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

Skep Tickle, I agree with all that. That's why I call it counterfeit social justice. My only question was why anyone would want to spend so much time just complaining about it, day after day. Now that I think of it though, I'm not sure anyone is actually doing that, and I'm not sure any more what m...

I have a question, and I hope I can get an answer from some other people here besides old white men. Incidentally, I'll be 70 in July. A while ago I was wondering why campaigning against counterfeit feminism and counterfeit social justice is such a priority for some people. I do see a lot of harm b...

I have a question, and I hope I can get an answer from some other people here besides old white men. Incidentally, I'll be 70 in July. A while ago I was wondering why campaigning against counterfeit feminism and counterfeit social justice is such a priority for some people. I do see a lot of harm b...

Just spit it out, Jim. We each make our own choices. You say what you have to say, & each person who happens across it here has the option to read it or not, reply or not, decide they should give up the internet for Lent* or not, sing Kumbaya or not, block you or not, and so on. *oops, missed that o...

Suicide bombing at a park in Lahore Pakistan >14 hours ago, blast was near a children's playground and many of the dead & injured are women & children. Headline from this page: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/deadly-blast-hits-pakistan-lahore-160327143110195.html Scores killed in Lahore suicid...

Someone injected phenol blue into this cat's eyes, and then sprinkled sodium hydroxide into them. I'm going to Snope that -- oops, on second thought ... Flashes of humor, references to what's going on elsewhere in 'Pit and/or skepticism - good signs. Quick tip, in case it helps: Apply a grain of sa...

Pink hair?
Blue hair?
Green hair?

Those are so passé - so 2015 - now it takes opal hair to stand out from the crowd.

https://twitter.com/guy_tang/status/712125100863004672

Irony/lack of self awareness alert: BuzzFeedYellow puts up a shitty video about women being ignored and talked over in the workplace: [.youtube]8eSj1jnmD3Q[/youtube] HoneyBadgerRadio puts up a response video in which three women (Karen Straughan, Alison Tieman and Ceara McCord) criticise the BuzzFe...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/bianymeans/2016/03/26/toxic-feminists-are-rare-but-they-do-exist/ http://archive.is/Xh8iQ Trav claims in a blog post at "Bi any means" at FTB that "Toxic Feminists Are Rare, But They Do Exist": All I’m saying is that all ideologies–even ones based on reality–can fall prey...

free thoughtpolice wrote:...
http://freethoughtblogs.com/frontier/20 ... 1/#more-33

Archive link: http://archive.is/z9URC

This part of space looks pretty safe.

Well, at least the picture is nice, and it's probably very quiet there.

http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2014/02/ ... ace-H.jpeg

Repost link for high interest, and many good ideas.... Michael Shermer: http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/campus-unrest-viewpoint-diversity-and-freedom-of-speech/ :whistle: My link earlier wasn't good enough?!?! Whatever mansplainer! Other than the ad in the middle for his latest book, I enjoyed ...

Ruh roh American College of Pediatricians: Gender Ideology Harms Children I assume that that wasn't an endorsing-type link, as (even given my views of gender identity) I consider the American College of Pediatricians to be a bunch of Right-wing, Christian whack-jobs and hope that you do, too. Not e...

Ruh roh American College of Pediatricians: Gender Ideology Harms Children The Blaze: Transgenderism of Children is Child Abuse, American College of Pediatrics Rules Indeed. Apropos of which, seems that the transgender activists (aka, thugs) over at Lambda Literary are not too thrilled with Alice Dr...

Ruh roh

American College of Pediatricians: Gender Ideology Harms Children

The Blaze: Transgenderism of Children is Child Abuse, American College of Pediatrics Rules

(trying this w/o preview, here goes)

See esp. 2:07 to end:

[youtube]EG6FkKOTLS0[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/EG6FkKOTLS0

Whenever I pop over to Atheism Plus Forum, Bing [BOT] and Google [BOT] are there, plus 8-14 guests. Two questions: Why are Bing [BOT] and Google [BOT] always there? Haven't they already gleaned everything there is to glean, seeing as how there have only been a handful of posts there in the past coup...

jimhabegger wrote:I just stumbled across this. I really enjoyed it, and I thought some other people might enjoy it too.
Dangerous Talk: Is God a Metaphor Too?

I enjoyed that - thanks for posting it. Learned a new term: moralistic therapeutic deism

Was a little surprised to see you linking to SIN though :)

jimhabegger wrote:The reason I decided to leave was because I thought I was violating a safe space, but I don't think that any more.

Ok, now that made me laugh.

Re: cbsnews.com/news/colleges-slammed-with-lawsuits-from-men-accused-of-sex-crimes/ You can imagine them wistfully wishing they could run a single-sex college, or one that strictly enforces rules against alcohol & (premarital) sex. Looking at the situation, the expenses for college, the 75 counter ...

Re: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/colleges-slammed-with-lawsuits-from-men-accused-of-sex-crimes/ If I was in charge of a US university I would just have all sexual assault reports turned over to the police. That's it. Done. Finished. It would be very hard for the feds to go to a court and say we are n...

Well this is surprising. I just saw a story on KiA about how the National Union of Students passed a motion encouraging LGBT groups to get rid of men's representatives because "gay men no longer face oppression". I guess Tatchell must have really pissed them off. Good. This is from a Pink News stor...

Palate cleanser: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... are-dicks/

Here's an idea, a current & unique & (according to this twitter user) effective approach to community-building:

If you are here to try an promote your religious building ... ... I would recommend starting a thread here: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=34 If I'm welcome to start a new thread there, on my own initiative, I would need to hear that from an administrator. ... Besides, I'm not sure my di...

Bottom line is they don't really have anything of interest to add to most subjects. In fact they probably don't even have an opinion on most topics, let alone an area of specialty. And they are lazy. From my perspective, a perfect storm of boredom. Ashley could probably write a lot about Honey Boo ...

deLurch wrote:
HoneyWagon wrote:RW just posted about her Quizotron...today at 3pm.
I am sure it will be a blast.
Quizotron appears to be the height of her profession at this point.

By the way. On a completely unrelated, more somber note, about my dad, to counter the growth of cancer cells, a few months ago he received a shot of estrogen (apparently this kind feeds on testosterone). It wasn't so bad at first (apart from him feeling nauseous from time to time), but now he's exp...

#Orbitters is on the list twice...

Muscat(o) didnt have a beard before transitioning. ... I don't think this is accurate. Having trouble finding photos with date stamps, but pretty sure the beard was a constant until transition. ("Shadow" but not a beard at Skepticon last fall, for example.) ___ From the past 7-8 days, on shaving, g...

By the way. On a completely unrelated, more somber note, about my dad, to counter the growth of cancer cells, a few months ago he received a shot of estrogen (apparently this kind feeds on testosterone). It wasn't so bad at first (apart from him feeling nauseous from time to time), but now he's exp...

Greta's latest book is just about ready for publication: “The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life” Is Done! Congratulations to her, and I really mean that. Note, though, the absence of any Content Note on her blog post above - there's no "CN: successful completion of a book, ment...

Read some more, some of the Hotep stuff is pretty unusual (including in the pro- link I posted above), and at least some of those who self-identify as Hotep seem to be pro-nuclear-family & fairly conservative. Didn't see MRA/MGTOW leanings (but didn't dig all that much). But as with "MRA","Hotep" s...

Oh, hey, FT has changed the banner.

...I have walked in those shoes, and continue to, having also been handed the same auto-immune diseases plus another for good measure, Psoriasis + psoriatic arthritis + Crohns. ... I still walk at least 3 km every day, it helps with the fatigue side of the diseases. I don't work, although not becau...

Read some more, some of the Hotep stuff is pretty unusual (including in the pro- link I posted above), and at least some of those who self-identify as Hotep seem to be pro-nuclear-family & fairly conservative. Didn't see MRA/MGTOW leanings (but didn't dig all that much). But as with "MRA","Hotep" se...

Learned something else from the orbit, about another schism area. This time from Niki, though really it started with wondering what she was talking about & thus poking around some more to see what others had to say. Niki's post: No, Hoteps, I do not "Overstand" your nonsense Recent articles elsewher...

I enjoyed this review of Zootopia at "Scrappy Deviation - Benny Vimes' Blog" at the orbit . I mean that. I haven't seen the movie, but my reaction to what I've seen about it is (even after reading Benny Vimes' review) more like reelgirl's commentary based on ads for the movie . Note, though, that re...

The Orbit has already gone full Atheism Plus forum. (archive link). Language shapes our perception and when we make disability an insult, when we make ability an insult, we are implying that there is something wrong with being that way. It adds to a system that treats people with disabilities as be...

Sources inform me that Mark Schierbecker will be the first ever Witch of the Week sponsored by The Orbit. Yea, I read that entry. The author doesn't seem to deal with criticism too well. That blog holds much promise for lulz. For those wondering, it's here: http://the-orbit.net/seriously/2016/03/15...

Brive wrote: Hey Com, Don't ya think it's almost certain the vast majority of these payments are null transaction seed funds. I mean really, who would seriously actually give the orbit-tears money? Just doesn't make sense. They got to that number fairly quickly. Doesn't necessarily mean the totally...

Sincere Kirabo's inaugural post at the orbit: http://the-orbit.net/ether/2016/03/14/baptism-into-the-ether/ Last month, I was honored by the opportunity of being made the American Humanist Association’s Social Justice Coordinator. In the press release, I went out of my way to note the following: “Hu...

Heina's "statement of squee": http://the-orbit.net/heinous/2016/03/14/welcome/ I have enjoyed being part of existing communities and platforms in the past, but being part of the foundations of a new one is a unique opportunity I could have never imagined having. Our collective, collaborative approac...

Here's the orbit's press release:
http://the-orbit.net/greta/2016/03/14/t ... -launches/

First, re FTB adding 20 new bloggers. Easy explanation: WeArePlethora is going to have a blog. ___ Second, re http://the-orbit.net/about-us/ They look like they're forming a community in, & from which, they hope to do some good. That's fine. Also, they don't seem to be claiming "freethought" or skep...

Brive1987 wrote:and their Kickstarter link is broken. It's almost like they were stampeded into a soft premature launch.

Yep. It's Hemant's fault: http://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2016/0 ... een-up-to/

Brive1987 wrote:Friendly Atheist is all over it.

That was fast.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyat ... the-orbit/

Hahahahaha. That was fast. With GC's post captured, too.

I didn't recognize all of the names but it looks like 11 of the FTB bloggers are decamping for the-orbit.net (joined by 11 others from various & sundry places around the 'net - 1 from Queereka & 1 from Patheos, the others mostly seem to be on solo or two-person blogs). And FTB is adding 1 new blog -...

free thoughtpolice wrote:It's official. The orbit is launching tomorrow. btw, the Queer Shoop is going to blog there, not on FTB, so much for his secret. Greta tells all:
https://archive.is/zMvsC

http://i.imgur.com/GoRn8ib.png?1

[.tweet]https://twitter.com/k6v12/status/709154074915119104[./tweet] This is part of a string starting with CHSommers' tweet here ; the ThinkProgress graphic to which she refers is here and in the string of tweets (in each case, what's shown is earnings rather than wage) That graph is shit. It comp...

http://i.imgur.com/xMLAWWO.jpg I've found other photos of the hands online but so far they all appear to be copyrighted. It's almost like photographers who venture to the Temple of Kom Ombo in far-southern Egypt want to retain rights to their work. Interesting choice - it's supposed to be Nefertiti...

This is part of a string starting with CHSommers' tweet here; the ThinkProgress graphic to which she refers is here and in the string of tweets

(in each case, what's shown is earnings rather than wage)

Brive1987 wrote:http://i.imgur.com/FOPTdxH.jpg

What's the image in the banner, or where's it from?

https://www.crowdrise.com/fundraise-and-volunteer/the-team/extraordinary-people-daring-to-actually-help-women- As usual where the SJWs are quick to note every ill-fated tweet, there seems to be nothing about this. So they either ignore it away, as usual when they don't find a spin, or maybe the fin...

University of Minnesota Faculty Committee Votes to Move Free Speech Statement Forward

Full statement in Volokh's column at Washington Post:
Top Minnesota faculty committee backs free speech resolution

fuzzy wrote:This bit of google cache seems to indicate that 'new frontiers' is to be a group blog for 'new bloggers'

http://i.imgur.com/yGVOa2Q.png

FWIW, here's google cache of the (brief) appearance a 1st post, from about 8 hrs ago:
http://i.imgur.com/Q0LNw1O.png?1

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2016/03/12/see-this-is-why-we-cant-have-heroes/ http://archive.is/Iegei The opening & a couple of snippets from the OP: See? This is why we can’t have heroes Neil deGrasse Tyson stuck his foot in it yesterday. If there were ever a species for whom sex hurt, it ...

That tweet got lots of testy replies from biologists and spawned #BiologistSpaceFacts

ffs wrote:http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/ ... dden-place

Oh well now it all makes sense

Mark Carey, science historian & co-author of the feminist glaciology paper, is quoted there as saying:

Glaciers don’t have a gender.

:popcorn:

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