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

I only disagree at the end where she sees a parallel in online trolling. A stranger, unless under circumstances I show below, asking my name usually gets from me, "what? who the fuck are you?" or just "fuck off, don't talk to me". Rude approach, rude answer. I don't hesitate. And as long as they do...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Grandmother died in my arms 2 hours ago. My shirt was full of blood. Fucking undertaker took 2 hours to come collect the body. 'twas a weird thursday evening...

Damn. My condolences!

windy wrote: Here's another example. (Butthurt is a dish best served COLD.)

Oops, by "here" I meant here.

Itâ€™s necessary especially because there are some among you who wonâ€™t wear your colours off the field. Itâ€™s necessary because of the divide â€” the â€œGreat Riftâ€ in our community â€” between normal, reasonable people, and people who hate as a matter of course. Another great example of the B...

The second part about lowering average IQ is actually politically incorrect and is inferred from the "Bell Curve" written by psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein (deceased before the book was released) and political scientist Charles Murray. You must remember the book, there was a firestorm of outrag...

far more women are aborted than die as a result of their pregnancies going awry. The very idea that letting a few women die is worse than killing literally millions of unborn women shows that PZ not only isn't thinking like a scientist, he's quite clearly not thinking rationally at all. Basically, ...

Atheism+ has found its way onto google+ from an old foe "St Paul would be laughing his head off, had a Roman soldier not already deprived him of it. "See," he might now write after reading those modern epistles, the blogs, comments and tweets around the birth of Atheism+, "how these atheists love o...

I guess this is a bit of a quandry for the Grauniad. They love a bit of social justice, but on the other hand not so keen on atheism, not to mention anything that can be branded American. Actually, I think it was a no-brainer as to which way to go on this one. Doesn't the author of that piece sound...

One of the joys of atheism's outlets on the internet was that they were clever, deft, funny, tolerant and irreverent. It was certainly robust and not for the faint-hearted. Those of us who do not wish to extend our atheism into someone else's definition of progressive politics may take rather unkin...

That aside, the Out of Africa hypothesis is not the whole story. There is evidence apparently to support "Multi-Regionalism" (pretty weak) and "Weak Eden"(stronger case) but the jury is still out, so continuing to go with the OoA scenario is still a pretty safe bet. We should know a lot more within...

quoted at Does "We Are All Africans" Co-Opt Black Identity? : When white atheists start fapping on about how everyone is equal and how â€œweâ€™re all African reallyâ€ its basically the same as hardcore bible basher saying â€œweâ€™re all gods childrenâ€ Yeah just the same, except for the small deta...

Yep, they started a whole new movement, and they don't even know what it is yet. All they've managed to do so far is tack a fucking plus sign at the end of the atheist "A" and attract a bunch of Women's Studies 101 armchair slacktivists. " Wheee! We're gonna change the world? Uh, what is this all a...

Now, would corn snakes count as solitary carnivors that have been tamed? Mine, for exemple, decents from a lineage bred specifically for its behavior WRT humans. Docile, curious... In that case, it would definitely count (as domesticated, not just tamed) Makes me wonder if the reason for the endles...

I hadn't thought of ferrets, but I thought of falcons. Did you specify mammals? No, I did not specify mammals, but falcons don't count nonetheless as they are only ever individually tamed, not domesticated. Falcons also wouldn't count as they aren't solitary (some are even co-operative hunters). De...

Also back in the day I was a frequenter of the Olde Tyme Talk Origins Usenet group Welcome, MikeyC! *secret t.o. handshake* sorry Phil, there's more sperm stuff! And, why would only males want to spread their seed to mix with as wide a gene pool as possible, and not females want to do that too? If ...

http://venturephilosophy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/speaking-out-against-paranoia.html Language aside, I think she makes some good points. Her personal account of an encounter with two men who were intending to rape her, and comparing that to the elevator incident puts everything into perspective. Not ...

But generalized dogma â€“ feminism, communism, Freudian psychology, even some variations on humanism â€“ seems to be a horse of a different colour â€“ largely â€œjust-soâ€ stories in many cases yet still connected to real facts; but something we all tend to do to a greater or lesser extent. You mi...

But generalized dogma â€“ feminism, communism, Freudian psychology, even some variations on humanism â€“ seems to be a horse of a different colour â€“ largely â€œjust-soâ€ stories in many cases yet still connected to real facts; but something we all tend to do to a greater or lesser extent. You mi...

Notung wrote: And he thinks that MURDER isn't as bad as rape. The killing of another human being. The slaughter of sentient life, such that they no longer exist any more. What?

Haven't you heard, it's "a fate worse than death"!

Git wrote: I don't play DF but I do play Roguelikes heavily.

I find the character @ really empowering as a woman.

From WWJTD You canâ€™t disagree with freethoughtblogs, because freethoughtblogs doesnâ€™t have a position. Itâ€™s not an entity under a banner of agreement, itâ€™s a group of people who write on the same network. Atheism aside, youâ€™ll be hard-pressed to find a subject on which we all align. They ...

She;s not agreeing with it? You could be right. I just tried to read her post on that (holy cow, way too long) and couldn't figure out where she stood on that point. I reread that paragraph several times and still can't make heads or tails on it. It seems pretty clear that she lists comments from c...

Laden seemed to have been addressed, too, by Natalie: It even eventually became to seem unsurprising amongst my own immediate colleagues (or former colleagues)â€¦ â€œmen are testosterone-damaged women... Wait - I'm confused. I've really never heard of this Natalie Reed until a short time ago, but i...

If it's hacking, it sucks. If he took advantage of a security loophole...well, it sucks, yeah, but no more so that then saintly Watson exploiting her misplaced admin privileges at JREF. But you have to admit, it's pretty bad that someone would take advantage of a security loophole to invade a "care...

"Marry me? You are my ideal man. i.e.: smarter than me with better hair." This seems to me similar to the email that Tracy Harris of The Atheist Experience received from some fan asking if she is single. The question is: will Martin Wagner cry rage tears over this incident and subject everyone to a...

Give me a good hardcore New Atheist any day. Those are my people. Theyâ€™re skeptical about everything, and donâ€™t make special allowances for the benighted believers.

Are there any of the original NA:s left that haven't been denounced for one thoughtcrime or another? Dennett?

Why not just say "a remarkable achievement!"? I'm sorry, but it does look to me like sexism. Egregious sexism, and harmful sexism. It seems sexist but how "harmful" is some offhand hyperbolic comment on a website really? At least, before someone elevated it into the subject of a blog post? Nitpicki...

Naughty, uncle franc didn't say that substance abuse precipitates genius. He said it might be argued that substance abuse is precipitated by genius. The former can also be argued, since 1. Alcohol precipitates DNA 2. Genius is ultimately a product of human DNA 3. Therefore, alcohol precipitates gen...

"Farscape" - thank you! Not "Pigs in Space".... ;) "Pigs in Space" is the best! Any Babylon 5 fans around? I followed it for the whole original run, but for some reason I don't remember much of the plot at all. I wonder how it would stand up to a rewatch. (A consequence of the whole ambitious big s...

Dawkins is simply projecting his own wishful thinking. Killing another tribes alpha male and raping his wife and daughters is way better for the procreation of your selfish genes. This is why there are roughly sixteen million descendants of Genghis Khan in Asia presently. Unless I'm mistaken I'm pr...

I didnâ€™t report the guy trying to lick my tattoo because that happened slightly outside the bounds of the conference If only there was some way to report 'incidents' outside of conferences, instead of the total societal anarchy we currently live in where only a few brave souls, like modern Templa...

Oo, the SF thread! I'll add my vote for Reynolds, Egan, Banks, and Watts ( Blindsight is available free on the latter's website). Some others that haven't been mentioned yet- Dan Simmons' Hyperion series. M. John Harrison. Larry Niven. David Brin. Stanislaw Lem. Lately I've been getting into Gene Wo...

Dilahunty's arguments are whack, the reason they are whack is because matt has found himself a new religion, and like all believers can't spot the special pleading,mor if they can, insist that special pleading in this instance is entirely valid, because their own belief system is of course a specia...

justinvacula wrote:In a recent blog post, biologist PZ Myers argued that philosophical and scientific arguments concerning abortion are irrelevant because the matter of abortion reduces to "a simple question."

Only bodily autonomy counts? Very libertarian of him.

A while back somebody posted demographic data saying that his commenters were mostly in the 18-25 range (IIRC). Not sure where it came from, but it does seem to fit the attitude of college-age kids who know everything, and mistake passion for correctness. Not saying we all were like that at that ag...

There are actual problems to criticise Sweden for For a start, you have way too much talented musicians and metal bands. Same goes for Norway and Finland. Think of the children! Of course, we have metal bands for children as well, at least in Finland. Or is that what you meant? :twisted: [youtube]v...

Hell, what I wouldn't give for Ophelia herself to pop in here and ask me, "Okay, you claim to be a feminist--what's your beef with me?" and have a for realsies conversation about the matter in a place where her ban stick can't be thrown down the instant the conversation stops going her way. She com...

jeans and t-shirt is my standard high fashion outfit, it's the most practical for gardening. It's also typical geek wear, and you are right. That's how you tell menz geeks from wimminz geeks since we both have long hair, you check out the beardz. Same for biologists (at least for many of the gumboo...

... So why is Chris Stedman a 'fairy' for working with theists for like, BUILDING HOUSES and OPERATING FOOD PANTRY Good question, but there's probably a good explanation because LOOK! OVER THERE! MISOGYNY! And from Gay's speech, "you sometimes need to keep your butt to the wall and your arms crosse...

Sorry, not in BC, but an interesting case from a few years back - a whole town ganged up on a girl who reported rape:
http://www.thelocal.se/25750/20100326/

Swedish prosecutors might not have the best reputation for fair dealing in sexual assault cases, but I think they did all right here.

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