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

Race realists at least have a proposed explanation ... After sleeping on this, I think I might see what you're getting at. I'll tell you my own view, and let's see if it has anything to do with what you're getting at. I think that all human qualities, capacities, interests, and all parts of people'...

Bored and skimming The Orbit again. Dana Hunter gushes over the new Ghostbusters. How many times can one use the word dudebro in a 480 word post? And the dudebro tears that will be flowing will add some delicious salt to my movie theatre buttered popcorn. Which beloved dudebro franchise should SJWs ...

Random question. After the affair at Yeti's Roar, Carrier wrote a blog titled "The Shermertron Denouement: Why That Ass Can Only Fart at My Hand from Here on Out." I've always wondered. What in the fuck does that mean? Waitin' his turn for the girl maybe? I reckon it's a reference to "talk to the h...

Dear Editor - Attached please find a copy of a paper that I'd like for you to consider publishing. Please note that everyone is at least a little bit different from everyone else, making me my only true peer. Therefore, I have also attached three peer reviews of my paper, saving you the time of ask...

Carrier is the one that wrote a defense of up-voting your own comment, yes? Liking is called promotion. Promotion is what artists and writers and thinkers do to increase the chance people will notice and read their work, so their ideas will have a greater impact on society. So unless you think all ...

I question though, whether that "at a glance" sorting into just those three categories is as natural as you think it is. However that may be, I would say that it's equally possible that there are some deeper variations in human nature that correlate significantly with sorting people into categories...

jet_lagg, sorry, I still didn't ask the question I needed to ask, to clarify what you mean by your ability to tell at a glance the general region someone's ancestors came from. I'm really not sure that I'm disagreeing with you about anything, or if it even matters. If we are disagreeing, I might wa...

... are you really going to insist my ability to tell at a glance the general region someone's ancestors came from is an illusion?). Well, actually, yes, if you think you could be right every time. If you mean that in a statistical sense, that you'll be right more often than you'll be wrong, that m...

Steers really is a pedantic ass-hat, but in some strange way I agree with him on the topic of race... at least to some degree. People who come from different places not only have superficial difference (such as hair color), but they have truly different DNA and from very different sources. <snip> J...

fucking :nin:

MarcusAu wrote:Why are turds tapered?

Because, otherwise there would be no point.

It's so your sphincter doesn't snap shut when you're finished dropping a deuce. Fine lot of intellectuals you all are. :snooty:

NECSS lost Dawkins, but got this crank dipshit instead: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more/ Arrgh, that's really annoying, I've occasionally enjoyed his articles in the past, shame to see him Saying the Right Words....

He's been much more bold than claiming bigfoot skepticism is useless (I might have conceded that).

comhcinc wrote:Just to point out while everyone is shitting on Horgan that there are people here who have said basically the same thing.

Which part? He's all over the map.

John Horgan wrote: Only on this point do I disagree with Mead. We already have inventions—notably the United Nations—for resolving conflicts peacefully. We just need to use them instead of resorting to the worst invention of all time: war.

I... just...

:bjarte:

But the evidence is overwhelming that war was a cultural innovation--like agriculture, religion, or slavery--that emerged less than 12,000 years ago. Truthfully, I didn't know what to make of Horgan's comments on war. Even if I accepted that it was a cultural innovation (and I don't, chimps conduct...

feathers wrote:
The man's ranting all over the place, but if you don't want to read through all the twaddle, I'll give you this quote that sets the tone:

John Horgan wrote:They [Americans] flocked to see American Sniper, a film that celebrates a killer of women and children.

And Lolita glamorizes pedophilia :twatson:

http://i.imgur.com/jyQw0gr.jpg?1 Yeah, but look at the throwie CASH4 rollered over the top-edge of that building. Now -there's- a dude with some all-over-town fitbit stats. I'll be on the lookout for that now. When I first moved to the city I saw BLK Vampires tags seemingly everywhere. Here's the p...

NECSS lost Dawkins, but got this crank dipshit instead: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more/ If I'm reading this correctly, he's very upset that skeptics spend more time bashing things we are almost 100% certain are ...

20160514_083750.jpg should have previewed. Nice on both fronts. Looks like Ireland (or at least what I imagine Ireland should look like). Or maybe Wales. Like a new South Wales maybe. Here is my more urban pic from today's gasp. What a spectacular day ! http://i.imgur.com/zGgEGK3.jpg You fuckers ar...

Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this. I care. It would be nice if you stopped trying to speak for the pit. Put him on ignore and be done with it if he annoys you so much. As it stands I'm more irritated that every time I scroll past one of his posts I have to scroll past another on...

Fuck off jim. No one cares about your opinion on this. I care. It would be nice if you stopped trying to speak for the pit. Put him on ignore and be done with it if he annoys you so much. As it stands I'm more irritated that every time I scroll past one of his posts I have to scroll past another on...

The thing about you people (yes you heard me!) arguing with steerlter isn't that he will never admit he is wrong. That's pretty common on the internet. No what gets me it you know he is just going to keep arguing and he is going to do it in the most annoying way possible. What exactly are you getti...

Mr. Taunton runs the Fixed Point Foundation, which organizes debates between Christians and atheists. In September 2010, five months after Mr. Hitchens’s diagnosis of cancer, he and “Hitch” drove the 13 hours from Mr. Hitchens’s home in Washington, D.C., to a Fixed Point debate in Birmingham, Ala. ...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Jet_lagg:

After re-reading that Yeti comment section posted earlier, I would appreciate it if you put a trigger warning on your avatar. I hate to puke while browsing the Pit.

I feel differently. Carrier actually joining the pit would feel like Christmas morning :lol:

So, if we're discussing motorbikes, let me ask: Stihl or Husqvarna? Despite my persistent but questionable claim to have read almost everything ever posted on the Pit, I somehow missed the famed chainsaw 'debate'. Was there's a winner? :whistle: No. Because neither make screwdrivers. I relented and...

...I read that some of Iran's woman's soccer team are MTF trannies that still have peckers. Haha. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/iran-soccer-womens-national-team-ian-tuttle That's the change this year. Trans women were already allowed, as long as they'd had surgery and were on hormones. Now t...

Just to be clear the top and tail is carrier. The beautifully presented spreadsheet is me trying to make sense of what 42K gross and 21 net means. And how you manage 50% deductions on total revenue. Sorry, I misread as I was chuckling. I wonder whether he tells his girlfriends that he makes 42K or ...

Ok, serious one: What is the fucking point of that free will/no free will debate? If there's free will, so what? If there's no free will, then arguing about free will is not a free will thing in the first place as it is somehow built in your genes/soul/whatever. <snip> And the direct basis for this...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Can the philosophers please back off of this one?

Interesting. But how do I know (truly know) I've received this request? :D

We're also going to need to agree on (or, at least be clear about) what we mean by "free will" for this to be useful. To me, the term implies that a person could choose a given decision (or line of thought), regardless of their biology and their experience. And therein lies the confusion, as I woul...

Had this pointed out to me. How the hell does Carrier expect us to believe he loses half his crumbs in tax? In addition to state I think Federal for Carrier would be from 10-25% State is below. Can a septic pls explain ... [.img]http://i.imgur.com/tdvaEIP.jpg[/img] [.img]http://i.imgur.com/RKpEK3I....

paddybrown wrote:What if there's no free will, but we are predetermined to believe there is?

"Yes I have free will; I have no choice but to have it." - Hitchens

Sums it up perfectly. The man was taken from us far too soon.

<snip>It's trivially true that that thought is a physical and therefore deterministic phenomena, <snip> I think so as well, but there are some very intelligent people who apparently disagree, even among the secular. Guess that goes to show how tempting it is to appeal to the divine and the unknowab...

Any time the subject of Sam Harris and profiling comes up I have to plug his debate/conversation with Bruce Schneier. https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/to-profile-or-not-to-profile While I think Harris is wrong, it's certainly true he gets strawmanned even beyond his already naive (IMO) approach....

Any time the subject of Sam Harris and profiling comes up I have to plug his debate/conversation with Bruce Schneier. https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/to-profile-or-not-to-profile While I think Harris is wrong, it's certainly true he gets strawmanned even beyond his already naive (IMO) approach. ...

Alright, completely random, but I just googled "vulgar mistake" reaching for a random Hitchens quote about a Muslim cab driver in God is Not Great and this image was one of the hits (clearly google knows my browsing habits a bit too well). http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd241/gumbythecat/Slymepi...

:lol: Indeed. 45 million hits on a Google search for "Trump lying". A particularly cogent set of observations from a New Republic article: Yet the increasingly frequent tendency of Trump’s critics to label him a liar is wrongheaded. Trump is something worse than a liar. He is a bullshit artist. In ...

I've wondered for a while how anyone educated couldn't see how weak the "my statements aren't racist but merely prejudicial" defense is. I know there isn't much love here for the Sapir-Worf hypothesis, but noticing people buy into statements like the above has gone a long way toward me accepting a ...

Ok, so Steersman finally wrote something worth reading on his niggar/cunt hypothesis. Not for the actual content but the responses from Feminace over at the Orbit. Yes, Steers went and argued the use of the word 'nigger' with Crazy Nikki, aka Feminace. Feminace : Geez, I feel like I’m talking to a ...

Oh, and you should all go read Chuck Tingle. He may have been nominated in a trolling campaign, but he man is genius.

For those who don't follow the Hugo drama... Chuck Tingle who writes bad erotic science fiction was given a joke nomination by Sad Puppies for a book about getting fucked int he ass or some other shit. He hates Vox Day so he's decided to send Zoe Quinn (anti-gamergate) to collect the award. Vox Day...

BTW, I remember that X-Ray specs ad from my youth. And the gyrocopter plans and the jet-engine propelled gyrocopter, you put a 50lb thrust engine on the tip of each of the two blades and you would fly to work. All of us would fly to work in a gyrocopter, only idiots would be driving cars on the gro...

Is Jenna Talackova a "real woman"? [.img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1119614/images/o-JENNA-TALACKOVA-facebook.jpg[/img] Real enough to win beauty pageants, clearly. Real enough to arouse men. If you're looking for someone to bear your children on the other hand, no. She looks like a real woman. But,...

Is Jenna Talackova a "real woman"? http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1119614/images/o-JENNA-TALACKOVA-facebook.jpg Real enough to win beauty pageants, clearly. Real enough to arouse men . If you're looking for someone to bear your children on the other hand, no. FAIL. What? You prefer brunettes? http://lov...

Lsuoma wrote:I've had enough of seeing you fuckers quote Steerzo's endless BS, so I plan to Wonderize him later today. I'll post an announcement when I've done so.

It's an addiction. I know I need to get help.

http://images.memes.com/meme/404674

Well, thanks for that. But maybe because I've been Googling "woman", going to a definition provided by one dictionary, and then going from there. However, even accepting the fact that some dictionary definitions for "female" utilize "can" Not "some" dictionary definitions. Every single one of the t...

One might ask, but not reasonably. I haven't actually seen you deal with the ambiguity of the word "can", as in "can produce ova" which is in every definition I've looked at. I have noticed though that you always leave it out, opting for "produces ova". :think: Not sure what dictionary you're using...

LOL. Between those two irrational extremes, lies a stretch of reality wide enough to drive a Peterbilt through. But Steers is right in one aspect: if Muscato is a woman, than the term 'woman' can mean anything -- thus, nothing. Hallelujah! Someone (finally) gets it! ;-) Though one might reasonably ...

So, they use the word to define the word. It's been a very long time since I was in elementary school. They're still teaching people you can't do that, right? No, they're reading I Am Jazz now. I had to google that. How the hell do you diagnose a 5 year old with gender dysphoria? That is not a rhet...

As I commented in that "Bi Any Means" podcast (not sure it hasn't been deleted), if we agree that Dave is a woman then the word ceases to have any meaning or utility at all. LOL. Between those two irrational extremes, lies a stretch of reality wide enough to drive a Peterbilt through. But Steers is...

Long excursion, short story: TrigglyPuff doesn't strike me as a happy, confident person who knows what she is doing. She apparently not even capable of assessing the consequences of such tantrums in that setting. We have long established that social media witch hunts are a bad thing, even for peopl...

For Jet Lagg and the rest of you bastards. [youtube]H6_zvQQ5P8w[/youtube] Heh. My eye-rolling during the third act aside, I did enjoy the movie. I've seen that video floating around, but haven't watched it yet. Truth be told, I'm working on my own micro budget movie at the moment and it's been mono...

Okay, different tomb, but still a waste of time. If a Jesus existed, his father's name was Clopas/Cleophas, not Joseph. Fucking retarded to accept shit in the gospels as true, then proceed from there. I was wondering what you were going on about. Yeah, different tomb. Anyway, it's not a waste of ti...

Because even I'm sick of the Trans Toilet Express thing, I poked a stick in Carrier's Bayes over at Vridar: http://vridar.org/2016/04/23/biblical-scholars-reacting-to-public-interest-in-mythicism-part-1/#comment-77816 NB: I really like the vast majority of Neil Godfrey's thorough research, but his ...

I suspect her goal will be to get him to attack her the same way that he has attacked his GOP rivals. Patriarchy or not, that will not play well against a woman (or even Hillary) with the American electorate. Trump will and it won't hurt him. In fact he will double down on it too. Horsecrap. It won...

Remember, when the SJW's job the Hugo's it's progressive and brave. When anyone else does it, it is weepfully wrong... Given what went on last year why didn't the SJW's rally the troops to overcome this horrible travesty? Mmmm... More of Pizzy's salty tears for my marquerita glass. Is anyone here f...

I think the significance of Trump is in the future rather than the present. He has shown that a significant chunk of the GOP is "nationalist" rather than "conservative." I have no idea how this will eventually play out but if Trump's heirs are able to create a coherent ideology out of this and make...

The Rabid Puppies appear to have dominated the nomination process for 2016. Expect several thousand frothing-at-the-mouth articles before the week's end. Personally, I'm really hoping Space Raptor Butt Invasion by Hugo-nominated writer Chuck Tingle will take home the award for best short story. http...

Reporting a post for something like that is just being an asshole. You are an asshole. Meh, I think it's disrespectful to post spoiler. If someone was to post spoiler about Civil War I would be upset. War Machine comes out as transgender and the entire third act is about xir's struggle to not be li...

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