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

This morning, I watched Rebecca Watson's Skepticon 5 talk ( http://t.co/ValoUwNi ) on the way to work, so you all don't have to watch it yourselves. Here are the highlights. Evolutionary psychology is wrong, because: - Several studies from the field are clearly flawed - Studies reported by pop-sci m...

Mykeru wrote:
d4m10n wrote:God damn it I meant "Kill Bill" srsly WTF
Oh, I knew what you meant.

Me, that would be Pulp Fiction.

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ZOMG death threat!

God damn it I meant "Kill Bill" srsly WTF

Or just don't show, ala Greta at FreeOK it was? Because OMG ABBIE WAS GOING TO HURT HER. Oh Jesus Fucking Christ, that was over (tactical) fear that Abby was going to "do something"[TRADE MARK SIGN]? I swear, we need a clearing house to compile all instances where FTB/CFI/SCK tools behaved like abs...

Arguments against online 'conferences' Prevent social interactions, for example in a post talk pub or party setting. I think that is about it. Honestly, that's pretty much the only reason I ever go to conferences of any kind, to meet new and interesting people. For example, I got to see ERV geeking...

Lsuoma wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
And what about we, the collective Pit. We are legion.
We Are Hogglenonymous

:lol: :lol: :lol:

http://www.alstefanelli.com/mhtw.jpg http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~lillsie/McCarthyism/Mcarthylist2.jpg Approves! QFT. Also, inspired: http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2012/11/14/list-of-known-sexists/ So my nym keeps me off the list? So unfair against the differently identified. Damn it! Kr...

http://www.alstefanelli.com/mhtw.jpg http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~lillsie/McCarthyism/Mcarthylist2.jpg Approves! QFT. Also, inspired: http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2012/11/14/list-of-known-sexists/ So my nym keeps me off the list? So unfair against the differently identified. Hoggle is a...

Mykeru wrote:http://www.alstefanelli.com/mhtw.jpg

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~lillsie/McCar ... ylist2.jpg

Approves!

QFT. Also, inspired: http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobabi ... n-sexists/

I'm having difficulty finding someone within the skeptical movement who openly promotes accommodationism in some sense other than 'of course we should work together with religious liberals on civil rights issues' or something along those lines. Which accomodationists have been promoting the idea th...

I feel like a post about how FtB isn't so bad is going to come next... Followed by a removal. I'd give him about a week if he doubles down on free expression. My reply got caught in moderation over there: Have fun at reeducation camp, Stephen. I hope you return bronzed and healthy and well-versed i...

I'm having difficulty finding someone within the skeptical movement who openly promotes accommodationism in some sense other than 'of course we should work together with religious liberals on civil rights issues' or something along those lines. Which accomodationists have been promoting the idea th...

franc wrote:After dealing with the secular fundamentalism of the baboons for so long, I no longer have the same animosity for humble believers that just live and let live. In fact, I find them preferable.

http://i.imgur.com/ed16p.jpg

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Where do they get that? As religious "ethics" is entirely deontological rule-from-on-high thinking, and the Judeo-Christian tradition has not been, historically one of tolerance, then it strikes me that they are deriving their ethics not because of their religion, but in spite of it. Any religion t...

I'm having difficulty finding someone within the skeptical movement who openly promotes accommodationism in some sense other than 'of course we should work together with religious liberals on civil rights issues' or something along those lines. Which accomodationists have been promoting the idea th...

I'm having difficulty finding someone within the skeptical movement who openly promotes accommodationism in some sense other than 'of course we should work together with religious liberals on civil rights issues' or something along those lines. Which accomodationists have been promoting the idea tha...

http://i.imgur.com/5zdmm.jpg http://www.facebook.com/al.stefanelli/posts/171644699641738?comment_id=516168¬if_t=mentions_comment refusing to assign an estimated probability is abdicating adulthood. in addition: read up on Bayes, Ms Walker. Quite liberating for someone who chooses to live in a pr...

Abbie had a really great post about this. If all you do is meet in places that serve booze, you lose the families, the non-drinkers, or the people who aren't into bars that much. There are parks. There are all kinds of places you can meet that are a good place for the entire age range of people, an...

The great thing about Tzortis is that he serves as a constant reminder that generic arguments for theism only get you partway to proving your particular religious worldview. It's got to burn Plantinga and Craig to see Muslims appropriating their ideas wholesale.

Abbie had a really great post about this. If all you do is meet in places that serve booze, you lose the families, the non-drinkers, or the people who aren't into bars that much. There are parks. There are all kinds of places you can meet that are a good place for the entire age range of people, an...

Not that I mind the occasional event in a bar, mind you. I don't usually get to attend because I don't like dumping the whole brood on the wife for such an inauspicious occasion.

Abbie had a really great post about this. If all you do is meet in places that serve booze, you lose the families, the non-drinkers, or the people who aren't into bars that much. There are parks. There are all kinds of places you can meet that are a good place for the entire age range of people, an...

John Greg wrote: Do you understand my point, or should I clarify my, admittedly not abudantly clear explanation?

So far, what I'm getting is that rape and battery jokes are insightful and witty, and probably they won't reflect negatively on one's character or sense of humour. Is that about right?

Oh shitty death! I'm used to posting stuff on here and it going un-noticed until someone else posts it later but to quote me saying something while ignoring that I said it is going too bloody far! [Note, I have disguised the face of the other person in this picture to highlight the guilty. Also, be...

Judging by his total lack of subtlety, I'm guessing he's earned an OM. dude I fear you may have fallen prey to the idea that the â€œother sideâ€ is so thoroughly malevolent and untrustworthy that they cannot be extended the benefit of the doubt thats me attempting to be a smartarse TouchÃ©! :think:

d4m10n said (http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=73&start=25750#p27606): He leads off with a joke about beating up his girlfriend, and follows up with a joke about raping a girl who is trying to mace him. Well, um, er, either I am blind as a bat, or stupid as a Laden, but I somehow m...

I don't think SuperHamster is being treated fairly, actually. I do no like the joke , but nonetheless, the rest of what the Hamster has posted makes some sense, and I am a bit baffled as to the hostile response. He leads off with a joke about beating up his girlfriend, and follows up with a joke ab...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8486/8176163426_e608d1e401.jpg [Note, I have disguised the face of the other person in this picture to highlight the guilty. Also, because he has an ugly nose. Oh, and savour the irony of Laden's t-shirt] Plus he's wearing a Whiny-Ramics turd rund his neck - you should...

Skeeve wrote:Yeah, I can't see superhamzah85's posts being quote mined at all.

Give him a break, it's hard to learn social skills from your Momâ€™s basement.

Which begs the question: "Why are men more susceptible than women to scams offering sex?" Could be that men (until very recently) took on relatively little risk in a casual sexual encounter, whereas women risked a massive investment in time and resources. Oh, wait that's evo-psy. Must cast about fo...

Philosophy is an odd one. You would expect it would appeal to both genders, but I hear its overwhelmingly male dominated. According to the philpapers surveys, it's about 16% female. That's roughly the same percent of philosophers who accept or lean towards ethical non-cognitivism (which includes em...

As I understand it, the FTBers who use the term take 'othering' to mean creating a distinction between 'us' and 'them'. It's more or less synonymous with marginalising... I'm not at all trained in gender studies or feminism, so it completely eludes me how their recurring emphasis on heterosexual ci...

In answer to BarnOwl, yes it's that sort of AIS. And by the way, she rocks. Sadly, moved out to Cali for a better life, which is sort of an Okie tradition actually.

There was a good film shown on SBS recently, by Phoebe Hart, an intersex woman. She was essentially documenting her journey. http://www.orchids-themovie.com/index.html I must admit I get lost in all these definitions, but how can you be an intersex woman? If you're a woman surely you're not interse...

Rebecca Watson and PZ started the "choose sides" narrative... I wonder how far back this side-choosing narrative really goes. Seems like the polarizing self-assortment process spearheaded by certain bloggers was originally about standing against accommodationism with liberal religious people, and o...

cunt wrote:I'm getting the 20,000 post. Fuck. Y'all.

I'm going for 25,000. (Fuck you all)

Mykeru â€” Youâ€™ve missed the obvious solution. Make a sad video/post and beg your fans for money. Emphasise the debilitating effects of your unfortunate condition. This is a demonstrably effective approach; examples abound.

Ok, so how many Pitters are loving the delicious irony that the Pharyngula crowd (who could find entrenched misogyny on a slice of toast) are defending the people who melted their own daughters face with acid because she looked at a man? It's fucking unbelievable. I wonder if the Pakistan governmen...

I figure Justin just asked himself: WWJTD?

The answer, of course, is shameless self-promo. Not that I've any problem with that.

Agree actually on that Barael. What they need is a "safe place" and market it to fragile women and small children whose parents don't want them listening to bad werdz. I think it's important that kids learn to talk trash early on. When my firstborn first made the jump to XBOX live he was already a ...

If you are not on their side, you're a bad person to them. There's no other option. This. A thousand times this! *squawk* No, but seriously, how the fuck did this happen? I used to consistently enjoy reading and posting at FtB just a couple years back. How is it that it went from open freethinking ...

This is going to sound crazy, but it seems to me that both forums are â€˜safeâ€™ in some sense, and that this is a huge part of their respective draws. The â€˜pit is a place where you can safely disagree with the conventional wisdom in terms as colourful or bland as you like, whereas A+ is safe from...

Phase two complete -
http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobabi ... s-part-23/

The experiment continues. I know, I know, you're not a zoo.

Gumby wrote:
Splunt!!!

Dude! Where's my boot?
Lsuoma, you're a bad boy.

Check out the work boots on the Asplundh men.

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They are ready for anything.

Eat a bag of dicks.

j/k Nice to meet you

Sheâ€™s not a con-artist, she is a true believer The fallacy of the excluded middle. I think that she is both . Certainly a skilled pathological conniving trained con-artist (street-conjuror/juggler with a degree in how to bullshit people!!) as well as a sincere true believer (see Korsakoff's syndr...

But these fuckers are neither mentally nor emotionally strong enough to say "fuck man, I got suckered. I wanted to believe her so bad, but she's just a fucking con artist, and she got me good. Sorry about that." So now, they HAVE to blindly support every fucking thing she says and does, along with ...

Git wrote:The Bard's Tale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard's ... ideo_game)) - best game ever. Even better than Elite.

^ THIS. 1000x THIS!!! :p

KiwiInOz wrote:
People. I must protest.

I do not understand a word of what you computer geeks are saying.

I also protest, but just out of sheer jealously. I didn't get a computer until 1985.

It's the only place where there's a free and honest conversation about elevatorgate and related dramas. I posted on Abbie's threads because there was literally nowhere else talking about it that didn't ban those who disagreed. There are no doubt a number of private closed forums where such discussi...

The geek feminism wiki (to name one example) is quite clear that safe spaces for feminism will not tolerate arguments against feminism. One of the serious problems with this approach is that feminism is very broad and admits of all kinds of variations, which makes it tricky for people to know in adv...

BarnOwl wrote:A friend's children refer to everyone as either "brown" or "pink," which seems quite reasonable to me.

My kids did that, too. Of course, pink is a profoundly pejorative term in subgenius subculture, so I made them stop.

http://godlessradionet.ipage.com/GRAPHICS/Image14.jpg Mykeru started it.... Reap aped it... http://i.imgur.com/o7eJY.png Hahaha!! Can't.fucking.breathe. Goddamn, my dog is looking at me like I lost my mind. Literally bellowed! It is good to see the Goatse app is Windows 8 compatible. That was my ma...

Feel free to comment http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobability/2012/10/30/a-tale-of-two-communities-part-13/ I know, I know, I really should do the other twelve hours. Too tired right now. Must sleep tonight. We're not a zoo, Damion. ;) I think of it as an anthropological field study, with all th...

Feel free to comment

http://skepticink.com/backgroundprobabi ... s-part-13/

I know, I know, I really should do the other twelve hours. Too tired right now. Must sleep tonight.

Dawkins didn't have a problem with fomenting drama until it became fratricidal. What drama was he fomenting? None that I can recall offhand, but he was perfectly fine with blogs fomenting drama so long as it was not atheists against other atheists. For example: Crackergate, a manufactroversy of the...

AFIACT Dawkins didn't have a problem with fomenting drama until it became fratricidal.

Dawkins also said it was â€œzero badâ€ which isn't nearly the same as saying it pales in comparison to third world problems. Almost everything we deal with pales in comparison to third world problems, so that's not a helpful metric.

Tigzy â€” That post is a thing of beauty. It must be given it's own platform.

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