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

I'm a little late to the party - catching up on pages of Pit - but an essential musical has to be O Lucky Man. Music written and performed by Alan Price of The Animals; a very young Helen Mirren as a sexy groupie; Malcolm McDowell as a coffee-peddling Candide, in his strangest ever film with Lindsay...

The inimitable Carol Tavris does it again - talks good sense, I mean.
https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/me ... b47722e097

Speaking of Sarkeesian; has her ex McIntosh been accused of assault or harassment yet? I think he's dropped too far out of sight for anyone to bother with accusations. He's got that new gig now, looking at male toxicity TM through a feminist lens, and the writing style is curiously familiar... but ...

I wrote a piece about rape-culture mythology a couple years ago, which included a bit on rape-as-power vs rape-as-sex: "....[A]ccording to rape-culture doctrine, rape is always a political act that serves to put women in their place. Every rapist, from the serial shit who slips rohypnol into his dat...

Re Graham Hancock: The estimable Jason Colavito did a roaring review of Magicians of the Gods at: http://www.jasoncolavito.com/magicians-of-the-gods-review.html#.WfACOGhSy00 The latest Skeptic magazine has an article on Hancock’s claims, by Marc J. Defant, at: https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/de...

There's an interesting segment on CBC's Sunday Edition this morning: Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice, by self-described QTPOC (Queer Trans Person of Colour) Frances Lee, a Seattle-based activist. The gist is that she recognizes a strong resemblance between the evangelical backgrou...

Yep, it was really that overt. Frequently quoted was First Corinthians 3:18-19 - Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches th...

The God-Shaped Hole - Conclusion Since then, I have been amassing material about the "god-shaped hole," which has led me through many byways and thought experiments into a nifty collection of charismatic cult messiahs, dictators, politicians, and gurus, many of them apparently psychopathic, plus the...

I posted an excerpt from this essay in the Never-Ending Thread, and thought I'd post the whole thing here in case anyone is interested. It was published in a volume of memoirs about people losing their faith/becoming atheists. It's too long for one post, so I'll split it. The God-Shaped Hole Rebecca...

Was it really that overt? A more or less explicit urging to turn off your brains? Really kind of criminal then if that's the case. Yep, it was really that overt. Frequently quoted was First Corinthians 3:18-19 - Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should beco...

I simply don't believe that ALL people can become atheists, only SOME, and in the long run fighting for secularism and for Enlightenment principles is better than trying to "deconvert" people. Writing books about how atheism works is good, but it will convince only the people with the potential of ...

An Atheist wrote:Hi everyone! I'd like to inform you of the publication of my satirical epic "Elevatorgate", which is free for download on my website: https://anatheist.jimdo.com/

Sincerely yours,
An Atheist.

Wow. That is a ten-mile hike down Memory Lane. Well done. :clap: :clap: :clap:

On the depression thing: I think I had a curious little brush with it some years back that’s worth recounting. One morning in my 51st year, I woke up feeling like every breath I took was a waste of air. My life was a failure, I had let down my family, my colleagues, myself, everybody despised me, I ...

Okay, I have a dumb question. The Conceptual Penis hoax AND the Skeptic confession were both published on May 19th. On May 20th, Myers claimed that he had seen the paper a few days before, and dismissed it as a "murky mess." Was it possible for him to have previewed it several days before it was pub...

Margaret of Anjou (even though the tale is Shakespeare) was a real historical figure, she was a white French noble woman, not black, so why re invent her as such? TBH, I don't think it's much of an issue when it comes to Shakespearean dramas, given that there's been a long tradition of contemporisi...

I'm travelling, and many many many pages behind, but just wanted to drop this here. The Rubber Bandits, Black Man:

I think the eight years might not be a problem, if in Johnself’s jurisdiction she only became entitled to half his assets once they were legally married. If John can show that she was already in an another relationship before the marriage, and promptly began to disengage as soon as the knot was tied...

Johnself, it sounds like she married you fraudulently and in bad faith, with the intention of personal gain. Can the lawyers do anything with that, in terms of annulment?

Another notable hate crime bites the dust:
http://www.timescolonist.com/mississipp ... -1.5188261

Truck has just plowed into the shoppers at a Berlin Xmas market. :( The usual suspects are mooted as being responsible, though there's genuinely nothing certain as of yet. Present reports (via twitter) say nine have been killed with around fifty injured. If any Berlin based pitters would like to le...

Re Margaret Atwood - She's arguably THE preeminent Canadian writer, definitely a second-wave feminist, very powerful, and fully able to crush the always-believe idiots. I'll be so happy if they try to take her on - bunch of fieldmice flailing their tiny fists at a grizzly. :popcorn: I wonder if they...

Meanwhile in NJ: http://nj1015.com/transgender-woman-sues-nj-for-refusing-to-change-gender-on-her-birth-certificate/ Jersey law says... got a penis... you're a dude legally Canada's procedure is so different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpZSefYvwM Rebel Media should repeat the experiment using...

I've already pm'd Rayshul about one of my books, which fills her requirements. Other suggestions I haven't seen mentioned yet: Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series, and Lindsay Davis's Falco series. The first seven or eight of each, anyway. Both those series eventually jumped the shark. Resoundi...

Wow. She has developed a double FUPA. I hate to be pedantic buuut...I believe the correct term for those rolls of sweaty blubber is "gunt" 8-) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gunt As a sidenote, is it just me or does that picture look like she's smuggling the Cookie monster under her...

As far as dishes developed in Canada, that's not a strength. There are some regional dishes. Aside from poutine, which developed in small-town Quebec, there's donairs, which developed in the Maritime provinces and Halifax in particular. But a donair is basically just a gyro with the traditional yog...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-SA-eNvzI More evidence of the nazi/ufo thing. A piece of aluminum, that somewhat resembles a part off a WW2 aircraft, but found in a hole that dates to as much as 250,000 years ago. Wake up sheeple! :drool: More likely an excavator bucket tooth from 1973 - though ...

On an age gap in a relationship: my husband is eleven years older than I am, we've been together 38 years, and the age gap was never an issue. The disparity is only becoming noticeable now, with him slowing down markedly in his mid-seventies while I'm still a vigorous sixty-something able to take up...

Here's a scene from the best film ever made entirely in Esperanto. Actually, AFAIK, it was the only film ever made entirely in Esperanto. Bonus: a young and lovely pre-Trek Shatner speaking fluent...Esperanto.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accFmyaOj7o

OK So I suppose everyone else has seen this too? I have a funny feeling you have. I have developed this habit of starting at the end and reading the pages in backwards order and apparently I do not read backwards enough sometimes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMvj1eLdYqI Fuck me. It seems that n...

Coming out of lurkage to say: congratulations, Phil. I'm happy for you both.

As for the Carrier lawsuit: there is not enough popcorn in the world. Maybe the galaxy.

A few years ago, I got dragged in at very short notice (literally overnight) to take over an anthropology course at the tiny local college, when the sole anthropologist on staff got sick about four weeks into the course. The course was Ethnic Relations – not my area of expertise, but I was the close...

Carrier is such a fucking psycho loser. Here is his last paragraph. Bear in mind that he is referring to his own boring, worthless work and is projecting his jealousy. These people have jobs and this loser is sending cease and desists from his girlfriend's husband's basement. It’s as if the experts...

some guy wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Carrier ... He is elyse without the vomit and shit.
Quite true. (But he does have that semen thing; gotta grant him that.)

Yep. You got to admit, the kid has spunk.

31/50. Not unexpected, given lifelong neural hobbies of rearranging words and phrases into pleasingly symmetrical consonant/vowel patterns, and adding up phone numbers to see if the sum is divisible by 3. Columbo: the best! I have the complete series on DVD, so I can watch it while cooking/crafting/...

HunnyBunny wrote:Anyway, well-timed literary intervention, I have purchased Lady in Gil. I was wondering what to read next, after I drag myself in of an evening from 10 hours gardening. Whose bright idea was it to mass-plant a hillside in lavender because France?

Hey, that makes my day. :D Enjoy.

Not this one I think: https://www.amazon.com/Am-Redeemed-Three-Step-Program-Redemption/dp/1585974056?ie=UTF8&keywords=%26%2334%3Brebecca%20bradley%26%2334%3B&qid=1464497891&ref_=sr_1_11&s=books&sr=1-11 This book contains a step-by-step guide to Redemption, as well as activities to put God's Redeemi...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
RebeccaB wrote:
katamari Damassi wrote:I need something to read. Any book recommendations?
You could try one of mine. :)
http://www.amazon.com/Rebecca-J.-Bradle ... dp_epwbk_0
Well, talk about doxxing...

Not if it's shameless self-promotion. :)

katamari Damassi wrote:I need something to read. Any book recommendations?

You could try one of mine. :)
http://www.amazon.com/Rebecca-J.-Bradle ... dp_epwbk_0

Cnutella wrote:Gaad Saad turns social justice warrior. No news yet on whether he's identifying as gender queer or otherkin.

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I think I'm in love.
And whoever taught him the duckface made the world a better, more entertaining place.

I believe it arises from us generally frowning on men who pursue consequence free sex. Note how Carrier tries to draw a distinction between himself and Shermer by mentioning how he has conversations with his sexual conquests ("hours of stimulating conversation!"), as opposed to the knuckledragging ...

Billie from Ockham wrote:
CaptainFluffyBunny wrote:Conan the Barbarian. They stole my family's motto about the purpose of life for the movie.
This one?

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Any hope for Arnie completing the trilogy? Haven't heard anything about it for a while, but it would be - great.

Yes, I had a pre-1922 grandparent from Ireland too. It might even have been that the grandparent had to be male? Not sure now. Anyway, my siblings can't get Irish passports for their kids as a great- grandparent doesn't count, apparently. My other (male) grandparent was born in India - maybe I coul...

@Scented Nectar She apparently is the one who would make fisting jokes at meetings when she was at the CBC. Also it appears that her witness that backed up her story that Ghomeshi dry humped her ... joined the CBC a year after the alleged incident. I hadn't heard about the witness joining the CBC a...

Wow, just seen a news report on the forest fires in Canada, I know there are a few Canucks here at the pit, so hopefully no one affected. Devastating for the people involved. It's pretty dire, all right. My son-in-law was evacuated from one of the Suncor camps last night, as they were clearing spac...

"University Students Chanting: "We have Nothing to Lose but our Chains" " [youtube]TvRlJ_MzoII[/youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvRlJ_MzoII Revolutionary biscuits of Italy, rise up out of your box! Last ten seconds of this: could that possibly be Melissa Click in the line of protesters? Sur...

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Kirbmarc wrote:
Muscato isn't changing his name, IMHO, because it's too much of a hassle. Never forget how fucking lazy SJWs are.

He doesn't want to do any kind of effort. He wants others to do all the job for him.

I would happily call him Loretta.

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I gotta ask: what are the chances that D. Muscato is simply pulling a long-term poe on the SJW crowd? That’s he’s just stringing everyone all along, being as absurd as possible, trying to see which idiots will indignantly defend his rights to the female pro...

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I gotta ask: what are the chances that D. Muscato is simply pulling a long-term poe on the SJW crowd? That’s he’s just stringing everyone all along, being as absurd as possible, trying to see which idiots will indignantly defend his rights to the female pron...

Case anyone's interested, I've started a series about the Ghomeshi verdict and its implications, over on Skeptic Ink. I wanted to call it Why "Believe the Victims" is a Really Bad Idea , but wordpress objected to the length. My own opinion is that a fair amount of false/constructed memory was wrapp...

Case anyone's interested, I've started a series about the Ghomeshi verdict and its implications, over on Skeptic Ink. I wanted to call it Why "Believe the Victims" is a Really Bad Idea , but wordpress objected to the length. My own opinion is that a fair amount of false/constructed memory was wrappe...

A well-equipped safe space.

I'm pretty sure this is not a poe: "The National Union of Students' LGBT Campaign—a coalition of British student-activists—passed a motion to end committee representation for gay men, because they aren't as oppressed as other LGBT individuals: like students of color and transgender students." http:/...

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Safe spaces need kittens.

Article in which an SJW shows some glimmerings of self-awareness, and then erects a whole fun-fair of rationalizing hoops to jump through: 7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Become Abusive in Intimate Relationships http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/social-justice-abuse-ipv/?utm_source=facebook&utm...

https://twitter.com/FeministCanada/status/697861378439278592 Ah, yes, and feminism is merely the belief that men and women should have equal rights. So why doesn't garbage like this get pushback from those that consider themselves mainstream feminists, especially since the source is named as if it ...

Well done, guys. Proud of you.

... I believe there's an 'SJW personality type', with narcissism at its core. Thoughts? To add to AL's links: I think the concept of "collective narcissism" aka "group narcissism" offers some insight into the SJW phenom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_narcissism At heart, it's just anothe...

Johnathan Pearce on the Cologne assaults: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2016/01/08/liberals-and-germanys-mass-sex-assaults/ Did be move from SkepticInk to Patheos? Yep, but he's maintaining strong links with those of us at SIN, and he and I are working together on a fiction imprint. Jonno's...

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