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

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
incognito wrote:God damnit, an edit button would be cool.
Not even in your wildest dreams!

Yeah, yeah, I know.
Sigh.

God damnit, an edit button would be cool.

The easiest way to be banned (from A+ forum) is say something that is true or presents a decent argument not in their favour. Wind only survived as they wanted information from him. It would have been churlish to ban after that so they simply banned him from the very forums he successfully called t...

Anyone need cheering up? Watch this:

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Hello, my name is Jim and I live at the Jersey Shore, USA; and I am interested in the truth. I have been lurking here for about 6 weeks, and have read everything that has been posted. I have been following the Pharnygula site since 2006. (not so much this past month) I feel at this point I can now ...

David Allen Coe and Anal Cunt, folks!

Circa 1996, that was the most egalitarian world a woman could find. The sexism (and other-isms) was funny because it was so bad.
(I admit to being ignorant about "middle class" stuff. We're firmly lower/working class 'round here.)

All I have to say is, you people have no appreciation for David Allen Coe.
:snooty:
Or Anal Cunt.
:snooty:

ReneeHendricks wrote:I'm going to start saying using the word "homophobic" is bad too. Oh, and "homo sapien".

All of the Enlightened (all 20 of them?) know that you're a bigot if you don't call it GLBTphobic and nothing else.

Looks like the word "homosexual" is about to be banned at A+ for being "homophobic in all contexts." http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3932 Ha. I was just reading that. Damn they're difficult to follow. Is "het" and/or "hetero" also derogatory and/or priv-speak now? It's almost like...

You're right, and my apologies. I totally just flat-out misread that. :oops: No worries. :) Bugger that. I think you need to take a week to think on your error. Mod. Mod? Clean up in aisle 5. On second thought, Kiwi is right - why don't you take a week off and review marinerachel's posting history....

Cephus from Bitchspot apparently doesn't like many posters here and seems to see the Slymepit as "just as bad" as PZ, Ophelia, Watson, and co. http://bitchspot.jadedragononline.com/2013/02/11/atheist-cease-fire-the-coin-with-three-sides/ Yet itâ€™s not just the radfem nutballs that have issues, the...

I would quibble with this, because it is bloody obvious that the A+ers are to the left of the atheist movement. The whole concept of privilege? It comes from the Academic Left. The zeal for ideological purity? A hallmark of US progressivism. Pope Peezus is quite clear that he wants the US Atheist m...

In the US, since rather a lot of atheists tenn to be either "far left" (European equivalent of a "Social Democrat") or "far right" (objectivist/libertarian leaning) I guess it makes sense that half of the atheists/irreligious find rather a lot of other atheists/irreligious annoying?

Nope, it's histrionic. You can search for the word on the right to see it in context and everything. I'm confused - your link takes us to a passage in the book On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria . The passage highlighted in your link appears to be discussing hysteria, and a search for histr...

1) Woman claims Dawkins is sexist because he used the word 'histrionic' Methinks this may be because of the incidental resemblance between 'histrionic' & 'hysterical'. 'Histrionic' is merely Latin for 'actor'. It is not sexist in any way shape nor form. It reminds me of those fucking ignorant fuckw...

1) Woman claims Dawkins is sexist because he used the word 'histrionic' Methinks this may be because of the incidental resemblance between 'histrionic' & 'hysterical'. 'Histrionic' is merely Latin for 'actor'. It is not sexist in any way shape nor form. It reminds me of those fucking ignorant fuckw...

The behavior of the mods over there reminds me of one of those cheesy prison movies. Some librul lawyer is driving through the deep south and looks at a cop the wrong way and gets stuck in jail, whereupon he is targeted by the malevolent and troglogytic prison guards. Anything he says to remind the...

Oh god, I'm the worst feminist ever.

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:oops:

And now for something completely different...

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lol

Metal of that flavor is just funny to me.

Metalogic42 wrote:
comslave wrote:
Metalogic42 wrote:If we're going to have an anthem, it has to be this:

[youtube]8sjkqJbENjg[/youtube]
What language is that in?
Grindcore. :lol:

Ha! You meat me to it!

[youtube]a9ysyKgjovU[/youtube] ANAL CUNT - Even Though Your Culture Oppresses Women You Still Suck You Fucking Towelhead Lyrics Towelhead, towelhead. Towelhead, you fucking towelhead (x4) You fucking towelhead You wear a towel on your head, you fucking towelhead I hate women, you do too But you have...

Oh, wow...I just remembered that my husband's band played a show with them. Man, we were really inebriated. We noticed we were all bloody when we got home. The lead singer was smoking crack behind the venue, too. I do remember that.

Metalogic42 wrote:If we're going to have an anthem, it has to be this:

[youtube]8sjkqJbENjg[/youtube]

I have one of their t shirts. :)

They have 4 or 5 new mods, too. Who's Bill Haines? I remember looking over the list many months ago, probably September or October, and seeing a bunch of people highlighted (green or red, can't recall) who I'd never seen active on the board, one of whom was in Jen McCreight's department (with the d...

Metalogic42 wrote:So, a question, if anyone knows: I have 293 tweets, 49 following and 41 followers. How resilient am I to being suspended via mass blocking?

Probably very.
I'm not exactly a twitter expert, tho.

Hmmm...they have a new admin: http://atheismplus.com/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=63 Site Admin Username: BlagHag Location:SeattleGroups: Add friend Add foe CONTACT BLAGHAG Website:http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag I can't see member records any more there (the account I was using to ...

They have 4 or 5 new mods, too.

Who's Bill Haines?

Hmmm...they have a new admin:

http://atheismplus.com/forums/memberlis ... ofile&u=63

Site Admin
Username:BlagHag Location:SeattleGroups: Add friend Add foe
CONTACT BLAGHAG
Website:http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag

http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic ... 0&start=75

Y'all see tonight's A+ drama?

The Fucking Champs: Thor is Like Immortal

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BEHOLD. I bring you, the ZENITH OF THE SLYMEPIT!

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q= ... 07m&cmpt=q

lol

I'm not in the US - which may explain my views on expectations of government. The reason I'll never live in the US is because I don't think it's up to standard in terms of what I would expect of services from a first world country - I don't believe what I'd pay for in taxes would get me what I felt...

In fact if SJW addressed class issues I would be on board - such as things like access to legal services and mental health support. IMO, that sort of stuff is "SJ 101" (in A+-speak.) There's also stuff like this: http://www.cvent.com/events/9th-national-harm-reduction-conference-from-public-health-...

Can I get a definition of SJW as it's used here? I know what it stands for, but I consider UHC activism to be a social justice thing, and consider people like Margaret Flowers to be *actual* SJWs: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/profile3.html What is UHC btw? Universal health care. I don...

jimthepleb wrote:
incognito wrote:Can I get a definition of SJW as it's used here? I know what it stands for, but I consider UHC activism to be a social justice thing, and consider people like Margaret Flowers to be *actual* SJWs:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052 ... file3.html
What is UHC btw?

Universal health care.

Can I get a definition of SJW as it's used here? I know what it stands for, but I consider UHC activism to be a social justice thing, and consider people like Margaret Flowers to be *actual* SJWs: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052010/profile3.html I can't, and I am not, speaking for anyone he...

I do believe it would be an accurate characterization of my opinion to say that I, personally, do not find any of the FTBloggers very intellectually stimulating, cognitively challenging, persuasive, or entertaining.

Can I get a definition of SJW as it's used here? I know what it stands for, but I consider UHC activism to be a social justice thing, and consider people like Margaret Flowers to be *actual* SJWs:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/02052 ... file3.html

1) How can skepticism determine whether or not it's wrong to cause people pain? 2) I'm a skeptic who is also a feminist. For me, feminism is about countering misogyny primarily. This is a pretty good explanation: http://dispatchesfromtheclaphamomnibus.blogspot.com/2011/12/towards-defining-darwinian-...

Nope. I don't see the Pit as a solid entity, but as a collection of individuals, many of which are amenable to persuasion. Think of it as a cocktail party, with lots of different people and entrees, and I'm trying to persuade the people munching on fish and chips to try the lobster. Pub, fuckdarnit...

In theory, Welch could actually be Dawkins, yes?

Am I missing something obvious to the rest of you but invisible to me? Are we only allowed to post on one site? I regularly post on several different forums. Just because a new forum opens doesn't mean you have to abandon this one. I am not getting my knickers in a twist over a few crude jokes on h...

Am I missing something obvious to the rest of you but invisible to me? Are we only allowed to post on one site? I regularly post on several different forums. Just because a new forum opens doesn't mean you have to abandon this one. I am not getting my knickers in a twist over a few crude jokes on h...

Hey, I'm not threatening to flounce! You are stuck with me! What I'm suggesting is that having an additional site is not a bad idea. Have Szan et al 'won'? Of course they haven't. But you are deluding yourself if you don't realize that their tactic of guilt by association combined with accusations ...

This is fun to play around with:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q= ... 08m&cmpt=q

Oh! Then even easier-- Humans are a dead-end host for Rabies. Epic loss to HIV. :) So HIV could heave been in humans all along unnoticed until current modern medical technology? No. Babies/children who are infected with it as fetuses die from it quickly (usually before age 5 without antiretroviral ...

HPVs are amazingly successful. Most people have their own invisible microflora of them.

ShadowOfTheWickerman wrote:You didn't get to the best part, Vacula/

TLDR: Straight sex is unnatural, and part of a male conspiracy against women.

WOW!

That is really...something else. :shock:

Why do you need to have had shingles... I just had to have had chicken pox, and I'm not even sure I'd have to prove that since just about everybody here got them when I was a kid. I was told about it recently and will likely get it my next time at the doctors and I haven't had shingles yet. They us...

Is "invisiblizes" a real word?

Looks like some of you have provided Stephanie Zvan with plenty of ammo to give her an easy job of getting moderates to hate this place. Nice one! The fact that I'd hardly seen any of it just shows how much I skim over that kind of nonsense. Yes, I know they're hypocritical but for God's sake - ris...

And infowars.com.

Some dirtbag ditchpig from Toiletbowl's blog (http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2013/02/01/there-can-be-no-khitomer-accord/#comment-101166) is claiming that the statement that Rebecca Watson got, which said â€œyou deserve to be raped, tortured and killed.â€ came from the Pit. And Wowbagger i...

What's the argument against moral relativity? http://155.97.32.9/~bbenham/Phil%201000%20Fall%2008/James%20Rachels.pdf I don't find those arguments compelling at all. The main objections are that the implications are disturbing, and that some types of morality are certainly the result of natural sel...

What's the argument against moral relativity?

Incognito, sorry for the late response, I was madly busy at work the last couple days. It's an issue of values in the sense that it deals with what should be as opposed to what is . Science deals with what is; ethics deals with what should be, and is a matter of values, and can be informed by scien...

Followed a Skepchick link over to a presentation at secularwoman.org titled "Opportunity and Access in the Freethought Movement." Includes this helpful diagram, which "illustrates the difference between treating everyone the same and treating everyone with fairness with respect to their differing n...

I would see them placing a higher value on family and community as being a potential consequence of risk aversion. Why would they be more risk averse? Because evo psych ;) Everything I'm reading/finding about risk aversion and gender differences relates to economics. But in that case, the risk has ...

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