Noel
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Noel replied to the topic The political and/or religious humor thread in the forum Small Talk 1 day, 5 hours ago
Thanks. Never tire of Lewis Black.
Loved the show where he said, “If you want to know about the Old Testament there are people walking amongst us called Jews who can tell you all about it. You’re reading it all wrong. They, the Jews, can help you. Just stop one on the street and he’ll be more than happy to explain it to you…for a fee.”
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Noel replied to the topic
Sunday School 19th March 2023 in the forum Sunday School 5 days, 11 hours ago
Thanks Reg
Non Religious on the graph in the “The decline of white evangelical Christians continues to trend downwards,” shows that it is larger compared to any one religious denomination. Great news.
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Noel replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 6 days, 12 hours ago
So when I arise in the wee hours of the morning and I’m in the kitchen brewing us coffee, and I call out to my wife, “Ana! Are you WOKE!” Can I not use the word like that? I know that it’s not the King’s English but growing up in the South Bronx, fresh off the Eastern Airlines jet to Kennedy Airport, It’s how we used it. But with a thick Spanish…[Read more]
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Noel replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 1 week ago
“Then I started thinking how some poor kid from the hood had so much against him… just to get here at all, well then maybe the world would be a better place if we let the pendulum swing too far for a good while. My woke moment. For centuries non-whites and queers were screwed. Now there is an expanded war against all LGBTQ folks. Drag shows b…[Read more]
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Noel replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 1 week, 1 day ago
“Woke” has become such a snarl word by those resistant to social progress that it has lost all value (which was perhaps part of the point). I mean, literally anything that reactionaries don’t like can be labeled woke:
- New tax funded shelter for the homeless: wokeness
- Considering abortion for incest rape victims and allow…
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Noel replied to the topic Is spirituality minus the spirit still spiritual? in the forum Atheism 1 week, 1 day ago
Learned about spirituality at an AA meeting.
At the time I was on the fence between deist, atheist, agnostic, etc. So it made sense to “turn my will and my life over to a higher power” to help a brother out with his many addictions. Even let a buddy of mine convince me to take me to a monastery for a weekend where they were practicing and…[Read more]
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Noel replied to the topic Something funny happened at the Academy Awards in the forum Small Talk 1 week, 1 day ago
Can somebody please give me a straight up definition for the NEW word Woke? For the life of me I use to think I knew what the word meant but these days I’m not so sure. It’s like the train pulled away and left me behind.
Feelings: If I, hypothetically speaking because I’m as heterosexual as the day is long, am walking around with a penis but I…[Read more]
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Noel replied to the topic They didn't do it. We did. in the forum Politics 1 month ago
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/02/10/hersh-nord-stream-sabotage/
Also: “… the entire story hinges on a single “source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.” Supposedly, this source was aware of a top secret task force convened by President Joe Biden to destroy the pipeline. This source is also a legal expert, claiming a Biden…[Read more]
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Noel replied to the topic If Only I Hadn't Read the Bible, in the forum Introductions 1 month ago
“That would be kewl—new gods. Let the gods of the bible go the way of Zeus and Osiris”
Neil Gaiman – American Gods
Book about all the old forgotten gods bitching about, well, being forgotten. Had another plot to it other than that but gods… bitching… crybaby’s. Loved the book didn’t care for the screenplay. Not the way I imagined it.
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Noel replied to the topic
Sunday School 19th February 2023 in the forum Sunday School 1 month ago
Thanks Reg
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Noel replied to the topic If Only I Hadn't Read the Bible, in the forum Introductions 1 month ago
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Noel replied to the topic If Only I Hadn't Read the Bible, in the forum Introductions 1 month ago
Noel, I didn’t know that Jack Kirby called them that. I always thought of Marvel characters as for the most part Humanistically-oriented, with characters and powers that are explainable and at least distantly within the bounds of possibility and probability. Thor, the Asgardians, and Hercules were the only Supernatural b…
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Noel replied to the topic They didn't do it. We did. in the forum Politics 1 month ago
LOL
someone caught the reactions of some of the other journalist when that “genius “ asked the Biden Woke question. It was priceless. A true WTF Jim, really?
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Noel replied to the topic If Only I Hadn't Read the Bible, in the forum Introductions 1 month ago
Yeah Robert. Early Kirby. Actually read that one. Never owned it because even as a kid in 1968 it was worth more than I made shining shoes. This is how I remember him:
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Noel replied to the topic If Only I Hadn't Read the Bible, in the forum Introductions 1 month ago
Old Testament god was/is an asshole. The New God-Egad! The late Jack Kirby coined a DC comic with that title – The New Gods. I liked Kirby’s concept of New Gods so much more. Miss Jack Kirby.
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Noel replied to the topic Everything you know about Covid is wrong in the forum Science 1 month, 1 week ago
What he said. (Robert)
In 2020, every time Fauci, Trump, and their whole cast of characters came on the set to warn us, guide us, and in Trumps case make it look like it was the flu and all we needed to do was drink bleach to eradicate it, I wanted to put my foot through the TV.
He had those folks from the CDC saddled and broken. They couldn’t…[Read more]
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Noel replied to the topic
Sunday School February 12th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 1 month, 1 week ago
Thanks Reg
eating Fajitas, Queso, and lots of Guac during the Super Bowl.
Will be watching for that opening of the gates of hell (lol) when Rihanna takes the stage
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Noel replied to the topic Everything you know about Covid is wrong in the forum Science 1 month, 2 weeks ago
No one enjoys properly wearing an N95 mask. It blocks the spit and nose goo particles that contain the virus, even though virus particles are small enough to get through. It’s a matter of degree. Masks and vaccines are not digital. Not 0 or 100%. There is a statistical curve and why is this so fucking difficult to u…
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Noel replied to the topic
Sunday School February 5th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Thanks Reg: long time. Hope you’ve been well. On your advice downloaded a Kindle version of “The Milky Way, an autobiography of our galaxy”. Enjoying it so far and giggling every time I find myself thinking about The Milky Way speaking to me in the first person.
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Noel replied to the topic Where in the world…. in the forum Small Talk 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hey Belle: Somewhere where they speak Spanish and/ or English I guess. A little late for me to learn a new language. Somewhere temperate. Everywhere I’ll go they probably will have their own political crap to deal with so no escaping the racism, nationalism, and hate.
I might be better off staying put as at least I know what to expect here. I li…[Read more] - Load More