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

What is with the SJW and their inability to comprehend parallels? If you refer to something as a 'witch hunt' that doesn't mean literally getting burnt at the stake, nor is 'lynch mob' a literal hanging. The FTB contingent has proven time and time again that they haven't figured out this simple con...

Libertarian conservative candidates are fucked as well, because the mainstream GOP just isn't supporting them. You could maybe wed (speaking politically) a libertarian conservative VP candidate with a mainstream GOP candidate, but one wonders if that compromise would really satisfy either group. Th...

Here's the link I screwed up in my post above:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... dates.html

If she runs, Hillary will win in 2016. It's not that so many voters are SJWs and Democrats, it's just a fact that the Republicans keep putting out horrible candidates. What, Sarah Palin in 2016? Rand Paul? Ha, don't make me laugh. Voters will put a dead dog in office before they elect Sarah Palin. ...

By "bullshit" I mean "authoritarian nanny attitude" and "attempt to out-conservative the conservatives in order to co-opt their base." It's funny(or sad) to think that the case could be made quite easily that Richard Nixon was more a liberal than Clinton. Well, Obama seems to, at least in some area...

Another day, another lets-try-and-get-someone-fired campaign. http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-does-google-employ-a-pro-slavery-lunatic-1612868507 In her last tweet, she's basically revealing that she's a poe and her tweets are satire. I don't think the dogs will be called off, though. It was pretty...

Myers-Briggs is interesting and useful in my opinion. It is not some kind of miracle diagnostic, but it can provide some insight. I am an ENTP which is pretty rare for an engineer. I took the Myers-Briggs with a large group of engineers at a major auto company. There were 50 people in the room and ...

Nothing should be off limits to discussion. No, let me amend that. If you think some things should be off limits, letâ€™s sit down together and discuss that proposition itself. Letâ€™s not just insult each other and cut off all discussion because we rationalists have somehow wandered into a land wh...

RD stirs the pot some more: https://richarddawkins.net/2014/07/are-there-emotional-no-go-areas-where-logic-dare-not-show-its-face/ That, then, is why I chose rape and pedophilia for my hypothetical examples. I think rationalists should be free to discuss spectrums of nastiness, even if only to reje...

I think the analogy would be better with Jesus rather than Moses. The existence of a historical Jesus is very much up for debate, and while this debate is important, it has a time and place. Even very liberal open-minded Christians usually believe it's a near certainty that a historical Jesus exist...

I will say, I still believe the tactic of saying Watson made the entire incident up is a poor one (even if I'm now more sympathetic to the people who doubt everything Watson says). It's just too hard to prove, and makes one look unreasonably skeptical and biased. Moving past that, I do have a much ...

I think the MB types are more useful in considering how to get along with people who are really different from you, in various professional and personal contexts. I agree. My girlfriend is an ESFJ (yes, the exact opposite of me) and while sometimes this adds a nice complementarity to our relationsh...

I don't really like TJ that much. He really can be a severe asshole. Not that I think he's the font of evil FTB tends to see him as. I used to think the same, but I'm reevaluating. I mentioned in a message a while ago that he seems to lose 30 IQ points when he's out of his wheelhouse. His political...

I'm INTP too. (based on the test at this link: http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test ) Seems to be a lot of us here. But not surprising if you read the discription of that type, given the general flavor of the discourse here. INFJ here. So maybe a cross between a proper slymie and a ...

Agreed. One of the most tightly written polemics I've read in some time. Very Hitchens-esque! Aw shucks! I should soak up all this praise, before the baboons find my post.... If they do come across it, they'll probably just slink away and hope it remains obscure. I don't think there's any loose lan...

In Peezus' thread on RD's tweets, Caine lays down the law thusly: You know what I think is worth talking about? That rape is rape. That rape is never acceptable, under any circumstance. That there is no rape that is just boys being boys. That itâ€™s not rape if the rapist doesnâ€™t use the â€˜r wor...

Those personality tests, to me, read like astrology, but there's something to them because other types, read like people I find annoying. Anyway I'm INTP. In some goofy corporate test I was "green" iirc. The guy who thinks carefully and likes when words have distinct meanings. Then I read about "bl...

The discussion at Meyers's is about a website which details how Shakesville has blocked/edited/etc people. NerdofRedhead, the fucking moron, has something important to say on victims of abuse. The quoted comment each time is by the same person, as part of a bizarre conversation: http://i.imgur.com/...

Let's Keep Things Neat , wherein I slam Ophelia and the Joint Statement, and heap copious scorn and a plethora of vulgar epithets upon the entire lot of Atheism Plus fuckwits. That was a satisfying read, Matt Agreed. One of the most tightly written polemics I've read in some time. Very Hitchens-esq...

I still call her a cunt from time to time. She says it's fine. And still has no idea what "Kike" means. I guess it's her non-American privilege. http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014/07/not-getting-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2545895 Kike is an old slur on Jews, I believe. Been ages ...

I have taken a Myers-Briggs 3 times and have come out with identical results each time. I have no idea about the validity of these tests, but like Skep Tickle, I have found the characterization of INTP to be very accurate. I am the 1% - occupy me! Ditto. I've probably taken Myers-Briggs 7 or 8 time...

Doesn't it seem weird that Richard Dawkins would send those tweets, which he had to know would 'trigger' SJW outrage, so quickly after the attempted detente? Was it meant to be a test? Or, perhaps he was miffed by the FTB consensus that the agreement was a unilateral apology from him and wanted to c...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:James Onen is fine for now. Doing his bit in Uganda. he's one hell of a cool guy.

Good to hear!

Dear Muslima was a completely acceptable use of "shut up about X" because the X under discussion was completely trivial, not EVEN a minor offense, certainly not a crime. And the comparison was actual shit women face in war-torn countries. A man asking politely for an encounter which one could infer...

I agree, but wanted to point out Benson's statement is technically true. People DO use that as an underhanded rhetorical device all the time. Deciding where to draw the line (there are obviously cases where it is appropriate to mention a larger problem in the context of discussing a smaller one) is...

no one searches by only an exact matching quote unless they are insincere fucktards. and said fucktards would no doubt defend their claim as technically correct because 'well if you search for it exactly as stated --' take off the quotation marks and you can find all the other references. actually ...

Oh, for fuck's sake. https://twitter.com/OpheliaBenson/status/494164245303787522 I feel I'm going to have a permanent imprint of a palm on my forehead if I keep reading anymore of these tweets. She's absolutely bleeding retarded. By jove. Oafie is a fundamentalist, and fundamentalists are driven by...

I'm surprised that former Witch of the Week Cathy Young's article on the Time magazine web site hasn't ignited a firestorm: Stop Fem-Splaining: What â€˜Women Against Feminismâ€™ Gets Right The article is quite good, and its publication in a mainstream source should triggered a jihad against it from ...

It would be really helpful, since she's the defininator and all, for Ophie to publish a list of terms that are: totes okey-dokey non-vulgar epithets vulgar epithets vulgar non-epithets so that we could all be playing on the same field. My suspicion is that she would define vulgarity as requiring a ...

Well, the following fact may help answer your questions: There are no Israeli settlements in Gaza . There haven't been any since September 2005, when Israelis in Gaza settlements who would not leave voluntary were forcefully evicted by Israeli security forces. WAITAMINUTE http://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Earlier today it was Justin Vacula who was under Ophelia's eagle eyes, kind of hidden in her post about Mark Senior "Not Diogenes". http://www.donotlink.com/aqdK Bolding added by me: Description: a tweet sent by Mark Senior to Richard Dawkins and to me with a photoshop of PZ with a clownâ€™s read n...

Now that I've read PZ's brilliant post on Gaza (sigh), maybe someone here can help me with something. When I ask people who think that Israel is the devil incarnate "What should Israel be doing?" the answer is always "Israel should not be putting settlements in Gaza." Let's say this statement is tr...

Yes, but here we have intersectionality. As an African American woman, Whoopi Goldberg is a very unprivileged person, despite being worth tens of millions of dollars and having a prominent voice on a popular talk show. Can anyone from a higher privilege level criticize her? Or would this be punchin...

This was a lot funnier than her stand-up. A couple of ok jokes, not great. D+, keep working. She still has a permanent bitchface, and the makeup is so heavy no doubt to cover the wrinkles. Like Zinnia, I know far too much about what Elyse looks like naked/with no makeup. :( I have to say, I'm so us...

Just wanted to raise awareness. I work from home, and usually have the tv running in the background. I mostly ignore it until The View comes on, then I change the channel or shut it off. I was in the middle of something this morning when it came on, and the panel started discussing the Ray Rice sit...

People imagine that standup is just riffing off the top of your head. I can think of one major stand up comic that actually did that, Robin WIlliams. However, he wasn't just some schmuck off the streets, julliard acting school. Actually, Williams was notorious in his stand up days for stealing mate...

Just wanted to raise awareness. I work from home, and usually have the tv running in the background. I mostly ignore it until The View comes on, then I change the channel or shut it off. I was in the middle of something this morning when it came on, and the panel started discussing the Ray Rice sit...

One interesting thing I noticed about the Dawkins/Benson statement is that the first paragraph seems to limit the scope of the statement to "people who rely on reason rather than dogma". But what to do with people who are atheists but still reliant on dogma? Especially closed-epistemology dogma wher...

Yeah, especially like someone like George Carlin. It's not that he isn't naturally funny...he is...but the reason he's a legend is the amount of raw work that he put into his routine. It's not just a matter of standing on stage and telling jokes. Things like your cadence, knowing where to pause and...

Okay, so which Pitters here want Miri dead, or have included her on their rape lists? Or is Miri simply being disingenuous when she lumps the Pitters in with such people? And hereâ€™s another similar thing you should probably stop doing. When Iâ€™ve written something great and you like it, and rath...

And here's Shelby's scout tape. I'm not an expert, but let's just say she doesn't look very good. [youtube]tMZ8Dnut-hU[/youtube] Yes, the two times she was anywhere near the action, she got completely blown up by a block. I'm betting her career stats look like this: Tackles: 0 Passes Defensed: 0 Sa...

I don't really see a problem. As long as she is willing to accept the risks inherent in playing the game, and she gets the same treatment as everyone else on the team. She already hasn't received the same treatment as everyone else on the team. No severely undersized male defensive backs who have a...

Meet The First Female Defensive Back In College Football History [youtube]Q_oxOgps5Ho[/youtube] This is ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, I don't think there should be a blanket restriction by gender on playing college football, and I think the girl here is very admirable. If a real-life Brienne of Ta...

:lol: Let's go for four! Schroedinger's Permissibility. Actions with Schroedinger's Permissibility are have indeterminate permissibility until the SJW status of the actor can be ascertained. If they are a SJW, the action is permitted, if not, the action is punishable by anal insertion of a rusty Sp...

For the hat trick: Schroedinger's Privilege. People with Schroedinger's Privilege are believed to have some kind of privilege if they're arguing against SJWs, and to be unprivileged victims of oppression if they agree with SJWs, despite the fact that they belong to the same social category. For exa...

"Schreodinger's Gender". People with Schroedinger's Gender appear to have no gender until you label them, at which point they reveal to be the gender you didn't guess. The more certain you become that your label is right, the more angry they become, since you're clearly forcing them to conform to a...

Further lulz : Anathema 19 June 2014 at 9:09 pm (UTC -5) Hey, Nerd? Thereâ€™s someone over on Slacktivist arguing in favor of banning religion under your name. At first I thought that it might actually be you (yeah, Iâ€™m an idiot, sorry about that), but having thought about it some more, I decided...

Oh Ya Sure. Blame It On Canada! Why the fuck not? We get blamed for everything. And that was even before Celine Dion and Justin Beiber. Well, let me tell you something. If the USA deports Beiber shit is going to get real. You took him, you get to fucking keep him. They haven't forgiven us for Bryan...

I am under the possibly mistaken impression that canada is making progress more than the us in that regard, since you have non feminist gender advocacy groups like CAFE, some of the most famous mra's come from there, and you even have that senator Anne Cools(?) who has spoken in criticism of femini...

DownThunder wrote:Hey, don't pull that. Its american academia which has spread this stuff like small pox.

Unfortunately, Canadians have to share the blame.

Can't make this shit up. So Laurie Penny pens her triumphant "We shall overcome 4Chan" article: ... Meanwhile, over on 4Chan: :lol: Well done! Reminded me in tone and style of InternetAristocrat's videos: [youtube]0USsMKUFd4c[/youtube] This is a new one he just released a few days ago. Perhaps a st...

If it's valid to conclude on the basis of Rodger's manifesto that a culture of misogyny is to blame for the UCSB shooting, then isn't it also valid to conclude that a culture of rich-hating among progressives is to blame for the Virginia Tech shooting? Consider these words of Seung-Hui Cho: You had...

I So want to respond to this: https://twitter.com/JoshofZion/status/479350764620754944 But even with a [/sarcasm] tag I just know I am going to set off a shitstorm if I do. #SelfCensorshipIsaTerribleThing This one is really Poe's Law in action. After looking over his other tweets, and the fact the ...

You totally forgot his entitlement issues (not just any woman would do for him!) , his narcissism (only the cool kids would do to be his friends/peers) his hatred of sexually successful men (which arguably, sigued into misandry as he does in one of his writings speculate about killing all the men a...

Suet Cardigan wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
free thoughtpolice wrote: It appears that [Rad] has lost whatever knack she may have ever had for making videos.
You mean, her boyfriend?
Is there any actual evidence that her boyfriend was a Svengali/power behind the throne type?

I think Matt meant that as a joke. But, it's consistent with the observable evidence. ;)

deLurch wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:I have no idea what my BMI is, but I ride in a 16" western. Is there a conversion chart?
BMI = Body Mass Index
BMI = Weight / Height

Weight(kg) / Height(m)^2 to be exact.

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obe ... micalc.htm

Ophelia, as classy as ever. http://i.imgur.com/GffQhFk.jpg So one video pointing out some valid criticisms of modern online feminists and Jaclyn Glenn is getting called "this shit" by Benson? I think they previously regarded Jaclyn Glenn as being turn-able and, if so, a potential very valuable ally...

Alex Gabriel writes a letter for grandma . Isn't that sweet? If youâ€™re getting this message, itâ€™s been relayed to you. Online, where what I write is published, hundreds of people are reading it. None know who you are or anything about you, so nothing will come of this; Iâ€™ve hesitated to write...

I accept that there is a significant genetic component to this. But to say that environment doesn't have any play at all? I am not so sure about that. Perhaps once a sexual preference is set it stays. I have a near baseless hypothesis that our sexual preferences are set and based off of our earlier...

IIRC, it was Laurie Penny who dubbed herself "genderqueer" last year, not Melody. I believe it was not-at-all-conveniently mentioned while she was getting twitter-shamed for being transphobic or something like that. I could find out more, but fuck that labor. I ain't enacting it right now. https://...

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