If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Seems I hurt your fee-fees by trashing the book that made such a big impact on you as a youth. Yeah no. I've read lots of harsh criticisms of Plato but they are done by people who have actually bothered to fucking engage the text. Be Tee Dub, swearing doesn't automatically indicate hurt feelings. J...

wouldn't go so far to say that Plato was autistic. I was calling you the autist you perceptive giant. Just that he was disingenuous prat who cobbled together a string of tautologies to come to the self-serving conclusion that rule by the elite class of which he was a member, was the ideal, perfect ...

Obviously I've always appreciated his origin of love myth. [youtube]c3oSc8gMrGo[/youtube] Fuckin’ A. I’m giant fan of Plato and eve took up the study of Greek so I could read him in the language he wrote and was preserved in; but even being a fan boy I understand and respect that people don’t...

For a better formulation of "taxation is theft" you can check out Robert Nozick's classic "Anarchy, State, and Utopia". The idea is predicated on a Kantian notion that taxes use people as a means to an end and so is morally suspect, since in that kind of ethic you can only see people as the ends in ...

ShameMaggot wrote:

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Plato was a dundering blockhead as well. The Republic reads like it was written by an eleven year-old.

wat

So I guess I'm to assume I'm dealing with Brony levels of autism here, because that is the only way I can explain the complete lack of historical awareness here.

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Plato was a dundering blockhead as well. The Republic reads like it was written by an eleven year-old.

wat

Why does every idiot that discovers Critical Theory set out to behave like it didn't all happen before - every bit as tediously - in the 80's. It is like getting a new toy that has multiple functions. It really isn’t any different then when somebody first learns about informal logical fallacies a...

PZ sure has his dander up. Must be the heat today, crank up that central air PZ!

I love how Carrier's description starts in the "About the Author" box:

Richard Carrier is the renowned author of several books...

Renowned to whom?

I wonder if Carrier is still listing his Coast Guard awards on his CV

Oolon has never ceased being one of the dumbest cocksuckers I've ever seen on the internet. He's the type of guy who'd do a big shit on his own feet and claim a win when others around him are annoyed by the smell. Sums him perfectly, but he seems to have gotten worse on twitter than when he was shi...

What cracks me up about the FtB bloggers-pretend-activists located in Minnesota is how out of touch they are with actual gay communities in Minneapolis and St. Paul, which is funny because Zvan doesn’t live that far from where all the action is. I thought it was cute that the U of M CASH group who...

Oolon has never ceased being one of the dumbest cocksuckers I've ever seen on the internet.

Maybe he was in training to become a troll. If Oggie had said "I was in training to be a troll, and I blew out my sphincter from getting massively butthurt during Basic Trolling," I'd still find it more believable than his story about being a disabled veteran child rapist who was raped. Also, you'r...

The experiment is done and proved to work. People like Myers have no such experience which is why they talk such complete rubbish. Where I live he would be considered racist, sexist and divisive and at best deeply patronizing. In fact most of them would. As I have said many times, they are parochia...

https://twitter.com/sondosia/status/456855246707228672 Madam, it is your money. As if anyone here cares what she does with it. That is just her way of signaling she’s with the band, a public display of brand loyalty to the right sorts of people so she can continue accruing interest on all the soc...

I don’t get Melody’s attitude about her PTSD. From my experience of undergoing therapy for PTSD courtesy of the V.A., this isn’t something you parade around for the world to enjoy. It is a condition that is detrimental to your health and needs to be taken care of consistently. Having no shame ...

I don’t get Melody’s attitude about her PTSD. From my experience of undergoing therapy for PTSD courtesy of the V.A., this isn’t something you parade around for the world to enjoy. It is a condition that is detrimental to your health and needs to be taken care of consistently. Having no shame ...

It's the idea that he had a furious argument with a calm 6 foot 2 military guy trying to set up a table at a student event, that's what I find hard to believe. The University of Minnesota at Morris is a small community, a campus in the middle of nowhere with just two or three bars at best. Everybod...

Isn't the whole "drinking and partying" thing very dudebro in and of itself? Why are these feminist women behaving like a bunch of drunken frat boys? I imagine the justification for it would be along the lines of challenging gender stereotypes, that women who drink and enjoy partying are not whores...

Thought I'd take a gander at Greta's blog to see what this leading activist was up to. Saw her plugging this event that she was appearing at. I had to laugh because In Berlin, a night of fisting shows and golden shower displays usually falls under the category of a typical weekend; You are no more p...

He might have been trashed to the point of blindness, with only Becky, McWrong, and Janice to choose from... [Sorry if that was too high a concentration of nightmare juice for any of you.] :whistle: Rebbeca and Jen are not even in the same universe as Stopper. I recall one time she told me stories ...

Shermer is one of the few atheist speakers with sex appeal (in my humble bisexual opinion). Dude exudes charisma in his debates. He can def do better than that Janice chick. On top of that, Stopper is fucking “Out There” in terms of personality and mental health. Life dealt her a shitty hand of...

I'll eat my shit if Michael Shermer tried to have sex with Stopper (Janice, EverlastingGod Stopper from the old IIDB)

Man, some of these comments from Dana Hunter's blog have got to be fuckin' POE Okay now go on to step two and start looking for more blogs of people talking about racism. Black skeptics and the Crommunist archive are only a start. there are many, many more people who have been talking this talk for ...

I would love to see Loftus get into an online spat with Carrier. They are both such arrogant egotistical asses with such over-inflated opinions of themselves, they're like twins. Although Carrier is much more prolific, his ability to go on and on about himself is formidable. It would have to be som...

ThreeFlangedJavis wrote:True words, Loftus.Takes a demagogue to know a demagogue.

Forsooth

No need to apologize. It was a good (and true) rant. The analogy to today's simplistic Christians is a good one. Of course, reading the true history of the religion and learning how it all came together is a good way to become a Christian apostate :lol: Just in terms of feminism, maybe that's why s...

SoylentAtheistGuest2 wrote:Twist ending. The anonymous accuser is Jen.

lol

E-begging is becoming a plague nowdays. Any schmuck now tries to pocket anything from the general public via Kickstart or Indiegogo. Since Anita Sarkeesian pocketed $100K+ and that fat Amazing Atheist got $17K to make a Miro-Community powered website that embeds Youtube videos plastered by Google A...

Doesn't look like begging to me. Looks more like "Hey, did anyone here like what I wrote before? I did. If you want to see more of it, the money's got to come for somewhere, so would you mind chipping in? Thanks." I dunno, maybe in your head, if a musician tries to fund a tour with Kickstarter, tha...

justinvacula wrote:Please help me

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From Jen’s Blag Hag blog: When I started college, I labeled myself as a feminist. Like, woo, equality, who wouldn’t be behind that?! I started to read feminist blogs and I disagreed with a lot, if not most, of what they were saying. It was incredibly tempting to spew forth my uneducated opinion,...