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

Serious engagement on an intellectual level became pointless long ago. Steers not withstanding. :lol: My sense of humour probably still needs some work, but I can still laugh at myself â€“ at times anyway, and even if through clenched teeth. Reminds me of a cartoon many moons ago about some cavalry...

Just watched Sherlock final. Can't believe I waited 18 months for a filler season. Still don't know how he "did it". Now another 18 months? Jesus I will die old before his gets sorted. As a tragic I will admit to visiting Bart's Hospital and watching the last bit of the season two finale in situ on ...

Be prepared to be disappointed then. http://i.imgur.com/LhatAEG.jpg Who'd a guessed? What does his ability to teach have to do with anything? In any event I have no reason to believe he is not a good teacher or a bad one for that matter. Students moan, big deal. Also, by UK standards, his salary is...

Life itself is naturally the highest level of education. The rest is mostly abstract mind games. Clever and often fun but increasingly vertical in nature. .... I was more amused in the comment above the one complaining about "too hard". Ie the one noting, in an otherwise positive review, that PZ bro...

Teaching is a difficult, tedious, repetitive job. It is also highly rewarding if you can manage to keep your passion for both what you're teaching and for the achievments of your students. For all that I hate Myers' SJL bullshit, so far I have no reason to not respect him as a teacher. If he's stil...

Sound like you're blowing smoke out your arse, son. Probably. I only have my limited experience assistant teaching kids. I know freshmen can be right bastards, but I have been reading PZ's student feedback on ratemyprofessor and a lot of the complaints are things like "isn't prepared" or "doesn't c...

Here is PZ's argument in welch like brevity.

http://i.imgur.com/b2oNHU8.jpg

Doesn't matter what metric you use you get 2x binary peaks and a middle ground into which SJ fits.

So sex is real! Except when it isn't!

I'd call that a win/win.

Relax, I won't pretend to have an opinion on this. But PZ has a post up on sex differences for the wonks.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... -are-real/

Fuck, how about just talking as if you have an INFORMED opinion. Ah "informed". That's a can of worms. A skeptic surely understands the difference between opinion and fancy vs announced fact. And enjoys the journey between the two. You don't have to stand mute, embarrassed by your part-formed views...

Since the topic of PZ's relative wealth seems to come up on a regular basis here, and since we're all supposedly skeptics who make arguments from evidence rather than pulling them from our asses, the Median Family Income for Morris (Stevens County) MN. for 2014 is calculated as $69,400. Source: htt...

Ok, I'll settle this. Tenure is crap. It is not "permanency" like other jobs. It's pretty much locked in stone, I'll teach Bigfoot in biology if I want clubism. Look anything PZ fights for this strongly is by default suspect. And here he fights for tenure trumping religion being taught in a public ...

The fumes are quite strong: I can't seem to be able to spell "acquired" properly. Oh, wait, I just did! It thought it was a European variation... There is no such thing as a European variation. American variation, on the other hand... :whistle: :lol: :whistle: Riiiight. This coming from a country w...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:The fumes are quite strong: I can't seem to be able to spell "acquired" properly. Oh, wait, I just did!

It thought it was a European variation...

Just an aside to the weighty subjects at hand. When Google Street View visited Morris they entered town on the main drag. They did not turn left. They did not turn right. They did not visit the university. But they did leave town .... using the main drag. I'm sure it means nothing. Just saying.

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:
Brive1987 wrote:Did I kill the 'pit?
No, that's usualy my job (which I don't get paid for, hence my low salary).

We had smelly French cheese and eggs for dinner tonight. Cremeux argental?

The kids were not impressed. :lol:

Did I kill the 'pit?

Ok maybe I was a bit strong there ....

Ok, I'll settle this. Tenure is crap. It is not "permanency" like other jobs. It's pretty much locked in stone, I'll teach Bigfoot in biology if I want clubism. Look anything PZ fights for this strongly is by default suspect. And here he fights for tenure trumping religion being taught in a public u...

... only one in 20 academics will get tenure.

I'm sure the odds improve as you lower the bar ...

http://i.imgur.com/hnNlU0j.jpg

Welcome to Morris. Please ensure the horse remains tethered at all times.

Popular young (39) workmate died in a car crash yesterday. I've lost both parents, so I know how life works - but it's a bit poignant when staff are erupting in tears with his workstation still logged in Bummer. Ouch, sorry to hear that. My sympathies. Thanks, and ianfc Shit day actually as I've ju...

For Jenny Agutter fans, if you haven't seen American Werewolf in London, see American Werewolf in London. It's werewolf effects still hold up today, in fact, quite well, because today, it would all be done in craptacular CGI. The werewolf effects were so good, it inspired Thriller. That movie scarr...

Popular young (39) workmate died in a car crash yesterday. I've lost both parents, so I know how life works - but it's a bit poignant when staff are erupting in tears with his workstation still logged in

Bummer.

Ahh, so that's where our brave hero ended up ....

But please. Cease and desist. Or else.

In Watson's new (low)rent money video she is horrified, yes horrified, that anyone would selectively use DMCA to take down images being used to illustrate criticism.

How is JustinV these days?

There were actually some pearls in the Watson / Amy podcast from a day ago. 'I was a copywriter - I was really good at the job. So good that I saved enough money to quit my job and become a full time activist 4 years ago.' I kid you not. She also plugged her Patreon by extolling the non existent mon...

Watson' not at WiS3?

I'd have assumed after the North Korea showdown her not being there would be the one thing she and Ron could strongly agree on. If she has one rule it's never to drop a grudge. TAM anyone?

Next to see if PZ agrees to reprise his role as a human FC for the n.

Sastra seems pretty diffident about whether they are talking organised ideological based movement or just actively following the tenets of an alternative worldview/value system to theistic deontology.

I don't think she even knows. Just that there .. Must ... Be ... More.

Saw RW was shilling an appearance she and Amy made on a podcast (legion of reason) a day ago - ie during stupid-gate. Thought it might be interesting. What a dumb shit. I am. The following is a fairly accurate outline of what happened during the two mins I lasted. ................................ Ho...

It was Novella who successfully turned the hose on Amy and Harriet Hall after tee-shirt gate. Time to call Daddy again me thinks. I would love to see him repeat that performance with Grimalkin. Would be pure mental alchemy. http://skepchick.org/2013/02/chicks-tough-old-hens-and-roosters-oh-and-t-shi...

Given RW's latest drubbing by the coven, it is worth a giggle to reflect on her views on A+ back when it was shiny and new: (A Plus) Thereâ€™s a lot of momentum, and Jen is going to do something great and positive with it. ... seems to be an actual organization that Jen is setting up, focused on iss...

PZ notes:

By the way, the people who do the tech stuff for FtB all happen to be men

Now all we need is for an FtB crazy to emerge and be triggered by this callous binarist rejection of the fluidity of social gender constructs. Oh what larks.

That Watson article made no sense at all (nonsense?). It sought, but failed to find any coherence. But on another note: it appear you need a licence to drive but can stuff up the lives of your kids without remit. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559748/If-Max-wants-wear-pink-tutu-fairy-wings...

Re A+ I'm waiting for Jen to come and sort things out. Right after she's finished trick or treating. Back on PZ's there is a new level of stupid. I notice though he is keeping well clear of Rebecca for once. Wouldn't want those crazies joining forces with Caine and Oggie.... Exhibit A: http://i.imgu...

Jesus, I just waded thru the Canuck's article. It put Steers into the concise and punchy bracket. And what the hell did that auto erotic biographic erotic spiel amount too? Some words have "too many meanings rolled up into a single word for that word to have any utility". Cool. Which ones? Oh. I see.

Guestus Aurelius wrote:I have to say, I'm rather impressed with Grimalkin. S/h/it's one of the most deluded of the lot, to be sure, but s/h/it's also more courageous and more intelligent than most of these... people.

I support Grimalkin.

"Team Grimalkin" rulz

:popcorn:

I guess I just came across as insensitive.

Hee hee hee.

So here's my take, for what it's worth. In and of itself, if we decouple it from the author, watson's piece is, although poorly written, not a bad piece. A lot of what she says makes sense, like this part: Iâ€™ve been triggered once before and it was extremely unpleasant, to the point that I laid i...

Long term gain makes short term pain OK

The more A+ we have in FtB and Skepchick the better!

:dance:

On some strange level I think I love grimalkin. It did not dare speak its name until now. I feel so ... conflicted. Seriously. S/h/it's Teen Skepchick article is a wonderful thing of joyful beauty. Once I got over her ridiculous opening ideological assumptions, all I could do was read, nod and blow ...

NTP Reflection is an attack against a server, not a site. Still not enough here to justify their victim stance. You know that sites live on servers, right? And if you attack the server viciously enough, you consume sufficient resources that the server is unable to service requests, right? I'm begin...

Thanks, Dick. So the wheels keep turning huh.

I can't believe she recycled the 'tail' story.

We are blocked in OZ, so does anyone know whether RW is still writing her popsci articles? If not is there a back story beyond the obvious?

PZ couldn't give a flying fuck about Iraqi bombers - until they give him an opportunity to exude white man's shame and moral superiority over his first world peers.

. Back to the main game. Becky has her new Patreon supported vid up - it's public so check it out yourselves if desired. Loaded 9 hours a go, she still has her "blue steel" look in place from stupid-gate. Now after having skipped a video last Monday/Tuesday we could probably expect an opus. Certainl...

In the land of the nerds, the double â€œxâ€ chromosome is queen. The lack of women getting actively involved in skepticism has led to a peculiar deification of any female brave enough to dive into debates, engage in philosophical arguments, or just withstand the flirtatious banter that permeates o...

Skepchick - I read the entire post. Ugg.

Started off amazed, rose to mirth and descended to a feeling of depressed voyeurism. It really was like viewing time at bedlam in the 19th century.

I've said it before; these people need serious clinical intervention.

...Ape+Lust, you need to get into this business professionally. Your words are hilarious, your shoops are without fault, multi-leveled, and funny^infinity. Dude, if you told me you could bake the perfect German-style apple pie, I would propose to you on the spot. A world with you in it needs more o...

I assume "Pearl-clutching outrage junkies" = FCn? Annnnd the horns meet.

After the pure delight of this thread I was struck by two things. Firstly I had noted the "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" quality of Amy's original Valentines Day post. Her anger was pretty flailing and I'm not surprised A Plus picked up on this lack of control and applied their own wrapper to it...

After the pure delight of this thread I was struck by two things. Firstly I had noted the "One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" quality of Amy's original Valentines Day post. Her anger was pretty flailing and I'm not surprised A Plus picked up on this lack of control and applied their own wrapper to it....

My god, I go to bed and wake up to this? Stupid-gate? It just yesterday that I noted: Re "stupid is as stupid does". Pretty soon the SJW will be so constrained in their use of language that they will just stare stupidly at each other, unable to construct an ideologically pure sentence. For most that...

Myers is back from his creation fair crusade. 24 exhibits in a corridor. The only creationist aspect was "the requirement to include a Bible verse on the poster."

You go boy. Lucky he wasn't escorted out as a creepy threat.

Thanks, interesting article. I think the variety of approaches show it's early days. I really do believe though that a Baz Luhrmann approach is needed to survive: Outwardly a frenetic circus of colour and movement but actually underpinned by coldly efficiently planning and processes. And that all st...

It's all a scam, a scam I say. Completely agree with your points. I'm interested by patreon because it really demands substance and thinking to make it work. My points were as much about a valid patreon strategy as anything else, obviously using BeckyBoo as a case study (in failure). how many aothe...

James Caruthers wrote:It's all a scam, a scam I say.

Completely agree with your points.

I'm interested by patreon because it really demands substance and thinking to make it work. My points were as much about a valid patreon strategy as anything else, obviously using BeckyBoo as a case study (in failure).

Oh who gives a fuck. Jesus, sometimes it's okay to just laugh at something without spending anytime figuring out how it's going to fuck you over. Crap, and this is the place calling FTB et al humorless ? Ye fucking gods. I bet you're that guy, aren't you. I'm laughing now. :lol: Does that count? ;)

[youtube]cbUa1mFM-LM[/youtube] If i'm posting it, assume not safe for work, okay? Note to the ladies. Just 'cause you come across a vat of shit doesn't mean you have to roll in it. You just provided a free service to the subset who thrive on granny-porn. ........... Self evident fact of the day: se...

Finally, let's not forget this is no hobby for RW. This is her 9-5, build your future, "mommy what did you grow up to be" career.

It's an embarrassment for thinking people everywhere. Life coach advice: get serious on an adult level about something. Anything.

Garlic wrote:The Slymepit in a nutshell: a 1000-words essay to explain in excruciating detail how deeply uninteresting Rebecca Watson is.

Garlic, *sniff*, you stink.

High five, Jesters dead.

Brive, I think that her enemy as always is her laziness. She has had so many opportunities to make a living from skepticism but she has lost interest. For Patreon generally, I think that it is too expensive. A dollar an episode is cheap if I want to support somebody I admire but as more people do s...

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