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

Cunties seem a bit dull when the winner is so clear-cut. I guess maybe there's competition for 2nd and 3rd place.

I just saw PZ Myers post where he tries to smear Jordan Peterson: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/10/22/jordan-peterson-is-an-ass/ The gap between these two men in integrity, honesty, and wisdom is mind-boggingly astronomical. The image I get at seeing PZ Myers raving against Dr. Peters...

With that said, I probably should admit to the one finding that bugs me as an atheist. There is one (so far) variable that can act as a complete shut-down moderator for the positive relationship between single-black-mom and the male child getting into trouble (either at school or worse): the level ...

On the latest FA post on SPLC, a troll in the comments makes a bunch of posts questioning the status of the fatwa against AHA, then further down the line admits they were trolling. Every post prior to the one admitting they were just being little shits has a thumbs-up from WMDkitty.

FA has a Dawkins post up and I saw Matt's name in the comments being called out as a "faux academic" by Dom Saunders:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... iking-him/

I think it could be both. We all people who at least espoused skepticism before converting to the church of the holy outrage, so even if they were not the best skeptics in practice, they were aware of skeptical principles in theory, and becoming a hardcore SJW essentially required renouncing them. I...

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Amazing.

Thank you.

Nina Paley's great. Sita Sings the Blues is highly recommended.

"I don't care about traffic ever since I stopped having enough to it to be able to play stupid games with online polls."

Also is it just me or are they actually becoming stupider? Gilliel doesn't seem to understand that what you're saying is that the effect of their attacks, censorship and hate campaigns was both divisive for the A/S movement and ultimately harmed FTB itself. She says that we think that they were bot...

The Americans of you could sign the petition against the Dakota Pipelie . Also see plenty of information on Mark Ruffalo's timeline. https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/792112193416400896 Pipelines are known to be a bad idea. Furthering the dependence on oil is another bad idea. This is similar ...

Someone gave the Skepticon 9 lineup before - and it did seem like old home week. Which indicates to me at least that they still have some power in whatever movement is left - it may just be inertia and the whole thing may have just about burnt itself out - but they have not quite gone yet. The Free...

If Peez has any sense at all he'll pretend to have caught some awful bug on his trip to China and give Skepticon a pass this year.

Andrew; Expert on racism, Gazi Kodzo, has determined that the comtamination of brown people by white blood is a product of rape, because a a POC can not consent to sex with a cavebeast or a cavebecky, because of the power imbalance. Do educate yourself: Are Interracial Relationships, Rape? Is misus...

The vote to mandate women sign up for selective service isn't a hoax. That's what the article references. I thought DaveDodo was expressing actual outrage rather than just shitposting (though the overlap between shitposting and news grows wider everyday it seems). I know the average American equate...

Wasn't there some past kerfuffle involving 23andme and our old pal Watson?

I don't know if anyone else has been following the Jordan Peterson situation, and the whole kerfuffle over the free speech implications of Bill C-16 (e.g. making it an offence not to use someone's chosen pronoun)? This little debate: "Genders, Rights and Freedom of Speech" was pretty interesting in...

Actually, my mistake, it was the other Green brother, Hank, who said that: "I think part of me knows that there would be less uproar if it was coming form a middle-aged white man." What he's referring to is the fact that the person feeding the audience their misinformation happened to be a vagina-ha...

FYI, while copping to it is better than not and I'm always fearful of being too cynical, I can't help but cringe knowing that Green actually did use the "I'll bet there would have been less uproar if a white man had said the same thing" defense.

John Green has yanked the "Jared Diamond is a raciss" video from the Crash Course channel:

Timberwraith is apparently so proud of coming up with "the FIENDly atheist" that they used it twice.

Maybe if AHA received death threats on Twitter they'd be taken more seriously by SJWs than ones delivered at knifepoint on the corpses of people she knows.

Carrier's asking hardback prices for his ebook?

I guess it makes some sense. Nobody's going to be picking up a Carrier book as an impulse buy, so he might as well milk the rubes who do read his work for as much as he can.

Kirbmarc wrote: Somehow the SPLC cites the death threat against Hirsi Ali as evidence that she's the dangerous extremist...

Obviously she's so dangerous that she provokes innocent people to self-defensive murder.

I stumbled upon Crash Course years back and while they had some questionable SJW leanings apparently it's gotten far worse over there. And yeah, declaring someone like Diamond whose theory as understood by most people is "whitey got lucky is all" as a racist is the fucking looniest shit imaginable....

I stumbled upon Crash Course years back and while they had some questionable SJW leanings apparently it's gotten far worse over there. And yeah, declaring someone like Diamond whose theory as understood by most people is "whitey got lucky is all" as a racist is the fucking looniest shit imaginable. ...

The baboons haven't been very productive lately. It's kind of weak tea, but Miri has some tips if you spot Dr. Carrier at a party. http://the-orbit.net/brutereason/2016/10/24/acting-creepy-seemed-okay/ Anybody here want to LARP some cockblocking? Confronting harassers is not safe or accessible for ...

Jack Chick died.

I am hoping ( but not hopeful) that Trump has at least rustled enough jimmies in the Republican/Conservative sphere that we will get a rational version of the right. Trump funneled the disappointment and anger, but is a narcissistic, batshit crazy tyrant. We need a rational right, as the left is ve...

Some skeptical blogger did a post on the Carrier lawsuit. I don't think any of us will agree with his conclusion: The lawsuit won’t restore Carrier’s reputation in the freethought community (and he shouldn’t spend that $2 million award just yet) but probably the MRAs will welcome him as someone who...

MarcusAu wrote:You sound grumpy - may you should get something to eat.

How about some Milk and Cheese? ("Dairy Products Gone Bad!) - from the same writer (Evan Dorkin).

Oddly enough when I read Eltingville I couldn't help but repeatedly think "this is how the Sarkeesians of the world see nerd culture."

A disturbing story in which a woman is accused of "smothering" her three boys to death... This extract caught my attention: Brittany Pilkington, 24, also said in her taped confession she was depressed and worried her sons would eventually become abusive toward women. Sounds like SJW feminists fille...

What's the difference between the Skepticon Speakers' List and the "Confirmed Attendees" list?

... By the way if Clinton had engaged in something other than Trump-bashing she would have had a clearer margin from the beginning. Trump self-destructed. I think that with a campaign so weak Clinton would have probably struggled against Romney or to McCain, or even to Rubio or Jeb Bush. TL;DR: Cli...

I've tried to write a couple of responses to this, but it's all been rambling nonsense. I think the core of what I want to say is that right now it feels like we're playing a communal game of the iterative prisoner dilemma, and non-identarians are constantly being defected against. I'm so tempted t...

LOL. Theresa McBain, ex-minister apostate and darling of Movement Atheism™, has re-found God: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/10/18/teresa-macbain-the-pastor-who-became-an-atheist-has-found-god-once-again/#disqus_thread Good riddance. God job arguing against the "we need to offer ...

Hey Brive, I recall from your chat on Sargon's channel last year that you predicted FTB and the Orbit will decline into irrelevancy and that it would be a good thing. I turns out that your powers of prophecy became true. :) Indeed, the "big three" atheist SJW sites are all in decline: The Orbit: ht...

Tons of people have visited the place where I was born.

It was a hospital.

In more non Trump-Hillary news: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2016/10/the-siege-of-mosul-draws-close.php Is it bad that I want ISIS to have a state? One permanently at war with its neighbors? Because as long as muslims are killing each other than they're not killing us? Not as much anyway....

It rankles me when people completely miss the centrality of identitarianism and just fall back on their classic left-right mudslinging. Ironically, identity politics themselves are not constrained by identity. Any and virtually every group as far back in history as you care to look have embraced ide...

Finally, someone who gets closer to the matter, even CRT gets a mention. In a sense, his criticism is even more serious. King Crocoduck is a Tuber from before the Sargon wave, and showed before that he knows his stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k-kEhVBdnY "Critical theory" - the first ever "...

Extremists feed on one another. The conservative nutters and the fringe subset of lgbT'ers need each other to thrive.

The 'right' shrink is one who tells you what you want to hear, of course. I can only hope that she can find a highly competent clinician that can heal her from the horrible abuse that Dawkins heaped on her and the trauma of being asked out for a coffee in an elevator. :violin: I think even Watson w...

Also, for every person who has become famous for having had a brilliant intuition, there are a hundred million whose seemingly impeccable inspiration failed them. We don't even know their names. Ultimately, successful intuition seems like a an extension of logic slightly beyond what we can grasp ou...

I identify as a statue and I'll not suffer this genocide inflicted upon my people.

Intuition and inspiration aren't knowledge , hence they are not 'other ways of knowing . Also worth pointing out that SJW/pomo ideas are not more intuitive than the ones they set out to replace. People often can't quite articulate what it is about pomo garbage that rubs them the wrong way, but they...

I like Karen but this particular style of video (responding line by line to everything someone says, sometimes even very petty things with a heavy dose of snark) has soured on me and it's a bit difficult to sit through it all. Though I do understand the urge to make sure people know your opponent is...

Random brain fart: Was thinking about the feminist claim that young boys are conditioned to see "girliness" as a bad thing and to be ashamed of being likened to a girl. My first thought was "isn't there an awful lot of furor whenever someone 'misgenders' a trans individual?"

The demographics are against the Republicans and will be worse after 4 years. Unless more moderate Republicans start to take control of the primaries they will again have a nominee who will be unacceptable to more than half of the electorate. I suspect that Clinton will be an adequate president and...

I will only say that if you really think political violence is coming based on a Hillary win, might as well treat it as a near certainty at this point and strap in. I'm a bit more optimistic for the simple reason that I don't equate a Hillary win with an SJW win. Hillary and Trump have one very big...

I will only say that if you really think political violence is coming based on a Hillary win, might as well treat it as a near certainty at this point and strap in. I'm a bit more optimistic for the simple reason that I don't equate a Hillary win with an SJW win. Hillary and Trump have one very big ...

By the way, the distance from Austin to McAllen down there near the border is greater than the distance between NYC and DC.

The real way you win at gerrymandering is not to concentrate your side, but to dilute the opposition. This is among the most stark examples right here: Austin, TX is just way too liberal, so you cut it into thirds and throw enough conservatives into each bit to completely negate all the blue voters,...

Kirb or Aneris or literally anyone make massive sweeping speculative posts on SJW psychology and I guess that's fine, but oh what a dick I am to notice how much of a problem alcohol seems to be amongst that lot.

Fuck you.

Wasn't the point. I also know plenty of perpetual drunks and alcoholics who aren't SJWs. But I suspect there's a correlation between SJWs and drinking culture, the bad kind. I think it's likely that a random sampling of SJWs would contain a greater proportion of habitual, heavy drinkers than the gen...

Blackout drinking seems to be another peculiar habit shared by a large number of SJWs. Maybe the stress of fighting the forces of oppression is just too much and drives them to drink, though I'm more inclined to believe it's just another marker of immaturity. These people are in full college party m...

I'm sure someone can find any reason to dismiss or dispute the validity of polls, but I've yet to see someone really make a good argument against the validity and track record of political prediction markets, which are currently leaning pretty heavily Clinton.

Remember when PZ went on about how lucky he was at school, no bullying etc. Then revealed that he was used as practice jello for the wrestlers. Well it appears victimhood has won out. Shocking. http://i.imgur.com/nFiolOe.jpg PZ has reinvented his own past more times than Caine, and that's saying so...

Heina taking the right stance (re: Chess championship in Ian http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/sports/american-chess-player-boycotts-championship-that-would-require-her-to-wear-a-hijab.html)....let's see if her "fellow SJW types" disagree or quietly fume. https://twitter.com/reasonrally/status/7851...

Overall I still maintain hopes that the future of travel will be those parallel moving walkways of various speeds that keep getting proposed but nobody's managed to build yet.

But I think the high speed bus is far more promising than the elevated bus:

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