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

bovarchist wrote:It's the 'gate to end all 'gates.
AKA Masturgate.

Nah, the 'gate to end all gates' is gategate!

The only scandal that ever needed the "-gate" suffix is Water-fucking-gate. If you call anything a "-gate" you should be beaten about the kidneys until you piss blood. Um, we know that. It's a joke. Do you really think anyone was serious when they call the coffee invitation "The elevatorgate"? That...

PZ just recruited a new FtBer, Alex Gabriel. http://www.freethoughtblogs.com/godlessness I love the T & A adds. So feminist. Holyshit!!!!! He's the dumbass who wrote this: http://heresyclub.com/2013/08/yes-richard-dawkins-your-statements-on-islam-are-racist/ He joined the sinking ship at the right ...

This is the way left wing movements end: not with a bang but a whimper. Disillusion is endemic, for so little is achieved, at so much cost to the individuals involved, that disaffection becomes inevitable. What begins in the expectation that anything is possible is throttled by the creeping tendril...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/15/this-is-not-an-update/ Atheism, Personal by PZ Myers I canâ€™t explain how things are going except to sayâ€¦itâ€™s complicated. Do try to keep up with others â€” I canâ€™t. I worry that this is the end of a lot of good things, or rather, things that...

JackRayner wrote:Do we have a name for this whole thing yet? Is it GrenadeGate or what?

How about "boozegate" or "Winegate"? (the latter has the potential to be "whinegate" as well).

Let me tell you that when I pressed â€œpublishâ€ on a certain post the other day, I knew that no matter how it turns out, the one thing I could be certain of is that I would be persona non grata in a large segment of the movement, and that Iâ€™d be spending many more quiet weekends at home in Morr...

I swing back and forth between terrorist analogies (American Girlyban) and Scientology/Mormon comparative associations. They both work and it helps keep the dreaded redundancy to a minimum. Enjoy. Did you use to work at MacDonalds? It's the 'enjoy,' isn't it? Drives me crazy too... I don't know wha...

All this bullshit about "blaming the victim!" reminded me of one of my favorite books "The Invisible Gorilla". There, the rape of "Jennifer Thompson" was discussed and illustrated as an example of how our memory and recollection can be wrong and can lead to the presecution of the innocent. Here's on...

http://i.imgur.com/8NIkbOu.jpg At the Elyse Mofo Anders Skepchick Mr. Deity thread. http://skepchick.org/2013/08/if-you-dont-like-rape-dont-get-raped-duh/ Suggesting people know their drink limits and giving them ways to not drink is more like telling people not to text while driving, and not to an...

katamari Damassi wrote:Twatson still silent eh? She's either smarter than I gave her credit for or is exercising an unusual amount of self control.

PZ almost put everything on the line to defend her. Now I wonder if PZ is feeling betrayed. I mean, he should, but then again sometimes he's an idiot.

Prof. Ceiling Cat (Jerry Coyne) obliquely refers to the last few mins of Mr Deity's video at: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/mormon-theology-and-mr-deity He calls it The last few minutes of the video are an interesting disquisition on skepticism. :-) :lol: I just saw that and I ...

So, still reading the Creative Pooping rant, and I'm at this part; In any case, I wonâ€™t be around to watch the results. Do I have any regrets? Sure. [...] I didnâ€™t ever have a sexual experience with another person that wasnâ€™t being raped. (By the way, Iâ€™m bi. Sorry for coming out so late, b...

I don't know what the heck is going on, but Dallas Haugh, a guy, explicitly accuses Sherman of having nonconsensual sex with him, and then writes what everyone sees as a suicide note. So this would be a first person accusation. http://creativepooping.tumblr.com/post/58134765976/note Talk about your...

You talk too much, especially for a n00b, you're boring, you're repetitive, you're self-aggrandizing, and you link spam your stupid fuck blog way too often. Are you here via reddit or PZ's blog? Eternal September. Awwww, come on. Don't be mean to the new comers! This is slymepit! Christ almighty, y...

None of you are forward thinking enough to realize that we're gonna need a PZ replacement pretty soon and I know the competition is going to be fierce (none of you stand a chance against me). I'm the perfect Anti-PZ. I can't stand blue haired groupie chicks, know nothing at all about the mating hab...

Ah, pointless hyperskepticism. Are you one of the baboons? Sure, that's why I post here, because everyone knows Pit is the baboon hot spot. Also, heart warming to hear that when it comes to PZ it's healthy skepticism to not believe anything unless backed by evidence but when it comes to CFI the sam...

And why does Lindsay have to tell you, specifically, exactly how everything went down? Why does he have to tell anyone for that matter and why would he feel compelled to tell the WWW about it? 1) Organizations should not deal with possible crimes internally. 2) He doesn't need to tell me but I won'...

Dick Strawkins wrote:'The Happy Atheist' is released today so we can look at the chapter titles to see how much of it is devoted to SJW issues.

http://i.imgur.com/7M6FBjJ.jpg
*snip*

In other words, "Happy Atheist" = "A Collection of Random Blog Posts with no Structure"

The Tim Channel wrote:Holy shit people. My brain runs at the framerate of a bat on crack that's echo tracking a horde of buzzing tiger moths and I can't keep up with this shit.

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You are straying into conspiracy theory territory with that one. Nope. As I said, I don't believe that possiblity is likely since I just pulled out of thin air but it's also not uncommon (search for the list of worst charities and the crap that they do). What I'm saying is that nontransparanet nonp...

He does address this. From his blog post/takedown letter to CFI: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/what_i_wrote_to_scientific_american/ Certainly no one checked with anyone in our organization regarding Ms. Stollznow's claims. If anyone from your journal had done so, we could have refuted...

And why does Lindsay have to tell you, specifically, exactly how everything went down? Why does he have to tell anyone for that matter and why would he feel compelled to tell the WWW about it? 1) Organizations should not deal with possible crimes internally. 2) He doesn't need to tell me but I won'...

Am I the only one here who thinks this celebration of schadenfreude is a bit premature? I think celebration of PZ's downfall is a bit premature. I think this case has the potential to go any direction. Remember that PZ still has a few very very devout followers (okay, to be fair a lot of them are l...

Holyfuck! I'm still catching up with the posts and the anticipated PZ vs Shermer lolyer battle and I just bought a coupon for a truck load of pop corn and I hope it suffices. But in the mean time, I've got to say this is bullshit: Meanwhile, popehat is also retweeting Ron Lindsay's tweet about corre...

Pharyngula's comments section is a placed ruled by pure emotional outbursts, groupthink and abusing lesser known members into submission by an elite of regulars who have set the tone and ideology there in line with the worst of the Tumblr-style SJW blogosphere. Bingo. What gets me though, are peopl...

Jan Steen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/KCHRTdc.jpg

Awesome! That pretty much sums up 20 pages of slympit, 4000 comments on pharyngula as well as a gazillion blogs, blog pots, youtube videos, and youtube comments.

But there's more. They offer a page on "Higher Risk Activities"... http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Higher_risk_activities Intoxication (usually drunkeness) both genuinely lowers inhibitions and provides people with an excuse for acting badly even if they genuinely knew...

I can't say no to a drink therefore rape/sexual assault? Am I reading that correctly? Michael Shermer helped get me drunker than I normally get, and was a bit flirty. I canâ€™t recall the details because I was intoxicated. I donâ€™t remember how I left, but I am told that a friend took me away from...

JackSkeptic wrote:
Steersman wrote:
clownshoe wrote:http://i.imgur.com/SssQHZp.png
:lol: :clap:
I always wanted to be considered a "key man" - now I R 1 !!! ;-)
Shut up Steersman. Hey, it works!!

Steersman is no longer at his peak. Recently, I've even managed to finish reading a couple of his posts.

ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:http://i.imgur.com/g9u0atN.png

How? PZ says Nerd has become repetitive. He says he needs to post new stuff. Well, I'm sorry PZ but he can't. He has not posting anything new for over three years now (incidentally, three years ago also marks the time I started read his comments).

Speaking of photoshops, where is the long overdue Ron Lindsay handing Rebecca Watson an ice cube... This Lindsay/Watson ice cube weirdness you got goin' is a REALLY creepy and nonsensical obsession. What is this, the fourth time you've begged for this incomprehensible twaddle? You're backsliding, J...

On scale of one to ten, ten being the worst, how bad is it to not get the picture? Because I don't.

Over the past two years virtually every single incident touted as 'sexual harrassment' has involved 'skeptics' or atheists in situations where alcohol was involved. It is trivially easy to come up with a policy that will cut this factor out of the equation. "Skeptic/Atheist events will be alcohol f...

Yup. There is nothing wrong with a nice wine and cheese kind of thing at a conference, i.e. first night, getting to know you sort of deal, or even a single event with booze and bands and what have you. But the CONSTANT partying, the CONSTANT drinking, that shit has to have a real line separating it...

The big problem with PZ's post on Shermer is that it seems he has done zero to none fact checking and verification. I'm not saying that I don't believe the story; I'm saying I don't see any effort done to make sure the story checks out. I have no problem with anonymously accusing people of shitty be...

... aand it's gone (apparently). While searching I found this gem. QFMFT. I keep trying to point out that the Slymepit have a shitton in common with fascists, fundies and other radical right-wingers. They're not in it for some sort of amusement, they're in it because they literally believe that not...

We could just be witnessing the beginning of the end for FreeThoughtBlogs. Remember folks, it woz ERV and the Slymepit that started theiw downfall! Well, yes but when "baboon central" gets burned to the ground courtesy of the inmates, whither The Slymepit? I just don't see us all discussing sports ...

Itâ€™s a sad world when behaving with a bare minimum of human decency is enough to earn a man such gushing praise. Kind of like how my friend tells me that his lovers become gushily grateful to him for such small things as asking, â€œDo you like this? Do you want me to do this?â€ and stopping and ...

@Dan: Holyshit, Maryam Namazie is rocks! Enough about White Men I'll quote and highlight parts that I like. Alex Gabrielâ€™s recently compiled list called â€œ100 of Britain and Irelandâ€™s Secular Thinkers You Should Know About, Who Arenâ€™t White Menâ€ includes some really wonderful people (many o...

Testimony is evidence :? Yes, exactly. That's the whole point. In these cases there is nothing but testimonies. And I'm sure you agree with me that when it comes to testimonies, credibility is extremely important. Hence my point that if PZ had not blown away his credibility fixing RW's stupid non-p...

... "evidence or shut to fuck up". Don't a dumbass. Credibility and multiple testimonies are the only things that you'll get. Assume the claim "He had sex with me in a position that I could not give consent 3 years ago" is true. What kind of evidence do you think would satisfy you? What kind of evi...

... "evidence or shut to fuck up". Don't a dumbass. Credibility and multiple testimonies are the only things that you'll get. Assume the claim "He had sex with me in a position that I could not give consent 3 years ago" is true. What kind of evidence do you think would satisfy you? What kind of evi...

... "evidence or shut to fuck up". Don't a dumbass. Credibility and multiple testimonies are the only things that you'll get. Assume the claim "He had sex with me in a position that I could not give consent 3 years ago" is true. What kind of evidence do you think would satisfy you? What kind of evi...

Gah, typos in the last post. I guess I got carried away too much, which is a bad mistake. I should get back in the zen mode of just enjoying the entertainment and not giving a shit about any of these big names.

And also, let's for a moment assume all the accusations are true. That Krauss, Shermer, and Nye are multiple-time sexual criminals. Wouldn't it have been more effective if PZ and the rest had not alienated half of the skeptic community through their attacks on Dawkins? For example, imagine PZ doing ...

If someone brought this to me, I would give that person all my support but let them know that I needed some advice from lawyers on how to proceed. You don't understand. You see, PZ is judge, jury and executioner. Even if Shermer is entirely innocent, which in my opinion is very likely, his career i...

The question is, who assaulted Ashley Paramore? Following deLurch's methodology: We know Ashley Paramore's assaulter was a speaker TAM 2012 but not at 2013. The following 11 men fit this profile: Robert Blaskiewicz, Sean carroll, Christopher DiCarlo, Brian Dunning, Sean Faircloth, Stuart Firestein,...

The question is, who assaulted Ashley Paramore? Following deLurch's methodology: We know Ashley Paramore's assaulter was a speaker TAM 2012 but not at 2013. The following 11 men fit this profile: Robert Blaskiewicz, Sean carroll, Christopher DiCarlo, Brian Dunning, Sean Faircloth, Stuart Firestein, ...

I meant all the four names. I can assure you that all four men did not sexually assault the Assuie girl. Some of them have very good reputations. Why drag their names through the muck pool if it is not considered likely. Lawrence Krauss is one of the four, isn't it? Could he be the one assaulted As...

Remember the time when a woman complained about being called "female"? Guess what. Now PZ, very annoying, is using "woman" as an adjective : and I didnâ€™t notice at the time how the women grad students avoided being anywhere near them. Yeah, really. It seems there is nothing PZ won't do to appease ...

Krauss responds: It is hard to know how to respond to slanderous and unsubstantiated attacks on my character and actions. I would normally be inclined to ignore these and wait for them to die out, as they deserve. In this case I think it is necessary to object, by emphasizing the following four con...

Did anyone freeze peach the tumblr page?

@Jan Steen:

LOL! Awesome!

And boo hoo! The thumblr link is down. Well, it was too good to last any longer. But this was certainly very entertaining.

Steersman wrote:Indeed. Many of them certainly have some resemblances to Madame Defarge. Revolutions do have a tendency to get out of hand.

So very fitting! (Maybe I should find the series to watch. Looks interesting)

Wow. I'm fucking speechless. The latest offering of the tumblr and probably the crown jewel of all the shitty things I've ever read. They have trivialized sexual harassment beyond measure, shamelessly. A narrator writes: one of these very special guests of the CFI was a bit rambunctious the whole ti...

@Kareem:

Looking at that tumblr I get the feeling that we'll be out of pop corn soon ... and FOREVER!

@Andrew:

Jesus Christ. I can see that you are definitely putting your PUA jedi tricks of finding patterns in bullshit to good use. What's next? Reading tarot cards? Astrology? Palm reading?

New specific accusations are coming out, now aimed at JREF and DJ Groethe. Read it on pharyngula! http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/08/07/carrie-poppy-tells-all/ Fire DJ! I read that and was very confused. At first I thought it was accusations of sexual harassment against Grothe. Except, ...

Official comment from CFI: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/pages/cfis_investigation_of_harassment_complaints I fucking hate dishonest bullshit statements like that. CFI's only point in that statement: As a general rule, CFI does not discuss personnel matters in public ... because experience has sho...

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