The king james version of the new testament

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

What thinketh ye now? Verily, I tell ye..... etc.

May Day 2019: The resurgence of the class struggle and the fight for socialism - World Socialist Web...

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

As if once wasn't enough.

Some academic institutions support free speech. [reason.com]

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

Those students will be so traumatised. Hopefully they will be boycotted.

I'm so old🤔

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

Wow, that's not just old, that's ancient!

Been there.

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

"Oh, what hairy arms you have, Grandma!".

One for all you sensitive assholes.

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

I'm not leaving my safe space for an hour.

The person who has never really attempted to ask himself or herself the basic questions of ...

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

That's how I see it but that probably suits my nature. I think the purpose of life is simply to live it and put meaning into it. There are a lot of ways to do that.

Yes. Yes I do....

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

I wouldn't punish myself like that. I head straight for the coffee.

If the USA was so concerned about human rights, democracy, they would not be threatening to invade ...

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

I think America is moving slowly in the right direction, in the sense that people at one time really did believe that America was in every way a force for good in the world. Now a lot of us are knowledgeable enough to read between the lines, watch for patterns and such. I don't think there ever was a time before when Americans were so 'woke' to what their government is doing. And yes, the hypocrisy with Israel is sickening.

Yesterday at work a woman my age (but better 'preserved') was rude to me.

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

The price is too high.

Frank here, a life member of FFRF, just saying hey to all.

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

Hi. Welcome aboard!

ISRAELI COWARD soldiers beating Children - YouTube

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

God's chosen at work.

Surprise!!

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

I guess. But they're happy.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your...

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

From what I've seen, it's not true. We all need a level playing field to begin with. Richard has a lot to be thankful for. I think it boils down to adequate finances and education.

Well???????

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

Satan took the extra rolls away.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your ...

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

But they really seemed to know what they were talking about!

I'll have to fact check this one.

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

But, but, but, .... health and longevity aren't exactly the same thing!

like the pope is the head of the Catholics, and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Church of ...

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

God is an Englishman so enough said.

One of my favorite dishes to make is shepherd's pie.

brentan comments on May 2, 2019:

Spagetti bolognese tastes great and is very easy to make.

In most instances, things are never as bad as they seem .

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Maybe we look at problems from the point of view of the ideal life. From the point of view of things being really awful, lots of problems are insignificant.

The last two days, opponents to Madero have taken to the streets of Caracas, Venezuela in protest.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

I wonder will Guaidó turn out be another American puppet if he manages to get control? Those poor people! Screwed either way.

I'm a curvy girl! With that said, a man from this site messaged me to tell me admitting to my ...

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

It's kind of sociopathic. I don't get it either but that might be a good thing. Best to be happy you got a clear sign of where his mind is at.

"When the bird and the book disagree, always believe the bird."

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

What else can we do?

I just got 30 days in club Zuck for the following: I posted an article about isis executing 19 ...

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

I guess things must be bad if you're afraid to write Jews,

For God so loved the world...

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

It was just a moment of pique.

Spring Wind They always die in winter in my family, parents, siblings, aunts and uncles.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Try again next time, you bastard!

testing, testing, trump sucks, 123, testing.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Thank goodness I've got my safe space. That was unforgivable!

After three visits with each other last year, two in Michigan and one in Kentucky, @EllenDale and I ...

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Here's wishing you both the very best.

Pandora just keeps dishing up delights like this, Alana Morrisette unplugged live [youtu.be]

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Yes, that was a treat!

Do you have the time...? Also, that cat's face is priceless.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

'The labourer is worthy of his hire' - Luke 10:7.

Bill Burr [youtube.com]

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

That was very funny! True too!

I have not been a good group member.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Well done! I enjoyed the way you wrote it too. Witty too. I wish you the best for the future!

[thetimes.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

We keep moving away from the original meaning of words. Oh well, nothing new there, I guess. I just wish they created a new word for hatred of Islam and left this one at fear of Islam. I couldn't see the new definition without signing up.

Shoukichi Kina with Ry Cooder - Jing Jing [youtu.be]

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

It sure isn't The Buena Vista. I don't know what to make of it.

hmm hmm himmm

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Jesus!

Sophia hawkins [youtu.be]

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Damn, I wish.... No, there's no point!

Happy first of may... [youtube.com]

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

It is unutterably sad and beautiful.

Nothing matters

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases pain. - Ecclesiastes 1:18.

I feel I might soon be banned from a support group for people with Aspergers.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

I don't understand the terminology. I guess you're pointing to the flaws in the autistic personality. Being that way myself, I prefer (but don't insist) to see the good things about autism and enjoy how TV has made successful shows about the talents of autistic people. Granted, the shows are OTT but they give the idea that different ways of looking at the world are valid and useful. But it a very wide spectrum and I guess nobody wanted to hear any negativity. It's a bad feature of support groups that they enforce positive comments only and refuse to listen to constructive criticism.

It'll be fun they said!

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

If I was a spy and they wanted to get all the info out of me.....

Rappin' Rodney [youtube.com]

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Hey MojoDave, you're in a video!

Here's a poem I wrote at school, some sixty plus years ago, using different spellings for the same ...

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

Very witty! That reminds of the official English accent as per BBC radio and TV. I read somewhere that the main objection to to the regional TV series Coronation Street back in the 60s was the 'objectionable' accent. As it turned out, people loved the series.

The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score.

brentan comments on May 1, 2019:

This is the idea behind the Orestes in ancient Greece. The myth was that the corpse emitted a miasma that could only be removed by justice, understood as revenge. The Furies symbolised that revenge. The court system was set up to end the constant tit-for-tat revenges. At the end of the story, the Furies were permanently placed under the judge's podium in the court to signify the old justice was still understood but superceded by the less subjective and less murderous civil justice system.

My Brain by Mark Sandman my whole brain was out of tune my whole brain was out of tune I don't ...

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Darned ECT!

@Sassygirl3869 kicked off for Fuher trumpf

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

I would love to see the list of words in the algorithm's list of no-nos. It's probably words like these: fascist Jew Muslim Islam transgender fat

Papa Roach - Help [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Cool. They're putting nervous breakdowns to music.

A husband and wife are trying to set up a new password for their computer.

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

LOL. Maybe change it to myerectpenis. Imagine if it still gave the same message!

Church membership is dropping fast. That may be good news for LGBTQ rights. / LGBTQ Nation

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Let's hope it encourages a live and let live attitude.

Human rights lawyer sentenced to 148 lashes and 38 years in jail in Iran  | Daily Mail Online

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Jesus H, you'd think she had to be a serial killer to get that!

I'm not single ....

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

It is like saying I'm inbetween jobs and not unemployed. Or I'm inbetween spouses.

A quick update and apology to Lisa (Sassygirl3869) for her account being disabled last night.

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Way to go.

Single man, looking for life partner.

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Form a queue, ladies.

@Sassygirl3869 kicked off for Fuher trumpf

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Seriously? Lots of us think he is acting like a fascist.

I find, as a group, atheists are highly intelligent and I enjoy the mostly well thought out ...

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

That's the new secular form of self-righteous expressing itself in the same way as the old. "I'm so right I don't even need to be mannerly".

Tells it like it is.

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

That'll have the kids running for their safe spaces.

Interesting huge study on how much exercise benefits mental health - and it doesn’t take much ...

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

It seems that we're not mind and body but a mind-body. That's probably why thinking about every thing rationally doesn't always cut it.

Would you prefer honesty or kindness if you could only choose one?

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Kindness. I think that will sort the rest out.

Please , bring back sassygirl3869 .

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Yeah, what's going on there?

Best summary of the Brexit fiasco that I have yet heard. [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

A lot of people think that going against the vote is the pragmatic thing to do. The price would be the damage done to democracy. I dread to think how the damage would be manifested over the next few years. I trust many remainers are conscious of this and will get behind the democratic will but I don't know if there are enough of them.

Did you have an atheist epiphany?

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Sadly no. Like anything else I ever learned, the process was very slow.

@Admin @developer @SiteSupport I'm a bit freaked out - I have personal blocks - but they've gone ...

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

I didn't understand the part close to the end of Infinity Wars where people starting turning to dust. How did that happen?

It's really amazing

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

I think it has to do with feeling complicit if something bad happens to your child.

Too early?

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Everybody knows it's a Christmas movie. His wife's name is Holly, for goodness' sake!

Life after college and before retirement.

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn't care. - Frank Zappa.

I intend to live forever, or die trying....Groucho Marx.

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Do not go gentle.....

Chinese authorities blow up Christian megachurch with dynamite | The Independent

brentan comments on Apr 30, 2019:

Chinese demolishing human rights again. I believe they have Muslims in conc - I mean re-education centres.

For all the caffeine addicts out there.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

And that's based on one shot per cup!

So many angry white males in this country and Europe.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

One group has so much materially but so little meaning in their lives and the other has the opposite problem.

A Bernie Sanders presidency would be disastrous for America. Sander-nista?

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I see him as a social democrat.

Does anyone believe their is something else out there after our time on Earth?

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I would like to think I can become part of a universal consciousness.

Do You Enjoy Religious Music?

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I enjoy pretty much any music if it's well done. So far, anyway.

It is, what it is:

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Time to pass the baton .... no, it's not a double meaning.

Here's an interesting retort for those Religious Apologists who try to silence rational and factual ...

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I'm a sinner from the Christian perspective because I'm morally flawed. I'm imperfect from a human perspective because I'm morally flawed.

It's just a test!

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Their obsession with homosexuals gets on my nerves. Here's one list of who is getting thrown into the lake of fire: But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." Revelation 21:8. Here's another list: Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God - 1 Corinthians 6:9,10. God is kind of equal opportunity minded when it comes to chucking people into Hell. He isn't hung up on homosexuals.

$20.00 party over, oops out of time...

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

LOL. Very witty!

So my ex wants to try out couples therapy.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

If you do it, you might be hurt again. If you don't, you'll stay in your current situation indefinitely. My guess is do the therapy and weigh up her current thinking during the sessions.

In ancient Athens, ostracism was practiced by voting out the citizen most harmful to the city-state.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

That guy at amazon who turned employees into automatons.

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (from The Concert in Central Park) [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Art warming up the crowd: "Are you cold"?

LETTER TO DR.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

That comes across as an unhealthy obsession. Or an obsession with refusing to engage in the obsession. I think it is articulated really well. Incisive, even.

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York City, through ...

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

'There is a crack in every thing That's how the light gets in'. I think he got that from Rumi or some other poet. He had the wit to realise how valuable that perception was. I thought he meant we see something important through a flaw in its make-up. Now I'm not sure. It might mean there is a very tiny conduit in the nature of every thing that if realised and used, opens a world of understanding. Here's a related idea from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

I just finished reading a couple books by Sam Harris, the latest was his very short book called Free...

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I haven't. I would love to know how he thinks about it compared to mainstream religion. And the Calvinist idea of no free will too.

Showed them!!

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Gosh yes, and they taught us mental arithmetic for when we didn't have a pen and paper.

Jimmy Dore is great, I don't always agree with him but its very rare. [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

You're right. She IS absolutely gorgeous.

Yep, in many ways.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I can just imagine what Homer Simpson would think about that.

I had a conversation years ago with a Bible scholar while questioning my faith.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

As far as I know, they started writing the Bible about 6th century BCE.

Of course - EVERYthing is a sin ! Guilt-guilt-guilt

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

That's what made sex so good.

Dame Kiri te Kanawa. - Porgi Amor from the Marriage of Figaro ...Mozart. [youtu.be]

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I always thought Bess was black but no matter, it's a very nice song.

You have a choice, but you can't complain about both.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Best to keep them on welfare. They'll just get notions about themselves.

What’s the odds they will end up horsing around?

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Here's a version from the 13th century: One day we reading were for our delight Of Launcelot, how Love did him enthral. Alone we were and without any fear. Full many a time our eyes together drew That reading, and drove the colour from our faces; But one point only was it that o'ercame us. When as we read of the much-longed-for smile Being by such a noble lover kissed, This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided, Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating. Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it. That day no farther did we read therein." -Dante's Inferno I love that last verse. They horsed around.

Be good to yourself!

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

The last time I was surrounded by these guys, it wasn't my decision. The ambulance came for me.

For some of you with no sense of humor! Lol

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I didn't come across that in Spanish class.

JEJUNE - Adjective.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

French sounds so good.

After reading @admin 's post on civility needed on this site, I remembered an ancestor's wisdom:

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Is that the hero's buddy from Outlander? And yes, forgive but don't forget.

Just say "NO" to religion!

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

The Bible says you won't get tested any more than you can handle so it will help Christians grow character.

A Good Story is Better Than Great Information [youtube.com]

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I think that's why the stories like Saint George and the dragon or going into the underworld and coming back are the archetypes that we see today in Lord of the Rings and stories like that. We really do identify with the characters and relate to their struggles to overcome difficulties. It, as Jordan Peterson says, not reality but hyper-reality.

.............

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Bad memories for sure.

How to respond to, "have a blessed day"?

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Thanks. Likewise.

What scent triggers a memory for you?

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Tar. It is more than a smell to me but I can't put my finger on what the value-added is.

The 'c-word'- oh, naughty, naughty! I have often wondered how the f-word became the most foul ...

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

I think it's a great word when you're angry but too aggressive to be used to mean having sex.

I feel like my good hearted nature is being taken advantage of lately.

brentan comments on Apr 29, 2019:

Very badly. I have no natural tact at all and try to get by on simple truth as I know it and openness. It is just about always understood as weakness and I'm convinced now that it is my fault for expecting people to behave in a way not natural to most humans. I would change if I could because I don't have the impetus Christianity used to give me to persevere. Nowadays I keep the same M.O. because I simply don't know any other way. It's a world of complexity I don't want to enter.