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

Elevatorgate is a kid who wants to be a journalist and is faithfully covering the dramarama with gonzo style... well, as much as you can on the internet. He occasionally acts like a teenager, but he's not any kind of threat. Not least of all because he doesn't live in the same country as most of th...

Biohazard, just wanted to say thanks for posting the Poopy/Drescher FB conversation, but the fascist tit who runs this joint locked the thread before I saw it! It amazes me that Poppy was arguing over a point she was directly involved in, but hadn't bothered to monitor the original post for updated....

Yeah, I know, I was yanking the chains of the cognoscenti Incidentally I remember various non-privileged Horde people discussing their favorite single malts on Pharyngula once, with one genius stating that it should only only be drunk with spring water from the source used to make the mash. Well, y...

I don't know why ya'll are not seeing this stuff, I can still see it. I'll look into copy/pasting it later (assuming it doesn't get sorted in the meantime), don't have time now (sorry). As a tease here is Poppy's first comment in response to the link to the Mr. Deity vid is: "Yeah, great. Victim bl...

Also there has been an interesting exchange between Carrie Poppy and Barbara Drescher (and others) in a thread under a comment (regarding his latest video) posted by Wendy Hughes on Mr. Deity's FB page (don't know of a way to link directly to it). It looked like there has been some redacting, also ...

Simple, but brilliant:

[youtube]HLNhPMQnWu4[/youtube]

Rystefn wrote:
Zenspace wrote:How do these people function in the real world? :doh:
I suspect that they don't, and that's why they fled to crazy-town.

Good point.

Laughing my *ASS* off at Ophie right now (and all her little groupies): http://www.freezepage.com/1376520625NMKVBVQBPV OK. I never really waded through the comment section of an OB post at length before. Just WTF!?!?! How can a group of people be so mentally fucked as to turn the most basic bit of ...

Just passing through, can't keep up with you buggers!

In case no one else has posted this yet, the parodies have begun!

http://ardentatheist.tumblr.com/post/58 ... -hands-you

Damn, I hate leaving a good party, but the hour is late, the dram of single malt is gone (again!) and it looks like things are finally slowing a bit here. Try to keep the additional pages in the single digits for the night so I have some hope of catching up. Night all! (and I would like to start tom...

My, this Laphroaig 18 year old is especially good tonite... If you'll forgive the tangent, didn't Hitchens talk shit about Laphroaig because Prince Charles liked it? I vaguely remember a speech where he said that. I'm just drunk posing here, go back to your sceduled programming. :mrgreen: I try to ...

KiwiInOz wrote:
Zenspace wrote:
Gah! Ninja'd!

Fuck, the Laphroaig 18 year old is still fucking brilliant. :snooty:
I'll have mine straight, thanks.

The only way, of course! Sweet, sweet nectar...damn, finished another dram...

Zenspace wrote:
KiwiInOz wrote:
Roofied_Baboon wrote:Is PZ still moderating comments on his blog? Now would probably be the most opportune time to flame, would it not? :D

Why bother, when self-immolation is the order of the day?
Gah! Ninja'd!

Fuck, the Laphroaig 18 year old is still fucking brilliant. :snooty:

KiwiInOz wrote:
Roofied_Baboon wrote:Is PZ still moderating comments on his blog? Now would probably be the most opportune time to flame, would it not? :D

Why bother, when self-immolation is the order of the day?

Gah! Ninja'd!

Is PZ still moderating comments on his blog? Now would probably be the most opportune time to flame, would it not? :D NO They're burning nicely as it is. That's not what the Pit is about. We're about sitting back and watching dingbats shoot themselves in the foot. At least that's the way I see it. ...

Gumby wrote:Bless our hearts.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd24 ... 547925.jpg

:lol:

[darthvader]Most impressive![/darthvader]

party time! :banana-dreads: :banana-dreads: :banana-dreads: :banana-dreads: :banana-dreads:

Cunning Punt wrote:
JackRayner wrote:Is there any way to host the PDF file of Shermer's lawyer someplace, in case it gets nuked as well?
I have it on my hard drive.

Same here. One for posterity.

Mykeru wrote:In case anyone didn't see it before P.Z. did the tail-tuck:

shermerslawyerletter01.jpg

shermerslawyerletter02.jpg

shermerslawyerletter03.jpg

I love you. :clap:

Whatever the facts are, what we have is filtered through the mind of P.Z. Meyers, who is the very definition of an unreliable narrator. Past experience shows the "witch of the week" persecutions that originate from the FTB back-channel mostly have a tenuous relationship with reality. The only reaso...

I don't think so. I suspect PZ's source on the Shermer accusation is the one person in the skeptic community in whom he has always shown absolute trust.[ /quote] Cripes. I hadn't considered that, it's just too fucking weird . It would help explain the current silence from people you'd expect to be ...

https://twitter.com/thunderf00t/status/366154851450753025 Brownlist? Obviously, I have no idea whether the accusations against Shermer are true. But it seems that an intelligent person who's been falsely accused, and who's assembling lawyers to deal with the libel, would not necessarily make a lot ...

I would not be shocked to find a false claim somewhere in the chain. There are reasons for that. But I'm not going to go through the forensics of false-rape claims as my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer yesterday (the very common and treatable IDC) and while Myers is providing a good distracti...

Oh, Peezus, what have you wrought:

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/08/0 ... he-godless

Pretty sad overall, and hardly unexpected (including a clear bias), but near the end is a surprisingly accurate description of Marcotte's impact on the atheist community. :lol:

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 b...

Al Stefanelli wrote:My thoughts on PZ's Shermer post:

I Got Your 'Grenade' Right Here...

Good commentary Al.

HEY!! Who dat in your avatar, baby? You clean up that good? (I have to confess to really liking the old beard/sunglass version - very cool!)

The only way any of this makes any sense, in terms of of the FTB shit of late, is if they're working with Ashton Kutcher, and this is the web version of "Punked". This comment makes more sense than anything else I've seen in the last 48 hours regarding FftB et al. I've just been watching this roll ...

McCreight's going all in: http://i.imgur.com/ptxC1PJ.png No one's thought to remind her there might be unhappy consequences to what she's doing. Those are some fine friends she's got. It's amazing how these people, in their rush to point their fingers and shout "J'accuse", have lost all capacity fo...

Official comment from CFI:

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/pages/c ... complaints

Well, that's a start... I love her very much, as if she was my own daughter. We adopted her when she was 5 weeks old and motherless (killed by a stray dog). We bottle-fed her and trained her to use her sandbox. My posters are up now, and I was embarassed being in tears while going from shop to shop...

No name tag, no tattoo, no microship. She's a closed up housecat. We had planned to neuter and tattoo her just this week. Fucking irony! The best I can hope for is that, as you say, someone took her in and will read our placards, or maybe even put one of their own. Hmmmm. Interesting timing. Any ch...

Just want to poke my head in the door to say hello! I've been traveling with intermittent-to-nada internets, so I've been skimming to catch up. As usual, I go to play in the real world for a bit and all hell breaks loose. It seems to have settled down a bit at the moment. Let's see, IIRC: Rayshul: c...

Metalogic42 wrote:New avatar. Not sure I'm entirely happy with it :/

I likes it, although I would crop about half the dead space on the left to balance it better.

I will miss the old avatar, which was full of stop-and-look-at-this awesome.

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:I got 18. I seem to suck at Asperging...

I scored 9. I'm even suckier at it.

After posting about two dozen comments about TV shows I should mention that I don't actually own a telly. what does one need a telly for? I haven't had one in years I never owned one until I was married. No phone either. Never missed either, ever. I have one now, but rarely watch it, but the wife l...

Foe Abbie, who has probably seen it already:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... lanet.html

I wonder how much time this little online conference is going to spend talking about the Slymepit. HaHa. AndI wonder how much the Slymepit is going to ignore it completely. FTB are beyond irrelevant. That will be my choice. Life is way to short to waste on that groups self important blathering. It'...

Richard Carrier is making propaganda for FTBCon Artists Science: The massive, amazing, totally free online conference hosted by Freethought Blogs starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday. We have over 100 speakers and 33 sessions. Many names youâ€™ll recognize and love. Many names you might not know...

Did Zimmerman kill the Pyt? :shock:

Monday I had some errands to do. (I am on vacation this week.) When I am in the city center, I always eat lunch at the fish & chips shop on the main drag. I held the door for the couple after me, they held it for me. After ordering, I waited on the bench with the other customers. (About 20 people i...

Monday I had some errands to do. (I am on vacation this week.) When I am in the city center, I always eat lunch at the fish & chips shop on the main drag. I held the door for the couple after me, they held it for me. After ordering, I waited on the bench with the other customers. (About 20 people i...

One of the problems with subjects like this, where transitions occur slowly, incrementally over great spans of time, is people have a tendency to assume there was a 'sudden switch' which is activated and everything changes. It is highly unlikely to have happened that way. For instance, at the very ...

I havenâ€™t actually read any of Jaynes yet, although Iâ€™ve read bits and pieces of the Wikipedia article on him and the concept seems plausible. But I first ran across him in Dawkinsâ€™ The God Delusion which whetted my appetite to learn more: I was led to think about it while reading the America...

Jaynes' theorized that this progression resulted in a culturally driven change in our mentality - the System 2 mind becoming increasingly more predominant as increasingly complex societies demanded it in order to function and survive. System 1 never left us though, and still plays a major part in o...

One of Jaynes basic premises is that humans move between these two very different conscious states without even being aware of it, with the greater bulk of our time spent in the computational state and the meta state being rather transient. What puts many people off this idea is the failure to unde...

One of Jaynes basic premises is that humans move between these two very different conscious states without even being aware of it, with the greater bulk of our time spent in the computational state and the meta state being rather transient. What puts many people off this idea is the failure to unde...

It's much worse, and interesting, than that. Start with Julian Jaynes 'The Origins of Conciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind', opening chapters, then the basic precepts of Gurdjieff's Fourth Way. It may very well change your understanding of mentality in very significant ways. A friend...

You would think that PZ Fucking Myers, being PZ Fucking Myers and all, could at least get one scientist to agree with him that is not part of his incestous FTB circle jerk. Or at least someone that's not Stephapotamus. In this case I would not know. My eyes glazed over after the 1st paragraph. who ...

Badger3k wrote:
Zenspace wrote:
Is that like intellectual incest or something? :think:
Don't you need some intellect before it can be intellectual?

Point! :doh: :lol:

American gun worship is what baffles me. It's a couple of centuries old, and is certainly not about to go away. Fuck, it's almost sexual: I've got a bigger dick than you and I can seriously fuck you into the ground with it too ! Nah. I do not get it. And it is clearly cultural, it's not about gun l...

Great video mudbrooker! Back to normal business. Peezus decides to take on Jerry Coyne by calling his piece on PZs godawful Skepchickcon Evo Psych panel, an 'ad hominem'. He bolsters his case by quoting the one noted scientist who takes his side. Steph Svan. :rimshot: http://freethoughtblogs.com/ph...

Parody Accountant wrote:FFS, I just reached a depressing conclusion. CunScience will feature lots of commentary about... Trayvon Martin.

I'll be out in the car.

As far as physical evidence of who was on top of who: Zimmerman's clothes had grass stains on the back of them. Trayvon's did not. The grass was wet. Case closed on that. Surely that should be concrete stains? Oh, fuck, they've dragged me into it! Put the keyboard down and back away slowly! :o

I'm looking back on the screwdriver/hammer debate through a rose tinted nostalgic haze right now. I'm with you there. :lol: :lol: :lol: Same here. This is the first longish break I took from the Pyt without thinking I might have missed something. Will someone go over and give the FftB nest a kick s...

Greta Christina's comment about unfriending anyone who might think of defending the verdict, reminded me of one of my favorite movies, the old Henry Fonda classic, '12 Angry Men'. [youtube]CrnXDHYb-9s[/youtube] If you haven't seen it before I cannot recommend it highly enough. The story is about a ...

Meyers's people are all over this like white on rice: http://i.imgur.com/bNPz0ap.png Nope. Bye. Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, most of fucking Africa...Which do you choose, fuckwit? Malta's nice. Oh. Wait. No, it's horrible. Very regressive. Patriarchy everywhere. Social Justice Warriors would h...

Hunt wrote:
mordacious1 wrote:And now...the lighter side of the news:

Nobody is that dumb.

I have some very, very bad news for you...

BarnOwl wrote:
I guess when you're as priggish as Ophelia, the world is your cloister.

Well, I'll try to live up to the rep, but it will take some work.

The first thing I think of is 'con' as in deceive or convict. The second thing I think of is a French word for cunt, 'con'. Put together with 'science', it does not make me think of what must be the expected 'conscience', but instead, the science of cunts. Like gynecology or something. Or the scien...

PS is it just me, or is the first thing you think of when you see the twitter handle 'FTBCon' is that this is someone they've crossed calling FTB a con? The first thing I think of is 'con' as in deceive or convict. The second thing I think of is a French word for cunt, 'con'. Put together with 'sci...

Nevermind - it looks a lot harder than I had hoped. Have to figure out the total energy of each vehicle, total for the whole system, what type of collision, velocities after the collision, and probably more. Even the physics classroom website just leaves out the calculations and says An analysis of...

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