Celebrate the human kindness of my fellow human beings in Idaho Boise.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

Excellent! if you're ever back that way please stop by my sister's house and convince her I am not an evil man because I don't believe in her god.

I asked my kids this to see what how they would answer it.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

None after you fire a shot and one falls.

How long now?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

7 "

Anybody give blood?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

How much ya need?

America: Do you believe Canada is a socialist country?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

People need to learn what the heck "socialist" means before throwing it around like a bad word. that would start with the OP's clumsy definition as well. a lack of economic freedom is not the definition of a socialist country. it may be a characteristic depending on what you are observing and comparing it to - but the term itself means simply doing things for a social goal or in a social manner. thus either the ends or the means will be social ... that is directed towards satisfying a group of people vice an otherwise-specified goal or method. nothing more. now if you wanna get into means of production and ownership then we should bring in the word communism to show that these 2 terms are different. communism is one way to run a country in a socialist manner, but not the only way. thats why it is called "scientific socialism". ideally you want a economic method that is a fusion between socialism and capitalism. socialism to keep the state functional and protect the workers with some capitalistic tendencies to promote growth and investment.

What is the wildest thing that you have ever done ?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

Urinated on the royal mum's flowers in Monaco and was banned from the country.

Where is the most beautiful place you have ever visited?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

Guam

What's the worst purchase that you have ever made?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

Anything that wasn't blow, weed, or hookers

How did we end up with Donald Trump as our President? Are we half crazy?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

39% crazy

So what is the main reason most of you are on here?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

Here to see what direction you lost souls fall

Favorite Song

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Y3KfJs6T0

Ah drugs Lsd, pcp, cocaine, meth, heroin, ex, shrooms.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 16, 2018:

So being agnostic taught you nothing about being open-minded? I pity you and your kansas demeanor.

Sorry folks.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

Sounds like you'd be better off staying at home. where the dishes and dirty laundry are. so while you're there ... make me a ham sandwich and a beer?

What is your response when people threaten you with religious punishments? (i.e. Hell/Jahannam)

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

"It has been estimated that Human Beings have conceived roughly 3,000 major deities in our relatively short existence. I don't believe in any of them so, yes, that does make me 100% atheist. But you only believe in one of them ... so you're like 99.99785% atheist yourself."

Do you and your significant other have song that is "yours"?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

OPP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idx3GSL2KWs

How do you Unleash Your Inner Diva ?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

Ray charles videos on youtube. I play and sing to a list of them every morning.

Hi can you add a caption to this photo?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

::Jimmy Stewart voice:: "I object your honor ... the defense is treating this jury like a bunch of clowns" ::/Jimmy Stewart voice::

What do you have faith in?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

I have faith in yin and yang. That opposing forces occur with all change thus limiting its' duration and intensity. This happens with all things in life and the varying intensities, durations, and frequency all happen at different times. Sometimes you get a bunch of ups and no downs ... sometimes the opposite. But you always know the other side's coming and you can prepare for it or look forward to it.

During times of great hardship, the believers have their books, their houses of worship and their ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

I get high and consider the yin and yang of the universe.

What was coming up in today’s meditation was the idea that the more you meditate the more you ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

I find it interesting that so many from the west wish to seek help from meditation now, but they don't give thought to the rest of vedic teaching. Meditation, historically, is a very small part of Buddhist/Hindu practice.

What are you most looking for in a relationship? Just your 1 Thing

JeffMesser comments on Jun 15, 2018:

Someone who is interesting

I heard this in a Stanford university behavioral biology lecture.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 14, 2018:

They were all mentioned together in a lecture at Stanford?

Does observation alter an event?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 14, 2018:

According to the double-slit test it surely does

Tonight’s ear worm that will not let me rest [youtu.be]

JeffMesser comments on Jun 14, 2018:

This will cure it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c2OfAzDTI

Do you like being outside?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 13, 2018:

Of what?

I find it useful to save well written posts that I make on Facebook so that I can copy and paste ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 13, 2018:

I did that for a time, but it just became an annoyance. It was just all the same arguments for the millionth time. No one was listening. No one was compromising. No one was changing their minds. So I changed my approach. Now I just start right off with the name-calling. Thats where it is going anyway and I am tired.

Badly explain your profession

JeffMesser comments on Jun 13, 2018:

I get high and know things.

Do you think Trump's meeting with Kim Jong un is a veiled attempt to challenge China by affiliating ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 12, 2018:

No. it is trump's attempt to do something presidential. He's at least smart enough to know what a dumbass he is.

Faith... is it good?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 12, 2018:

You can have faith in things other than a deity. for instance ... I believe all things work on a cycle of + and - . I don't let the negatives get me down because I know a positive is around the corner if I am experiencing a negative now. That is faith.

I've just started a Brand New Group to Talk TV & maybe even what we learn from it.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 12, 2018:

I learned a few pop culture items as well as basics for scientology and mormonism from South Park.

Not sure if I've posted this before.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 12, 2018:

Make sure to check out all the brain plasticity stuff by Doidge and the rest.

We have until the sun explodes to get out of the solar system that is our time limit.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 12, 2018:

Interstellar travel is not our future. the distances and our frailty ensure that. I believe our next goal is dimensional ascension.

What do you all think about Robert De Niro saying " Fuck Trump" on live television?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 12, 2018:

1. Deniro is free to say what he wants. 2. I wouldn't go too altruistic in describing trump's motives regarding foreign policy. so far all we have seen are personal financial motives. 3. you should expect stern opposition in any venue containing intelligent persons such as agnostics or atheists because it appears you stand in support of that fricking idiot.

How do you cope ?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 11, 2018:

Take pleasure in simple things and change your perspective. I live by a simple 3 step process that has survived for thousands of years: 1. exercise self-control 2. give of yourself first 3. show compassion. In sanskrit you might see it as "damyata datta dayadhvam". In TS Eliot's poem "The Wasteland" is was "da da da". I seek to limit my ego and limit attachment to material things. Renunciation is the key my friend. Renunciation.

Sometimes I think about how much harm religion has done to scientific or just moral progress for the...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 11, 2018:

Our lives are too finite to effectively evaluate religion's effects overall. we see things on too limited a scope time-wise. this is a thing that will take many thousands upon thousands of years to equalize and homogenize.

Would it catch on...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 11, 2018:

Desperately searching for an identity? you don't need a label man. you don't need a group. you're already part of the group of man. thats good enough.

Greatest country song of all time.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 10, 2018:

Egads if you're not familiar with David Alan Coe ... He's basically a KKK member posing (back then) as a country western singer. He does one of those acts where they do all the antagonistic idea songs that get drunk crowds riled up ... like at college town bars. Many of the song titles can't even be repeated here. Among the most infamous was a song sung by a white man whose wife had left him for a back man. The worlds greatest country song is a good one though. even a blind squirrel sometimes ...

Although this isn't usually clearly evident right away... in time you can come to appreciate it.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 10, 2018:

I love the little Dalai. He is such a sweet little man. Such humility with a good sense of humor.

You would think by now I'd know which posts on Twitter to walk away from so I don't see stupid shit ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 10, 2018:

Abortion is a really tough one. I certainly want to respect the wishes of women vis a vis their own bodies, but at the same time the sanctity of life must be considered. Not having a particularly cheery after-life prospectus makes this troublesome for the secular. For us the sanctity of what life we have should be even more important. I tend to follow a Buddhist leaning here and favor harming no other.

So black people love "God" because they are original, what does that statement mean exactly?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 10, 2018:

Because they are original? what does that even mean?? is it like OG? they're the original gangstas?

I'm sick with the flu. Send prayers my way

JeffMesser comments on Jun 9, 2018:

I am about to meditate so I will visit you at home with my astral projection. Don't bother to clean up or anything ... you'll barely notice I am there.

Gentlemen: Do you have to hold your breath because a certain region of your partner smells horrible ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 9, 2018:

Bathe together then screw. problem solved.

Obama's reflection on the passing of Anthony Bourbain

JeffMesser comments on Jun 9, 2018:

He tried to bring cultures together. that is a good thing.

What's the mechanism by which an otherwise intelligent person believes in blessed trinities, virgin ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 9, 2018:

The vedas were written thousands of years ago and they speak of reincarnation. so it has a long history.

WHAT DO YOU DO?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 9, 2018:

What??? When someone strolls in trying to throw down some religion on us you gotta ENGAGE THEM. Thats like Evil Bart rolling into town and showing up to the saloon where wild bill deals cards. Theyre lookin to throw down! Lookin for a tussle. Engage the enemy with reason and logic and compassion.

Why does the sea taste salty?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 9, 2018:

It needs a bath?

What is the latest book you've read -or- What book are you reading right now.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 9, 2018:

I just finished "How to Change your Mind" by Michael Polla and Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself". I am about to start "Brain and Mind" by Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz.

Walk in another persons shoes, and yes, eat the food.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 8, 2018:

What if I eat their shoes?

Is this it?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 8, 2018:

Meditate. you will find more.

Meaning of existence

JeffMesser comments on Jun 7, 2018:

There is a meaning to our existence - evolve and get better. we are meant to work together like social creatures and we do our greatest work when we share a common goal. we must evolve through homogenization or however and get past our differences so we can achieve a collective consciousness and share experience simultaneously or some such.

Super new to this. What up peeps?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 7, 2018:

We will try not to make you angry.

If you’re a fan of the movie “The Man from Earth“ tell us why .

JeffMesser comments on Jun 7, 2018:

I liked it because I first saw it as I was exploring sociological reasons for religion

Is there anyone here who isn't "into weed?"

JeffMesser comments on Jun 7, 2018:

People who don't have an open mind about weed are a turn off

Guys, please reconsider using plastic bags while shopping.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

I kept reading this thinking why do they want me to use plastic bags??? and then I saw you said REconsider. I thought you just said consider. way too high to comprehend your posts apparently. wish we could melt all plastic into building blocks or solar cells.

What is the main thing that attracts you to someone Physically? Mentally? Emotionally?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Physically - a cute face and smile mentally - a good sense of humor and openness

99% of school shootings were done by males . How do we get them to stop ?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Limit guns and treat mental health disorders

What are your top 3 current favorite TV shows?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Game of thrones, ozark, westworld

Does living in a community with limited diversity affect our viewpoints?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Yes. it does dramatically.

I'm reminded of this whenever I think the answers are somewhere else "out there."

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

The Buddha spoke of a group of blind wise men traveling the Indus valley. The men happened upon a sick elephant lying silently in the road and sought to identify the animal. The first felt only the animal's leg and thought it a tree. The second patted it on the side and thought it a hut. The third grabbed the trunk and declared it a large snake while the fourth felt the ears and thought it a plant. Only the 5th was wise enough to use the limited answers as clues. What we personally observe is often not enough. We need to take advantage of all the clues around us ... even those that are the result of NO answer.

Do u think it's possible to recover from a neglected childhood????

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

It is genuinely hard. Recovering from a lack of bonding with ones' mother is a huge detriment. It leads to a lack of trust that dramatically affects you for life. But the first step is to understand it happened and to recognize its' effect upon you. Then you may go about recovery. I have seen it. I have done it.

Gonna start off with a little Poison... Last time, I ended up with it...? [youtu.be]

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Sorry, this is better than both of those. never trust a big butt and a smile ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb2np1HGqxg

I have a very big dilemma that i need help with to make sure that i am not in the wrong here, any ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Dude ... the religious bullshit and the ceremonial mumbo jumbo is all just that - mumbo jumbo. It all has about as much true significance as waving your hand over a hat to make a rabbit appear. If she's worth that paltry bs to you then by all means go for it. Having some happiness and the experience of love for any time makes it a no-brainer. Just remember that with attachment comes suffering. That is the price.

This is just.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

It is sad those kids were still that bitter so late into their lives. You hafta learn to put things aside and forgive. Show compassion. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad of the Hindu vedas there exists a simple, three-fold path or method to peace among one another: damyata datta dayadhvam. The "da da da" of TS Eliot's The Wasteland. exercise self control (damyata). give of yourself first (datta). show compassion (dayadhvam). This is how you fight the 3 demons that cause all harm upon mankind. And this path was laid out by mankind before ANY religions were formed on this earth. This was the wisdom of the first small communities of man ... from as far west as the British Isles, as far north as Scandinavia, and extending all the way into China down to the tip of SE Asia and back into the Indus valley. Ancient wisdom of man from his first tribes and shacks. Don't live your life in hate and anger.

When growing up there was talk of the world being over populated.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Yeah, we always seem to forget we have some internal mechanisms that vary our population. Our "copulation rate" is NOT a constant. Some organisms spawn more when conditions are bad or questionable ... and some spawn much less. They can't get Japanese young adults to engage in sex anymore. Same with a few other cultures. The magic number is far below 1.1. Not sure how long it would stave off our problems before more calamitous things happened. We're putting a double whammy on the earth with environmental and resource problems at the same time.

What's your favorite ridiculous Bible verse?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Basically leviticus.

An old friend of 50 years has become a person of extreme religiosity in his old age.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

It's SO sad that a good friendship must be strained and possibly destroyed over fables and stubbornness. I see it all the time though. I've not found churchies to be particularly good at dying.

How would u respond if someone put this statement to u.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

Why the need to 'beat" them? That is how they believe. Leave them to it. We will all encounter the same end - we merely choose our path to get there.

My youngest daughter graduated Saturday.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 6, 2018:

I think it's wonderful!

Should Burning an American Flag be illegal?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

Of course it should be legal. in fact, there are times when it is required. more people need to study flag etiquette.

Oh, this is embarrassing. I fell in love… and broke it.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

I hear it's very painful. Saw it on an ER show a few weeks ago.

Religion is like a penis.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

if I read it too hard I will go blind?

Jesus died for your cakes

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

did he die only for cakes or was it for all baked confections? I mean, if a couple of lesbians come in and want some sconces ... is that cool? Maybe just one nancy-boy wanting an eclair? Can a bear get a bearclaw? I need to know where to draw the homosexual pastry line.

Does this go some way to explaining the gender imbalance among atheists?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

please. I am the king of Low T and I am as non-believing as they come.

Neanderthal dna

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

you are unique ... just as are the denosovans from malaysia and australia. it's just a matter of how our ancestors traveled the planet.

Do you REALLY look like the pictures you put up in social media?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

I suspect catfishing among the troops here

Focus - Hocus Pocus - YouTube

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

now that I know the story it's one of the greatest things I have ever seen. thank you!!

Focus - Hocus Pocus - YouTube

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

wow. that is horrible music. and to think I actually liked that period of music until I saw this. glad I read a little more about it after I posted this. they were given 4 minutes to play a 7 minute song so instead of cutting part of it they just played it faster. that makes me laugh!!

I live in a community of these Goobers.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

chocolate covered peanuts?

What is better than sex?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

Sometimes when I get high and meditate I can ride the reverberation of a tone and feel it going up and down like a roller coaster. It's a very liberating feeling - much like those exhilarating flying dreams. I LOVE those!

How do YOU cope?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

All of life is not an ass kicking my friend ... but it IS all about balance. The more luxurious and majestic the highs, then the more spectacular the lows. So much so, in fact, that when you encounter something exceptional you should almost expect something equally unexceptional to follow. But not as a matter of dread. It's a matter of objectivity. Understanding the balance of things allows you to see a bigger picture when the fine tuning becomes harrowing or particularly painful. It is also the entire base of eastern philosophy. Congratulations! You are now a master as well.

Is social media ruining peoples ability to connect?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

it's CHANGING it

When down by the river, l was able to catch some pics of this young armadillo just outside its ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

excellent! they are cool little guys. their babies are all clones of each other from the littler or whatever they call it. I useta love finding them in west texas.

In 2009, a sad/funny/weird/scary thing happen to me while on a dating site date.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

First of all ... there is not near enough weed in this story, this date, or this relationship. The problems just snowball from there.

As an atheist living in the bible belt, it is difficult to meet like minded women.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

It sucks in OKC so I can't imagine it would be easy where you're at. I dont worry about it anymore as I am twice your age and more inclined to smoke some weed and vegetate than cruise chicks. There are some atheist groups in OKC and state-wide. You can try Red and his peeps at AOK. The problem is you're normally dealing with some people having serious social issues. I've never seen a bigger bunch of social misfits. If you're just like normal they're a hard group to hang with. I'd say move to a big city like Dallas.

Hello.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 5, 2018:

I interact with many Buddhists from Thich Nhat Han's lineage. I have a lot of respect for his views. damyata datta dayadhvam

What's the best thing you've ever done for your self?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

when I started riding a motorcycle and smoking weed again.

Capitalism, Racism, and Militarism...[l.facebook.com]

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

that was excellent. thank you for posting!

Has anyone encountered a fake account on here?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

pretty sure I am fake

Ruin a first date in 4 words

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

Let's take my mom!

How are you different from most people ?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

chicks dig me because I rarely wear underpants and when I do it's something special.

The world is celebrating.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

they made a ruling limited to those facts so they didnt expand anything.

The world is celebrating.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

they shoulda made a ho cake. ho's gotta eat.

I am about to scream.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 4, 2018:

meh. they needed their beliefs for hope and comfort. thats what beliefs are for. they are the ones who needed the comfort, not you. I'd say leave them to their fairy tales at that point.

Today we are celebrating the 10th birthday of my granddaughter.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 2, 2018:

I have noticed that no one ever fesses up to owning the idiots. EVERYONE'S kids can't be the smartest or the fastest. There have to be some slow, stupid mofos. Who admits to fathering them?

I used to enjoy dystopic books, TV, movies.

JeffMesser comments on Jun 2, 2018:

the Vedas

Who is the most honest political commentator you know?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 2, 2018:

you have to learn the right and left sides of the issues then decide for yourself. It is disingenuous to pick a source because you consider them to your political leaning and then just believe them. There are actual, valid issues on both sides.

How would you handle a situation if you just met someone socially and they said something you found ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 2, 2018:

I tell them it was rude and I keep talking.

Who is the most honest political commentator you know?

JeffMesser comments on Jun 2, 2018:

who and what thing they are saying?

"Lost in time and lost in space and meaning', a quote from the 1975 movie "The Rocky Horror Picture ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 2, 2018:

I miss those days. Usetabe I'd act it out with the rest of the cast at the AMC 8 in Edmond, OK back in the early 80's. I didnt particularly play anyone (except brad once) because I was more about trying to score some weed and someone to sleep with. what great days.

I have a very big dilemma that i need help with to make sure that i am not in the wrong here, any ...

JeffMesser comments on Jun 2, 2018:

relationships are attachments. attachments cause suffering. you are stronger without.