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

Fri Nov 23, 2012 6:42 pm I anticipate being part of small groups meeting with a couple of the FtB/Skepchick blogger-celebs (2 occasions, 1 celeb each) in the next 6 months. Local atheist group, said meetings arranged by others in the group with much enthusiasm; I could skip each of these events but...

welch said (http://www.slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=73&start=29600#p31477): Finding someone (un)attractive is one thing, that's up to the individual. But this OMG BLONDE+PRETTY MEANS SHE'S A USELESS PLASTIC BARBIE shit is just moronic. Sure it is, but that is also a misrepresentation of ...

â€¦. That post of Rystefnâ€™s was in response to and an emphasis of one by real horrorshow who was taking a shot at a blogger on Crommunist who was apparently arguing that West Coast Indians helped out Columbus when he got lost. But â€“ hint, hint â€“ it would really help if people provided the lin...

beccy now has a "science" article in Slate. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/11/pseudoscience_of_skymall_airplane_shopping_magazine_makes_spectacular_claims.html kinda boring to be honest - cant be arsed to read more than first paragraph â€¦. Next up - the Queen of Engl...

Poor bastard just missed the Panama canal by a few miles on one of his landings, too. He was that close having a shot at being the first to circumnavigate the Earth. Taking the piss or serious? Work on the canal, which began in 1881, was completed in 1914, making it no longer necessary for ships to...

Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:42 am [A YouTube video from Justicar ] â€¦ but he is questioning the reasoning in a conversation involving welch, Steersman and oolon regarding conversation about numbers slymepit v A+. Thanks for the heads-up on that video from him â€“ sorry for the delay and I realize thereâ€™s...

â€¦. Feminism on the other hand, is all over the map, you have the "general population" feminism, which simply equate feminism with the fight for equality, then you have gender feminism with it's patriarchal theory, rape culture, SchrÃ¶dinger's rapist, and all that, that is firmly rooted within mos...

You have summed it up well. It's now simply easier to not use short forms for ideas (such as MRA, feminist etc.), since the labels have become so diffused, but to simply evaluate proposals on their own merit and not by a label or dogma. â€¦. Feminism on the other hand, is all over the map, you have...

My morning dose of amusement from Atheism Plus: Civility is oppression! There should be an equivalent 'Fundies Say the Darndest Things' site for this lot... SJWSTDT. That's a gem. A whole bunch of them over there - and just in that thread. But what a bunch of po-mo dickheads there at AtheismPlus. I...

Maybe â€“ and apparently or presumably â€“ he did a screen-cap for the same reason many people here do the same thing: to gather evidence to make a claim or a case. Although he might be charged with being disingenuous... If he does end up getting charged, it won't be for being disingenuous, old boy...

â€¦. I'm not versed at screencapping yet â€¦. I wondered about that myself sometime back and had sort of figured something out that worked with Windows XP and had asked a question here to clarify; several other posters offered some further suggestions for different operating systems and browsers. T...

TFJ wrote:+1 for the Dark Side.

http://skepticink.com/lateraltruth/2012 ... the-chuds/

+1 at least; likely to solid addition to that network ...

â€¦. I'm not versed at screencapping yet â€¦. I wondered about that myself sometime back and had sort of figured something out that worked with Windows XP and had asked a question here to clarify; several other posters offered some further suggestions for different operating systems and browsers. T...

Shit. Almost forgot. Can I just leave this here before I go off to bed? Thanks. Night all. oolon said: Hmm Kiddie porn on the pit, I'm surprised and shocked! So surprised and shocked I almost forgot to screencap it . Actually, dumping kiddie porn to smear is not something below baboon ethics. It's ...

Okay, is the Prune mental, or am I missing something here? Because I honestly just do not know what she's trying to get at with this post: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/11/what/ Sounds like she's more desperate for hits than she might be for cock. Sarcasm, right? Or maybe ju...

Okay, is the Prune mental, or am I missing something here? Because I honestly just do not know what she's trying to get at with this post: http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2012/11/what/ Seems like the cats have pushed the flowers & whatnot off on to the floor to be able to look out ...

â€¦. That response seems to imply you are trying far too hard and over thinking everything. Dude, seeing as the second line quoted started with, "seriously, though" - I did kinda get it that he was joking Iâ€™m glad to hear that you got that. However, the point is that there was no indication that ...

OK, I finally caught up and now I'm going to sleep. If I wake up to another 10 pages, I'm totally gonna go internet tough guy on you pricks. Rare occasion - :eabod: Reeeetard! Even in the interests of consistency you might want to edit your signature: maybe â€œsmilies are generally for reetardsâ€ ...

Although, in passing, I think that mutleyengâ€™s response (â€œlet yourself go - feel the power of the dark sideâ€) might be indicative as well. That response seems to imply that he (she?) thought you were being serious and not ironic â€“ absent an emoticon or two it is rather difficult to determin...

The word issue is really getting boring, and actually a red herring. I think we mostly agree that intention is important, so my question would be why do so many exhibit so much ill intention so quickly? Because you're a fucking slimy faggot magina cunt, that's why. Fuck off with a porcupine up your...

Although, to be fair, it also seems to me that this whole discussion on insults revolves around that question of â€œhow to properly express our thoughtsâ€. You are certainly entitled to use insults â€“ gratuitous or not â€“ as is everyone else. But questions of the effectiveness of those insults a...

If there are people out there who think I'm discredited by using "bad words," then I don't want any of their fucking bullshit credit anyway. Bunch of uptight cunts. Ah, but would you call, for example, Stephen Hawking a cripple yourself or support others who would do so? And in a vituperative tone ...

Using a personâ€™s physical characteristics against him may be somewhat below the belt, but this did not bother Arthur Schopenhauer when he aimed his venom at his bÃªte noire Hegel: Therefore, I should advise my sagacious countrymen that, if they ever again wish to trumpet about for thirty years a ...

If there are people out there who think I'm discredited by using "bad words," then I don't want any of their fucking bullshit credit anyway. Bunch of uptight cunts. Ah, but would you call, for example, Stephen Hawking a cripple yourself or support others who would do so? And in a vituperative tone ...

Franc. Unless I've misread, I don't think SurelyYourGuest disagrees with what you've just said. Perhaps, if so I apologise. However, being neck deep in analysing baboon language abuse, no one seems to get that in terms of repetitive, gratuitous, tourette's like shrieking of "cunt", FfTB puts this p...

Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:50 am While Iâ€™ll readily agree that there seems to be no small amount of â€œjunk philosophyâ€ floating about and while I have quoted and chortled over Feynmanâ€™s â€œPhilosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birdsâ€ â€“ which sort of leaves h...

... Pretty much. If I'm calling someone a cunt, I really stopped giving a fuck what they think. Exactly. Oooh, painful. But up your urethra too. Seems that you too might need to get over your â€œneed to tell everyone how to think and how to properly express his thoughtsâ€. Cunt. Well, you're at le...

AnonymousCowherd wrote:
rayshul wrote:Well, Mykeru has ensured I won't be eating a grilled cheese sandwich for a while.
This place has definitely become NOT SAFE for cheeses (as they say in Golgotha).

Cheeses swept!

â€¦. For somewhat of a change, your comments â€“ which has spawned or engendered some interesting debate â€“ are ones that I generally agree or at least sympathize with. Seems to me that using insults based on â€œaccidental genetic inheritance or ageâ€ â€“ comparisons to the mentally challenged fo...

Oh, alright. Just checking. I mean the sex parts generally are only interesting in that they're even less believable than the plot, generally. Yeah really. It's just not as easy to get 5 men to have sex with you at the same time as the movies make it seem. :cry: Sounds like you need to be going to ...

As I said, I don't use it, but more importantly I don't get all judgemental and self righteous about others who do use it, particularly when it is clear they are using it in the standard British insulting meaning of the word (where it basically means asshole.) I'm not being judgmental, I just don't...

If we're going to have some kind of swearing contest, I'll give to you the eternal words of the Merovingian (The Matrix: Reloaded, piece of crap that it is): Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculer de ta mÃ¨re Roughly translates as "god damned shitfest bitching cu...

Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:07 am Haaarold! HAHAHAHA! This puerile distasteful parade of risible amusement from anonymous posters at an identified individual's involuntary characteristics is a gauge as to the abysmally absent social maturity of the participants, and it does not reflect well on any of you. â...

Sort of like Josh-Official-SpokesGay's use of "Uncle Mary". Don't fuck with Uncle Mary. S/h/it's a rough customer. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PG9h1CS1dfo/SYILzd0xIkI/AAAAAAAAHLY/E8sj4hmkpxQ/s400/1.jpg â€œBe very afraidâ€ .... Rough trade maybe but book covers sometimes arenâ€™t always consistent wi...

Al Stefanelli wrote:http://www.alstefanelli.com/opheliabusted.jpg

That has to be a classic "hoist by your own petard" .... "busted" indeed ....

And relative to Andrewâ€™s previous comment about calling Crommunist a nigger â€“ and to play the devilâ€™s advocate to some degree â€“ I think it might be justified if he were to be relying heavily on playing the race card in some sense or set of circumstances. Sort of the same way that â€œcuntâ€...

Thu Nov 15, 2012 6:35 pm What a philosopher has to say about consciousness is totally uninteresting for me. That Chalmers article you cite is just so much blather. Consciousness is an enormously difficult neuro-physiological problem that canâ€™t be solved merely by thinking about it. A philosopher ...

... I still come from a Popper-inspired Platinum Rule mindset [fixed that for you]. Basically, if somebody openly states that they dislike being called a 'cunt', then you should refrain from calling them a 'cunt'. ... No offence but: Bullshit. Why is there this need to not offend somebody who I pla...

I can't grasp how people have been delighted about using dicks and pricks for so long but have such a problem with cunt. I do think it's something to do with the horrors about lady-parts that people feel. Some truth to that argument I think â€“ sort of like saying that women donâ€™t sweat, they onl...

DA FUCK?!? Was that your posting or Crom's editing? ... Editing someone else's commments to mean something different, outright lie, or even just change the context, is maybe the most unethical thing one can do in one's own comment area. Deleting is nothing compared to editing. It shows such a chara...

Notung wrote:
Steersman wrote:
SurelyYouGuest wrote:Just wanted to briefly de-lurk to say thank you. .... So like... hi, or something.

/re-lurk
Good points; welcome aboard ....
THIS. A. THOUSAND. TIMES. THIS. +1

By the way, which one of you is Dawkins?

Iâ€™m Spar.., er, Dawkins! ;-)

SurelyYouGuest wrote:Just wanted to briefly de-lurk to say thank you. .... So like... hi, or something.

/re-lurk

Good points; welcome aboard ....

Thu Nov 15, 2012 9:36 pm Found I can limit the depth of nested quotes, so currently dropped from five to three. Since that seems to be a topic or point that should be in the â€œAdmin and Board Structureâ€ thread maybe I can put in a â€œfeature requestâ€ here: Seems to me since that many people co...

Ape+lust wrote: http://i.imgur.com/lODAS.jpg ....

Truly a hoot, a serious LoL. But isnâ€™t that PZ in the role of the â€œUnited States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, .... commander of Burpelson Air Force Baseâ€?

Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:33 am However, I periodically think that â€œgodâ€ is still a useful concept â€“ as an abstraction, as a sort of â€œvirtual realityâ€. â€¦. â€¦. Accommodationism is the view that science and religion are compatible, or by extension, that religion is a way of knowing facts about ...

Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:12 am â€¦. Incidentally, I think their own ideas and arguments could be used to show that calling someone an asshole is homophobic, although I'm sure they'd have some excuse with the word privilege in it as to why cunt is bad but asshole is not. Apropos of which, you might be int...

Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:45 pm Just doin' some substituing....I wonder how well this version would go down with the radfem justice soldiers?: â€¦. Thing is that there is some asymmetry there: outside of prison where there are more men than women, it seems quite clear that there are more women than men wh...

I am an accommodationist as: -I want to distinguish between religions that will persecute me for being an atheist from those which are largely benign. -I am prepared to work with religions for causes that I think are good. Largely agree with that, although I think the question turns on what makes a...

However, I periodically think that â€œgodâ€ is still a useful concept â€“ as an abstraction, as a sort of â€œvirtual realityâ€. By which token I find that PZ Myerâ€™s â€“ and to a lesser extent, Jerry Coyneâ€™s â€“ anathematization of accommodationism is, at least, misplaced if not highly problem...

However, I periodically think that â€œgodâ€ is still a useful concept â€“ as an abstraction, as a sort of â€œvirtual realityâ€. By which token I find that PZ Myerâ€™s â€“ and to a lesser extent, Jerry Coyneâ€™s â€“ anathematization of accommodationism is, at least, misplaced if not highly problem...

Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:<------- Sorry for the avatar change, I wanted to reflect my mood.

Dark and satanic? I scan the avatar backwards and it turns into a cupcake? :-)

I can sympathize, although my experiences were less in the area of evolution and more in the area of comparative religions. Never ceased or ceases to amaze me the extent to which virtually all Christian fundamentalists can insist â€“ in the face of the fact that there are some 38,000 different Chri...

Just doin' some substituing....I wonder how well this version would go down with the radfem justice soldiers?: I have very good reason to suggest random black people I meet might be murderers. That is part of their potentiality. Some black people are murderers. This is a fact, and it is uncontrover...

Seems to me that people are conflating the concepts of physiological and legal equality: obviously there are â€“ thankfully, many would say â€“ some major differences in the former; it should be equally obvious that, arguably, there should be no differences in the latter: all are equal before the l...

I don't find it all that funny actually, after the initial sneer of amused contempt. This whole Schrodinger's Rapist shit is just pseudo-science (pseudo probability theory actually) as an excuse for sexism. In fact since it's intended to apply to all men and men only it's outright misandry. Sin tÃ...

Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:17 pm In fairness, I've seen plenty of creationists who already believe in the idea of microevolution - and always in the context of microevolution within 'kinds'. In truth, there's no such thing as micro or macro-evolution; there's just evolution, with what we perceive as major ...

Indeed the vast majority of rape/stalking victims know their attacker. Statistically, you should be more worried about the people you know, not random strangers. Curiously my stalker was completely unknown to me (didnt know his name until the cops told me), and yet I dont have this 'STRANGER DANGER...

...for all I care an adult can split his willy in two... See, now, I had never heard of penis splitting, but based on your comment I went looking - and now my day is complete. I've learned something new, & found photos of multiple variations of this, um, enhancement in all their glory. :? :shock: :...

Thu Nov 01, 2012 2:24 am Fuck you all in the ear, cunts! My first computer I ever used was a Hitachi with a 12-bit word that drove an NMR machine at Horsted College, back in the Medway Towns, and the first computer I ever owned was an Acorn System 1 My first computers only "disk" drive was a casset...

Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:19 pm Just a quick post to say hello. I've lurked for quite awhile registered and not. I found the Pit because the FtB folks spoke so poorly of it that I knew it must have a lot of redeeming qualities. I'm not sure how much I will contribute here but I do want share how much I've...

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