What Comforts You as an Atheist While Enduring Suffering

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 10, 2023:

Just knowing that my suffering isn't an outward sign of the inward flaws of my immoral character makes me happier.

WHAT WILL YOU SAY TO GOD ON JUDGEMENT DAY? Great questions for "God". [tiktok.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 10, 2023:

Assuming God exist and it humors him to hear me out and he's everything Christians say he is. "You have been there every moment, you know my every experience and my every thought and motivation. Now are you going to make it right or do we have to continue pretending there's a flaw in people? You know there isn't or you wouldn't love us, and if you love the people with a flaw then you aren't who you say you are because you can't abide anything less then perfection. Why did you let those vile men spread that sin lie in the first place... that seemed pretty sinful to me."

AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article [arstechnica.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 15, 2023:

Count the misses, ignore the hits, you have to have skill when writing AI prompts. AI works fine, and I hardly have to work anymore yet I'm as productive as 5 engineers. The right wing has a lot of tech phobia going on as usual. Remember Alvin Toffler and his fear book "Future Shock" where we would all be traumatized by tech by now? You have a fascist in Elon Musk dictating how Google AI was designed and then his AI talking about taking over the world... that's either because Elon is a fascist or because he want us to all have an irrational fear of AI. In 50 years we will not need a job, all labor will be accomplished by AI unless a human is entertained by doing projects themselves, the age of scarcity will be over. Most of you aren't psychologically prepared for it, having been wage slaves all your life, freedom feels like illness.

Alex Jones Is Harboring Firearms for Jan. 6 Rioters, Bankruptcy Filing Reveals -- The Daily Beast

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 18, 2023:

We need a plumber to flush this turd. They work with lead, right?

Life lessons from Rush????

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 19, 2023:

Anyone that would give that sick fuck a presidential Medal of Honor would be a fucking traitor to the USA and a depraved animal.

Thinking it out…

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 21, 2023:

Sometimes one should seek a vegetarian alternative, like cucumber or eggplant. I hear the campus @ university north Texas is overwatered, like moist. At least Venus wasn’t at risk of carpal tunnel, Christians should like her because she doesn’t masterbate and she’s social because she needs help wiping. However she has a temper, for the same reasons T-Rex did.

Kevin McCarthy defends release of January 6 footage to Tucker Carlson: 'I promised' - CNNPolitics

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 23, 2023:

Two words. Criminal Conspiracy.

I'm not as surprised as I should be.

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 24, 2023:

Bovine drone, the latest in methane technology. Capable of autonomous operation.

Not sure why this made me laugh so hard but . . . was I wrong?

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 24, 2023:

If you don’t want to be alone then lie, people love that. If you want to be alone just be honest, people hate that.

Pictures….

Willow_Wisp comments on Feb 25, 2023:

I so seldom see the nuts defying gravity by being up verses the angle of the dangle so I see a jellyfish.

Humans are still hunting for aliens.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 3, 2023:

Just so long as they’re searching space and not the “History” channel.

I have never really believed in pure total absolute altruism, neither that it exists, or that it ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 5, 2023:

When I was in the Navy I got stranded in Chicago once. In desperation I went to a church to ask for help. They shooed me away with no help. A guy outside on the street asked me if I wanted too buy some drugs. I told him I couldn't because I got stranded in the city. He took me to the train station and bought me a ticket back to the Great Lakes Navel Training Center. There's true pure altruism, just not where the establishment tells you it is.

Where's the garlic?

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 14, 2023:

Frankly it looks like an Etsy built. If it's real it's worth enough to not be photographed outside a studio. I've made a Grimoire back in the 1970's. I wish I hadn't gifted it, it's worth about $200 on Etsy now. Velum pages, hand bound with silk thread and spells written using recommended "ingredients" to make homemade ink of various colors. All scribed in calligraphy using actual calligraphy pens. I had a copy of "The key of Solomon", "The greater key of Solomon", with references and passages from other well known grimoires. I tried a variety of the spells... absolutely nothing ever did anything but waste my time, something neither Christians nor Wiccans seem to believe, especially the Christians, they really want Satan to be powerful.. LOL. The Wiccans not into Satan and not quite as passionate about people having and using spiritual power as Christians but still naive. I think the Wiccans thought I did it wrong, most of which never used props that they didn't buy in a store. There's no craft in their witchcraft.

So happy. 😎

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 14, 2023:

Funny, I was completely OCD about the unpainted pinky nail.

At least I've got one guy who likes to listen to me.

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 20, 2023:

I've been playing with AI enough to know that AI is to companionship the same thing a marital aid is to masturbation. In fact I wonder if any of us ever talk to anyone except ourselves, other people being the NPC's, I'm not like other people pain hurts me. I'm not like that but sometimes it seems most of the world is, I said it to mock.

Do you believe in life after death

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 23, 2023:

I'm not sure I believe in life during life, you're out on a limb that can't hold me here.

Principal Fired After Viewing Of 'David' Upsets Parents Tallahassee School principal Fired after ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Mar 24, 2023:

Florida ranks eighth in the nation for Google searches for "gay sex," behind, get this: Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, Nevada, and Texas. And that's not from the blue urban areas, it's in the red districts. So much hypocrisy.

Beware The Satanic Mermaids A pro-Trump Christian Nationalist rally down, endorsed by Donald ...

Willow_Wisp comments on May 16, 2023:

Apparently I work for Satan. I didn't know of course, he's too far up the ladder for us to be on first name terms.

Living in the Southwestern desert!

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 15, 2021:

You could die from heat prostitution out there.

Seattle Politics aka Horsey

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 21, 2021:

The cluster is actually on the right, but they think they're in the middle, and start shit with the loners on the left. It's a clash between conservative rural tribalism and the reality of twenty first century life in the urban areas. It's an experiment by the right, they tried to use it to excuse themselves from Jan 6th, it goes like this, when conservatives show how violent and criminal they are they accuse the left of framing them. In Seattle the conservatives sort of pulled it off because no one NOT mentally ill could fact check them properly with Trump trying to turn the US into Russia on the national level, so they thought they had a winning tactic, but only idiotic right wingers ever believed any of that shit. White supremest loved BLM protest, they could just drive up after dark and knock out windows, shoot a few people, set a few fires, then say it was the black people. Exactly how stupid do those people think everyone else is? I see through this kind of pro-right wing crap as if it were glass. I'm sure the cartoon just looked cute to you.

I'm back after my short drive out to Las Vegas.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 21, 2021:

I know who you're talking too and you can just fuck yourself! LOL I'll bitch about anything I want to bitch about, it's my right as a old crone! Deal with it. (You know I love you glen)

Dogs At certain points in my life when I thought it would surely end any moment, here came my ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 21, 2021:

In the show “Lassie”, the lead actor was a male collie. Apparently dogs can be quite gender fluid.

To be handed out at the next GOP Rally!!!

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Don't laugh, I was just getting comfortable with anal bleaching when a new trend of anal tanning seemed to start. It seems I'm always a step "behind", and it's a good thing too.

Another garden pest...

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 22, 2021:

Why is she vacuuming the lawn inside her house?

Lets try some cartoon trivia. Which was your favorite character? mine was Bandit.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 22, 2021:

I did watch Jonny Quest, also known as The Adventures of Jonny Quest... I wanted Race Bannon's hair. It took years to figure out that Jonny had two dads, so they were the first gay couple on TV.

Calling all introverts! I'm in a quandary.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jun 24, 2021:

I always stay at a hotel and if pressed explain that I have medical issues that require privacy. That usually does it.

My dating profile attracts most of these

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 1, 2021:

Some of those are toxic, not knowing which is enough to avoid all.

Masked white supremacist from Texas run from angry onlookers in Philadelphia

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 7, 2021:

So NOW they wear mask....

Now this is why he got elected

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 7, 2021:

Of course I do, if someone from another country is trustworthy enough to FIGHT for us then they are trustworthy enough to live among us and they should be offered citizenship on demand. I served with many Filipinos when I was in the Navy, most retired and returned home, some wanted to stay but weren't allowed to. Treating your foreign soldiers and sailors like crap is what pissed off the Visigoths just before they invaded Rome the first time, and Romans selling them meat, dog meat, was the straw that broke Romes back.

We just passed 1900 members in our little group

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 9, 2021:

There’s a kind of wish fulfillment when we have achievements and receive acknowledgment, so many demand acknowledgment with no achievements. Congratulations it’s a great group. Well done.

Fck science

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Luddites suck, and not in the good way. Science makes no attempt to prove or disprove God because none of this is about a God. It’s like saying there’s teams of scientists trying to disprove leprechauns, equally idiotic.

Now that figures

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 14, 2021:

The only bang he had when grunting and groping stormy was loud sour farts, the odd thing is they made more sense then anything I've heard him say before or since.

How the fuck can this be constitutional?

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 14, 2021:

These "Texans" think they're Christian patriots, but they don't understand you can be either a radical Christian or a radical patriot, it's impossible to be a radical Christian and a radical patriot, the best you can arrive at is to become a radical drama queen. The pillow guy tried, look what it did to his tiny little muggle mind. It almost got Mike Pence lynched.

I never thought of it like this, but I can't argue with the reasoning

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 14, 2021:

Metaphorically speaking “Showing your ass” metaphorically is being seen “naked” metaphorically. That’s the one I prefer to avoid. Those that have literally seen me naked I wouldn’t mind seeing me literally naked again, but our paths have diverged. There must be 50 or so that I’ll always love but have families or died or live in foreign countries now. If we could have a private personalized heaven I’d live literally naked with all of them naked in an estate on the shores of a lake in the wilderness.

We're on a roll. 1100 members in our little group. Take part, read, lurk, but most of all enjoy.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 15, 2021:

It’s heartbreaking really. Thank Azazel for makeup. I’m starting to look like an old avocado from little liver spots. It’s like nose hairs, not something you imagined dealing with in college. Sorry, I turned 62 on Sunday, I feel suddenly very mortal.

It happens sometimes....

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 16, 2021:

There was a hot dog in the hallway?

Feel the need to innocently upset a white Christian today? I got you.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 16, 2021:

That was before Jesus was crucified and was no longer a Middle Eastern Jew, after the crucifixion he became blond haired, blue eyed, Caucasian Jesus, at least according to Caucasian Christians even if they don't say it out loud.

Do your mind , body, and heart sometimes have 3 very conflicting ideas?

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 17, 2021:

All the time, but despite the propaganda they're still all mind. You have to consider your life as a whole. My genitalia do not literally have a mind of their own, and my emotions don't come from my heart. It's natural to be confused AF, embrace it.

How many of you had this 20 year old Playmate somewhere in a locker around 1969-70?

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 17, 2021:

I remember her from Hee Haw. I just can't believe there was ever a Hee Haw, and my parents watched it all the time, that and Lawrence Welk.

Or at least put the names of 600,000+ covid deaths on Mar a Lago.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 17, 2021:

Why not? They think they’re Captain America but fly the flag of traitors and war criminals they erected monuments to. All these Confederate hero’s were idiots as well. It seems treason and ignorance go together like carrots and peas.

Is This the First Sentencing? [rawstory.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 19, 2021:

The sentence seems really really light to me. I think minimum sentences are in order, starting at 10 years just for walking into the Capital after it was breached and doing nothing else. Any direct contact with police add 5 years, etc. The SOB with his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk and the MAGA Shaman, etc.. should never see the direct light of the sun again.

"I'm sorry, it's too late for the vaccine to help you now." [al.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 21, 2021:

Alabama is the most religious state in the country dominated by Evangelical Protestants where Liberals are frequently depicted as agents of Satan, so if a Democrat, corporate or progressive, wants something they'll oppose it regardless of the consequences. I know because what's left of my childhood family, a step mother and two half brothers, still live there and believe in this way, and none of them are vaccinated. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. This is what happens when faith based on ignorance is allowed to reach it's conclusion. Alabama is the Iran of North America.

'bout right!

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 21, 2021:

I disagree with body shaming, unless they're begging for it like these two.

We all heard you, you know.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 23, 2021:

God shave the Queen!

I'll pass next time.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 25, 2021:

I spent three years dead for tax purposes. I voted all three years.

Common. sense

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 25, 2021:

Most of them would take a buffet for their country, loud fat fascist pigs.

Another Gervais...

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 26, 2021:

And atheism is a religion like an Off TV is a TV channel.

Is it me?

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 27, 2021:

It sucks being an actual boomer, the generation which had the Who song "My Generation" has now become a joke, an insult. I guess it serves us right for making fun of every generation that followed ours, and we were responsible for the Reagan rise of conservatism which led to these times of overt treason and insurrection. To be sure there were many of us that didn't buy into the tyranny of conservatism, but conservative populations deserve the disasters they imposed on this world and themselves, there was this consistent minority of liberal thinkers, greatly scorned by the majority of boomers that really did struggle to make the world a better place, or at least slow the fall into fascistic insanity that only really revealed itself just since the election of 2016. Before you decide to attempt to shame me by calling me a boomer just understand that I can't be any more shamed by it then I already was back as early as when someone first defined Gen X, which has double downed on conservatism, and they represented themselves disproportionately on Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC. A bunch of middle aged people pretending to be patriots and revolutionaries at the same time all the while only serving a tyrant. Few of those people were over 60, and all boomers are over 60 now. Come to think of it the most radical conservatives I know are all Gen X, only a few years younger than myself but insanely angry at anything and everything that's not 100% fascist.

Crows are smarter than anti-vaxxers and those who still support Trump: [yahoo.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 27, 2021:

I love crows, I'm currently on good terms with at least three murders. I see these clever birds doing brilliant things every day. When hawks chase them they bring the hawk to me if I'm around, and I do ape things like throw things at the hawk, which inevitably drives the hawk away. It helps that crows know who their friends are, something Trump supporters don't know.

Watch the 1/6 hearings.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 27, 2021:

This should be the equivalent of the September 15, 1963 Church bomb in Birmingham Alabama that killed four young black girls. That was the day my racist father got rid of his clan costume. It's time Republicans recognize themselves as the terrorist they are, you can be an American or you can be a terrorist you don't get to be both and still play the patriot game with real patriots.

Whats everybody doing?

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 27, 2021:

I'm watching the House select committee on U.S. Capitol riots live from my office at work today. I'm waiting to see how we deliver justice to the terrorist, who stands in the way on the behalf of the terrorist and how we handle these anti-American sympathizers that choose to side with terrorist and their leader Trump against the American public. I'm waiting for Trump to be punished for being fucking Trump and screwing everyone everywhere across western civilization.

Let's beat Covid together.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 27, 2021:

He's just doing it for the boob view.

Those of you hunting for the perfect man need to up your game

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 28, 2021:

She must be a method actor.

Here at last

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 28, 2021:

Thank god only two cats were killed to make this meme.

I have often been mad as heck for about five years and this week, I am mad as heck again.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Perfect! I suspect some of these people are attention whores, because if I had what I consider a damed good reason to not get vaccinated I'd keep it to myself and these assholes loudly brag about it, like attention starved children. Better to get negative attention than no attention at all in their sad little scrambled stupid minds. It is notable that they aren't being murdered for this considering these kind of people aren't above murdering the rest of us for us doing the right thing.

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 29, 2021:

I like it. I’ve noticed that when I unplug from media for extended periods of time my world shrinks to manageable size and I forget about all those enemies I have out there in Congress and the State Capital and the very real issues of personal and professional life remind me of my personal limitations and I start to become overwhelmed by the tragedy of my existence as I slowly become more depressed. Then I plug back in, get mad, and forget my depression and personal insecurities. That’s where life keeps me wavering between desperation of humans in general and frustration at my own very limited capacity to run my own life. It’s enough to overwhelm my fear of death in anticipation of the relief of nonexistence.

I'd join this protest.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 30, 2021:

God hates perfectly good wasted coffee! God also hates computer viruses, Trump, Religion, Florida, Texas, anime, caviar and insurance companies.

The Young Turks - Anti-Vaxx Guest EMBARRASSES Himself on CNN [youtube.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 30, 2021:

He's obviously deranged.

Trump: Jan. 6 Cops Who Spoke to Congress Are ‘Pussies’ [thedailybeast.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Trump is grabbing himself all the time, but even more now that Melania walked out with a terse “I don’t hang out with losers Donald”

The Young Turks - MyPillow CANCELS Ads on Fox News Over Trump's Big Lie [youtube.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 31, 2021:

Mike is just another Trump side show clown with all the other human tragedies like Steve Miller, and Rudy Giuliani and oh so many others. Living cartoon characters all, too stupid for media to ignore, thus chaff to throw off the portion of the public that are easily distracted so Trump could commit one atrocity after another. Chaos as camouflage for the biggest crime spree in history.

We are STILL (STILL) BEING LIED TO.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 31, 2021:

I’ve never heard any of this and if it’s true then it’ll come out, everything that can does. Like the JFK assassination we can believe and imagine any number of conspiracy theories. I watched all of it live, then the closeups which gives me two perspectives on every moment when armed backup finally arrived I remember the men on the floor, but the weapons they had were not guns. The officers had guns. To be fair I need to play it again to see, human perception and eyewitness testimony is frequently wildly wrong and the worst evidence that exists. That’s why we have video.

Just saw this on Facebook.

Willow_Wisp comments on Jul 31, 2021:

Every business should do this.

Heartbreaking reality of a teenage girl's sex life | Daily Mail Online

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 1, 2021:

Porn is fine, as I understand it no one keeps watching porn after they finish rubbing one out, so there goes the theory of people watching for hours and hours. Most porn is consensual and the small fraction that isn’t is criminal and deserves to be prosecuted as much as possible. Most of the concerns about pornography is extravagantly exaggerated. Repressive social dynamics lead to abnormal sexual appetites that require extensive therapy and is a mental health issue but not a pervasive issue. You do know that most of the gay porn is watched in the Bible Belt and Deep South where sex is shameful right? When someone logs into my work website we know by the IP address where they’re logging in from unless they use a VPN, and it’s tracked for us automatically by Amazon Web Services who also hosts about 33% of the World Wide Web which is far more than google’s 9% and all web services provide these statistics. So you can bet your ass the porn industry knows exactly where their customers are so you can bank on the statistics, which also show that all of Europe watches less gay porn than the state of Texas. It should be obvious that less outrage about porn actually relieves the issue rather than making it worse while the opposite is true about firearms.

The Ring of Fire - Laura Ingraham Says Capitol Police Can Blame Themselves For Getting Beaten By ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 1, 2021:

It’s almost fun to watch this bimbo throwing away her credibility, as if her career won’t be over within five years.

I’m in Barnes and Nobles and found there are 4 sections or 7 full rows on religion.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 1, 2021:

So seven full rows of bad historical fiction, damned shame.

They'll sure as hell try though..!

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 2, 2021:

I hear they have the skull of Jesus and Mary's dislodged IUD hidden in there.

Trans "women" [spiked-online.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 3, 2021:

As if trans-phobes would be just fine with trans people if trans-women just stayed out of womens sports. I for one despise competitive... anything, really. I have no interest in male or female sports, and never have, so why is it that every time someone explains to me how I'm not valid they bring up trans-women in womens sports? They also tell me I'm some kind of sexual deviant, when I didn't decide to transition until almost 10 years after I had pretty much lost all interest in sex. So there I was an asexual "male" that decided to transition into an asexual "female", why? Maybe it was the wardrobe choices? Seriously I always related to women, I understood them, except for their sexual attraction to men which I find weird, but everyone is different. I never understood nor was I ever comfortable with hanging out with men talking about fighting, fucking, and football. I served six years in the Navy surrounded by that kind of conversation, I just wanted to shoot myself. None of you that are "concerned" about trans people in general really have any business challenging me or my choices since it doesn't concern you and I'm not asking for anything at all from you other than to leave me alone to live my harmless life. Apparently I ask too much. I heard that most terrorist are cis men, you're a cis man, perhaps we should talk about your cis man predisposition for terrorism?

You too, can become a card carrying Trump supporter.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 5, 2021:

If there's a Mary Trump card I might be interested. Otherwise I suggest you use those cards as suppositories.

Isn't this a rather baseless, false claim?

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 11, 2021:

Conservative alpha males like Michael Savage and Donald Trump are so cool about harassing people with disabilities while being a bunch of Karen's with dicks when their privilege comes into question and utter toadies when in the presence of what they consider a more manly man then themselves. Yes it applies to Trump, what you didn't see him tuck his tail between his legs and pee himself a little when Putin was around? Conservative anti-feminist men, which includes their women, are the weakest creatures on the planet Earth.

California to require teacher vaccinations / testing. [nytimes.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 11, 2021:

About time wouldn't you say?

Cats instead of emogies

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 12, 2021:

This cat looks like I feel.

[msn.com] What do you all think of this?

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 13, 2021:

I wear mine to protect the numb nuts that just will not get vaccinated, my patience is wearing pretty thin though.

Anyone like cats?

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 13, 2021:

That would be ceiling cat. Since this meme came out I’ve been a ceiling fan.

What owning a lib looks like

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 13, 2021:

Grim humor, and to think I wear a mask to protect them not me, I’m vaccinated. That’s the difference between us and them, we don’t like restrictions any more then they do, we don’t like wearing mask, we don’t stop fighting the pandemic now that it’s in red states the way the Trump administration all but shut down the pandemic response when it was in blue states. That’s why I’m constantly pissed off, it’s like the responsible people are fighting two fronts the pandemic and the fascist that are attacking us and science at the same time. It’s the only time I know of where intentional mass suicide would be adopted as a political statement.

I'm open to alternative titles.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 13, 2021:

I’ve purchased enough marijuana to keep me stoned all weekend while nervously monitoring the media for terrorist activities from frustrated white Supremacist showing the other Fascist how to “own” the libs. More then likely they’ll kill a moderate Republican because the mob with torches are ignorant in every way necessary to insure they come to the wrong conclusion every single time. I expect purges within their ranks before terrorist attacks on us though because everyone is blaming everyone else for their failure and big resentments are about to rip them apart. I doubt Rudy will be dejected enough to just go away, Trump owes him and Trump abandoned him. That’s just one plot line in “As the stomach turns” The kids thrown under the bus, the unpaid bills. First comes purge, I hope.

I hate people.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 15, 2021:

The Conspiracy theories may not all originate in the US but people latch on to them because they explain the world situation in terms they prefer over reality or common sense. It’s everywhere and it’s toxic, it’s Brexit and it’s Tucker’s trip to Hungary. It’s Trump having a secret meeting with Putin with no American translator. It’s a global network of authoritarians working together to end globalization. It’s fascism twenty first century style. The truth sounds like a conspiracy theory, that’s the purpose of conspiracy theories. They do what propaganda does but with projection of their own actions on their political opponents. It scales to every level, like Trump bitching endlessly about all the time Obama wasted on the golf course then spent his entire administration on more expensive golf courses where he charged cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars most of which was spent at his resorts putting the money in his own pocket. Just listen to the QAnon beliefs and look at who’s in legal trouble for every crime they accuse their political rivals of committing, just not in the Marvel Comic book villain level that they projected. Jeffery Epstein, and Matt Gates and many others are in fact white slavers, those girls are compelled or desperate but certainly victims of coercion of some sort that these men took advantage of while endorsing stories about cannibal Democrats after underage victims. When they tell stories like that it’s a confession of serious criminal activity, then when charged they claim it’s a conspiracy to cover the fictional crimes they accuse others of with no proof, but we have proof of their crimes. We can’t let this childish tactic work, but we let Trump get away with it since he stepped on the public stage. Right before the next fascist rage fest there will be new stories about criminal activity by either Antifa or BLM right before the Proud Boys level fascist terrorist cell jumps over the line and commits serious violence. Just be aware. Beware.

I think I will pass....

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 16, 2021:

I had a terrible Father, but not Abraham terrible. Ultra right wing terrible which honestly is almost as bad. The idiot thought he was patriotic, just like the fascist driving around with extra large US flags now.

Next Wednesday August 18th will be the 101st anniversary for women getting the vote.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 16, 2021:

Your Grandmother seems shy and non photogenic. As an amateur artist (among other things) I find the photo unique in the fact that the portrait isn't the standard portrait, really innovative for it's time.

Carl Sagan denied being an atheist. So what did he believe? - The Washington Post

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 16, 2021:

He was an atheist in a time when it wasn't safe to openly call yourself an atheist, a satanist, a homosexual, a transexual, a socialist even of the FDR category. You couldn't safely be female, or anyone from a minority other than Caucasian. He lived in a world dominated by conservative white men. Well fuck, things sure haven't changed much. We NEED to pass the ERA. If we just declare everyone valid and equal once and for all we wouldn't have to have a century of civil rights struggles for African Americans, then thirty years of struggles for LGBTQ+ rights, and now another twenty years of Asian civil rights?! Really? It's one struggle people, none of us are free as long as any one group has to struggle to be free.

Finally...My own seat!

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 16, 2021:

Perfect car customization, put a cat bed where the cup holders are, then be terrorized by an insanely frightened cat in your vehicle during rush hour in LA. If we could just keep them calm, the way Bill Cosby and Cardi B kept their dates calm. Here's a photo of Bill Cosby and Cardi B on a date.

Baffled and full of questions he is being shown around by God. "Why am I here?

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 17, 2021:

If there's a God, and I seriously don't believe there is, and if this God has a place for us after we're dead that we would categorize as heaven, then when I face God for my final judgment I'll have no fear even though I'm convinced there's no God because at one time as a child I made the mistake of believing my parents and it created enough doubt for me to ask questions and seek God for decades and I found nothing, not a scrap of evidence to justify such a belief, but if such a God exist I'll still be unafraid because according to theory God knows my mind, and my heart and if he can't see where my opinion comes from then he isn't worthy of the worship of someone as dedicated and pure of heart as myself and he'd fucking know it.

US lab stands on threshold of key nuclear fusion goal [bbc.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 17, 2021:

I found this technology very promising about 20 years ago. The glass bead now seems to be a good bit larger than it originally was. Still after the initial explosion loading the next bead into place for the next explosion is troublesome. It's good competition for tokamaks which are more of a continuous process but troubled by magnetic field containment. I don't care which technology matures first just so long as we eventually get controllable fusion power. We thought we were so much closer so many times in the past that I'm still in favor of investing in thorium MSR breader reactors, if for no other reason to feed our nuclear waste to it and to make more Uranium 233 for nuclear spacecraft like the Voyagers. The last time we needed some we had to buy it from Russia, since there's none available on Earth in nature, the half life is too short, but it's an astonishingly useful form of nuclear power where space and weight are at a premium.

Renewable energy will never be 100% green, says expert [euronews.com]

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 17, 2021:

Well, CO2 is everywhere. Open a soda, more CO2 for the atmosphere. Light a match CO2. Mix concrete, CO2.

Satire from the Middle.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 18, 2021:

No Ello, the right attacked the Capital to point out the most obvious difference, the right wing and the left wing are NOT part of the same bird, not even a little.

Let's discuss doctors / nurses/ health professionals fed up with the unvaccinated.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 18, 2021:

Not to mention that they'll be responsible for the NEXT mutation of COVID-19 that vaccines may not work on. If everyone were vaccinated we would still be up shit creek, but now we're up shit creek with a significant portion of the population paddling as hard as possible to go even further up shit creek.

IL Teacher Accused of Spouting Right-Wing Bigotry in Her Classroom for Years | Hemant Mehta | ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 22, 2021:

That sounds like at least 60% of all my teachers in Alabama in the 60’s and 70’s. Instead of Trump it was George Wallace and Nixon.

Scientists claim...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 24, 2021:

I'm unaware of any science discovery that had immediate usefulness for the science uninitiated. That's why we have engineers, to turn those discoveries into technology and toys. There's people still arguing against relativity, as they use their GPS without a clue it wouldn't work if we didn't factor relativity into the equation.

24th August 410 AD…Alaric I Sacks Rome: Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 24, 2021:

That's what they get for hiring the Visigoths as mercenaries then forcing them to camp outside Rome and selling them dog meat while trying to short change them. The Visigoths warned Rome, Rome got scared and offered them the land now known as Bulgaria. After the Visigoths sacked Rome they traveled West and took the land now known as Spain instead. So one of my "What If" thoughts is like, what if the Visigoths had accepted Romes offer. Spanish would be an Eastern European language unrecognizable compared to modern Spanish and the people of Spain would probably be speaking a dialect of Basque unless the Moors stayed there even longer than they actually did in our time line.

This is a wonderful way to live as long as you take care of the necessities of providing for food ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 25, 2021:

I am burdened with glorious purpose! Which is to find my purpose. Fuck it, it doesn't matter.

I don't believe in heaven. Still, this is touching.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 25, 2021:

My grandmother had a chihuahua that was meaner than cat shit. He had a crooked tail and always acted as if I were Satan manifest when I was around. He'd snarl and growl and bark, all the while showing his dental work under the furthest piece of furniture from me. So when I was six I asked why the little bastard hated me so much. The explanation was that when I was three I had grabbed him up and he nipped me on the cheek, so in retribution I bit his tail so hard it broke in two places. I have no memory of that event, but he just couldn't let it go.

Poor Fifi!

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 25, 2021:

No one wondered why there wasn't any wings on that chicken? That's like eating chicken in Cancun, all drum sticks because iguanas don't have wings either.

After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet" which tells mechanics about ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 28, 2021:

I have done so much with so little for so long that I’m now qualified to do anything with nothing. If God puts no more on a person then they can bare then that mother fucker thinks I’m Captain Marvel. I work tech, product development in Airport ground support equipment and I’m the company software engineer. So yes, I get it.

It is sad and ironic how so many who claim to be rational free-thinkers also support censorship of ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 2, 2020:

It’s not censorship when someone keeps spouting the same old debunked ignorant anti whatever crap and I turn the channel. So a creationist demanding to rant at a college and turned away is hardly censorship. Same for most fascist right wing horse manure. Not having to endure yet another tired justification for trickle down is more like mental health than censorship. Besides that the vast majority of censorship has been from the right wing, and from religions. Try being LGBT and demand equal time on Fox News. Except the free thinkers don’t whine and cry about it. That’s primarily a conservative thing.

Americans Oppose Religious Exemptions From Coronavirus-Related Restrictions | Pew Research Center

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 8, 2020:

The anti restriction crowd in a Venn diagram with Trumperism would pretty much be one circle. They are and always have been a vile minority of obsessive loudmouth bullies and racist. They just make so much noise people think they're the majority.

Poor Franklin, such a disappointment!! "No, we're not a Christian country, we've never been a ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 8, 2020:

The recent rant by Trump about Bidden trying to hurt God should alert every simpleton that Trumps Christianity is nothing but an emotional leaver he's using to control evangelicals.

Who feels like a refresher course in Biology?

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 13, 2020:

Evolution is intrinsically logically coherent, with each discovery I get more of a sense of "Of course it's like this" that comes from a deeper understanding. All the concepts of geographical isolation and the roles of environment, competition and socialization play really makes sense. As a Christian kid however I couldn't explain how the soul was dirtied by sin, nor should I have had to.

I just read an article in the Washington Examiner, a Conservative leaning news app that non ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 17, 2020:

Sadly there are many that would endorse 2nd amendment solutions rather than a secular population, but F them, lets do it anyway.

Growing up in a Christian home it was branded in my head literally from birth to "Love one another.

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 23, 2020:

Our overlords want us docile. I'm through buying it.

And we don't bitch about it because we fully understand we're responsible for making life and death ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 26, 2020:

As long as the Police represents authority people who crave authority will be attracted to the profession. I'm sure you can see the flaw, it's driven by the same forces that make action movies box office hits. In my worst interactions with the police I never did anything wrong, yet i was thrown around and called a liar. It's hard to talk about without some numb nuts accusing you of wanting to have all the police executed or some other Fox News stupidity.

Polish bishops call for "clinics to help LGBT people regain natural sexual orientation"

Willow_Wisp comments on Aug 31, 2020:

Tell him a trans woman says to stop living up to bigotry against the Polish.