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

If you want to give in an efficient manner, to a group that knows how to do disaster relief, I'd say that the Red Cross is your best best: http://www.redcross.org/ok/oklahoma-city

Don't let the symbol fool you, they aren't sectarian.

The atheist feminists have become so damn predictable at this point. Criticize them even in the slightest, and they start a campaign to get you banned, blacklisted, or sacked: http://storify.com/D4M10N/whom-will-they-target-next

karlaporter wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I still haven't been listed on this selection. What am I doing wrong?!?
I find it odd I'm not there either...

Dodging tornados right now. Will fixâ€¦

BTW, I thought I would draw attention to this comment seeing as no one else has: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/watsons_world_and_two_models_of_communication/P200/ #202 pilgrim (Guest) on Sunday May 19, 2013 at 9:00pm Ron, Congratulations, youâ€™ll find that youâ€™re in good company am...

Damion was my guest on the podcast this week in case anyone was interested ...click below http://angryatheist.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/okatheist.png One good plug deserves another: http://www.skepticink.com/sinergy/2013/05/20/angryatheist/ I'm still confused about how friendly this 'Angry At...

This is an important time in the skeptic/atheist/secular community and your support would be very much appreciated. It is wonderful that Ron is brave to take a stand in this community for what is right: open discussion of ideas in addition to rejecting and challenging dogma. Do not let ideologues c...

In comment #17, PZ says this (not news but quite rude) re Blackford: ... He's become deeply demented in the last few years. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/19/mere-atheism/ The real reason PeeZus hates Blackford: http://slymepit.com/staticimgs/incoh.jpg Also, PeeZus doesn't understan...

Oh, and sorry to hear about you ankle. Get well soon. ;)

Tornadoes in Shawnee, Oklahoma, just 35 miles from OKC. Looks like PeeZus is targeting Abbie. Srsly, though, Abbie - hope you and yours are all OK. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22592695 Yeah nothing even close to me-- BUT I went into the lab today. Walked in, sunny, beautiful out. Walk...

deLurch wrote:Don't let paranoia and a filtered lens get the best of you, as it has the FTB crowd.

I've communicated badly it seems. I'm almost completely confident that Lindsay is sincere.

I want to say that this has been one of the most entertaining weekends at the Pit for a very long time. It's particularly gratifying to see the epithets Pitter and Slymepitter gaining general currency, and even being used to Godwin some threads. If my hosting this board has contributed in any small...

OT: Shiiiiiiiiieeet~! Has anyone else watched the latest Doctor Who episode? That was one hell of a way to end it. My reaction, almost verbatim, was first a loud "Whuuuaaaaaaat?" Followed by laughter. (Mostly because of the bombastic way it was done.) Followed by rampantly checking online if anyone...

Re what influenced Lindsay - right now we're just guessing, but note that (a) he referenced in one of his blog posts, as an example of "shut up", a talk on "privilege" at the "heads" meeting that occurred sometime after his January blog post (asking for input for the "heads" meeting), and (b) PZ (a...

Lsuoma wrote:
Badger3k wrote:
BarnOwl wrote:/Off Topic:

Dr. Who! Holy Fucking Shit!!!11!!
Yeah, and we have to wait months! (insert huge rage face here...Fu....Fu....Fu.......)
Dude, bittorrent?

Almost 2500 snatches on TheBox (that sounds fun, doesn't it - 2500 snatches plus a box?)

PM me if you need an invite.

:lol: Jamie Kilstein â€@jamiekilstein 9m Hello, @RALindsay I have done many fundraisers for @center4inquiry and after your abortion of a speech at #wiscfi am done. You're a joke. Perhaps they can get a funny comedian instead. Jamie who? Apparently we're supposed to have him on the show sometime. P...

Now shake that sexy zebra bottom. No can do, I've been informed that it's unfair to PwPS (People with Propensity to Seizures) for me to do so. Damn it all! Those were the pleasurable sort of seizures. Now shake that sexy zebra bottom. Damion, I've always meant to tell you but couldn't get to it due...

Now shake that sexy zebra bottom.

http://i.imgur.com/KzewwPA.jpg Somehow I don't think this was Svan's ideal scenario. If someone was hoping to demonstrate that CFI remains committed to discourse and the process hashing over differing positions in the course of an open and civil dialogue, that person might be doing the Monty Burns'...

Aneris wrote:Ron Lindsay's talk is up here. PZ Myer comments once more, and points to his protegÃ© Watson, as usual.

Silencing tactics are wrong, mkay?

http://tinyurl.com/alwqkoq

Just now, I had to explain to my 6-y.o. that sometimes when people say mean things to you, they are doing it just to provoke a certain response and it's generally best to ignore them. If this seems off topic, I apologise. Somehow it felt relevant.

In terms of flooding hashtags, i do believe it was that gang pointed, directed and fucking marshalled by the chief balloon pz who setup store with fucking over people's online polls. I think it was stangroom who initiated the #ftbullies tag, as a sincere means to point out their efforts to shun and...

Ron Lindsay continues to be a #bravehero "A Few Examples of â€œShut Up and Listenâ€" http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/a_few_examples_of_shut_up_and_listen/ I honestly think this is the beginning of the end... The beginning of the end was when Abbie stood up to them. Later, they tried to...

Transcript of Ron Lindsey's WiS talk: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/my_talk_at_wis2/ Hoo boy, he didn't pull punches, did he HOLY FLYING FUCK BALLS. Ron is like, hey, let's be just slightly skeptical of the worst tendencies of the SJKW feminists, especially that thing they do where th...

Either he's completely out of touch with Tumblr feminism, or he's a
Master Old School Troll. No way I'm betting on the former.

Transcript of Ron Lindsey's WiS talk: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/my_talk_at_wis2/ Hoo boy, he didn't pull punches, did he HOLY FLYING FUCK BALLS. Ron is like, hey, let's be just slightly skeptical of the worst tendencies of the SJKW feminists, especially that thing they do where th...

But yeah I suppose it does look like a boondoggle on the CFI dime. Hey, those were my dimes!

Well come on Abbie, you don't need to be top-flight science-woman to see that shaking up water over and over doesn't make it into a magical healing potion. :)

Surly Amy on stage now, debunking homeopathy for the 1,000,000th time. I've had to explain homeopathy to clinicians. When I ask graduate students if they know what it means, very few do. Until it means the same thing as "snake oil" to most anyone who walks into the corner druggist, this talk needs ...

Looks like the NHS needs to sit in on Amy's talk, too: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/homeopathy ... #available

:mrgreen:

Surly Amy on stage now, debunking homeopathy for the 1,000,000th time. I've had to explain homeopathy to clinicians. When I ask graduate students if they know what it means, very few do. Until it means the same thing as "snake oil" to most anyone who walks into the corner druggist, this talk needs ...

Watson has had the media spotlight on herself and multiple chances to promote atheism and secularism amongst women. Has she done anything other than, well, promote brand Rebecca Watson? Which brings us back to the origin of the Slime Pit . She constantly makes decisions that go contrary to her supp...

I could not resist.

Have to say, I've got the impression that Oolon's seemed a bit despondent lately. Still, I'm sure these references to him in the Pit will help him get his pecker back up. Apparently his neighbour, Nigel ,was arrested for burning a Koran and posting the ashes through the local community centre's let...

cunt wrote:@elevatorGATE really is a fucking nutcase isn't he. I don't mean that in endearing way either.

It's hard to tell with him. Certainly I don't think he's such a nutcase that he needs to be banned from secular conferences in Florida.

Which post are you thinking of?

Fucks sake Justin. Just say if you chickened out over the t-shirts. According to RocketHub some stupid bastard did pay you to wear them. That was me. His shirt for tonight is a nice positive message. What does it say? Did you pay for the other days too? Something about different views and discussio...

cunt wrote:Fucks sake Justin. Just say if you chickened out over the t-shirts. According to RocketHub some stupid bastard did pay you to wear them.

That was me. His shirt for tonight is a nice positive message.

If nothing else, it provokes an argument about what those odious verse are and what they meant in their original cultural context. This is an argument worth having, in a State where the highest public officials sincerely quote the Bible in from inside the Capitol rotunda.

I'd quote the shit out of Phelps. He is one of the worldâ€™s foremost experts on how the Bible encourages people to hate one another, something that many of my more touchy-feely progressive freethinking friends like to try to overlook.

First image of Vacula arriving at the WISC2 hotel. Oi! Vacula, when we suggested you should take precautions against an attack by Marcotte, this isn't what we meant! http://i.imgur.com/Z575AXG.jpg LOL! For a second there, I thought you were serious about not "deliberately provoking them" but I supp...

:violin: Hmmm. Just noticed that Lousy Canuck refers to me as "spamming the FTBullies hashtag with hate". He's got the strangest notion of both 'spamming' and 'hate' but I guess that's not news. Honestly, if even a tiny fry like me can upset them with my once-or-twice-a-week tweets, how pathetic do...

....................... You had spoken about the freedom of being braless early on either here, or at the original slymepit, and your words would replay in my mind, finally I could not see any reason why you should be free of the discomfort and societal expectations, and not me as well. If you had ...

....................... You had spoken about the freedom of being braless early on either here, or at the original slymepit, and your words would replay in my mind, finally I could not see any reason why you should be free of the discomfort and societal expectations, and not me as well. If you had ...

Female atheists fight for equality in freethought movement - Houston Chronicle http://t.co/LPMHEcGNED <-- SlymePit gets a shout out.

I'm not particularly keen on the concept of the â€œCourtierâ€™s Replyâ€ mostly because I've seen it misused so often to dismiss actual substantive criticisms of philosophy of religion as practised by various New Atheists. Come to think of it, I've only very rarely seen it used well, in a situation ...

welch wrote:Or, we could look at the reality, which is NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT ANY OF US. Christ, what kind of fucking ego do you have to have to believe that there are ALL THE PEOPLE TRYING TO HURT YOU.

http://media.tumblr.com/b38666fe18a651c ... ro2d43.gif

I'm in complete agreement with MKG on this one. Ehrman is an excellent scholar pretty much of the time but in that last book he fails to seriously consider the possibility that there is no singular historical personage beneath all those layers of midrashic devotional fiction.

"vermin"... I'm really not a fan of this word*. Can't he just call us cunts, like everyone else? *Really, it's extremely loaded WRT European culture. I'm not going to Godwin the whole place, but you can probably guess what I mean. Shouldn't be too hard to guess... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

That MKG post was shit, poorly written, and lacked artistic value. Hence, I agree with it and like it a lot. Yemisi likes writing, she seems to have lots of fun doing so, and as Michael said, it doesn't hurt anyone. This is one of those rare-but-obvious moments where I go "WTF, Pitters?!?" It is hi...

Southern, that's wrong for a number of reasons, perhaps the most important being that, in fact, there is not "the same thing" happening here. Each new blogger is a new frontier, and therefore a new hope, so to speak. Ally Fogg has, so far, certainly proved he has more integrity and intelluctual fle...

welch wrote:Context-Free Quotes:

"She's pretty good about taking it. You just have to pin her down, stick it in her mouth and squirt"

Goddamn veterinarians and their oral suspensions.

No, really, you guys are pulling a prank on me? DeepInsideYourMind, Remusm8, I can see you! (Sorry, slow friday morning after two consecutive holydays.) More of a lurker. Though the whole 'deep rifts' stuff is quickly loosing it's entertainment value, really. Granted. Lets find something else to mo...

More Dear Muslimas https://twitter.com/Crommunist/status/332619199706980354 I find it rather interesting that Sylvia Browne for him and for Jen McCreight are no issue, because there are apparently more important things in the world, which are --puzzled together-- double entendres of someone in an e...

What would she accuse you of doing, Abbie? Posting a music video with malicious intent? Stockpiling katanas? Owning a scary dog?

I read that Greta Christina blog too, and it's a big yawner. It is so incredibly disappointing that the atheist community has the originality of a knockoff furby doll. Her message - "yes, it's really ok to hate people who do things you think are mean." Really? Well, that's so different from the mes...

Speaking of attention whoring, have any of you guys read this piece at AVfM? The premise appears to be that if it wasn't for the shit-talking attention whores, the SJW would be going after someone else. But hereâ€™s where you come in Mr. or Ms. Keeper-of-the-Middle-Ground, if these offense junkies w...

Greta,

I cannot reply on your blog, but for what it's worth, I don't want to be in unity with atheists who accuse skeptic leaders of covering up sex crimes, based entirely on unsubstantiated rumours, and then refuse to retract or apologise. Good day!

In Greta's latest post, she contravenes all of the good advice from her previous article about infighting.

Some serious us-vs-them in that one.

On the topic of WBC in general, they came to protest a funeral outside of the Air Force Base here in town a few years ago and we got a bunch of photos from our unfortunate vantage point across a busy street. The best of these are posted here . If you can see the photo set (I'm unused to sharing link...

I'm a bit bored at work so I tried to come up with version of the Four Horsemen of New Atheism according to the Social Justice Bible: The White Rider is obviously Dawkins. He embodies White Supremacy and Male Privilege. The Red Rider is of course Hitchens, the famous War Mongerer and Misogynist. Th...

clownshoe wrote:Full Frontal Zealotry episode 18 is out.
http://everdense.com/ffz/
Trigger Warning: Contains an interview with Atheist Superhero and Rhetorical Assassin: Justin Vacula

Where can I get one of those Wooden Horses of Islamophobia?

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