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

Ric Flair. Wow, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. You must not be paying attention to me. While I don't mention him here everyday, not a day go by in my life that I don't referance him. Most of the time I am talking about his daughter. [img],http://i.imgur.com/a5MDlEI.gif[/img] I do pa...

Hindu squats? What, you have to chant "Om Mani Padme Hum" every time you push the weight back up the rack? Hindu squats are awesome. Great for building core strength. I do about 30 a day. Ric Flair does about 500 a day. Ric Flair. Wow, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. https://s-media-...

comhcinc wrote: What you should be doing instead is getting on those hindu squats.

Hindu squats? What, you have to chant "Om Mani Padme Hum" every time you push the weight back up the rack?

http://imgur.com/6AooJTN.gif Original: http://archive.is/aiZ3c After having followed YouTube atheism, read various writings by prominent and not-so-prominent atheists, and participated in some pretty surreal discussions on various forums, the only deep-core misogyny that I have ever encountered see...

Maybe the days of being shielded by gender and colour of skin are numbered?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/3 ... alik-abuse

Or maybe I am just engaging in wishful thinking.

Now, isn't that better than a whole pile of crap about toilets? :mrgreen:

Congrats on the impending nuptials, Phil. :)

Parachuting in as I work my way backwards. But the free willy thing is at its most basic, semantics. Either our decisions are the product of natural forces and a myriad of drivers or we transcend this with "free will" which under this definition is a William Lane Craig style external force. Maybe t...

Hmm. Pretty sure I was making the point, or at least trying to imply, that I am more willing to listen to someone who has 1st hand knowledge of a subject than someone who basis their work on the subjective writings of others, but hey, people around here love to tell other people how wrong they are ...

Sure, I can accept that as a reasonable assessment. I guess my criticism of Harris mainly revolves around how much he generalizes the topics he writes about in what appears to be an issue of a lack of nuance. I also wonder just how much exposure he has had to actual, real-life Muslims and predomina...

I've emailed it to a couple of Scots that are friends of mine. Understood every word of ir. Then again where i was reared, this is the natural dialect (North Antrim, when i looked out my bedroom window in the morning i could see scotland). It's reffered to as Ulster scots in Ireland, and so claim i...

I should have further qualified my thoughts as very I'll-formed :( I know this to be an unfashionable view to hold, including round here; but I think Harris is a persuasive, even powerful, rhetorician. I also think he is an actual true-believing progressive liberal. Many of his critics, his fierces...

Regarding Sam Harris: Broadly, my encounter with New Atheism was from, initially, hearing about the Horseman (that is, reading and hearing their views reported, discussed and parsed), and then over several years reading their collective works. This spanned the period approx 2007 to last year. With ...

Bhurzum wrote:Random funny video that crossed my in-box today.

Even with subtitles, I think some of you might struggle to understand the flow of the conversation.

[youtube]HpVhSx0fZwM[/youtube]

Excellent. Thanks for that. :D

I've emailed it to a couple of Scots that are friends of mine.

Harris makes the reasonable point that there is only one ideology that has any real danger of having adherents self detonate simply to kill westerners. And only one religion drives this ideology. That doesn't make all Muslims terrorists. But it does assign them a high level marker that the Amish do...

Couch wrote:Not sure what happened there...I'll have another go...

I think Blitzem was taking the piss, by exaggeratedly strawmanning Harris's views on profiling - as a riff off of the last para of your initial post. No? :?

Maybe a little bit? :D

Whatever. Like most of the Euro-centric , New Atheist, strong-atheist philosophers, I find him to be a narcissistic blowhard whose primary position is "I'm right and you're wrong" and I have very little time for him. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!! Oh, fuck, the lack of self-awareness is killing me. BWA...

It's like his determinism argument. If God = Free Will, since Not-God (his hard atheism) therefore No Free Will. That bears literally no relation to Harris's position on Free Will. It doesn't even work as a parody of it. Whatever. Like most of the Euro-centric, New Atheist, strong-atheist philosoph...

Exactly. And isn't the god in the bible actually an amalgam of at least two or three? As in, the god of Noah is different than the god of Abraham and this comes from the scriptures themselves? Something like Abraham goes to the Levant, meets "god" and this deity says "I am not the god of your father...

But that's just it...you can't assume that there is an equal risk from every Muslim to bomb something in the same way you can't assume that every Irish Catholic is going to bomb something. It's classic Harris. He is so locked into the Western pseudo-laws of logic that he can't create anything but a...

While staggering about today I listened to the May 05 Sam Harris podcast with Juliette Kayyam who is a leading expert on homeland security as well as having been the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the United States Department of Homeland Security. Well worth a listen. At one p...

I always wondered why anime characters look white. A friend who considers herself a japanophile once told me that the characters faces represent "wide eyed innocence", but that explanation never struck me as true. This article explains the phenomena well. https://archive.is/qSgQ3 I sort of have to ...

Brive1987 wrote: 2. The new multi million dollar law school makes its pitch. Tampon Tax Campaigner. :think: What will they advocate for next?

http://i.imgur.com/nqXCQRx.jpg

I know it's the UK vs. Oz on the details, but I wonder what she would think of this:

[youtube]FKZe0yzvb6o[/youtube]

Wow. Just listening to Dan Carlin and he mentioned that Italy has a bigger GDP than the Russian Federation. Bullshit, I thought. But bugger me. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/italy/gdp http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp It's all those photos the papparazzi take and sell to american tabloids.

Whoops

:nin: 'd on Islamabad Company

Sorry Jim!

Islamabad Company
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comhcinc wrote:Some one send this along to Carrier. Right down his ally.

https://i.sli.mg/vMjn3E.jpg

I actually read all that.

I now haz a sad. :(

A small sample of why most trans and SJW gender arguments devolve into "there's more genders than just two, asshole"

[youtube]dxht3XJQrqI[/youtube]

I can't imagine very many of them handling the details even at this relatively low level of complexity.

Wow, just seen a news report on the forest fires in Canada, I know there are a few Canucks here at the pit, so hopefully no one affected. Devastating for the people involved. TY for the good wishes, but those that I know of are not very close. I am a couple thousand kms away. Was surprised though h...

No worries. I was just pointing out that in Canada we can be a bit silly and pedantic at times with our professional organizations. And everybody knows that engineers are illeterate. :D I believe that in Canada becoming a P.Eng. is optional, but a requirement if you are going to take responsibility...

Science is oddly elitist in comparison to other fields. Anyone who gets a degree related to civil engineering gets to call themselves an engineer. The only change comes with years of service, you might get to add principal in front of engineer, or move up and be Associate Engineer grade. My husband...

Science is oddly elitist in comparison to other fields. Anyone who gets a degree related to civil engineering gets to call themselves an engineer. The only change comes with years of service, you might get to add principal in front of engineer, or move up and be Associate Engineer grade. My husband...

Brive1987 wrote:
http://www.firstpointlaw.com

Hmm, judging by the pic of the Asian guy driving, in Virginia they drive on the left hand side of the road in defiance of all common sense. Like Aussies. :p

He even had a complete catalogue of celestial objects named after him. SF author Roger Zelazny has a crustacean name after him. Which is more than Myers can say. I have a vague recollection that Watson had something named after her? Or was it someone just as or even more odious? A previously undisc...

Brive1987 wrote:I hope this clears everything up and gives Welch what he obviously needs.

Http://bit.ly/pc8ty0

(faps to the microscope...)

Oh man, those binocular occulars get me every time. :character-beavisbutthead:

free thoughtpolice wrote: ...engineers told us that burning jet fuel couldn't bring down the Twin Towers...

It can't.../runs :animals-dogrun:

And just to reiterate-- I have no problems with scicomm. SciBabe is the one who thinks SciComm<<<Scientist. Which is, again, a huge red flag. The best science journalist is unarguably Carl Zimmer. He has no advanced degrees. He has, however, proven over and over and over and over he is an accurate,...

Hmm. I should perhaps clarify that it was B. Nathaniels' anti-Semitism that I was enjoying, but he rants against big business. Just for clarity. :mrgreen:

free thoughtpolice wrote:Brother Nathanael goes full Yemmi- Who'd a thunk unelectable rhymed with homosexual?
[youtube]0-3WkuPu_co[/youtube]

Unusually serious for Brother Nate.

Too bad he's gone full conspiratard. I used to enjoy watching his stuff, even if it crossed the line into hate-mongering.

comhcinc wrote:Also he has a video up with sound.

[youtube]4el7dRUfW84[/youtube]

Yeah, I listened to this one earlier and heard him mention the Bible Reloaded thing. DMCAs all-around, it seems.

Brive1987 wrote: Didn't mean to sound snarky. And I agree. He would benefit from a less emotionally framed defensive plan. I fear that giving over his details presages a final exit after a last futile official volley.

No worries. I didn't take it like that. :)

Mykeru taking a chance with KS while apparently still not understanding that YT isn't covered under the letter of the 1st Amendment nor what the spirit of Fair Use really is. [youtube.]8J0ze-V3mm0[/youtube] I'm surprised it's taken the SJWs this long to close Mykeru down. Regardless of his legal po...

Mykeru taking a chance with KS while apparently still not understanding that YT isn't covered under the letter of the 1st Amendment nor what the spirit of Fair Use really is.

[youtube]8J0ze-V3mm0[/youtube]

I believe Sargon of Akkhad has a petition to abolish gender studies. With that in mind while watching the UMass Republicans 'Triggering' video I had this to say: Gender/queer/race studies is about pushing out an agenda. If there was a 'conservative' studies all about pushing out an agenda the sjw's...

For Jet Lagg and the rest of you bastards. [youtuber]H6_zvQQ5P8w[/youtube] I enjoyed it immensely so that means there is nothing wrong with it. Wait, doesn't that make me a self-entitled pseudo-Millennial? Brrrr.... :shock: I am enjoying watching a pirated copy of Deadpool. I have already enjoyed m...

comhcinc wrote:For Jet Lagg and the rest of you bastards.

[youtuber]H6_zvQQ5P8w[/youtube]

I enjoyed it immensely so that means there is nothing wrong with it.

Wait, doesn't that make me a self-entitled pseudo-Millennial?

Brrrr.... :shock:

Google is up to 196,000 hits for the TrigglyPuff w/o the hashtag.

I'd searched earlier for news online about John Greg, nothing had turned up, but I'm sorry to report that on another try just now this bad, sad news turned up: Obituary Jesus. :cry: Late last week I searched the Vancouver Sun obits for "John Greg" but came up empty. I was under the obviously incorr...

I'm Milo (he or they pronouns). I'm a non-binary, trans, asexual, aromantic q*eer who doesn't care about your cisgender feelings. ''I'm a word salad. I obviously care what you think about me otherwise I wouldn't be telling you everything about myself.'' Holy shit! Asexual and aromantic ??? I take b...

free thoughtpolice wrote:Jesus comes several times in this video:
[youtube.]pedCC6oIDME[/youtube]

Low video quality + hundreds of pigeons in Trafalgar Sq. = DEMONS FROM HELLLL!!!! :twisted:

And apparently Satan is going to come into Obama. I wonder if they will co-parent?

I'm loving this Daily Mail front-page pic from the Obama town Hall meeting in London yesterday. London. England. UK. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/23/22/article-3555592-337AE21D00000578-820_636x638.jpg Watcha trying to say Daily Mail, I couldn't possibly guess. That Obama looks old, vaguel...

welch wrote:How do you know if Muscato broke into your house?

the fridge is empty, the tampon applicators are destroyed, and there's a ring of salt around any form of exercise equipment.

:rimshot:

:D :clap:

Just being a shitlord... Daisy Ridley, as she presents in TFA with minimal makeup, a nice tan, and hair pulled back, makes me feel like a dirty, old man. One of the most attractive people in cinema today, in my humble opinion. It was the first think I have seen her in (that I know of) and I thought...

Just being a shitlord...

Daisy Ridley, as she presents in TFA with minimal makeup, a nice tan, and hair pulled back, makes me feel like a dirty, old man. One of the most attractive people in cinema today, in my humble opinion.

Dude, not cool at all. It's a major spoiler that a lot of people may care not knowing. Can a Mod please redact that? If you believe for a second that's real, I don't know what to say It might be true. Leaks fucking happen all the time. What you did was just being an asshole. You are an asshole. See...

Lsuoma wrote:More sad news from the music industry. Apparently Kanye West was not found dead in his apartment this morning,

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

In high school one of my classmates was a dead ringer for Prince. It was the general opinion that this guy became an amateur boxer just to show how tough he was and to throw off the association with an arguably fruity pop singer. I won't dox him, of course, but it didn't help that in an age when the...

SM12 wrote:
blitzem wrote:Are you guys drunk? The number of quote fails tonight...

What is a quote fail?

:clap:

Are you guys drunk? The number of quote fails tonight...

i'm a bit behind, but one last thing about toilets/washrooms: In the skydiving world, most of the time, it's all unisex due to the limitation in facilities. Includes toilets and showers. All those are separated booths, with the main room used by all genders to dry their hair, do their make-up... I'...

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