but the implication, at least to me, is that there is a difference in what you might pay or where you might go based on whether a problem is service-related, but non-service-related issued are covered. i mean... pregnancy is not combat-related unless it's the result of rape, right? i suggest that you or your friend call the va administration and ask some very direct questions. he may not know what to ask. you may want to do it for him. g

Please share this to a trump supporter.

genessa comments on Feb 17, 2019:

won't work. anyone who still supports trump is immune to facts or deliberately eschewing them. g

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow you may do him a great service if you find out he is wrong! gangrene is deadly. g

Please share this to a trump supporter.

genessa comments on Feb 17, 2019:

won't work. anyone who still supports trump is immune to facts or deliberately eschewing them. g

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow what took him so long, then? well, better late than never! va is not supposed to deny vets even if injury was not combat-related, or at least that is my understanding. i have medicaid because i am disabled and poor, and if i get the flu, it's covered even though it was not the result of being poor or being disabled. g

Please share this to a trump supporter.

genessa comments on Feb 17, 2019:

won't work. anyone who still supports trump is immune to facts or deliberately eschewing them. g

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@TheGreatShadow omg was surgery involved? g

sometimes i see posts (not here of course) that say we are only mad about the stuff trump says and ...

altschmerz comments on Feb 17, 2019:

Charles Crotchlicker coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome” and that’s what conservatives dub our attitude: Trump Derangement Syndrome.” That’s funny, after they exhibited Obama Derangement Syndrome for eight years (and beyond).

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

no president has suffered as much as.... oh wait. do i hear the sound of lincoln, garfield, mckinley and kennedy rolling over in their graves? g

sometimes i see posts (not here of course) that say we are only mad about the stuff trump says and ...

Robecology comments on Feb 17, 2019:

There's Love, Like, dislike, hate, and indifference. Trump's election was borne of dislike for Obama (and probably his Afro-American heritage) and H. Clinton (her being an intelligent, agressive woman). -Both of those things "stick in the craw" of the undereducated/#Religulous of America....

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@Robecology i think i can share your optimism that the haters are not in the majority -- but the 2020 election might not reflect that any more than the 2016 reflected the will of the people. voter suppression and propaganda are powerful individually; together they're formidable. i hope obama and holder are getting lots of support and having lots of success with their redistricting project, and it's important, but it's not enough. we need to kill voter suppression, and scotus isn't on our side anymore. g

sometimes i see posts (not here of course) that say we are only mad about the stuff trump says and ...

Robecology comments on Feb 17, 2019:

There's Love, Like, dislike, hate, and indifference. Trump's election was borne of dislike for Obama (and probably his Afro-American heritage) and H. Clinton (her being an intelligent, agressive woman). -Both of those things "stick in the craw" of the undereducated/#Religulous of America....

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

i think that is a generous view and i'd like to think you were right, but i think that the emotion those against hillary and obama feel is stronger than dislike. you don't hang obama in effigy or portray him as a rodeo clown being raped because you dislike him; you don't spend decades drinking the david bossie kool aid and end up merely disliking hillary. alas. g

sometimes i see posts (not here of course) that say we are only mad about the stuff trump says and ...

glennlab comments on Feb 17, 2019:

this sums it up for me

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

yep! that does say it. g

Does anyone else have this type of problem.

genessa comments on Feb 14, 2019:

i wear vinyl sandals from walgreen's, even in the snow. i have neuropathy too, also extra wide feet, and my toes won't tolerate closed shoes. they're not dressy but i've seen uglier shoes that purported to be dressy. anyway, i don't care! i wear them because they're the only shoes i CAN wear. ...

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@bleurowz i used to find them on ebay and they fit fine, and my feet are wiiiiide lol. they also swell, which doesn't exactly thin them down. it took me a while to figure out they were called maryjanes so i could search for them, though. i just always thought of them as chinese shoes! g

Is it OK to be racist against white people?

MamaMOB comments on May 1, 2018:

I'd like to point out that in the poll only 4 people said yes and 35 people said no and yet most of the comments here are saying yes. What didn't you want to vote? Didn't want to put down that yes tick to make it look like it's okay to be racist against white people when you then turn around and say...

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

what responses were YOU looking at? everyone said it's NOT okay to be racist, usually altogether, whether against white people, black people or green people. as for voting, i won't vote because i find your question racist. i can't speak for everyone else who didn't vote. g

from time to time i see posts blaming the baby boomers for everything from trump's being in the ...

ugly comments on Feb 16, 2019:

Who cares?

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@ugly think about every person who ever said "who cares?" to you or in your presence. what was their tone? was anyone ever asking out of curiosity? no. every single time it was an argument. yet you say i am the one looking for one. "who cares?" is rude. i stand by my reaction, and the reason i do is that i was surprised that you seemed to be looking for an argument. so of course you say i am doing so. you know how much i am not looking for an argument? you know how much i do not have to prove this is of interest (and if it's not, to you, then why are you responding to it?) this much: i am blocking you. go fight with someone else. g

from time to time i see posts blaming the baby boomers for everything from trump's being in the ...

ugly comments on Feb 16, 2019:

Who cares?

genessa replies on Feb 17, 2019:

@ugly yes it was pugnacious. you could ask that of anything on this or any other site. does it matter what someone says on any social medium, or in a meeting in real life, or anywhere, on any topic? in the end, yes, it can matter. it depends on who's listening, who's taking it to heart, who is believing facts and who is believing lies, and who is acting accordingly. yes, it matters. at the very least it mattered enough to me for me to post it. asking "who cares" is dismissive and pugnacious. it's rude. it's not just an innocent question. g

from time to time i see posts blaming the baby boomers for everything from trump's being in the ...

HankSherman comments on Feb 16, 2019:

Are you still listening to that crap.....its a brand new world out there every every frigging day for everybody, and you get out of it whatever you put into it...no never mind what your age. The people that have to have someone to blame suffer the same illness as baby trumpy...just can't take ...