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

Without any objective reason, Lsuoma has relegated me to a single forum, preventing me from posting on the main thread, where nearly all of the discussion and lurking takes place. As I mentioned in this earlier post: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=338, I have no other word for being ...

No, what the onlookers are observing is you making an infinitely boring and tedious self-aggrandizing ass out of yourself yet again. Really? You mean all the onlookers have failed to actually read what I've written? Somehow, I think you underestimate the onlookers. So, Wonderist, have you had a cha...

(Continuation of http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=111735#p111735) On "pretending that his [Carrier's] Jesus book is properly peer reviewed" My initial questions: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=111518#p111518 My issues with Carrier, as I have explained several times before, are: [...

Really? You mean all the onlookers have failed to actually read what I've written? Somehow, I think you underestimate the onlookers. Jan Steen made some claims. I asked him to back up his claims with evidence. He failed to do so. You think onlookers failed to notice that? I don't. Well, some might ...

(I you weren't so obtuse, lazy and intellectually dishonest you could have typed 'peer review' in the search box in the upper right hand part of this page. You would then be presented with a list of all posts in this thread that mention said key words. You could then proceed to select those posts t...

Really? You mean all the onlookers have failed to actually read what I've written? Somehow, I think you underestimate the onlookers. Jan Steen made some claims. I asked him to back up his claims with evidence. He failed to do so. You think onlookers failed to notice that? I don't. God what a boring...

I see. You chose mumbling. Oh well. Perhaps you'll reconsider some time. In the mean time, what onlookers observe are honest questions asking you to back up your claim with evidence, and you mumbling in response. Not very impressive. No, what the onlookers are observing is you making an infinitely ...

http://i.imgur.com/HSibcS4.jpg I'll take that as a 'fold'. Chicken. :P Of course, dear. Whatever you say. You're really satisfied to be reduced to mumbling as I predicted? Hm. So much for caring about the truth, then, eh? It would be so easy to just post a link to the evidence you said you have gat...

<bypass all that schmuckery.> Even if someone can argue persuasively that 2 + 2 = 4, if he's proven to be a socially retarded forum-version of Star Wars kid, it's no "fallacy" to dismiss him with prejudice. The fallacy is to dismiss the argument by dismissing the person and without providing a coun...

Jan Steen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/HSibcS4.jpg

I'll take that as a 'fold'. Chicken. :P

<snip> (Here is my chance to practice this new debating technique I just learned from Welch.) Yes dear, I'm sure you know best, sweety. (By the way, have Blunderist and Oolon ever been seen together?) I see. You chose mumbling. Oh well. Perhaps you'll reconsider some time. In the mean time, what on...

And for the record, I would love it if someone could prove that Jesus never existed in any way. A priori I am sympathetic to Carrier's work as a biblical historian. But I am more interested in what is actually true than in what I would like to be true. Given that you're more interested in what is a...

You can't beat the The Technique, it is invincible. http://www.aplacetolovedogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sleepy-dog2.gif Sure you can. Just continuously respond to him in a patronizing, treacle-y sweet manner. "Yes dear, of course you're right" He tends to quietly fuck right off when you do t...

This is not to argue with Blunderist, but to demonstrate that he is indeed obtuse, lazy and intellectually dishonest, as I claimed. 1) He [Carrier] is known to be dishonest about A+ and the A/S community. Why would he suddenly not be dishonest in his scholarly work? Theists believe in gods, an obvi...

An analogy occurred to me earlier today. Where I live, the local law states that in a motor-vehicle accident, if one automobile hits another in the rear end, the person driving the car who did the rear-ending is *always* at fault. It is assumed that if you don't have enough control over your vehicle...

A late correction: Sorry, I got confused on the numbering (argh!). When I said "For #2, I hope you can see, by the example of cunt going hyperbolic over *just that point*, that such caveats are not without their place *when attempting to minimize drama in a hostile environment*. In any case, that *w...

Hey Aneris, thanks for the feedback. I hope you continued past the first paragraph, as it's not representative of the whole post. I'm going to respond with my *reasoning* for writing what I wrote, and/or agreeing with you that it's redundant. I'll leave the final judgment to you, but at least you'll...

Say this isn't so... if this gets out this will make Carrier the absolute laughing he was always destined to be. Hate to break it to ya folks, but Carrier most definitely knows Verenna is Rook Hawkins. He's going strictly off of what Verenna has published. Carrier also positively cites Bart Ehrman,...

Looks like the amazing " technique " has failed again. His 'technique' is shooting a blunderbuss with his eyes shut. And yet he thinks he is a great marksman. You're mistaken if you think 'the technique' I was demonstrating earlier is my *only* technique. Sometimes just calling someone's bluff on t...

<snip> I'm not going to argue with you, Wonderist. You are too obtuse, too lazy, and too intellectually dishonest to waste my time on you. Right. Like when I post quotes directly refuting whatever the heck you think you're trying to show. And you post nothing in response. Who's lazy and intellectua...

Pardon me if I interrupt your lecture professor, but it only "works that way" if "girly/manly" is a trait purely inherited through the X chromosome, and not, you know, a product of testosterone levels in the womb or other mechanisms that we actually have evidence for. Allow me to draw your attentio...

He has hardly 'addressed' these issues. Take also a look at the link that Slither provided: http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/1739 If we are to believe Carrier, Verenna is a serious scholar. Ummmm, if we are to actually, you know, *read* Carrier there, we would be led to believe that Ver...

May I? If you note systematic errors I believe you mean systemic. Unless of course Aneris meant repeating or progressive errors. :think: I think systemic is more apropos. http://grammarist.com/usage/systematic-systemic/ Grammatically/definitionally speaking, I tend to agree with you. However, just ...

I live with someone who has ADD and has (she says) always had it. It can't be medicated because she also has Hypomania and medicating the ADD apparently makes that worse. It's a lesser of two evils kind of situation. It sounds worse than it is. I've just had to adjust to it and make managing her AD...

It gets even more lulzworthy.............. http://thomasverenna.blogspot.com/ I haven't had a chance to check this out in detail, but it looks very interesting. :lol: This would all be fine, had Carrier not addressed these issues almost a month ago: http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/3951...

Rook fucking Hawkins...LMAO YES! I just learned it myself. Rook Hawkins formerly of the Rational Response Squad! :o [youtube]9lnFobYlsF4[/youtube] Say this isn't so... if this gets out this will make Carrier the absolute laughing he was always destined to be. Hate to break it to ya folks, but Carri...

I know no one believes this, but I have a handful of videos in various stages of completion. I'm simply not linear, I bounce back and forth. I also may have adult onset ADD. I may be channeling Francis Ford Coppola. Hey Mykeru, quick aside about ADD (Note: I'm speaking generically, since I know lit...

Oops, I wrote: "The claim is false.", but intended to write, "The assertion is false." The assertion being Fisher's *assertion* about what Carrier *claimed*. Sorry for the confusion, if any.

As a dues-paying member of Procrastinators-R-Us, I decided to take a quick look at the academic work of Richard Carrier, and what I found was far worse than even my meager expectations. See above quoted comment in full at: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=111248#p111248 Slither, I'll not b...

I just learned that Eliezer Yudkowsky is involved in FTBConscience. Isn't the Less Wrong ethos a little cross-ideology with FtB? Yudkowsky is solidly transhumanist, which FtB would undoubtedly consider woo, and Less Wrong showcases quite a bit of libertarian theory. Yudkowsky seems to be a bit too ...

Useless Lurker , another reply to you (and anyone else interested ;) ): http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=111470#p111470 Topics: * Lurkers, the wider audience * The purpose/drawbacks of adding extra caveats in hostile environments * Firewalling and peace-making, related but not the same * M...

I'm sorry but I can only respond briefly now and then I'm running off for a week and won't be responding at all until after the 23rd. Crazy. I've been on a break from the intertoobs since around when I posted my last comment (I often take such breaks, it's not unusual). I just read your comment tod...

Gee Whillikers! Welch has turned into Steerserist... I prefer the term "Wondersteer" myself... http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd241/gumbythecat/Slymepit/wondersteerfinal_zps5015f9e7.jpg ... but use the Latin when I'm feeling particularly pseudointellectual. So I see the Pit is still ZNN (Zimmer...

I've had some personal experience with various traumatic events and can therefore be considered an expert on the matter (based on my lived experiences, don't you know!) I've experienced two types: physical and emotional. The physical was the result attempting to centerpunch the grill of a Buick whi...

Useless Lurker, another reply to you, here: viewtopic.php?p=109421#p109421

Hi Useless Lurker, I see we're on close to the same wave-length, so I can be more frank. Wond: "thanks for the feedback (and I mean that, I'm not just being 'polite')" If you were polite, you'd be thrown out of here. That's the rumor anyway. ;) Note that all of that 'polite' rambling was intentional...

But - but - he has a killer O Soto Gari!!! - http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=80977#p80977 http://i.imgur.com/niozG2X.jpg Also he has heard of a remarkable thing called the 'Socratic method.' That's makes him at least Senpai, if not Sensei. I would only ever claim to be a practitioner, not...

Useless Lurker, I posted a reply to you here: viewtopic.php?p=108486#p108486

Hi Useless Lurker, thanks for the feedback (and I mean that, I'm not just being 'polite'). I understand your concerns, and I'm not ignoring them (nor those of Aneris, Dave2, Stunt and others), nor do I discount them. I understand that from your perspective that is how things appear to you, and that ...

Jan Steen wrote:http://i.imgur.com/rK1BlWa.jpg

Hehe. :lol:

(Anyone know what the heck that "Lorem ipsum dolor est..." text actually means, if anything?)

By the way, I love the way that Champion the Wonder Bore missed mikelf's comment about typing one-handed. Why respond to everything? That was yet another of your guys' assumptions about me during the demonstration the other night. You think it's a psychology thing, but it was just a demo of a (one)...

cunt wrote:Wonderist, are you the Dr. Tom from Justins podcasts? Just wonderisting.

No, I believe that's The Skeptic Canary.

Topic: Anti-trolling with Socratic Method See, here is the thing. You can't appoint yourself sensei . You must be accepted as such. It should be clear that the proles here are not ready to accept your teachings. Perhaps it is your place, like Caine in Kung Fu, to wander in the wilderness, keeping yo...

welch wrote:Of course, dear. You're right again, as always, dear.

Quit following me around the internet, stalker.

You cannot force a seed to grow, Grasshopper. You can only continue your life's journey and hope that someday, when you return, that it has borne fruit. So, you don't have an example then? What you seek, young Padawan, is all around you, but Pride hath blinded you to its discernment. You have been ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK0soPQXLSM#t=01m40s Lol. However, as I have actually have had real life experiences of people who gave a really good impressions of trying to kill me, and seeing as I have actually been banned from from a marital arts club, I am going to stick with what I know best. ...

Stunt Whisperer, a reply for you: viewtopic.php?p=107752#p107752

Perhaps. That's an interesting thought. Can you give an example of something that struck you this way? Quote, link? In your response to Aneris in which she asked you to reconsider your posting style you responded with: I am listening to you, but I disagree with your assessment. All my posts made th...

There was one non-registered poster who told you to repent. And fuck that, and Euclitwat too. Anyway, I am well-pleased by his making his "me me me me me me me me me I will demonstrate my technique" posts in another forum and dropping a link. As long as you get what you want, right Apples? As long ...

Stunt Whisperer, I replied to you in this thread: viewtopic.php?p=107663#p107663

I'm going to try and address a couple of things. I've repeatedly asked people who object to my postings about these 'techniques' to engage in conversation and explain what they object to, rather than just continuing with flames. While I can't speak for the pit for me reading your posts is an exerci...

Aneris, I posted a reply to you in this thread: viewtopic.php?p=107655#p107655

Thanks for the reply, Aneris, In this instance though you aren't paying attention to what others have been telling you. I disagree. I have been paying attention, but I disagree with some of the opinions presented to me. That's why I keep asking for evidence of their claims. When I expressed my disag...

Dave2, posted a reply to you in the other thread, here: viewtopic.php?p=107629#p107629

I don't doubt the atmosphere here is intimidating at times - but that seems almost a requirement of a forum about which someone is advised upfront that you need a thick skin. I have a very thick skin, and can easily handle welch and the others trying to goad me, *as long as* it's a level playing fi...

justinvacula wrote:Fine, fine... ye of little faith

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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7yAQdW1wD4E/Tfi8JaKObvI/AAAAAAAABMs/ZSQfEr6jjE4/s400/pushpoll.gif Sorry, but I'm really pissed about this. "You can't prove a negative" is the most egregiously bullshit statement to ever make rounds in the atheism community. I'm just gonna leave this here: http://departmen...

Belief - n. - a proposition that one holds to be true I would go with this, but I would take it just one step further. The 'beliefs' that concern me are the ones upon which people will base their *actions* in real life. So for me it's: Belief - n. - a proposition that one is so confident in that on...

Given that there's some pretty strong arguments that no gods exist, you should believe there are no gods. And if belief in no gods isn't atheism, then what is it? Which gods? Some people worship the moon as a god. The moon exists. The proof would have to be pretty complex to cover all the different...

See, here is the thing. You can't appoint yourself sensei. You must be accepted as such. It should be clear that the proles here are not ready to accept your teachings. Perhaps it is your place, like Caine in Kung Fu, to wander in the wilderness, keeping your wits sharp and your rhetorical swords s...

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