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Hey can I get some help finding more atheist podcast, I am having some trouble finding ones that are...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 15, 2018:
The Non Prophets is a good one
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 15, 2018:
The Non Prophets is a good one
So, today was Friday 13th. Where did the superstition associated with number 13 come from?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 15, 2018:
Ever country has their "evil " number.
In Japan for example the number 42 is considered unlucky and most hotels do not have a room 42.
The reason being that the pronunciation of 42 Shi Ni it a homonyn for the Japanese word for dieing shini.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 15, 2018:
Ever country has their "evil " number.
In Japan for example the number 42 is considered unlucky and most hotels do not have a room 42.
The reason being that the pronunciation of 42 Shi Ni it a homonyn for the Japanese word for dieing shini.
What's your favorite charity?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2018:
The Air Ambulance service.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2018:
The Air Ambulance service.
Do we need religion to prevent suicide?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2018:
If anything the idea of an all forgiving God combined with a paradisiacal afterlife probably makes suicide very attractive to religious people, and since Christianity is one of the few religions that actually makes suicide a damnable offence it is no wonder Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus etc are willing to sacrifice them selves for a cause on the promise of divine reward.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2018:
If anything the idea of an all forgiving God combined with a paradisiacal afterlife probably makes suicide very attractive to religious people, and since Christianity is one of the few religions that actually makes suicide a damnable offence it is no wonder Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus etc are willing to sacrifice them selves for a cause on the promise of divine reward.
Is it ever reasonable for a healthy but unhappy adult to commit suicide?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2018:
Since life is a terminal condition that everyone contracts at birth it could be argued that self-terminating could be a rational decision and also be equally argued that it is not.
Personal I would assume that cutting short your life deliberately when not suffering a physical condition that reduces the quality of life to unbearable indicates that you are in a mental state causing an either greater or equal state of suffering (either consciously or unconsciously) and therefore is not a rational choice, though the person concerned might think it is.
The only reason I personally can discern for such an act would be one of self-sacrifice where the action of suicide would save the lives of a greater number of others. (E.g. see the end of Star Trek 2, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.)
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 14, 2018:
Since life is a terminal condition that everyone contracts at birth it could be argued that self-terminating could be a rational decision and also be equally argued that it is not.
Personal I would assume that cutting short your life deliberately when not suffering a physical condition that reduces the quality of life to unbearable indicates that you are in a mental state causing an either greater or equal state of suffering (either consciously or unconsciously) and therefore is not a rational choice, though the person concerned might think it is.
The only reason I personally can discern for such an act would be one of self-sacrifice where the action of suicide would save the lives of a greater number of others. (E.g. see the end of Star Trek 2, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.)
Who cares? It's just stuff!
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
and the lord did look upon all of the stuff cluttering up his room
And the Lod said "Let there be Ebay"
And behold there was Ebay and it was good.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
and the lord did look upon all of the stuff cluttering up his room
And the Lod said "Let there be Ebay"
And behold there was Ebay and it was good.
Curious to know if there are any of you who claim to be psychics, or something of the like, know of ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
Meditation has nothing to do with being a psychic, stripped of its religious connotations meditation is actually a form simple light self-hypnosis.
I use it all the time to help control my bi-polar disorder, it is easy to learn and very effective simply google therapeutic self-hypnosis.
The majority of psychics are self-deluded, but utterly sincere people, professional psychic are for the most part confidence tricksters and charlatans.
The existence of "real" psychic powers is up for debate and the pieces of irrefutable evidence are few and far between, but when found do not prove the existence of the popular forms of so called psychic, but rather indicate that the subconscious mind is capable of much more than previously believed in bringing about what is commonly called instinct and intuition by perfectly explainable means.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
Meditation has nothing to do with being a psychic, stripped of its religious connotations meditation is actually a form simple light self-hypnosis.
I use it all the time to help control my bi-polar disorder, it is easy to learn and very effective simply google therapeutic self-hypnosis.
The majority of psychics are self-deluded, but utterly sincere people, professional psychic are for the most part confidence tricksters and charlatans.
The existence of "real" psychic powers is up for debate and the pieces of irrefutable evidence are few and far between, but when found do not prove the existence of the popular forms of so called psychic, but rather indicate that the subconscious mind is capable of much more than previously believed in bringing about what is commonly called instinct and intuition by perfectly explainable means.
Could we state facts and examples of how religions are hindering progress?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
The major threat to education is the loose alliance between fundamentalist Christians, Jews and Muslims to obliterate the teaching of natural history in schools in favour of creationism.
It is appalling that such barbarous attitudes continue and are foisted upon children, for the sole purpose of inhibiting critical thinking and making the whole of reality deuscentric, thus increasing the power of the clergy and the coffers of the religions.
The general central ideology that humans are inferior, slaves to deity, are sinful in their wilfulness and should always submit or humble themselves, is abhorrent to me and assume to thinking people everywhere.
This attitude leads only to persecution, eugenic detritions, and ultimately wars between differing ideologies resulting in death.
The creationist movement is an attempt to return the world to medievalism, serfdom and theocracy.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
The major threat to education is the loose alliance between fundamentalist Christians, Jews and Muslims to obliterate the teaching of natural history in schools in favour of creationism.
It is appalling that such barbarous attitudes continue and are foisted upon children, for the sole purpose of inhibiting critical thinking and making the whole of reality deuscentric, thus increasing the power of the clergy and the coffers of the religions.
The general central ideology that humans are inferior, slaves to deity, are sinful in their wilfulness and should always submit or humble themselves, is abhorrent to me and assume to thinking people everywhere.
This attitude leads only to persecution, eugenic detritions, and ultimately wars between differing ideologies resulting in death.
The creationist movement is an attempt to return the world to medievalism, serfdom and theocracy.
Anyone else notice the link between conservatism and crisis around the world?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
I take your point, but would narrow the field to the prevalence of nationalism in right wing politics (usually masquerading as patriotism or religious fidelity) being the major cause.
Humans are naturally tribal by instinct, adherence to a national identity and doubly so when a national identity is linked with a religious or theocratic political aspect, immediately gives the follower or citizen an enemy to hate and fear (Not one of us)(a threat to our way of life).
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 13, 2018:
I take your point, but would narrow the field to the prevalence of nationalism in right wing politics (usually masquerading as patriotism or religious fidelity) being the major cause.
Humans are naturally tribal by instinct, adherence to a national identity and doubly so when a national identity is linked with a religious or theocratic political aspect, immediately gives the follower or citizen an enemy to hate and fear (Not one of us)(a threat to our way of life).
I want to explore a touchy topic.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
It is mostly a matter of opportunity, given the chance all humans are capable of horrific actions if they are that way inclined.
Men do not like this to be made widely known, because they do not want women "getting uppity" and knowing they are capable of fighting back or of terrifying men.
For example the first SS officer sentenced to death for war crime atrocities while in command of the women's section of the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen was named Irma Ida Ilse Grese, ever heard of her?
No because everyone remembers Mengler, Himmler and the ilk, nasty little cruel men, but the idea that the most prolific monster of the concentration camps was a young woman is too dangerous an idea to be proliferated.
Even the military genius and ruthless soldier Joan of Arc, is better remembered for having been burned to death as punishment than for her victories and massacres. Even in her own time she was not executed for war crimes but for the biblically legislated crime of Transvestisms.
My point is that men and women are equally capable of horrendous behaviour, but the crimes of women are reported less frequently and in less graphic detail, because the myth and expectations of femine behaviour has been a great tool in actually repressing women.
Ask any one who grew up with a sister, or an abusive mother, or was unfortunate enough to be a battered husband, just how vicious and cruel a woman can be given the opportunity and inclination to do so.
The myth once established is passed from mother to daughter like an herditory condition.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
It is mostly a matter of opportunity, given the chance all humans are capable of horrific actions if they are that way inclined.
Men do not like this to be made widely known, because they do not want women "getting uppity" and knowing they are capable of fighting back or of terrifying men.
For example the first SS officer sentenced to death for war crime atrocities while in command of the women's section of the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen was named Irma Ida Ilse Grese, ever heard of her?
No because everyone remembers Mengler, Himmler and the ilk, nasty little cruel men, but the idea that the most prolific monster of the concentration camps was a young woman is too dangerous an idea to be proliferated.
Even the military genius and ruthless soldier Joan of Arc, is better remembered for having been burned to death as punishment than for her victories and massacres. Even in her own time she was not executed for war crimes but for the biblically legislated crime of Transvestisms.
My point is that men and women are equally capable of horrendous behaviour, but the crimes of women are reported less frequently and in less graphic detail, because the myth and expectations of femine behaviour has been a great tool in actually repressing women.
Ask any one who grew up with a sister, or an abusive mother, or was unfortunate enough to be a battered husband, just how vicious and cruel a woman can be given the opportunity and inclination to do so.
The myth once established is passed from mother to daughter like an herditory condition.
Are we meant to be with one person forever?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Horses for courses, what works for one person might not work for another, if people didn't judge and allowed people to be themselves in consensual relationships, it would do no harm and make way for happiness, and of course why should it matter to anyone else how you conduct your private life if it harms no one else?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Horses for courses, what works for one person might not work for another, if people didn't judge and allowed people to be themselves in consensual relationships, it would do no harm and make way for happiness, and of course why should it matter to anyone else how you conduct your private life if it harms no one else?
Cartoons!!!
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Anyone else remember the short lived Catoon series Motor Mouse and Auto Cat? Basically it was Tom and Jerry using cars and motorcycles.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Anyone else remember the short lived Catoon series Motor Mouse and Auto Cat? Basically it was Tom and Jerry using cars and motorcycles.
I have tried many things, and they are at least starting to question everything, which I am counting...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I never did, but when they asked question I told them the truth and asked them what they thought.
My son declared himself atheist at 4 years old after he asked me what a person who does not believe in god is called, my daughter has been a Christian (sort of) all her life but still asks questions and listens to the answers.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I never did, but when they asked question I told them the truth and asked them what they thought.
My son declared himself atheist at 4 years old after he asked me what a person who does not believe in god is called, my daughter has been a Christian (sort of) all her life but still asks questions and listens to the answers.
What are the best movie lines of all time?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
"I have come here to chew bubble-gum and kick ass - and I'm all out of bubble-gum."
They Live (1988)
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
"I have come here to chew bubble-gum and kick ass - and I'm all out of bubble-gum."
They Live (1988)
Religion has always been about saving people or trying to convert others into their way of ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I don't go out looking for people to "bring" to atheism, I don't have to, they tend to come after "saving" me. Well once they start the conversation, I'll tell them what I know and how I know it and if that damages their faith, so much the better.
I have however broken this rule when they have gone after my family, lieing to my children I will not tolerate.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I don't go out looking for people to "bring" to atheism, I don't have to, they tend to come after "saving" me. Well once they start the conversation, I'll tell them what I know and how I know it and if that damages their faith, so much the better.
I have however broken this rule when they have gone after my family, lieing to my children I will not tolerate.
Some folks say "everything happens for a reason".
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Whatever happens in life can be learned from and/or used AS the reason for making a better future for yourself.
Things may not happen for a reason (unless they have been caused by an outside influence) but they can be the reason for doing something else, but whether or not that is so is up to you.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Whatever happens in life can be learned from and/or used AS the reason for making a better future for yourself.
Things may not happen for a reason (unless they have been caused by an outside influence) but they can be the reason for doing something else, but whether or not that is so is up to you.
What are your thoughts on Faith?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Faith in the theological sense is an anti-intellectual evil, the veneration of fantasy over fact, the glorification of ignorance and an insult to human progress.
Faith say truth is a lie, reality is deception and thinking is a sin, faith is double think.
I loathe it.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Faith in the theological sense is an anti-intellectual evil, the veneration of fantasy over fact, the glorification of ignorance and an insult to human progress.
Faith say truth is a lie, reality is deception and thinking is a sin, faith is double think.
I loathe it.
Ok.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Just needs a slight edit to completely invalidate her arguement
"I don't know if there is a god and I don't know that there isn't a god, and neither ***can*** anybody else know."
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Just needs a slight edit to completely invalidate her arguement
"I don't know if there is a god and I don't know that there isn't a god, and neither ***can*** anybody else know."
Do you have compassion for the believers?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
compassion yes, respect no.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
compassion yes, respect no.
Why do theists think that it's OK to try to force their beliefs down my throat when they find out ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Becuase the Holy Babble tells them that not only are they expected to, they are condemning you to Hell if they don't.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Becuase the Holy Babble tells them that not only are they expected to, they are condemning you to Hell if they don't.
On the subject of ghosts;
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
First define ghost.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
First define ghost.
I was born, raised and beaten (by the good sisters) as a Catholic died and became a born again ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
James was also an Occultist, but instigated witch hunts, he was one confused puppy.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
James was also an Occultist, but instigated witch hunts, he was one confused puppy.
Cartoons!!!
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I wrote several essays on animation and the evolution of cartoons at university, especially the brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer and Ralph Bakshi.
My first introduction to alternate animation as a child was the early anime series "Marine Boy" though I did not recognise it as such. I returned to Anime in the last few years with the advent of influential science fiction such as Akira.
Fortunately the popularity of Anime has opened up the field in the west to more adult themes and resulted in such truly remarkable animation from Warner Bros and Lionsgate.
I will admit to being a great fan of almost every itteration of Scooby Doo and mourn the passing of "Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated" the best version since the original Scooby Doo where are you.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I wrote several essays on animation and the evolution of cartoons at university, especially the brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer and Ralph Bakshi.
My first introduction to alternate animation as a child was the early anime series "Marine Boy" though I did not recognise it as such. I returned to Anime in the last few years with the advent of influential science fiction such as Akira.
Fortunately the popularity of Anime has opened up the field in the west to more adult themes and resulted in such truly remarkable animation from Warner Bros and Lionsgate.
I will admit to being a great fan of almost every itteration of Scooby Doo and mourn the passing of "Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated" the best version since the original Scooby Doo where are you.
Does anyone like Nietzsche? Can you discuss at length? If so message or whatever you do on here me.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I have read Nietzsche and am quite fond of him as a philosopher, however be careful not to confuse his postumous work published by his sister with the books published and edited while he was alive.
Much of the former was rejected by the man himself as wrong and inferior work, but was edited and published anyway by his openly facist and frankly disgusting sister in order to exploit his memory without regard for his wishes.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I have read Nietzsche and am quite fond of him as a philosopher, however be careful not to confuse his postumous work published by his sister with the books published and edited while he was alive.
Much of the former was rejected by the man himself as wrong and inferior work, but was edited and published anyway by his openly facist and frankly disgusting sister in order to exploit his memory without regard for his wishes.
Terrorizing Children in the Name of God is Legal in the U.S.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I have told this story Christians who insist I am making it up, and when I show them it in the bible they insist it is either not a "proper bible" or I get the "even the Devil can site scripture" cliché
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I have told this story Christians who insist I am making it up, and when I show them it in the bible they insist it is either not a "proper bible" or I get the "even the Devil can site scripture" cliché
Do believer friends invite you to their Church?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Yes, I just say no thank you, if they ask why I ask if they really want to discuss it because it will take some time at which point they usually say no and drop it, if they say yes they usually last ten minutes before making an excuse and leaving.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Yes, I just say no thank you, if they ask why I ask if they really want to discuss it because it will take some time at which point they usually say no and drop it, if they say yes they usually last ten minutes before making an excuse and leaving.
Do you collect anything?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I collect films on DVD and VHS especially Japanese and Korean Cinema.
However I also go through fads of collecting book on various none fiction subjects.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
I collect films on DVD and VHS especially Japanese and Korean Cinema.
However I also go through fads of collecting book on various none fiction subjects.
Is it possible for you not to judge people based on their appearance?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Everyone takes an initial first impression of everyone else in order to asses potential danger, it is a survival instinct.
However once interaction takes place a deeper assesment is made based on personal preferences, social norms, compatibillity of opinions and threat assesments.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 12, 2018:
Everyone takes an initial first impression of everyone else in order to asses potential danger, it is a survival instinct.
However once interaction takes place a deeper assesment is made based on personal preferences, social norms, compatibillity of opinions and threat assesments.
Waking up and not remembering who your with.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
What is worse is waking up next to the wrong person, sneaking out of bed to go home and then realising you are in your own bedroom.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
What is worse is waking up next to the wrong person, sneaking out of bed to go home and then realising you are in your own bedroom.
Does anyone here also enjoy a dark sense of humor?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
I have two dogs who I love with all my heart and would never harm.....BUT the funniest thing in the world to me are animal cruely jokes, so long as they are done in asureal and cartoonish fashion.
Such as Kenny Everett doing the spoof quiz show "Shoot the dog" in which animal loving contestents are offered ever larger and larger sums of money to blow the head off a puppy with a 12 bore shot gun.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
I have two dogs who I love with all my heart and would never harm.....BUT the funniest thing in the world to me are animal cruely jokes, so long as they are done in asureal and cartoonish fashion.
Such as Kenny Everett doing the spoof quiz show "Shoot the dog" in which animal loving contestents are offered ever larger and larger sums of money to blow the head off a puppy with a 12 bore shot gun.
I hate it when liberal Christians use the phrase not all Christians are like that those aren't ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
All Christians think other Christians are not true Christians.
The differences between any two Christian Denominations can be so extreme as to not even be the same relgion to an outside observer look at a prosperity gospel preacher and an Amish elder for example.
Even within a single denomination members often think other members do not follow the teachings properly.
Many Christians have never read the bible and think it would be a bad idea to do so, since it some how is disloyal to the clergy, others can quote chapter and verse, but have no idea what one word of it means, but think quoting scripture is the Christian version of casting spells.
Faced with the "those aren't real Christians" arguement I tend to ask for a definition of a real Christian, which is usually followed by a protracted scilence and then a stammered response something akin to must follow the teachings of Christ, which gives an in for asking about why Jesus wants you to hate your own mother, brother, wife children and father? (Luke 14:26)
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
All Christians think other Christians are not true Christians.
The differences between any two Christian Denominations can be so extreme as to not even be the same relgion to an outside observer look at a prosperity gospel preacher and an Amish elder for example.
Even within a single denomination members often think other members do not follow the teachings properly.
Many Christians have never read the bible and think it would be a bad idea to do so, since it some how is disloyal to the clergy, others can quote chapter and verse, but have no idea what one word of it means, but think quoting scripture is the Christian version of casting spells.
Faced with the "those aren't real Christians" arguement I tend to ask for a definition of a real Christian, which is usually followed by a protracted scilence and then a stammered response something akin to must follow the teachings of Christ, which gives an in for asking about why Jesus wants you to hate your own mother, brother, wife children and father? (Luke 14:26)
Is anyone going to see Matt Dillahunty on his new tour?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
I'm hoping he will tour the UK one day, fascinating orator and rhetorician
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
I'm hoping he will tour the UK one day, fascinating orator and rhetorician
Religion among Scientists in International Context: A New Study of Scientists in Eight Regions
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
The percentage of respondents is on average about 40%, a believer is far more likely to answer a survey like like this than a non believer who, if they are like me, see it as a pointless waste of time.
So the survey is skewed to start with.
In Muslim countries you are going to get 100% alledged believers because to say otherwise is professional and probably literal suicide.
Again in the USA for many people working for many corporations claiming atheism is likely to ruin your career.
As has been poined out else where here, it is pointless to compare Fundamantalist christians with say Buddists so far as their creation mythology and existence of diety since the belief in the doctrine conote very different degrees of gullibility and the willingness to place the critical faculties on hold.
In short surveys like this are unscientific, pointless and able be swayed to say what ever you want the results to be.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
The percentage of respondents is on average about 40%, a believer is far more likely to answer a survey like like this than a non believer who, if they are like me, see it as a pointless waste of time.
So the survey is skewed to start with.
In Muslim countries you are going to get 100% alledged believers because to say otherwise is professional and probably literal suicide.
Again in the USA for many people working for many corporations claiming atheism is likely to ruin your career.
As has been poined out else where here, it is pointless to compare Fundamantalist christians with say Buddists so far as their creation mythology and existence of diety since the belief in the doctrine conote very different degrees of gullibility and the willingness to place the critical faculties on hold.
In short surveys like this are unscientific, pointless and able be swayed to say what ever you want the results to be.
Is “Objectivism” a legitimate philosophy?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
It is inherently flawed and is a frankly rediculous extrapolation of Platonism aplied to abstract conceptual phenomena.
*Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy.
Terry Pratchett
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LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
It is inherently flawed and is a frankly rediculous extrapolation of Platonism aplied to abstract conceptual phenomena.
*Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy.
Terry Pratchett
*
My quick blurb on Pascal's Wager (one side of the argument)
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
If this in any way was credible, you would have to believe in EVERY god/godess that has ever been alledged to exist, because simply applying this to the biblical god gaurentes you nothing, if that is the wrong god and the one true god is actual for example Loki.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
If this in any way was credible, you would have to believe in EVERY god/godess that has ever been alledged to exist, because simply applying this to the biblical god gaurentes you nothing, if that is the wrong god and the one true god is actual for example Loki.
What would make you believe in a God?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
First someone would have to come up with a definitive definition of what constitutes a god
If that definition includes any mention or relies on the supernatural in any way then that immediately precludes any confusion with technology in the material sense.
If the definition does NOT include the supernatural then any god is natural and materialistic and is therefore explicable by some form of advanced technology and so is NOT a god, simply a dictatorial fraud.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 11, 2018:
First someone would have to come up with a definitive definition of what constitutes a god
If that definition includes any mention or relies on the supernatural in any way then that immediately precludes any confusion with technology in the material sense.
If the definition does NOT include the supernatural then any god is natural and materialistic and is therefore explicable by some form of advanced technology and so is NOT a god, simply a dictatorial fraud.
Other than cognitive dissonance, do you ever wonder what it is in the brain that makes people ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
It's fear plain and simple, fear of death, fear of hell, fear of the god who will send you there because the bastard loves you so much.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
It's fear plain and simple, fear of death, fear of hell, fear of the god who will send you there because the bastard loves you so much.
Believers are always asking me, "If there's no god, what's the meaning of life?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Since nothing actually exists until it is observed and or measured, intelligent life is required, if you believe in the anthropic principle, therefore the purpose of life is to facilitate existence.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Since nothing actually exists until it is observed and or measured, intelligent life is required, if you believe in the anthropic principle, therefore the purpose of life is to facilitate existence.
I finally told someone that I'm starting to not believe in God anymore.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Why would you be willing to live a lie for the rest of your life with the one person you should be able to trust more than anyone else?
I know that might sound harsh, but I could not do it.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Why would you be willing to live a lie for the rest of your life with the one person you should be able to trust more than anyone else?
I know that might sound harsh, but I could not do it.
Do you raise your kids atheist?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
I allowed my children the freedom to decide for themselves, my daughter is a Christian and my son is an atheist.
Oddly however my atheist son can quote bible verses and knows religion intimately as he is currently a master's student studying English literature and finds a cultural knowledge of religion a necessity for the analytical understanding of poetry and prose.
My theist daughter has never read the bible in her life and insists all she needs is a personal relationship to Jesus. She too is a graduate, her master's is in business studies and she runs her own company.
I find the dichotomy fascinating.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
I allowed my children the freedom to decide for themselves, my daughter is a Christian and my son is an atheist.
Oddly however my atheist son can quote bible verses and knows religion intimately as he is currently a master's student studying English literature and finds a cultural knowledge of religion a necessity for the analytical understanding of poetry and prose.
My theist daughter has never read the bible in her life and insists all she needs is a personal relationship to Jesus. She too is a graduate, her master's is in business studies and she runs her own company.
I find the dichotomy fascinating.
Catholic Archbishop Says Pedophilia Is 'Spiritual Encounter With God'
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Archbishop Fart did say he would go to prison for not reporting a paedo, if the said pervert had admitted to the abuse **in the confessional**, but it was the confessional itself he called “a spiritual encounter with God through the priest” and “of a higher order” NOT the actual kiddie fiddling.
*HOWEVER *that said, confessional or not refusing to report a paedophile to the police when you know what he or she has done or is doing makes you as guilty as the fucker yourself in my book!
In the UK doctors have to report paedos, even if it is discovered under doctor patient privilege, no to do so renders the doctor liable to prosecution, I hope the same is required of priests. I hope they would have the decency and ethics to report it anyway.
But then again these are Catholic priest we are talking about so actual ethics probably are not something they are too familiar with.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Archbishop Fart did say he would go to prison for not reporting a paedo, if the said pervert had admitted to the abuse **in the confessional**, but it was the confessional itself he called “a spiritual encounter with God through the priest” and “of a higher order” NOT the actual kiddie fiddling.
*HOWEVER *that said, confessional or not refusing to report a paedophile to the police when you know what he or she has done or is doing makes you as guilty as the fucker yourself in my book!
In the UK doctors have to report paedos, even if it is discovered under doctor patient privilege, no to do so renders the doctor liable to prosecution, I hope the same is required of priests. I hope they would have the decency and ethics to report it anyway.
But then again these are Catholic priest we are talking about so actual ethics probably are not something they are too familiar with.
Catholic Church hit hard by steep decline in the ranks!
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
And this surprises people, for what reason?
The only places were religion, particularly Christianity is growing, is in countries cut off from mass communication, freely available information and lower standards of education.
This is why RC, Mormons, JWs and such have always and recently have redoubled their missionary efforts in such places, to try in a desperate and ultimately futile attempt to off set rampant apostasy in the first world.
They are however face with a dilemma, in order to exploit the third world, they need those people to have access to more money, the only way to do that is to educate them, and as has been seen education leads to apostasy.
This is why we have seen in the last fifty years, churches investing heavily in corporate business, land and development, read for the inevitable collapse of all but a core church for each denomination, existing solely to funnel tax free money in to the church corporations and banks.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
And this surprises people, for what reason?
The only places were religion, particularly Christianity is growing, is in countries cut off from mass communication, freely available information and lower standards of education.
This is why RC, Mormons, JWs and such have always and recently have redoubled their missionary efforts in such places, to try in a desperate and ultimately futile attempt to off set rampant apostasy in the first world.
They are however face with a dilemma, in order to exploit the third world, they need those people to have access to more money, the only way to do that is to educate them, and as has been seen education leads to apostasy.
This is why we have seen in the last fifty years, churches investing heavily in corporate business, land and development, read for the inevitable collapse of all but a core church for each denomination, existing solely to funnel tax free money in to the church corporations and banks.
Do you stand for the anthem?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
I don't stand for the words, or for the royalist sentiments, as I ama republican (in the British meaning of the words) but I am British, I love my country and what it aspires to stand for.
By standing for the the Anthem I acknowledge the sacrifices of my ancentors and the righting of past wrongs, the ever bettering and evolution of British tradition and custom.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
I don't stand for the words, or for the royalist sentiments, as I ama republican (in the British meaning of the words) but I am British, I love my country and what it aspires to stand for.
By standing for the the Anthem I acknowledge the sacrifices of my ancentors and the righting of past wrongs, the ever bettering and evolution of British tradition and custom.
Anybody else watch The Atheist Experience on YouTube?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Great show, have watched for years.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 10, 2018:
Great show, have watched for years.
God hates porn?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Why wasn't Jesus born in the London UK?
God could not find a wise man or a virgin
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Why wasn't Jesus born in the London UK?
God could not find a wise man or a virgin
A pastor told me today that he is sorry that I have not felt the love of god.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
The love of god, ha
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
The love of god, ha
China Insists on Control of Religion, Dimming Hope of Imminent Vatican Deal - The New York Times
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Maybe the Chinese remember how badly Vatican Concordants have worked out for other countries in the past?
Or perhaps they recall how badly it turned out in the past in their own country when very rich, out of touch old farts in dresses and silly hats started try to play at politics on behald of the gods.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Maybe the Chinese remember how badly Vatican Concordants have worked out for other countries in the past?
Or perhaps they recall how badly it turned out in the past in their own country when very rich, out of touch old farts in dresses and silly hats started try to play at politics on behald of the gods.
Have you ever changed your name - I don't mean for a pseudonym like here but changed it for real?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Yes after a terrible row with my parents in my late teens I left home and changed my name to James A. Christie, however when I got married for the second time my wife refused to marry me unless I reverted to the name I had when we first knew each other as children, because as rightly pointed out it was an act of utter pretention and she could never see me as anyone but Len, so I reverted.
I do have a psuedonym under which I write non fiction, but I would never use it in real life.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Yes after a terrible row with my parents in my late teens I left home and changed my name to James A. Christie, however when I got married for the second time my wife refused to marry me unless I reverted to the name I had when we first knew each other as children, because as rightly pointed out it was an act of utter pretention and she could never see me as anyone but Len, so I reverted.
I do have a psuedonym under which I write non fiction, but I would never use it in real life.
People are highly susceptible to social influence but rarely understand the full extent of that ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Which is why asserting the right to think, speak and express yourself freely is so important, if people are subject to only one point of view they place themselves in the grip of tyranny.
WHY? Is always the most important question to ask before accepting, obeying or even considering any course of action presented to you
"What are the alternatives?" Is the second.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Which is why asserting the right to think, speak and express yourself freely is so important, if people are subject to only one point of view they place themselves in the grip of tyranny.
WHY? Is always the most important question to ask before accepting, obeying or even considering any course of action presented to you
"What are the alternatives?" Is the second.
I am a grieving mother.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Your daughter was not *just* reduced to a box of ash, she will be remembered and has become a treasured memory for you and all those who ever knew her, interacted with her or benefited from her existence even if they never knew her personally.
A life causes ripples in time and space, in the experiences of others and no matter how long or tragically brief those ripples continue and have an effect for a long time and in so many unexpected ways for long after the impact has ceased.
A god, an afterlife, the survival of death is irrelevant to all of this, and so atheism robs us of nothing, in reality rationality gives us a practical reason to celebrate any life and its effect of reality.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Your daughter was not *just* reduced to a box of ash, she will be remembered and has become a treasured memory for you and all those who ever knew her, interacted with her or benefited from her existence even if they never knew her personally.
A life causes ripples in time and space, in the experiences of others and no matter how long or tragically brief those ripples continue and have an effect for a long time and in so many unexpected ways for long after the impact has ceased.
A god, an afterlife, the survival of death is irrelevant to all of this, and so atheism robs us of nothing, in reality rationality gives us a practical reason to celebrate any life and its effect of reality.
I firmly believe that you can be a follower of Laws of Attraction and The Secret and still be an ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
You can still be an atheist, all be it a gullible one
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
You can still be an atheist, all be it a gullible one
If God made himself known to you one day and said, "You must sacrifice the life of your child for ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
My response would be one that should not like to repeat in polite company.
Abraham was a dangerous psychopath, and a God who would do that to someone so obviously mad, and then back down at the last minute for sh!ts and giggles is one evil sick messed up excremental ahole.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
My response would be one that should not like to repeat in polite company.
Abraham was a dangerous psychopath, and a God who would do that to someone so obviously mad, and then back down at the last minute for sh!ts and giggles is one evil sick messed up excremental ahole.
My kid found this at a local bookstore.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Christ's compassion?
Luke 14:26
Matthew 10:35-36
Matthew 10:37
Matthew 19:29,
Mark 10:29-30,
Luke 18:29-30
Matthew 8:21-22,
Luke 9:59-62
Matthew 5:22
Matthew 10:28
Matthew 13:41-42
Matthew 25:46
Luke 12: 5
John 15:16
Luke 11:230
Matthew 12:30,
Matthew 18:34-35
Work your way through that lot (and these are just examples, not a comprehensive list) and still say Jesus was comassionate. I challenge you.)
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Christ's compassion?
Luke 14:26
Matthew 10:35-36
Matthew 10:37
Matthew 19:29,
Mark 10:29-30,
Luke 18:29-30
Matthew 8:21-22,
Luke 9:59-62
Matthew 5:22
Matthew 10:28
Matthew 13:41-42
Matthew 25:46
Luke 12: 5
John 15:16
Luke 11:230
Matthew 12:30,
Matthew 18:34-35
Work your way through that lot (and these are just examples, not a comprehensive list) and still say Jesus was comassionate. I challenge you.)
What’s the most profound rebuttal you’ve gotten from a religious person in a ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
None, most CHristian or relgious arguements come down to variations on
"Well I know its true"
"What if you are wrong?"
"You'll find out when you die"
"You'll regret saying that when you are burning in Hell"
"Feck off!"
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
None, most CHristian or relgious arguements come down to variations on
"Well I know its true"
"What if you are wrong?"
"You'll find out when you die"
"You'll regret saying that when you are burning in Hell"
"Feck off!"
Can I be a Catholic Atheist?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Sure if you want to continue to support an organisation that supports and hides paedophiles, demonises sensible birth control, ran organisations like the Madeleine laundries that basically made slaves of one parent families, thinks contraception is worse than murder, collaborated with the Nazis in WW2 to safe guard Rome and the Vatican city, traded silence about Mussolini for the establishment of the Vatican City as an independent nation state, contributed to the outbreak of WW1 by selling off Vatican concordant to the highest bidder, thinks homosexuality is a death worthy sin, is inherently sexist, is one of the richest corporations in the world with huge land and cash holdings but made a saint of a woman (mother Teresa) who taught those dying of starvation and bad sanitation that "Poverty is a great blessing that brings you closer to Christ, while staying in the palaces of dictators and tyrants, eliciting donations from the same and assuring them trying to buy their way in to heaven was a good idea.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
Sure if you want to continue to support an organisation that supports and hides paedophiles, demonises sensible birth control, ran organisations like the Madeleine laundries that basically made slaves of one parent families, thinks contraception is worse than murder, collaborated with the Nazis in WW2 to safe guard Rome and the Vatican city, traded silence about Mussolini for the establishment of the Vatican City as an independent nation state, contributed to the outbreak of WW1 by selling off Vatican concordant to the highest bidder, thinks homosexuality is a death worthy sin, is inherently sexist, is one of the richest corporations in the world with huge land and cash holdings but made a saint of a woman (mother Teresa) who taught those dying of starvation and bad sanitation that "Poverty is a great blessing that brings you closer to Christ, while staying in the palaces of dictators and tyrants, eliciting donations from the same and assuring them trying to buy their way in to heaven was a good idea.
Hypocrisy at it's finest
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
To quote every stupid Christian apologist ever
"His ways are not our ways"
"God moves in mysterious ways"
"God has a plan, do not presume to judge it"
Yeah right!
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 9, 2018:
To quote every stupid Christian apologist ever
"His ways are not our ways"
"God moves in mysterious ways"
"God has a plan, do not presume to judge it"
Yeah right!
If you don't believe in a God but you do believe in ghost why are you any more rational than a ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
It is very much dependant on how you define a ghost.
If you are talking about a disembodied spirit or soul or surviving personality earth bound and attached to an object person or place, then I very much doubt the existence of the same.
However the possibillity of physic impressions manifesting as sounds, smell, emotional feeling or temprture changes being imprinted on places by a person or persons previously inhabiting the area, in moment of high emotion, then I see much more of a possibillity of this kind of "Ghost" being an actuality, since we can actually replate this commercially in AV recordings, neural stimulation etc.
A naturally occuring form of recording is plausible, as is a "sensitive" brain acting as a receiver.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
It is very much dependant on how you define a ghost.
If you are talking about a disembodied spirit or soul or surviving personality earth bound and attached to an object person or place, then I very much doubt the existence of the same.
However the possibillity of physic impressions manifesting as sounds, smell, emotional feeling or temprture changes being imprinted on places by a person or persons previously inhabiting the area, in moment of high emotion, then I see much more of a possibillity of this kind of "Ghost" being an actuality, since we can actually replate this commercially in AV recordings, neural stimulation etc.
A naturally occuring form of recording is plausible, as is a "sensitive" brain acting as a receiver.
Do you dislike all religions equally?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
It is a matter of axiomatic truth that if all relgions are being considered some are or have been worse than other.
Jainism for example by definition is harmless generally, and probably does little harm to its adherants, where as scientology destoys lives, harraesses apostates, robs and scams it's adherants and breaks up families and alledgedly does and has done far worse things verging on and surpassing illegality.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
It is a matter of axiomatic truth that if all relgions are being considered some are or have been worse than other.
Jainism for example by definition is harmless generally, and probably does little harm to its adherants, where as scientology destoys lives, harraesses apostates, robs and scams it's adherants and breaks up families and alledgedly does and has done far worse things verging on and surpassing illegality.
I’ve been married 15 years to a religious Latina woman.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
If she loves the church more than you, you have no marriage anyway, sad, shocking, but true.
If she would rather have you live a lie, she is only protecting her own reputation, she does not care about you in a secular sense and from her point of view nor in a religious sense either because she knows by her law you're damned and she does not care.
I'm sorry, but you are the one who has been decieved.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
If she loves the church more than you, you have no marriage anyway, sad, shocking, but true.
If she would rather have you live a lie, she is only protecting her own reputation, she does not care about you in a secular sense and from her point of view nor in a religious sense either because she knows by her law you're damned and she does not care.
I'm sorry, but you are the one who has been decieved.
What moral code do you follow now that you are non-religious?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Enhance the well being of myself and othrs, neither at the expence of the other and try no to lessen the well being of anyone else or myself.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Enhance the well being of myself and othrs, neither at the expence of the other and try no to lessen the well being of anyone else or myself.
How do you tell religious people that you're an atheist?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Wait to be asked and then just make it as a passing comment, "I'm an atheist and you are?... oh how's that working out for you? mmmmm? Yes atheist, but lets not alk about me, I'm much more interested in you...."
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Wait to be asked and then just make it as a passing comment, "I'm an atheist and you are?... oh how's that working out for you? mmmmm? Yes atheist, but lets not alk about me, I'm much more interested in you...."
"A Michigan priest got out on bail after being charged with sexually assaulting two males, including...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Reminds me of this little scream gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Reminds me of this little scream gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
The last straw for Christianity
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Christianity will probably hang on for longer than most religions because
A you don't have to believe in Christianity to be a Christian
B you don't have to understand Christianity to be a Christian
C Most people who call themselves Christians aren't, they've just been told they are
D You don't have to practice Christianity to be a Christian
E You don't have to read, understand or even own a bible to be a bible believing Christian
F You can believe Jesus Christ is a swear word and still worship him
G you can have the choice of about 15 hundred different denominations so long as you hate all of the others, and the football teams associated with them
H You know you're not a Jew or a Muslim if you identify as some sort of Christian.
I you only have to go to church a minimum of three times in your entire life and two of those you won't remember.
So it is pretty simple for the Christian church to keep and claim the support of a large (if inactive) membership
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
Christianity will probably hang on for longer than most religions because
A you don't have to believe in Christianity to be a Christian
B you don't have to understand Christianity to be a Christian
C Most people who call themselves Christians aren't, they've just been told they are
D You don't have to practice Christianity to be a Christian
E You don't have to read, understand or even own a bible to be a bible believing Christian
F You can believe Jesus Christ is a swear word and still worship him
G you can have the choice of about 15 hundred different denominations so long as you hate all of the others, and the football teams associated with them
H You know you're not a Jew or a Muslim if you identify as some sort of Christian.
I you only have to go to church a minimum of three times in your entire life and two of those you won't remember.
So it is pretty simple for the Christian church to keep and claim the support of a large (if inactive) membership
I am not sure where to post this as it covers several possibilities (sorry, Meme peeps!).
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
"She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.”
Paddy Chayefsky
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 7, 2018:
"She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.”
Paddy Chayefsky
Board Games
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
I play a little known chinese version of Chess, called Shing Shang, the main problem is I have to teach people to play first.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
I play a little known chinese version of Chess, called Shing Shang, the main problem is I have to teach people to play first.
It's A Matter Of Perspective.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Mmmm and of course
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Mmmm and of course
Did they get you?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Jacque Deride suggests that any text can be deconstructed in any way you please, that the perceived meaning by the reader may not necessarily be the same as the intent of the author.
Taking the idea that a book is necessarily about what a critic has told you it is about is a dangerous idea.
For example it is possible to put forward the argument that the 4 gospels are simply allegorical texts meant to tell the story of Horus in another form and is in fact Egyptian propaganda for a pagan god.
Best to read something for yourself, take from it what you please and reject what does not please you.
No one tricked you, all texts have intentional and unintentional sub texts because writers are human and have conscious and subconscious minds at work when practicing their craft.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Jacque Deride suggests that any text can be deconstructed in any way you please, that the perceived meaning by the reader may not necessarily be the same as the intent of the author.
Taking the idea that a book is necessarily about what a critic has told you it is about is a dangerous idea.
For example it is possible to put forward the argument that the 4 gospels are simply allegorical texts meant to tell the story of Horus in another form and is in fact Egyptian propaganda for a pagan god.
Best to read something for yourself, take from it what you please and reject what does not please you.
No one tricked you, all texts have intentional and unintentional sub texts because writers are human and have conscious and subconscious minds at work when practicing their craft.
What is your favorite campy sci-fi movie?
For me it's "The Fifth Element."
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
The Time Travelers (a.k.a. Time Trap) 1964
Wonderful sci-fi nonsence, that hired magicians to do the special effects to great effect and though cheesy in it self was highly influencal for movies that came after it.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
The Time Travelers (a.k.a. Time Trap) 1964
Wonderful sci-fi nonsence, that hired magicians to do the special effects to great effect and though cheesy in it self was highly influencal for movies that came after it.
Explain, that if the Earth, A.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Acrording to the Godbotherers I have discussed this with God created the universe 6000 years ago with stars 1.93 billion light years with the light from them alreadybridging the 1.93 billion light years gap minus the last 6000 light years worth.
So yeah.... obvious isn't it, really if God is a total w*nker
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Acrording to the Godbotherers I have discussed this with God created the universe 6000 years ago with stars 1.93 billion light years with the light from them alreadybridging the 1.93 billion light years gap minus the last 6000 light years worth.
So yeah.... obvious isn't it, really if God is a total w*nker
What I think when I hear it....
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Yup
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Yup
Makes A Change From Priests
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Yes and no one is going to tell me no one in the church never noticed this
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
Yes and no one is going to tell me no one in the church never noticed this
Freedom of religion
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
It is an odd thing that freedom of religion is often used as an excuse for the freedom to break secular laws, the freedom to be a bigot, the freedom to hate and condemn to hell and the freedom to define what actually constitutes a "proper" religion as opposed to a cult, sect or a pagan.
Especially by Christians, who will also be happy to tell you how no end of other Christians are not Christians at all and so should not have the freedom of religion to call themselves such.
It pretty much boils down to freedom of religion is the freedom to agree with whoever is expressing it.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 6, 2018:
It is an odd thing that freedom of religion is often used as an excuse for the freedom to break secular laws, the freedom to be a bigot, the freedom to hate and condemn to hell and the freedom to define what actually constitutes a "proper" religion as opposed to a cult, sect or a pagan.
Especially by Christians, who will also be happy to tell you how no end of other Christians are not Christians at all and so should not have the freedom of religion to call themselves such.
It pretty much boils down to freedom of religion is the freedom to agree with whoever is expressing it.
What is better than sex?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Genuine applause from an appreciative audience
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Genuine applause from an appreciative audience
Does it make you angry when someone gives all the credit to god for healing the ailing instead of ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Cauws GAwd don't giv them thur desises that there is the Divel workz, Gawd oni kurz 'em, lessen ov cours, them aziz srferin is a gawdamm athist, then its deevine wrath!
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Cauws GAwd don't giv them thur desises that there is the Divel workz, Gawd oni kurz 'em, lessen ov cours, them aziz srferin is a gawdamm athist, then its deevine wrath!
Does it make you angry when someone gives all the credit to god for healing the ailing instead of ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
I'm so sure it would comfort these same people after an accident to hear a voice crying
"Let me through I'm a faith healer"
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
I'm so sure it would comfort these same people after an accident to hear a voice crying
"Let me through I'm a faith healer"
Where did the "GoldenRule" come from?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
There are at least three golden rules in the bible, and several more in secualr life.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
There are at least three golden rules in the bible, and several more in secualr life.
I'm sure this has been talked about before, but I always find it fascinating when someone considers...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Perhaps because outside of the Jewish faith most people consider Judaism a religion and nothing else, therefore a Jewish atheist is to most people like meat eating vegetarians or insisting on referring to your cat as "dog".
In all other religions, it is impossibility to refer to yourself as such, and to most non Jews, the idea of a Jewish atheist is simply a ludicrous oxymoron.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Perhaps because outside of the Jewish faith most people consider Judaism a religion and nothing else, therefore a Jewish atheist is to most people like meat eating vegetarians or insisting on referring to your cat as "dog".
In all other religions, it is impossibility to refer to yourself as such, and to most non Jews, the idea of a Jewish atheist is simply a ludicrous oxymoron.
My ex has started taking my 7 year old son to a baptist church.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
If you have sole custody just tell him you don't want your sin indoctrinated and if acess is at your discretion don't give it at those times.
Acess is for father and child to know each other, not for him to pass off care to someone else, if he is not going to spend quality time with his son, what is the point?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
If you have sole custody just tell him you don't want your sin indoctrinated and if acess is at your discretion don't give it at those times.
Acess is for father and child to know each other, not for him to pass off care to someone else, if he is not going to spend quality time with his son, what is the point?
Mormon church uses criminal record and church disciplinary record of a rape victim to smear her, ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Just shows you how despicable an organisation the LDS are.
Victim blaming, lying and threats for the purpose of preserving the "good name" of the church at all costs is their sole (soul?) motivation.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Just shows you how despicable an organisation the LDS are.
Victim blaming, lying and threats for the purpose of preserving the "good name" of the church at all costs is their sole (soul?) motivation.
Anybody else besides me who is now addicted to this site?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Agree, I've only been here a few days, there is always something interesting going on some where and it is not full of overly sensitive mormons and sjws reporting everything as offensive or a violation of "be nice, be considerate" (or some such BS) idiotic policies.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Agree, I've only been here a few days, there is always something interesting going on some where and it is not full of overly sensitive mormons and sjws reporting everything as offensive or a violation of "be nice, be considerate" (or some such BS) idiotic policies.
Good news.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
ask for lansoprazole instead of Ranitidine, it works better and has none of the side effects, I've been on it for years
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
ask for lansoprazole instead of Ranitidine, it works better and has none of the side effects, I've been on it for years
Be nice.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Dumb and stupid is as dumb and stupid does.
I will never respect dumb and stupid, but if I point out dumb stupid behaviour or comments and a reasoned arguement proves me wrong I will appologise for my mistake.
That is conversation.
However if I point out dumb stupid behaviour or comments and an even dumber and more stupid comment comes back, I will laugh and move on, do do otherwise is not a conversation, it is one sided blood sports.
But then again if I point out dumb stupid behaviour or comments and am censored for it, I will get cross because that is not conversation that is totalitarianism.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Dumb and stupid is as dumb and stupid does.
I will never respect dumb and stupid, but if I point out dumb stupid behaviour or comments and a reasoned arguement proves me wrong I will appologise for my mistake.
That is conversation.
However if I point out dumb stupid behaviour or comments and an even dumber and more stupid comment comes back, I will laugh and move on, do do otherwise is not a conversation, it is one sided blood sports.
But then again if I point out dumb stupid behaviour or comments and am censored for it, I will get cross because that is not conversation that is totalitarianism.
Is it wrong for me to take pleasure in trolling fundies.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
No, it is one of the pleasures of life to allow arrogant aholes enough space to disappear up themselves.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
No, it is one of the pleasures of life to allow arrogant aholes enough space to disappear up themselves.
Can anyone think of a good disclaimer or warning label for the Bible and other religious texts?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
I use this
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
I use this
Should athiest really be saying 'rest in peace'
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
It's a tradition nothing more, and it saves a lot of agro at funerals
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
It's a tradition nothing more, and it saves a lot of agro at funerals
What does it take to quiet your mind?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Camomile and honey tea, a fun movie and the company of my family (including my two dogs)
Works every time
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Camomile and honey tea, a fun movie and the company of my family (including my two dogs)
Works every time
Douglas Adams:
“Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy states: "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties."
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy states: "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ... Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that presents the difficulties."
So.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Unless she is a supermodel millionaire who owns a chain of breweries..... why are you dating this thicko?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Unless she is a supermodel millionaire who owns a chain of breweries..... why are you dating this thicko?
Do you believe Atheism is a religion?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Please bear in mind that these same people asserting that atheism is a religion seriously believe that they have a friend in the sky who loves everybody but will burn them forever if they don't love him back and that they have an enemy under the ground who does the burning for the man in sky and comes to you at night and whispers in your ear to fiddle with your naughty bits, so that he can burn you for ever.
I am afraid giving serious credence to alternate the definitions of words given by people who believe this stuff is a tad difficult and more than a tad unwise.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Please bear in mind that these same people asserting that atheism is a religion seriously believe that they have a friend in the sky who loves everybody but will burn them forever if they don't love him back and that they have an enemy under the ground who does the burning for the man in sky and comes to you at night and whispers in your ear to fiddle with your naughty bits, so that he can burn you for ever.
I am afraid giving serious credence to alternate the definitions of words given by people who believe this stuff is a tad difficult and more than a tad unwise.
To many folks on here faith is a dirty word.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
To many folks on here faith is a dirty word.
*Only in it's theological context, as a simile for fidelity or trust I have no problems with it*
It has no place for rational folks who make choices based on evidence.
*Again only when speaking in a theological sense*
We don’t want to admit that we don’t know something which acknowledging faith implies.
*I'm sorry but that sentence makes no sense at all, I will gladly admit when I don't know something, but how can I not know something that acknowledging a belief that not knowing something but believing it anyway implies, other than my being a gullible idiot?*
The truth is that no one really knows.
*No one really knows what?*
My journey to atheism has helped me realize that atheism requires faith.
***WTF??????** This is a joke right?*
After all, the evidence has to be interpreted and is subject to human bias.
*What evidence for what? And how can facts and evidence be subject to interpretation, they are either facts or they are not, that is the definition of fact.*
If we’re honest, we simply can’t say that we know god doesn’t exist.
*Obviously, only an idiot would say that, what we do know id that there is no evidence for the existence of God whatsoever, there the most local default position is to assume god does not exist until proven otherwise.
*
I agree with many, if not most of you on here, that the evidence suggests that there is no god.
*NO IT DOES NOT, the LACK of evidence suggests there are**** no god(s)*
But, again, that’s subject to our human frailties no matter how smart we are.
*Oh for F*** sake!!!!
I have faith in science,
***NO YOU DON'T YOU HAVE EVIDENCE ** faith is belief without facts, why are you saying these things please?
that it will continue to be proven wrong and expand human knowledge, but as a skeptic I will not only question the claims of religion et. al,
***et. al???? I give up***
but the claims of science and my own understanding of everything.
*Okay seriously, I surrender
*
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
To many folks on here faith is a dirty word.
*Only in it's theological context, as a simile for fidelity or trust I have no problems with it*
It has no place for rational folks who make choices based on evidence.
*Again only when speaking in a theological sense*
We don’t want to admit that we don’t know something which acknowledging faith implies.
*I'm sorry but that sentence makes no sense at all, I will gladly admit when I don't know something, but how can I not know something that acknowledging a belief that not knowing something but believing it anyway implies, other than my being a gullible idiot?*
The truth is that no one really knows.
*No one really knows what?*
My journey to atheism has helped me realize that atheism requires faith.
***WTF??????** This is a joke right?*
After all, the evidence has to be interpreted and is subject to human bias.
*What evidence for what? And how can facts and evidence be subject to interpretation, they are either facts or they are not, that is the definition of fact.*
If we’re honest, we simply can’t say that we know god doesn’t exist.
*Obviously, only an idiot would say that, what we do know id that there is no evidence for the existence of God whatsoever, there the most local default position is to assume god does not exist until proven otherwise.
*
I agree with many, if not most of you on here, that the evidence suggests that there is no god.
*NO IT DOES NOT, the LACK of evidence suggests there are**** no god(s)*
But, again, that’s subject to our human frailties no matter how smart we are.
*Oh for F*** sake!!!!
I have faith in science,
***NO YOU DON'T YOU HAVE EVIDENCE ** faith is belief without facts, why are you saying these things please?
that it will continue to be proven wrong and expand human knowledge, but as a skeptic I will not only question the claims of religion et. al,
***et. al???? I give up***
but the claims of science and my own understanding of everything.
*Okay seriously, I surrender
*
I can't help but wonder: if Jesus was God, then why did he preach the usual vague stuff about being ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
IF.... being the operative word
IF Jesus was God
IF Jesus had divine knowledge
IF Jesus ever actually existed at all
"If ifs and buts were fruit and nuts," as my granny used to say, "We would all have chronic diarrhoea "
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
IF.... being the operative word
IF Jesus was God
IF Jesus had divine knowledge
IF Jesus ever actually existed at all
"If ifs and buts were fruit and nuts," as my granny used to say, "We would all have chronic diarrhoea "
I'm always kind of in shock when there is a fire, a school shooting, a plane crash, and there are a ...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Oh yeah, something good happens it is because he is good, all merciful, all powerful all wise and above all the protector of mankind.
Something bad happens and it is because God has a plan, we just don't understand it, we must not presume to know the will of God, his ways are not our ways, have faith God knows what he is doing.
I call BS.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 5, 2018:
Oh yeah, something good happens it is because he is good, all merciful, all powerful all wise and above all the protector of mankind.
Something bad happens and it is because God has a plan, we just don't understand it, we must not presume to know the will of God, his ways are not our ways, have faith God knows what he is doing.
I call BS.
Ex Mormons?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
My advice, stay away from them, my story is too long to write in one go here, but sufice to say, it is a cult that suckers you in, feeds you little lies, makes you not only accept them by commit to accepting them, so that as the lies get bigger and bigger, you feel more and more trapped by commitment, financial investment, time invested and social obligation.
Very easy to get in, very difficult to get out, mentally scaring and distructive, emotionally devastating and socially regressive.
Message me if you want to discuss it further.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
My advice, stay away from them, my story is too long to write in one go here, but sufice to say, it is a cult that suckers you in, feeds you little lies, makes you not only accept them by commit to accepting them, so that as the lies get bigger and bigger, you feel more and more trapped by commitment, financial investment, time invested and social obligation.
Very easy to get in, very difficult to get out, mentally scaring and distructive, emotionally devastating and socially regressive.
Message me if you want to discuss it further.
Calling ex Mormons...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
You need to know this, a Mormon on a mission is not in a rational frame of mind, and they are living a cult existence.
They have been primed for this for years, by family, church and friends, they actually believe they are doing gods work and have paid A LOT of money to be there.
They are living in a regime were they are never allowed to be alone, compulsory prayer and study of the Book of Mormon for up to six hours a day.
Enforced sleeping times, waking times and constant observation and observing for signs of "sin" in yourself and others. Food is limited and the best way to get a good meal is to find "investigators" and have them invite you to eat.
You are cut off from home and family, you may call home on Christmas day and on mothers day and that is it, you may not even go home for family funerals.
In may cases your passport will be taken away for "safe keeping" and will not be returned to you even if you ask for it as you "will not need it" until your mission is over.
Being sent home from a mission is a life long disgrace and stigma, comparable to a dishonourable discharge, and asking to go home early is like going AWOL.
You are subject to regular meetings and interrogations as to progress, made to feel a failure even if you are doing better than anyone else in the mission.
Questioned about your personal habits, including masturbation and those of your companion, they will go so far as to examine your bed sheets for signs of playing with your "little factory" a term coined by new deceased perverts in chief Elder Boyd K Packer and Mark E. Peterson (who actually recommended tying your own hand to the bedpost to avoid temptation), or worse for signs of "Same Sex Attraction" Mormons do not believe there is any such thing as homosexuality just the life style choice of SSA see the words of bigot in chief Elder David A. Bednar.
So no you are not going to get through to these kids while they are doing this, but as you say sow a seed or two that none LDS are not all drunken, debauched damned souls, because the two highest male demographics for leaving the church are returned missionaries who once recovered realise who awful their mission actually was and surprisingly former Mormon Bishops.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
You need to know this, a Mormon on a mission is not in a rational frame of mind, and they are living a cult existence.
They have been primed for this for years, by family, church and friends, they actually believe they are doing gods work and have paid A LOT of money to be there.
They are living in a regime were they are never allowed to be alone, compulsory prayer and study of the Book of Mormon for up to six hours a day.
Enforced sleeping times, waking times and constant observation and observing for signs of "sin" in yourself and others. Food is limited and the best way to get a good meal is to find "investigators" and have them invite you to eat.
You are cut off from home and family, you may call home on Christmas day and on mothers day and that is it, you may not even go home for family funerals.
In may cases your passport will be taken away for "safe keeping" and will not be returned to you even if you ask for it as you "will not need it" until your mission is over.
Being sent home from a mission is a life long disgrace and stigma, comparable to a dishonourable discharge, and asking to go home early is like going AWOL.
You are subject to regular meetings and interrogations as to progress, made to feel a failure even if you are doing better than anyone else in the mission.
Questioned about your personal habits, including masturbation and those of your companion, they will go so far as to examine your bed sheets for signs of playing with your "little factory" a term coined by new deceased perverts in chief Elder Boyd K Packer and Mark E. Peterson (who actually recommended tying your own hand to the bedpost to avoid temptation), or worse for signs of "Same Sex Attraction" Mormons do not believe there is any such thing as homosexuality just the life style choice of SSA see the words of bigot in chief Elder David A. Bednar.
So no you are not going to get through to these kids while they are doing this, but as you say sow a seed or two that none LDS are not all drunken, debauched damned souls, because the two highest male demographics for leaving the church are returned missionaries who once recovered realise who awful their mission actually was and surprisingly former Mormon Bishops.
I’m astounded.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
What ever it is you found out, that won't be all of it. The depth to which Mormon lunacy stoops is never ending. Just when you think, this cannot get any dafter, you hear about or learn of another doctrine of the LDS church that leaves you open mouthed, stammering in disbelief and awe at the level of cognitive dissonance that is needed to stay faithful to this crap.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
What ever it is you found out, that won't be all of it. The depth to which Mormon lunacy stoops is never ending. Just when you think, this cannot get any dafter, you hear about or learn of another doctrine of the LDS church that leaves you open mouthed, stammering in disbelief and awe at the level of cognitive dissonance that is needed to stay faithful to this crap.
Any ex Mormons on here? I feel like venting about GC...
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
Go ahead, I loath the LDS, regret every moment I spent as one of them and am still haunted by the guilt for those I converted in the the cult of Joseph's myth.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
Go ahead, I loath the LDS, regret every moment I spent as one of them and am still haunted by the guilt for those I converted in the the cult of Joseph's myth.
Paranormal Experiences?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
Since the word supernatural means literally "Above nature" or with a little leeway "outside of nature" I do not use it. If something happens it is within nature and its boundaries, that is simple logic, whether or not it can be explained yet, is another matter.
The many worlds hypothesis is a legitimate part of the study of quantum physics, that as yet beyond proof or testing but is an interesting idea.
The human brain and its psychological capabilities are forever being investigated and the effects it can under various circumstance produce in the body of the possessor or sometimes even in others are beginning to explain much of what has been thought of as magic for centuries.
However none of this means obviously imaginary things like gods, souls etc (at least in the Judeo Christian sense) exist nor frankly offer any hope of them being real, it does however demonstrate that there is a lot of knowledge and intrigue left in the universe and in the human condition especially.
I find that much more interesting and exciting than getting on my knees and asking an invisible man with a beard in the sky to keep my knackered old car running for another week.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
Since the word supernatural means literally "Above nature" or with a little leeway "outside of nature" I do not use it. If something happens it is within nature and its boundaries, that is simple logic, whether or not it can be explained yet, is another matter.
The many worlds hypothesis is a legitimate part of the study of quantum physics, that as yet beyond proof or testing but is an interesting idea.
The human brain and its psychological capabilities are forever being investigated and the effects it can under various circumstance produce in the body of the possessor or sometimes even in others are beginning to explain much of what has been thought of as magic for centuries.
However none of this means obviously imaginary things like gods, souls etc (at least in the Judeo Christian sense) exist nor frankly offer any hope of them being real, it does however demonstrate that there is a lot of knowledge and intrigue left in the universe and in the human condition especially.
I find that much more interesting and exciting than getting on my knees and asking an invisible man with a beard in the sky to keep my knackered old car running for another week.
Anyone here read the DUNE series of books by Frank Herbert?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
It was really annoying that George Lucas managed to get away with stealing so much of these books for Star wars that the film version had to practically invent a new subplot, to fill in the blanks and still got accused of "ripping off" Star wars.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
It was really annoying that George Lucas managed to get away with stealing so much of these books for Star wars that the film version had to practically invent a new subplot, to fill in the blanks and still got accused of "ripping off" Star wars.
Anyone here read the DUNE series of books by Frank Herbert?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
Yes a long time fan of Herbert and as you say the Bene Gesserit (Latin for "Sucess to come" it's also a latin anagram pun for great Tigress) and their long game statergy is genius writing.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 4, 2018:
Yes a long time fan of Herbert and as you say the Bene Gesserit (Latin for "Sucess to come" it's also a latin anagram pun for great Tigress) and their long game statergy is genius writing.
are you afraid of death?
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 2, 2018:
No, knowing that life will eventually end is a comfort and a motivator not to waste the time I have.
LenHazell53 comments on Apr 2, 2018:
No, knowing that life will eventually end is a comfort and a motivator not to waste the time I have.
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