In my opinion, religion is synonymous with mental illness, not being able to distinguish fantasy from reality. For a grown up human being to not be able to separate myth from fact, to believe in absurd bible stories such as talking snakes, women being turned into pillars of salt, the silly ark fable, food falling from ...more

Yes but could he have amassed a fortune worth an estimated 200 million to 1 billion in the 18th century? TV has given him a flock to shear that he never could have reached back then, right? Remember; 46% of America's alleged population believes we were put here in our present form 10,000 years ago, or as Lewis Black sa...more

I just read the book; "The Corporation; The Pathological Pursuit of Power and Profits" by Richard Bakan. This not only exactly conforms  to what he's written about, that corporations, now people because of Citizens United and a corrupted, politicized Supreme Court, are psychotic people. Economist Milton Friedman would ...more

Many years ago I had an insight into homosexuality. I saw two gay men walking down the street and I realized that a gay man gets the same feeling when he sees another man he's attracted to as I get when I see an attractive woman. As strange and inexplicable as this was to me, I realized that I never chose to be attract...more

Many years ago I had an insight into homosexuality. I saw two gay men walking down the street and I realized that a gay man gets the same feeling when he sees another man he's attracted to as I get when I see an attractive woman. As strange and inexplicable as this was to me, I realized that I never chose to be attract...more

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I've always felt that time is a measure of discomfort. The more fun you're having, the less you notice time at all. But if you're miserable, sick, unhappy, time just drags by slowly and seems to stand still. Even in my 60's I can remember being in school watching the clock slow down and stop as it approached the bell f...more