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

It's a huge problem, shifting definitions mid-communication. You see it all the time. Take the best definition of something that helps you right at this moment, change it when it becomes inconvenient. It's one of the things that makes debating Christians basically impossible..as their definitions a...

Did no one but me smirk even a little about the discussion earlier about who the AUTHORITIES were in LIBERTARIANISM ?

OK, finally caught up. I have a few comments, but am too lazy to go back and include a quote. Re Historicity of Jeebus... Whenever anyone in pop culture implies that there may have been lots of mystics in Judea around that time, they are denounced. See church comments at the time about Life of Brian...

Meh, true. God their 'convictions' and 'principles' are utterly arbitrary. I don't think they really are - as suggested, I see them as having two guiding principles - 1) What do I get out of it? 2) What are my friends doing, and how can I benefit from that? When you look at their actions in that co...

It's also funny to me that he started out shitting on pitters, then pitters came over and helped him out. But no acknowledgement of any kindness. I'm sure the backchannel has informed him that he's not allowed to accept or acknowledge any help from the pit. He may only cast us as evil or he will hi...

For fuck's sake. Is that now THREE of the FfTB men who have had false rape claims made against them? How many more are going to slither out of the closet and admit they have, too. The place is a fucking den of falsely-accused non-rapists, plus a regular commenter who admitted downloading child porn...

Another note about keeping warm in the cold... I would put on a wind shell of some sort to help keep the insulation you have on working best. This may be part of your winter coat, but if you're layering with other types, like fleece, then add a shell. This should not be waterproof unless also breath...

https://twitter.com/MelodyHensley/status/371462096661135360 Yes, disagree with the witch hunters and all of a sudden you're not qualified to be in a leadership position in the community. These cunts are so full of themselves it's amazing they can fall out of bed in the afternoon. It's like watching...

And also, I'm not arguing against the use/existence of unisex bathrooms. Only the implication that segregation, which encourages othering, is necessary. Well my trans son had a hard time when he was pre op but had started the hormones and living as a man. Before he felt safe using the mens rooms he...

I reached out to one organization that was involved in the event at which I was raped, and they refused to take my concerns seriously. Ever since, Iâ€™ve heard stories about him doing things 5 different people have directly told me they did the same to them and wanted to just say something and warn...

Is anyone else... annoyed by Feminists'/SJW's use of "ally/allies"? Unless it's being used by some organization ["Org A and Org B are allies in the fight against malnutrition"], or by characters in some superhero fiction, I just can't take it seriously. It sounds so fucking stupid. I wish I could p...

Parody Accountant wrote:Though I'm devoutly screwdriverist, I can't be nailed down to St. Phillips. I worship a different screwdriver altogether, and don't fit in with the Phillipian hardliners.

Then there are the Canadian spinters... the Robertsonians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_ ... #Robertson

Hmmm... not exactly why concordance posted this now, since he said before he wasn't going to get into anything PZ anymore... but here it is:

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You can watch it here, but best to click the title and watch it in youtube... the comments are delightful.

Dick Strawkins wrote:
This is looking increasingly like a disaster for Myers and his publishing company.

I wonder who has first dibs on PZ's cash... Shermer's special damages, or PZ's publisher's request for a return of the too large advance they made to him years ago.

So the holy hand grenade page has now been up 8 days, and has survived two days past the C&D order. I admit I am surprised and while I certainly hope PeeZus loses in the long run, I have to wonder if he hasn't won Round 1 (putting up the page and spreading the defamation) Round 2 (surviving the C&D...

Hey Lsuoma, are any of the many guests from India? I was wondering if lawyers from either side of the case that precipitated the clownfall are doing research at the pit and I had heard that some law firms had started subcontracting such things to cheap lawyers in India.

Okay, first of all, can someone tell me why the Veracula (or however you spell it) thread was locked? This is the continuation. If you looked down the list one menu back, the thread is occasionally locked and another one opened. Sometimes it's because it seems to be slowing down and the size is sus...

Well, I'm caught up now after being permanently banned (seriously, that's the message you get if you happen to share an ip block with a spammer) then reinstated. Re Shermer... his filling the glass, while possibly not nice, is still not the problem that their emptying it was. About his silence... I ...

If Shermer sues, and if PZ doesn't fold right away, I hope Shermer's lawyers know about the fftbs backchannel email list and get a copy. I'm betting there's enough in there to prove malice.

Hugs Tribble.

Any word on your cat, Phil?

"Major writer"? WTH, what has she written other than blog posts and the odd Slate article? I would think one would need have at least one book published to qualify as a "major writer" in any milieu. She could just follow the PZ model and publish a book of collected blog posts. Might have to go the ...

I'm sure none of the harassment allegedly alleged[*] by Stollznow would have happened if all atheist conferences had harassment policies that prohibited anti-skepchick t-shirts, monopods and fake jewelry, right? Right? Anyone? It's almost as if SJW feminists have been pouring away their social capi...

What was that movie with the girl falling off the balcony while on drugs? Lethal Weapons (n)? Don't remember that, but I remember the scene in Forest Gump where Jenny is drugged up and tries using a balcony railing as a balance beam. She decides not to jump though, and is still coordinated enough t...

my sympathies, I hope she/he did not suffer Thank you, Sacha. She didn't go out well, but she died with us and not at the vet's, where she'd spent the prior week. She'd rallied, came home bright and hungry, then suddenly nosedived the next day. We raced back to the vet, but didn't make it. I'm grat...

Does anybody know where PZ stands on Noam Chomsky? I would think that NC's theories on inate grammar in humans might be a rich field for EP study since it implies to me a genetic link to a very human behavior. I also wonder about how PZ feels about NC's political activities... NC being all lefty AND...

re tv recommendations I get too interested in unworthy shows and get burned out on them then hate them, so I don't generally recommend....but In the past i've gotten too interested in watching law and order and ali mcbeal for instance. Couldn't watch them now. I don't tend to let my life revolve aro...

Cunning Punt wrote:
DownThunder wrote:Is it safe to come back here yet?
NO! Fuck off! Israel! Palestine! George Zimmerman's a jew!

Maybe we should call him George Dylan to hide the fact.

Mykeru wrote:(Also, at 1:32 you can see my cameo appearance)

Then here's another video for you. Your cameo is very early on. I like this guy's videos (he did It's Not About the Nail) and this particular video also ends with a Leonard Cohen song, so that's another plus:

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https://twitter.com/OpheliaBenson/status/355797068071174145 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. You know, when I read that I thought "Of course he's got an asshole... if you don't you end up full o...

I did one of those genetic ancestry tests-father's line-and according to it, I have zero Italian in me. I'm strictly northern European, Anglo-Saxon, Celt, and a smidgen of Polish Jew. So he is either not my biological father(I find this unlikely as I resemble him-except for the dark olive complexio...

I wouldn't bother with an energy calculation... it's the force that hurts. So calculate the initial and final momentum and figure out the impulse required to provide that change. Deformation will allow you to figure out the time of the interaction, then you can calculate the force and look up whethe...

Laden/Griffith? I'm I supposed to know the specifics from the name-drop? You know I love Laden about as much as shitting toothpicks sideways, but can you give specifics? Probably not because there never are with this happy horseshit, it's "Oh, Laden triggered Griffith", the problem being that "trig...

I did one of those genetic ancestry tests-father's line-and according to it, I have zero Italian in me. I'm strictly northern European, Anglo-Saxon, Celt, and a smidgen of Polish Jew. So he is either not my biological father(I find this unlikely as I resemble him-except for the dark olive complexio...

With this nerd roll call, I thought I'd put up this video. The main reason is that I've been on the internet for a long time and have yet to share a cute cat vid or pic, and I believe it's an obligation I've been ducking, so:

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Abbie: Virology (ERV, to be precise) John C. Welch: IT Skep Tickle: M.D Barn Owl: Teaching at medical school John Greg: English Literature Steersman: Pain in the ass, Ph.D Phil Giordana: Musician, skydiving instructor Sacha: dog expert, and managing director of Gender Traitors International AndrewV...

Let me see if I've got this right. Somebody showed some shocking images (I'm assuming this was one of the speakers). Justin writes a blogpost about the hypocrisy of certain speakers not calling for an anti-harassment policy when they have been very vocal about this in the past. Now Justin is once a...

Let me see if I've got this right. Somebody showed some shocking images (I'm assuming this was one of the speakers). Justin writes a blogpost about the hypocrisy of certain speakers not calling for an anti-harassment policy when they have been very vocal about this in the past. Now Justin is once a...

I am twitter user @aycenne - feel I should clarify. Some shocking and traumatising images were used very early on with no warning. As a trauma survivor did not return as did not feel secure or safe. Was disappointed that someone who attended and I thought cared about women's empowerment was so flip...

Those are worth posting directly: https://twitter.com/BeccaNiRiain/status/351487358023114752 They're equivocating. When they say they're worried because they thought it was a safe place and it isn't, they know you'll think that means they are worried about some sort of assault, but they're using th...

:clap: A round of applause for JV's diligent conference coverage. He takes a lot of flack, even here. But where credit earned it should be recognized IMO. He indeed did NOT misstep in the Capital of Eire. He did do very well. And kudos. (Most of the flack is good natured, and Justin handles it with...

Oh I know. The piss thing is that "hovering" crap, wherein they squat over the toilet seat instead of actually planting ass on porcelain. You rarely see them clean up after themselves. One look at an unvarnished public women's toilet and many men would become gay out of fear of getting close to who...

Apropos of nothing, finally saw the latest trek movie. Loved. It. Uhura fucking shanks a klingon. Stone cold stabs the motherfucker. ROBOCOP! SHERLOCK! Sherlock kills robocop with his bare hands! Kirk takes out a little floaty craft by FOD'ing out the engine with a phaser rifle and a firehose. I we...

And how hard is it to wipe a seat before you sit? Seriously the toilet paper is right there for you to do it. Then you can sit rest assured. (ha!) And also ok, some slob didnt flush so why does everyone go, oh, not going to go near that one! And not just fucking flush it! My buddy used to clean toi...

Oops... sorry for piling on.

Butterflies and Wheels, July 1st 2013: Sigh. I thought that by flying over six thousand miles I might be able to escape the harassment and persecution. Sadly: not. Firstly, the flight. As I sat picking nuggets of granola from between my teeth, an airline employee had the temerity to inform me that ...

Or tweeting on their flight and that they arrived. I mean who uses social media for that? We know that Twitter and other media channels are reserved for only the most important things, like sharing the picture of one's meals. I also actually think that PZ Myers looks like a likeable person. And he ...

This really is pathetic. A bunch of people who know and like each other are planning to meet in a hotel bar. Fucking lmao at that. Or tweeting on their flight and that they arrived. I mean who uses social media for that? We know that Twitter and other media channels are reserved for only the most i...

Classical cult behaviour here: http://i.imgur.com/6wFF3e1.jpg What a creep. This is the kind of emotional blackmail that would not be out of place in Scientology. You know you are on the wrong side if you have maggots like Improbable Joe on yours. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2013/06/harasser...

Angry_Drunk said: Apropos of nothing :whistle: , as a former IT slave, it always amuses me when people assume that any perceived issue with a remote system must be the remote system's fault. On the off-chance that you might be referring to my comment on Super Slow Slyme, I base that statement on th...

guess who missed the plane and won't be returning to Dublin? https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/350530442690183168 She says in that tweet that it's due to weather in nyc. The obvious joke is to suggest that it's just that she's under the weather after calling up her nyc friends for a party la...

That came across awkward... no I don't want to go there. I've soon need to go to sleep and don't want to have nightmares. Here is the link... Greg Laden wonâ€™t have sex with me. Maybe it's time to bring back a nick name for Zvan that she didn't like at the time but may like better than being calle...

That's weird... I just went over to Amazon to look at the reviews for Laden's book and there hasn't been a new review since March and that was a one star. I thought Laden would have required PZ give him a good review on Amazon in return for a good review of PZ's magnum copypasta. Maybe PZ is holding...

JAB wrote:
Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Oh, and 1 Rushdie (guess which...)
I could guess, but I haven't read the one I would guess. Of the ones I have read I enjoyed Midnight's Children the best, but still haven't seen the film of it that Deepa Mentha made not long ago. :(

* Mehta

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Oh, and 1 Rushdie (guess which...)

I could guess, but I haven't read the one I would guess. Of the ones I have read I enjoyed Midnight's Children the best, but still haven't seen the film of it that Deepa Mentha made not long ago. :(

I'm toying with the idea of sending CFI an email suggesting that perhaps WIS3 could benefit from speakers/panels better qualified and outside the sphere of influence of the usual clique. I would urge them to consider that the conference is supposed to represent all women, not the select few and obj...

In other news, WTF is it with bad poetry at FTB? First they let cuttlefish have a blog to post his drivel, then Yemini and her ecosexual garbage, now PZ-clone Chris Clarke has done it . The whole thing : In Boring fields the suburbs grow In Council houses row on row, A cozy place; and in the sky Th...

AndrewV69 wrote:
Ahahahaha!

I know a few words of an obscure dialect of Hindi. Need I mention that among those people I imagine there would be a similar outcome? All you would need to do is prime some unsuspecting tourist and tell them it means "Good morning Sir/Madam".

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We expect homosexuals to live this 'radical standard' every day. While straight people get married on TV shows and after drunken nights in Vegas. It grosses me out. I think (based on my experience anyway) that marriage is overrated with lots of potential downside for at least one if not both if you...

I could not just stand back and watch Cromm present such incredibley vacuous and mendacious arguments regarding witch hunts without commenting. Zvan tried to do the same nonsense several months ago: without a witch, and without fire, there is no witch hunt. Fucking disingenuous morons. So I posted ...

Yes. Every place I go on the 'net regarding A/S topics, Oolon the Asshat is there. Usually whining "slymepit this" or "slymepit that". One day...just one day I'd like to go to different forums/sites and not see his sniveling crap. Even some grey bloke's latest vid (not all are that recent series wi...

Just imagine, Melody Hensley, flanked by two massive bruisers in suits to protect her from.......Justin Vacula. Oh my god.....My SIDES!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! So, basically we are just imagining three massive bruisers? As long as we're imagining, I'm going to imagine that they got the bodyguard...

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