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

I have read plenty of comments regarding the nature of the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo. The last I've read was how Ophelia Benson, our new Honorary Slymepitter as per Gilliel, is still trying to pin down what to think of these cartoons. Then it occured to me that I somehow don't think that way. I don'...

ROBOKiTTY wrote:Anyone speak PlattdÃ¼Ã¼tsch/NedderdÃ¼Ã¼tsch/Nedersaksisch?

I might be able to help.

Kathleen Johnson has chosen the best timing. FTB has an image problem and a somewhat rough start into the year, due to Avicenna. But there is also their own internal dissonance seemingly growing. Slymepit for the first time made positive news with exposing one of the FTB fabulists and plagiarist. Re...

I've just found Peezus's wish list on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/UHX6P79VG314/ref=pdp_new Anyone want to buy the quad copter so he can spy on Watson? Or the book on fallacy free arguments (which he badly needs)? "Attacking Faulty Reasoning: ..." and Amazon's "look inside" st...

Weird. Agree with PZ Myers on Every Fucking Thing: HIVEMIND! SYCOPHANTS! Disagree with some things PZ Myers has said* on One Single Topic: HYPOCRITES! Slymepit logic; how does it work? .... So what has been proved? Fuck all. No, you can't prove anything outside logical systems. <snip> No, I don't m...

Re: Guest post from Kathleen Johnson, Vice President of American Atheists http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2015/01/state-of-the-community/ That's more of the same anti-slymepit sentiment, this time with some faux-balance items thrown in. She's a bit worried that her friends at FTB had a bit of a r...

Weird. Agree with PZ Myers on Every Fucking Thing: HIVEMIND! SYCOPHANTS! Disagree with some things PZ Myers has said* on One Single Topic: HYPOCRITES! Slymepit logic; how does it work? *Has he since changed his mind on those things? I donâ€™t know. Would I have agreed with him at that time, in thos...

How can support for Charlie Hebdo be controversial on a â€œfreethoughtâ€ (or atheist) network? Part of it is language barrier. Part of it is lack of context (e.g. the Christiane Taubira ''monkey' pic). Part of it is that Charlie was often just plain outrageous (the Boko Haram girls). Part of it is...

How can support for Charlie Hebdo be controversial on a â€œfreethoughtâ€ (or atheist) network? It won't get in my little head, even when I perfectly know about the social justice warriors. How is this possible? It's really time they say goodbye from this â€œmovementâ€ and set sail to social justic...

James Caruthers: In my humble opinion, if an illegal "immigrant" should be given a driver's license, then there is no reason whatsoever to prevent a felon from voting OR owning a firearm, especially as many felonies are not firearm-related. I'm starting to think you're related to Uncle Parsehole. O...

Nerd of Redhead never disappoints. In some sense he is the quintessential FTB regular. One set of rules for his ingroup (everything goes) and another set for the outgroup (impossible to meet standards, citations for everything, even opnions et cetera).

Ophelia Benson was very unfair a few times, but I donâ€™t hold grudges against her. Iâ€™ve seen a few good articles she authored, however donâ€™t visit her blog if not prompted by some circumstance. I am rather amazed how a single disagreement (unreasonable, too) makes these people burn all bridges....

Also, I would like to know in light of this claim, how many of your words have truly been your own words. At what point in the conversation did you begin this strategy? Because, frankly, this smells a helluva lot like you entered this thread with an agenda of some kind. http://cdn.mhpbooks.com/uplo...

Truth in Television: Sometimes, it seems like the lead antagonist has deliberately chosen the most incompetent, craven, cowardly, or just plain unreliable underlings around... the trope often culminates in a Dragon that, instead of being the best of what the lower ranks has to offer, seems to be a l...

Freezepage of now, Operation Avicenna: PZ Myers on Islam
http://www.freezepage.com/1420844465LNEPQMZUGY

I can't even count properly, laughing tears to blame... Are FreeThoughtBlog commentariat (regular posters) authoritarians? Confirmed . Presented with views from their host but without the attribution and the belief it is some out-grouper they strongly disagree with the views as posted, something the...

Have you used these? Make sure you don't use some twice. ;) 1 http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/04/04/it-was-awfully-nice-of-him-not/ We live in a world where some Catholics will froth at the mouth and send death-threats and call for people to be fired over insults to a scrap of magic, holy br...

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Jan Steen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/CP1PgPe.jpg

Perfect. :D
I guess Avi didn't hang out in the Thunderdome enough.

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Southern wrote:
Aneris wrote:No more popcorn. The Slymepit should wear black today, as fellow [satirists] in France died for their irreverence.
I'd rather wear a "Mohammed Is A Shithead" cosplay to honor their memory and to piss the Islamic world. I think that would prefer it that way

Agreed.

satirists.

No more popcorn. The Slymepit should wear black today, as fellow satists in France died for their irreverence.

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First, you should know Iâ€™m a *gasp*, feminist. I use that word in the same fashion a gay gentleman may use the word â€œfaggotâ€ or how I myself use the word â€œcunt". In other words, Iâ€™m reclaiming it from those who have poisoned it. https://medium.com/@ItsStarmanda/feminism-princess-culture-a...

Could be â€œreverse trollingâ€ â€” taking advantage of that FTB people lurk here all the time â€” but also never really worked. Not even the â€œreverse insultâ€ variety by writing insults here and the Usual Suspects would pick them up where they normally shouldn't see them. Then they momentarily s...

Gefan whathisname, your â€œThe Last Adventure of Agent Aviâ€ says â€œthe video is not playableâ€. It also doesn't show up on your channel and can only be seen on YouTube by manually adding the video-code to the url. It is oddly listed as new under subscription, but same error there too.

How come Steersman can still post at FreeThoughtBlogs and has his comments manually deleted? I find this very odd. I thought slymepit â€œregistered membersâ€ were perma-banned, and Steers is really known to hang out here. What is that about? Is it a useful illusion for them (pretending that anyone ...

Just catching up on the discussion on transsexuality among other things. Robert Sapolsky to the rescue! I've linked to the lecture series a few times, and another time can't hurt. A quick recap. Robert Sapolsky completely destroys PZ Myers milder notion that brains and behaviour aren't different bet...

fuzzy wrote:http://i.imgur.com/aqr7m09.png

:D

I always envisioned it more like this:

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Lsuoma wrote:It was there all along - you just couldn't see it :rimshot:

Anyway, I've made it visible.

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Isn't this what we've been saying about Avicenna for years? As a result of this breach, my trust has likewise been breached, and I now call into question everything heâ€™s written about his own deeds unsupported by direct evidence as they generally are. Itâ€™s still possible heâ€™s done many or mos...

Gary Edwards has a good one that seems relevant.

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He's of course entirely correct. But he could have gone farther into the SJW mindset that actually also seeks to determine what people should like or not like aesthetically...

Thibeault, same thing as usual. Complains about alleged mythologizing, and does it himself. They themselves have a tendency of mythologizing to the end of slandering people, and Avicenna was one of the people they mythologized about. From whole cloth, in order to undercut the seriousness of sexual a...

FreeThoughtBlogs is a haven for pathological liars (PZ Myers, Avicenna, etc.). You won't be surprised by what I came across: Taslima Nasreen's German wiki page lists some controversies during the 1990s with interesting quotes from news magazines of repute. I cite the passage, I snipped once, other ...

Knowing almost nothing of the SGU and seeing it was also connected to James Randi, who apparently was a regular guest, I wonder about the timing â€” didn't Ms Watson burn that bridge recently as well? It could also be the other way around as it appears to have happened in the past: there was first a...

Drive by comment: well, when Patreon is against â€œmalicious doxingâ€ now and wasn't there this famous SkepChick who recently wrote she's for doxing and promoted maliciously doxed information herself? Okay then... anyone who feels like it should write them a nice letter. Include the dox tweet, too....

I don't see a coherent ideology, or a long term plan with social justice warriors. I see Social justice warriorism as an individualist movement (ultimately) with people trying to outdo each other who is the better person. It grew from a tradition that started with the Old Left (think oily workers, c...

It's just bizarre. Michael Nugent, and pretty much everyone here thinks going to the police is the best way to deal with crimes, including rape, instead of kangaroo courts on blogs or at universities, or within private insititutions (such as the Catholic Church), yet the FreeThoughtBlogs people have...

You have tried to rule out using satirical pictures as a tool to urge Watson to stop being Twatson. [â€¦] Thatâ€™s not true. Ridicule, caricature, or mockery is questionable when the point is that some person doesnâ€™t meet some standard of appearance or attractiveness â€“ like â€œlook this person ...

I am currently trying to get together what makes a social justice warrior. There are so many facets. Here is one. Thatâ€™s a bit of the curious trick the social justice warriors found out. Most people genuinely want to be on the good side and it is those communities where, curiously, social justice...

I am currently trying to get together what makes a social justice warrior. There are so many facets. Here is one. Thatâ€™s a bit of the curious trick the social justice warriors found out. Most people genuinely want to be on the good side and it is those communities where, curiously, social justice ...

Enjoyed seeing the bunk debunked before getting to the end of the new messages. If anyone wants to dig into climate change things, there's a great youtuber to use as a springboard to whatever else floats your fancy boat http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL82yk73N8eoX-Xobr_TfHsWPfAIyI7VAP One of ...

Still don't like to see Rebecca Watson's appearance made a topic. It's really mostly done to women and I don't like it. Her ideas are dubious, her character corrupt and her behaviour reprehensible. I think that's enough but I realize its not as easy as posting pictures and commenting on it. Fair po...

Still don't like to see Rebecca Watson's appearance made a topic. It's really mostly done to women and I don't like it. Her ideas are dubious, her character corrupt and her behaviour reprehensible. I think that's enough but I realize its not as easy as posting pictures and commenting on it.

I found this LOLtastic. Those wacky Dutchies, eh? A Dutchman's plan to propose to his girlfriend has ended with a mobile crane smashing the roof of a house and forcing the evacuation of two others. Make sure you watch the vid. Made my Saturday a little brighter... Oh crap, I have family there. I ca...

So apparently "#metalgate" is a thing now. I was waiting for the SJL to notice that a lot of metal is really fucking abhorrent by their standards, and I guess they have? If this actually takes off though I have to wonder if they really understand what kind of a hornets nest they are poking... http:...

I wonder why â€œthat's dimorphist!â€ isn't yet part of the Social Justice Warrior repertoire. Or is it? Here is Paul Bloom giving a crash course on psychology. He goes through innate compassion, nature vs nature, race and stereotype, gender and sex, and sexual dimorphism... it's nothing new if you'...

Lolwut myers.

BarnOwl, giving us the finger: http://whyevolutionistrue.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/owl-photography-32__880.jpg?w=880 That looks very much like BarnOwl taking the finger... :whistle: PZ taking the finger. http://imgur.com/zVSfXOm.jpg I've seen this animated somewhere and stole the idea for this......

Princeton Students Set Up Microaggression-Reporting Service â€œIf you witness a microaggression and would like us to put it on blast, submit your experience,â€ encourages the page, which, by the way, also refers to microaggressions as â€œ papercuts of oppression ,â€ which are â€œso small but slic...

Subcomandante Marcos Subcomandante Marcos, the character, the constructed persona, the hologram, the "colorful ruse," was created by the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee of the Zapatistas, because "[the outsiders] can only see those who are as small as they are. Letâ€™s make someone a...

Heh. You should read the latest Avi has to say about Gamergate. It's about as unhinged and incoherent as you can imagine. He's gone full (Jonathan) McIntosh. He's blaming Gamergate for everything now. Stubbed a toe? Gamergate. Got a headache? Gamergate. That guy who called you racist epithets? Game...

I know that doxxing can be a severe problem for someone who needs their name on the internet for other stuff (either now or in the future). Our Phil here, for example probably would want to use his name for music and that whoever enters his name to a seach engine comes across the musical stuff, and ...

What I don't quite understand: Why are people fired for stuff they do in their private lives? And then on top of that, shouldn't an employer care more about the employee and believe them than a random person on the internet? Because of negative public relation? Even that seems strange for about the ...

Hedgehogs are retards European hedgehog In 2006, McDonald's changed the design of their McFlurry containers to be more hedgehog-friendly.[16] Previously, hedgehogs would get their heads stuck in the container as they tried to lick the remaining food from inside the cup. Then, being unable to get ou...

I've always said that Sarkeesian is much more clever and successful than many other SJWs. I date to say that she's actually smarter than PZ Myers, or at least more socially aware, since she's less likely to alienate people who support her. I agree that she's way above average and way ahead of PZ in...

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Does Greta do the Macarena in all of her presentations?

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Other fun parts of the video include PZ saying that humans "evolved from apes" (instead of having a common ancestor) and that most of the bases on our chromosomes are "just random junk" (instead of being relics of inactive genes). The guy is a total clown. His wording is entirely correct. Our ances...

Brive1987 wrote:Is Caine still a thing at FtB? If so what feather does she currently fly under?

If you liked Aneris' link to the vid about postmodernism, IMO this one is equally useful. Watch it all the way through, and you will see all sorts of reflections on the modern SJW worldview. [youtube]bE9ExRPDWU4[/youtube] BTW, thanks for posting that vid on postmodernism, Aneris. It was good and I'...

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