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

Yea, #BanIslam: close the borders to them; deport the fucking lot. Lsuoma, can you wonderize Adolf Eichmann Steersmann, please? This kind of neo-nazi rhetoric, which seems on the increase, descends to bottom-feeding hooligan level. It's not witty. It's not intelligent. It's got no redeeming qualiti...

Yea, #BanIslam: close the borders to them; deport the fucking lot. Lsuoma, can you wonderize Adolf Eichmann Steersmann, please? This kind of neo-nazi rhetoric, which seems on the increase, descends to bottom-feeding hooligan level. It's not witty. It's not intelligent. It's got no redeeming qualiti...

And which, to boot, seems to qualify as justification for deporting any and all Muslims currently in the US - possibly including Obama himself . SYSTEM FAILURE BATSHIT INSANE CONSPIRACY THEORY DETECTED WARRANTY OF THE PRODUCT "STEERSMAN" HAS EXPIRED PLEASE REPORT TO THE NEAREST REPAIR SHOP Oh this ...

Dr. Carrier PhD: an incompetent and dishonest hack Carrier put up a new post a few days ago. On Hitler. The most important point from this is that Dick's ego appears to have bulged outward like a fetid boil waiting to burst. Peer-reviewed counts for this article: 4. A few salient quotes: New develo...

Carrier put up a new post a few days ago. On Hitler. The most important point from this is that Dick's ego appears to have bulged outward like a fetid boil waiting to burst. Peer-reviewed counts for this article: 4. A few salient quotes: New developments have been inspired by my exposing certain Hi...

<snip> I've always thought that Dawkins "Dear Muslima" was the perfect rebuttal to Watson&co, who reacted in a childish way to what was an excellent point which demolished their special victimhood narrative. If you're interested in women's rights you should be concerned with legally and socially ap...

Jan: Love this comment by none other than Bjarte :bjarte: His best attempt at humor yet! :lol: Bjarte Foshaug February 18, 2016 at 9:50 am A fictitious conversation somewhere the Middle East as imagined by Richard Dawkins (Disclaimer: Should not be read as making any kind of statement about real Mu...

Also, we have Boletus edulis here (BC Canada), although they appear erratically. One year there was an irruption where you could pick a hundred pounds or more in a day but they were almost all wormy and inedible. They are definitely one of the tastiest of mushrooms up with morels, pine mushrooms, a...

Jan: Love this comment by none other than Bjarte :bjarte: His best attempt at humor yet! :lol: Bjarte Foshaug February 18, 2016 at 9:50 am A fictitious conversation somewhere the Middle East as imagined by Richard Dawkins (Disclaimer: Should not be read as making any kind of statement about real Mu...

Should have added Dr. Richard Carrier PhD to the list. Nope. Your list was for "well-known" atheists. Other than in a very small corner of the internet, plus two or three academics, nobody has heard of the guy. But...but...he has fans spanning the globe from Poland to Hong Kong. The guy is world re...

<snip> Third , if Intersectionality was applied in an analogical fashion to atheism, it would be in spirit of Dawkins' “Dear Muslima” response to Myers and Watson, because Dawkins makes women of colour visible that — out of well-intentioned antibigot urges — otherwise fall between the cracks. Watso...

<quote="Matt Cavanaugh"] http://i.imgur.com/AbladJF.jpg The Irrelevant Atheist.[/quote> It can hardly be counted a classic, but the title is one of it's worst features. I can't believe he called it "the happy atheist" - first of all why would he let the publisher name it after him, and second why w...

Should have added Dr. Richard Carrier PhD to the list.

http://i.imgur.com/AbladJF.jpg The Irrelevant Atheist. It can hardly be counted a classic, but the title is one of it's worst features. I can't believe he called it "the happy atheist" - first of all why would he let the publisher name it after him, and second why would he use a purile adjective li...

This. No need for chemical weapons or nukes. The AK-47 is the real weapon of mass destruction. Easy to find, easy to use, easy to smuggle. And relatively cheap. Maybe so. But then the number of victims will always be relatively small. More important, the psychological effect of a chemical or nuclea...

If you measure the effect of a terrorist act only by the number of direct victims, then you can claim that it is a small (but I wouldn't say tiny) problem. But the indirect effect of islamist terror is that most major news outlets are now very reluctant indeed to be openly critical about Islam. They...

9/11, London 7/7/2005, Madrid 2004, Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan, Nice, etc., etc.

No, this is not a tiny problem. And it could become much worse if the islamist terrorists get their hands on poison gas or nuclear weapons. Religious maniacs like that are capable of anything.

Shared without comment https://twitter.com/AlexGabriel/status/769669995559354368 :bjarte: When Shrimpy Alex McGabriel writes his first book, I bet the first sentence will be "It was a dark and stormy night." Alex McGabriel's style is reminiscent of the water drained from a kitchen sink after you ha...

(...) Saad is one of the people who called "Kolnnauzer" (the compilation of old Myers posts) an Islamophobe. I posted a quote of one of his old comments along with Myers. People also called Saad's old post Islamophobic. (...) If you really want to raise your blood pressure, you should read the piec...

The Nerd of Redhead subroutine is still stuck in an infinite loop. EVIDENCE. Opinion. I am a scientist. Words in all caps. Random typos. http://i.imgur.com/CTqw8x7.jpg 26 August 2016 at 8:59 pm Sam Harris is not EVIDENCE. He is paranoid opinion. You mentioned him twice, taking away each time from w...

Peezus had one of his two-minutes-of-hate pieces on Sam Harris again. The comments are classic Pharyngula (strawmanning, abuse, self-righteousness, racism, Nerd of Redhead, etc.). https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/08/25/very-blue/ It's becoming increasin...

I forgot to add:

Fucked-up grammar.

The Nerd of Redhead subroutine is still stuck in an infinite loop. EVIDENCE. Opinion. I am a scientist. Words in all caps. Random typos. http://i.imgur.com/CTqw8x7.jpg 26 August 2016 at 8:59 pm Sam Harris is not EVIDENCE. He is paranoid opinion. You mentioned him twice, taking away each time from wh...

Really?: this 'leaked text' is probably better than what Peezus actually submitted. :lol:

He can produce some good stuff. I think his description of why irreducible complexity is bunk was brilliant (if he didn't rip it off from someone else). Do you have a link for that? Several biologists have debunked irreducible complexity, and I seriously doubt if Myers came up with anything origina...

He can produce some good stuff. I think his description of why irreducible complexity is bunk was brilliant (if he didn't rip it off from someone else). Do you have a link for that? Several biologists have debunked irreducible complexity, and I seriously doubt if Myers came up with anything origina...

So Myers, what happened to the second book? http://i.imgur.com/zRFCfu2.jpg Yes — reach out and pharyngulate Amazon. Make my publisher happy, make my agent happy, make me rich, or at least moderately well off. Hahaha. The fraud is here urging his sycophants to pre-order his book, which they don't kn...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Mind you, Jan's piranhas deserve their very own edition.

You're too kind. But I really wonder how much of it will even be comprehensible a few years from now?

feathers wrote:
To freshen your memory:
http://archive.is/Qi1RM
He even took a sabbatical to work in it.

In that photo, Dawkins and Peezus look like a professor with his not very bright amanuensis.

http://imgur.com/Pc1cVQc.jpg But he never aspired to be one of the horsemen. Absolutely not. And imagine Carrier as one of the horsemen. That would have been a monumental PR catastrophe for atheism. :lol: "Stop being bitter that you didn’t have the merit to become one of the Four Horseman" Ah. Sure...

Ape+lust wrote:
http://imgur.com/Pc1cVQc.jpg

But he never aspired to be one of the horsemen. Absolutely not.

And imagine Carrier as one of the horsemen. That would have been a monumental PR catastrophe for atheism. :lol:

So not only did PZ lazily slap together his book out of recycled blog posts, but he didn't even come up with the name? Don't authors generally get to name their books? I understand reporters generally don't write their own headlines, but book titles? Does Stephen King get to name his books? Or is P...

I still think Myers is a fraud for urging his fans to pre-order his book, without disclosing that the plan for an original work had already been discarded.

I love how PZ and his publisher had the blog post book in 2011, when atheism was everywhere! Hitchens and the other Four Horsemen were selling shitloads of books! Pharyngula was on the rise and with no end in sight! Then Rebecca decided not to take the stairs in an Irish hotel and he had to make a ...

This is the information that BrianPansky has memory-holed (for now): On June 20, 2016, the organizers of Skepticon announced on their web site that they are officially prohibiting Richard Carrier from attending any future Skepticon meetings due to allegations that he had engaged in "sexual harassme...

Hey, look who sanitized Richard Carrier's Wiki page to remove the allegations of sexual harassment? Brian Pansky. On the talk page, he justifies it thus: Wikipedia says: This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material...

This reconstruction of Oetzie the Iceman reminds me of a certain associate professor from Morris, Minnesota. http://www.iceman.it/sites/default/files/imagecache/scaledimagesxgallery/galleries/2_Rekonstruktion%20(6)_0.jpg One of them looks like a caveman, the other is a sensational archeological disc...

"Check your privilege"

"I just did. It's fine, thank you."

Social media giants had the last word on Anjem Choudary’s online posts, even after he was arrested for inviting support for Islamic State. British authorities made repeated efforts to get his Twitter posts and YouTube videos taken down after an oath of allegiance to the Caliphate surfaced online wi...

Right my intellectual superiors. I've left myself little time for a course paper - miserable 1000 words that need to be dense and tightly woven. Topic is to how great an extent the AIF's experience of WW1 was consistent with that of other British Empire Army components. 1000 words. How's this for a...

Rebecca rolls out another take on Dear Muslima from 2011. Again. And the beardos love hearing it. Again. [youtube]4NS-48KLvdU[/youtube] Rebecca is now a Rebecca Watson tribute band. Coming to a monster truck rally near you. Wear a Surlyramic and get free fries with your corn dog. I believe I have a...

I don't know if this has already been discussed, but Skepticon appears to have decided Carrier isn't so icky after all. The announcement of his ban has been removed: https://skepticon.org/keeping-skepticon-safe-richard-carrier-to-be-banned/ If this is to avoid being taken to court I wonder if there...

Lsuoma wrote:
Jan Steen wrote:Am I the only one who has this nagging suspicion that VickyCaramel is not actually a busty woman, but an overweight, tattood skinhead who lives in his mother's basement?
I'm not sure these two are actually exclusive.

An overweight, tattood woman living in her father's basement?

Am I the only one who has this nagging suspicion that VickyCaramel is not actually a busty woman, but an overweight, tattood skinhead who lives in his mother's basement?

Orbit Update. Back in March /April the Orbit raised $10,125 on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1033564734/help-launch-the-orbit/comments @$8,000 they promised an online con in August or early September @$5,000 they promised >$25 backers a "best of" ebook. All >25 backers could cho...

I don't know if this has already been discussed, but Skepticon appears to have decided Carrier isn't so icky after all. The announcement of his ban has been removed: https://skepticon.org/keeping-skepticon-safe-richard-carrier-to-be-banned/ If this is to avoid being taken to court I wonder if there...

Dr Richard Carrier PhD has a post up (did I get ninjaed on this already?) promising free tickets to the Bart Ehrman vs Robert Price debate in Wisconsin. But you have to do something for him first: Do you have a local group of friends, atheists, humanists, skeptics, rationalists, or philosophy or hi...

It appears that Richard Carrier has scored a talk in Erie/Edenboro Pennsylvania on the Weekend of Oct. 6th-9th. Mothers, lock up your daughters. Sticky Dicky is in town. Come to think of it, better lock up yourselves too. He may try to lecture you on the historicity of Jesus for hours on end, as a ...

It appears that Richard Carrier has scored a talk in Erie/Edenboro Pennsylvania on the Weekend of Oct. 6th-9th. Mothers, lock up your daughters. Sticky Dicky is in town. Come to think of it, better lock up yourselves too. He may try to lecture you on the historicity of Jesus for hours on end, as a ...

In spite of his obsession with peer review (I would call it a fetish, were it not for the fact that he's already got a fetish), Dr. Richard Carrier PhD has actually published very few peer-reviewed papers in decent journals in his field. One of those is an article in which he tries to explain away a...

In spite of his obsession with peer review (I would call it a fetish, were it not for the fact that he's already got a fetish), Dr. Richard Carrier PhD has actually published very few peer-reviewed papers in decent journals in his field. One of those is an article in which he tries to explain away a...

Jimbo seems unaware that, far from demonizing Muslims, identity atheists protect even the worst of them by calling all criticism of Islam 'Islamophobia'. Clearly, you can't expect a Baha'i to be an honest interlocutor. Never trust a member of a cult.

We also like to demonize Baha'is, mainly because they are boring trolls.

I'd earlier mentioned that Neil Godfrey had stabbed his erstwhile Bayesian Butt Buddy, Dicky Carrier, nine times in the back. It was only six: http://vridar.org/2016/08/02/questioning-carrier-and-the-conventional-wisdom-on-messianic-expectations/ Looks like Neil is on the spectrum too (I mean, besi...

It really does take a god as unknowable and unfathomable as allah to choose someone who couldn't write as the seal of his prophets. And then dictate such mind-boggling nonsense as this: "Those who put away their wives (by saying they are as their mothers) and afterward would go back on that which t...

[.quote="Jan Steen"] More like, as a Mormon is to a Christian. Jimbo believes the kind of nonsense where we still know who made it up.[./quote] Ahhh, but in my experience many Morons Mormons do believe they are Christians. Besides, we do know who made the muslim shit up. Yeah, two kinds of idiocy a...

Going strictly by the declaration of faith, that there's only one God and that Muhammad was one of His prophets, would make me a Muslim, but that would be an empty and meaningless academic exercise. In actual practice, "Muslim" always means more than that. For example, I don't think anyone would co...

Sidney Winston, a Carrier fanboy, supports Richard Carrier. Dr. Richard Carrier is being defamed, deliberately and viciously, by a woman who, in my opinion, has behaved in a way very much like that of a prudish, tempestuous child. http://archive.is/GBsPw His site says "Comment, please. No offence t...

[.quote="Dave"] So you are saying the Baha'i are to a Muslim much the same as a Muslim is to a Jew or a Christian?[./quote] More like, as a Mormon is to a Christian. Jimbo believes the kind of nonsense where we still know who made it up. Ahhh, but in my experience many Morons Mormons do believe the...

So you are saying the Baha'i are to a Muslim much the same as a Muslim is to a Jew or a Christian? More like, as a Mormon is to a Christian. Jimbo believes the kind of nonsense where we still know who made it up. Ahhh, but in my experience many Morons Mormons do believe they are Christians. Besides...

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