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

Reap wrote:http://reapsowradio.com/graphics/mykrock.png

Finally, a good use for this thing

Does anyone have a link to the original image in hi-res?

It's generally agreed here that this sort of shit is at best unnecessary and at worst unethical (available freely by Google search or not). And how do you know they got the right Jerry Conlon? Unethical implies reasonably foreseeable negative consequences as a result of such a post. What would thos...

Early,

People around here in OKC (where ERV and I live) still have 'Never Forget' stickers regarding the McVeigh bombing. Many of us lost friends and family. So, um, thanks for the reminder, you thoughtless prick.

Why not design a completely original shirt? http://design-a-tee.spencersonline.com/apps/spencersonline/v32/index.php?s=e&k=spencersonline&b=h&g=1march172011&c=9cd01a57-abe9-4bb3-b89c-8c853b5aa5b4 Because I suck at that sort of thing. Mykeru or Decius or someone else might be able to come up with an...

Presumably teh patriarchy coordinates with the StoneCutters on who gets stages handed to them. They control pretty much everything, doncha know? [youtube]_ZI_aEalijE[/youtube] On a lighter and somewhat less conspiratorial note, I think that I've found the perfect t-shirt for Justin to wear on Friday...

Scented Nectar wrote:Ewwood is shutdown-bait. Get rid of her before she actually does the damage she threatens.

I am reflexively against banning, but SN is right. Too much potential for shutdown, dealing with an emotionally unstable minor.

Damn it! Meant to say that it needs a touch more hysteria. I believe the Critical G might have some extra on hand.

justinvacula wrote:
Cunning Punt wrote:
justinvacula wrote:http://i.imgur.com/KuKDvfs.jpg
Oh fuck me, somebody give this a dramatic reading please. Something with a bit of Beethoven in the background.
Done. No music though.

I'm going with capricious, but in a good way.

Forgive my ignorance, but can someone give me a quick recap with all the shit going on with Vacula right now? Short version - I started a fundraiser to send him to WiS2, for reasons stated here . It has been fairly successful so far, albeit with the usual hysterical overreactions from the usual sus...

The folks at FtB might not be too strong on original thinking, but they know a good idea when they see one:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... ecularism/

Looks like Justin won't be the only male blogger in attendance at WiS2 â€” http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck ... ecularism/

Melody Hensley: melodyimplicitthreats.jpg Oh, blow it out your arse, Melody. Your implicit threats to Mykeru is not an example of cyberstalking? Go back to trading wankvolleys with your slave, you imbecile. "However, I do not have the authority to decide who does or does not attend the conference."...

Thanks for the support so far to help send me to Women in Secularism 2! $251 so far donated...and Damion will be 'dressing me' for Friday :o Which t-shirt will he be selecting? http://www.rockethub.com/projects/13633-send-atheist-activist-justin-vacula-to-women-in-secularism-2 I'm open to suggestio...

Louis wrote:I'm off. Too much time spent already. Have fun folks.

Have fun reassimilating with the Horde, and watch out for the flaming porcupines and rusty knives!

Three reasons to send Justin to WiS: 1) Skepticism and humanism cannot fully flourish without a diversity of views, openly discussed and debated, as I noted here . 2) Justin is not a moral monster, a subhuman chud, or even a heartless bastard, he is an upright fellow and a generally friendly bloke w...

Here it is...the first ever, shall we say, initiative to send Slymepitters to atheist/skeptic conferences! Thanks to help (and the idea) from Damion Reinhardt, a fundraiser has been launched to help send me to Women in Secularism 2. Donors who reach certain levels will receive certain goods includi...

Just needed something to put on Justin V. so that everyone can more easily recognize him at the Women in Secularism conference. What about a target? Poor Justin. poor Justin indeed. He needs to be wired with a spy camera and have a chaperone. I don't think it is a good idea for him to attend alone....

Lsuoma wrote:Also, not having a polo neck means that you can't whip up a batch of aromatic Bellendo cheese so well.

This American Life recently passed off fried pork bung as calimari. The above inevitably merits comparison and perhaps an experimental design.

Talking point. I was looking at the guest list for the American Atheist 50th convention. Richard Carrier, Greta Christina and Ophilia Benson are listed as speakers. As a result I won't be even considering going. Won't these three idiots treat the fact they have not been kicked off the list as a vic...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/01/17/shermer-and-the-myth-of-feminist-persecution Sorry, just leaving this here. There are some lulzworthy comments. Loved this bit, â€œno one, as far as I know, has even suggested such a thing...â€ Evidently we can add Brayton to McCreight and Carrier ...

As a mathematician, I got so bloody annoyed at his uneducated obsession with Bayesian Stats, that I avoided them like the plaugue. He has little idea of what constitutes "unfounded a priori assumptions" versus "validated data" that he regularly confuses the two. Just out of curiosity, did you come ...

Buffoonery! Try this link instead:
http://www.skepticalabyss.com/?p=31

About "Monopad Man" (I won't put his real name here as I feel that he has suffered enough from this IMO), he was a well known TAM attendee and former Jref forum member. From my understanding, he is somewhere on the Autism spectrum. I know that Watson called him "creepy" on FB while they were trying...

I am still a student - graduate level at Marywood University. Yes, unfortunatly these conferences can be expensive when considering travel, hotel especially. Registration is fairly cheap for students. Shall we inquire of Melody whether you'd be allowed to attend? I'd been envisioning the "try to sl...

Found it!

Ape+lust wrote:http://i.imgur.com/lODAS.jpg

Damn that would be a fine t-shirt. Even better as a lunch-box.

decius wrote:
d4m10n wrote:
w00t!

I want a "Stand Down Gentlemen" hoodie.
Well, that's easy, if it's just text.

Well, it's a picture on here somewhere.

Dan Dennett says, â€œThere it is again.â€
Dawkins replies, â€œI didn't hear anything.â€

Oh, um... sorry? Just needed something to put on Justin V. so that everyone can more easily recognize him at the Women in Secularism conference. Hey, Lsuoma, will there ever be SlymePit swag? Gimme grafix - I don't do grafix. If you want profi output, then you need to wait a couple of weeks. No pro...

I'll also buy you one of these nifty shirts to wear around, if you like. Holy crap!!! There is actually real Mykeru swag!?!?! Oh, baby, my heart be still! I need one of those t-shirts. I know a place where it would cause, um, serious discomfort. :whistle: Did you see the starburst stickers? I'm goi...

"Feminisim is like Baskin Robbins, man, there's so many flavours." - Al Stefanelli

justinvacula wrote: I am still a student - graduate level at Marywood University. Yes, unfortunatly these conferences can be expensive when considering travel, hotel especially.

Registration is fairly cheap for students. Shall we inquire of Melody whether you'd be allowed to attend?

I'll also buy you one of these nifty shirts to wear around, if you like.

I would attend Women and Secularism, write about my experiences, and report on my blog. The problem, though, is that I am strapped for cash at the moment. Now I'm not kidding around anymore. How much? I'll throw in the price of admission just to make this happen. Too bad you're not a student anymor...

Notung wrote:
d4m10n wrote: I want to start a fund to send Vacula and maybe Notung. Please send in your applications to me at PutPittersInWomenInSecularism@gnumail.com
Why me, out of interest?

Skeptic Ink privilege. I would demand detailed write-ups, of course.

Notung wrote:
d4m10n wrote: I want to start a fund to send Vacula and maybe Notung. Please send in your applications to me at PutPittersInWomenInSecularism@gnumail.com
Why me, out of interest?

Skeptic Ink privilege. I would demand detailed write-ups, of course.

The one advantage the FTB bunch had when talking about feminism was that they kept it vague. They could define feminism as something benign: "the radical notion that women are people", or as in Carrier's latest, feminism â€œis simply the belief that women should be treated as fairly as menâ€. Just...

More lulz from Roth: Apparently Amy is keen to show that she's not a man hater or trying to discourage men. So she's now allowing men to apply for her 'grant'. The lulz come of course when you click apply. http://s9.postimage.org/djzl32grj/surly_amy_dumbs_grants.jpg Amy is encouraging men to apply ...

An online friend alerted me to an interesting poster which was found taped to a glass-cased bulletin board on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. The image â€” shown on the left â€” features the words â€œVacula, whatâ€™s up with the moustacheâ€ and my image aside those of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, ...

Does anyone realize we have over 1000 posts here, on a new thread? In the same amount of time, how many posts at the A+ forum? The Pitters are outpacing the Plussers by at least two posts to one, over the last seven days: http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2013/01/13/slymepit-vs-atheism-pl...

Does anyone realize we have over 1000 posts here, on a new thread? In the same amount of time, how many posts at the A+ forum? The Pitters are outpacing the Plussers by at least two posts to one, over the last seven days: http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2013/01/13/slymepit-vs-atheism-pl...

Does anyone realize we have over 1000 posts here, on a new thread? In the same amount of time, how many posts at the A+ forum? The Pitters are outpacing the Plussers by at least two posts to one, over the last seven days: http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2013/01/13/slymepit-vs-atheism-pl...

Is it primarily patriarchal though? Is the dominance of men the fundamental problem with the US Senate? Good questions, but not really what Rocko was asking about. First we have to nail down what patriarchy means and looks like before we can move on to whether "patriarchy" is responsible for some g...

rocko2466 wrote:Would Western societies be patriarchy then, Windy?

Look at the U.S. Senate, for example: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in ... tes_Senate

If that's not a mostly patriarchal institution, I'll eat my racist hat.

Mykeru wrote:My other P-38:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8222/8352 ... 2e62_z.jpg

Best can opener I've ever owned.

For my new year's resolution, I decided to register, delurk, and say hi. Hi Pit Hello! And for your traditional welcome gift you are now banned for life from pharyngula. I wonder whether PZM reads through the â€˜Pit himself or has an unpaid intern compile a list of potential commenters for the inst...

Darren wrote:d4m10n, in response to the A+ accomplishments thread

d4m10n wrote:I'd credit A+ and allies with keeping Justin Vacula from getting involved with the Secular Coalition, and that's really quite something.
Nicely done.

Thanks! Wonder how long I'll last over there, what with the honesty.

Damionâ€™s Top Bottom Five 5. Watson â€“ Failing to read up on any legit evo-psych between her first talk on the subject and her second talk on the same. Utter skepticism fail. 4. Eberhard â€“ Sullying the otherwise good name of Patheos Atheist Channel with various baseless personal attacks. 3. Chri...

HoneyWagon wrote:Hey. Any of you looking for work?

http://i.imgur.com/7LnTi.png

The toilets at CFI-DC are on the fritz.

Off to my mother's to see what the fuck is wrong with her TV. God forbid she should miss any reality TV shows :roll: Hundreds of channels, and still nothing but crap on TV. How did that happen? /first world problems I'm glad I didn't upgrade my Uverse so that I could get the Planet Green channel. F...

Here's an interesting study you can do, all of it online from your computer. <snip> Are all of these papers suppressing the actual reports? It seems to me that you may be conflating "reporting" in the sense of reporting to the police and "reporting" in the sense that news agencies do reporting. Cri...

I know that's what he says, but everyone knows my real name is sacha (and most know my last name - shhhh - silence! - one must not speak it, for it is evil incarnate, and vocalisation of its name, could unlock the gate) I only want actual names on the list, but cannot bring myself to delete Franc H...

You won't make the list either. Damion only wants real sounding names on the list. I know that's what he says, but everyone knows my real name is sacha (and most know my last name - shhhh - silence! - one must not speak it, for it is evil incarnate, and vocalisation of its name, could unlock the ga...

However, I donâ€™t remember off-hand all of what PZ said at the time of Elevatorgate and maybe d4m10n isnâ€™t aware of all of the details either, but the following from one of PZâ€™s early posts [ Always name names! ] suggests a perspective and a set of values that is somewhat at variance with his ...

Seems to me that PZ has done and said enough worth criticizing that there is no need to also make things up that he might well do in some possible world and criticize those as well. Why not take him to task for things that he has really done?

I almpst feel sorry for Peezus with this one. That video was shot in late 2010. It wasn't until 8 months later at Elevatorgate that he became a lifelong feminist. Was it sexist behavior? I was in the live audience during that one, didn't think it was anything other than very mildly transgressive se...

Any questions? D4m10n? I'll bite. When did PZ say it's not ok to joke about sex in public? Nobody here mentioned sex jokes being off limits. The question is how PZ reconciles his own actions at Skepticon3, with his recent words about zero tolerence of behavior that people might feel is akin to harr...

Mykeru wrote:Any questions? D4m10n?

I'll bite. When did PZ say it's not ok to joke about sex in public?

Can you imagine what response Shermer would have got if he offered a lousy excuse like that! :shock: Yeah, that is pretty weak. Still don't think the poker segment was anything worth kerfuffling over, except maybe to note that sex jokes should shouldn't be considered verboten at skeptical events di...

Busted doing what? Making a bunch of shit jokes? Having zero comic timing? Sorry but that video was lame. Busted doing the very thing he preaches against. I almpst feel sorry for Peezus with this one. That video was shot in late 2010. It wasn't until 8 months later at Elevatorgate that he became a ...

Notung wrote:
Witchy McSexist wrote:it's perform or GTFO because I take the game seriously and don't want to waste my time with underperforming players.
Oh god, Justin, you're one of those! I hate people like you!

;)

Meritocracy is just oppression by other means.

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