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

zenbabe wrote:... my box here is open and untainted...

*pffft*

I do think it's smarter to stay offline if you're suffering from a mental illness or limit your interactions (especially on the subject) to forums dedicated to the subject. But I suppose YMMV. I can see how that might be best for some people if what they want is a community of likeminded folks. To ...

If Jen Mcreight really is depressed then I feel a bit bad for her. Depression is wank, but she doesn't do herself any favours at all with all this "pity-me-I'm-a-tortured-voice-of-this-generation" shite. I was thinking that too, she seems completely fucked up. Paging Chris Crocker! Chris Crocker to...

Some time last year, a vendor called my companyâ€™s main number and asked to be transferred to the Director of Technology. The call was transferred to me, I answered it with my name and â€œhow can I help you?â€, as I always do. The man on the other end of the line quickly said â€œOh, yes, Iâ€™m so...

Shit just got real - Lindsay has the temerity to throw a retort at Queen Bee: https://twitter.com/RALindsay/status/335462982622511104 This is priceless, Watson falling out the President and CEO of CFI within the first 30 mins :) Also worth noting she's criticised what he said on Twitter rather than...

This doesn't hurt my head now that I know how keen to misrepresent people Marcotte is: Amanda Marcotte â€@AmandaMarcotte 4m In my experience, a lot of creationist fundies somehow still embrace evo psych. Always entertaining! #WISCFI Hold on to your hat then. I reared up on my hind legs here: http:...

jmpea81 wrote:
cunt wrote:Surly Amy on stage now, debunking homeopathy for the 1,000,000th time.
Next up: A talk on Big Foot skepticism, followed by a panel of people who are skeptical of Bigfoot skepticism from a feminist perspective.

"Is it sexist to expect Bigfoot to shave?"

Surly Amy on stage now, debunking homeopathy for the 1,000,000th time. I've had to explain homeopathy to clinicians. When I ask graduate students if they know what it means, very few do. Until it means the same thing as "snake oil" to most anyone who walks into the corner druggist, this talk needs ...

Surly Amy on stage now, debunking homeopathy for the 1,000,000th time. I've had to explain homeopathy to clinicians. When I ask graduate students if they know what it means, very few do. Until it means the same thing as "snake oil" to most anyone who walks into the corner druggist, this talk needs ...

This doesn't hurt my head now that I know how keen to misrepresent people Marcotte is:

Amanda Marcotte â€@AmandaMarcotte 4m
In my experience, a lot of creationist fundies somehow still embrace evo psych. Always entertaining! #WISCFI

Vacula's Twitter feed is quite interesting at the moment (cf. Zvan's). Looks like Ron Lindsay stands a good chance of being the next Witch of the Week. snap! Looking at the hashtag, it seems Vacula is the only one who liked it. It has gone down like a lead balloon with Zvan, Lee, Marcotte, Myers...

Vacula's Twitter feed is quite interesting at the moment (cf. Zvan's). Looks like Ron Lindsay stands a good chance of being the next Witch of the Week.

@Elevatorgate is a genuine troll, best ignored (like that will ever happen). LOL at the incomprehensible header of Oolon's BlockBot: Helping you ignore people from annoyance to bigot on Twitter Nice one Oolon. I wonder...Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more ...

On Dawkins and the Courtier's reply: (I've been ummm-ing and ahhh-ing about saying this for a few days now.) I think the Courtier's reply is a valid rebuttal to people who point to theological sources in response to Dawkins' arguments about the nonexistence of God. The issue I take however is that ...

On Dawkins and the Courtier's reply: (I've been ummm-ing and ahhh-ing about saying this for a few days now.) I think the Courtier's reply is a valid rebuttal to people who point to theological sources in response to Dawkins' arguments about the nonexistence of God. The issue I take however is that D...

ERV wrote:
cunt wrote:What's it being efficient at doing?
Im trying for controlled chaos/strategic randomness, but sometimes this randomness leads to death because of a shit part (its just a limitation of todays technology- it will get better over time) and it pisses me off.

Sounds like stochastic terrorism to me.

I'd add that if you were to have been looking at PZ as an academic when he was at the same career stage as Abbie is now (for e.g.) he would have a very respectable set of papers (one of them in Nature FFS). Academic research has a bit of a pyramid structure. Of the many productive young research sci...

That CV just can't be up to date, can it? He's really published no papers since 2002? Brought no grant money to the university since then either? How does he still have a job? They don't give tenure to assistant professors, do they? A cursory googling gives me results from Crackergate claiming that...

Being an atheist means you can no longer learn your moral code by rote and tradition and obedience to authority*, but have to rely on reason and empathy and greater human goals, and you donâ€™t get to justify actions simply because they â€œfeelâ€ right or good â€” you have to support them with evi...

I guess PZ swallowed the whole Sam Harris brand Objective Morality thing?

Being an atheist means you can no longer learn your moral code by rote and tradition and obedience to authority*, but have to rely on reason and empathy and greater human goals, and you donâ€™t get to justify actions simply because they â€œfeelâ€ right or good â€” you have to support them with evi...

bovarchist wrote:
rayshul wrote:300 women and JV. Just 300 going to WiS, though? That seems silly-small.
That's not silly. THAT..IS..SPARTA!!!

My bet is that Justin Vacula gets kicked down a well before the end of day 1.

Re: 'Is Justin worried about the characterization in the Houston Chronicle article' It would have been nice if the reporter reached out to me rather than first quoting an odd line from a piece I had written months ago which was in response to Marcotte's claim about atheism being 'consistent' with f...

Actually, it is quite interesting that the JREF have a PToS-like thread that only ever gets attention in the A+ forum. I guess it doesn't sound scary like "Slymepit" does:

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=242361

Or two. I don't feel, and never felt, that the Slymepit is particularily harsh. Quite the contrary. In other forums there are flame wars all the time. Or just by comparison: FreeThoughtBlogs comment sections are dripping of hatred. Even normal comment sections often get more heated than it is in he...

FYI Justin this article still makes you look awful : Places such as forums at Slymepit.com and the site A Voice for Men are countering Women in Secularismâ€™s claim that atheism and feminism fit together hand-in-glove. As Justin Vacula of Skeptic Ink Network said in response to another piece from co...

The quote in question - a response to Amanda Marcotte's nonsense http://www.skepticink.com/justinvacula/2012/08/13/atheism-has-nothing-to-do-with-feminism-or-pro-choice-positions/ I fail to see how refusing to believe in God leads to â€˜the logical conclusionâ€™ of abandoning the belief that women ...

Or maybe not, hmmm... my impression from before was that colours are removed from quoted sections.

Damn you all to fucking hell jjbinx .... spoiler alert or not, my eye still caught the villain's name as I was scrolling past. So much for that movie. You just had to do it, didn't you? Fucker. Sorry :-( There's no spoiler tag any more. Hmm... I wonder - could we use white text in future for spoile...

Pz is culpable for his readers comments because he chooses not to moderate them when is perfectly happy to moderate others. Thus signalling that he approves of them implicitly. This is the core of his hypocrisy, and his cowardice. It's sickening to see what a maggot the former giant has become in a...

Southern wrote:Can we all get a file too?

I like to imagine Lsuoma's sister-in-lawyer has a file on each member here.

I also like to imagine that when he goes to her for legal advice on running the 'pit she sighs... deeply.

The stuff that PZ posts is starting to remind me of the Glenn Beck rape/murder slur from a few years back.

LOL, PZ is mad at Justicar http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/12/justicarintegralmath-wretched-skeevy-piece-of-internet-offal/ Good god. I was just sent a link to this disingenuous youtube video by the above named scumbag in which he lectures Jen McCreight on â€œsecurityâ€, claiming th...

My guess for the Ftb shut down is to redo the site, taking down the blog slots for those that have left and putting the noobs up. All but the most incompetent admins will put up a notice of why the site is down. Now, can someone remind me who the webdisaster is for FfTB? I doubt that's it. If I do ...

Southern wrote:
Barael wrote:
Tigzy wrote:I do find it kind of ironic that took a mod - Bradley Wiggins - to win the Tour De France without taking any drugs.
Is that like the Special Olympics version of Tour de France?
Is the deliberate Tour de France?

Trifle everywhere.

Aneris wrote:Btw, what happened to Wonderist?

He's still reading that post I wrote.

Martha Gill at the New Statesman decides that she wants the internet SJW community to ineffectually kick towards her arse: http://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2013/05/capital-letters-affectedly-boisterous-sex-little-girl-voice-internet-feminists-all- CAPITAL LETTERS, affectedly boisterous sex, litt...

I challenge anyone to read this and not feel as old as fucking Fu Manchu: http://freethoughtblogs.com/brutereason/2013/05/08/excited-worried-scared-shitless-how-i-feel-about-moving/#comments I read it and felt like I've wasted two minutes of my life that I'll never get back. One of the most unneces...

The claim Ceepolk may be a sock has come up quite often here and on other sites (such as JREF) The persistent vitriol and complete lack of rationalism she consistently displays has been highly damaging to any cause A+ pretends to represent. I'm on the fence about it. I have seen enough deeply delud...

Bit of a tangential aside here, but I just noticed PZ referring to the film 'I Robot' as an "abomination" and it's kind of stopped me in my tracks. I'm wracking my brain trying to figure out what reasons a person could have to hate this film that badly. Sure it has flaws. Personally I found the gro...

d4m10n wrote:In Greta's latest post, she contravenes all of the good advice from her previous article about infighting.

Some serious us-vs-them in that one.

Gosh, some of the commenters on FtB are horrible misogynists.

"mission statement is limited to calling out and taking the piss out of bullshit" Yes, but that may also include bullshit like Justin and Karla's excuses for those WBC tweets. Of course its a small thing inviting those clowns to the conference, and PZ and Ophie are acting like Karla called in a str...

Haha, this is pure atheismplus comedy gold. AtheismTV uploads and video then goes to the AtheismPlus forum to put a link to it. http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4635 What could possible go wrong? Why are you so ableist? Granted, you're posting a video of someone with quite the abl...

cunt wrote:Let's give Justin the biggest medal. He could get the WBC to protest local funerals, but he doesn't, on account of his super-human levels of restraint.

Quite.

What a load of wank.

AtheismPlussers discuss which TV shows make them want to puke because of ableism/racism/patriarchy/anti-zombieism/etc. http://atheismplus.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4633 It starts out with The Walking Dead First and second seasons were chock full of gender essentialism and soon descends into th...

Oh, of course. The reason Sally Strange insists on being in an abusive relationship is because she's suffered the "gender role mind virus." Duh! Christopher Hitchens: Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently ...

AbsurdWalls wrote:
Dick Strawkins wrote:OK, I tried the previous Jamy Ian Swiss video but the audio was terrible.
I've tried to fix it by boosting the levels on both channels and have now reuploaded the talk.

[youtube]wbE5Kub3b5k[/youtube]
Most relevant part is probably from 32:10.

Bit that pertains directly to PZ is from 40:25.

Dick Strawkins wrote:OK, I tried the previous Jamy Ian Swiss video but the audio was terrible.
I've tried to fix it by boosting the levels on both channels and have now reuploaded the talk.

[youtube]wbE5Kub3b5k[/youtube]

Most relevant part is probably from 32:10.

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PZ leaves the skeptic movement

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This is an excellent talk.

On the issue of whether skepticism should address scientifically untestable claims, I'd say that it is important to differentiate between skepticism in the general sense of demanding evidence before assenting to a proposition and scientific skepticism in particular, which is a much narrower and mor...

I count myself as an atheist and a skeptic. My position is that the basic/broadest religious claims are not "testable" in the way they need to be for skepticism to take them apart. A lot of people are religious in a vague way that does not seem to rest on any empirical claims. Examples of religious...

I count myself as an atheist and a skeptic. My position is that the basic/broadest religious claims are not "testable" in the way they need to be for skepticism to take them apart. A lot of people are religious in a vague way that does not seem to rest on any empirical claims. Examples of religious ...

My latest if you're interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mdrQJXTwLo YER VIDYAS BOOOOORING :P also leading off with footage of a machine built only for war shows your obvious hostility and violence and ocean rape threats and tool of the patriarchy and sub culture In the future, I propose tha...

My latest if you're interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mdrQJXTwLo YER VIDYAS BOOOOORING :P also leading off with footage of a machine built only for war shows your obvious hostility and violence and ocean rape threats and tool of the patriarchy and sub culture In the future, I propose tha...

WELCHHHHHH! it's bloody hot! oppressive heat. fucking 89F (nearly 32C) by the ocean in SF! what the fuck? Take back your heat! I want my cool fog! I'd much rather have your cool fog instead of the twelve fucking inches of snow we got today. It's still snowing too. :obscene-hanged: Did you know that...

I've known people like her before (at least judging by first impressions). She seems happy and self-confident so more power to her for that, it is a personality type that tends to grate on people who have complicated attitudes towards their own abilities (i.e. people who would not publish their own ...

So FfTB added some shitty new blog, which is "proudly feminist and atheist", so there's some unexplored terrain. I got like halfway through the introductory post before my eyes just glazed over. Read one, read them all. Author of a self-published book. I imagine a lot of work goes into writing a bo...

I think people give him way too much credit for confronting the banana thing though. There wasn't exactly a load of other options. He could have made excuses, said it was a one off, or that he regrets it, or that the chick who filmed it blackmailed him, or whatever. I give him credit for saying yea...

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