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

A fascinating interview with Salman Rushdie on the BBC was posted up today. Sadly I'm not sure if this will be visible outside of the UK (I think it will be, their news articles usually are, but sometimes they block them) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19601824 There is so much in this...

Yep, it turns out that here, in England, it is a criminal offence to "send... a grossly offensive communication". Apart from the fact that this idiotic piece of mod-appeasing legislation puts me in daily danger of arrest, it makes a free-speech martyr out of this otherwise un-noteworthy kid. How st...

And backpedals furiously when caught out. She blames her rapidly failing memory, which only amplifies my theory that Benson is undergoing the onset-phase of incipient Alzheimer's. In which I eat crow. by Ophelia Benson Wow, Awfullia managed to admit to double standards instead of memory holing it. ...

1. Your caricature of people's thoughts here is a hasty generalisation of the exact type you are criticising others for. Also, your description certainly doesn't match my view, and although I cannot speak for others, I suspect it doesn't match the view of most here either. Sorry Spence - not perfec...

John D wrote:A+ = porcupines for EVERYONE!

The slyme pit is an equal opportunities supplier of porcupines! Even people we agree with get one.

While I'm here... oolon_paranoid.png Oolon, 1. Your caricature of people's thoughts here is a hasty generalisation of the exact type you are criticising others for. Also, your description certainly doesn't match my view, and although I cannot speak for others, I suspect it doesn't match the view of ...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Hello? Anyone here? Was it something I said?

Well, if inviting someone back for coffee is potential rape, I don't know what you just did to Abbie back there, probably potential genocide or something.

Oh and something I missed from my last post, above:

Notice how XanthÃ« blames Spectator for "baiting" wowbagger (order of the moron) into death threats against her?

Yay! Victim blaming too. What's good for the goose...

His .... though nice that he admits that he went off the deep end .... maybe there is a "Baboon Spring" in the works? .... Well, your replies have now been removed from the thread (which is now pretty much empty) and the replies that weren't memory-holed locked in a thread. Seems the baboon spring ...

My response: http://i46.tinypic.com/zsl0z6.jpg His .... though nice that he admits that he went off the deep end .... maybe there is a "Baboon Spring" in the works? .... Well, kudos to wowbagger for stepping back from the death threats. Although I note that pointing out a baboon makes death threats...

Just seen wowbagger post this over at the a+theism forum:

wowbaggerOMFG.jpg: wowbagger retarded; (25.86 KiB) Downloaded 242 times

What wowbagger, like suggesting you would like a woman to die in a fire, and then having one of your plagiarising buddies come along and suggest drowning instead? How could you possibly forget that one?

You kind of misread it but that is my fault not yours. I could have worded it better. One of my EQ2 guildies is schizophrenic and he has developed coping mechanisms which include among other things, letting people who he meets for the first time know about it. He explains that at the first hint of ...

If you have mental health issues then stay the fuck off the internet. I confess to getting all squeamish and politically correct when I read this. Although I might be misreading it. The internet is a valuable resource for everyone, mental health issues or not. People who have real mental health iss...

Yes I remember that. Not exactly too sure of the details, it was quite a while ago, but I remember it didn't turn out too well. Yeah, I did a bit of googling and got a few details wrong, although the actual events were funnier. The post in question is here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/0...

My condolences to Phil, as well. Knowing that someone has little time left makes it no easier when it actually happens.

Anyway, as I say, I find that really odd. Where are his students? Ah, you weren't around for his student blog adventures. PeeZus, in his infinite wisdom, set some of his students some course work of starting a scientific blog and writing an article on something scientific. He then mentioned it on P...

.. vast steaming truckloads on other sites, such as Thunderf00t's & c. Do keep up. O god do I have to? Well, strictly speaking as a skeptic you should go and check for yourself. Nullius in verba, and all that. However, if it saves you some time, I can verify that MKG's assessment here is both appos...

Oh, and Twitter sucks if they shut down parody accounts on the drop of a dime because they hurt someone's feefees. Fuck that. I don't think that was the parody account. The parody is atheismplus (all one word), the suspended account has an underscore: atheism_plus. I believe* the account listed abo...

Lipo and Hunt ("the statues that walked") objectively went to assess Diamond's work and found it just didn't add up with actual evidence from the island. ISBN? ISBN-10: 1439150311 ISBN-13: 978-1439150313 Phil, I'd certainly recommend reading Diamond's "Collapse" as it is a very well known and highl...

I will have to disagree and ask for sources (or civil argumentation) re: as it relied on impossible continued exponential growth and continued conquest Erm, I am so staggered as to not know where to start without sounding like a religious fundy, and ask you to read the most holy texts, starting wit...

Michael K Gray wrote:Atheism Plus:
Pastime Lush
Shame Slit Up

Of course, "slime" will forever be a part of "Atheism Plus".

"US Slime Path"

justinvacula wrote:The Peach stands against Atheism+

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ivokbd

I first saw xxxThePeachxxx's youtube channel via zomgitscriss way back. I guess The Peach has not been drinking the same kool-aid as Cristina...

Greg and Stefunny have got to be fucking on the side. I can't think of any other reason why she would constantly stick up for such a scumbag. Stefunny has real difficulties in separating genuine ethical issues and what she perceives as her responsibilities to her "friends". She had a most absurd po...

To me, zomgitscriss' latests sounded like a blending of julian's and matt penfold's rage posts, combined with greg laden's tendency to write hate mail. It seemed to describe a mix of those three perfectly. Sure, since crazy people are not really grounded in rationality - and irrationality can lead t...

I thought we weren't talking about kicking anyone's genitalia any more? I ended up at this youtube diversion after the last one:

[youtube]LKCN3CSLZuI[/youtube]

It goes without saying only eeeevil misogynists would find this stuff funny.

"Liberal Will" - Seriously, if any of these morons actually bothered to do as little as lookup liberalism on the cesspit of lies, they would have a seizure and probably declare Jimmy Wales as the new pariah and Patriarchal ringleader. Yeah, that was one of the first things that caught my eye too. "...

I weighed in on the legality of tf00t's use of a zombie account at his place. Use of zombie accounts with prior authorisation appears to be a grey area under US law at the moment. LVRC Holdings vs. Brekka looked like it might set a precedent but the case was dropped before it reached the supreme cou...

I was wondering how Alexa got that demographics information. I had a hard time finding that info on Alexa itself, but some users on a a Q&A site claim that it is based on people who have installed Alexa toolbars. A subset of these toolbar havers then voluntarily input their personal data. Personall...

I suspect, although I obviously lack the data to support my suspicion, that there is a demographic element involved as well. The few times I've read the comments on Pharyngula, I got the distinct impression that the majority of commenters there were of undergraduate age. The vibe I get here is that...

*Laughs at 'Antiochus Epiphanes' on the baboon board*: ...However, FtB is intended to be revolutionary in the culture of skepticism, atheism, humanism, and feeethought. Revolutions are rarely bloodless. Yeah, kinda like North Korea was intended to be revolutionary in the culture of plurality, democ...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/07/27/episode-cccliv-but-some-of-us-still-arent-cool/comment-page-2/#comment-414528 PZ Myers 28 July 2012 at 7:04 am This is getting annoying. It seems that every time thereâ€™s a group of regulars getting exasperated and giving up on this place, thereâ€™...

Dick Strawkins wrote:Just been sent this:
Sucking the teat of controversy
PZ looks strangely content for a change.

Now that reminds me of this link recently seen at b3ta: FC5 feeding time

Obviously the characters in this gif are purely fictional and bear no resemblance to any real FfTB bloggers.

Well, I was going to post this on the Periodic Table of Swearing, but after seeing your post I thought I would chime in here instead - although it may not get picked up by so many. Left/Right wing is still relevant. It is a part of a political spectrum which generally gets augmented by an orthogonal...

Its politics, John. Of course they have to throw us under the bus so that they can be seen to stand above the fray. And for all the hours you and others here spent defending Grothe and engaging in thoughtful debate over the gender politics polluting the community, this is the thanks you get. I woul...

OK that last one was by me. Gonna try logging in this time though.

So guest posts are allowed as well then!

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