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

When I was going through chemo I promised myself I wouldn't exploit it, but I used it to get out of 2 bank overdraft fees and a parking ticket. It's kind of hard not to play the cancer card in some situations. This is a legitimate use of the cancer card. First of all the bank staff do have discreti...

Actually, the Qur'an is a very entertaining book to read. Like a fractal, it is self-similar: one can open any chapter and start reading and get the same core message.. Would this be the core message that god is great you are puny do as you're told god is fantastic you must believe god is wise and ...

Strawkins' avatar is doing a thing with it's eyebrows, then not doing it and making me think I imagined it.

It's Gaslighting me !!!!

But seriously, I see your point. I can pronounce Chinese names pretty decently if someone says the name (or word) a few times to me. But I cannot for the life of me say the word right if I read it. I always go back to Americanized shitty pronunciations. Might it be the case that you're trying too h...

Truly excellent post on the Nugent blog, Aneris. If i were to write about my reactions to this, and all of Aneris's contributions, I'd have to precede it with a trigger warning for snivelling sycophancy, unashamed fanboydom and the placing of a fellow human being on an embarrassingly high pedestal. ...

Then there was the guy I remember from school whose first name was spelled Jonathan but was pronounced "Joe-Nathan". When I was a teacher, I would have pronounced that guy's name 'Jonathan'. Reason being that, while politeness requires some effort to get people's names right, I don't believe that t...

Eh? Greg 'Turd' Laden recently wrote this: Slymepit adding some 'MRA-science-denailist[sic]' crossover stink to the mix. Was this something I missed, or is Greggy's testosterone poisoning flaring up again? http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/11/27/climatethanks-meme-heats-up/ Here's an interesti...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Or maybe I'll go to that Oxford event, just for fun...

I'mgoing to the Oxford thing. Got to keep an eye on Myers .....

...So if you know anything about evolution and statistics you should be mentally framing this in terms of emotional frontloading and the founder effect... ... but they ignore the very real effects of human psychology on rampant emotional hyperstimulation with no self-control. Good illustration of m...

Tony Parsehole wrote:
We have always been at war with Eurasia.

What I don't get is how come Oceania always have one ally and one enemy. You would have thought that, if there was any fairness to the whole thing then EastAsia and Eurasia would gang up against Oceania once in a while.

"On the matter of the chromosomal difference between men and women, and the criticism against anyone who says that men are genetically half-female , I know the biology too well to say otherwise; itâ€™s true. Not all facts are comfortable ones." Yeah - very disappointing from Aron. How many times ha...

Also, how is it that every single one of the Pharyngula commentariat has some sort of chronic condition or disorder, which can be leveraged to excuse bad habits and questionable behavior? Every. Single. One of them. The more fucked up you are, the better, more honest, more worthy a person you are. ...

More about the 'approval seeker' business. It's that an integral, and natural part of SJW-dom is to attempt to establish an approval seeker/approval granter relationship with members of the outside world who are susceptible to it. Also known as 'cookies for allies' meme. This fits into the online be...

De-lurking. I think, like a lot of male feminists, PZ is basically an approval seeker..... Yes, I think you've got it here, Paddy. Speaking for myself i definitely had an 'approval seeker' phase with response to feminism and my experience was as you described. It is really difficult to break onesel...

I am NOT saying that atheism = left wing idealism (freethought does imply that, though). . If Myers actually does mean this, then this would seem to give room for hope of sorts. At least hope that some vestige of reality has penetrated the firewall of FTB. Even in using the term 'left wing idealism...

Maybe Gef could cast General Weidling as Richard Carrier. "I am here to report to Supreme Leader Myers to be burned to death for rape apology" "Supreme leader Myers was impressed by your report and has promoted you to Field Marshall of Artillery (intellectual division), to lead the final defence of ...

Here's an atheist community joke:

"What did one drunk say to another drunk ?"

"I don't know."

"Neither do I, so let's have a furious row about it on the internet for the next ten years !"

Hm.. I may be about to walk into a minefield but... Then some analysis of the legal implications of various hypothetical cases of alleged or actual sexual assault ... Thoughts? Hue - You've obviously thought this through carefully, put a lot into this, and I'm not disagreeing with any of the actual...

The best quick overview and introduction to TA was made by Theramin Trees (afaik Qualia Soup's brother â€” their vidoes are anyway must see and imo among the best on Atheism and related topics on YT). When I found out those guys were brothers I couldn't help but to wonder what it would have been li...

Southern wrote:
rayshul wrote:Do people want to rape toilets?
Once people start seeing toilets as women, this makes perfectly sense.

That made me laugh.

Can I post to say how much I bloody hate the term 'Mangina' and I think anyone who uses it is an idiot. (I know someone's going to say That's because you are one) Firstly, it betrays some sort of childish dislike for female reproductive organs. How you can go there and expect to be taken seriously I...

I wonder exactly what Silverperson means by Anti-Movement sentiment ? Is it a reference to the Atheist Mysogeny meme perhaps ? Or does he mean opposition to the idea that Atheism itself is a movement ? I would have thought that, given his position within American Atheists he would be happy to tolera...

That was very very good, Gefan

Oh and songs about the Linden.... [youtube]29Mg6Gfh9Co[/youtube] Prefer the SAHB version. Sheesh, Tony that takes me back. I used to love Alexander and the boys. Shark's teeth eat Richard Widmark and Twenty five dollars for a massage and all that malarkey. I used to go around singing TBTM and someb...

PESTILENCE !!!!
WAR!!!!!!!!
FAMINE !!!!
DEATH !!!!!!!!

and ... er ... postmodernism ? (clippety clop)

And since the naming issue really comes up more and more in the community, I again suggest the term "Commentariat" for their faction, which is neutral sounding enough to be used in normal debates outside this sanctuary of diverse opinions and it captures well that they are "commenting" a lot on com...

Has anybody been on the Atheist Experience chatroom ? They talk about it but I've only ever seen their show in retrospect so I've never been on. I'm curious - is it SJW or sane ? It's interesting, because although at least most of the hosts are A+ types there seems to be a taboo on talking about the...

Sadly, idiotic oolon is actually right about the libel suit threat. Even here in crazy England, "the country that polices twitter", you can call someone a rape apologist as much as you like because you're just expressing an opinion about their discourse. "Rape apologist" is not a defined criminal c...

Sadly, idiotic oolon is actually right about the libel suit threat. Even here in crazy England, "the country that polices twitter", you can call someone a rape apologist as much as you like because you're just expressing an opinion about their discourse. "Rape apologist" is not a defined criminal ca...

I'm going to give them a pass on this 'murder fantasy' thing. I think it's OK for a well-balanced person who knows the difference between fantasy and reality to indulge in thinking about stuff they'd never do, up to a point of course. The mistake is to take it too seriously and to think that what's ...

Here's what I came on to post: Are we losing ? I know that Pharangula is probably imploding, but here's the thing. Have they already committed irreperable damage by 'training' enough of their online minions to go anywhere on the internet where there's any conversation of a sceptical/atheist nature, ...

Hey Another Lurker and CB - welcome to the slymepit. I think the FC(n) thing started because the FTBloggers were originally the 'fainting couch five' because of all the fake drama and acting up. Then there was some question of whether another one of them qualified, so there were six, then seven and ...

Good to see that on Indiegogo the Shermer legal fund has forged ahead really strongly today. This is a real opportunity to remind certain people that they may be better at internet drama and noise, but they are still accountable to real stuff from the real world and that resources can be brought to ...

This is to announce that Matt Cavanaugh has banned me from his blog for disagreeing with him ! That's how a 'true liberal' behaves I suppose, Matt. First of all his (small) army of fanboys tried to dogpile me but it was rather like a fight between one lion and eight woodlice ! I guess on some level...

More on my banning by Matt Cavenaugh (aka Mr. True Liberal !) First of all some back - pedal room - it might be a technical glitch of some sort, although I think not. This is what i wanted to post, so I'd be very happy for anyone who wants to to copy paste and post it to http://trueliberalnexus.word...

This is to announce that Matt Cavanaugh has banned me from his blog for disagreeing with him ! That's how a 'true liberal' behaves I suppose, Matt. First of all his (small) army of fanboys tried to dogpile me but it was rather like a fight between one lion and eight woodlice ! I guess on some level ...

Hey, Cavenaugh !

Have you banned me from your blog ?? Or is it a technical glitch of some sort ?

Laden reviews PZ Myers new book. http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/06/25/pz-myers-is-the-happy-atheist/ ... but rest assured this is NOT a collection of Pharyngula blog posts ... not simply a set of more advanced ... PZ wrote most of these essays in a different place ... different software ......

Yes, Anaris' post gets it absolutely right. Hear Hear ! The only thing worse than getting home from work and finding that P.Z. Myers has made another ridiculous claim on the internet trying to do down those he regards as his enemies, is to get home from work and find out that he hasn't said anything...

Those of us who've come across him don't call him 'Multithread Jim' for nothing !!!

Jesse - Following from your very first post, how about a fourth camp. People who don't see the world primarily in terms of gender at all. Those who may think that gender issues have a place alongside other issues, but not as a focus for everything. Those who find it completely natural and comfortabl...

It's a good question, and I have wondered why I spend time and energy opposing the A+/FTB crowd when I don't expend the same energy on things I actually disagree with more, such as white supremacy, conservapedia and so on. I think it comes down to the 'A+ model of discourse'. The idea that no-one ca...

The really suprising thing about Dick Carrier's speech at that meeting was, for a supposed Philosopher, just how incomprehensible and confused it was. For me, the standout idocies were "It's Atheism [as opposed to 'Humanism'] which is taking the lead !" This is a perfect example of a deepity (cf Dan...

Scientologist ? Stumbled on the A+ Forum ? See phrasebook below for jargon translation. Use this and you'll fit right in ! LRH is on the left and PZM on the right. Engram --- Micro-Aggression Enturbulation --- Mansplaining Restimulation --- Triggering Sea-Org Member --- A+ Moderator What Are your cr...

I got really into a game called 'Tropico 2 Pirate Cove'. You're a sort of Pirate king who runs this island. The thing about this game is that one one level it's this jolly 'wooden leg and bottle o' rum' sort of cartoony pirates, but it definitely has a darker side which is that to keep the island ec...

Hello All - This is my first post here, so Hi ! I'm posting because I think there's an aspect of the 'Atheist +' drama which has been overlooked. There has been thorough discussion around the wisdom of conflation of the left wing politics with atheism, and also of the topic of the hijacking of the n...

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