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

https://twitter.com/EllenBethWachs/status/353882563351293952 Guesses, anyone? oolon! In all seriousness, that is creepy as hell that whoever that person is they got her info and contacted her. As for the evopsych debate, it's good to see actual scientists speaking up now, because often I think evop...

In response to 16bitheretic (http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=107740#p107740), and others, who have occasionally, over the last year or so, posted this quote from that pathetic pimple Greg Laden, implying that it is a serious statement: It is just that I am a very large, muscular man w...

16bit, can you do this? http://www.teamjimmyjoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Independance-Day.jpg Only if I can clear the rights for this as the background music: "Light Your Ass on Fire" by Busta Rhymes And I might need to do as much heroin as Steve-O as well ^_^ Apparently the haters lost, as t...

http://i.imgur.com/bs4I5C1.png It is just that I am a very large, muscular man with martial arts training who never goes anywhere without my pit bull, and I always carry a gun. I am also famous for kicking ass, generally. Not that I'm necessarily saying that the presence of a very large, muscular, ...

Even though I still haven't cracked open my copy of the new Lawrence Krauss book yet, I'll give this one a read.

There's people spending a holiday listening to a panel with PZ, Svan, Greg Laden and Amanda Marcotte giving an evopsych talk? I think I'd have more intellectual stimulation by sticking firecrackers up my ass and lighting them.

So I'm looking through Justin's ETWS conference Tweets and I'm floored, absolutely floored, by the high level of in-depth discourse I can piece together from the talking points: -sexism hurts both genders -men and women need to work together -education is necessary to overcome gender inequality I'm ...

Well, it will be 4am soon, so go and harass someone waiting for an elevator. Bonus points if they're called Ophelia Benson. Naaah, Watson has probably spent all day pestering Nugent to set up a skype link in the elevator. Nah, that requires the use of a dongle, and we all know how that turns out.

Maybe she just couldn't make it through the TSA checkpoints....

A post I tried to make earlier, but the Pit went down between the time I started it and finished it: I'm not sure why any "relevant background" would be required or why people act as if this is a difficult area that really requires a lot of expertise. I'd say church/state separation can require expe...

"The harassers of women, the slymepitters, are bad people."

Wasn't this site founded because of two women being harassed by those who now so casually toss around the harassment narrative?

Oh wait, fuck facts and shit, LOL!

The list things are useful, trying to casually browse here to get caught up is impossible. I find the CFI/FTB/Skepchick to be more of the same old shit witch-hunting. It's practically cliche at this stage. I'm quite intrigued by American Atheists getting sued by AJ after Silverman actually dared to ...

I represent cultural revival, the rebuilding of American culture from the ground up. The one thing that can be said for the Supreme Court getting on board with the insanity of â€œgay marriageâ€ is that it makes my job easier. It makes it easier to promote my message that mainstream culture is hope...

So, um, been gone a few months thanks to real life stuff happening....what's up people?

I'm really out of the loop, but then I listened to that Brave Hero podcast with David Silverman, the more shit changes the more it stays the same...

Humbug. Complementary reproductive systems don't tell you anything about roles. In fact, early humans evolved as social animals that survived in small groups. We can see the same in primates. Traditional family roles are nonsense from an evolutionary perspective.... ...Later, families also weren't ...

At the moment it's nearly easier to sneak into North Korea than it is to get a comment on Nugents 'dialogue' site. And I had fully intended to participate more, but the very structure and rules I feel have stifled conversation and stalled talk on points on non-relevance to the bigger picture. Judgi...

franc wrote:I'll just leave this here -

Evangeline = Eucliwood

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I see during my absence we've still got Carrier crying and moaning about negative votes on a youtube video (poor wittle baby, does wittle wichard need his ba-ba?) and we're seeing a prime case of going "Full Setar" in action. Setar is seriously at this point showing himself to be the type of liberal...

-The Dawkins vid was awesome, I had no idea that the laws of physics were privileging certain speeds or states of molecular density. Perhaps relativity needs to check it's privilege! -Martin Wagner is a furry? And a furry, of all things, is on the internet claiming someone else is a 35 year old virg...

Christian video on Atheism+dogma : [youtube]jY_QoiLq2HM[youtube] And, yes, it's the same guy made famous by Desertphile : Gravity! I've never seen this guy on YT before, but coming from a theist like him it's funny that his position on A+, the crap that came out of the AA 50th Anniversary Con, the ...

I know some of you hate Photoshops, but after Dick Stawkins found PZ's blog post linking to Japanese tentacle hentai porn, I couldn't resist:
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Reading some of this stuff reinforces to me that I think TWRA philosophy overstates the importance of gender and understates the importance of individual traits, culture and education. Sure on a population-wide scale we can see tendencies that divide along gender lines, but there's always outliers t...

Androgynous is a vert apt descriptor of some elements of Japan's pop-culture such as J-rock (also Korean-pop boy bands for that matter). For example, this is actually a guy:
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Is it racist for me to say they all look the same? If you're talking about general appearance and not faces then I don't think so. That club clearly aims to have all their men go for a specific look: black suit with open button white shirt underneath, manga-ish hairstyle, arched and trimmed eyebrow...

Aren't host clubs about renting men out to women? Oh yeah, they have those too: http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u580/16bitheretic/c6e3cbc1fa7f850df3e36bbd153caa5e1237945439_full_zps7eb4cf64.jpg Beyond that they even have clubs where people who aren't allowed to have animals in their apartments ...

http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p605/BarnOwlTX/ScreenShot2013-04-06at52224AM_zps030ba3b1.png Wow... So Japanese culture, in it's entirety, can be summed up in one word because of a very niche-within-a-niche segment of one element of their porn industry? No mentions of how tentacle porn is often...

Just as a side note, not every atheist believes in evolution. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true. Look up Raelians or people who think we are code in some type of Matrix simulation. In fact I have lately been seeing more and more of these people proposing physics hypotheses as proof of us being i...

This "guest" is middle aged-- and I actually know it was a joke... I've been following along for a while. And I'm not afraid of you folks. I'm a female who posts as "guest" because I really am afraid of the FTB bullies. My anonymity has to do with not wanting to get sucked into the crazy train. I s...

Jen Peeples of GB & TAE on her facebook says that A+ has never been about the forums That's amusing. Aren't the A+ forums where we were being directed by people last fall as the general organizational hub of the concept? Have the forums become such an embarassment now that they've spawned this desp...

Was about to post these... http://jesusisajerk.tumblr.com/ Heh, there's so much you can do with these pics: http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u580/16bitheretic/SN8U7_zps366c87db.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u580/16bitheretic/MInKs_zps66d250a4.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u58...

Oh, and speaking of those captioned Jesus pics: http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u580/16bitheretic/0LqJd_zpsdec8bdb7.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u580/16bitheretic/3YuNm_zps512b6f1b.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u580/16bitheretic/5VQHc_zps4b89719d.jpg http://i1322.photobucket...

Carrier is butthurt that his Atheism+ speech has gotten so many downvotes on Youtube And he's demonstrating in that post that he doesn't understand how YouTube works. Dislikes do not affect the visibility of the video and they do not move the video up or down on any search lists. They ONLY represen...

Reading through the stuff regarding Nugent's "Dialogue". It's hard to describe. Speaking for myself, I don't plan on relenting when it comes to pointing out stupidity, ignorance, blatant misandry, and overt hypocrisy. However, in the past few weeks I've found some of the crap lobbed back and forth ...

One thing that has been interesting me lately. I'm on a group for Black Atheists or some shit - I've been on it for ages, not because of any particular desire to show racial solidarity (ugh) or that kind of shit, but because they post a lot of sweet memes and Dawkins and Hitchens love which I am de...

finished my reply to Svan's post, being required to respond specifically to every single paragraph, when many were just elaborations of more detail of her previous points, was rather tedious. But Nugent's site, Nugent's rules... 16bitheretic says: Your comment is awaiting moderation. March 31, 2013 ...

Wow, Nugent's rules in responding to the OP posts is really restrictive, but I'm pondering how I want to respond to both. Hopefully the discussion area will offer more breathing room.

Aneris wrote:you know Rhetorical Assasin level

This "rhetorical assassin" stuff I've seen makes me giggle. I couldn't resist:
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incisive things Excellent post - you'll be needed at the Great Debate. I'll chime in with my thoughts in the discussions, but I notice that my posts on feminism, language and rifts tend to operate on a sort of meta level, where I tend to want to discuss the root ideas behind something while most ot...

Lousy Canuck: Why donâ€™t these assholes try finding a thing that Iâ€™ve said about feminism, about rape, about anything else, and actually arguing against the points presented, instead of trying to defame my character in order to fragment FtB and poison the well against women speaking up about hara...

So, PZ claimed we have to move beyond science to solve problems like climate change and overpopulation? Um, what? We can't solve those things without a science-based approach, are we just supposed to "feel" the global warming away? His hard-line stance on the "rifts" is not surprising, neither is th...

I don't claim to know what to think in regards to whether there was a historical man who, like L. Ron Hubbard or Joseph Smith, managed to use a cult of personality to spawn a following of religious adherents. It seems so many people who actually study the field disagree, but I can say that as a comp...

About rape accusations and the number of legitimate rape victims who avoid reporting their assaults: I wonder if part of the problem is our western attitude that talking about sex is somehow gross and icky, to the point where sex ed is being restricted to abstinence only in many areas and large numb...

They're determined to force this duplicitous narrative of pervasive harassment from other atheists. Atheist men harassing atheist women in online forums - that's the only "context" they seem to care about. Even if it were true, it's such a ridiculous first world problem that anyone truly concerned ...

Ya know, I love my running club and there's no way I would run 10Ks and train for half-marathons without their support, but I really could do without the bible quotes in the newsletters. They're really kind and inspiring people on the whole, they have lots of great training and race advice, and run...

Tigzy wrote:5) What is the Laden speed of a swallow?

Hard to say.

So we're assuming there's no spitting instead?

:rimshot:

I just need to check with people here. Which side is Ophelia Benson on again? Is she really so self-obsessed and oblivious to what people will get from viewing the actual cartoon (I'll give you a clue Ophelia, it's not the eyes), that she thinks the following story is good for her or her side? http...

By their logic I don't think I've ever had non-rape sex. Just by telling me that, you raped me. Ya well, Kirk's creepy smile rapes me every time I see it. And rape. Because rape. Come sit on my lap and tell me all about it. As I smile at you. Forever. Is your dongle up to spec for the forking?

PeeZee will not debate anyone, or even make more than a drive-by comment for that matter, anywhere where he doesn't control the situation. Kind of like a kid in grade school who's willing to fight you, but only in his mom's living room, with mom, dad and two older brothers in attendance. What an as...

PeeZee will not debate anyone, or even make more than a drive-by comment for that matter, anywhere where he doesn't control the situation. Kind of like a kid in grade school who's willing to fight you, but only in his mom's living room, with mom, dad and two older brothers in attendance. What an as...

Oh, and to spell it out for the simple minded douchebags who read the 'Pit and think the people here would be "at home" on a place like Stormfront: I've never seen anything indicating that the white folks who post here are racists. To draw a comparison, it's on the same level as if I said Atheism+ s...

Starting to wonder a bit about Aratina. Over at Nugent's he justifies saying this on Twitter, â€œSlimepitters would feel right @ home on Stormfront.â€ by saying this: "I think it would be best if I clarify, once again, that I made that suggestion as a bit of rhetoric where the answer is clearly, â...

Well clearly more men than women hold power, so by one definition one could say there is at the very least a patriarchal tendency on a population level ... apols. for cropping ye short, but does that mean "of the class of powerholders, more of them are men than that there are of women"?? and if so,...

The events of the last few days on Pharyngula inspired me to open my photo editing software:

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I would say plenty of us would be willing and eager to talk about feminism if terms were defined clearly and you could question/discuss its tenets without being accused of sexism/misogyny. Why would the terms be defined clearly? They abuse their terminology to be malleable to any whim or argument t...

I believe the concept of 'privilege' is a useful one but it is being misused. As it is a sociology term, it is a term that makes sense in very general terms for groups of people, not for individual people. Misused as it is, it is now being used as an excuse to shut up criticism. Isn't that the case...

LOL I got a new twitter follower: Richard D. Ongle :lol:

Didn't we just get accused the other day of making up the "chill girl" slur usage as a strawman against the types of people who frequent FTB/Skepchick/A+ and other places? Yeah, and to be more accurate, it was me who was laughably accused of "libel" by Ophelia Benson for pointing out the fact that ...

Tigzy wrote:
CommanderTuvok wrote:This FTB meltdown is masturbation material!
I, for one, am fapping right now. In fact, I'd go so far as to call it the hoggle of all hoggles.

Sorry, all this masturbation talk was the perfect excuse for this:

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One of Pharyngula's commenters takes aim at Ellenbeth Wachs: kate_waters 22 March 2013 at 5:24 pm (UTC -5) My facts? That youâ€™re a victim blaming, misogynistic â€œchill girlâ€ who lacks basic reading comprehension? The facts you yourself have presented in this very thread? Iâ€™ve got them plenty ...

Saw this and couldn't resist:

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