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

Has anyone posted this yet? I can't keep up these days!

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Stoopid fingers. I have no idea why "Sagan" came out as "Sagain."

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ERV wrote:There was an open bar for speakers at FreeOK. I had a Heineken.

They didn't have any real beer? The horror.

Gah, you guys go so fast that by the time I catch up, the point I wanted to make has already been made! I wanted to add to the support of Sagain, though. His statement, "We are a way for the universe to know itself," is probably the essential seed of my atheism. It's not quite that simple, but if I ...

I took a look at Scientopia and saw Zuska but not Isis. Zuska... *shudder* She was actually the first blogger to accuse me of being misogynist. I had actually never read her blog before, but saw a link on the sciblogs homepage to a rant of hers about some new science award thingy, the nominees of w...

I have to say that the hysteria over people hooking up and having sex is very strange coming from a community (atheist, liberal, left, etc. ) that is usually criticised by the Conservative Right for their "open" attitudes on such issues. The Skepchicks and Baboons are acting very Fox News-like on t...

Noh mah gawd you guais. I think I can finally say this out loud. *deepbreath* I have a hang nail. My life has been a wreck for days. The experience has been so painful, physically and emotionally, I can barely function. I couldnt even go to the bank today. You all will be shocked to hear-- Along wi...

Unfortunately I was on the road and using my iPhone and not able to properly document it at the time, but I finally earned my Butterbeers & Weirdos Memory Hole & Bannination Badge!

You have far more patience than I, my dear. I wouldn't last 5 minutes without telling someone off. You have my respect and admiration. HA! No, I don't have a lick of patience. That gets me in trouble on a regular basis. I just stay here because of family. Case in point: I was a pallbearer at a fune...

Hang on a minute. I've just seen this quote on Ophelia's dumb shit blog: Ophelia Benson says: July 19, 2012 at 7:34 pm If a friend of mine send me an email like that I would never consider publishing it without talking to my friend first (yet another way in which I find myself sympathising with Amy...

The only times I do sympathise is when some pseudo-science guru uses someone's grief to betray them for money, be it homeopathic, or other bogus "cures", or those who claim to speak to the dead. Also if you deceive the elderly, or disabled, or children, or any animal. Basically if one has a disadva...

KiwiInOz wrote:Optimus Primate - I've been meaning to say that (going by your photo) it's a tragedy if you aren't in a metal band or don't have a pair of horns.

Ha! Thanks... I think. Unfortunately my singing voice is more Donald Fagen than Chuck Billy, and I'm too much of a pussy cat for horns. :)

Has it occurred to anyone else that we may becoming the bullies we are attacking? Maybe we are as bad to pile on and all laugh at Amy for freaking out over a T-shirt? What would you guys do if Surly Amy somehow chose to post on here to defend her side? Would you be willing to give her a listen? I'm...

Dilurk, the audio version of the story I linked addresses exactly that. The written article only covers the last bit of the original radio piece.

I'm just gonna leave this here: Sometimes, talking about sexism IS the problem.

For the love of goats, the subject line of this thread nearly made me have a heart attack. It's a long road from Justicar is pissed as this group to Justicar has fallen to the Dark Side.

Unfortunately, no. Can't afford it because my car went kerflooey. Also: Vegas is an absolute Aspie nightmare. Once a year for CES is enough for me.

I wish I could go, though! It's a long wait for the DVDs.

40-year-old Alabama boy here. I've been an atheist for about eleven years now. I come from a southern baptist upbringing, and am still surrounded by that culture. My path to deconversion was studying biology -- long a favorite topic, but one I didn't know much about. I found physics much easier to u...

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You bastard! I left my aura there.

Add "LIAR!" to the list. For, you know, telling the truth.

"we read FTB so you don't have to" I get the spirit of what you're saying there, Notung, but isn't this exactly what the FC5 do? Don't we stand in opposition to that mentality? I'm not saying you're actually advocating it, but I'm thinking the irony might be lost on most people. I point to this com...

Spence wrote:So guest posts are allowed as well then!

That, no doubt, is going to lead to some shenanigans.

Just a quick question to the ERV old hands. I've been a nameless lurker at ERV for a while and is the general consensus to use this board simply as a continuation of the original thread as of last night, or to try and broaden the scope? From what I have seen, there are ideas and personalities that ...

That is all.

There's this joke about a man who goes to a private dick because he suspects his wife is cheating on him, but he has some reasonable doubt. The dick trails the wife, comes back to the guy a few days later, and says, "I've got some bad news. When you left for work yesterday, you can see in the photos...