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

Gefan wrote:

welch wrote:

justinvacula wrote:
Teresa MacBain will be leaving a position with American Atheists and joining the Humanists of Florida which EllenBeth Wachs is president of :o

Just remember: florida is CRAZY. Ellenbeth is a floridian. So am I for that matter. Floridians are all nutters, all of us. This isn't a state, it's 5-6 warring tribes who vaguely get along because we like fleecing tourists.

Dear, dear Ellen Beth "My Cats are my Gods" Wachs.

http://askanatheist.tv/wp-content/uploa ... hwachs.jpg

I love the body language in this picture. It's perfect.
The strange resemblance to Laura Schlesinger is good for a giggle too.

welch wrote: So, even if this story isn't true, Rorschach declares that "it's the sort of thing those people do, isn't it?

jjbinx007 wrote:I see on the Dillahunty thread on Pharyngula they were suggesting that the expression "drama whore" should be replaced by "drama llama", and then someone else piped up with:

I think we should encourage dropping the “drama” part too. As a dismissive insult, it carries with it a sexist connotation (cf. “drama queen”>. Also, it’s usually used to belittle the real concerns of (mostly, though I acknowledge, not in this particular case) girls and women.

...

I say, use “conflict” or “hostility”, or, as I suggested to lilandra “malice”.

[/spoiler]

So, the term "drama whore" has now morphed into Hostility Llama.

Makes perfect sense.


If you're a fucking baboon.

another lurker wrote:[spoiler]

jjbinx007 wrote:I see on the Dillahunty thread on Pharyngula they were suggesting that the expression "drama whore" should be replaced by "drama llama", and then someone else piped up with:

I think we should encourage dropping the “drama” part too. As a dismissive insult, it carries with it a sexist connotation (cf. “drama queen”>. Also, it’s usually used to belittle the real concerns of (mostly, though I acknowledge, not in this particular case) girls and women.

...

I say, use “conflict” or “hostility”, or, as I suggested to lilandra “malice”.

[/spoiler]

So, the term "drama whore" has now morphed into Hostility Llama.

Makes perfect sense.


If you're a fucking baboon.

When the woman in Ireland died from lack of an abortion, one of the Pharyngulites got her panties in a bunch because we were referring to the woman by her first name, "Savita", and that this was a prime example of mirco-aggression and that we should stop being so violent in how we refer to her.

fascination wrote:

welch wrote:

justinvacula wrote:http://i.imgur.com/IYYoi.jpg

Teresa MacBain will be leaving a position with American Atheists and joining the Humanists of Florida which EllenBeth Wachs is president of :o

Just remember: florida is CRAZY. Ellenbeth is a floridian. So am I for that matter. Floridians are all nutters, all of us. This isn't a state, it's 5-6 warring tribes who vaguely get along because we like fleecing tourists.

It's also the horrible humidity there. I grew up in Florida. I live on the west coast now though.

fascination wrote:Good find, franc! Sexual noises? Basketball hoops?

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote:

katamari Damassi wrote: Got through Ulysses, but didn't make it passed page two of Finnegan's Wake. Although I finished Don Quixote it is the only book that I have flung at the wall on more than one occasion. The only reason to read that piece of shit is that it's old.

I like Don Quixote. Maybe you got a bad translation? Or maybe I did? Although if you tried to read it straight through, that could explain it, I think. I like Gilligan's Island, too, but no fuckin' way I could just stack it all up and watch every episode straight through.

For me it was dune. I read all the books (at the time, 5. Chapterhouse Dune was the last one), then burned all five, and threw the ashes in a lake so they couldn't be reconstituted. Fuck me, herbert needed an editor and bad. probably a blowjob too.

fascination wrote:Good find, franc! Sexual noises? Basketball hoops?

Darren wrote:Someone doesn't like Justicar (integralmath) on that Dillahunty video... every comment of his (20 odd at the moment) has been flagged as spam.

Altair wrote:Adam Lee backpedals frantically after Ghost of BoxTurtle gives him a very specific answer he clearly wasn't expecting:

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1328/backpedal.png

Source: https://twitter.com/DayLightAtheism/sta ... 3760147456 (I put the capital L there to make sure it's not the parody account)

Rystefn wrote:

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote:

katamari Damassi wrote: Got through Ulysses, but didn't make it passed page two of Finnegan's Wake. Although I finished Don Quixote it is the only book that I have flung at the wall on more than one occasion. The only reason to read that piece of shit is that it's old.

I like Don Quixote. Maybe you got a bad translation? Or maybe I did? Although if you tried to read it straight through, that could explain it, I think. I like Gilligan's Island, too, but no fuckin' way I could just stack it all up and watch every episode straight through.

For me it was dune. I read all the books (at the time, 5. Chapterhouse Dune was the last one), then burned all five, and threw the ashes in a lake so they couldn't be reconstituted. Fuck me, herbert needed an editor and bad. probably a blowjob too.

Yeah, there's some interesting ideas there, but those books drag the fuck on, don't they? I managed to read the first one, and that was more than enough for me. Also, fuck any series of five books right in the ass. If you can't trim that shit down to at most a trilogy, then you need to just shut the fuck up.

If other opinions weren’t welcome, PZ wouldn’t allow comments on his blog.

Consider this. I allow comments that aren’t welcome, because I like to see idiots expose themselves, and I also enjoy the spectacle as they’re fed to the lions.

Don’t assume that just because you’re allowed to comment, that I therefore like your comments.

another lurker wrote:PZ says, on the Matt Dillahunty video commentary:

If other opinions weren’t welcome, PZ wouldn’t allow comments on his blog.

Consider this. I allow comments that aren’t welcome, because I like to see idiots expose themselves, and I also enjoy the spectacle as they’re fed to the lions.

Don’t assume that just because you’re allowed to comment, that I therefore like your comments.

hahahaa
hahahahaah

oh man, the irony!



source: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... /#comments
comment #80

Ok lets try this,
Do you have to watch a movie before you can comment on a review of it?

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote:

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote:

katamari Damassi wrote: Got through Ulysses, but didn't make it passed page two of Finnegan's Wake. Although I finished Don Quixote it is the only book that I have flung at the wall on more than one occasion. The only reason to read that piece of shit is that it's old.

I like Don Quixote. Maybe you got a bad translation? Or maybe I did? Although if you tried to read it straight through, that could explain it, I think. I like Gilligan's Island, too, but no fuckin' way I could just stack it all up and watch every episode straight through.

For me it was dune. I read all the books (at the time, 5. Chapterhouse Dune was the last one), then burned all five, and threw the ashes in a lake so they couldn't be reconstituted. Fuck me, herbert needed an editor and bad. probably a blowjob too.

Yeah, there's some interesting ideas there, but those books drag the fuck on, don't they? I managed to read the first one, and that was more than enough for me. Also, fuck any series of five books right in the ass. If you can't trim that shit down to at most a trilogy, then you need to just shut the fuck up.

Well I don't mind series per se, even long ones. But each book should stand well on its own, so if you start at say, book three instead of book one, you aren't wonder what the fuck is going on.

Rystefn wrote:

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote:

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote: I like Don Quixote. Maybe you got a bad translation? Or maybe I did? Although if you tried to read it straight through, that could explain it, I think. I like Gilligan's Island, too, but no fuckin' way I could just stack it all up and watch every episode straight through.

For me it was dune. I read all the books (at the time, 5. Chapterhouse Dune was the last one), then burned all five, and threw the ashes in a lake so they couldn't be reconstituted. Fuck me, herbert needed an editor and bad. probably a blowjob too.

Yeah, there's some interesting ideas there, but those books drag the fuck on, don't they? I managed to read the first one, and that was more than enough for me. Also, fuck any series of five books right in the ass. If you can't trim that shit down to at most a trilogy, then you need to just shut the fuck up.

Well I don't mind series per se, even long ones. But each book should stand well on its own, so if you start at say, book three instead of book one, you aren't wonder what the fuck is going on.

If that's ever been done, I've never heard of it.

another lurker wrote:[spoiler]

Gumby wrote:

Oneiros666 wrote:This poor Rick fellow, who unfortunately are having some massive self- confidence issues and as such have been shamed into growing a mangina, were trying to say that he agreed that this 'potential prostitutes' website is appalling. The result?

piegasm wrote:ETA: rickymoosten will be taking a few days off for having acquired a 3rd board warning with that unsolicited PM.

I love that no one can send unsolicited PM's there. Holy fuck, there are absolutely no freedoms there whatsoever. All behavior must conform exactly to this strange and massive set of rules, so that everyone ends up performing a weird dance around each other.

[/spoiler]

Eeks! The poor guy probably tried to defend himself some more, and apologise for any misunderstanding, and they fucking punish him for it! Assholes!

ReneeHendricks wrote: I find comment #83 by MichaelD even more hilarious:

Ok lets try this,
Do you have to watch a movie before you can comment on a review of it?

Um, yeah. If the comment on the review is regarding the actual movie.

AbsurdWalls wrote:

Eucliwood2 wrote:...

Eucliwood2?

Gumby wrote:

AbsurdWalls wrote:

Eucliwood2 wrote:...

Eucliwood2?

Fuck. That. And unregistered to boot, to get around the "ignore" filter. Fucking spastic attention-seeking cunt.

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote: If that's ever been done, I've never heard of it.

There's a few actually.

Harry Potter is a decent example.

others I have on my shelves:

Clive Cussler's "Dirk Pitt" books
"The Destroyer"
Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" series.

I'd reference R.A. Salvatore, but that fucker just writes the same three books over and over, so it really doesn't matter.

BarnOwl wrote:Ophelia sez:

As we were walking back to the car, looking down on the beach and Carmel Bay and Pebble Beach and over at the houses and trees, I remembered as I sometimes do that this is a prized and expensive tourist destination, and I get to come here as part of my job. Fun.

You know, by just about any standard of measurement, I have a pretty cushy job and a comfy life, but it still gets up my nose to read this crap. How can she even pretend to be some sorry old victim of oppression, ever? FFS.

Why did I look? Why? Why?

Gumby wrote:
Fuck. That. And unregistered to boot, to get around the "ignore" filter. Fucking spastic attention-seeking cunt.

Rystefn wrote:
Ok, maybe i should have been more specific - if it's ever been done with good books, I've never heard of it.

Lsuoma wrote:[spoiler]

Lsuoma wrote:

AbsurdWalls wrote:

Eucliwood2 wrote:...

Eucliwood2?

Yeah, I noticed this. Do not do it regularly, Eucliwoo. The most despised person here ever kept on posting anonymously as an attempt to get round people ignoring s/h/it. I repeat - do not do it. It is acceptable occasionally, but any attempt on your part to do this regularly is unacceptable.

[/spoiler]
So, when I posted that I hadn't see that you are still posting under the registered account, and it looks like it was a one-off. But the practice here is not appreciated, so please keep it as the exception rather than the rule.

Rystefn wrote:

welch wrote:

Rystefn wrote: If that's ever been done, I've never heard of it.

There's a few actually.

Harry Potter is a decent example.

others I have on my shelves:

Clive Cussler's "Dirk Pitt" books
"The Destroyer"
Diane Duane's "Young Wizards" series.

I'd reference R.A. Salvatore, but that fucker just writes the same three books over and over, so it really doesn't matter.

Ok, maybe i should have been more specific - if it's ever been done with good books, I've never heard of it.

Eucliwood wrote:So tired of some jumping on me for every little thing.

Rystefn wrote:
Ok, maybe i should have been more specific - if it's ever been done with good books, I've never heard of it.

Are you implying that Harry Potter is NOT a good book?

Mykeru wrote:New Video on the origins of A+/FTB/SCK:

[youtube]AVmq9dq6Nsg[/youtube]

It's not just the glasses. That is all.

ReneeHendricks wrote:

Darren wrote:Someone doesn't like Justicar (integralmath) on that Dillahunty video... every comment of his (20 odd at the moment) has been flagged as spam.

Yeah, I saw that as well (I'm hearing "freeze peach" in my mind).

... I just advocate a different approach against haters is all. Hatred and disagreement are different things, one deserves to be addressed, the other only deserves to be reported as spam, imo. ...

Skep tickle wrote:How 'bout starting a different thread for the book discussion...

Skep tickle wrote:How 'bout starting a different thread for the book discussion...

welch wrote:[spoiler]

Eucliwood wrote:So tired of some jumping on me for every little thing.

Rystefn wrote:
Ok, maybe i should have been more specific - if it's ever been done with good books, I've never heard of it.

Are you implying that Harry Potter is NOT a good book?

[/spoiler]
Five kind of sucked balls. The first half was naught but a recap, and the rest was "Harry is a great whining tit, and anyway, Hermione carries his ass on her back for the entire series."

Lsuoma wrote:

welch wrote:[spoiler]

Eucliwood wrote:So tired of some jumping on me for every little thing.

Rystefn wrote:
Ok, maybe i should have been more specific - if it's ever been done with good books, I've never heard of it.

Are you implying that Harry Potter is NOT a good book?

[/spoiler]
Five kind of sucked balls. The first half was naught but a recap, and the rest was "Harry is a great whining tit, and anyway, Hermione carries his ass on her back for the entire series."

Well, Emma Watson could carry my arse on her back any time. What a hottie!

welch wrote:AAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAH

http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamo ... ccuracy-2/

BAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Steffalump wrote:So, strictly speaking, accuracy may or may not be a virtue, but it can certainly help you make your criticisms constructive.

Gumby wrote:

Lsuoma wrote:[spoiler]

Lsuoma wrote:

AbsurdWalls wrote:

Eucliwood2 wrote:...

Eucliwood2?

Yeah, I noticed this. Do not do it regularly, Eucliwoo. The most despised person here ever kept on posting anonymously as an attempt to get round people ignoring s/h/it. I repeat - do not do it. It is acceptable occasionally, but any attempt on your part to do this regularly is unacceptable.

[/spoiler]
So, when I posted that I hadn't see that you are still posting under the registered account, and it looks like it was a one-off. But the practice here is not appreciated, so please keep it as the exception rather than the rule.

Thank you.

welch wrote:

Lsuoma wrote: Well, Emma Watson could carry my arse on her back any time. What a hottie!

LMAO. Good point.

Every time I read the series, every book, it's "hermione bails harry out yet again."

When I first encountered the whole elevatorgate fiasco, I kind of thought that, first of all, what Rebecca initially said (i.e. guys, don't do that) wasn't too unreasonable. However, I also chuckled at what Richard Dawkins wrote in reply, because I think he was making a really good point about the harmlessness of asking someone for coffee, no matter what the time of day, ESPECIALLY since when she refused the guy seemed to just let it go. Anyways, even if you could say that Dawkins was being perhaps a little tactless, I could also hear the sarcasm and dry wit he has in his words. I don't think he meant any harm.

However, the reaction that ensued and the culture war that has erupted inside the skeptic/atheist movement is absolutely apalling. True skepticism and reason has fallen by the wayside on one side of the battle, and now people who are really trying to achieve equality and be advocates for the rights of all humans are having their reputations tarnished. It's depressing, but I'm glad I found the slymepit as a result of listening to ReapSowRadio.

As for the feminism issue, the definition of it is really about achieving equality for women, which means equal. There are still plenty of problems with sexism towards women in the world, and I'd even venture to say that there is plenty more problems than there are with prejudice towards men.

I think one thing that we have to keep in mind is that as we get closer to equality, not only with rights be equally recognized, but each subgroup of the population will start to experience a more balanced amount of prejudice. For men, this would mean an increase, for women, a decrease, and so on. Perhaps as we get closer and closer to some sort of equilibrium (and I'm not sure we're there yet) we might do good to abandon the term feminist, and maybe even atheist (was Sam Harris right?), in order for all of us to adopt something like "humanist."

As it stands now, though, I am a feminist as it is traditionally defined. I want equality between the sexes. Equal rights. But I also want equality between all genders, races, cultures, you name it, and as we approach our goals for each of these groups, let's hope that we can all realize that we're all part of the biggest in-group: humanity itself.

Eucliwood wrote: This is why I told Lsuoma to fuck off. Knew this would happen. Thank you, Lsuoma. Remember to fuck off and ignore me if you haven't done so yet.

Lsuoma wrote:

Skep tickle wrote:How 'bout starting a different thread for the book discussion...

Knock yourself out. This is the only forum where regular users can't start threads.

mistermack » Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:38 pm
I'm surprised that she has just tweeted a couple of comments, rather than a fuller account of what she means.
But maybe she thinks short is better.

Mod edit: Hidden for pulling from Arguments to Avoid [ Show ]

The trouble is, there is an atmosphere at the moment where one post can start a hate campaign that never stops.
Nobody's allowed to fuck up any more. Every word is picked over, analysed, bent, misinterpreted, and held againt you for ever. Or fervently supported by others no matter what. When all it was was a bit of chatter that people originally gave very little importance to.
Like the elevator thing. Or Dawkins on various stuff. It's throwaway stuff that takes on a life of it's own.

In other news, Jesus has just tweeted that he's moved on from Christianity.
He apparently wrote " all I said was love thy neighbour, I didn't expect people to start killing each other over it!".

People who identify as feminists are not the only people in support of women's rights/gender equality. Womanists come immediately to mind as another group. Feminism kind of has a history of being pretty yuck with the intersectionality.

I don't support feminism because it's wildly racist and very very often cissexist and sex-negative, not to mention classist and colonialist

I'm hanging out with womanists instead.

you've never heard of womanists? I practiced my surprised face in the mirror for occasions like this

I did stir some shit wrt Nerd, but Nerd is a fucking idiot. Nerd actually holds the record for the most insane response i have ever received on the internet after rejecting, as evidence that i have vocally denounced online threats (to people like RW), a video of me vocally denouncing online threats, and further informing me that only peer reviewed journals count as evidence (that i had vocally denounced online threats)!!

another lurker wrote:

Gumby wrote:
Fuck. That. And unregistered to boot, to get around the "ignore" filter. Fucking spastic attention-seeking cunt.

Gumby, are you talking about my cat?

If so, I would prefer if you used the term spastic retard

[spoiler]http://www.abyssinianscanada.com/wp-con ... 8/nina.jpg[/spoiler]



P.S: I was inspired by your avatar, its super cute! And my kitty is an Abyssinain, she is super spastic retard:P

mikelf wrote:

Eucliwood wrote: This is why I told Lsuoma to fuck off. Knew this would happen. Thank you, Lsuoma. Remember to fuck off and ignore me if you haven't done so yet.

[spoiler]http://i.chzbgr.com/completestore/2009/ ... 117307.jpg

*plonk*[/spoiler]

Lsuoma wrote:

welch wrote:[spoiler]

Eucliwood wrote:So tired of some jumping on me for every little thing.

Rystefn wrote:
Ok, maybe i should have been more specific - if it's ever been done with good books, I've never heard of it.

Are you implying that Harry Potter is NOT a good book?

[/spoiler]
Five kind of sucked balls. The first half was naught but a recap, and the rest was "Harry is a great whining tit, and anyway, Hermione carries his ass on her back for the entire series."

Well, Emma Watson could carry my arse on her back any time. What a hottie!

AbsurdWalls wrote:

Lsuoma wrote: Well, Emma Watson could carry my arse on her back any time. What a hottie!

What do you want to do? Ride her like some sort of fucking sled?

franc wrote:

codelette wrote:Libertarianism is more like Satanism.

Can't tell if sarcastic, but you have no idea how spot on you are. At least in terms of pre-Reagan libertarianism and LaVey style Satanism.