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I am in roughly the same age group as Kavanaugh and Ford.
genessa comments on Sep 23, 2018:
the parents may have been more naive than lenient, not knowing where their kids were and what they were doing. they may have had assurances that the boys were doing something useful (like studying!) g
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@BufftonBeotch he already has lied about a lot, apart from this. the man is a worm. i apologize to worms. g
When is it not the woman's fault? g
Mooolah comments on Sep 23, 2018:
Only when she does not use the safe word which is "NO".
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
no, actually, sometimes she cannot use the safe word, because there is a hand over her mouth, or a knife at her throat. sometimes she cannot use the safe word because she is unconscious. sometimes she cannot use the safe word because she has been told she will be killed if she says anything. sometimes she cannot use the safe word because she is not yet a woman but a little girl and she is too scared to say it. sometimes she cannot use the safe word because it is hard to speak when you're screaming. no, it's not the woman's fault that she was raped. EVER. g
Did Jesus know that the earth is round?
genessa comments on Sep 23, 2018:
jesus, if he existed, was a middle eastern jew (not greek, so his name couldn't have been jesus) who had no more knowledge of geography, astronomy or anything else than his contemporaries. g
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@Stig it's not by accident. it's by design. opiate of the masses and all that. g
So I have a question for the people who know more about religions than I do.
genessa comments on Sep 23, 2018:
religions, or at least the deist portions thereof, would have to be rooted in some kind of reality for that scenario to come up. (and what makes you think other religions even HAVE a hell?) g
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@Stig the person who believes in neither won't go to hell because those people know that there is no hell. g
Regarding the Hidden God Problem.
genessa comments on Sep 19, 2018:
of course this presumes not only the existence of a god, but the existence of a god who gives a shit. i cannot speak for the latter without first accepting the former, which i do not do. g
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@johnprytz my example is offensive to other racial groups? which ones are "other" and why would that be offensive anyway? is pc still a thing? was it ever? i think pc was made up by people who didn't understand why it's not okay to use nasty words to hurt other people. g
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TheDoubter comments on Sep 23, 2018:
I am impressed, truly. congrats
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
thank you kindly :-)) g
GOP woman on Kavanaugh allegations: 'What boy hasn’t done this in high school?' | TheHill
ValJ comments on Sep 23, 2018:
This makes me so mad. Any boy who's been brought up with a sense of right and wrong, that's who hasn't done it - Jeez! I'd be totally devastated if I thought my son would do anything like this, and so should they be. Nobody's perfect but it's not too much to expect a judge to be of impeccable ...
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
they know. they don't care. that's the worst part. g
Boys will be... rapists.... g
JustKip comments on Sep 23, 2018:
Yep. If we're going to raise ou sons and daughters on the notion that rape is normal, they will grow up accepting it (like conservatives)
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@JustKip exactly! g
Boys will be... rapists.... g
JustKip comments on Sep 23, 2018:
Yep. If we're going to raise ou sons and daughters on the notion that rape is normal, they will grow up accepting it (like conservatives)
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
yep... except that i believe there are no more conservatives. conservatives were people whose ideas were different from mine, less accepting, less forgiving, less willing to help others, more interested in saving money than saving lives. i didn't like conservatives. but now we have regressives. they are somewhat like conservatives and even call themselves conservatives, but in fact they are only interested in stealing money, not saving it. they are even less accepting and less forgiving than conservatives -- unless you're talking about one of their own who is guilty of a crime. rape? terrible... if the rapist if an immigrant or has dark skin. if the rapist is white, well, you wouldn't want to endanger the poor guy's future, would you? they're even less willing to help others, but they're not averse to helping themselves. save your life? who are you to them? why should they? oh, and, um, they lie. a lot. okay, they lie all the time. g
Who paid for this and who paid for that? g
bingst comments on Sep 23, 2018:
Has the FBI really investigated this guy?
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
they say they have. how well, who knows? but trump refuses to request that they reopen the investigation in light of this new information. g
Why I didn't report it.
genessa comments on Sep 23, 2018:
i am sorry and angry at the people involved that you had to experience that, and experience it without support. i understand why you did not report it. it is hard for a child to know what to do in any event. you seem quite articulate about it, which doesn't mean inside you're not still hurting, ...
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@Julie808 i have triggers, for quite different reasons, and i don't know how to deal with them other than to hide my reactions, which isn't always helpful. i wish both of us good luck! g
Bad logic about christianity and shootings, cause and effect. g
DenoPenno comments on Sep 23, 2018:
JRehling telling it like it is. My kids want to claim it is because we "removed god from the classroom." I'm the first one to point out that god was never in our classrooms. I believe that we have more shootings today because we can no longer whip Johnny's ass. Parents are not in control any longer,...
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@DenoPenno i bet! and i also bet he doesn't know that crossing the border without permission is a misdemeanor. shooting people... not so much! it has always amazed me that rape Ifor example) often has a statute of limitations of five or 10 years (depending on the state) but ice comes after people who, having committed this misdemeanor, then spent the next 30 or so years as model residents, raising families and contributing to the economy and to society. g
GOP woman on Kavanaugh allegations: 'What boy hasn’t done this in high school?' | TheHill
DenoPenno comments on Sep 23, 2018:
I never heard of rape in my high school. A lot of us boys did dream about sex though, and we shared to names of those we wanted to have it with.
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
dreaming is natural. attacking is different. g
Bad logic about christianity and shootings, cause and effect. g
DenoPenno comments on Sep 23, 2018:
JRehling telling it like it is. My kids want to claim it is because we "removed god from the classroom." I'm the first one to point out that god was never in our classrooms. I believe that we have more shootings today because we can no longer whip Johnny's ass. Parents are not in control any longer,...
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
i disagree with both assessments. it's not because we don't beat children anymore. it's because we let anyone have a gun any old time. g
Why in the world would ANYONE want to vote against this kind of bill.
exilesky comments on Sep 23, 2018:
Why yes, you are correct, the obvious answer is they want the world to be a place where men rule and only women bleed.
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
sad but so. g
Boys will be... rapists.... g
exilesky comments on Sep 23, 2018:
I find it sad that though we have made some strides since I was a teenager, there are so many that want to drag us back to the dark ages. I fully expect that if Kavanaugh gets on the Supreme Court it will soon become legal to throw out all sexual harrassment penalties and laws and we will go back ...
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
i would not slander neanderthals that way lol g
GOP woman on Kavanaugh allegations: 'What boy hasn’t done this in high school?' | TheHill
exilesky comments on Sep 23, 2018:
I can name quite a few guys who didn't try to rape me in high school. And some that did attempt but backed down when I said no. And some that succeeded in their attempt. If you think any of them would admit to any of it publically now, you are smoking some fine weed there.
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
i wish i was smoking some fine weed and i still wouldn't think that! g
OK, here goes.
genessa comments on Sep 23, 2018:
i cannot tell you whether or not it is a good or bad pattern. i probably couldn't even if i could read what you wrote, but there is so much text speak in there.... don't get me wrong. i understand text speak. however, it slows me down to the point that i lose interest. it's not just because my ...
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
@Condor5 no problem, and thanks for the friendly response :-)) g
When is it not the woman's fault? g
Paracosm comments on Sep 23, 2018:
...and if you report it when it happens you're ruining his future but if you don't tell until later you're dredging up the past. So when?
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
for women? never, it seems. g
What about the woman's past? what about the woman's future? g
misternatureboy comments on Sep 23, 2018:
So fucked-up. Ugh.
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
you said it! g
Bad logic about christianity and shootings, cause and effect. g
misternatureboy comments on Sep 23, 2018:
Feckin' eejit.
genessa replies on Sep 23, 2018:
that he most certainly is! g
Do you agree with stem cell research?
JackPedigo comments on Sep 22, 2018:
Yes and no? One, often overlooked aspect of our exponential population growth is people (like me) living longer. Keeping us alive and well takes resources away from others. often younger people. I have lived a great life and still contribute as much as I can. But, still keeping me going (especially ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@JackPedigo they may have understood it in their way. i understand it just perfectly and it is horrific. when you speak of limited resources, do you mean including or excluding golfing trips for the president, tax cuts for the super-rich, the war machine and ceos of businesses that pay their employees minimum wage? before we talk about limited resources, let's reallocate what we have and find out how limited they are or are not. i'd like that before being shuffled off to buffalo, and by the way, if i live to 75 and have some medical problems, and someone things, oh well, she's not having a good time, so kill her, i might just have some objection to that! g
Hi everybody, I am new on this site.
TheGreatShadow comments on Sep 18, 2018:
I cum blood. I think you are a troll.
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
whatever makes you say that? i don't get it. it's not impossible -- it's never impossible -- but why accuse without evidence? (and why so rudely?) g
Do we really really REALLY need TV ads about guys with curved dicks??? I mean, REALLY??
Heliotrope comments on Sep 22, 2018:
What, dare I ask, is the ad selling?
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@evergreen right. so it's even worse when they advertise to a gullible public. bad enough they sway doctors with free samples (i have benefited from free samples -- not of THIS product, i hasten to say -- but my doctors are great and give me options and don't push things just because they got those samples!) g
If you could transcend this life when your body dies and live on in a reality of your own making, ...
mordant comments on Sep 22, 2018:
The human enterprise does not need more empty speculation and imagination about some idealized afterlife. Honestly, I don't see myself as a creature of eternity. I would have to become something unrecognizable to myself -- someone lacking hedonic tone, for example -- to sustainably operate in ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
indeed. there is certainly enough of that around! g
I have for quite some time thought that those incarcerated in penitentiaries should be given free ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i think they do have access. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Condor5 me too! me too! and not only for this purpose. it's vital! g
I have for quite some time thought that those incarcerated in penitentiaries should be given free ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i think they do have access. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Condor5 there is only so much that can be done that way, and he actually was very sparing in his use of it, considering how obstructionist the republican congress was. i think with a democratic congress he could've gotten that done while holder was running justice. if i am not mistaken, lynch, whom i do not dislike (but oh, holder was so good!) had a more conservative view about that. and now, of course, don't hold your breath! (but vote! vote blue! vote blue even if it's for a blue dogcatcher!) g
A Tale of Gender Bashing and a Double Standard.
Stevil comments on Sep 22, 2018:
It's a Farce Book thread, sounds about right for that forum.
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
it's a big forum. it hasn't got an attitude, itself. it is full of human beings (and bots, but we can recognize those, right?) some human beings think and others drink (kool-aid). i have been here over two weeks (not long) and i see that it true here too. it's even true offline! g
I have for quite some time thought that those incarcerated in penitentiaries should be given free ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i think they do have access. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Condor5 let me give you that idea: in addition to the general ignorance of a man like jeff sessions, we have the lobbying power of the alcohol and tobacco industries, the main opponents to reclassification, as well as legalization. rivals, you see. it's that simple. oh yeah, and big pharma, too1 g
I have for quite some time thought that those incarcerated in penitentiaries should be given free ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i think they do have access. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Condor5 i've been trying to have an endometrial biopsy to check for uterine cancer for some time now. usually i cancel and reschedule because i am ill. one time i showed up and the doc was called away for an emergency c-section! it's getting ridiculous but i am scheduled for another try monday. now, if i have it, i am not going to be given marijuana for it, even though marijuana has been shown to kill cancer cells, because i do not live in a state that will do that. if i find out it's hopeless and i'm ging to die, THEN they will give me grass. weird, huh? and i can't just pick up and move. no money, and i don't live alone anyway. so for that and a MULTITUDE of other reasons i am hoping for a negative test. but i also have a bunch of other ailments, including but not limited to diabetes (and grass is purported to lower/control blood glucose), fibromyalgia and arthritis (grass is good for pain) and ptsd (grass is calming). nope. can't have it for any of that. 'sigh g
Men who never learned to cook
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
my guy can't cook. once when i was sick i asked him to cook, and i had to give him instructions one step at a time. i told him to peel an onion. i told him how. three hours later, and i am not exaggerating, he was done. he had sliced the onion and then peeled each slice. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@MrLizard i know! i know! i'd have laughed if i hadn't been depending on him to feed me! g
Exorcising the Ghosts of the Sixties - TheHumanist.com
Dietl comments on Sep 22, 2018:
The nazis discredited many progressive cultural movements with the term "cultural bolshevism", including art, architecture, homosexuality among other things. The struggle between those who support progress and those who decry the degeneration of our society is much much older than the sixties. There...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
they will only become marginal when the mainstream stops accepting them, and that will only happen when their supporters and enablers are voted out of power. g
If you could transcend this life when your body dies and live on in a reality of your own making, ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
can't get past the if. not even going to try. dead is dead. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@x0lineage0x wow indeed. i wasn't rude and i did not get personal with you. i disagreed with... well, let's call it a premise for lack of a better word. do you always get nasty when people disagree with you? g
Painfully true!
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
sorry, not identifying with this one. not true at all for me. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
to clarify (slightly): my life isn't boring; sometimes i wish it was a little more boring. i have a ton of stuff i like to do for fun, and if i thought those things were boring, i wouldn't consider them fun! but i have no time, energy or money to do most of them. not boring. frustrating, but not boring. g
The mystery of dreams.
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
this is the second post of this sort and it struck me as ridiculous and wrong the first time, too. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@dodin i already did, in the other post of this nature. i am sorry, but i don't want to repeat myself. and... my name is not gennessa. it's genessa. i'm not offended but i thought you might want to know. g
Do we really really REALLY need TV ads about guys with curved dicks??? I mean, REALLY??
Heliotrope comments on Sep 22, 2018:
What, dare I ask, is the ad selling?
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@evergreen shouldn't they be hearing it from their doctors? g
I love the Master/Missy.
altschmerz comments on Sep 22, 2018:
I loved Gomez. Simm, not so much.
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@MarvelAnn i usually didn't mind his being over the top. he is a classic cartoon villain. the head-spinning was a bit much lol. g
Love Weeping Angels!!
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i loved them in blink. after that they were... sort of a stretch for me. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@MarvelAnn he was well-meaning but some of his stuff was unnecessarily convoluted, and the resolutions made no sense. i don't think he knew how to write for smith. the eleven stories sometimes had some charm but more often than not did not and i don't think it was smith's fault. when he and tennant and hurt got together, holy moley that was good! g
Did Adam, of Adam & Eve, have a belly button?
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
why not ask about eve too? she was not born in the usual sense either. silly question, since they're both fictional, of course. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@IamBane ha. but i am never confronted with this particular issue, because i don't argue this kind of crap with religionists. mostly i argue that they should keep their religion out of my face. g
We’re asking the wrong question about Medicare-for-all - The Washington Post
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i am out of free reads. can you summarize please? g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Dietl not all media. fox and sinclair affiliates, for sure. some other media figures. but there are plenty of media out there telling the truth. too bad a whole swathe of the population is paying no attention, or doesn't understand, or has drunk the orange kool-aid. g
We’re asking the wrong question about Medicare-for-all - The Washington Post
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i am out of free reads. can you summarize please? g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Dietl good point, that. and yet when the affordable care act tightened up waste and saved money, without cutting services, the gop screamed that obama was cutting medicare! they lie as they breathe. they're not asking the wrong questions out of ignorance. they're doing it on purpose, because the right questions lead to better health care, which is not on their agenda at all. g
Wooooohoooo!! I can see again.
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
good luck! glaucoma tests hurt me too much to take. that air is like a needle to me. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@sewchick57 i allow the pressure test gently. i have ptsd from having awakened, age three, during eye surgery. g
Do you agree with stem cell research?
JackPedigo comments on Sep 22, 2018:
Yes and no? One, often overlooked aspect of our exponential population growth is people (like me) living longer. Keeping us alive and well takes resources away from others. often younger people. I have lived a great life and still contribute as much as I can. But, still keeping me going (especially ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
apart from the general ugliness of having to make sophie's choice, define elderly. i am 66 and a half. shall i stop taking my metformin for my diabetes because the money medicaid spends on that could be used to save someone younger? how much younger? do you condemn me to death for having been on earth a certain length of time and maybe having acquired some wisdom that can help a bunch of people, maybe someone younger? how about some eugenics while we're at it? g
If you could transcend this life when your body dies and live on in a reality of your own making, ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
can't get past the if. not even going to try. dead is dead. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@x0lineage0x not trying hard enough to please whom? maybe i don't think it's worth trying more than i did. maybe it's not interesting enough to try more than i did. maybe the IF is too big an obstacle no matter how hard i try because i am not motivated to try, and i tried exactly enough for me and too bad if someone else thinks it's not enough. and what the hell is THE matrix? g
Did Adam, of Adam & Eve, have a belly button?
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
why not ask about eve too? she was not born in the usual sense either. silly question, since they're both fictional, of course. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@IamBane wait, he created her out of a rib, but she was already there for him to stuff in a rib? g
Forget wedding cakes.
Simon1 comments on Sep 22, 2018:
The cake business and whatever else mentioned is a load of bollocks they have no right to discriminate against anyone . The reason the shelter refused the lady entry were valid being drunk ..duhh ...and it being closed .?? Seriously ???....Anyways there is a bigger issue that needs to be identified ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Simon1, @ghettophilosopher my point exactly! g
Forget wedding cakes.
Simon1 comments on Sep 22, 2018:
The cake business and whatever else mentioned is a load of bollocks they have no right to discriminate against anyone . The reason the shelter refused the lady entry were valid being drunk ..duhh ...and it being closed .?? Seriously ???....Anyways there is a bigger issue that needs to be identified ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Simon1 wrong. independent cake shops no more have the right to disciminate than did the woolworths lunch counters that wouldn't serve black people; woolworths didn't relent because it was a chain. it was a public place. if it were a private CLUB that would be different -- members only -- and even then a legal right doesn't make something right. but if the cake shop purports to be open to the public, it must be open to the whole public unless someone comes in and creates a disturbance. the cake shop that won its case on appeal didn't win on the issue; it won on a technicality. g
List your strangest encounter with an unknown person.
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
often a woman's strangest encounter is with a man who wants something from her, and sometimes gets insistent. i have had a few of those. my second day in los angeles i was followed home by a strange young man who obscenely details all the things he wanted to do to me. i told him in no uncertain ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Beowulfsfriend nope only visited fufi once, wasn't climbing it. i have no need to feel spitirual; natural is fine for me! sorry you lost your stick. i lost my first walking stick too, during a move (it was stolen). g
Ok, to be honest, I never really liked parties. Especially big parties.
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
i used to go to fabulous parties. i miss them. there were people i knew and more people i didn't know, in an intimate setting (an apartment). there would be music playing, but no room to dance unless you went into another room. there would be food, drink and grass. we'd discuss music, politics,...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@CS60 they were so much fun! g
Everyone has a price... what is yours? this price is how much you will sell your beliefs for.
Dietl comments on Sep 22, 2018:
By "selling" to you mean pretending to belief something different? If want me to say that I believe in a God I'm quite cheap. I don't really care much.
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
people pretend for various reasons and it hasn't got to do with selling out. in the spanish inquisition, jews were given a chance to kiss the cross. their other option was to be burned alive. they pretended to convert but practiced their religion secretly. in what way did they sell their faith? is there something wrong with not dying? and it's not as if they changed their beliefs, or even their practices except for keeping them secret. are we equating this with "having a price"? g
There is true key to happiness! Two words… Managing expectations If you can manage your ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
you cannot manage others around you. not should you. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@RiverRick so that part of your key to happiness is not always appropriate, and only specific to certain situations. so it might not be the key to everyone's happiness. it's important in your job (and elsewhere i am sure). it's not universal. g
I have for quite some time thought that those incarcerated in penitentiaries should be given free ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
i think they do have access. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Condor5 they have better access than i have! g
Forget wedding cakes.
Simon1 comments on Sep 22, 2018:
The cake business and whatever else mentioned is a load of bollocks they have no right to discriminate against anyone . The reason the shelter refused the lady entry were valid being drunk ..duhh ...and it being closed .?? Seriously ???....Anyways there is a bigger issue that needs to be identified ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Simon1 first of all, a homeless shelter is not the same as a shelter for abused women. the shelter in question is a homeless shelter. second of all, are you assuming that trans women by default have had no hormonal therapy or surgery? and third of all, have you never seen straight/cis women being violent? in what way does being trans mean being violent? being human can mean that... or not. sorry, i am not buying this. g
Forget wedding cakes.
Simon1 comments on Sep 22, 2018:
The cake business and whatever else mentioned is a load of bollocks they have no right to discriminate against anyone . The reason the shelter refused the lady entry were valid being drunk ..duhh ...and it being closed .?? Seriously ???....Anyways there is a bigger issue that needs to be identified ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Simon1 how would they know anyone was trans anyway, to feel the stress? and what if they had stress seeing a black person, or an asian person, or a tall person, or a blonde person? avoiding stress is one thing. letting someone else be homeless is quite another. g
There is true key to happiness! Two words… Managing expectations If you can manage your ...
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
you cannot manage others around you. not should you. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@RiverRick haha not ALL the time. only when appropriate... i hope! but you're only managing their expectations of YOU. you cannot manage their expectations in general. g
Where do you prefer to be beach or mountain?
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
both. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
... but it depends on which beach, and which mountain, and what season, and whether i am on horseback. g
Forget wedding cakes.
Simon1 comments on Sep 22, 2018:
The cake business and whatever else mentioned is a load of bollocks they have no right to discriminate against anyone . The reason the shelter refused the lady entry were valid being drunk ..duhh ...and it being closed .?? Seriously ???....Anyways there is a bigger issue that needs to be identified ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
trans women are women. the pose no threat. g
Who is your favorite 1950's horror actor?
HeathenFarmer comments on Sep 22, 2018:
Like any of the others even count.
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@HeathenFarmer the misspelled gentleman! g
Who is your favorite 1950's horror actor?
HeathenFarmer comments on Sep 22, 2018:
Like any of the others even count.
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@HeathenFarmer haha. but remember, not everyone who votes comments! (and it says there is one vote, which isn't true. i voted too!) g
Who is your favorite 1950's horror actor?
HeathenFarmer comments on Sep 22, 2018:
Like any of the others even count.
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
(we can't see who you voted for!) g
Fuck insomnia. That is all.
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
sometimes i have insomnia because... because... anyway, other times i have insomnia because my bladder is extremely inconsiderate. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@ProudMary gravity! g
Fuck insomnia. That is all.
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
sometimes i have insomnia because... because... anyway, other times i have insomnia because my bladder is extremely inconsiderate. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@ProudMary you'd think they'd come in appropriate sizes! g
Night Music: Jools Holland & Doctor John as the "Boogie Woogie Twins" - YouTube
HeathenFarmer comments on Sep 22, 2018:
Wow!
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@HeathenFarmer i have to confess i only knew the name jools holland, nothing about him. i am a huge doctor john fan, though, so i thought i'd give this a listen. jools impressed me too! g
Night Music: Jools Holland & Doctor John as the "Boogie Woogie Twins" - YouTube
HeathenFarmer comments on Sep 22, 2018:
Wow!
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
yep, wow! :-)) g
List your strangest encounter with an unknown person.
genessa comments on Sep 22, 2018:
often a woman's strangest encounter is with a man who wants something from her, and sometimes gets insistent. i have had a few of those. my second day in los angeles i was followed home by a strange young man who obscenely details all the things he wanted to do to me. i told him in no uncertain ...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@Beowulfsfriend different it certainly was. i spent a decade there. by the way, i have lost my little golden keychain and i miss it so much! g
Regarding the Hidden God Problem.
genessa comments on Sep 19, 2018:
of course this presumes not only the existence of a god, but the existence of a god who gives a shit. i cannot speak for the latter without first accepting the former, which i do not do. g
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
@johnprytz well, it's more like trying to figure out whether the tooth fairy is blonde or brunette. g
Do we really really REALLY need TV ads about guys with curved dicks??? I mean, REALLY??
Heliotrope comments on Sep 22, 2018:
What, dare I ask, is the ad selling?
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
medicine for curved dicks. g
The Judgement of Victims I went to get my hair cut today and as so often happens, the...
dellik comments on Sep 21, 2018:
Because 'recovery' is an illusion? (albeit a pretty one) Once something traumatic happens, you *are never the same* I disagree that you can't be as capable a person as you were before the damage, but you will never be where you could have been, with out the damage. thats how damage works. Im not...
genessa replies on Sep 22, 2018:
recovery is not necessarily an illusion. you'll never be the same but that doesn't mean you'll be forever broken and useless. g
Acceptable use of blackface?
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
we live in a world of way too much tolerance of intolerance, and of racism. no, this doesn't seem appropriate. why is the most imitable part of the black horn player his blackness? g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@WilliamCharles i've seen worse! i doubt youtube will do a thing, whether or not it should. g
shoes laces or slip-ons?
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
barefoot for indoors, sandals for outdoors (even in the snow). i have a bad toe and cannot tolerate enclosed shoes. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@hankster maybe i'll be bold and try that soon. g
Ed wheelen, a good friend of brett kavanaugh's, speculates all over the public place that ...
Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 21, 2018:
It is not likely that she would make up the story and less likely that she would mis-identify a person she was already acquainted with.
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@Flyingsaucesir and now the ridiculous deadline and other conditions she is being hit with. she has 50 minutes (less by the time i click "reply") to respond that she is willing to testify without the benefit of an investigation or any witnesses, although she has cited witnesses. g
Does Trump have the lowest IQ of all American Presidents to date?
Pedrohbds comments on Sep 21, 2018:
Actually he is pretty smart, he just don't have the same objectives of you. He is expert in manipulating feelings, in making you have an irrational and feeling based response, he makes you overreact and then all your arguments against him can't convince anyone. You say that he uses hate, but he ...
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
he may once have been smart, whether street-smart or otherwise, but he isn't smart now. he just isn't. he's ignorant, and to get to his age and be ignorant isn't smart. he is in deeper than he ever thought he would be and the more he wiggles the deeper he sinks. the smarts you see come from the villains who are holding his head above mud. g
shoes laces or slip-ons?
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
barefoot for indoors, sandals for outdoors (even in the snow). i have a bad toe and cannot tolerate enclosed shoes. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@hankster freedom from pain! i was just thinking earlier today, by sheer coincidence, that i should try to wear enclosed shoes while that toenail is short, to see if it hurts. how brave am i? g
Every time we glorify the cradle of our civilization.
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
i don't see why we have to glorify anything at all. studying and understanding are enough. and if we really study, and really understand, we see the real role of women, despite the fact that they were so little valued (oh my how things have changed -- um, not so much).but let's expand slightly past...
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@GipsyOfNewSpain thanks. we don't get told about them in school. not that school has been a recent thing.... g
Acceptable use of blackface?
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
we live in a world of way too much tolerance of intolerance, and of racism. no, this doesn't seem appropriate. why is the most imitable part of the black horn player his blackness? g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@WilliamCharles there's a reason for it. in a perfect world it would just be a nod to an ugly part of history. this world not being perfect, it nods a little too agreeably. g
A word from Socrates worth thinking about.
WilliamFleming comments on Sep 21, 2018:
Sometimes when people lose arguments they resort to slander.
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
that's what the meme said. g
What is the best way to get a lot of comments on a post? Asking for an imaginary friend.
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
is that the goal? getting comments? how about expressing yourself sincerely on any topic that interests you? maybe someone else will find your post interesting and maybe even comment. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@Rudy1962 if you want to. the question is, why would anyone want to? g
I used to love the history channel, even though sometimes it referred to a.
powder comments on Sep 21, 2018:
Murdock bought it a few years back and dumbed it down.
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@powder yeah, pity about that, not that i spent much time there; i think by the time i discovered it, it was already... shall we say impaired? though i remember seeing cosmos (the new one) on it. was that before or after? g
What is the best way to get a lot of comments on a post? Asking for an imaginary friend.
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
is that the goal? getting comments? how about expressing yourself sincerely on any topic that interests you? maybe someone else will find your post interesting and maybe even comment. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@Rudy1962 yes, i got that by extension. so... the reason for the points is to reward participation and helping the site grow. that's backwards from the reason for participation being to get the points. that makes participation kind of pointless, doesn't it? g
I used to love the history channel, even though sometimes it referred to a.
powder comments on Sep 21, 2018:
Murdock bought it a few years back and dumbed it down.
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
i assume you mean the history channel, which is owned by a&e, which in turn is a joint venture between disney and espn (which is weird because espn is owned by disney). last year, murdoch didn't buy disney; disney bought 20th century fox from murdoch, who stepped down from same. fox news was not part of the deal. i can find no indication that murdoch owns the history channel. apparently fox did take over nat geo, which is a pity. now, admittedly all these subsidiaries are all tangled up together, and one source says he still owns 21st through a family trust while many others outline the deal with disney. so he could end up owning the thing that owns the thing that is affiliated with the thing that owns the thing that owns some of the history channel, but he didn't buy the history channel as far as i can tell. g
TRUMP IDENTIFIED THE REMAINS News this morning says that 2 Korean war veterans remains have been ...
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
which news was this? it sounds stupid. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@DenoPennoah see, sinclair. they will report lies, they will report facts but twist them into lies, and they will ignore facts. i wouldn't watch a sinclair channel. you'd get better news talking to the pigeons in the park! g
I have always heard that government is bloated and private corporations will always run things ...
Captain_Feelgood comments on Sep 21, 2018:
There is a reason you send packages via FEDEX and UPS instead of US mail.There is a reason the gov. isn't very good at running things.
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
i use the post office. fedex has a lot of lobbyists and that's why people use it. the government would be good at running things if honest people were in it. g
I'm new here... Hi. Former Christian radio host and worship leader, what's up?
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
interesting. you are welcome here if you're not here to troll. pardon me for mentioning it, but usually when christians come here it IS to troll. if you want honest, open dialogue with atheists and are not here to demand that we prove god doesn't exist, or to try to convert us, you are welcome ...
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@tjohns hahahaha! g
I'm new here... Hi. Former Christian radio host and worship leader, what's up?
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
interesting. you are welcome here if you're not here to troll. pardon me for mentioning it, but usually when christians come here it IS to troll. if you want honest, open dialogue with atheists and are not here to demand that we prove god doesn't exist, or to try to convert us, you are welcome ...
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@tjohns yes, sorry that i misread that tag as part of your bio. pardon me for being slightly defensive. you are welcome and i hope you find the site interesting indeed. g
Regarding the Hidden God Problem.
genessa comments on Sep 19, 2018:
of course this presumes not only the existence of a god, but the existence of a god who gives a shit. i cannot speak for the latter without first accepting the former, which i do not do. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@johnprytz this is true, but i was not talking about humans abandoning religion. i was talking about this theoretical god abandoning humans. that is what i meant by project. the question was about whether god once gave a shit but no longer does. g
Some Brief Thoughts on Time.
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
even asleep, if you're dreaming, you're experiencing a now. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@johnprytz none of what you just said argues against the nowness of dreaming. some people don't remember their conscious now-time either, so the lack of memory part doesn't hold. they still have a now. being able to control things doesn't make now 'now" either (ever been to a dentist? longest "now" in history!) and no one said you were really conscious in a dream. i only said there is a now in it. and by the way, sometimes in a dream i AM aware it's a dream, and i have been known to direct my dreams and change the outcome -- and i very frequently remember my dreams as well. but even were that not so, while i am dreaming the dreams, i am in a different now, but it's a now nonetheless. g
Ed wheelen, a good friend of brett kavanaugh's, speculates all over the public place that ...
AnneWimsey comments on Sep 21, 2018:
Why don't we all hold our breath until Kavanaugh is exonerated? Or, assume he will be confirmed anyway.......
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
you really want to know why we shouldn't just all hold our breaths? or have you lost your senators' phone numbers? g
It would be possible to fall into the mindset that only atheists should become public servants.
AnneWimsey comments on Sep 21, 2018:
Here's a thought...our "representatives" could actually do that instead of becoming millionaires in a job that pays less than $200,000/year. Just imagine that!
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
so that's who we choose! unique idea, that, too. but if we only vote in the presidential, we won't have much choice we have to vote in the midterms and the specials too, and i mean school board, local judges, EVERYONE. then we get the ones we want, or at least better ones, from whom to choose as they rise in the ranks. g
Somebody tell me why we love the ones who make us suffer and leave the ones who love us most?
genessa comments on Sep 21, 2018:
do we? i don't. g
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@Dreamer777 no, sorry, i know some do, but i really don't. and that "bad boy" image everyone seems to love? nah-ah. it always just seemed mean and stupid to me. i always liked the nice guys. i know, i'm boring. g
Does Trump have the lowest IQ of all American Presidents to date?
Trajan61 comments on Sep 20, 2018:
Trump’s got a hell of a lot more sense than those idiots Obama or Clinton and so far he’s doing a great job as president.
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
which part is great: lowering taxes on the super-rich, thus raising the deficit, then letting his fellow republicans claim that they have to lower the deficit by cutting the social safety net? imprisoning LEGAL applicants for asylum, separating them from their children, then telling them they have to agree in writing to be deported if they ever want to see their kids again? letting almost three thousand american citizens die in puerto rico, throwing them paper towels as if that will solve their problems, and claiming that almost no one died there because he did such a good job? appointing as department heads only people who have gone on record as wanting to destroy those departments? demanding personal loyalty from people whose job is to protect the constitution, not him personally? or thinking there is a country called "nipple"? g
Ed wheelen, a good friend of brett kavanaugh's, speculates all over the public place that ...
Flyingsaucesir comments on Sep 21, 2018:
It is not likely that she would make up the story and less likely that she would mis-identify a person she was already acquainted with.
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
ya think? and even less unlikely that if she were unsure or lying she would invite an fbi investigation! g
Really....
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
this sounds snotty and anti-intellectual. what does being well read have to do with sitting behind a desk? does reading books prevent people from having raw intelligence? and what's so great about raw intelligence that has nowhere to go and is unfulfilled? i don't want to introduce this deluded ...
genessa replies on Sep 21, 2018:
@memorylikeasieve that's because anyone with an actual education would eschew their beliefs! g
What is a genius?
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2018:
I think there are many types of intelligence. Some folks can read books and spout use the information. Some people can read people/situations and react to that information. I think the term "genius" is essentially meaningless. What good is it if you know everything but cannot communicate, or ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
@azzow2 i didn't need names. but my experience of mensa is that their main concern was whether smart people should have more babies than dumb people. feh. that's not academia. g
What is a genius?
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2018:
I think there are many types of intelligence. Some folks can read books and spout use the information. Some people can read people/situations and react to that information. I think the term "genius" is essentially meaningless. What good is it if you know everything but cannot communicate, or ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
@azzow2 mensa is not actually academia. and who at mensa? you're basing your premise on that? g
What is a genius?
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2018:
I think there are many types of intelligence. Some folks can read books and spout use the information. Some people can read people/situations and react to that information. I think the term "genius" is essentially meaningless. What good is it if you know everything but cannot communicate, or ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
@azzow2 every one of who, and how many is that? g
What is a genius?
HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2018:
I think there are many types of intelligence. Some folks can read books and spout use the information. Some people can read people/situations and react to that information. I think the term "genius" is essentially meaningless. What good is it if you know everything but cannot communicate, or ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
@azzow2 i am not aware that academia has set guidelines or rules for genius. academia sets guidelines for advancement in academia. there is very little academic interest in genius apart from that small portion of it actually studying genius, which has nothing to do with academia's general concerns. colleges want to know your aptitude for learning (specifically that) among other things (that's a very important "among" there) when deciding whom to accept into their institutions. they do not require anyone to be a genius so they don't test to see who's a genius. mensa cares whether someone is a genius. i've been a member. i quit. those people are DUMB. g
Biologically, we humans are forced to perceive an existence where we only have our limited senses to...
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
dogs have very limited color vision. cats are burdened with their superior intellect and sometimes it drives them crazy. we fill in the imperceptible with the RESULTS of our imaginations. thus we have a great capacity to perceive whatever the hell reality is well beyond our biological ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
@rabidazzle fruit flies! we all watched fruit flies multiply in science class! now i want to know how to get them to stop multiplying in my kitchen. (getting a new air conditioner helped!) g
Was asked why I am agnostic and not athiest or religious.
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
i'm an atheist and i don't presume to KNOW whether or not there is a supreme being. i presume, not arrogantly, to be pretty darned sure, since there is so much evidence that people are making it all up. i mean there is more evidence of unicorns than of gods (i've seen pictures!) and we don't feel ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
@Chucky65 i am glad to know it :-)) g
GOP Senator Opposes Medicaid Expansion Because It Prevents People From Finding God | Michael Stone
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
well, surely he believes that people will meet god when they die, so of course he wants to deny them medicaid so they can die and meet god. that is easy to understand (you may have to twist your brain around a bit and it would surely hurt, but then it would be easy to understand....) what's more ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
of course i was being ever-so-slightly snarky there. green's purported reasoning is this, and i quote him directly: "… every person who came to Christ came to Christ with a physical need… People go to God because of a physical need and they walk away with a spiritual need met. That’s the story of the Gospels. And so government has stepped in, at least in this country, and done all the work for the church. And so the person who’s in need — they look to the government for the answer. Not God. And I think, in that way, government has done an injustice that’s even bigger than just the entitlement — creation of an entitlement welfare state. I think it’s even bigger. And in this setting, I’ll share the story… I think it interrupts the opportunity for people to come to a saving knowledge of who God is." this is of course disgusting on so many levels. first of all there is the underlying christian delusion, but let's ignore that for a moment. even if his religious beliefs were true -- that there was a god, that there was a christ, that in any case either existence was important, and the premise of his first sentence -- his reasoning would STILL be bogus. government aid doesn't interrupt a damned thing. there are plenty of religious christians on welfare. and i wasn't being snarky in speculating that he has health insurance. g
I'm new here... Hi. Former Christian radio host and worship leader, what's up?
genessa comments on Sep 20, 2018:
interesting. you are welcome here if you're not here to troll. pardon me for mentioning it, but usually when christians come here it IS to troll. if you want honest, open dialogue with atheists and are not here to demand that we prove god doesn't exist, or to try to convert us, you are welcome ...
genessa replies on Sep 20, 2018:
@weeman ah, good, i misread the tag christian as part of the bio, and i saw former christian radio host as former radio host and not necessarily former christian. i see from the bio that i was mistaken. i hope that with my misplaced caveat i was still welcoming! g

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