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

Aratina is here on a fishing expedition, I think.

He will probably try a few different types of bait, in the hope that he will stumble across someone having a bad day who will write something that he can represent as a threat that he can keep up his sleeve.

In better news, ISIS has been chased out of Kobané by the Kurds. Scenes of joy all around the streets. Maybe the beginning of the end for those fuckers? While it is a strategic setback I doubt that it is the begining of the end as far as the morale of the fighters and police are concerned. However...

jimmy wrote: I spent some time as a member of ummah. I found it fascinating/entertaining, if often sickening. Learned a lot about the various "types" of Muslim, even within the Sunni sect. Anybody who visits there should know that you have to create an account to get to see the really juicy stuff. ...

Unfortunately not. Trigger warning- the following thread may cause islamophobia: http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?429542-Je-Suis-Charlie-You-ve-now-helped-insult-Prophet-Mohammed-%28saw%29-again I would say that Islamophobia is a pretty rational reaction to Islam. I was actually not Islamo...

I don't follow the Patheos bloggers regularly, and more often than not, I read them by following a link from a tweet or from here. It seems to me, that up until a few months ago, the comments sections were open warfare between pitters and FTB SJW's. Lately though, I sense a lack of SJW voices. It ap...

I made some posts earlier today at PZ's place, and I get no error/info messages, but my posts don't appear. In the old days, I'm sure there used to be a way you could tell if your posts were being manually approved or not. My posts yesterday were appearing immediately. Anybody have any idea what thi...

In the interests of something or other, I would like to declare that I am the user "firsttimereader" over at FTB. I haven't posted there for ages, but happened to follow a link to it yesterday. I only mentioned it because sally and one or two others seem to address me and "fake PZ" together once or ...

Aneris wrote:*something more that is interesting by him (the lecture on human behaviourial bio was excellent, still watching the parts).

My favourite comment on one of those videos:
"Sapolsky is a fucking ninja,man"

Out of interest, does anyone actually watch the stuff I shared? (i.e. should I bother? No hard feelings, just curious :)) Sometimes I watch, sometimes I don't have the time to devote ~an hour to watch, sometimes I want to turn my brain off and simply look at 'shops. But I always appreciate the oppo...

Tribble, I am glad you are addressing this oft cited but unsupported assertion that only 2% of rape claims are false. OTOH, the DoJ did a study on DNA evidence in rape cases. What they found in a population of 10,000 cases where the accused had been identified and was a person of interest or charge...

I'll ignore the embarrassing and overly obvious sarcasm but if you cant see the inconsistencies then you're just being willfully ignorant. You don't ignore something by referring to it. You couldn't take the time to actually take my arguments seriously? I'm calling troll. I expected as much. Go bac...

In other news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-fr ... e-23227452

Do we need a whip round for Mr Vacula to hop over and sort this out.

Many criticize his style, but @ElevatorGate is great at digging up all kinds of stupid. I'm not quite sure how he does it. A great example is the following individual, who jumps straight to "racism" when evidence leads health orgs to determine that certain ethnicities are at higher risks of certain...

It was through Maryam's blog and I think a poster on here that I found the council of ex-muslims forum. http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=8210f72fe87eb331d52a6e8a16de509e&action=forum It offers a fascinating insight into the world of (mostly) young people in Islamic families who ...

Thanks for sticking your words and your retarded, congenital-asshole shit in my mouth. The costume doesn't work beyond she is clearly going to seed as her party-hard, couch-potato-life is taking it's toll. Not everyone thinks abortion is 'funny.' Even if we are pro-choice. Or gross-ass shit like Qu...

BAAHAHAHAHAA...Oh Dave2 just politely and thoroughly shut Oolio down...HARD..on his "you should post this at pharyngula fapfapfap" shit. Complete with examples of why there's no point. He's being thoroughly decent about me for the most part. http://www.oolon.co.uk/?p=375 He's been nice to you on yo...

I just meant which cultures would think that. I imagine she is referring to an actual culture (and not the Slymepit). I would assume that societies where Sharia is common is the idea - the cultures where they say men cannot control themselves and women have to be covered so that they do not drive m...

Congratulations to Andy Murray! Andy Murray made it possible Sunday, winning his country's hallowed tennis tournament to become the first British man in 77 years to raise the trophy at the All England Club. He's from Scotland, but nevertheless a good day for the entire UK. [Now back to your regular...

So, yeah...I was perusing one of the Puertorican paper websites this morning and looky looky...the O.T. with the self-harm fetish is there! Does this person not know that Lego is a tool of the patriarchy. Surely she must have missed this important information from one of the great feminist scholars...

There was a thread on JREF following Rebecca Watson's Evopsych talk where I posed the question: can you give me an example of a significant advancement to science or valuable finding from evolutionary psychology? I never got an answer. This would not be a difficult question for biology, psychology,...

Vaguely interesting thing i learned today. While following the Ally/Paul Elam squabble, this quote kind of stands out by Elam. " I’d like to make it the objective for the remainder of this month, and all the Octobers that follow, for men who are being attacked and physically abused by women - to ...

Vaguely interesting thing i learned today. While following the Ally/Paul Elam squabble, this quote kind of stands out by Elam. " I’d like to make it the objective for the remainder of this month, and all the Octobers that follow, for men who are being attacked and physically abused by women - to ...

I say Lsuoma. People like Renee will self-identify as invaluable assets to the team, and it's not like we have to tell her 'no, and fuck off!!!' Seriously, go for the NO $$$ policy. That shit is cancer. Lsuoma is right as fuck about that. If you're putting in hard work writing about what you're tal...

Elam responds to the previous Fogg article: Ally Fogg: liar’s harem http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/ally-foggs-pants-are-on-fire/ Fogg responds: http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat/2013/07/03/dear-paul-elam/ Thoughts: There wasn't much substance in Elam's long winded rant, so an easy defense ...

For those of you bored by the current topics, some distractions: Judgy Bitch does victim blaming: Drunk chick gets in car with man she doesn’t know to do a line of coke, ends up getting raped. Totally didn’t see that coming! Utterly shocked that Grand Jury won’t indict! The state of rape in t...

Acathode, Hello, I'm a vegetarian and the thought process leading to me being one is as follows: Me: Hmm I have been eating meat since a very young age, it tastes nice, but it's a shame about all the death and destruction and terrible use of resources, I will check out the reasons why people eat me...

FWIW, Atheist Ireland uploaded several videos of talks from the EWTS2013 conference w/in the last few hours: http://www.youtube.com/user/AtheistIreland/videos?view=0&sort=dd&tag_id=&shelf_index=3 And ~12 hrs ago CFI uploaded a couple of videos from talks at WiS2: http://www.youtube.com/user/centerf...

Yea I read about oolon, I was lurking here for a while but didn't put the two together. Thanks. Can't remember Jimmy from south Park, I remember Timmy. Hmm I'll go and take a look now. [youtube]0qzv88nBoTI[/youtube] Just one of many. He does stand-up comedy and was involved in the "cripple fight" T...

*Note that I'm talking about a subset of vegans/vegetarians here, not all of them. There's plenty of reasons why people are vegetarians, only some of them are part of the angry (teenage) vegan/vegetarian subculture who ran (still run?) around yelling "MEAT IS MURDER!!!!!", and which often intersect...

Yea I read about oolon, I was lurking here for a while but didn't put the two together. Thanks. Can't remember Jimmy from south Park, I remember Timmy. Hmm I'll go and take a look now. Welcome to the Pit, jimmy. I think you'll find this little corner of the internet is full of warm, loving, caring,...

Oh and I am curious, do all forums include a waving santa clause shit as a smiley option, or is this a special adaptation by "dear leader"? :hankey: That's the 'oolon' smiley. If you know about oolon you will understand. Also known as Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo from South Park. South Park also ha...

We've all had shitty things happen to us. Fuck me, I used to have a job where I narrowly avoided being killed or maimed on numerous occasions and people I know died or were severely injured. Once my friend had his foot severed above the ankle as he stood next to me, but I didn't go doo-lally when E...

@aycenne If you return, just a quick note to say I agreed with one of your remarks at day one of the conference. You said (paraphrasing) that you think that if feminist men want to make a difference then they should try to convince other men to be feminist. This messageboard, is not a 'feminist' si...

This is my first post, so hello everyone! I was lurking for a while and registered a week ago so that I could make us of some features. I'm gonna us my first post to congratulate Justin on his good work reporting from the conference. Especially by providing some interesting interviews from speakers....