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

Ape+lust wrote:http://i.imgur.com/NWKDp7P.jpg

Ah. Now that's what I'm talking about. I love you all (I've been drinking) <3

so... not that the rest of you aren't entertaining and all, but can we get some more Bjarte comics up in here? I just crawled through three pages in the hopes I'd find one. Didn't you read Parshole's funny-as-fuck Bjarte story? Or do you like pictures to go with the words? I like the comics. Visual...

so... not that the rest of you aren't entertaining and all, but can we get some more Bjarte comics up in here? I just crawled through three pages in the hopes I'd find one.

I designed and built a trebuchet with the help of a friend. It was about 10 feet tall (and the trick is in adjusting the sling on the end...length... release hook... etc.) We used it at the grade school during their middle ages history unit. Nothing gets boys more interested in history than a bad-a...

Mr/Ms Lagg has, I think, definitely come here with an as-yet-undisclosed mission. I thought the mission became disclosed once I revealed my true face? I'm Carrier's sockpuppet. I'm here to trick you all into purchasing his books through his amazon page, resulting in several percentage points above ...

Unfortunately, it appears a veritable drama engine has been constructed. More like a lols engine. But its main purpose is documenting the lies, dishonesty, evasion, hypocrisy, and rewriting of history that the FC(n), Skeptwats, A+Theist, Carrier Bag, La-Den, &c. ad nauseum, get up to. And that's GO...

LOL. Mate, did you arrive with the last raincloud? You Europeans and your weird expressions ;) Anyway, I've been ignoring it basically. It was surprisingly easy to do. I heard about A+ and liked the idea. I heard about slymepit and figured the accusations (trolls and sociopaths, they'll die off fro...

So, I've been in semi-regular communication with Ophelia Benson since I arrived here. What's the general sentiment about her? Does anyone think it would be possible to come to terms? Are we too far gone for that?

These sort of articles should at least try to teach people something they didn't already know. The only new thing I learned from this one was the meaning of the word trebuchet - a medieval war catapult - and even then I had to google it myself, there was no explanation or link to an explanation and...

Carrier begins his defense by claiming that all the criticism that he has ever heard, EVER, about his theory, can be addressed by 'read the book' or 'read the book more carefully'. He ends stating how he's not impressed with any of this criticism, after a typical long-winded tour de farce describin...

How can you tell he 'refuted' the criticism when you don't understand the maths? Because I do understand the math. As Carrier has pointed out. It doesn't take anything beyond a six grade understanding. The rest is learning about application and the underlying logic. The following citation from Carr...

gives us some background as to the tone of the event (that of drunken frivolity as far as I can tell) Yes. That people in skeptic conference party way past their age like a bunch of college wankers. Lots of lolz for us though. Just imagine all that untapped potential for shooping. I wonder if it's ...

welch wrote:I eagerly await your next salvo in "Points: How the fuck do they work?"

Carrier begins his defense by claiming that all the criticism that he has ever heard, EVER, about his theory, can be addressed by 'read the book' or 'read the book more carefully'. He ends stating how he's not impressed with any of this criticism, after a typical long-winded tour de farce describin...

The anti Harris diatribe, even here, is astounding. The guys argument does not boil down to "search the brown boys". That is exactly the stupid simplification I criticised RW of. He specifically says that "ethnicity, gender, age, nationality, dress, travelling companions, behaviour in terminal and ...

I like the book, and I think good scholarship should be supported. If you really dislike Carrier so much you'd prefer not to give him any money at all, then download the thing off piratebay. Jesus... As a (somewhat) math type I find Proving History confused and pompously written. That's probably be...

Tony Parsehole wrote:Nice avatar Jett Lagg :P

Thank you. It's my fervent hope that I can one day look at yours without becoming nauseous ;)

And speaking of probability. I highly recommend Proving History. Really the best introduction to Bayes' Theorem for non-math types. http://astore.amazon.com/supportcarrier-20/detail/1616145595/190-6137665-0547719 WARNING That "supportcarrier-20" in the URL is an Amazon Associates tag, and means tha...

Yeah, my example is silly and exagerated, but really, do you believe that the guys that they would put to work on airport security would be the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me of American public services? I highly doubt it. Agreed. It's been a long time since I read the Harris article, but he struck me as pain...

And speaking of probability. I highly recommend Proving History. Really the best introduction to Bayes' Theorem for non-math types. http://astore.amazon.com/supportcarrier ... 65-0547719

Yeah, my example is silly and exagerated, but really, do you believe that the guys that they would put to work on airport security would be the crÃ¨me de la crÃ¨me of American public services? I highly doubt it. Agreed. It's been a long time since I read the Harris article, but he struck me as pain...

Had to use this as my avatar. I have no idea what these comics are mocking and they still make me laugh out loud.

I can speak as someone who was in a similar situation to Non Stamp Collector. I found the drama too boring to get involved with (I liked... nay I like the idea of A+, but I'm solely interested in potential real life applications, i.e. "Brooklyn Atheists Against Stop and Search!"), so my experience w...

Aneris wrote:1) risotto cooking for FTBconscience

I don't know what that means... :?:

Also, who is your avatar a picture of?

Atheism+ banning all its members probably also a factor. I just visited and only two registered members were there - ischemgeek and hyperdeath - both of whom were probably watching for somebody else to ban Haha, ischemgeek is the one that banned me. And I'll agree with those who expressed sentiment...

Not sure if I'm late to the table with this, but has anyone checked the traffic for the slymepit against the A+ forums? That's ironic, right? That's the goddamn definition of ironic. http://i44.tinypic.com/28us4e9.jpg Anyone have a hypothesis about the inverse relationship that started trending in J...

really? wrote:I found the Slymepit because you were complaining about a forum in which people were abusive and harming the skeptic/secular movement.

Same here. Now, may I join the others in telling you to fuck off :D

I know that. It's possible that it's true - but not because he's saying it. I would go and test myself instead, because I wouldn't trust oloon on anything. That's sort of what I was suggesting. I'm not familiar with Twitter, but someone could form a dummy account. A bunch of us could then report th...

Oolon has long stated... There's your problem, right there. Oolon's stating something = jack & shit. But just because a stupid person/liar says something is true doesn't mean it's not true. How does twitter go about banning accounts? Is that information even available to the public, or is it a blac...

No surprises to see who is busy behind the scenes. http://i.imgur.com/JTRwF9f.jpg Am I missing something here? Surely Sara Mayhew is already on the blockbot list of evil. I don't understand the need to report her tweets to the blockbot over and over again. Should just one addition of her twitter ac...

No surprises to see who is busy behind the scenes. http://i.imgur.com/JTRwF9f.jpg Am I missing something here? Surely Sara Mayhew is already on the blockbot list of evil. I don't understand the need to report her tweets to the blockbot over and over again. Should just one addition of her twitter ac...

Bah, nevermind. Posted that before I saw all the replies. Thanks for the clarification.

Just read Ogvorbis comments. Why are we not going to the police? Am I missing some background information here? Someone appeared here at the time with dug up info about him based on what he'd posted before (such as career field), problem is posting it here is doxxing so no thanks. Feel free to cont...

Just read Ogvorbis comments. Why are we not going to the police? Am I missing some background information here?

I am becoming less and less impressed with Bensonâ€™s level of intellectual honesty, such as it is. Whoa, steers! http://edge.papercutpm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/hulk-smash.png :-) Seems that one didnâ€™t meet her standards â€“ or she canâ€™t find a way to make hay out of it. But I have to gi...

zenbabe wrote:Jesus Chist on a Stick.
I never knew about edge.org and the people on it until right now.
Sweet.

Holy fuck on a flagpole. Neither did I. And there was a Dennett article waiting for me as soon as I arrived there. :)

Southern wrote:
Oh, any time you want, you sexy Fascist Tit. If those boobs are real, you have my enthusiastic consent.

I swear that's been on my mind since I got here. Your combination of fascism and sexiness has been unnerving me from moment one.

Holy fuck. This is a very long thread. I hope nobody will be offended that I just jump in without reading it and ask for a summary.

By the way, here's some background on that virginity testing photo: IMO, by concentrating only on what's happening in the photo, A+ers and Ophelia both missed the point about the real drawbacks of the practice. http://www.polity.org.za/article/virgin ... 2012-07-19 Holy shit... holy shit... it's go...

Our Knowledge of the Past: A Philosophy of Histiography, by Aviezer Tucker. It examines the philosophy of history (obviously) and argues that science has essentially the same epistemology (just with data volumes that are many, many orders of magnitude greater, therefore making it's findings more con...

Not an apostate, but I went to the Atheism Plus forums for the first time last week and was almost immediately banned for insisting something that was not rape by definition was... well... not rape by definition (I've since learned that's a sin on the A+ forums and A+ reddit, having read dozens of s...

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