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

Hemant weighs in on the whole Dawkins defends mild pedophilia issue,

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... ents-okay/

The Tim Channel wrote:It seems to me the obvious name for the next thread is Aching From The Anus. Enjoy.

Isn't that the title of your memoir.

Enjoy.

It's like they're living on an island and are determined to burn all their bridges to the mainland. Good. I hope the other a/s conventions follow TAM's example and realize that there is only so many times that you can allow these idiots to beat you over the head with their BS before you finally hav...

"It seems to me that people have come up with the idea that they have the right to not be offended. And that right that they have, to not be offended, supercedes your freedom of speech as the constitution (sic). Quite frankly, Penn could write a book that says just "cunt." It could just be cunt-cun...

Sister Number Three is aiming to become the Secretary General of the Ministry of Truth once FTB has taken over the world. Unrealistic? Hey, itâ€™s her only hope of becoming a Really Important Person. Imagine, sheâ€™d have the power to have Justin Vacula arrested and tortured until he became just as...

David Silverman seems to adjust his views based on whoever happens to be his current audience. Now he is trotting the FTB shtick about denouncing offensiveness and "getting rid of the shit" but a year ago on the skeptically yours podcast with Emery Emery and Penn Jillette he staunchly boasted how fr...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2013/05/stop-pretending-there-are-no-assholes/#comment-549413 great1american1satan May 22, 2013 at 1:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment Vacula bothers me pretty badly, but at this point Iâ€™m far more disturbed by the blithe indifference or tacit su...

iconografer, Y U NO PROMOTE YOUR YT STUFF HERE? It's some good stuff,

[youtube]HhQA9mLkGmI[/youtube]

They could not know it at the time, but while there was no reason for them to hear this story, Mallows felt a strong need to tell it. He needed to tell it now because he knew a punctuation event was about to occur, and this story would be that one perfect paragraph to be so ended. Is English Greg's...

Jen is the last person who should be giving out advice on how to run things in an organization/community/movement/club since she's the kind of person who abandoned the shit group she began (A+) at the first sign of friction. If she's ever allowed any real leadership position in any community the res...

I can't look at Laden's hair without thinking of this, http://www.dbcovers.com/imagenes/backdrops/thumbs/dracula_de_bram_stoker_1992//dracula_de_bram_stoker_1992_14.jpg Also considering the fact that this argument about drunkenness and rape was had several times over the past year and a half, Im con...

On the topic of reaching out to minorities in the atheist community, the atheist experience guys (including Matt D.) had a discussion about it waaaaaaay back in Nov. 2010 on episode 9.12 of their non-prophets podcast, in which all the people present pretty much said the exact same thing Shermer is g...

Matt Dillahunty, fighting the fight for skepticism...or not, https://twitter.com/therajraj/status/277793898796032000 Matt Dillahunty â€@Matt_Dillahunty @therajraj Won't be entertaining simplistic exaggerations, oversimplifications and sniping. Bye. What else is twitter good for? The best thing abo...

Matt Dillahunty, fighting the fight for skepticism...or not,

vjack from atheist rev has pretty much come out completely against FtB over the past few months (despite being somewhat on their side last year), http://www.atheistrev.com/2012/12/holy-hyperbole-squidman.html On PZ's latest hyperbole, Right. Because calling PZ a "mangina" or expressing opposition to...

My question is does 2012 PZ disapprove of 2010 PZ's sexually suggestive comment towards a woman at a skeptic's conference, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ch1XFqmGeM#t=13m00s The woman was randomly picked from the audience at the 9:24 mark, so as far as we can tell it wasn't a prearranged routine, j...

Steersman, my suspicion was that the laughable prick was adding a modifier to the man Justin's name, in a way which hinted at the feminine version of that name, presumably to mock xim. Not something a good Phawrongulite should be doing. I recall on Thunderf00t's FTB blog that I took to task a Baboo...

Is this the same guy that was jacking off in front of Jen without her consent, http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/20 ... -finished/

Florida's got face-eaters, but Seattle is just full of wankers it seems.

To me I always thought Pantheism substitutes God with "all of nature & it's laws" aka the Universe. which then can be looked at as either...God = nature or the godless version that Nature reigns supreme and everything in existence is a part of Nature...making nature the supreme, omnipotent, omni ev...

Can I get a link to the webpage of the content she sent a DMCA request for?

Haven't seen anyone respond to you yet so here's a link to Justin's old site explaining the matter, http://www.justinvacula.com/2012/08/dmca.html

Despite occasional insistence to the contrary on this thread, it appears it's not just 'Merkins' who have stupid things going on in their land. Bummer, I was hoping we could at least still be #1 in something,

[youtube]GfzCLxq8VJQ[/youtube]

When the fuck was crommunist ever more sensible than not? The first I heard of him was in the comments of one of Loftus' first anti-FTB posts on Debunking Christianity (late last year or early this year[?]) and he came across like an indignant douche then. What I've seen from him since hasn't change...

If you look at The Non-Prophets 11.8 (around the 40 mins mark), Russell Glasser is defending male circumcism (or cutting off pink toes! "Maybe..."). This strikes me as total relativism on Glasser's part. Glasser can have any stupid opinion he wants, what's really laughable is they way, when challen...

Aaaaannnnndddddd...I'm caught up. Now to participate :dance: Matt doesn't really keep up with the stuff. It would almost like complaining Dawkin's doing nothing about VenomFangXs false DMCAs. Not quite that disparity, but you know what I mean... The main complaint I would make against Matt isn't eve...

If it's racist then yes I will retract it, but I'd like to have it on better authority than a white person's... :lol: :lol: :lol: There are times I wonder whether A+ers are really this oblivious about the words they write or if some really intricate Andy Kaufman level shit is being pulled on us all.

If you're still collecting opinions d4m10n, I'll like to take the opportunity to echo (echo, echo, echo...) what others have said about enjoying the anti-moderation policy here. One a personal note I also like the fact that things almost always get linked to around here by posters when they referenc...

Saint N Why bother with Oolon anymore? He lives a nice middle-class life in a nice little village where the locals live in dread of an Asian family moving in in case it lowers the local property prices; he plays tennis; he drinks cider in a quaint pub. His lifestyle is very white and very privilege...

@12: I want to personally thank you for illustrating Stephanieâ€™s point so ably. Especially since you failed to fulfill any of the criteria you set out in your first bullet point for what counts as a â€œrebuttalâ€ of her points. John Greg is clearly a witch, Well, we shall see what we shall see. ...

7. Of course, if she didn't delete, moderate, and ban them, she might get more. And Prince oolon, that deep digger of bullshit has this to say: Although I find it interesting they actually claim to think like this, anyone disagreeing on there will quickly find themselves an addition to the members ...

@Tigzy This from NSC's Twitter: "NonStampCollector â€@nonstampNSC Anyway PZ, I'll be sure to send you my latest draft for your editing and alterations before posting<<< OOOPS!! Cat's out of the FTB bag now! " He is setting himself up for the largest "I told you so" moment since Kurt Cobain's mam s...

So if youâ€™re one of the people who are actively involved in the day-to-day operation of our movementsâ€“you run activities or groups, lobby, speak, investigate, research, write, edit, design, and all the other things that keep us functioningâ€“youâ€™re doing work that desperately needs to be done...

http://i.imgur.com/BI9E8.jpg If it is true that Benson is getting "hundreds of hits every day" from the Slyme Pit, shouldn't she really be sending us a thank you note (with maybe a fruit basket or something) for all the blog hits she's getting from us. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, Ophelia, a...

About that, in that video at the conference in Florida, Becky claims that @ElevatorGate lives in Florida, that they barred him from entering the conference, and that they got him fired from his job. He's told me that 1 and 3 are false [and that it didn't matter if 2 was true because he wasn't tryin...

AHA always was the right choice - a right-wing, ex-Muslim politician with hands-on experience of Islam kind of rounded off the experiences of the five. Yes, and AHA has a habit of pissing off the Baboons. For that reason alone, she needs a higher profile in the community. Would be ideal if some of ...

From my Facebook (see link below in sig if you care) http://i.imgur.com/oMJB3.jpg Um..."That was an inexcusable and totally acceptable thing to do." If the latter is the case, what's she getting so mad about? :D Also why do people feel this urge to tell you that they're blocking you? Just do it and...

From the Slate article: After all, it seemed rather obvious to me that if your goal is to get sex or even just companionship, the very worst way to go about attaining that goal is to attend a conference, listen to a woman speak for 12 hours about how uncomfortable she is being sexualized at confere...

PeeZee weighs in... http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/10/rebeccas-article-at-slate/#comment-319193 http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x17/Sublime_Wind/Slime/p-zeeOnPlum.png Is PZ using parallel logic?: Dismiss someone as being uninformed, while simultaneously declaring how you h...

Monogamy is a social construct. Can someone point me to a mammal (other than human) that stays with a single partner for life? Serious question, I'm not aware of any. Surprisingly, wolves . The article links 10 other monogamous, non-human, mammal and non-mammal animals. This is not meant to be a mo...

noelplum said he'd be walking away from talking about A+. No one can walk away from talking about A+ :twisted: [youtube]4H4MpdkfIng[/youtube] And just so it doesn't feel like all I do is spam this place with videos I'll contribute to an already settled conversation by pointing out that bicycles are ...

Been away from the Pit the last 3 pages or so (despite all my privilege I still have to work to eat and avoid living on the street, where I'm now told I'd have to ask for consent before busting a nut). So apologies if this one was already posted, 'cause I didn't catch it as I was skimming through th...

Yup, there you go: All he can do is what Dawkins and Hitchens already did, only more like The Peez. Except, he can't even pull that one off. Compared to titles like The God Delusion and god Is Not Great, PZ's Happy Atheist title comes across as pretty soft shit (from a marketing standpoint). I imag...

Welcome to all the new Slyme Pit members. There are too many of you coming in for me to name individually so let this comment stand as my hearty greeting to all the fresh faces (avatars :? ).

Iâ€™d be in danger of joining the Slymepit to moan about how awful all the FtBs lot are. [joke: I don't think I could muster that much butthurt about a banning no matter how unjustified the reasons are ] As far as I'm concerned you joined the Slyme Pit the day you registered, so good day to you fel...

@Saint N I'm pretty sure that's why so often Prune's posts come across as obscurantist in nature - plausible deniability in case she's ever caught out. Half the time I look at a post by Nanny Fee's and wonder just what, exactly, the point of it was. And the stuff that is direct and clear, she'll de...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/10/12/well-i-wont-do-that-again/comment-page-1/#comment-470210 Ophelia Benson 12 October 2012 at 10:42 am Ew. I took a quick look. (Quick in the sense that I hit the X quite soon so that I wouldnâ€™t heave.) Enough to see two separate announcements that I...

I don't particularly like it either, but early discussions showed that it's mgmt censorship or no mgmt censorship: some mgmt censorship wasn't an option, so it's none. Don't get me wrong, I prefer no censorship too. I agree it's an important part of the way this place functions. The hardest part of...

Hi everyone! I'm new here. Nice to meet you :dance: This place is much more civil than your reputation suggests! :shhh: We've got a name to live up to. I don't know how they ever expect to attract members (do they even want to?) when their forum is so strict and unwelcoming. You'd think people woul...

Funny and true commentary from Johnny on Jen's WankGate dilemma,

[youtube]Fn9XKX8cWao[/youtube]

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p605/BarnOwlTX/ScreenShot2012-10-11at104201PM_zps3cf8bcc3.png "no research needed" = promotion and tenure decision at certain universities This SammyBoal character (acct got suspended and has now returned as @SamanthaBoal), if genuine, sounds very Mabus-esque (ex...

I don't want to embed this video here (because it's really painful to watch), but I've seen this guy popping up around youtube for the last few months, fervently defending a+theism, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdmJMGopSI His reasoning is so bizarre that I can't shake the feeling that he is just ...

No one forced Al out. Trust that. Not actively anyway. You can trust Al's words if he says he wasnt forced out he wasn't. Pathetic some people need to lie and mislead to look good....totally pathetic I trust though that he probably made an announcement about it to the other FtB bloggers on the back...

Either Al is taking the highroad by making his leave from ftb sound more amicable than it was, or Ophelia is trying to stir up drama by implying he was removed for the anti-A+ post he put out. Meh, at least one more person made it out of there.

I am curious tough, if he's really been kicked out, why Al hasn't directly mentioned it on his twitter yet (don't tell me Ophelia is setting up a Poe for us). Going on the more likely assumption it's all true, in the linked Ophelia post on Al I think this sentence leaves little doubt about the fact ...

More from Justicar on Dillahunty and A+theism.

[youtube]EGvsi-aNA8g[/youtube]

So Jen is getting the privilege card thrown back at her for a change. Good, it's about damn time.

So if FtB commenters whining about thunderf00t being a ignorant misogynist bigot stirring up hate was enough for PZ and Ed to give him the boot, are they going to be consistent and do the same to Al? What about Matt, if he continues to 'cause great pain and trauma' in the ftb/a+ safe space, will he ...

Lsuoma, maybe we should change the tagline again to the Dante quote. :lol:

Dick Strawkins wrote:eading between the lines of what Al Stefanelli has written, I think he has been here already.

Hi Al, welcome back!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... isPoem.jpg

'Abandon all hope ye who enter here'

Hello all! Had to delurk, I have been roaring with laughter over the last several pages...I think Mailforpeace is meant to be a double entendre... Hi there, welcome to the Pit. Don't be shy about contributing and shooting the shit every now and then. You're probably right about nym. It's actually k...

rather, it is saying that what you are doing is characteristic of one of the main tendencies that we find annoying in the Slymepitters (distorting arguments, eliding, being vague, failing to cite things , strawmanning, etc., etc.). Not citing things? Now I know this person has never been here perso...

Search found 285 matches