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

39 out of 100, and echoing the 'bogus test' cry. The fact that something like "I have never gone to bed hungry" weighs as much as the bullshit final option "I feel privileged because of the identities I was born with" tells you how ridiculous this sort of thing is. I can tell you first hand that I'v...

Some Lurker wrote:Dara on the word "Privilege"

I know that niamh cat is being sarcastic, but s/h/it is exactly right. And obviously so is Dara.

I'm nothing close to a lawyer, but after looking at the letter from Shermer's lawyers I was left wondering if there was any significance to the fact that it has PZ's address as his university rather than a home address. If he did this from work computers, would that bring in the university? Or is th...

The question is, who assaulted Ashley Paramore? Following deLurch's methodology: We know Ashley Paramore's assaulter was a speaker TAM 2012 but not at 2013. The following 11 men fit this profile: Robert Blaskiewicz, Sean carroll, Christopher DiCarlo, Brian Dunning, Sean Faircloth, Stuart Firestein,...

Ape+lust wrote:AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!

http://i.imgur.com/Dy1EyMP.png

Is that saying that Silverman got down with someone not his wife, or am I reading that wrong?

I hope EVERYONE comes forward now. Two years of dark mutterings, horrible secrets held in abeyance, "you'd be sick if you only knew" -- it's tiresome. Let's see what they've got and deal with it, see how much is real and how much is manufactured moral panic. This is the rolling momentum they've bee...

This whole harrassment issue drives me crazy for a few reasons. First of all, some of us are here precisely because people said "x person is a known harrasser" and we dared say "can you back that up with anything?" The people making these claims get pissed off because, as Welch said, we want due pro...

welch wrote:That's what trips me up. between this, dealing with pilots and 2 decades in IT, I'm a sucker for stupid, because no matter how stupid you think is too stupid, it never is.

You, sir, are a goddamn poet and mentor.

Tigzy wrote:Have to say - well done JV for staying cool in the fact of Dave going full Setar on you.

Quoted for fucking truth. I expected better from him.

The revisionism is incredible: "And here's what's incredible annoying about it, too: I don't ban that many people". Is there a way to get this page historically to save it on a separate thread ? It was something that exposes the immaturity of PZ Myers when I think about it, that he wanted to ban pe...

I'm calling it now: when Vacula goes to Dublin, through his live reporting he will uncover the truth behind the "deep rifts" and bring an end to the whole thing. The FC(n) will be revealed as simple pawns in a more important scheme to protect the mighty Patriarchy through the use of specially traine...

I think I said, at one point in time, that Nerd of Redhead was my least favorite of the numerous assclowns in that realm of FfTB/A+/Skepchick. I've since changed my mind. Getting on Twitter has shown me that probably no one holds a candle to that shmuck Aratina Cage. I'm not convinced that rat has a...

So apparently this is real.

I wanted to write something really biting and clever, but honestly all I have in my head right now is whatthefuckwhatthefuckwhatthefuck!?

Really, world? Really?

:snooty:

Just read Carrier's post about Lindsay. What Do Ron Lindsay and an Oklahoma Tornado Have in Common? Besides raging over the same weekend? Both are ignorantly destructive blowhards, apparently. At least Lindsay didn’t kill anything (except his own common sense, and maybe his career in secular leade...

From Amanda Fuckwitte's open letter : ...[he] had some useful observations about the ongoing struggle for women’s equality, though it’s clear he is no expert on the matter and probably should have considered that before lecturing actual experts on the history of feminism about its own history. B...

Sigh, the harassment just never ends: http://www.ebay.com/itm/171039819695?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 I read that shit twice and I still don't know what it's about. What the fuck is this madness? But maybe I don't really need to understand it anyway. Fucking Skepchick event...

Ron Lindsay's talk is up here . PZ Myer comments once more, and points to his protegé Watson, as usual. It baffles me that people have a problem with Lindsay's speech. I've been mostly looking at the examples thread , but I've seen enough comments elsewhere to just have my mind wobbling. The speec...

Just watched Jon Stewart make a joke about an imaginary show/movie called "Cunt Punters". Insert 'Franc sockpuppet' joke here?

The compassionate freethinking folks at AtheismPlus have just banned someone for... well, I'm not sure, exactly. http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4422&hilit=hamilton It's probably why Mr. Dick Carrier doesn't "have the time" to check out the A+ forums. With his ego, he'd be banned ...

Submariner wrote:Feminism defined as the movement opposing patriarchy.

Proof that feminism and patriarchy theory are irrevocably linked.

Sweet tap-dancing Freya, that was a mess. It certainly didn't help her case that she talks like the 70's acid-tripping stereotype.

Over at Nugent's David Leech gets into a back-and-forth with John Morales and argues for dictionary atheism: The conflict come about because dictionary atheists like me don’t want atheism = politics and with good reason. We are forever explaining to the theists that atheism is not equal to commun...

I got all longwinded in the PToS thread ( http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=80746#p80746 ), but I'll try to keep it here onwards. It could just as well be that I'm biased and wrong and a horrible person, but of the two statements I read, I thought yours, Jack, was far more in-line with m...

Am I high, or does Svan's opening statement not really fit into the topic? Where Jack wrote from the perspective that I was expecting, that of specific, core, basic ideas that we all, on both "sides", (claim to) hold, Svan seemed to focus on things as a pitch for different areas of activism that we ...

My hair is a bird. Your argument is invalid: http://www.michaelnugent.com/2013/03/07/slymepit-members-struggle-with-the-ethics-of-removing-photoshopped-naked-image/comment-page-1/#comment-197415 AndrewV69 March 7, 2013 at 6:09 pm doubtthat #136 ” You don’t find this at all odd?” I believe it ...

Brayton has an interesting thread going: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/03/06/aclu-defends-right-to-wear-anti-gay-shirts/ The most interesting thing about that thread is that, at least for the first 20~ comments (that is, all that I've read so far), it looks like they're having an actu...

Ladies and gentlemen (and others), I give you A Plus Adventure . A text adventure (choose-your-own-adventure style) where you take on the role of a prospective A+ forum member. Playable on- or off-line. It's very rudimentary and short, but hey, I have actual work to do as well. If anyone feels incl...

Hold your horses! Fuck me*, that should've been simple to find. My mistake, horses firmly but lovingly restrained. My list hurt feminists because I mentioned one two women in a list of five fatsos. Fatso is a good word. Fat acceptance is feminist, ya'll. :) Yeah, I'm still not sold on the comment b...

Maybe I have this one mixed up with some other comments around the time, but wasn't this... 30. In the spirit of equality, here is a list of fatsos: [five named people]. Congrats, you are all obese! ... in reference to Pit people? I'm remembering this as a comment that came about when Brayton's hear...

I'm here because any group/ideology that preaches equality for women while vocally holding the idea that being white and/or male is a reason to disregard someone is without a doubt inherently wrong. That they miss the irony of that is just special. It doesn't help their case that concepts like patri...

Metalogic42 wrote:No one else has any hilarious nicknames for me? I am disappoint, you guys are horrible at being hateful.

Haven't seen the obvious Gretalolgic69 yet.

Probably for being too obvious and/or mean. Meh.

His first tweet , apart from looking somewhat like a non sequitur: Yes @Melody Hensley you know nothing about doxxing, but you keep using the name supplied to Laden. In the context of the first part of the sentence, it seems quite probable that the name she “keeps using” has to be the one he re...

Long time lurker, first time poster. Likely to resume lurker status, but meh. Main reason for registering was just to say you lot are fucking hilarious and make this whole ridiculous "schism" tolerable. Secondary: That Nerd of Redhead thing is a fucking asshole. No particular reason and I haven't ev...