So I'm stuck in the bible belt and, in my opinion, one of the very small number of things the church...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 15, 2019:

I suggest you contact the Atheist Community of Austin, in Austin Texas for advice, they have been doing this sort of thing for well over two decades.

Viral Video Shows Cadets Flashing Alleged ‘White Power’ Symbol On Live Television During ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Well, in the UK if someone makes that symbol behind someone else's back it means "What a wanker (jerk off)!" However it is a simple fact of semiotics that any sign or symbol can mean anything if two or more people use it in a common frame of reference. For instance the "cornuta" or devil horn hand signal can mean Metal (music) Ward off the evil eye (in Europe) I love you (in American sign language) Illuminate member (Medieval Italy) The sign of the Trinity ( in Ethiopian Coptic churches) Satan (in The Church of Satan and Satanism) and more (This is with the thumb in, out or under the middle finger in all except ASL where the thumb must be out)

SYBARITE.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Sybian a device who's purpose I could not possibly guess at

Matt Bevin pardons: murders, convicted child rapists, baby killers and one murderer/beheader

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 15, 2019:

Corruption or incompetence, neither are trait wanted in a leader, as an English man I know what I am talking about today.

It's ironic when a Christian say that gays have more rights than them now.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 14, 2019:

It is a time tested trick to blame your opponent for what you are doing yourself

It is impossible to believe a person (a man named 'Jesus,' for instance) did what is described in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 13, 2019:

It is even more extraordinary when you consider that there are copious historical records of John the Baptist, and in all those records there is no mention of his being the Herald of anyone, but that he is in fact himself the promised messiah of a much older religion one that fragmented after the death of JTB by execution for treason against Herod Antipas (without the aid of Salome the Stripper who seems also to be a new testament invention.)

‘Blasphemous’ Netflix Film Depicting Jesus in Same-Gender Relationship Draws Ire in Brazil - ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 13, 2019:

It's not a new idea, Christopher Marlow (1564-1593) landed himself before the Starr Chamber for claiming St. John (and St. Peter) were the "Alexis" of Jesus (What today would be referred to as a bottom). In 1974 Ed D. Louie's Jesus porn film "Him" broke out of the gay art houses and in to main stream theater to much condemnation under the tag line "Are you curious about about HIS sex life?" As late as April 2012 “Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption,” a reworking of Terrence McNally’s 1998 play, “Corpus Christi,” was being condemned for simply having a gay man play Jesus and flirt with other actors while in costume. It has almost now become a cliché to make controversial Jesus films and attract $millions of free publicity from irate godbotherers.

QUAGMIRE.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 13, 2019:

Giggity

Just overheard a conversation: Lady: Hey, how are you?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 12, 2019:

I think I would have been tempted to answer with Jonestown Koolaid and waited to see if he got it.

PALFREY noun a riding horse, as distinguished from a war horse. [dictionary.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 12, 2019:

Henry Palfrey is the hero of perhaps my all time favourite British Comedy School for Scoundrels (1960). The name makes sense in context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUVlyhalYw

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 12, 2019:

Am I wrong or is the pussy grabber in chief actually advocating violence against women and excusing the me who commit it, because he does not like a T shirt one was wearing?

Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit Only 10% of donations to the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 11, 2019:

Wow, dishonesty in the Catholic church, who would ever have thought such a thing?

I am agnostic.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 11, 2019:

Why do you have such an arsehole as a friend? I would have told him or her to fuck off and not come back till the grew up years ago.

Dealing with praying?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 11, 2019:

In other peoples houses I just say "No thanks" when asked to pray, and immediately after they have finished mumbling to their invisible friend I thank and compliment my hosts and the meal provided and for my invitation. If they insist on knowing why I tell them I find it a matter of very bad manners that I should thank and credit "gawd" for a meal, my host cooked, prepared, served and paid for.

Am i alone in my feeling that theres something going on that some might call god.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 11, 2019:

You are definitely not alone, millions of people who should know better fill in gaps in their understanding with mythical nonsense. The better question is "are you right?" To which my answer is a resounding NO. You simply have not informed yourself enough yet to gain actual answers to your pondering, rather than lazy "god of the gaps" settling. There is nothing "going on" that can not now, or will in the future be able to be explained logically, reasonably and evidentially.

Florida sheriff's captain heard telling deputy to act like 'white supremacist' in audio recording: ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 11, 2019:

A classic snippet of dialog, just replace the word idiot with bigoted racist asshat Dreyfus: How can an idiot be a policeman? Answer me that! Clouseau: Well, it's very simple...all he has to do is enlist and... Dreyfus: Shut up! Return of the Pink Panther 1976

Do you think that " I have found god" should mean the same as "A get out of Gaol/Jail free" card.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 10, 2019:

There is no such thing as a *genuine conversion* there are those who proclaim a conversion who are deluding themselves and those who proclaim a conversion with the intent of deluding others.

[m.youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 10, 2019:

scary

Quote of the Day: Attorney General William Barr Wages War on Secularism | The Life and Times of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 10, 2019:

American government, proudly marching backward into the fourteenth century

This sounds promising but may be more snake oil. [hellocaremail.com.au]

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 9, 2019:

I really hope this is true, I have seen close family succumb to Alzheimer’s, it was heart breaking

MARMALISE.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 9, 2019:

MARMALISE I Think is the correct spelling, as in Mick the Marmaliser who along with Dicky Mint was one of the original ventriloquist's dummies of the late and wonderful Ken Dodd, who (slightly redesigned) would later go on to lead the Diddy Men

This sounds promising - [tpr.org]?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 9, 2019:

Brilliant, until the oil industry buys up the tech an suppresses it

And here is why your health systems are crap, along with education, social housing and national ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 9, 2019:

in other news "Sky is blue"

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

bloody fool of a Trump

West Virginia Nazi salute: 3 workers fired, 34 others in photo suspended

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Never seen so many people all wanting to leave the room at the same time they must be all full of shit.

Norwegian word

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams "A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to." Gandalf the Grey

;) Perfectly explained what "organized religion" is all about

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

yup, that sums it up

Sadly true...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Children accept the reality in to which they are born

Article- What religion gives us that science can't.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

As a former trained medium I can assure you, it is all utter and unmitigated bullshit

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Dr. Peter Venkman: "Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon... what've you got left?"

1 Samuel 15:3 (NRSV): Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

It's not murder if gawd TELLS you to do it

[alternet.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Nothing really new here

Canadian Church of Atheism Denied Tax Exempt Status

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

They would have done better to simply follow the lead of other Atheists organization all over the world and incorporated themselves as a secular charitable trust and used that as a precedent to have the courts reconsider the status of so called churches.

Death Toll: The Movie Body Count Quiz | HowStuffWorks

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 8, 2019:

Well since the answer to question one was wrong, I did not bother with the rest of it.

Highway To Hell Song I want played at my funeral.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 7, 2019:

I'm not having one, donating my body to medical science, and paying in my will for piss up in the local pub for anyone who wants closure. EDIT No I've changed my mind I want this at my funeral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k76IGLi6jWI

More questions of whether Donald Trump is being maligned by others claiming association after ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 7, 2019:

WTF? Someone must have told captain combover it was a visiting Russian spy, the oval office is always open to them.

Mind changer

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 7, 2019:

A long time ago, for at least the last 25 years I have assumed data to be probable to a greater or lesser degree unless they are provably impossible within the bounds of accepted reality. Accordingly I have adjusted those degrees dependent on data received and assimilated. The last time I can recall actually changing my mind about anything was after a conversation with my wife upon the correct use of apostrophes where she proved to me that her method of using apostrophes for possessive pronouns ending in the letter S was more comprehensible and less open to misinterpretation than that which I had taught at school.

This is a good answer to Xians or others when you discuss your lack of religion.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 7, 2019:

Reminds me of the story of a man who presented with a $259 hotel bill questioned some of the charges made "It says here $20 for cable TV, I did not watch cable TV" he complained "It was there if you wanted it" replied the manager "It says here $50 for the use of the swimming pool, I did not swim," pointed out the man "It was there if you wanted it" replied the manager with a smug look. "Now either pay up or I will call the police and have you thrown in jail." "I see," said the man, and taking it back wrote on the reverse side $259 for fucking me in the arse. Account settled in full! "I never touched your bottom" screamed the manager The man looked him in the eye and whispered "It was there if you wanted it" To me the Christian god is the smug manager charging us for salvation we don't need and threatening to prosecute us if we do not pay up, and expecting us to bend over and take it.

Why is it that the people who are looked upto by society as honest good people are the same one's ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 7, 2019:

People lie

What are your objections to the fine tuning argument for the existence of god

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 7, 2019:

Erm it's bollocks? Yes I think that would be my primary objection. But to put it in terms you may understand 1 the fine tuning of the argument presented is due to it being bollocks, an egg Whisk and a tortoise 2 The fine tuning is not due to an egg whisk or a tortoise 3 therefore it is bollocks!

Tax religions: how?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 7, 2019:

They should simply be subject to the same laws as all other business's with the same rights and responsibilities. Actual charitable exceptions may still apply but NOT the right to hide their accounts nor to use the charitable status of parts of their institutions as a tax avoidance measure for the whole organization. The tightening or abolition of the use of the Corporation sole tax loophole needs also to addressed in its application religion and religious institutions. In short churches and religions should be stripped of any special status and treatment in matters of finance.

How do you define "evil"?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 6, 2019:

There are so many words seen as synonymous with evil, most are actually not. Evil is (in my opinion) simply that which cancels out or restrains influences for wellbeing. Acts can be of evil intent without simply being evil. For example cruelty is an evil act but not all evil acts are cruel sometimes they can be seemingly pleasant, kind or beneficial, while ultimately benefiting only one or a few at a high expense to the many.

Why do people recognize the fictional aspect of all myths and fairy tales, except their own ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 6, 2019:

It is the age old cry "All gods are a religious fantasy ... except for mine"

misotheism mis′o-thē-izm Borrowed from Ancient Greek μισόθεος (misótheos, “hating ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 6, 2019:

That is a new one to me, thanks

Why isn't Christianity considered evil?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 6, 2019:

" Why isn't Christianity considered evil?" because the vast majority of Christians know fuck all about their own religion, their holy book or their doctrine and dogmas. The and the vast majority of none Christians today associate it only with Christmas, boring Sundays and school assemblies. When the church was regularly burning, hanging and drowning people, administering local law, beating adulteress women in public and taxing the local populous on behalf of gawd, raping women and assaulting children, their opinion of these wretched clerical leaches, liches and letches was more fittingly derogatory

Come all ye believers of the world starting 6½thousand years ago - "A zircon crystal found in ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 6, 2019:

"It was obviously formed in the flood and can be no more than 6000 years old and probably was part of a unicorn's belly ring"

JURISPRUDENCE.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 6, 2019:

A good word, however I find it interesting how Lex or Legis as in legislation is Latin for law and Jur or Juri is more rightly translated as Justice the word was held as such in the original form, but over the centuries Law has come to be seen as more important or expedient than Justice in matters of governance.

[yahoo.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 5, 2019:

The rats are always the first to leave the sinking shit...ship oops sorry

IMPRECATION.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 5, 2019:

I wonder if there is a variation IMPEACHIATION a spoken curse; an offensive word or any word spoken by a large anthropomorphic Cheato in an ill fitting suit and a bad wig.

This works for all other science based knowledge also.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 5, 2019:

Hey look an X-ray pic of the general ecumenical synod

Agnostic vs Atheist

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 4, 2019:

If you have no reason to believe in a god(s) if you don't believe in god(s) you are an atheist. simple. As such you have no reason or necessity to "prove" anything, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim. for me the label of agnostic is just a term used by those who want to hedge their bets, it is the secular version of Pascal's Wager

Just wondering if someone can answer me this?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 4, 2019:

It is the rabbit caught in the headlights of an on coming car reaction, to simply freeze. It is complex but it is the natural reaction of some people when faced with immediate and inevitable danger to simply deny it. They know it is illogical to deny the inevitable but out of sheer desperation do so. It is akin to your mother telling you that if you ignore the bully he or she will go away. When asked what reason "THE GOVERNMENT" could have for such a conspiracy, they will ignore that too, "who knows why they do what they do? They are the government" Why would most of the scientific establishment be involved? "Oh well *scientists* you know what they are like" Years ago when there was a flood it was "God is angry", then it was "Witchcraft", then it was "Scientists pressing buttons, making explosions and giving us rotten weather in the summertime" and today it is "The government is not protecting us properly and blaming *climate change* trying to shift the blame on to us!" Freeze, ignore it, blame someone else, deny it! Then go back to pumping tons of shit in to the air so you can drive a big car, fill your home with fossil fuel guzzling unnecessary energy consuming devices to dry your hair, polish your toe nails and perm your cat.

You can’t be gay and be a Christian.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2019:

You can but why would anyone want to be part of an organization that venerates a book and by extension a god who thinks you worthy of death and damnation for loving someone they think you should not. THAT has always been the great mystery to me

The world's biggest animal sacrifice begins [dailymail.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2019:

One would be too many. I am not hypocritical enough to say I disapprove of slaughtering animals, when they are going to be eaten, however this is slaughter for ritual, done in such an inhumane manor and is simply indulging in blood lust for superstition with the goal of pleasing Gadhimai, the goddess of power out of the belief that animal sacrifices to the Hindu goddess will end evil and bring prosperity. They do not even eat the meat from the animals (other than the goats) it is a disgusting waste and cruelty for cruelties sake

Canadian Family Kept Dead Father’s Corpse in Bedroom for Six Months in Hopes God Would Resurrect ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2019:

If she really knew no better then she should not be allowed to operate a toilet without supervision let alone have custody of her children.

Do religions believe in aliens since most place their gods up outside of earth?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2019:

The Mormons do, they believe god lives on a planet orbiting the star Kolob at the center of the universe, that there are quakers living on the moon and people inhabiting the sun. All in the Mormons third book of scriptures "The Pearl of great price"

There are a lot of completely barbaric rituals in Leviticus.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2019:

Of all the forbidden practices in Leviticus only one is still widely insisted upon by the churches ... Go On GUESS WHICH ONE!!!!

The thoughts of the righteous are .

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2019:

THe thoughts of the reasonable are based on evidence

All this talk about ‘levels’ on here makes me think I’m moving up in Scientology...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2019:

Not being a Suppressive Person are you? 😉

A FRAGMENT OF CHRIST’s MANGER IS BACK IN THE HOLY LAND! HOW DESPERATE ARE CHRISTIANS FOR ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Relics and the simonic trade in relics is a hold over from the money making churches of the middle ages, it is frankly the selling good luck charms for the Christian sheep who need something to focus their faith upon.

Religious freedom

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Religious freedom legislation is a misnomer, it is basically a freedom to hate and an exception from anti prejudice law based on the words of a fictional character.

Religious freedom

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2019:

Religion from the Latin religare to bind again. to restrain Hence *Religious freedom* = **oxymoron**

Hallelujah! Just in time for xmas.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 1, 2019:

"some believe" nice little catch all

A Warning to Those Visiting Auschwitz - YouTube

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 30, 2019:

so sad

Albert Heijn: Dutch supermarket drops call for staff underwear photos - BBC News

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 30, 2019:

Just goes to prove requests for the nether garments of the Netherlanders are so out of the ordinary even the permanently stoned and horny Dutch won't share photos of them.

bacteriotherapy bac·​te·​ri·​o·​ther·​a·​py \ bak-ˌtir-ē-ō-ˈther-ə-pē \...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 30, 2019:

Hitler was a great believer in this and to save time regularly took pills made form the stools of a1 category army soldiers to deal with his own digestion problems called Mutaflor® this product invented by Hitler's person physician Theodor Morell is still commercially available today,

Do you believe religion causes the most divisions in the world?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2019:

NO but it does not help by promoting the idea of chosen ones, and God's own people, and one true god. Add to this that religions are some of the riches corporations in the world and have their grubby fingers in every filthy pie including arms dealing and ecumenical harmony becomes far less than desirable to the godbotherers

Ohio bill orders doctors to ‘reimplant ectopic pregnancy’ or face 'abortion murder' charges | US...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2019:

Oh for fuck sake, this reminds me of a case a few years ago of a corona in the USA who was charged with murder for performing an autopsy. This from the court record... * Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?" * Witness: "No." * Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?" * Witness: "No." * Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?" * Witness: "No." * Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?" * Witness: "No." * Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?" * Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar." * Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?" * Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."

A path to whittling away religious power.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2019:

Agreed 100%

My shar-pei brothers doing something unusual for them [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2019:

my shar-pei Kho-Kho

Wow, this would stop me speeding. Where I live they just use speed cameras. [youtube.com]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2019:

Over reaction much? at least 14 police cars, over thirty armed to the teeth police men, a dog all for a speeder? He was not even going that fast, the film was clearly running at double speed as can be seen by the way the police men are walking and how the traffic is moving and then the police action closes down an entire highway for goodness knows how long. I've seen chases like this on English cop programs dealt with by one cop in a cruiser, no dog, no gun and no real disruption to anyone. I think the real crime here was that a black man was driving an expensive car, that obviously calls for an entire precinct to go on to war footing.

"we are strong.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2019:

"we are strong.. no one can tell us we're wrong.". The cry of dictators down through the ages.

Air pollution linked to Alzheimers. [hellocaremail.com.au]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2019:

Great now we need to be scared of breathing

Are Non Believers More Prone To Using Profanity?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Who fucking cares?

There is a common thread in many of the posts I have seen here, that being you can't get people to ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Ultimately nature will solve the problem itself, if we do nothing about climate change, nature will sort it and many of us won't survive, if we do not stop guzzling antibiotics nature will evolve stronger diseases and many of us will not survive it in tact, if we insist in not vaccinating a whole generation will die of avoidable illness, if we don't stop following religion's stupid rules we will kill each other. Ultimately the cumulative effect will be a massive rebalancing of resources and vastly reduced population numbers. Action needed to be taken a century ago, then we did not understand the necessity, fifty years ago we did but were unwilling to believe it ans twenty years ago it was all ready too late but was considered a threat to capitalism. It is still not too late to mitigate the inevitable, but the sacrifices will be hard and unpleasant and a lot of people will die, but millions can be saved if we act, but we won't if it means giving up the three cars, the right to be obese and the HD TV because those are what makes life worth living

My wonderful and sweet dad drove me to work because my car battery died.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

So basically your dad is telling you his god is going to burn you forever if you don't tow the line and yet he is still willing to worship the bastard. You obvious have more love for your father than he does for you.

THE PRAYER OF ST.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Sorry I can't hear that prayer any longer without hearing it in the voice of the arch bitch Margaret Thatcher arriving at 10 Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister, May 4, 1979 and then spending the 11 years doing exactly the opposite, utterly destroying British society and sowing the seeds of greed and inequality that are still bearing the fruits of ignorance and want to this day

Run for your life

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

People will for some reason tolerate this, but if they were chanting hail Satan, for exactly the same result, would want them all fired. Though to be honest they look more like they are singing the Hokey Cokey

As Christmas approaches I seem to sense a rising anger and rigidness toward the Christians and other...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

I have nothing against anyone until they start trying to infringe on my freedoms and the freedoms of those I love. If you want to live your life being deluded, fine, you want to live your life hating people because a bronze age book of fables says you should, hate away. If you start telling me my family members deserve to die and try to change the law so you can kill them, torture them or imprison them, don't be surprised if some one kicks your bible down your throat and leaves you to choke on it. Christians can be as Christian as they like so long as it stays in their own heads and homes, and they respect my right to tell them to fuck off with their shitty belief when they try and impose them on me and mine in public.

A 92-year old woman who helped hide a Jewish family during WWII meets the 40 family members of those...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Utterly marvelous, wonderful story

When you're the only Agnostic at Thanksgiving dinner and they ask you to say "Grace":

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv1_XGd2aVk

A classmate, who is my partner for a school project, is a Christian.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

No death = no food= eternal mass starvation

Happy thanksgiving.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

yes

I've already said more "Happy Thanksgivings" than I intended to, and I'm sure I'll say more before...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

OH Lard this day we give thanks that you did not see fit to give the injuns, tanks, cannons or machine guns, (or an immunity to small pox) so as when our ancestors landed here and started stealing every damn thing they could get their filthy paws on them heathen savages could not fight back. Aaaaaaa- men!

I see a lot of hate for what people describe as FREEMASONS. What is the story with that?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

IN and around the 17th century the myth of the ancient order of Freemasons began to appear all over Europe and the Americasin the three forms Scottish Rite Freemasons York Rite Freemasons and Reformed Scottish Rite Freemasons. All claimed decent from the guild of Freemasons that built the First temple of Solomon and their three leaders the Brothers Jubal. York rite has 5 levels of membership, Scottish rite has three official levels and an a fourth grade for the "special" members. Reformed Scottish Rite has 33 level, and claims an even more illustrious history claiming decent from not only the masons but from the Knights Templar. None of them are any such thing of course but from the 17th century establishment of the first Lodges and Temples, Mason's have had ways of recognising each other by secret signs and symbols an by their oaths of fidelity are obliged to help one another in business, commerce, law and politics. This lead in the 1800's to the catholic church outlawing catholics from becoming masons as they too expected their male members to do the same thing for each other thus being a mason was a conflict of interests worthy of excommunication. I other religions however, Freemasonry became integral, especially in Mormonism, where the Temple rituals of the Freemasons were stolen wholesale for the Temple ordinances of the LDS Priesthood. The Mormon church also provided an escape root for fleeing catholics via what they called the Perpetual emigration fund, allowing catholic Freemasons to flee to America. In Europe, especially London Freemasonary became so rife in the Judiciary and the police that in 1920 the whole of (old) Scotland Yard was arrested for corruption and running a vice and pornography ring. Though there is still Masonary entwined with the law in Britain, it has never been made illegal for police or judges to be members. From these instances and a number of others the myth that the Freemasons rule the world sprang up and has formed the basis for many thrillers in fiction throughout the last 150 years. They have been blamed for everything from the raise of fascism to being responsible for Jack the ripper, from being responsible for the American two party system and the civil war in the USA to building secret bases under the Vatican so the original illuminate could spy on the pope. In truth it is pretty much a boys club (Girl's too since the founding of the Lodge of the eastern star and The Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons) for doing favours, getting drunk and holding big dinners two or three times a years.

In Boston, Mass, a milkshake is called a "frappe." "When is a milkshake not a milkshake?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

In the north of England Frappe is chilled coffee (short for Frappachino I presume) where as frapping is something totally different.

Indigenous student praised after altering 'European discovery of Americas' worksheet

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

Yup truth hurts don't it, they were luck she did not correct it to Christopher Columbus begins committing war crimes, infanticide and enslaving the indigenous inhabitants.

How would you personally define an 'intense person'?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

they live in a collapsible linen house held up by poles?

Is there a difference between a fundamentalist theist and a fundamentalist atheist?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

ONE OF THEM FINDS IT MORE FUN TO BE COMPLETELY MENTAL

Postprandial adjective After a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

I like the Victorian expression "a postprandial constitutional" meaning an after dinner stroll.

Christianese From Wikipedia: refers to the contained terms and jargon used within many of the ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2019:

There is also Mormonese, a term we ex-mo's have used for years for the gibberish spouted by missionaries and authorities in the LDS

Pictionary Fun: Okay, the last one was too easy. How about this one?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

The War song

Pictionary Fun: Okay, the last one was too easy. How about this one?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

The Men Behind the Wire

coprophagia /ˌkɒprəˈfeɪdʒiə/ the consumption of feces Derived from the Greek ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

Bleurk

Saudade a feeling of longing, melancholy or nostalgia. The presense of absense.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2019:

New one to me thanks

How many people are familiar with Plato's Republic?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Plato's cave is simply a warning that unless you are able to freely access all information you can be fooled from birth into believing what you are allowed to perceive is the normal and is all there is. It is a allegory these days better summed up in the adage that the best form of maintaining government control is the so called Mushroom method ...keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit. Modern electronic communications and wide spread dissemination of knowledge has largely put an end to this, except for those poor souls so accustomed to their shackles and the darkness of cave that they prefer not to turn around and look outside. The blissfully and willfully ignorant.

Has someone ever told you to give your problems to god?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

I just say I tried giving them to Batman to, they were both equally fucking useless.

This is a question.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Sorry I cannot understand a word of that post

Horologium noun a timepiece, as a clock or sundial, or a building supporting or containing a ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Hence Horologist one who studies and collects clocks

Most common/ridicuous argumento pro religion?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 26, 2019:

Here are a few of them You cannot be moral and atheist as morality is god given without god you are by definition immoral regardless of your actions Something can not come from nothing except god who simply is The bible is true because it is the word of god and we know this because god tells us so in the bible God does not send people to hell, they send themselves People need to be saved because of the fall of man (Adam and Eve) which is why god sacrificed himself to himself to get around a law he made, BUT you still can't take advantage of this unless you enslave yourself to him to say thank you.