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Lots to think about

"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition."
— Alexander Hodge

oddcouple on December 7th, 2014
But if it had adequate evidence, would it really be faith?

mikehallbackhoe on February 7th, 2015
faith is based on knowledge of the past. I have faith that I can solve the next cryptogram..... maybe....

Beagle on February 25th, 2015
I don't think Mr. Hodge understands what faith is.

abra on April 8th, 2015
I think you're right, Beagle.

viktoria on June 20th, 2015
I'm with oddcouple.

marnita on February 29th, 2016
I'm with mike.

LLapp on June 5th, 2016
I like Ike.

darkyr on November 16th, 2016
I'm with Lightyr.

SippyGurl on January 7th, 2017
i'm with stupid. oh wait, that's a mirror

Persephone59 on December 10th, 2017
I want to know why, if there is a god (or more), why is faith necessary? Why would a loving deity require folks to believe, just for the hell of it (pun intended)? Why would god hide. Why would god play head games? I'm not an atheist, just agnostic. I don't understand why people want so much to believe. What's wrong with eternal sleep? I believe in morals and crime and mostly, the golden rule, and I think religion is just derived from that.

Queethebean on June 22nd, 2018
I'm with Persephone.

YorkiesRule on August 9th, 2018
Persephone, who says God requires you to believe in him? If God exists, then he exists whether or not you or anyone else believe in him, and his existence doesn't depend on faith. It's people who need faith, not God. Faith helps people understand the world and make right moral choices. Some people are so whole that they don't need faith, and you could be one of them. But the majority of people are lost if they don't have faith. That's why having faith is important, whether or not God actually exists. By the way, I'm not speaking on behalf of any religion, everything I said is just my personal opinion.

Eureka on December 8th, 2018
A mix of funny and insightful comments on this one. I have faith that someone will eventually read this comment.

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Of passwords and toothbrushes

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."
— Clifford Stoll

Scorpion451 on January 9th, 2014
excellent advice.

oddcouple on April 25th, 2015
But then you got another one to try to remember. I have about 20 different password and I can't remember half.

montyb on July 12th, 2015
But I bet you know where your toothbrush is, oddcouple.

abra on April 8th, 2016
Years ago, I saw Clifford Stoll on one of the morning news shows, probably GMA, after he had tracked down a KGB hacker. He seems WAY hyper, but he's a really interesting person.

oddcouple on March 28th, 2017
Yes, monty. I know where my toothbrush is. But I only have to keep track of one.

LLapp on April 18th, 2017
And when you go to the store and buy the exact same kind of toothbrush, nobody stops you and says you can't pick the same toothbrush as you did for the last six toothbrushes.

tgreen517 on August 13th, 2017
Maybe you should write your password on your toothbrush!

marnita on February 14th, 2018
So far nobody has tried to hack my toothbrush.

SippyGurl on September 27th, 2018
lol tgreen! awesome

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Llapp makes this tread for me.

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
— James Broughton

bansaisequoia on October 16th, 2012
I am nyctalopic, myopic and presbyopic.

wvwoman on October 22nd, 2012
ahh, the 'over 40' condition!

montyb on December 24th, 2012
Welcome to the club, Bansai. Except, instead of nyctalopia, I am chromatically challenged.

tjsrc on November 8th, 2013
Everyone's a geezer on this site geez.

abra on June 26th, 2016
I swear, it happens on your fortieth birthday.

LLapp on September 15th, 2017
I was 42. I remember it vividly: the optometrist at Lenscrafters was going on and on in the little dark room about my "two precriptions" and I said, "Why do you keep saying TWO prescriptions?" and then she used the foreign word "presbyopia" and mentioned near vision and far vision, and that's when I shouted "Wait . . . are you tellin' me I need BIFOCALS?!" and she said "I'm . . . I'm so sorry." I went back out to the store, where my two children were having fun trying on frames, and told them "Hey! Guess what I need! It starts with a B." My son said, "Uh....boxer shorts?" I said "It starts with a B and it ends in an old age home!" "Okay, I'm guessing bifocals," he said. "RIGHT," I barked. He laughed. Now he's 34 and balding. Hah.

BrainCellKeeper on December 31st, 2017
At around age 48, I needed to start dying my hair to cover the gray and wearing cheaters to read small, blurry letters.

marnita on January 7th, 2018
40, yep, that sounds about right. The good news is that my eyes haven't gotten much worse since then (I''m pushing 75). Except for the incipient cataracts, of course.

NotTooOld on August 3rd, 2018
My first pair of glasses were trifocals. Talk about a hard adjustment.

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Monty's excellent comeback, plus a bonus word list

"The fatter the flea the leaner the dog." — Proverb

chopstix on August 1st, 2013
eewww

jnoodles on March 9th, 2015
Very eeewwww

kb83 on July 22nd, 2015
Comma after "flea". And what is the higher lesson in this proverb?

montyb on July 24th, 2015
That fleas are too busy with their ectoparasitic ways to punctuate properly?

SwampySox on February 29th, 2016
They sucked it right out of the quote.

GtrZan on July 6th, 2017
I'll take "4-letter words that end in A" for 1000, Alex

LLapp on October 26th, 2017
4-letter words that end in A? Gosh, after "flea," I have no idea.

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lewisengr on October 1st, 2018
iota

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"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. "
— Elbert Hubbard

universalmom on October 28th, 2014
Good job not splitting that infinitive

dovid1946 on February 13th, 2015
Another intelligent quote from the cool Cat in the Hat

darkyr on April 22nd, 2016
I split an infinitive once. It took several weeks to heal.

maradnu on April 6th, 2017
How many stitches did it require?

skeeter on November 5th, 2017
An infinite number.

Barnabas on August 16th, 2018
Nothing worse than a 7 / 10 split infinitive.