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by Sunder
Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:49 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Sounds like they're mistaking instinct for agency. Pretty much any behavior one animal engages in around another seems purposeful and thought-out, but most of them aren't. You might as well think a rabbit who ducks down at the sound of a predator has a theory of mind, because the rabbit already know...
by Sunder
Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:07 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Drive-by Pooting the second.

Why the fuck should I even listen to these PROVEN trivially-deceived adult fuckwits, let alone take their prognostications on matters unrelated to theism seriously?/ Why do we laud Newton's Calculus despite the fact that he went to his grave believing in all manner of bizarre theological bullshit? ...
by Sunder
Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:49 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

I've done a quick search of the best selling atheist books on Amazon, just to see how 'The Happy Atheist' is faring. The hardcover copy is at 71, while the kindle edition is at number 77. In other words, after the first few weeks, when it was in the top ten, it has sunk like a stone (even Greta Chr...
by Sunder
Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:10 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

The easiest way to reject criticism or the need for self appraisal is to generalise and then objectify the opposition. We do it with SJW and FtBers, they do it with 'pitters. The difference is that there is sufficient diversity here to encourage debate, review and argument. Plus we make a habit of ...
by Sunder
Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:31 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

The takeout appears to be that PZ would probably relax if he got a new set of commentators. I'm not so sure, though it's interesting to speculate. I kinda think that if all his regulars stopped posting tomorrow he'd just be looking to cultivate some new ones and probably still swinging the banhamme...
by Sunder
Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:00 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Similarly, Myers' insistence that atheism is more than not believing in gods opens it up to arguments along the lines of "Stalin was an atheist too". Now that's a bad argument, but significantly more complicated to counter if atheism is not just lack of belief. It becomes a question of interpretati...
by Sunder
Wed Oct 30, 2013 5:37 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Do you know more about the news than the average American? http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/ I got 13 out of 13 correct. 11/13. Slightly overestimated the Congress question and didn't recognize the woman near the end. Since I flubbed two questions regarding women in positions of inf...
by Sunder
Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:27 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

I completely agree. Debunking creationism is not that hard. Once you rise above the retarded level of science education of the general public, everyone accepts evolution and laughs at the creationists. People enjoy Aronra's videos because he spends a lot of time making them, he's eloquent in them, ...
by Sunder
Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:17 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Kinda poignant. http://www.skepticink.com/nocrossnocrescent/2013/10/28/extremism-is-not-the-problem-islam-is-the-problem/ Trying to think how PZ would put a liberal slant on this one, and failing. I've always been conflicted about Islam myself. Doctrinally there's really nothing in the Koran that's...
by Sunder
Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:32 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Adam Lee faced this kind of situation a few months ago in a radio interview with a preacher who HAD done his homework and read some of the stupic stuff Lee had sycophantically written in line with Peezus and Watson, and the preacher, despite being the kind of common garden apologeticist that Hitche...
by Sunder
Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:04 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Now suddenly they're all ready to shake hands with their theist neighbors and, y'know, work on stuff now. Welcome to the fucking party, FreeThoughtBlogs. If I were being charitable, I'd speculate that they might finally have realized that their club is a lot smaller and less powerful than they thou...
by Sunder
Tue Oct 22, 2013 2:54 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Sounds almost Chris Clarkesque. Interesting how he sees his own audience now. He seems to realise on one level they are not ... quite rational, logical, ... oh I dont know? FUCKING SANE? It's kind of a bizarre circumstance. On the one hand he's chiding Aron for being insufficiently fire and brimsto...
by Sunder
Tue Oct 22, 2013 2:20 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Talking of men being half women. Aren't we all like 50% banana or something and 60% water and ... Somehow I think there is more to it than a simple deconstructionalist approach suggests. I remember a joke I heard once that went something like "I can't hate women. I'm half woman on my mother's side....
by Sunder
Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:29 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

I really like Aron. This isn't quite enough to make me dislike him, but he has lost some status in my eyes. I know that despite his friendship with PZ he's refrained from involving himself in the various big dramas in the past. I had assumed he was simply shrewd enough to avoid having his loyalties ...
by Sunder
Sat Oct 19, 2013 2:03 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

It has eight fiction books that people might actually wanna read, the usual Hitchens, Harris, and Randi (the Dawkins books are in the trash), the complete works of Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem, and Bell Hooks, and a shitton of octopus porno that he's photoshopped to give the models blue hair and ...
by Sunder
Sat Oct 19, 2013 1:52 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

I've never read much LeGuin outside of the Earthsea Trilogy-and-also-that-other-one, but I remember The Tombs of Atuan very fondly. PZ does come off like he's trying to increase his feminist cred a little too hard though. Plus the usual: "My tastes are far superior to those of you plebians!" shit I ...
by Sunder
Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:05 pm
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

ROBOKiTTY wrote:I wanna see a photoshop of Myers riding a triceratops trying to catch up to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Here's a pic idea that wouldn't even require shooping. Stack up all of the Horsemen's books into respective piles around a lonely copy of The Happy Atheist.
by Sunder
Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:53 am
Forum: Past Misdeeds
Topic: Bleeding from the Bunghole
Replies: 32948
Views: 2074307

Re: Bleeding from the Bunghole

Holy shit, this is a really funny thing somebody made on YouTube: 5Krz-dyD-UQ That's the best thing PZ ever shared with the world. I haven't seen Bad Lip Reading in a while but I remember they got some notoriety during the runup to the last Presidential election. What else is missing? If your answe...
by Sunder
Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:33 pm
Forum: Every Bleeding Thing Else
Topic: FTB/Skepchick apostates?
Replies: 25
Views: 5509

Re: FTB/Skepchick apostates?

Hope no one will care about posting in a month-old thread for my first post but it seemed most appropriate to why I'm here. The best thing I can say is that I wasn't at FtB for very long. I'd been aware of Pharyngula from Dawkins's books but I was never that interested in the online atheist communit...