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

That is fair, Robokitty. I am NOT saying that people shouldn't be allowed to change their positions. We are all works in progress. If we're the same at 60 as we were at 20...that's a problem. I like the rest of what you said. Just don't want you or others to think I denounce ALL changes of mind. I ...

I think you're making the same mistake as when you expounded on "free speech". You're taking your own idiosyncratic definition and just assuming it's the one that should be used. There's no evidence that right vs left is presently only applied to the economic spectrum. It's commonly applied to both...

If we're being pedantic, PZ has made statements that criticism isn't harassment. He's also asserted that criticism is harassment. He's said that Islam is a violent religion that must be mocked and defamed. He's also pointed out that Islam is a peaceful religion that deserves our respect. PZ has sai...

Who are the rapists anyway? Or was "providing a haven for ... rapists" another way of saying "rape-apologist", which appears to be a contagious condition? It doesn't take too much mental gymnastics to go from there to equate that to "accurate[ly] and forthright[ly] ... accus[ing] him of ... supporti...

We're probably in violent agreement, simply using different left-right scales. I'm a fan of the Political Compass system, which I've posted in the past. However, I think it's still not sufficiently nuanced in light of the SJW phenomenon. A lot of people think SJWs are authoritarians. This might be ...

I don't think it's reasonable to label the U.S. Libertarian Party as right wing. On all social issues they are more left wing than most Democrats. Noooo, that's not how left-right works nowadays. Left and right only pertain to economic issues. Social issues form a different axis. The left is epitom...

Phil ignored my question. :(

Don't forget Richard Dawkins Foundation.

Phil, going to do something like this?

[youtube]-bjbUg9d64g[/youtube]

From linguist to linguist: the difference between polysemous words and homophones is mostly irrelevant from the point of view of pragmatic, corpora-based linguistics, which is the standard these days. What really counts is how often a word is found in a certain context, based on the approximations ...

Not sure how a stray 'always' got in there.

Sorry if I've been :ninja: "FranÃ§ais de souche" is primarily used by the far-right and actual racists (a far-right website even uses it as its name). In return, it's been turned into "souchien" and/or "sous-chien" (lower than a dog) by the far left and the Beur community to refer to ethnic French....

"FranÃ§ais de souche" is primarily used by the far-right and actual racists (a far-right website even uses it as its name). In return, it's been turned into "souchien" and/or "sous-chien" (lower than a dog) by the far left and the Beur community to refer to ethnic French. Does 'beur' come from 'beu...

So where did AndrewV69 go anyway?

Wonder if terrorists ever use mangled hashtags to communicate. Mangled hashtags: the poor man's encryption.

JacquesCuze wrote: [exparrot][/exparrot]

Hate to say this but y'all be getting the French wrong with that hashtag.

Aneris wrote:
ROBOKiTTY wrote:Anyone speak PlattdÃ¼Ã¼tsch/NedderdÃ¼Ã¼tsch/Nedersaksisch?
I might be able to help.

PM sent.

Lawrence Newman is right about one thing. Feelings do not override biological facts. And those feelings include his own wish to easily pigeon-hole people. The fact is that we do not live in a black and white world. We donâ€™t even live in a greyscale world. Far from this being an argument based on ...

It's like you're trying to trigger my bulimia.

I stand corrected, more or less; mea culpa. But you had said the following, which is probably what I was thinking of, in response to a previous comment of mine suggesting that "nager" was a corruption or colloquial modification of "nigger" (which Urban Dictionary supports but that is probably not s...

http://img.20mn.fr/hufla5DKSyKoe0VUdKWp ... lloise.jpg

:ninja:

:doh:

Jan Steen wrote:Is it a false impression of mine, or is the verb "to grok" really only used by Social Justice Warriors? Is it one of their shibboleths?

Pretty sure it's a nerd/geek thing, but nerdy/geeky has recently become trendy and hip, and so has their language.

Nerds and geeks, not so much.

At least they're not shedding crocodile tears.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 88,00.html

[youtube]b2OcKQ_mbiQ[/youtube]

Countess Isolde: It seems that most of the abuse I take on the internet comes not from -ists, who I can effectively drown in their own willful ignornace, but from (excuse the expression) angry social justice warriors who somehow enjoy making a bloody target out of me. Like I've mentioned in the pas...

Anyone speak PlattdÃ¼Ã¼tsch/NedderdÃ¼Ã¼tsch/Nedersaksisch?

Steersman wrote: ... Although I seem to recollect that ROBOKiTTY wasnâ€™t much impressed with the logic there, with that particular analogy â€“ despite not offering much in the way of a credible rebuttal â€¦.

I recall doing no such thing. You might be thinking of someone or something else.

Oops, only in the doobly-doo if you actually watch it on YouTube.

You animal lovers and Britlanders should support the hogspital. Info in the doobly-doo:

[youtube]rRHqVZVAOVU[/youtube]

Did you know that racist words are magic? They magically harm people even if you say that they're wrong. If you type the word "nigger", even just to say "nigger is racist slur, and should never be used" , people are harmed everywhere. A repetition of racism in the service of denouncing racism is be...

The disenfranchisement of convicted felons is all the more untenable given the huge prison population in the US and the staggeringly high rates of disenfranchisement in the South.

http://i.imgur.com/UZpwlyT.png [wmg]http://i.imgur.com/dVlcH0i.jpg[/wmg] I don't believe for a second that all of these people on Pharyngula are independently thinking all these patently contra-logical, absurd, and callous thoughts. That toxic environment really is driving them all to a ludicrous c...

James Caruthers wrote: In my humble opinion, if an illegal "immigrant" should be given a driver's license, then there is no reason whatsoever to prevent a felon from voting OR owning a firearm, especially as many felonies are not firearm-related.

I'm starting to think you're related to Uncle Parsehole.

Itâ€™s bizarre, honestly. How do ordinarily rational people get so unhinged with fear over a thing which kills absurdly small numbers of people, simply because the attackers claimed a particular religion? And why was there such a hue and cry over the actions of Marc LÃ©pine and Elliot Rodger, simpl...

CatieCat: Itâ€™s bizarre, honestly. How do ordinarily rational people get so unhinged with fear over a thing which kills absurdly small numbers of people, simply because the attackers claimed a particular religion? Especially when that religionâ€™s adherents have been the worldâ€™s chew toys for 20...

We have diddly-squat to say about education, let alone women's rights in muslim countries. Their education seems mostly to consist of memorising the Quran. In western countries they do their best to institute madrassas, paid by the Sauds or, in the UK for example, by the state. The Internet, for on...

Don't see how that particularly supports your case. Fewer immigrants therefore fewer offspring. Would that necessarily help now? There are already enough immigrants and offspring of immigrants in Europe that they're a self-sustaining population. I don't think closing the floodgate now is going to h...

ROBOKiTTY wrote: [mewtube]v2Ogt9FWgIs[/mewtube]

BTW, not sure if those guys are still in Syria, but one of them is posting selfies (in civilian clothes) on Fasebewk as of two days ago.

But, relative to Charlie Hebdo, y'all might be interested in a recent post on the topic by H.J. Hornbeck on M.A. Melby's blog. All this hatred against Charlie Hebdo just shows what poor allies SJWs make. Charlie Hebdo is generally considered a left-wing publication that makes fun of everything the ...

I'm devastated by Charlie Hebdo. I feel if my mind was going to change... this would be the moment where I would change my views on immigration. I'm not sure I'm there yet. Personally, I consider immigration a red herring. A brief skimming of the news revealed, to no one's surprise, that two of the...

deLurch wrote:And while we are on the subject of demeaning language, RoboKitty is a pussy.

/ducks & runs

One of these days, I will give virgin birth to a kitten, simultaneously proving evolution and my godhood.

And now for something completely different. A Lebanese-born pr0n star has recently come under fire for making pr0n while wearing a hijab. https://twitter.com/phantasmagorix/status/552400872035323905 https://twitter.com/ChiriveIIa/status/552180823450206209 She's totally cool about it, though. https:/...

I love it when Skep tickle is on a high horse, since the sight of a highly intelligent zebra riding a horse is truly impressive. Still, didn't the founder of the Pit coin the very name "Twatson"? I think there might be some wiggle room here and there about demeaning nicknames. After all, we do call ...

Ok. [omg]http://jokideo.com/wp-content/uploads/meme/2014/04/Meme---Seems-legit.jpg[/omg] Yes. Steven Pinker makes a case for it in The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined , if you're skeptical. He argues that decrease in violence in the world is highly corrolated with women's inv...

Maybe one of the Pit's Brits can answer this question. Why can't you guys send these violence fomenting assholes, back to the shithole countries they emigrated from? Most radicalized European Muslims are second- or third-generation descendants of immigrants. That means they're native citizens, and ...

Kirbmarc wrote: I guess that this a good week to come out as asexual.

Actually I think I'm just a demisexual grey or whatever the new correct SJW name is. Only got laid a couple of times and didn't especially like it.

I also don't watch porn. :oops:

^5

Or is there a high-five smiley?

Yikes! That's salt in the rape wound. Not only do you want to force sex on a vegetable, but it has to be with someone who's sick - generally considered more physically repulsive than healthy people. If a person must be raped, which would they prefer if no other choices? An ordinary healthy person, ...

Yes, I am opposed to that. I think they should be allowed to fuck and breed the old fashioned way. But my opposition to that does not change, mitigate, alter, affect, or have anything to do with, the fact that I would oppose you fucking the family poodle. Also, teens being with their fellow teens (...

"It's not just the right of the speaker to speak-it's also the right of others to listen." Please refer to this part in my post: ... members of the intended audience are free to ignore said speech on an individual basis ... Now, taking your own forum example, some of the people within the great Sen...

That's pretty vague. I've seen some self-declared sexologists online, who are all new age woo and very little science. The most sciencey of the ones I've seen is maybe John Money who did some very unethical and outright harmful and abusive research on children. Your hopes in the 'science' of sexolo...

Faith is not a good thing, religious or otherwise. If though, you are saying I've not looked for the most charitable way of seeing what you wrote, you're right. I'm not saying "but surely she must mean..." I'm not filtering my thoughts through such filters. I am simply saying what I think of your r...

But your views ARE outrageous. That list you put out a few pages back shows that you disagree with consent, age restrictions, and animal restrictions, in regards to sex. At least it looked like it was in regards to sex. If I'm wrong feel free to correct me. I'm not sure if you even realize it, but ...

There have been many expositions on why free speech is not infringed when one is disrupted and/or ignored in a public manner. Here's my response. Some people hold free speech to be a purely political right. I consider free speech to be both a political and a social right, because politics is merely ...

OMG RAEP [mg]http://i.imgur.com/gVqNpqT.png[/mg] See, you are trolling me with these hyperbolic misrepresentations and comparisons. So what's the difference between what you're doing and SJWs blocking people and dismissing them for "JAQing off"? You compare me to a masturbating hobo and a dishonest...

My favorite statement of yours. http://i.imgur.com/rajxGZq.jpg That's a self-description, not a request for people to comply. I have not once made a demand to that effect. Nevertheless, now I have adjusted the signature to suit your perceptions of me. Aaaaaand... after that "you're silencing meeeee...

I identify as someone who puts on 'ignore' disingenuous shit-stirrers. Are you so insecure in your beliefs that you must silence someone with mildly dissenting views and identities? I don't even have particularly outrageous views. People react to them like they're radioactive or something. I'm not ...

John D wrote: There is already a thing that balances between need and want... it's called masturbation.

I know you haven't been single in decades, so you might not realize that it gets old fast.

Guest wrote:can we stop sniping each other for a moment to marvel at just how demented oolon is in the friendlyatheist comment threads?

like--seriously demented

Pics? Can't be bovvered to check those threads again.

3 I'd put as "neither monogamy nor polyamory should be imposed by law." It's not law I'm concerned with here but social norms. It's generally implicitly expected that you will be monogamous once you are committed to a relationship (even though statistically, most people are going to have an affair ...

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