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

[.quote="jimhabegger"] In case it matters to anyone, I'm not the one saying that I'm a Muslim. I say that I'm not. Do you mean, as a person who calls Muhammad an authentic prophet of God, and the Quran the word of God?[./quote] Yes but to my mind that would make you a Muslim - why would you not cal...

Ah, thanks. Just C&D letters, eh? So, he's admitting that he has nothing. That's too bad. It could have been fun. Some here seem to hope that Carrier has a secret war chest to fund his great defamation trial. The general expectation is that he will then represent himself in court, because someone w...

Wow. Just back from a trip and looked at the last two pages (only) so far. It seems that I've missed quite a bit. Can someone give me the bullet-points, please? I love the smell of law-suits in the morning. Carrier has completed phase I of his cunning plan to restore his reputation, by sending Ceas...

Judge: "Dr. Carrier, I understand that as the claimant in this case you intend to represent yourself. Is that correct?" RC (Dr. Richard Carrier PhD): "Correct, your honour." Judge: "In that case I now request you to make your opening statement." RC: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if I may resort...

I feel like he treats hypothetical events like conceptual point particles & this always prevents me from following his further reasoning with any interest. I feel like he hand waves away serious potential objections early on in his haste to move onto showing off the exciting conclusions. Yeah, that...

Ok, went to the garage. Turns out the problem was not the originally suspected stuff. Full repair was 25 euros. You people can put those wallets away... :dance: :dance: :dance: That's good news. As long a you don't forget that scooters are dangerous even with perfect brakes. Especially when the dri...

What Bayes's Theorem does is calculate a probability X in terms of other probabilities A, B, C, D, etc. This can be useful when it is difficult to calculate X directly, whereas you do have ways to calculate A, B, C, D, etc. But in the field of ancient history in which Carrier wants to use it, there ...

Here's some free legal advice for the recipients of Dr. Carrier's C&D letter: Wrap some fish heads in it. Seal in ziploc bag. Put in box. Send to Dr. Carrier.

Disclaimer: IANAL (does it show?).

That's another interesting facet. It seems like everyone in the community except for PZ and Ophelia have had sex with each other. Maybe Carrier's mistake was running his "I had a vasectomy so I have super penis powers" game on a girl young enough to be his youngest of several daughters. If he stuck...

PZ and the others in the idiot squad better spread this around. Stollznow brought in sixty grand and Amy currently has 300 bucks. Shit, Beckybooze got ten grand without any lawyer letters at all. I wouldn't be surprised if Watson would use the opportunity to go e-begging again. Grifters gotta grift...

You finally get to meet a big celebrity, for the first time, someone you really love and admire, and you’re at a party having drinks together, sitting at a table. He shows a lot of interest in you, asks you lots of questions, listens intently. Your conversation is so animated, in fact, his focus on...

Dicky updates: http://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10912 Kinda boring, TBH. The real action is on his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/richard.carrier.phd (Yes, the Dickster even made sure to include mention of his PhD in his Facebook URL :lol: ) Archive of Richard's Apology & Going Forw...

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Jan Steen wrote:Richard Carrier has been spotted.

http://i.imgur.com/ao78m3e.jpg
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Richard Carrier has been spotted.

http://i.imgur.com/ao78m3e.jpg

Richard Carrier has been spotted.

http://i.imgur.com/ao78m3e.jpg

[youtube]5HDhykqupxo[/youtube] At about 4:40 in that video, PZ Myers claims to be an embryologist. I don't believe that that is true. Someone who likes to keep track of this stuff should mark this video and that time-stamp for future use WRT to false claims about specialization. Also: I had no idea...

Hateful little scumbag PZ Myers about William Shatner: So Leonard Nimoy turns out to be a thoughtful, interesting, enlightened human being, and he dies. William Shatner is a raging dillhole, and he lives forever. It all makes the old Star Trek really hard to watch. Yeah, what a pity that Shatner did...

Trav Mamone grovelled: I apologize for letting MRAs dominate the comment section and spread their sexist ideology. Hey! I just read the link in Jan's last post and that was me dominating the comment section and spreading my sexist ideology! Trav you imbecile, I'm not an MRA! :x A poke with a broken...

Wow, this is just sad and pathetic. FTB blogger http://archive.is/OBHB7 http://archive.is/EFEcr Seriously Trav, stand up for yourself for once and tell them to fuck off. yeegh I apologize for making others spend extra energy coddling me instead of doing social justice work. I apologize for not taki...

The underlying problem is that Baha’is are required to believe the Baha’i administrative order is infallibly guided by God in all its decisions. This means that questioning or ignoring even the smallest statement of a Baha’i institution is tantamount to disobeying God Himself, and can bring accusat...

Jim, do you think Bahai is a cult? Jim, are you a member of the Bahai faith or otherwise associated with the movement? Don't expect a non-evasive answer. :D I will pray to the holy Bahaiwhatsitsface and it might happen!. After much trying, we figured out that the recipe for getting rid of the Bahai...

[Baha'is] believe that there will eventually be a single world government, to be led by Baha'is, and based on the Baha'is administrative framework. http://www.eaec.org/cults/bahai.htm World domination. Like every Bond villain, Jimhabegger dreams of world domination. Starting at the Pit. :lol: :lol:...

We've got your number Jim. Your game's up.

jimhabegger wrote:It's nice to know though, that you thought I was doing well. Thanks for telling me.

Stop "love bombing" HunnyBunny. It's creepy.

johnself wrote:Jim, do you think Bahai is a cult?
Jim, are you a member of the Bahai faith or otherwise associated with the movement?

Don't expect a non-evasive answer. :D

Are you a cult member, Jim?

People should stop engaging with Jimhabegger until he tells us about the secret doctrines of his faith.

Keep ignoring me, Jim, you creep.

Mentioning his Baha'i idiocy is kryptonite to Jimhabegger. :lol: :lol: :lol: From the link I gave above: it's a cult. The Baha'i Faith has all the characteristics of one -- authoritarian control, secret doctrine (untranslated texts), pervasive shaming mixed with "love bombing", etc. And I'm not the ...

Actually, I'm not sure how popular anti-Muslim propaganda actually is here. I can only think of a few people that I've seen promoting it. Maybe my feeling that it's popular comes from not seeing any opposition to it, except from Kirbmarc, and even that looks very weak to me. All in all, it created ...

Want to book Dr. Carrier PhD to speak at your event? Here's how . I live in Columbus, Ohio, within twenty minutes of its airport. Often the lowest expense is lodging. I prefer a nonsmoking room at any reasonable establishment. But if you can find volunteers to take me in, all I need is a warm bed an...

I meant FTB/Skepchick crowd. Not that it makes much difference.

It's a real dilemma, trying to figure out who is the most loathsome character in the SJW/Skepchick crowd. Is it PZ Myers? Stephanie Zvan? Rebecca Watson? Dr. Richard 'Spunky Monkey' Carrier PhD? Someone else? It's a bit like asking who was the most horrible Nazi. Was it Hitler? Goering? Himmler? Dr....

For the Stephanie Zvans among us: there are two reasons why people here are happy to see the downfall of Richard Carrier. 1. He is a filthy hypocrite who participated with glee in every SJW witch-hunt that was initiated by lowlifes like you. 2. Carrier by his own admission tried to get into the pant...

The young people who votes to remain and are now complaining about how the older Brits mortgaged their future are displaying the blinered arrogance of youth because they aren't willing to consider that many among older generations voted in a way that put the future of the UK and thenyoung ahead of ...

Poor Peezus; not only was he forced to deal with the mess caused by Carrier, which needed more than a few tissues to mop up, but to make his misery complete, there was his leaky aquarium, oops, I mean, his fish lab disaster . This was about as bad as the fish facility disaster that happened this wee...

Billie from Ockham wrote:Carrier will soon point out that p(C|H) is known to be way less than 1.00, completely missing the point.

He may also point out indignantly that Dulcamara got the equation wrong, which would be missing another point. :lol:

lol@jan steen. This one from a few days ago is also pretty spot on: Scholarly scholar-work where Bayes theorem is used on the Carrier incident has already been produced and are hereby submitted for peer review. I can't post images or urls so if anyone find it amusing please repost: s31(dot)postimg(...

http://i.imgur.com/y4cnUrI.jpg Links removed from the following: A Bayesian Analysis of the Accusations against Richard Carrier And yet another ally cum cishet white male turns out to be a dangerous predator who has been haunting our safe spaces. Yeah, I'm talking about the amazing Dr. Richard Carr...

http://i.imgur.com/y4cnUrI.jpg Links removed from the following: A Bayesian Analysis of the Accusations against Richard Carrier And yet another ally cum cishet white male turns out to be a dangerous predator who has been haunting our safe spaces. Yeah, I'm talking about the amazing Dr. Richard Carr...

I would never have expected (...)

Nice article on Brexit (everyone seems to be bored with it now, and the hysteria's taking its natural course as people notice the sky hasn't fallen yet) from the ever-idiosyncratic Peter Hitchens. His first sentence nails it, I think:- "They shouldn't have tried to scare us". http://www.dailymail.c...

First reaction to the Brexit. Pound Sterling dropped dramatically to lowest value since 1985. Now below $1.33. Rating agency Standard & Poors considers to revoke top AAA-rating of the UK. Looks like a major loss. On the upside, low and poor ratings can help improvements when investments are cheaper...

If you don't understand the appeal of Farage, then you have not been listening to him. He's the boy from Bromley, and as much as the Guardian wants to paint him as a toff, he speaks just like one of us. (...) he is just about the only mainstream politician who's in touch with us "us" = fascistoid r...

If you don't understand the appeal of Farage, then you have not been listening to him. He's the boy from Bromley, and as much as the Guardian wants to paint him as a toff, he speaks just like one of us. (...) he is just about the only mainstream politician who's in touch with us "us" = fascistoid r...

Carrier on Hyena Dadabhoy in 2014. I promised two more awesome women would be joining FtB this week, and lo, here is the second: my good friend (and one of my favorite bloggers) Heina Dadabhoy (and that’s “hee-nuh dad-uh-boy”), also a queer poly ex-Muslim (though her background is interestingly diff...

But I do not want FreethoughtBlogs or its mission to be compromised by having to devote resources to defending me Defending him? I'm pretty certain that FTB are on the side of the accusers. Who is going to defend the horny hobbit? I haven't seen many comments that were in his favour. His 'friends' ...

<quote="Dave"> Im tempted to play small time Peter Theil and offer to fund Carrier's lawsuit. Seeing all these yonks on the stand would amuse the fuck out of me.</quote> How is Carrier going to afford the cost of a lawsuit? Unless he's got a wealthy sugar-momma stashed away someplace, I think this ...

To anyone here or elsewhere who may be tempted to feel a bit sorry for Average Dick: He called us all - here at the Pit as well as the wider community - scumbags, CHUDs and rapists, immoral and the garbage atheism needed to throw out... while violating every thing he and his cohorts preached to eve...

FreethoughtBlogs has an "ethics committee"? Every atom of irony meter in the infinite multiverse just exploded outward at warp 20. If only Michael Nugent had known about this ethics committee. He complained about Peezus calling his blog a haven for rapists, but sent his complaints to the executive ...

Carrier can always come and post on the Pit. The worst that can happen to him here is that people put him on ignore when he is getting too long-winded.

Tapir wrote:There it is again....

We believe his accusers.

I think this is in fact a more honest way of saying it than "We believe the victim."

Plus Shermer was not acting like a self-righteous hypocrite who pontificated about how men ought to treat the wymenz. While doing the very things he was denouncing. Carrier is a massive hypocrite. No argument about that. I just think that some of the things he said about how to "treat wymenz" are i...

/quote] Plus Shermer was not acting like a self-righteous hypocrite who pontificated about how men ought to treat the wymenz. While doing the very things he was denouncing. So if he had been, would that make the accusations true?[/quote] No. I'm just trying to explain why Shermer's alleged hitting ...

If I fuck some groupies while touring, would you consider there's power at play? I would, if only for the reason they wouldn't be remotely interested if I weren't in the band. If they were adults and consenting I wouldn't see it as a big issue. Yes, there's power at play, but there's also power at ...

I thought Michael Nugent's post needed a small update (written pre-Zvan and Skepticon).

http://www.michaelnugent.com/2015/04/17 ... nt-3103488

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:Jan, you really are poetic today. Good stuff.

Thanks. I'm a great fan of poetic justice.

There is a new atheism brewing, and it’s the rift we need, to cut free the dead weight so we can kick the C.H.U.D.’s back into the sewers and finally disown them, once and for all.

Mission accomplished.

This could affect his income. And his situation doesn't allow much wiggle room before he's sleeping outdoors. Or it could lead him to give up his avocational satyriasis, buckle down, and become a serious professional scholar. Plenty of teaching positions at Ohio St. In spite of al his boasting, Car...

.... It may not be illegal to be a scumbag, but it should still have consequences. What's the endgame? a Final Solution eradicating scumbags? Yes, Richard Carrier should be stripped of the official academic laurels in his towseled hair. And the PZ seal of purity that clasps his toga. And his Anti-S...

Those of you who seem to think that Carrier did nothing seriously wrong ('just some awkward flirting', or words to that effect) seem to ignore the original statement by Amy, the student who complained about him: Richard Carrier, the man who sexually harassed me and touched me a year ago after speaki...

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