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

Nectar, SkepTickle - how is it that we have the ability to do full face transplants, but can't stop menstruation without ripping one's uterus out? One should be able to opt out. don't want children - switch that egg thing off. for fuck's sake. had I known about the possibility of menstruation suppr...

I often have trouble understanding the points Stefunny tries to make in her blog posts. Not because her posts are complex and eloquent, but because her reasoning is so opaque, intentionally obscure, and because quite often, in hindsight, there is, in fact, no point being made, but, rather, she is t...

On the theme of redemption, as inspired by the recent sermon by the prophet David Silverman, here's a smattering of "good news" lines from the Bible (NIV), mostly from NT, adapted for the modern atheist community: Isaiah 40:9 "You who bring good news to [Brave Hero Radio], go up on a high mountain. ...

Jim, if you do post in the main thread here (the Periodic Table of Swearing, current thread is "Jim the Pleb Made Me Do It", all just labels), be aware that you are very likely to be greeted by some people saying "Fuck off!" However, unlike at Freethought blogs, that's actually a traditional welcome...

quote fail! fuck. my response was: do the injections have a higher success rate than the continuous use oral? "Success" meaning contraceptive efficacy, or meaning menstrual suppression? As curriejean said, one drawback to DMPA injections is that it can take months of daily spotting or bleeding to g...

...The point is that Meyers and his pals are laughing at exactly the same shit which they pretend to be outraged at. It's all about the money, and the power, for these cunts. There is NO opinion or belief which they hold strongly enough not to kick into a pit if it would bring them closer to feedin...

LOL - PZ publicly gives up skepticism after JI Swiss's talk, and after the Silverman lecture a few hours ago, people here seem to be giving up atheism.

Nectar, SkepTickle - how is it that we have the ability to do full face transplants, but can't stop menstruation without ripping one's uterus out? One should be able to opt out. don't want children - switch that egg thing off. for fuck's sake. had I known about the possibility of menstruation suppr...

Nectar, SkepTickle - how is it that we have the ability to do full face transplants, but can't stop menstruation without ripping one's uterus out? One should be able to opt out. don't want children - switch that egg thing off. for fuck's sake. had I known about the possibility of menstruation suppr...

I don't freezepage so here's a copy/paste from http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/16/david-silverman-vs-justin-vacula/ (posted within the last 2 hrs): David Silverman vs. Justin Vacula by PZ Myers Silverman appeared on Vaculaâ€™s â€œBrave Heroâ€ (jeez, but it hurts just to type that rid...

...Okay, fine. Ha, ha. Great joke, PZ. It's so hilarious that a family might want to demand that kidnappers pay to return an 11 yr old girl to them. And your soap joke , uh, ha, ha, "good one" there too. Is this to do with the "rape joke" he's supposed to have made on a podcast or similar? I haven'...

...Okay, fine. Ha, ha. Great joke, PZ. It's so hilarious that a family might want to demand that kidnappers pay to return an 11 yr old girl to them. And your soap joke , uh, ha, ha, "good one" there too. Is this to do with the "rape joke" he's supposed to have made on a podcast or similar? I haven'...

42 guests... lots of FtB lurkers. :D Every time you point that out, they all run away! :lol: 63 guests a moment ago. Hello, guests! Say, what do you think about PZ Myers joking that kidnappers should be paid >$5K to take an 11 yr old girl back? Quite a barrel of laughs, eh? Especially given the pro...

This trend is convincing me more and more that I should be considering myself primarily a skeptic, and an atheist secondary. I hadn't realized it was this way, but it seems it is. I got to atheism rationally, skeptically, not because theism contradicts some other political ideology I hold dear. I m...

(argh, consistency fail: I meant that someone else used to use "skeptickle" or "skep tickle", at various places online, a couple of yrs ago, as it turns out)

...BTW Skep, I have to apologize. I never realized the wordplay of your 'nym until someone said it out loud on a podcast. Well done, I say. LOL, well thanks but as I said on the show it was all I could come up with, being not all that facile with - or fond of - pseudonyms. I already had one I was h...

42 guests... lots of FtB lurkers. :D Every time you point that out, they all run away! :lol: 63 guests a moment ago. Hello, guests! Say, what do you think about PZ Myers joking that kidnappers should be paid >$5K to take an 11 yr old girl back? Quite a barrel of laughs, eh? Especially given the pro...

Email just sent to dmuscato@atheists.org (PR director of American Atheists) Mr Muscato, I was quite dismayed at Mr. Silverman's performance on Justin Vacula's radio show tonight. I can understand Mr. Silverman has strong feelings of disapprobation, but in my opinion he took a very unprofessional app...

Just wanted to save this here: http://i.imgur.com/tAVG9NX.png?1 I retweeted it with my comment (bolded here): Skep tickle â€@Ellesun 6m Worse than rape joke: RT @pzmyers You pay them >$5K to take her back. RT @MartinPribble: What would be reasonable ransom for 11 yr old girl? So if my account disap...

Why are you bad men making me wait so long for my menopause. I'm 50 now. Haven't I done my time under The Curse? Haven't I paid my dues to the Patriarchy as a Gender Traitor? I keep thinking 'hey, maybe that was my last period' and then another comes along and ruins my fun. have you tried oral cont...

It's starting to look like you have a bias coming into this You mean, in favor of the FtBfem faction? You think that I like them better, or that I approve of what they're doing? Right now I'm feeling more friendly towards some people here than towards any of them, and I can't think of anything they...

jimhabegger wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:Maybe Jim Wowbagger will turn nasty or maybe he won't
That surprises me. I thought I already was being nasty!

Errr....no. Even with "nasty" being to some extent in the eye of the beholder. You'll have to try MUCH harder if that's your goal. ;)

tawny frogmouth = really cool, hadn't heard of them before ______ women as toilets = really uncool; wish I could un-see Ophelia's tweet posted above. Besides it's quite limited as an analogy: shouldn't total number of "uses" without flushing be as problematic, if not more problematic, than how many ...

Jim might be ignored here, but at least he won't be banned. Lsuoma, maybe you could merge his threads with those of Jesse TWRA, and let them just talk to each other? ;) Jim, thanks for the link to secularsocialjustice.com; I had posted there a bit >6 months ago, when it had a different name and was ...

Alright. So, Jim, you have 8 comments after Stephanie Zvan's blogpost Women in Secularism Speakers Letter to CFI Board : After your 4th comment, one of the other commenters tells you to "Fuck off". After your 6th comment, Stephanie Zvan tells you: "jimhabegger, if youâ€™d like to keep suggesting tha...

Jim, In your introduction thread at the atheism+ forum , you seemed to invite people to look you up online by saying: "Anyone who searches the Internet with my name will soon discover that, outside of atheist spaces, I'm shamelessly and enthusiastically promoting a religion, and my association with ...

*shrug* I'll go next. Like rayshul, I donate a fair amount of $ to secular organizations, in my case some to specifically atheist and/or skeptic organizations both in my area and on national level. I give more to secular "aid" organizations, mostly ones working in developing countries (especially ar...

Apparently the (US) Supreme Court will be hearing, next term, a case about the legality of prayer held at public (government) meetings:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/break ... tings.html

As I promised...huge news was coming...and here it is! ... SHUT UP AND LISTEN More to come... I would not have done it. I tend to lean towards accommodation myself. But then I guess I have been pretty fortunate in that the majority of the people around me for most of my life for some reason tended ...

So it seems someone may have trolled Avicenna by quoting Skep tickle (without credit) and sending it as an email to him: http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/06/14/i-get-mail-why-i-havent-been-blogging/ That someone also included: [img] http://i.imgur.com/KB2ooYG.jpg [img] Seems that someo...

an indirect critique of PZ Myers, which he brushes off in the comments. Checked out the brushing-off. The first of the collected comments (including the one criticizing PZ) go back to 2009/2010, so this collection covers a stretch of three to four years. I hadn't realized. Also also, I've been invi...

... atheistorganizer: Myself and three of my awesome atheist women buds wrote a haiku to express our experience as women in the movement. A Young Womanâ€™s Reflection on Her First Atheist Convention penis everywhere old white old white old white old I wonâ€™t sleep with you ... :shock: Whereas some...

Pitchguest wrote:Skep: You know, any time you run to a thesaurus to get a different word for an argument, you might as well as admit...you've lost.

Damn straight, I should just use whatever word I want to mean whatever I want then berate anyone who doesn't understand.

:shock: :lol:

My letter to CFI Board, just sent via email: <snip> :clap: I pulled out the privilege cannon, but organizations like this need paying supporters and should stick to their principles (e.g. mission statement etc). AFTER that they can decide what issues to tackle, which groups and causes to particular...

My letter to CFI Board, just sent via email: Tom Flynn Corporate Secretary Center for Inquiry (CFI) Dear Mr. Flynn and the Board of Directors of CFI: Please consider this missive as conveying strong support for Ronald Lindsay as the CEO of CFI. I donated to, and joined, CFI on May 18, 2013, in direc...

Despite me thinking that the "Guys don't do that" sounded too much like an unilateral order that applies to all men and all women, which is something she has no authority to do, and would have sounded better as a suggestion, I have to agree with the rest of what you said. Yeah but when has she ever...

On foot-binding as an analogy- didn't it ultimately end because of the strict ban enforced by the communists? :think: <snip> I wrote about FGM here in 12/2012 (in response to a post by OB): http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=73&start=34050#p36041 including linking (or trying) to this NY...

...I hope she takes the stairs this time, i know she's brave, but i think it's too much to ask of her to face the horror of that cage she was assaulted in. Lets all send our sisterly strength to her so that she can climb those stairs to freedom without too much emotional turmoil. the cost of it all...

I don't think the SJWs were solely responsible for making FGM illegal, and I would hope that a vast majority of Australians supported the law against FGM, as they most certainly should have. I did state that I agree it should absolutely be illegal no matter what. I was speaking of the SJWs particip...

ischemgeek's letter to CFI, posted at: http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4736&start=25#p84420 ; bolding added by me Here's a letter that I've written to them. Dear Mr. Flynn I am not a member of CFI. However, the Women in Secularism conference interested me last year, and I was looki...

let me rephrase this- The SJWs want expect to have everything "right now". I would like an end to FGM right now as well, but I know that is not going to happen no matter how much one stops their feet, shouts at the top of their lungs, and cries manipulative tears. sacha - excellent post above, both...

Well, I think I better get this framed ... After that fat idiot banned my ferbyd account, I then sent a note from ferbyd into his banspace (cos you just know he reads them, he's too nosey not to) and in there I told the flabby twit that I had 20 accounts on FTB and that I'll keep posting there unde...

Lsuoma wrote:
deLurch wrote:
Skep tickle wrote:Mea culpa. I'd say some rosaries if I thought it would do any good.
Yes, please. It would make me feel better.
How 'bout some ovaries?

Well, I am far more familiar with ovaries than with rosaries. I'd need some tips on the latter.

Direct attack on TAM by Paul Myers: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/11/a-misleading-claim-by-a-skeptical-organization/ PZ links to this blog: http://dubitoergosum.net/2013/06/07/an-unsupportable-claim/ The other guy evaluates the claim in more detail and more graciously, but they're ...

Direct attack on TAM by Paul Myers: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/11/a-misleading-claim-by-a-skeptical-organization/ PZ links to this blog: http://dubitoergosum.net/2013/06/07/an-unsupportable-claim/ The other guy evaluates the claim in more detail and more graciously, but they're ...

Re ireland: ... 2) Conference page now says "sold out", so unless someone cancels their registration, Renee may not be able to attend. ... 3) Re how many have been to Ireland: Myers and Watson were speakers at the 2011 World Atheist Convention in Dublin. http://www.atheist.ie/world-atheist-conventi...

I know several people quoted Carrier's letter to CFI ~3 days ago, but I just read the text more carefully today and saw his response to Ryan Long's comment at his blog. Richard Carrier's letter contains this line (bolding added): [Ron Lindsay] doesnâ€™t have a good grasp of how to maintain a positiv...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:The "best" talk I've had on a commercial flight was with someone who tried to get me into a pyramid scam. These days I just go with earplugs and read a book.

I've found it helps to open up a book containing full color plates of skin diseases.

You wanna know the secret to surviving air travel? After you get where you're going, take off your shoes and your socks then walk around on the rug bare foot and make fists with your toes. I know, I know, it sounds crazy. Trust me, I've been doing it for nine years. Yes sir, better than a shower an...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2013/06/09/when-we-have-equity/ Have to catch my breath from laughing. Zvan says we will know we have equity in the movement when: Weâ€™ll know we have gender equity when we can be as cranky as the guys. Weâ€™ll be allowed to have bad days or say something...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/06/09/women-arent-feminists-really/ Avicenna in a blogpost titled "Women arenâ€™t Feminists? Really?" It's long, and gets into MRM (apparently equating AVfM with it, and any actual "men's rights" work with feminism). I did not read the AVfM open letter ...

[img] http://i.imgur.com/DLPDn5B.jpg [img] My passport has arrived. Irish eyes will be smiling :) Thanks again to gracious donors who contributed and supporters who promoted my fundraiser! Your mouth beard will be arrested on the borders for impersonating a dead slug. But you should get through. Do...

https://twitter.com/szvan/status/344229522423554048 Because it isn't activism. Secularism isn't failing women, women are failing secularism. "We [atheist/secular women] are...predominantly online" - is that even true ? *doubt seethes from me; confirmation is sought but is unlikely to be offered*

Jesse provides a nice counterexample to the claim that atheism necessarily implies feminism.

...Does anyone know of anyone who, unfathomably, started to actually believe those allegations, and changed their minds as a result of the "light" shining from The Undead Thread? Yes. See this thread ("Why are you here") http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=269 and also some of the commen...

T-shirt for EWTS, anyone? http://society6.com/saramayhew/Chill-Girl-yvz_T-shirt

http://i.imgur.com/HnJkR2t.png?1

:D

rayshul wrote:http://forlackofabettercomic.com/?id=242

:lol:

Currently the 2 entries at the top of Pogsurf's blog are, 1 after the other: http://pogsurf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/professor-soon-to-return-humanist-award.html http://pogsurf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/we-have-winner.html I'm going to guess there's a connection between the 2... Pogsurf has another blog...

This needs capping. It's to do with the FFRF FB page kerfluffle. The Huge Zvanatee is becoming as insane as Feefles. http://slymepit.com/staticimgs/svanBS.jpg did Nugent tell her that the diminutive "Mick" was okay to use in reference to him? In Stephanie Zvan's defense "Mick" is primarily an Ameri...

jim habegger, uberfeminist has a bunch of posts about FtB vilification of others, the stuff Matt Cavanaugh and I mentioned above. See, for example, these pages (and other pages linked within, or at the sidebar on the right at UF's blog): http://uberfeminist.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-definition-of-har...

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