Referring:
Badger3k wrote:
Thimbledick has a post up, I guess giving up on Atheists United now that someone (a relatively new hire, I guess) apparently got death threats after mentioning feminism. Have no idea what the story is, don't care, because I would trust them to tell the truth as much as I trust a creationists math on the age of the Earth.
But...he does link to his timeline and calls it "well-evidenced transgressions" (
here). He throws in some Deep Space Nine because...I have no clue. Geek creed? He does title his post "Skeptic Empire", even though it's about Atheists United, whoever they are. Not sure of the correlation there, since while there is overlap, there is no necessity for them to be the same. Plus, I wouldn't consider anything from the ragtag hodgepodge of skeptic and atheists group as an "Empire". Maybe this is his need to not only feel part of something bigger, but part of something that is overwhelmingly bigger and powerful. Of course, look at the way we atheists have driven all signs of religion underground, where people are afraid to mention the word "god" except in hushed whispers. Just how much Fox news do you watch Lousy?
He does ask one question that may be rhetorical:"What kind of rationalists are we?"
Quite simply, Jason, you're not.
I replied:
Read my last post. Page 181, I think. Back story on death threats...
Badger3k replied back:
You're referring to the post where someone made them on your page? If so, I did, but good to point back to it, though. Did you see the comment on you by the poster at Ophie's blog. Not sure where I posted it, but it is from
Atheist Revolution. They didn't say you were a harasser, but you know how it goes.
And speaking of atheism and religion, I just saw this posted and had to say WTF? It has nothing to do with the usual suspects, but about a judge who changed a kids name from
Messiah to Martin because it offended her. FFRF is looking into it.
My thoughts:
Yes, I read Jason's post, and the link to the one on
Almost Diamonds, as well as the comments - including the one from Sarah Jones, as well as the link to the story
Sarah wrote on her own blog in response that contains personal insults directed at me.
I don't usually do this because, frankly, I don't give a fuck. Seriously, I could care less. A few people got butt hurt over the blog post I wrote (which is to be expected) with most of them either willfully ignoring the entire point of what I wrote or didn't read it but got all butt hurt through the proxy of someone else who claimed to have read it.
Unfortunately, Sarah Jones became the target of a mentally ill individual who used bogus death threats to bolster his delusion that he is a genetically engineered soldier who has been classified as a walking sovereign state and is somewhat in charge at Interpol and is above the law.
Sarah chose to run with it as she did. Her choice. Now she and her supporters are apparently surprised or mystified or horrified that I deleted the death threats.
Really? Seriously? What the actual fuck?
I deleted the threats because it was the right thing to do. I blocked the mentally ill individual because it was the right thing to do. I re-posted for the gazillionth time on my Facebook wall about my long-standing policy concerning threats, because it was the right thing to do. I issued an apology to Sarah Jones for having to endure the attention of a mentally ill young man, because it was the right thing to do.
The issue that Sarah has with EllenBeth has absolutely zero to do with me. It grew out of an exchange they had on my Facebook wall that was taken to Twitter. Not my problem.
It does not surprise me at all that the SJWs and the FC(n) have written blog posts, Facebook or Twitter posts or otherwise commented or supported those whose comments accuse me of being a rape apologist, a misogynist, racist, homophobe, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah, or that I even may be one of those wheelchair sexual harassers/abusers/rapists myself, or that I am on some list somewhere that has me pegged as some sort of pariah.
People think I should be outraged, but seriously, I don't care what the fuck these people think about me. I could shut down everything, blogs, social networks, etc., and tomorrow wake up perfectly happy.
For one, I am fucking retired. Retired, meaning I don't blog for money, don't write for money and I don't go on speaking gigs. Additionally, I know I am none of these things they call me and the people in my life that matter to me also know it. Their rants, accusations and attacks against me, as well as their willful ignorance and persistent desire to take my sporadic and occasional writing completely out of context have no bearing on my personal happiness.
Besides, '
the movement' has gotten so fractured and splintered by the Feminazis and their sympathizers that I have absolutely no interest in being any part of it. I'm perfectly content as a retired grandfather, collecting my monthly disability check, enjoying the remaining time I have left on the planet spending time with my wife, kids and grandkids.
