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

Canuck gone wild. http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2014/06/02/why-are-you-here/ It's vintage Canuck. TL;DR I can't really get anyone to take the 'sexual assault' allegation seriously because it's clearly made-up/exaggerated and I can't directly claim that libertarianism is such an evil idea ...

Capital of Britain? No such thing. Is there some special variant on Godwin's law which says that whenever two or more people from all points roughly the north west of France get together on a forum they'll end up arguing about what certain Islands, combination of islands, parts of islands, or combi...

#Basingrad I lump it in with Milton Keynes, Welwyn Garden City, St Albans and Luton; places that are some sort of experiment in designed blandness. And I lived in Southampton; consider me an expert. You're welcome oc course, to your opinion of all those towns, but you do know that you've lumped in ...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote: You're from Basingstoke? I lived there for a while. Winterthur Way.

No, I just thought it sounded good for the (attempted) joke. I am from that rough region of England though did once have a gf from there.

Because I have to talk in this fake Eastern European accent all the time when in fact I come from Basingstoke #YesAllAbbiesAssistants Because I have to pretend to have a hunchback when anybody else is here when actually I don't have #YesAllAbbiesAssistants Because it's me who has to get out of bed t...

...His name is PZ Myers: By the way, this should settle all those claims that he was mentally ill and Aspergers: a comment from a friend of the Elliot family. Astaire said Elliot had not been diagnosed with Aspergerâ€™s but the family suspected he was on the spectrum, and had been in therapy for ye...

.... could take the absolute worst KKK member you could think of, place him in Japan, and he'd magically stop being a racist, since he no longer have any "institutional power" and instead would be part of a white, discriminated minority... Nice try but no. To the SJL the 'hierarchy of privilege' in...

I'm new at this game of 'trending hashtags' but can I suggest #FindClarenceABlowUpDoll2014

The contrast between the Time magazine and the 'stab a Christian' piece shows how large the dissonance between the the versions of PZ talking to his two different audiences. It's reminiscent of a comparison of the ways Dembski talks about Intelligent Design as science to scientists, and then as "The...

It's interesting how everybody who Peez doesn't know personally is always 'random'. He seems to think that being 'random' is a characteristic of a person as opposed to a characteristic of a way of selecting individuals from within a group. And this 'randomness' which people have is a quality which i...

Pitchguest wrote:Clearly I win this year's Victim Olympics. All the pouncetugs!

Can I say that if I'm ever in PG's position, please wait at least a couple of days after the Kidney Stone before pouncetugging me.

As for Aron Ra, ..... he employs the same kind of justifications, a moderate christian does in defence of a fundamentalist. My take on the Dillahunty/Ra's of the world is a little bit different. For us men, when we were adolescents we were a bag of hormones we didn't know how to handle, and, yes, o...

So farewell then, Atheism +
"More than Disbelief" was your motto.
You claimed that what you were doing had any point at all.
But nobody believed that.

... and give him an extra one from the boy with bladder cancer !

When Walter's sense of self-righteousness meets Clarence's heavy-handed humour mucho laughs ensue !!!

Great post on that religion news blog, Aneris. Your early point is excellent - That Dawkins' "Dear Muslima" is actually about muslimas and an expression of concern for them. I remember the Peez whining that "Brits seem very taken by Dear Muslima ... " or some such, and, of course, because everything...

When I think a little more about the payment argument advanced by Greta and Alex 'I'm lovin' it' Gabriel, I realize that it has the potential to wreak havoc within the SJW conference circuit. It's not a coincidence that the demands for payment are happening within the context of a CFI conference an...

https://twitter.com/gotNIEM/status/466922525877092352 What does Tom Carlson think being a conference attendee and an audience member for talks entails ? Has he ever been to any sort of conference before ? Or anywhere where grown-ups talk to one another ? I think I get it ... he feels that he wants ...

The fact that all of their speakers are currently from the arts rather than the sciences is just one aspect that jars with me regarding the 'Women in Secularism' title. My best guess to the answer to this is the following. The word 'women' in 'women in secularism' doesn't mean what you and I usuall...

The Wondermachine that is Stefunny InZvanity speaks from on high (http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2014/05/14/debate-gender-and-authority/): On top of being able to construct convincing, even devastating arguments, I have speech and theater training. I understand how speech, appearance, a...

Transfat is a valid, serious identification ... blah blah postmodernism blah ... Is this a Poe ? Check your fucking privilege before imposing your binary poe/non-poe model on us you bastard. You're literally denying that I even exist ! I'm a TransPoe, which is a valid, serious identification where ...

From a tumblr that has been going around. ultravioletliminality: Bullying somebody for their work is not only just as bad as stabbing somebody to death, sometimes itâ€™s worse. I barely have any reasons to get out of bed anymore .... Ultraliminiminimalimity is right here actually. Sometimes when I'...

http://yeahandanotherthing.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/i-need-feminism-because.jpg For my part, I'd give her break to the extent to agreeing that there are legitimate issues to raise around when crime-prevention money is spent trying to change the behaviour of the law-abiding as opposed to the crim...

Meanwhile Sarah at Skepchick has a charming post up entitled "Fuck your civility Bullshit" The 'Fuck Civility!' meme is above all a tactic. The SJW goes into their well-rehearsed 'Fuck You!' routine ('Persecutor' role on the drama triangle). This is acceptable because the anger is on behalf of all ...

This is one situation where the class aspect is going to remain unexamined over there, isn't it? As they cover their ears and go la-la-la. Skep - It really is very simple. If you don't use the word 'cunt' because you were brought up never to use it, then you are a terrible person and you need to ch...

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Is he tone-trolling our entire country ?

.... and what social justice wankers will never understand... Hah ! Your words and insults only make me stronger. Do you not realise that, amongst my people, those who are versed in the arts of masturbation are the most highly esteemed of all amongst my people ? It is an honour to be so descibed an...

Drawing together two recent conversational threads, here's a question.... What sort of rules for the slaughtering of animals would produce special meat that would be allowed to be consumed by the SJL crowd. Tentatively I'd label it 'Safe Space Meat' to go alongside Halal and Kosher. What I've come u...

That debate thing is terrifying. There are actually people who would give a prize for something called 'debating' for that breathless display of incomprehensible garbage. The notable thing, though, is that those two young women, when they're being natural in the interview are actually articulate and...

Then there was that joker, PeeZed
Quoth he "Now that Hitchens is Dead ...
I'll snarl and I'll hiss an'
I'll make them all listen
To dickheads like Watson instead!"

...Crowhurst is perhaps the most likeable, a would-be adventurer that bit off more than he could chew, but most importantly, he was completely and utterly aware of it. Even at the end Crowhurst knew he couldn't win, literally: If he had rejoined the race and come in first after Tetley sank, he knew...

[quote="BarnOwl"] https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/463130536567771136 This is the latest manifestation of PZ's Grand Project. What he wants is to position himself, fFTB, Skepchickiwicks etc as being the gatekeepers of popular science. You're only allowed to interact with the science if you've paid...

One wonders how many twitter troll accounts Becky has, and how many times she has sent herself fake rape and death threats using them. The thing to understand, James, is that these rape and death threats are not fake, they are real. Allow me to explain - The threats exist. They exist in the air, or...

Konrad_Cruze wrote:
Hey we're not all cowards. Some of us will talk about the problem

Yeah - Just how can we punish these off-duty soldiers to deter them from wearing T-Shirts which support charities which deliberately provoke the good folk of the Religion of Peace.

You reckon? I seem to recall we've been here before. Or at least in the vicinity. Remember Dillahunty's ritual fisting when he tried posting on the A+ forum anonymously? That was a clear a lesson as could be wished for, in how loony and toxic the whole thing was. Dillahunty's response: He pretended...

...I own a replica 17th cent matchlock musket Can you fire it ? I love the old firearms technology, although I haven't got any. I'd love to have a flintlock or, even better, a wheel lock. As a compatriot of yours, Konrad (albeit one who's perfectly happy being described as 'English') I'm well out o...

Dear S. Jennings Speaking as someone who once bought a watch for 100 pounds at Newport Pagnell services on the M1 (northbound), despite being told that it was an "ex-demonstration model" and the salesman actually had to adjust it to the correct time five minutes before I handed over the cash, and th...

JackSkeptic wrote: You do realise comparing me to Carrier gave me PTSD right? I was shaking and trembling for ages and had to lie in bed for week just to get the strength to go down the pub.

What pub is that ? The "Intellectual Artilleryman's Arms"

It is enforceable. By the organizations involved using whatever criteria they wish. I said 5 years as I think that is about right which I clearly set as an opinion opener and which people responded to as such. You are the only one who assumed I wanted it somehow passed down by fiat to every organiz...

.... What might have been said to the contrite Jon Milne? First, yes condemnation of his actions, but then...praise for his contrition and apology?! Yes? Perhaps to set him to the task of righting the wrongs he has done? I just don't have the words for Myers' near autistic inability to connect with...

Oh, am I the only one that thinks ex-relegious extremists be disbarred from any leading role in A/S organization for a period of 5 years from deconversion? .... I was never suggesting some universal rule because how the hell would that be enforced even if I wanted it? It's Hendrix's thumb all over ...

Oh, am I the only one that thinks ex-relegious extremists be disbarred from any leading role in A/S organization for a period of 5 years from deconversion? If they believed total rubbish as adults it seems to me there is no reason to suppose they are not still capable of believing anything that sui...

I mean of course "somehow less valid" not "somehow implies". Apologies to all who I hurt.

Sulman wrote:Only at the 'pit could a bit of flaming turn into a discussion on wattle and daub.

You do realise that the order of your words is discriminatory against the daub community and somehow implies that they are less valid than the wattle community !

Sulman wrote:Only at the 'pit could a bit of flaming turn into a discussion on wattle and daub.

You do realise that the order of your words is discriminatory against the daub community and somehow implies that they are less valid than the wattle community !

Deepity was coined by Daniel Dennett (actually... he credits his daughter). A Depity is something that sounds very important but has no substance. Dennett's example is the phrase "Love is just a word". On the surface this sounds very prophetic, but it is really just bullshit. Basically right, but '...

PZ Myers seems to be trying out something , either with is commentariat, detractors or personally in his four walls: The goal of ultra-sentient particles is to plant the seeds of consciousness rather than delusion .... Your honour. Please allow me to explain that I'm innocent of the charge of incit...

Actually, I'm not sure what PZ is arguing. Is he arguings that such paintings are bad, or only when exhibited at atheist conferences? Hi Claus and thanks for asking. Please allow me to clarify. The paintings are bad. So bad that the only correct reaction is to be "horrified". However, when the exac...

Also, that painting on the bottom left at 90 degrees is something about a "glass refilling".

Wait till the SJL latch on to the full horror of that one !

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I love the way Hitch's eyes are looking at her tits.

He may be dead but he's still got it ....

(P.S. That painting really is dreadful)

With regards the "Alice in Wonderland" statement and the suggestion that anyone donating to Radford is necessarily playing identity politics or adopting a skewed view of reality. A clear 'No' from me. The danger of getting sucked in is probably real, but, you can make the judgement that Radford is n...

Learn how to use the quotes Yanbu old sport. You've quoted Andrew as me and snipped all my quote. Sorry. My goal was just to indicate what I was responding to without repeating a dozen paragraphs, which is the thing that drives me the most crazy about this forum. I didn't notice that the attributio...

You can judge people by the status of their enemies.

Hitchens takes on Henry Kissinger.

Myers takes on the editor of the student newspaper at University of Minnesota Morris.

Yep. However, I am entering "their" space online for example IA, other may be much more tolerant like Shiachat. I have chosen what my baseline is because among other things it is easier for me. Wasalam. Sure - I can see that if you do enter this moderated space, then part of that choice is to respe...

P.S. Thanks to Steers for spotting this and enacting the labour to correct it in his quoted version. Not a lot gets past that guy.

Learn how to use the quotes Yanbu old sport. You've quoted Andrew as me and snipped all my quote. My reply to Andrew was much the same as yours. What you wanted was this (given the nesting limit): <snipped> Sorry Phil, I won't do it anymore inshallah. I am not telling anyone what to use myself that ...

I am not telling anyone what to use myself that is up to you. However, my take is not using them may be considered disrespect and for some reason I am under the impression that disrespect is not usually a good basis for having any sort of civil discourse. YMMV I guess MMDV - My Mileage Does Vary. C...

Sorry Phil, I won't do it anymore inshallah. I like 'inshallah' - I guess because it reminds me of diving briefings on red sea holidays ... "Today, Inshallah, we are diving the wreck of the Carnatic " It's charming. I don't think it does any harm to remind us that all our plans are provisional, whe...

So... did Damion already choose the post to prove that the Pit is utterly evil, or do I have to keep trying until the weekend? C'mon, douchebag faggot, I'm waiting. I know you do your best, bless your heart, but the reason you have no impact as a provocateur is that you try too hard. Franc struck o...

On the other hand, as Mykeru says near the beginning of his video, these people have an ideology that can fairly be described as "sexually-obsessed." That's true, but there's also the factor that they confuse the personal with the political to the extent that they can't tell the difference. All peo...

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