Nerds. Nerds EVERYWHERE...

[Tribble]

I didn't feel sad, but I felt a tug at my heart strings when JC Denton's brother Paul gets whacked in DX. And then later in the game you find his body on a slab...good stuff.

Yeah, I read there was someway to save him, but I could never do it.

Go out the window he dies. Go out the front door he lives. That's all there is to it.

Really? Fuck me. I had no idea it was that simple. I should have read the spoilers...

[James Caruthers]

Tony might actually be one of those who reads the Pit but pretends he doesn't. Either way, he must lie out his queer shoop and spread the propaganda that we fight equality for women, etc. As you know it's been this way since the beginning, even though the Pit is clearly more tolerant and pro-equality than the FtB/Skepchunk/A+ crowd.

It's popular to hate on the Pit because we're the people sitting in the back of the class, laughing while shooting spitballs at the self-righteous bastards who think they deserve the front row, but there's no question in my mind that the Pit has made a difference in this skizzim, and that people know we have Peezus and his congregation nailed dead to rights.[/quote]
Well, thundercoontz and AmazingAtheist have contributed a lot to youtube's rejection of SJWism. In that sense, it's two sides of a cult of personality fighting it out.

Then there's the "penisosphere" and its loose relationship with embittered atheists who got sick of Watson's crying, lying and witch hunting. But the penisosphere existed before elevatorgate.

Let's not forget twitter, where I think the slymepit has made a contribution by showcasing the inzvanity of FTB, Skepchick and Atheism Plus. David Silverman, Richard Dawkins Shermer and Grothe became targets of smear campaigns, and as for Radford, who knows, but this rash of accusations further solidified the Commentariat's position as a bunch of radfem nutters.

There have been so many influential figures within atheism who have categorically rejected SJW dogma. SJWism is antithetical to the big tent approach and just bad politics, if I may be cynical. But there's the ideological component as well, as many SJWs are anti-free expression and want to create a new legal system, whereas many atheists became atheists (as Dillahunty might say) when they realized there probably is no god, no high moral authority and original sin is bullshit. So atheists are understandably touchy about religious ideology creeping in.

The schism seems to be one small battle in the larger war of SJW feminism vs Everyone Else, and unfortunately, Everyone Else aren't doing as well as I'd like.

It's probably easier to list the famous atheists who DO support SJWism than list the ones who don't. Even folks like Concordance and DPRJones have made cautious, tentative condemnations. :lol:

[James Caruthers]

Tony might actually be one of those who reads the Pit but pretends he doesn't. Either way, he must lie out his queer shoop and spread the propaganda that we fight equality for women, etc. As you know it's been this way since the beginning, even though the Pit is clearly more tolerant and pro-equality than the FtB/Skepchunk/A+ crowd.

It's popular to hate on the Pit because we're the people sitting in the back of the class, laughing while shooting spitballs at the self-righteous bastards who think they deserve the front row, but there's no question in my mind that the Pit has made a difference in this skizzim, and that people know we have Peezus and his congregation nailed dead to rights.

Well, thundercoontz and AmazingAtheist have contributed a lot to youtube's rejection of SJWism. In that sense, it's two sides of a cult of personality fighting it out.

Then there's the "penisosphere" and its loose relationship with embittered atheists who got sick of Watson's crying, lying and witch hunting. But the penisosphere existed before elevatorgate.

Let's not forget twitter, where I think the slymepit has made a contribution by showcasing the inzvanity of FTB, Skepchick and Atheism Plus. David Silverman, Richard Dawkins Shermer and Grothe became targets of smear campaigns, and as for Radford, who knows, but this rash of accusations further solidified the Commentariat's position as a bunch of radfem nutters.

There have been so many influential figures within atheism who have categorically rejected SJW dogma. SJWism is antithetical to the big tent approach and just bad politics, if I may be cynical. But there's the ideological component as well, as many SJWs are anti-free expression and want to create a new legal system, whereas many atheists became atheists (as Dillahunty might say) when they realized there probably is no god, no high moral authority and original sin is bullshit. So atheists are understandably touchy about religious ideology creeping in.

The schism seems to be one small battle in the larger war of SJW feminism vs Everyone Else, and unfortunately, Everyone Else aren't doing as well as I'd like.

It's probably easier to list the famous atheists who DO support SJWism than list the ones who don't. Even folks like Concordance and DPRJones have made cautious, tentative condemnations. :lol:

Edit: Double posted to fix quotes. The one time I didn't preview! :doh:

[Tribble]

Oh fuck. My daughter's favorite boys-love manga has now been made into an Anime and is on Crunchyroll. I'm going to be hearing about boy/boy love weeks...

I think she really needs to get a new boyfriend....

This one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Stage!!

Yes, it's Love Stage!! And my daughter was both thrilled you knew of it AND wants to know how you know that (her being a teenager makes her think anyone older than her couldn't possibly have heard of anything like this because of 'hopelessly square'')?

[Tribble]

Oh fuck. My daughter's favorite boys-love manga has now been made into an Anime and is on Crunchyroll. I'm going to be hearing about boy/boy love weeks...

I think she really needs to get a new boyfriend....

How old is she? Have you been introduced to Clarence?

Seventeen and a half, and not in a million years.

[BoxNDox]

It's not a strech. Transposing only changes the pitch, but not the tune or harmony. You can sing Zombie in em, or do it in am or do it in dm, or more in f#m, whatever comes natural to you. It changes the impression in some way, in particular on a guitar but the reason is not harmonical, but in the natural arrangement due to the strings.

Some would disagree with this. Those who claim to have perfect pitch tend to advance the idea that the tonal quality of any particular key is distinct from any other. The same melody does not sound the same to them when played in different keys. I tend to agree - back in my early guitar learning days I had (probably still do somewhere) a perfect pitch training book by some American guy that I slogged through and it really is possible to tell the difference between a B and a C without any context. I know that sounds dangerously close to the crap that audiophiles spout about hearing the difference between chrome and gold played connectors, but it really isn't.

You don't need perfect pitch to hear a difference when something is transposed; a good sense of relative pitch should be sufficient. A perfect temperament is impossible to achieve, although modern 12 tone equal temperament is pretty good.

And music written for a different temperament definitely sounds "off" when it's played on the wrong instrument(s). There used to be a radio program called "PIpe Dreams" about interesting pipe organs from around the world. One time they featured an organ that was actually two organs in one: It had a full set of equal temperament pipes and a set of mean temperament pipes. Hearing Scarlatti played on both settings was a true revelation. I used to think that back in school when I played Scarlatti on a very nice three manual Aeolian-Skinner it sounded pretty good. But not after hearing it played on the right instrument.

These days you can buy electric pianos that have settable temperament. I saw one once that had around 20 different settings.

Finally, in regards to perfect pitch, I think the term covers a range of abilities. My understanding is that some people really do have an absolute sense of pitch and for them every note is truly unique. Others, myself included, can kind of memorize a pitch for some period of time. But with me at least, if someone starts to play music that's off key relative to the pitch I've memorized, eventually my internally setting will drift over to theirs.

[Kenteken]

It's amazing how long the twitter SJW crowd will drag out the same bit of drama.

Remember Lily Cade, the lesbian porn star who oppressed and victimised transwomen by refusing to suck every girl-cock pointed in her direction?

It's been over a month now and the SJWs are still giving her daily grief about her sexual preferences. The current argument is that if a lesbian likes dildos then that proves she really likes dick, and if she doesn't get sucking on some trans-girl-man-meat there must be something wrong with her:

There's nothing else to say... that's some extreme stupidity even by SJW standards.

Meh, I can't say that it's really that surprising. They are heading to a fantasy state wherein Sexual preferences are a set of directives that have to be uphold in all circumstances. - unless they do it-*
Never mind the whole consenting adults bit, the SJW's know better.

Even the whole "you're guilty until proven innocent bit didn't surprise me anymore. Bending the legal system for the benefit of SJW utopia? No problem!
First the patriarchal rape culture... next? Perhaps the hiring of women, or better yet, the not hiring of women for all jobs. Companies are proven guilty of discrimination by patriarchy for every woman that gets turned down. The possibilities are endless if that can of worms is opened.

*it could well be that there is some self centered reasoning behind it all. Suddenly their chances of actually getting laid are a real possibility.

** as a side note, is it possible that the social networks have given rise of a generation of narcissistic self-centered special snowflakes that can't handle any form of criticism let alone the reality that is called society?

[Scented Nectar]

Oh boy! Or girl! Or physically immature gender-non-specific human! The gender workshop on Pharyngula is baaaaack:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... finitions/

What the fuck was that word mess? Crip Dike must be brain damaged.

Did anyone get through that garble without saying WTF at least a dozen times?

[didymos]

Dawkins has got be purposefully trolling people now. He endorsed Jaclyn Glenn's latest video on Twitter. The expected response ensued. Some highlights:

[Guestus Aurelius]

Oh boy! Or girl! Or physically immature gender-non-specific human! The gender workshop on Pharyngula is baaaaack:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... finitions/

What the fuck was that word mess? Crip Dike must be brain damaged.

Did anyone get through that garble without saying WTF at least a dozen times?

tl,tpomo,dr

[sinister]

Oh boy! Or girl! Or physically immature gender-non-specific human! The gender workshop on Pharyngula is baaaaack:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... finitions/

What the fuck was that word mess? Crip Dike must be brain damaged.

Did anyone get through that garble without saying WTF at least a dozen times?

I just sort of stopped reading... it was a weird game where we pretend words mean things Humpty Dumpty style right? Or maybe everyone takes a turn writing sentences until someone calls bullshit, and they have to cite a dictionary?

[Scented Nectar]

Oh boy! Or girl! Or physically immature gender-non-specific human! The gender workshop on Pharyngula is baaaaack:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... finitions/

What the fuck was that word mess? Crip Dike must be brain damaged.

Did anyone get through that garble without saying WTF at least a dozen times?

tl,tpomo,dr

Oh good, it's not just me. I thought maybe I was having a stroke in the language center of my brain. Whew!

[didymos]

[didymos]

Also, LOL @ Nat trying to be deep:

[Scented Nectar]

Oh boy! Or girl! Or physically immature gender-non-specific human! The gender workshop on Pharyngula is baaaaack:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... finitions/

What the fuck was that word mess? Crip Dike must be brain damaged.

Did anyone get through that garble without saying WTF at least a dozen times?

I just sort of stopped reading... it was a weird game where we pretend words mean things Humpty Dumpty style right? Or maybe everyone takes a turn writing sentences until someone calls bullshit, and they have to cite a dictionary?

Dictionaries are their kryptonite. Their only rule is that their custom made definitions are not the ones in dictionaries, not even the medical dictionaries. Because... trans hate or something.

[feralandproud]

Even though it may be an unpopular opinion, I gotta admit I view this kind of like I view Suey. I mean it's been what? 3 years or so? Did Ms. Glenn never hear of A+ until now? Why would anyone want to drag them back in to the spotlight? Other than the usual suspects, the whole herd is largely irrelevant.

[Guestus Aurelius]

That's why my avatar is so devastatingly clever, Scented Nectar.

[Sunder]

You know, I honestly have to say that if I were Dawkins I'd have excised Paul Myers name from every future printing of every one my books that bore mention of that cancerous clown, and possibly even as many old copies as I could take a pair of scissors to.

That's my own private weakness though, and I'm kind of glad that Dawkins has more integrity than that.

[Scented Nectar]

Also, LOL @ Nat trying to be deep:

Ok, are they all on massive hits of acid? Or is it just common variety psychosis? What the fuck?

[Scented Nectar]

That's why my avatar is so devastatingly clever, Scented Nectar.

I like it. :D

You know, I'm picturing at conferences, people armed with dictionaries and scaring away pesky SJWs with them. Like vampires and crosses or something.

[Guestus Aurelius]

Also, LOL @ Nat trying to be deep:

Ok, are they all on massive hits of acid? Or is it just common variety psychosis? What the fuck?

It makes sense if you think of SJWs as idiots.

[Southern]

Traudl Junge, she was 22 when she began working for Hitler and had just turned 25 when she typed his last will and testament in the Führerbunker. I remember seeing her interviews in The World at War series when I was a kid. I don't know how many times I've seen them since. I keep meaning to get hold of her autobiography.

I recall her saying that Hitler would let his secretries play the radio and smoke in the outer office in the Reich Chancellery. Yet Hitler hated smoking, and was known to fly into rages, even with senior Nazis, if they smoked around him. Smoking was banned in the Führerbunker as is made clear in Downfall. The banality of evil.

You mean, Traudl-chan?

Of course, the Internet delivers. The Internet ALWAYS delivers:

[youtube]bHZzKjwu3qc[/youtube]

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

Oh fuck. My daughter's favorite boys-love manga has now been made into an Anime and is on Crunchyroll. I'm going to be hearing about boy/boy love weeks...

I think she really needs to get a new boyfriend....

How old is she? Have you been introduced to Clarence?

Seventeen and a half, and not in a million years.

Pfft. That's like saying "I quit" a moment after the boss fires you. Clarence ain't going anywhere north of thirteen.

[another lurker]

I bet Clarence has bigger tits than Tribble's kid

[didymos]

Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

[sinister]

Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Yes you can tell how unaffected by the criticism she is. I mean I know if someone posted a video of me and they were way off the mark, I would post 100 blogs defending myself. If that video was half as bad as they claim it is, I would be posting it for shits and giggles were it about me. If it is nothing like you what could the harm be in laughing at it?

[sinister]

Ohh... probably left out some sarcasm tags there.

[Southern]

Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Yes you can tell how unaffected by the criticism she is. I mean I know if someone posted a video of me and they were way off the mark, I would post 100 blogs defending myself. If that video was half as bad as they claim it is, I would be posting it for shits and giggles were it about me. If it is nothing like you what could the harm be in laughing at it?

You can do that because you're not a rotten mummy without any ability to feel joy or happiness.

[sinister]

Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Yes you can tell how unaffected by the criticism she is. I mean I know if someone posted a video of me and they were way off the mark, I would post 100 blogs defending myself. If that video was half as bad as they claim it is, I would be posting it for shits and giggles were it about me. If it is nothing like you what could the harm be in laughing at it?

You can do that because you're not a rotten mummy without any ability to feel joy or happiness.

Well, I do have that going for me.

Which is nice.

[dog puke]

Fuck I hate Michael Shermer.

First he rapes every woman that ever existed, or ever will exist, but now he has doomed the whole planet with his anthrposhermic Climate Change.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... des-again/

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

From some post above. We're spending our time arguing against a bunch of fucking five-year olds:

http://i.imgur.com/QMtH9ER.png

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

LOL, guess who's still posting at A+Theism?

Oh yeah, the oil slick himself:

http://i.imgur.com/9ZXk4hs.png

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4148

[Gumby]

You know, I'm picturing at conferences, people armed with dictionaries and scaring away pesky SJWs with them. Like vampires and crosses or something.

http://i.imgur.com/Jk3KSeu.jpg

[another lurker]

Gumby, you're on a roll lately. Gj.

[Crabman]

Fuck I hate Michael Shermer.

First he rapes every woman that ever existed, or ever will exist, but now he has doomed the whole planet with his anthrposhermic Climate Change.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... des-again/

This is a perfect illustration of the cult mindset.
It doesn't matter that Shermer agrees there's a climate problem. It doesn't matter that he wants to do something about it. He's talking about something that isn't hamstringing the economy and taxing the everloving shit out of everything that makes global trade possible. In other words, the ineffective pointless circlejerk of treaties and aspirations that is the darling of leftists, is the only allowed solution or you will be branded a heretic (seeing as that's how far that line of thinking is ever going to go).

Don't even consider other options, because as PZ proclaims:

if we could wrest government out of the control of goddamned Libertarians and Republicans, we could talk about rational policy making and trying to fund all of those projects. Does anyone really believe progressive politicians are arguing we can’t save those children because we’ve only got money for ONE project, and we can’t prioritize to support humanitarian goals?

See, it's all falling apart because republicans and libertarians want babies to die. If only there was a democrat in charge.. oh, right. If only there were ONLY democrats in charge, this would be fixed. Not only fixed, every single project would be getting funded. Nobody would be making cost benefit plans because there would be infinite money.

Oh woe that never in history has all branches seen the glorious rule of enlightened democrats! Oh wait, that did happen. Well I guess they just weren't leftist enough. If only Pure Progressives ruled everything, then the problems would go away. The first step, as always, is to purge the party of unbelievers. It worked so well for atheism.

[Tribble]

I bet Clarence has bigger tits than Tribble's kid

She is really tiny, a size 000 or 00 depending on the clothier, her being 5' and 85lbs. Solid as a rock, too. Does squats, sit-ups, push-ups, etc., every night and runs five days a week.

And she definitely knows what she wants in men. And man boobs and beer guts aren't on the list...

[Gumby]

Gumby, you're on a roll lately. Gj.

:D

I'd have used the OED in that pic, but Bhoytony gets upset when Merkins appropriate British words.

[another lurker]

I bet Clarence has bigger tits than Tribble's kid

She is really tiny, a size 000 or 00 depending on the clothier, her being 5' and 85lbs. Solid as a rock, too. Does squats, sit-ups, push-ups, etc., every night and runs five days a week.

And she definitely knows what she wants in men. And man boobs and beer guts aren't on the list...

Manboob shamer!

[Gumby]

42 posts to 200,000!

What's the prize Lsuoma?

[Richard Dworkins]

Even though it may be an unpopular opinion, I gotta admit I view this kind of like I view Suey. I mean it's been what? 3 years or so? Did Ms. Glenn never hear of A+ until now? Why would anyone want to drag them back in to the spotlight? Other than the usual suspects, the whole herd is largely irrelevant.

Sure. However what is funny is that even after all that time the nerve is so raw they are still jumping around like the idiotic marionettes they are and proving her point by denying it so vehemently and idiocy. I mean for fuck sake, P.Z. Myers is approaching old age and can find nothing better to do than make snide comments on twitter? That's hilarious because it is so utterly pathetic. And to be honest even the "usual suspects" are completely irrelevant, which is why it is so amusing to see them act like that bloke in Iraqi who was on T.V. denying they'd lost the Airport while coalition tanks drove behind him.

The only place they are relevant is here, because they are so obnoxious, stupid and oblivious that they are comedy gold.

[another lurker]

So far all of my posts today have been about manbewbz and penises! Don't say I don't contribute, assholes!

[welch]

Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Yes you can tell how unaffected by the criticism she is. I mean I know if someone posted a video of me and they were way off the mark, I would post 100 blogs defending myself. If that video was half as bad as they claim it is, I would be posting it for shits and giggles were it about me. If it is nothing like you what could the harm be in laughing at it?

that's how I can tell none of them care about what she has to say. Because every time that woman sneezes, they all have posts up about it.

I am apathy, hear me roar.

[Lsuoma]

42 posts to 200,000!

What's the prize Lsuoma?

The poster should send me a picture of themself, and I'll crack one off in their honour.

[dog puke]

So far all of my posts today have been about manbewbz and penises! Don't say I don't contribute, assholes!

But you don't contribute assholes - only manbewbz and penises. :naughty:

[welch]

42 posts to 200,000!

What's the prize Lsuoma?

The poster should send me a picture of themself, and I'll crack one off in their honour.

PLEASELETCLARENCEWIN
PLEASELETCLARENCEWIN
PLEASELETCLARENCEWIN
PLEASELETCLARENCEWIN
PLEASELETCLARENCEWIN

[another lurker]

So far all of my posts today have been about manbewbz and penises! Don't say I don't contribute, assholes!

But you don't contribute assholes - only manbewbz and penises. :naughty:

Here on the pit, the assholes make the contributions!

(Idk why, but I feel like adding exclamations to, well, everything ).

[rayshul]

Thanks, you fuckers, I just watched Love Stage!! and I am enjoying it but my marriage is suffering because my husband won't stop shaking his head at me.

[James Caruthers]

Even though it may be an unpopular opinion, I gotta admit I view this kind of like I view Suey. I mean it's been what? 3 years or so? Did Ms. Glenn never hear of A+ until now? Why would anyone want to drag them back in to the spotlight? Other than the usual suspects, the whole herd is largely irrelevant.

Pretty much.

I'm not hostile to her or anything, but she has this attention whoring style of presentation that bores me. I don't watch Amazing Atheist for the same reason (or rarely watch him,) in case anyone was planning to accuse me of muh sogyny.

That Guy T also raises some interesting points about her own SJW-like behavior regarding certain sacred cows which are "not up to debate" for her.

[James Caruthers]

Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Copypaste of the Almost Dead

[James Caruthers]

Oafie should have been bullied more as a child. Then she would have learned that crying, whining and acting butthurt whenever someone says something you don't like (in a video that isn't specifically even about you) makes you the pathetic one.

In general, FTB, Skepchick and Atheism Plus could all have benefited from more bullying and abuse in life, provided they learned something from it.

[ROBOKiTTY]

C0nc0rdance recently flounced from Dusty Smith's channel because Dusty was openly advocating recreational consumption of illegal drugs in his last video.

Also, it's been three weeks since Dusty's last activity on his channel. I wonder how the drama has affected his production.

[sinister]

My xbox just stare raped me. I walked by in my boxers and the fxcker said "hello sinister." :shock:
I never agreed to its advances. I think I better go blog about this experience so my otherkin kinect friends don't make the.same mistake.

Also, the wierd stereo 3d vision it has of me adds 10lbs at least. Fat shamer. :cry:

[real horrorshow]

Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Five posts or five words?

From Pharyngula, even when they get something right, it somehow turns out wrong:

All other things aside, I don’t understand being an atheist “because I care about people.” I understand being an atheist, and I understand caring about people, but the idea of there being a causal link baffles me – at least caring -> atheism… I can kind of figure out an argument toward caring about people because of atheism, but as far as I can reason it through, it requires a degree of humanism already in place to support the conclusion...

Yes, you see that, but you lot were the ones saying, back when A+ was launched: "you're just dictionary atheists, you can't be a real atheist unless you also sign up for [insert social justice agenda] which inevitably follows from it" and "no, it's not the same as humanism, A+ washes whiter."

...Maybe she means she’s an atheist activist because she cares about people? I’ll assume that’s the case, because that makes sense. But… if she cares about people, why is she so dismissive of the idea that things you say can hurt people? How can you care about people, but dismiss the fact that your words can actually hurt people as “looking for reasons to be offended”?*

Doh! So near and yet so far. Because Athywren, "caring about people", in the atheist humanist sense, does not mean never ever saying anything that someone might be "offended" by. Especially people who are "offended" by things like the plain statement of demonstrable facts. As Stephen Fry so memorably put it:

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what?

*S/h/it also links to thisxkcd cartoon, which made me throw up in my mouth a little.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sticks_and_stones.png

[real horrorshow]

LOL, guess who's still posting at A+Theism?

Oh yeah, the oil slick himself:

http://i.imgur.com/9ZXk4hs.png

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4148

Is the link right? Because oolon's post is from Sat Mar 09, 2013 2:20 pm. And the last one in the thread is Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:29 am.

[ConcentratedH2O, OM]

My xbox just stare raped me. I walked by in my boxers and the fxcker said "hello sinister." :shock:
I never agreed to its advances. I think I better go blog about this experience so my otherkin kinect friends don't make the.same mistake.

Also, the wierd stereo 3d vision it has of me adds 10lbs at least. Fat shamer. :cry:

*Pouncetugs with an agreement that you can accept them or not with no bad feelings on either side, whatever you feel is necessary to assist you in moving towards a state of personal wellbeing*

[Pitchguest]

C0nc0rdance recently flounced from Dusty Smith's channel because Dusty was openly advocating recreational consumption of illegal drugs in his last video.

Also, it's been three weeks since Dusty's last activity on his channel. I wonder how the drama has affected his production.

C0nc0rdance is a reasonable person, except when it comes to the recreational use of drugs. He made a video about drugs some time ago, marijuana specifically, and while he went on about the dangers of marijuana, he completely dismissed any arguments to the contrary. Unfortunately that is where his reason and logic goes out the window, replaced with blind dogma. Or blind insofar he only trusts the documents citing how perilous marijuana can be.

I remember I said to him, at the time, that no one has so far died from an overdose of marijuana (namely because you can't overdose on marijuana). I also remember telling him how doctors prescribe marijuana to ADD and cancer sufferers to improve concentration and ease their nausea, which granted he acknowledged but wouldn't go so far as to accept that smoking it recreationally could not cause long-term harm nor that you couldn't get addicted to it. (You can't get addicted to marijuana. You can get an urge, sure, but it's not the same as the chemical induced addiction that you get from, for example, cigarettes or cocaine.) I suppose that's his "blind" spot.

[James Caruthers]

*S/h/it also links to thisxkcd cartoon, which made me throw up in my mouth a little.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sticks_and_stones.png

XKCD went full SJW a while ago, arguing that using a bully pulpit to silence others is not a violation of the right to free speech and expression.

It's not coincidental that comics which go full SJW inevitably become cripplingly unfunny and lame.

EVEN IF I AGREED WITH THE COMIC, it's still an unfunny piece of shit. It's a fucking Jack Chick tract for social justice. There's no joke, it's "let me tell you about this thing you should believe."

[James Caruthers]

Incidentally, feeling happy or sad are inconsequential emotional states which matter very little in the grand scheme of your life. At least, that's my life philosophy. Satisfaction (contentment) is different, and comes from within.

So XKCD fails as both philosopher and comedian, IMO.

[youtube]U88jj6PSD7w[/youtube]
^I love this video. There's a good point in there for all the SJWs who think that what they "want" is complete and total acceptance from and power over society, and this is what will make them happy. :dance:

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^Oh shit, Evopsych! :snooty:

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Jesus fucking Christ. Ophie already has FIVE posts up about Jaclyn Glenn's video. FIVE.

Five posts or five words?

From Pharyngula, even when they get something right, it somehow turns out wrong:

All other things aside, I don’t understand being an atheist “because I care about people.” I understand being an atheist, and I understand caring about people, but the idea of there being a causal link baffles me – at least caring -> atheism… I can kind of figure out an argument toward caring about people because of atheism, but as far as I can reason it through, it requires a degree of humanism already in place to support the conclusion...

Yes, you see that, but you lot were the ones saying, back when A+ was launched: "you're just dictionary atheists, you can't be a real atheist unless you also sign up for [insert social justice agenda] which inevitably follows from it" and "no, it's not the same as humanism, A+ washes whiter."

...Maybe she means she’s an atheist activist because she cares about people? I’ll assume that’s the case, because that makes sense. But… if she cares about people, why is she so dismissive of the idea that things you say can hurt people? How can you care about people, but dismiss the fact that your words can actually hurt people as “looking for reasons to be offended”?*

Doh! So near and yet so far. Because Athywren, "caring about people", in the atheist humanist sense, does not mean never ever saying anything that someone might be "offended" by. Especially people who are "offended" by things like the plain statement of demonstrable facts. As Stephen Fry so memorably put it:

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what?

*S/h/it also links to thisxkcd cartoon, which made me throw up in my mouth a little.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/sticks_and_stones.png

Six now, one of them being a non-sequitur guest post about when they used to be a "young white lesbian" dating a black girl (harking back to the time of the civil rights movement). Like, what the fuck does Jaclyn's video have to do with living as a "minority" or not? What the fuck does it have to do with being "wholly acceptable her whole life" bar none? (Ref: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... -brighter/) I just don't get it. Her video deals with the irrational side of feminism derailing the issue with irrelevant, trivial concerns, like the instance with the "furry creatures" (which is obviously a parallel to "not all women have vaginas" or along those lines). It's fatuous. She didn't even say feminists are divisive, for goodness sake! She said THESE feminists are divisive, pointing to THESE *PARTICULAR* ONES!

I mean, for fuck's sake, just a few blog posts the doddering cobweb herself ran across the EXACT kind of feminist Jaclyn was portraying but she's STILL thick enough to not connect the dots?

Oh, yes, and that XKCD comic is just sad. Sure, words can hurt, too, yes, but I'm pretty sure a victim of stoning would happily have taken a tongue lashing instead. "Sticks and stones can you hurt your bones, but words can never hurt you." I don't care if it doesn't register on an emotional level, it's still fucking true. "Horrific"? Please.

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It's happened.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterflies ... your-eyes/

Ophelia makes a blog post... complaining about... plagiarism.