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

I posted this elsewhere here a minute ago, but I decided it was interesting enough, in a broad body-politic sort of sense, to repost it here: Cristina Rad is actually proposing, on FfTB, that rape jokes can just possibly sometimes be funny, because "a lot of good comedy originates from horrible tra...

Dick Strawkins wrote:Just been sent this:
Sucking the teat of controversy
PZ looks strangely content for a change.

lol, brilliant

Goddamnit, @SallyStrange is the most dishonest, strawman making Twitter user I've seen. Seriously, is anyone else seeing this week-long back and forth between her and Damion? I've been following it with some interest, and not a little patience. Strongly reminded of dealing with certain fundamentali...

From earlier, http://i.imgur.com/H0WiJ.jpg This is JT responding to my blog post concerning 'Spokesgay' telling me to "fuck off and die" in addition to other criticism of mine at the hypocrisy of the FC5 (6) and Skepchick writers. Interesting. Only if the FC5 (6) and the Skepchicks took JT's advice...

Tigzy wrote:I think that vein which keeps throbbing in Brownian's temple has finally burst: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... ent-412795

:lol:

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I like Matt's revisionist history mixed in with his facetious fairytale.

http://atheiststoday.com/images/mattpenfoldcomment.jpg

I couldn't read much more, but I doubt anyone corrected his minor mistake

Some of RAH's politics were hard to get with, but his sexual morals were usually spot on.

http://thunderf00tdotorg.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/skepchick-embrace-victim-hood/#comments This needs to be saved. Cattlehunter Says: July 25, 2012 at 1:43 am | Reply Oh man, for a second there I for some reason thought you meant Eugenie Scott, and was surprised at what she was saying since it didnâ...

It's a good thing it's not IRC then. :)

I'd be down with live chat. You're more than welcome to use the chat at our site. It does require registration, but any throwaway email that you can reply from at least once is needed. I'd have to check the permissions, but I think anyone can create a room w/ or w/o password protection. I would be ...

ERV wrote:
Skeeve wrote:JesusCrippledChristOnACrutch, the defenders of the #FtBullies are morons:
I LOLed.

Also, LOL Bart!

I miss the crew :(

You're only a login away, heh.

JesusCrippledChristOnACrutch, the defenders of the #FtBullies are morons:

http://atheiststoday.com/images/wowbaggeridiot.jpg

justinvacula wrote:http://i.imgur.com/YmLpZ.jpg

I saw that tweet :)

I'm also seeing more and more anti-PZ posts/tweets lately.

Goddamnit, @SallyStrange is the most dishonest, strawman making Twitter user I've seen. Seriously, is anyone else seeing this week-long back and forth between her and Damion? Sally Strange â€@SallyStrange @D4M10N If you think it's worth throwing women and other minorities under the bus in the name ...

Hmmm, I could access the Silverman post from an FTB link, but not the skepchicks site main page. Whatevs. From BitterLies and (Imaginary) Weals: Suck on that , haters. Amy says there will be more to come. Fasten your seatbelts, haters. God Benson is weird. Not to mention the visual that phrase brings

Dilurk wrote: It isn't about sides, it's about respect for differing viewpoints.

And this side respects differing viewpoints.

Hence it's the right side for me.

Simple.

Regarding Jean/DJ/anyone else looking down their noses at The Pit crew. Ive been thinking about this and writing/deleting rants. It boils down to: Show me a way that works, and I will happily support it. But, thus far, Jean/DJ/etc approach-- be nice, address the arguments, stiff upper lip-- it has ...

Did anyone catch that small glitch in PZ's rationalia thread. Troll came in and accused PZ of raping Skatje, which led to her beastiality enabling, or something. Anyway, he used a well known users name (VoxRat) from Talk Rational. It wasn't VoxRat, but probably Bartholomew Roberts . What may even be...

Might be getting good at rationalia....PZ just logged in.

From the rationalia thread: A Hermit wrote: Wumbologist wrote:Pappa made a joke in poor taste that could be genuinely hurtful to victims of rape. Either we understand that it was a joke made in poor taste and move on, or we refuse to accept that and make a really big issue out of it. PZ Meyers made ...

Ophelia Benson says: July 23, 2012 at 4:53 pm Yes, so am I. But now, like Amy, I wish more people in leadership positions would do something. I wish we had allies besides fellow bloggers. Are they so far deep into their bubble that they can't see no one in their right mind would get within spitting...

Yeah, my website is completely covered.

DomainbyProxy...it's worth the annual fee.

tachikoma wrote:Is it just me or does "A hermit" (FfTB defender on the rationalia thread) sound like the person that was trolling this forum earlier? The usage of smilies in this post in particular seems similar.

Actually, I think 'A Hermit' is nigel_stupidcrapafterhisname, from PZ's thread.

Justin, SallyStrange has been going round and round with Damion all weekend. You couldn't pay me to try to reason with her.

The information that they "dropped" was the #whois info for the website.

It is possible that the person listed as a contact isn't even Pappa.

Now that could have been bad for whoever was listed.

Tried to register at rationalia and haven't heard back yet. I just rememberd, I tried registering there once, months back, at the same time some trolls from TR were also registering to shit up a thread for some reason or another. I think I may have been labeled a troll without posting, so I may stil...

Za-zen wrote:You need funny in order to breathe

For those not on a mobile device

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I saw Pappa's post. I didn't take it as a joke, but as a statement. Too subtle for FtB.

Random video break:

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I don't know why I keep visiting this video. It has to be her attitude and smile. Infectious.

Can't get FtB to load..anyone else?

I call bullshit and backtracking. Had she been in the lounge crying over something else, she would have included it in the first narrative.

By mentioning the tears while speaking with HH, without indicating why, she is intentionally telling everyone HH is the reason she's crying.

I participated in that thread for a few pages, starting on p.67, but have become very bored with it - especially by the pomposity of Mattus Maximus, who has dominated the last few pages simply by issuing a blizzard of very dull, moralizing posts. http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=8402439&postc...

I participated in that thread for a few pages, starting on p.67, but have become very bored with it - especially by the pomposity of Mattus Maximus, who has dominated the last few pages simply by issuing a blizzard of very dull, moralizing posts. http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=8402439&postc...

80+ pages on the JREF thread and it looks like Watson et al. aren't the favored.

Some named Xie showed up recently to try to help defend the walls, but is being rebuked. MattusMaximus is defending Watson's honor with all the white shining metal he can muster.

Gah...i hate no editing. (I'm not used to using Preview, I know it's not your fault, it's mine)

*We had an exchange

Bringing 22 persons to TAM = She's right http://atheiststoday.com/images/eristatwitter.jpg We had about an exchange after I commented on a Mr Wowbagger tweet. She then jumped in and tried to school me about the "facts". When I told her I knew all the facts available to anyone else online, she got ir...

I'm seeing "we don't need TAM, we can do our own thing" more frequently. And from the tone, they seem to think their following is so HUGE that it will affect future TAM's. Is there a way to break it to them that there are atheists/skeptics who have never even heard of them? Or that, from what I've s...

Why do I feel like Ophelia made that up?

TAM's is looking brighter!

http://atheiststoday.com/images/pzquote.jpg

Ophelia Benson's blog is somehow both quite extraordinarly vapid yet profoundly disquieting in a way I can't really describe. Oddly...'fluffywuffy', too. Like a gormless-looking cuddly toy which harbours razor-blades in its stuffing, or saccharin laced with caustic soda. Very strange thing... The b...

Well, my comment didn't make the moderation cut:

http://atheiststoday.com/images/sticksinasses.jpg

Ah well, another chance and an honest discussion lost.

I couldn't resist sharing this seriously awesome post by Benson: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/07/your-hit-parade/ Where she shows that she *can* take the piss! OB:I thought that was the last of it, but there's this adorable song that was performed at TAM. http://theskeptics...

I'm at work so I haven't been able to visit the link yet, but here is something that just came across twitter:

PZ Myers â€@pzmyers

BRILLIANT. RT @rebeccawatson: I've started a new website in which all the articles will be written by spammers: http://bit.ly/MaPgqd

Jesus fuck, that Gnumann is a douchnozzle. reasonabel 18 July 2012 at 8:05 pm -- Please give examples of what you and posters here agree on.-- We agree that god probably doesnâ€™t exist. We agree that rational enquiry is the best method for arriving at truth. We agree that harassment policies at con...

Lsuoma wrote:
Also, this is one of the UD definitions of a skepchick:

Look about 7 posts upthread. heh

Quote tags hate you Lsuoma. :)

Also, I missed this big PZ fail: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/07/in-your-face/#comment-222296 Hmmm. I could legitimately get a t-shirt like this: Iâ€™m a doctor Not a â€œskepdocâ€ Not a â€œdoctoral skepticâ€ Just a skeptic But that would be petty and an obvious snipe at a...

After looking at the arguments over the shirt, I hit Goggle for a look at "skepchick". With the the little 's', I would assume she was going for a broader interpretation. Until she actually says what she meant, it's still speculation. I also found this, it's a year old, but still funny: http://www.u...

Oh, and I have to say, I'm not digging on these people: LeftSidePositive SetÃ¡r, self-appointed Elf-Sheriff of the FreethoughtBlogs Star Chamber Illuminata, Genie in the Beer Bottle screechymonkey hyperdeath Utakata Matt Penfold The Pint Seriously, who the fuck are they? Also, I missed this big PZ f...

*tell me.

This not editing at all is annoying.

Come one, at least a 3min window.

Why didn't anyone tell the the story had changed? http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/07/in-your-face/#comment-224377 Surly Amy wrote: This was not the only incident that happened to me at TAM where people were targeting me with personalized items meant to mock or diminish my prese...

EveryMan wrote: Btw, are you the same "Skeeve" from skeptical community?

I'm Skeeve from atheists.com, which is now atheiststoday.com.

I post at a few other sites as Skeeve, but not skeptical community. I'm not even sure what that is.

Ok let me see if I can decode this. According to Surly Amy There was definitely an us against them feeling that I personally experienced at the event, with groups of people who wouldnâ€™t get within 10 feet of my table. So the word was out that Surly was expecting to be harassed, and JREF was deter...

I'm amazed that this comment was left untouched:

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Say what you like about Surly Amy, but by god she's brave and she knows her priorities. After fleeing the horrendous T-shirt abuse at TAM she courageously managed to send a message to the world. https://twitter.com/SurlyAmy/status/224537073565175808 I can't view this tweet because she blocked me fo...

Hah, I pity you straight guys....I've been waiting to go gaybar hopping with Abbie for years. I just know she has plenty of cute guys to party with down on Penn. :)

So a feminist who's been at it much longer and has accomplished many more things, doesn't think like them, and she lets them know it. And their response is crying and butthurt anger?

And they can't figure out why less and less are taking them seriously?

Hello Slyme pit, I am who you think. I could tell you my true identity, by why spoil a perfectly good witch hunt when everyone's having such a grand time of it? Thank you all who have made such wonderful comments, and who are participating on the Blahg. It is certainly designed for people to commen...

Ahh, ok, my bad

IRC-like chatroom, rather.

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