Is the solution to "hate speech" more speech or less speech?

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Education, discussion and reason

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 12, 2018:

@irascible I was implying you educate people first and hopefully prevent some of them from getting unhinged in the first place. Unfortunately the powers that be don't really want an educated reasoning populous, because they would see them for the crooks they are, hey want angry sheeple.

Conversation starter.

p-nullifidian comments on Oct 11, 2018:

Wait, I saw this one! Didn't Marty go back in time and inform Doc Brown about the Flux Capacitor? Holy Logic Loop, Batman, you've found a 'temporal paradox!' ;-)

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 12, 2018:

No Doc Brown had already fallen off the the toilet and invented the FC by the time Marty got there. He did however inspire his own name

Conversation starter.

Cutiebeauty comments on Oct 12, 2018:

Time travel *does not exist * ... End of conversation ?;)

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 12, 2018:

Of course time travel exists, we all travel through time millisecond by millisecond our entire life

We keep losing longer term members - some who were top contributors.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

If someone insults you, or you don't like them, block them. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 12, 2018:

@RavenCT You are at liberty to do as you please of course, I simply don't believe in censorship, or deciding other peoples sensibilities for them. I do however believe in adult people choosing what they do or do not experience and who they do or do not interact with on their own volition.

Codswallop: noun, nonsense.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

In the heyday of the temperance movement one gentleman name Hiram Codd, invented a form of bottling that sealed the neck of the bottle with an air tight seal using a glass marble as a valve, but was easy to open with a push of the thumb. The Beer industry immediately offered Mr Codd a huge contract...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 12, 2018:

@PolyWolf I expect the Patent has run out by now.

We keep losing longer term members - some who were top contributors.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 12, 2018:

If someone insults you, or you don't like them, block them. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 12, 2018:

@RavenCT "For someone who moderates a board we have to decide that block for everyone." I find that statement to be extremely presumptuous and censorial.

You can thank @Marionville since she is my inspiration for this post. What is your favorite VERB?

PolyWolf comments on Oct 11, 2018:

I love that that word finds common usage in English-as-a-second-language places far more often than in the U.S. or even Britain. It's definitely up there. Good call out on it.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 11, 2018:

@PolyWolf "Bamboozle is often used in India, of all places. " Not surprising at all it is a Hindi word, brought back to the UK during the time of the Rajah and anglicized bamboo jale pronounced Bamboojal (Literal translation a Bamboo burner or person who burns bamboo) is a reference to the now forgotten Hindu belief that the smell of burning bamboo was displeasing to certain gods and would bring ill luck and mental instability on the sinner (bamboo fumes are mildly toxic). The word simply became a slang term for those who know no better than to do stupid things and then in England became a word meaning to confuse, or to make stupid.

You can thank @Marionville since she is my inspiration for this post. What is your favorite VERB?

Marionville comments on Oct 11, 2018:

Because I am Scottish I am choosing one that I posted shortly after joining this group....this Verb can be used as a noun too. To SCUNNER....to disgust or annoy....and as a Noun.....” yer nothing but a wee scunner” something my mother used to say to us when we were wee’ns.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 11, 2018:

I recall the main villain in the "Super Gran" novels was "The Scunner Campbell"

The Bechdel Test.

GuyKeith comments on Oct 7, 2018:

I guess *Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf* kinda fails.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 10, 2018:

Still love it though, studied this play at A Level

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Serial Mom

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 10, 2018:

@Druvius I don't know, I thought it was darkly funny. ;)

@Admin here is an humanist story for your files -"Man catches falling home alone 7 yo.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

This is why people should have to have a licence to be a parent

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 10, 2018:

@FrayedBear No I understand what you are saying but in my opinion, Ignorance, stupidity and dangerous negligence have nothing to do with education or even potential intelligence. I have known highly educated people who are utter idiots, they have all the knowledge in the world and still be utterly negligent, ignorant of good manners, socially acceptable behaviour and general common sense. Contrarily my best friend of 30 years finished school with no qualification whatsoever was told he would never amount to anything and spent much of his working life in a bathroom fittings warehouse. At thirty six he was a successful self educated writer, went to college, then university and by the time of his death at the age of 52 was a doctor of literature, a professor of Critical theory and a successful script doctor of film and television scripts, play write and creative writing teacher. This is why I say no one has the right to be the sort of ignorant, negligent, unthinking idiot who would leave a 7 year old home alone in a high rise with the window unlocked. That sort of behaviour take a special kind of self indulgent moron. I agree with your comments on the standards of education, and teaching, which again I think proves my point as I was moved from one school to another twice a years every year while growing up, I can say in all honesty, 90% of my education came from myself, from reading, studying and almost living in public libraries from the age of 11 and yet I was still stupid enough to be ensnared by religious indoctrination until the age of almost thirty.

@Admin here is an humanist story for your files -"Man catches falling home alone 7 yo.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 9, 2018:

This is why people should have to have a licence to be a parent

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 10, 2018:

@FrayedBear People have the right to life, the essentials of life liberty and that is all. Most else is optional depending on how much effort you are willing to put in. However There is **no right** to be ignorant, stupid or to be a danger to other people.?

LOQUACIOUS - Adjective.

Max_d_cat comments on Oct 9, 2018:

Surely has the same root as “interlocutor,” which I will now post, because it looks like no one else has.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 10, 2018:

yes "Loqui" Latin: speech Possibly also the root of the Scandinavian name "Loki" the god of mischief and trickery who was said to have a silver tongue.

Ha! I just had a woman ring my doorbell and want to talk to me about god.

Bigwavedave comments on Oct 9, 2018:

Did you really shoo her? I mean shoo, get gone, skedaddle?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 9, 2018:

@Donotbelieve Shame, I thought you meant you threw a boot at her.

@Admin here is an humanist story for your files -"Man catches falling home alone 7 yo.

FrayedBear comments on Oct 9, 2018:

How did he know that the boy was about to fall?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 9, 2018:

I think he was calling to him to let go

Chicken philosophy

mordant comments on Oct 8, 2018:

I prefer the dog meme I saw recently, with a noble German Shepherd gazing at the sunset and asking himself, "What if I never figure out who's a good boy?" I think it speaks to our propensity to ask questions that are (1) beyond our ken and (2) of no real importance and (3) often put into our heads ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 9, 2018:

Finding the right questions is the first step in finding the answers you need.

Thanks a Million in advance for your support [amazon.ca]

JanGarber comments on Oct 8, 2018:

Where can I get a copy?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 8, 2018:

at the link provided

The Bechdel Test.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Serial Mom

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 8, 2018:

@Olnoseven Kathleen Turner talks to several other women in the film, before killing them. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111127/

The problem with freedom is that when you give it to people they use it to do anything they bloody ...

genessa comments on Oct 7, 2018:

freedom isn't something you can give another person, unless you mean quite literally unhandcuffing someone or letting someone out of captivity in your basement. a good deal of freedom is internal. g

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 7, 2018:

I believe a number of systems of government throughout the majority of history would strongly disagree. A free country is a pretty new idea.

SPOILERS S11 E1 The Woman Who Fell to Earth A discussion thread for discussing the episode after...

MarvelAnn comments on Oct 7, 2018:

I liked it, and I LOVE her. The companions are great as well. She was funny, witty, energetic, and reminded me of the Tenth Doctor in spirit. A few opinions.... I think Chibnall needs to be careful. He appears to be borrowing from other SciFi. For instance, her outfit is very Mork from Ork. ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 7, 2018:

I actually thought the crane scene was more of a tribute to the climax of Quatermass and the Pit, especially the discharging of an energy creature

With the premiere tonight, how could it be a bad day. But just in case...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 7, 2018:

Hey look last minute recasting of the female doctor

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 7, 2018:

@Humanistheathen Yup his first TV role

Sounds like one of those strange and mysterious ways situations.

Eldovis comments on Oct 7, 2018:

sinners do not deserved to be healed?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 7, 2018:

Parishioner: Why am I not healed father Priest : You lack faith my child Parishioner: But I have prayed and tithed and done good works and attended church, still I am not healed and that makes me doubt. Surely that is reasonable? Priest: and that is why you have not been healed faith has nothing to do with being reasonable, try pretending you are already healed and then maybe you will be.

I would like to your help on our "new" website domain Humanist.

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 5, 2018:

1) what do you think about allowing a religious person to say "I'm also a Humanist"? I would probably advise them that they are confusing Humanist with Humanitarian 2) what questions should we ask new Humanist.com members that we currently don't ask on Agnostic.com? Do you understand what ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 7, 2018:

@Admin "traditional definition" ????? A definition is the definition of a word, or it is the wrong definition. Allowing multiple definitions (outside of professional contexts) only leads to equivocation and lies. What if you allow modern, traditional and personal definitions of medical conditions and treatments? "Oh, you meant your personal definition of amputation? I thought you meant the traditional one... sorry pal but you'll get used to having no testicles."

The problem with freedom is that when you give it to people they use it to do anything they bloody ...

Heraclitus comments on Oct 6, 2018:

There is a difference between liberty and license. For example, you do not have the freedom to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 7, 2018:

@Heraclitus thanks for that, and I did mention exceptions such as Incitement to crime or riot

The problem with freedom is that when you give it to people they use it to do anything they bloody ...

Heraclitus comments on Oct 6, 2018:

There is a difference between liberty and license. For example, you do not have the freedom to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 6, 2018:

I always find that example a bit silly. One may yell anything anywhere if no negative intent is involved. I have been in crowded cinema's watching "Wrath of Khan" when dozens of people of joined in with Kirk, yelling "Fire!" as the Enterprise attacks. This day and age a cry of fire, not accompanied by an alarm going off will probably only result in people shouting STFU in response. Personally I use Incitement to crime or riot as the example of a limit on free speech since by necessity inferred negative intent is can be implied.

The problem with freedom is that when you give it to people they use it to do anything they bloody ...

Matias comments on Oct 6, 2018:

The exercise of my freedom should be limited by the well-being of other individuals (e.g. smoking should be prohibited when non-smokers are present) And my freedom should be restrained if its exercise has a significant negative effect on the well-being of the society or community I am a member of...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 6, 2018:

"smoking should be prohibited when non-smokers are present" Can that not be reversed? If the non smokers presence infringes on the comfort of the smoker, should they not either remove themselves or put up with it? Especially if the smoker was there first. Legislating to make the lives of smokers uncomfortable is surely government restriction of personal liberty? Before the smoking ban in public places there were always Smoking and non smoking areas, allowing for freedom *to* smoke where allowed, and be free *from* smoke where it is not was a reasonable compromise, was it not? "my freedom should be restrained if its exercise has a significant negative effect on the well-being of the society or community" Presumably you are here speaking in the context of non illegal activities such as murder, theft and assault. Given those circumstances who defines "negative effect on the well-being of the society or community"? and that being so why are those action NOT illegal? Freedom to, and freedom from are tricky and require a balance with tolerance and common sense.

Now here is something pornographic to behold.

psycheworks comments on Oct 5, 2018:

Brilliant, why would there be a need for a vomit bucket?

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 5, 2018:

@FrayedBear My late writing partner was educated at a catholic school, the horror stories he related about the frustrated old bags were like something out of the Marquis de Sade

The existing/non existing Universe

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 3, 2018:

Wow, some big assumptions here If we accept the idea that our universe came into existence as a result of the big-bang! **No one has ever said that, the so called big bang was not the start of the universe, it was the point when all existing matter in the universe began to expand out ward, it...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 5, 2018:

@Heraclitus I agree, which is why I said that empty space exists exist between the nucleus and the outer electrons, rather than nothing, as I am firmly of the opinion that "nothing" exists only as a concept descriptor, in the same way as cold and dark exist only as conceptual descriptions of the absence of something else.

Name a scary movie ??

coralisthree comments on Sep 28, 2018:

the only one has been pet semetary, but i was 9

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 5, 2018:

@LarrySalmi "Cycle of the werewolf" filmed as "Silver Bullet" was a pretty poor novella (or anthology, depending on opinion) turned in to a pretty good film, with one of Gary Busie's best performances before he went cuckoo for cocoa pops. It does come from the same period, though yes.

The existing/non existing Universe

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 3, 2018:

Wow, some big assumptions here If we accept the idea that our universe came into existence as a result of the big-bang! **No one has ever said that, the so called big bang was not the start of the universe, it was the point when all existing matter in the universe began to expand out ward, it...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 4, 2018:

@cava Not if the the laws of time and entropy reverse during the gib gnab

The meaning of life.

CeliaVL comments on Oct 3, 2018:

I think you will find that the attitude of most people on this site is that there is no need to believe in anything apart from the real world. But if it helps you to have some sort of framework for you life, then good luck with it. It seems reasonably harmless.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 3, 2018:

@richabuck No one accused you of doing so, we simply entered in to your proposed discussion of your assertions.

The meaning of life.

Matias comments on Oct 2, 2018:

That is a nice story. Of course it is a hodgepodge of many traditions (and I am not sure if you understood what they meant). But if it suits you and gives you meaning and hope, there is nothing wrong with it. But I am afraid you won't get many "like" here on this site (a)

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 3, 2018:

@richabuck I hope you are counting yourself in that assertion, since you are dismissing those who were good enough to answer your post respectfully with the same discourtesy you seem to perceive in them. I am a free thinker, your doctrine is that of a deist dressed up in some reincarnation jargon, a little spiritualism and tantrism, which is great, but it will not stop me from asking you for tangible evidence to back up your hypothesis, if you can do that, I'll discuss this with you till the cows come home, if you cannot, then you are in the same boat as the monotheists, polytheists and wishful thinkers, that of a person indulging in self delusion as an alternate to coping with reality. No disrespect, but that is my opinion as a free thinker, as your philosophy is yours and we are both entitled to state such, openly and freely.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a ...

Matias comments on Oct 2, 2018:

**"... " said George Bernard Shaw**. (Quotations should be marked) The flaw of this witty remark: the happiness of the drunkard is followed by a nasty hangover; but the happiness of the believer lasts forever - when the placebo of belief is strong enough and the person dies in a state of ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 3, 2018:

@Matias comparing the wrong doings of a monarchy 300 years ago with a democratically elected government today is a false equivalency. But yes I do revile the system of Monarchy, in my own country I am a republican, in the true sense of the word, and hold the institution of Monarchy to be tainted and wrong, based on a fairy tale, outdated and needless.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a ...

Matias comments on Oct 2, 2018:

**"... " said George Bernard Shaw**. (Quotations should be marked) The flaw of this witty remark: the happiness of the drunkard is followed by a nasty hangover; but the happiness of the believer lasts forever - when the placebo of belief is strong enough and the person dies in a state of ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 3, 2018:

@Matias choosing to affiliate is choosing to be complicit in atrocity, it is like the filth who claim never to have hurt a black person, but still dress up in bed sheets at the weekend because the KKK hold really good picnics.

Question, Was there one deciding event/factor that occurred in your life that made you become a non ...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 2, 2018:

I got suckered in to the LDS for a number of years, thinking my way out of that cult opened my mind to doubt of religion as a whole, that which worked to discredit Mormonism, worked for religion as a whole. I will never fall in to the talon grip of irrationality ever again.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 3, 2018:

@malibu64 https://agnostic.com/group/Exmosunite

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a ...

Matias comments on Oct 2, 2018:

**"... " said George Bernard Shaw**. (Quotations should be marked) The flaw of this witty remark: the happiness of the drunkard is followed by a nasty hangover; but the happiness of the believer lasts forever - when the placebo of belief is strong enough and the person dies in a state of ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 3, 2018:

@Matias And yet they still support and remain a member of an organisation that is based on a "holy" book that still advocates and demands such actions, knowingly! That makes the religion and the religious complicit, and you bet your arse that if religion ever regained the level of power it had only a few generations ago, the religious would be queuing up to torture persecute and brand the unrighteous. Take a look at how they behave in theocracies.

It is that time of year again as LDS general conference approaches, all the old farts will be being ...

UpsideDownAgain comments on Oct 2, 2018:

Are you sure? Because I heard from my cousin's girlfriend whose uncle works for the guy in charge of welfare at the COB that there's supposed to be a really big announcement at GC this time.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

Only for a given value of "really big". To the LDS telling gay people their children can't be baptized until they turn 18 and renounce their parents was a "really big" announcement. Unless Nelson is going to announce the total disbandment of the whole evil institution it won't be big enough for me.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a ...

Matias comments on Oct 2, 2018:

**"... " said George Bernard Shaw**. (Quotations should be marked) The flaw of this witty remark: the happiness of the drunkard is followed by a nasty hangover; but the happiness of the believer lasts forever - when the placebo of belief is strong enough and the person dies in a state of ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

No the believer calls his hangover blasphemy and seeks to cure it by burning other people.

Unpopular Opinions I know you got 'em, what are they?

linxminx comments on Oct 1, 2018:

I think the present-day "student centered model" for teaching and learning is a bunch of crap.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

@Hellas Both actually, I taught Drama for several years and have done stand up on and off from my teens.

How to gain freewill Step 1-Accept that freewill does not exist Step 2-Realize that the reason...

Geoffrey51 comments on Oct 2, 2018:

You always have a choice even if the choices are inpalatable

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

@Secular_Squirrel Dark, very dark.

How to gain freewill Step 1-Accept that freewill does not exist Step 2-Realize that the reason...

LenHazell53 comments on Oct 2, 2018:

Choosing to accept that free will does not exist is in itself an act of free will

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

@Secular_Squirrel Exactly, and for me the supreme example of free will is the person who goes on hunger strike to the point of death. Since the argument against free will is predicated on the assertion that you cannot tell where your desires come from, denying actual detectable desires (food and survival) that have physical and identifiable origins for reasons easily identified as moral judgement based upon social need or desire, completely invalidates that argument and offers a potential proof of free will.

So called Messiah shortly before being arrested for man-spreading

HankSherman comments on Oct 2, 2018:

Child abuse???

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

@HankSherman Old favourite religious maxim, "Give me the child until seven and I shall show you the man" Aristotle Or in the case of the Catholic church ""Give me the child until seven" pause "What? that's it"

It is that time of year again as LDS general conference approaches, all the old farts will be being ...

CMan comments on Oct 2, 2018:

https://fox13now.com/2018/09/29/internet-wondering-why-person-clothed-in-all-white-mysteriously-standing-outside-salt-lake-city-lds-temple/

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

Link is blocked in the UK

So called Messiah shortly before being arrested for man-spreading

HankSherman comments on Oct 2, 2018:

Child abuse???

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

No, man spreading is apparently now an offence (a criminal offence unbelievably) in several countries and is about to become one in the UK, of being male an sitting with your legs apart, to the visual discomfort of females in public places or of taking up too much room on public transport

Unpopular Opinions I know you got 'em, what are they?

linxminx comments on Oct 1, 2018:

I think the present-day "student centered model" for teaching and learning is a bunch of crap.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

@Hellas If the student is disengaged, it is because the teacher is not engaging them. Only a bad teacher blames the student for not learning.

Unpopular Opinions I know you got 'em, what are they?

Xuande comments on Oct 1, 2018:

ITT: A lot of popular opinions said in an edgy way and legit crazy people outing themselves. Anytime someone says "Big Pharma" or talks about the "MSM" I roll my eyes. You guys have literally no idea what you're talking about. Here's mine: Most of us, including me, are far less intelligent ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

@MrBeelzeebubbles @Xuande Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? why is it then that in the USA, a huge list of drugs are legal that everywhere else in the world are considered too dangerous, addictive or useless to be allowed to be prescribed by doctors? Unless the Pharmaceutical companies do have undue influence on the writing and implementation of rules that govern them in the first place? Just a though

Unpopular Opinions I know you got 'em, what are they?

Ouroboros comments on Oct 1, 2018:

Here's mine : Getting out of religion doesn't make you more intelligent than when you were still religious. I tried to tell this to a cocky atheist friend of mine, needless to say that the debate was heated, with no obvious outcome.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

It does not make you more intelligent, it just takes the shackles off the intelligence that was there all along and dispels illusions and brain washing.

Unpopular Opinions I know you got 'em, what are they?

joeymf86 comments on Oct 1, 2018:

We should make all drugs either legal or illegal. This includes nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

Prohibition is the base line for the illegal economy of all nations, it generates such huge amounts of wealth and indirectly supports the actual economy to such a degree it is always necessary. If it is not drugs, it will be something else, forbidden fruit is always the sweetest.

Unpopular Opinions I know you got 'em, what are they?

linxminx comments on Oct 1, 2018:

I think the present-day "student centered model" for teaching and learning is a bunch of crap.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

I agree, an exact curriculum of essential knowledge, reading, writing, mathematics, critical thinking, personal and interpersonal responsibility etc provides a common frame of reference of for society to communicate and build on.

Unpopular Opinions I know you got 'em, what are they?

Kevhov comments on Oct 1, 2018:

Everything does NOT happen for a reason

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 2, 2018:

Never heard of cause and effect? Or Newon's Third Law? Everything does happen for a reason, just not a supernatural, esoteric or metaphysical one.

I don't understand how handicapped people and females can worship a god that makes mistakes.

pasha-one-nine comments on Oct 1, 2018:

I don't know what you're trying to say, but little advice: "People with disabilities" is the correct expression here, and there is no such thing as a "female." That term is an adjective.

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 1, 2018:

Female can be used as an adjective when applied to a specific noun (eg Doe a dear a female dear), but generally it is a contextual Noun. As to what Greenheart is expressing it is a matter of incredulity to me also, that women, gay people, people with disabilities (and many of us have never objected to the term handicapped) and gentiles would ever want to be Christians considering who disparagingly the bible talks about them. The Old Testament would have them all put to death or be oppressed, and the the New testament would have them burn in Hell forever or in the case of women, submit utterly to men and sit silently or else face hell fire too.

A new introvert enters the world...

Cast1es comments on Oct 1, 2018:

We read so much into their faces . when they haven't a thought in their minds , yet .

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 1, 2018:

@Cast1es It 's possible of course but both his mother and I are guitarists so there was a lot of music

This is the one I like to direct missionaries to.

EMC2 comments on Oct 1, 2018:

Sounds like republican women who vote to support our orange president. They are so frustrated with being inferior it is time to revolt, Hell women work, think, display rational compassion, and most importantly, they do not suffer testosterone influx. Yes women enjoy sex also and most likely enjoy ...

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 1, 2018:

I was just drawing attention to how the most "pure and perfect " book of all time is full of filth. No SJW intent

A new introvert enters the world...

Cast1es comments on Oct 1, 2018:

We read so much into their faces . when they haven't a thought in their minds , yet .

LenHazell53 replies on Oct 1, 2018:

You underestimate them, emotional responses are instinctive, facial expressions are a part of that. On the day I brought my son home from the hospital, literally only hours old he heard a flute playing on the television, he turned toward it and became wide eyed with wonder and joy. Even today (He is 24) I see that same expression of joy and wonder on his face when he listens to a flutist it is and always has been his favourite musical instrument.

I have to admit to an interest in genealogy...there have been a few surprises.?

Marionville comments on Sep 30, 2018:

There a few of us who could get an unpleasant surprise if we delved into our ancestry Im sure!

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 30, 2018:

Yup, found some really messed up shit in our family history.

Who likes 'Sherlock! 'here?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 30, 2018:

OH Lord, just saw the Trailer for the new film Holmes and Watson staring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly As a Sherlockian I feel physically sick

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 30, 2018:

@MarvelAnn If you want a parody you cannot do better than either Without a Clue (1988 ) Michael Caine & Ben Kingsley brilliantly funny or The Private life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Billy Wilder Both are wonderful parodies, as opposed to this new film that appears to be a collection of slapstick jokes and bad taste. Still each to their own.

Women can be sexist too. Allow him how to operate the washing machine.

Jolanta comments on Sep 29, 2018:

Only women who have been living with men understand why. It is not like we don't want them to or that we are in any way preventing them from being equal, but it is dam hard to get them off the sofa in the first place.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 30, 2018:

@Jolanta Quite possibly, there are 7.5 billion people in in this world, so I dare say a lot of them, male and female have been taken in by a lazy idiot (I know I have) but that does not mean you won't find a good one in the end, if you are willing to broaden your horizons, that's what I did and got my self a wonderful wife the second time, Just so happens that until her accident she was the main bread winner and is a mechanical idiot (still calls a DVD player a video and can't operate a washing machine, but that's okay because I can and do).

LOGARITHM.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 29, 2018:

We still had to learn how to use "log tables" and "slide rules" when I was a school, my son does not even know what they are

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@Marionville he is 24, I did not have children with my first wife, so he came along later in life, I do have an adopted daughter who is quite a bit older, from my second wife's first marriage, her degree is in business and she now run her own security company, I have been very lucky to two such great kids.

Women can be sexist too. Allow him how to operate the washing machine.

Jolanta comments on Sep 29, 2018:

Only women who have been living with men understand why. It is not like we don't want them to or that we are in any way preventing them from being equal, but it is dam hard to get them off the sofa in the first place.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

Has it occurred to you, you may just have bad taste in men?

Name a scary movie ??

JeremyTaylor comments on Sep 28, 2018:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space To be fair I was like 8 at the time.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

Clowns are just horrific I never understood the comic appeal.

Name a scary movie ??

GuyKeith comments on Sep 28, 2018:

When I was a kid? The Fly

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@GuyKeith It is a beautiful adaptation of the original short story, and a very enjoyable movie, just a shame they skimped so much on the actual mask, but that final scene on the garden haunted me for years.

Name a scary movie ??

GuyKeith comments on Sep 28, 2018:

When I was a kid? The Fly

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@GuyKeith A lot of people think Return of the Fly is The fly, because it had a much better fly costume, and benefited from the B+W cinematography of Brydon Baker

LOGARITHM.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 29, 2018:

We still had to learn how to use "log tables" and "slide rules" when I was a school, my son does not even know what they are

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@Marionville Congratulations to you son, mine just finished his Master of arts in Creative writing too :)

Name a scary movie ??

GuyKeith comments on Sep 28, 2018:

When I was a kid? The Fly

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@Sheannutt A matter of suspending disbelief and the actor selling the situation as real. It was a time when story in film was more important than spectacle.

Name a scary movie ??

GuyKeith comments on Sep 28, 2018:

When I was a kid? The Fly

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@GuyKeith So do I and it is in colour, and was in colour when I had it on VHS Technical Specs (from IMDB) Runtime: 94 min Sound Mix: 3 Channel Stereo (Westrex Recording System) Color: Color (Color by Deluxe) Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdv4QA-O1bg

Funniest Comedian

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 28, 2018:

Ken Dodd Frankie Howerd Marti Caine Billy Connolly Max Miller Jasper Carrot Victoria Wood USA stand up Joan Rivers Bill Hicks Lennie Bruce Richard Prior

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 29, 2018:

@entranger King and father of the saucy double entendre

Did you have any experience that makes you question your non beliefs?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 27, 2018:

My absence of understanding indicates nothing other that I do not yet have the necessary data.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 28, 2018:

@Pedrohbds Feelings are hormonal chemical reaction intended to preserve life, they are instinctive and irrational, relying on feelings as a guide is not a path to anything but self delusion. Step back, calm down, objectively investigate and come to rational true conclusion.

Name a scary movie ??

GuyKeith comments on Sep 28, 2018:

When I was a kid? The Fly

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 28, 2018:

@Sheannutt Only The return of the fly, was in black and white, the original film and the remake are both in colour. Return of the fly is probably the more frightening film some of the imagery is really horrific, such as the man with rat paws staring and gibbering in shock at the rat that now has human fingers. (there was also a third film in B+W curse of the fly made in 1965, but it usually ignored as basically a poor remake by a different studio of the first film)

Name a scary movie ??

coralisthree comments on Sep 28, 2018:

the only one has been pet semetary, but i was 9

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 28, 2018:

Pet Semetary made me feel sick, it is more disturbing than scary, even Steven King claims not to like the book or the film, he was in the midst of his really bad drug phase at the time and claims to hardly recall writing it (as with Cujo).

Name a scary movie ??

Btbd comments on Sep 28, 2018:

Ringu did also, because I watched it on video before it was released and got a phone call during it.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 28, 2018:

I love the original Japanese Ring trilogy, they just kept on getting better (considering there are four films in the trilogy that is saying something). The Korean remake is pretty good too.

If someone that does not really know me offers to pray for me I say " Waste of time".

reponeus comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Nothing Fails Like Prayer ;)

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

well...

Do I have free will?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Who told you to ask that question?

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@Christologist Then there is your answer

The Vatican never apologized for the Inquisition.

Heraclitus comments on Sep 26, 2018:

I was raised Catholic. I agree that an apology would be nice. There are no surviving family members after all this time. The last execution was in 1826. If you mean family descendants, that would number at least the in the millions if not the tens of millions after all these centuries. It ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

But surely they can ask God, I understand he chats to the Pope on a regular basis and is it not written “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” (Matthew 10:29-31) So knowing who bonked who to produce who, should be a doddle for him.

For all of you Trekies out there...lol

Jolanta comments on Sep 25, 2018:

I have friends who belong to the Bhramah Kumari and they believe that the end of the world will be coming. First it was in the 60s, then the 70s, then the 80s and so on and so on. They find it difficult to explain how come it has not happened yet.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

If all possible outcomes are always played out in other alternate realities, then it has ended, many times, and we just happen to have always take the path were it did not.

Anyone else feel Time Tunnel is due a big screen Hollywood remake? I loved this show as a Kid.

mikecagain comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Never heard of it. Is it on Netflix? When you said time tunnel, the first thing I thought of was the time tunnel from Dinosaur Train. I guess that isn't what you were referring to. ;)

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

No it was a Sci Fi Series from 1966, along with Voyage to the Bottom of the sea, Land of the Giants and lost in space, they were the other networks larger budget answer to Star Trek

I walked into a cafe somewhere in the Deep South of Oxfordshire -the village of Stoke Row, and ...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 25, 2018:

Nisi nunquam felicibus queribundus Only happy when complaining (or moaning in the colloquial sense) Like it.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@Mcflewster Well I suppose since remainers are often know as remoaners ;)

Do you remember this TV show and what was it called?

Seeker3CO comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Land of the Lost. I have the entire series on DVD. A childhood fave.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@Sheannutt Me Neither, It why I included the warning of his presence ;)

Anyone else feel Time Tunnel is due a big screen Hollywood remake? I loved this show as a Kid.

Sheannutt comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Never seen that show might be interesting to see the movie.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

One of Irwin Allen's Best, along with Land of the Giants.

Where Did the Universe Come From?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Existence is, because the natural state of affairs demands it to be so. The alternate is non existence which is an impossibility, since non existence is the absence of all existence, like cold and dark this is only a concept, there is not an actual thing, as that would negate that which is being ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@Christologist If a tree falls in a forest, and there is nobody around to hear it, did it make a sound? According to science, we have every reason to believe that it would, and no reason to believe it wouldn't. ** Of course it would, however it would not be interpreted as a sound unless there was an ear or listening device to receive the sound wave and interpret it. What is you point in relation to either my answer of the question asked?** WHY is the universe here, as opposed to not here? **That was not the question I was answering** What caused it to be here? **Neither is that** When thought about, only a few options appear. **If you can only come up with a few options you are not thinking very hard, it would seem to me, or you have very little imagination and limited thought processes** :)

Where Did the Universe Come From?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Existence is, because the natural state of affairs demands it to be so. The alternate is non existence which is an impossibility, since non existence is the absence of all existence, like cold and dark this is only a concept, there is not an actual thing, as that would negate that which is being ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@WilliamFleming @Lop-Eared-Mule It is an answer you simple do not agree with it, or you don't understand it. Asking "Where Did the Universe Come From?" if (Repeat IF) the universe did not come from anywhere, is a moot question. However if as I postulate existence simply is, one can legitimately ask how did the universe get organised in the state we observe today, THAT is a good question and the one quantum physics is attempting to answer. If you can prove to me that total non existence is, actual, possible or even viable then "Where Did the Universe Come From?" will be a legitimate question, until you can do that then my hypothesis that existence simply is the natural state, is probably the best answer that can be given.

Do you remember this TV show and what was it called?

Seeker3CO comments on Sep 26, 2018:

Land of the Lost. I have the entire series on DVD. A childhood fave.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@Sheannutt There is an updated film version of it, starring Will Ferrell

Do you realize that no matter what you say or how you say it, it is incorrect to someone.

mordant comments on Sep 25, 2018:

I think all that means is that there's no point in the fool's errand of trying to be acceptable to all comers. It can't happen. Also it's not a "total" lack of freedom, it is simply a consideration that people will react badly at times and you have to be willing to let that be as it is if you ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

The point of course is that it is a total lack of freedom when opinions become moral and legal absolutes, which is what is happening. That is the point when opinion becomes a crime, when thought becomes sedition and freedom is only the freedom to obey or die.

I went to see FARANHEIT 11/9 yesterday.

Humanistheathen comments on Sep 25, 2018:

I was listening to an editorial today that mentioned it's Moore's lowest opening ever, and the movie is considered a bomb.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@GuyKeith Perhaps society in the west has come to that point every addict has to come to when they hit rock bottom and finally have to admit to their problem before beginning the slow climb to recovery.

An interesting quote by Alan Watts "There is no fate unless there is someone or something to be ...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 25, 2018:

I find this statement to filled with false equivalencies and logical fallacies. To take the first example, a trap requires prey, since a trap need not necessarily be used to capture, it can indeed be for the purposes of deception or execution for example. How does this concept of a trap equate ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 26, 2018:

@tnorman1236 Which is fine :) Finding thoughts interesting need not necessarily indicate agreement, but I can still appreciate the expression, postulations and inductions.

Holy shit guys! Christians who actually act like Christians!

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 25, 2018:

No, this is an example of Christian behaving like decent human beings. The exception rather than the rule. If you want an example of Christians behaving as the Bible says Christians should behave I give you this fuckwit

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@genessa I agree, but the reason people cherry pick from scriptures is that almost every scripture is in direct contradiction to another scripture, leading to the fundamentalist censoring the text to fit with their own agenda, which is almost invariably evil.

Holy shit guys! Christians who actually act like Christians!

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 25, 2018:

No, this is an example of Christian behaving like decent human beings. The exception rather than the rule. If you want an example of Christians behaving as the Bible says Christians should behave I give you this fuckwit

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@genessa The man in the picture is the late and unlamented Fred Phelps, fundamentalist (with emphasis on the mental) Baptist, nothing this hideous monster of a man ever did, was unable to be justified Biblically he had chapter and verse justification for everything. His church was so fanatical that when he was on his death bed, his daughter (Shirley Phelps Roper) heard him praying for forgiveness and so assumed he had secret sins and excommunicated him.

Holy shit guys! Christians who actually act like Christians!

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 25, 2018:

No, this is an example of Christian behaving like decent human beings. The exception rather than the rule. If you want an example of Christians behaving as the Bible says Christians should behave I give you this fuckwit

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@genessa Leviticus 20:13 “If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death by stoning.

Christmas Celebrations

genessa comments on Sep 25, 2018:

i never liked christmas. it's ubiquitous and it's overwhelming. i've never been christian. why do i have to be inundated with this stuff? half the people who celebrate it say "aww, it's not a religious holiday, it's fun, enjoy it!" it is TOO, and it is NOT, and i don't WANT to. the other half ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@genessa Elijah on his fiery chariot carried by a whirlwind, the cherubim seen by Ezekiel, Enoch carried up to heaven alive, Metatron, (I grant some scholars claim Metatron and Enoch are one and the same) but there are a few. (My Great grandfather was Jewish)

Christmas Celebrations

genessa comments on Sep 25, 2018:

i never liked christmas. it's ubiquitous and it's overwhelming. i've never been christian. why do i have to be inundated with this stuff? half the people who celebrate it say "aww, it's not a religious holiday, it's fun, enjoy it!" it is TOO, and it is NOT, and i don't WANT to. the other half ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@genessa Maybe you can get Rudolph to give you a lift? Oh right.. damn ;)

Christmas Celebrations

genessa comments on Sep 25, 2018:

i never liked christmas. it's ubiquitous and it's overwhelming. i've never been christian. why do i have to be inundated with this stuff? half the people who celebrate it say "aww, it's not a religious holiday, it's fun, enjoy it!" it is TOO, and it is NOT, and i don't WANT to. the other half ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@genessa some where in Kent I think, but it not the only one, I'll get the details and get back to you

Christmas Celebrations

genessa comments on Sep 25, 2018:

i never liked christmas. it's ubiquitous and it's overwhelming. i've never been christian. why do i have to be inundated with this stuff? half the people who celebrate it say "aww, it's not a religious holiday, it's fun, enjoy it!" it is TOO, and it is NOT, and i don't WANT to. the other half ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

MY Father would agree with you, he goes away every year to a hotel that does a package specifically for people who hate the holiday, no mention of the C season, no celebrations and even the TV only shows piped in old TV series. Try it, he loves it. :)

Christmas Celebrations

MStewart comments on Sep 25, 2018:

I have always loved Christmas, always been my favorite! I'll keep celebrating it just like I'll keep hiding eggs on Easter for my kids!

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

Easter is not even remotely Christian, even the name is a pagan godess of springtime.

I'm a Cumberbitch, so this truly would be a dream scenario for me!

Eclipsechaser comments on Sep 25, 2018:

He was offered the part but turned it down before it Matt Smith took it on.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@Eclipsechaser You're right of course, It is pretty much a he said, he said situation, the version I gave came from Moffat, who was the show runner on both Who and Sherlock at the time, so both he and Cucumberpatch probably both wanted to appear as head honcho. What ever the reason I'm glad it worked out the way it did, both he and Smith were fantastic and Benedict is now my third favourite Sherlock of all time, just behind Jeremy Brett and Peter Cushing.

What was the worst book you ever read and what made you dislike it?

ValJ comments on Sep 24, 2018:

Fifty Shades (seriously). Repetitive and just badly written.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

A prime example of what happens when you abandon taste and grammatical standards in favour of internet pier reviewed twaddle written to appeal to the lowest common denominator with no appreciation of talent or hard work. Publishers have become so desperate for sales that a work that would not have passed a sub editors, tea trolley assistant now gets boomed and unjustly praised.

Who has seen Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" made in 1965?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 24, 2018:

I find it hard to disassociate the art from the artist with Polanski, he is a great film make, but is also a disgusting excuse for a human being. I find it hard to think I have contributed one penny to his well being.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

@Ray13 I have not seen it but I did see Rosemary's Baby, before I was fully aware and being a huge Ira Levin fan loved it. The most faithful adaptation of a Novel I have ever seen filmed.

I'm a Cumberbitch, so this truly would be a dream scenario for me!

Eclipsechaser comments on Sep 25, 2018:

He was offered the part but turned it down before it Matt Smith took it on.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 25, 2018:

That is slightly incorrect, he auditioned for Doctor Who but Moffat offered him Sherlock instead.

Want to say hello to a Frenchman.

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 21, 2018:

Why would you want to?

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 22, 2018:

@FrayedBear No just not a fan of the cheese eating surrender monkeys

How good are you at striking up conversation with a stranger?

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 19, 2018:

I do not like to be imposed upon uninvited, nor do I like to impose myself upon others, I find it very bad manners.

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 22, 2018:

@MissMac I know, it happened in Portsmouth after particulally savage child murder, but it did happen in Teesside too at the height of the Doctors Marietta Higgs and Geoffrey Wyatt 1987 fiasco, and in then again Gwent where a Podiatrists office was vandalised with the word Pedo spray painted on the door. It was all preempted by a cartoon in Private Eye magazine four months before which showed a man running from an angry lynch mob screaming "I'm a Paediatrician" This lead to a mock weekly article 101 things to mistake for a paedophile.

Every time I encounter a Fundie, I get a terrible urge to expell horrific flatulence at them.

GuyKeith comments on Sep 22, 2018:

I understand. Here's the deal. People have the right to believe whatever they wish. I respect that right. However, I am under no obligation to recognize, respect or revere the OBJECTS of this belief or worship. Gods, Saviors, Holy Ghosts and Holy Mothers are subject to skepticism, ridicule and ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 22, 2018:

I will accept the right to believe, I will not accept what is believed in, I will respect the right to believe, I will not respect what is believed in. I will respect what is known to be true and the evidence presented in support of it, I will not respect the choice to believe and propagate unsupportable lies as facts to the ignorant, gullible and ill informed for the purposes of power and exploitation.

Biologically, we humans are forced to perceive an existence where we only have our limited senses to...

LenHazell53 comments on Sep 20, 2018:

"we lack the capacity to perceive reality beyond our human biologic limitations." Necessarily things that are beyond our physical limitations are irrelevant to us and there for may as well to all intents and purposes NOT exist. They cannot inter-react with us nor we with them, even if they do ...

LenHazell53 replies on Sep 21, 2018:

@rabidazzle "if we ever develop technology to expand the base perception of reality we all share." To what possible end? What use would it be? You postulate a machine that would allow the detection of things of things we cannot otherwise perceive or interact with, and that can neither perceive or interact with us. The effect is pretty much useless and the artificial detection could still only translate those outsiders in terms we could perceive so would only be a shadow, a representation of what they actually were or are so even knowledge is advanced no further than saying we know know, something that can be represented as a picture or a sound exist outside of our sphere of influence. HP Lovecraft played about with this idea in his story "from Beyond" in that fictional instance it did not end well for any concerned.