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

Unbelievably, it appears that Orwell bit from Hillary's book is real, lots of people are laughing at it.

Interesting article on depressi9n by Scott Alexander: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/12/toward-a-predictive-theory-of-depression/ TOWARD A PREDICTIVE THEORY OF DEPRESSION POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2017 BY SCOTT ALEXANDER [Epistemic status: Total wild speculation] I. The predictive processing model...

Suet Cardigan wrote:
Hillary thinks that Winston should have loved Big Brother. :doh:

I can't believe that's real, it has to be fake surely.

Every time I try to put into words the folly of people claiming rights, and demanding considerations, based on their own private definitions of labels they apply unilaterally to themselves, I end up thinking that no one can really believe in that, and that it's futile to try to reason with anyone a...

Kirbmarc wrote:Maybe a ray of hope for reformation of islam: an important Indonesian muslim scholar publicly admitted that islam has a problem with violence:

Great stuff, the guy's quite no-nonsense about it.

It just doesn't really seem to pan out because from a skeptic's point of view "Hey, did anyone test out this 'truth' and see if it really means more than this interpretation of folklore?!" As I argued with Matt, just because a thing's not tested or (currently or in principle) testable doesn't mean ...

free thoughtpolice wrote:

So good you had to post it twice :)

InfraRedBucket wrote:

LOL, now that's what I call "the science is settled."

It's not enough to get a kernel of truth right to be reliably right. If it were, the SJWs would be reliably right about many things (like privilege, for example). HOW you explain and expose the kernel of truth and WHICH inferences you make from it are probably even more important than being inciden...

PewDiePie weighing in on JLaw's recent comment re. Mother Nature's raging at Americans for not voting Hillary. Quite amusing:-

I understand that acts of homosexual sex are proscribed by christian religious beliefs. But I'm less sure that homosexual marriage is explicitly stated as forbidden. And if the latter causes less of the former would christians then change their mind? The taboo against homosexuality has little to do...

The other night I had a sudden change of opinion on the gay wedding cake thing. While a baker should not be permitted to deny regular service to a person because of their sexual orientation, I now think that decorating a wedding cake with gay stuff is a form of participation or active support of ga...

So.... first I gotta say "FUCK GOOGLE"! Both Bing and DuckDuckGo are good alternatives. Bing actually gives better search results a lot of the time and DuckDuckGo, while a bit less powerful as a search engine, is good enough for everyday use, and is privacy oriented. It's not like the days when Goo...

Don't know if this was posted two weeks ago, but this is an amazing realtime record, from the Boston event, of a trainwreck descent from relatively civil political argument to mob violence. The guy starts off asking questions, talks about wanting to hear both sides, disavows the things to disavow, a...

Apparently, there are many things you can't prove - the example he gave being love for your mother. This shit again. There's only one response we need. "Love without evidence is... stalking." - Tim Minchin Whenever I argue with my friends about Atheism v Theism, they ALWAYS go "You can't prove 'Lov...

MarcusAu wrote:I saw 'Eraserhead' at a formative stage.

Not sure the if calling it great or shit (or even mediocre) can do it justice.

Well it was great when one was stoned :)

Terrorism is another thing, it's other organized groups which train and supply footsoldiers with a clear goal to cause attacks to destabilize institutions or foster a takeover or spread panic and mistrust in the authorities or to create an ethnic/religious/political conflict. . That is what Antifa ...

Kirbmarc wrote:The Qu'ran is a fanfiction of the Bible

That's actually a good way to conceive of the Abrahamic religions in their entirety - ripping yarns that keep getting retconned, like superhero comics.

"You thought it happened like that? No, actually it happened like this."

Other than 'I'm happy' or 'I'm sad' what does that knowledge amount to? But as I said, there's a lot more subtlety and variation in feelings than that binary, there's a whole landscape to the inner world; and a lot of literature revolves around evoking those nuances in a way that people recognize i...

But you can have knowledge about feelings. Other than 'I'm happy' or 'I'm sad' what does that knowledge amount to? But as I said, there's a lot more subtlety and variation in feelings than that binary, there's a whole landscape to the inner world; and a lot of literature revolves around evoking tho...

Truly stunning optical illusion (via Slate Star Codex).

I don't understand the concept of 'literary truth'. Literal truth, yes, but when someone says literature is a form of 'knowledge' I don't know what the fuck that means. When someone says a book portrays an experience which is true to life they are either comparing it with something they have knowle...

No one here watched the Bear Grylls Island series? After criticism he did a series with a women only and a men only island. Do a search on youTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bear+Grylls+S02E and watch for yourself. [Trigger Warning] The women did not do too well. Watch for yoursel...

I don't understand the concept of 'literary truth'. Literal truth, yes, but when someone says literature is a form of 'knowledge' I don't know what the fuck that means. When someone says a book portrays an experience which is true to life they are either comparing it with something they have knowle...

Jerry Coyne is mad that an unscrupulous author is targeting a famous figure and attempting to trash their reputation as a way to boost their own profile. In between posts on this topic, he is promoting a book by a different author targeting a famous figure and trashing their reputation, which Jerry...

Interesting plot twist: "Berkeley Mayor Thinks Antifa Should Be Designated As A Gang" "Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin said Monday it’s time to classify Antifa as a gang because of the brutal attacks against peaceful supporters of President Donald Trump Sunday. Arreguin has been said to be: + respons...

Any other Game of Thrones fans pissed about this season? Everything was rushed and half-assed. Yeah basically the writing in the last few seasons has been tanking as they've had less GRRM to work from. I still enjoy watching it though, and there are still GoT "moments," here and there, even with bi...

Amy Wax (law prof, in trouble for hate speech, for pegging some societal problems on decline of bourgeois values) on what neurological science tells us, or doesn't tell us, about poverty. Quite a highbrow, wide-ranging nugget, long but worth it (she's an intellectual pleasure to listen to):- https:/...

Feminist icon vs. pastors of color: Black Pastors Demand Smithsonian Remove Statue of Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger http://www.lifenews.com/2015/08/27/black-pastors-demand-smithsonian-remove-statue-of-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/?utm_content=buffera09b6&utm_medium=social...

John D wrote:

It's that jolly little bounce that does the trick :)

Yeah it's a lot to do with human beings not being hardwired to understand averages and populations (similar problem with most people understanding economics). I don't pretend I do, properly, but I'm at least aware of the problem. Troglodytes of the Left and Right seem to be oblivious one way or the...

Rather sweet pub chat between Sargon and Dr. Randomercam:-

Yeah it's a lot to do with human beings not being hardwired to understand averages and populations (similar problem with most people understanding economics). I don't pretend I do, properly, but I'm at least aware of the problem. Troglodytes of the Left and Right seem to be oblivious one way or the ...

Well that race realism thing was a bit depressing to watch ... I feel like my kids are going to be stuck at one level (whatever the level) so why bother to teach the lil fuckers anything if they'll wind up exactly the same intelligence wise? Really sorry to hear you say that - think you're labourin...

Bah

Styx is pleased with Bitchute as a potential, censorship-free alternative to Youtube (schtick: it's a bittorrent-tech-based version of Youtube). Still early days for the software, but it's up and running:-

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions[/youtube]

Also, he's very obviously terrified of saying anything that could be perceived as critical of Black Lives Matter. He fails to point out that, as a statement, "black lives matter" is impossible to disagree with, it is terrible as the slogan of a political movement because it's impossible to disagree...

Well - this may prove interesting.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBH1guK96g Who is Christopher Cantwell for context? I catch he is at least a member of one of the white identitarians. From what I can gather he was featured on a CNN feature as representative of white identitarians at one of th...

Shoe0nHead expresses in her sweet, inimitable way, roughly what I should think most sane, civilized people are thinking these days:-

Do you honestly believe Muslims don't? "Of course Mohammed didn't literally fly to heaven on a winged horse. It was a spiritual journey." But they can't say that openly in most Muslim countries. There was a brief period when they could, but that's far in the past now (although it could return if re...

Suet Cardigan wrote:It appears that Antifa has decided to take on 4Chan. This'll end well.

https://squawker.org/culture-wars/antif ... nst-4chan/

:popcorn:

Filthy casuals vs. hardcore gamers. :lol:

The ESPN "Robert Lee" thing seems to have been a big hit on the internets, much incredulity and horse laughter.

And then Trump's Phoenix barnstormer of a speech has predictably set the intelligentsia about the ears. He really does play them like a fiddle.

What a timeline.

The trouble with the "old writing" from the Rousseauian Left point of view is that it hints there's such a thing as (a relatively-stable-over-time) human nature, which is a concept that is strengst verboten among all right-thinking people. (Same reason evol psych is the devil's work too.) For if the...

and... this is where the regular Christian gets is right. We are all flawed.... and we all need to be forgiven from time to time. And... the non-Christian left has NO forgiveness. Muslims have no forgiveness. Commies have no forgiveness. I will pick the simple Christian any day of the week. This ha...

Peeking at Jerry's, it's a bit depressing how many people seem to honestly believe that the whole statue crisis can be defused by migrating them to museums. I have a hard time believing anyone who's given the subject more than a tenth of a second of thought honestly believes that will stop calls fo...

The explanation for why Christians are more " civilized " than Muslims is that Christians think Jesus is the perfect man and Muslims think Mohammed is the perfect man. It's not that complicated. Secularization also played a role. The Christians used to be as bad as today's "mainstream" muslims when...

Tigzy wrote:Just leaving this here. Yes, the BBC are being serious. Or should dat be dey BBC don be serious wey: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

Something about that reminds me of the stupidity of the art critic (was it?) who said El Greco's figures were elongated because of his astigmatism :geek:

Hunt wrote:Milo needs to lay off the makeup; he's starting to look like a Ken doll,

Oh pish and tush, he's a cross-eyed (there, I've said it) dreamboat.

Agree about the weird filming though, they do look like they're in different rooms.

Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a 'major gift to the Right' Chomsky said, "what they do is often wrong in principle – like blocking talks – and [the movement] is generally self-destructive." "When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it's the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who tha...

Milo flirts with Damore. Nothing really enlightening and it's probably a bit overlong if you're not already a Milo fan, but Damore occasionally fleshes out a bit more nuance in his position:-

The Doctor's report on recent events via a video response to Colbert:-

It doesn't help that real white identitarians crawled out of the woodwork and one killed and maimed many people. That nazi shit would have blown over rather quickly. I think that we're going to see a lot of both groups in the next years. It's going to get worse before it gets better, but I agree wi...

Isn't part of the tragedy of the America Civil War the fact that the South had some justice on its side? How much was the war really about "freeing the slaves," and how much about empire-building? Perhaps "useful idiots" is an older concept than Bolshevism? I'm honestly asking, because I've come acr...

Correct. You know who else wore jodhpurs? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PIUHpUU415E/TkgaZixJLcI/AAAAAAAAAg4/_0Y5TgNiO9g/s1600/Perry+and+Hitler+NEW.jpg I had an early fetish for the word "jodhpurs", as the first porn thing I was accidentally introduced to as a kid was one of those all-story porn mags in...

When I were a lad, Nazis were Germans from the history books and in films and comic books, always depicted as a bit dim, wore silly piss pot helmets and grey or black uniforms and clicked their heels when standing to attention, they wore jodhpurs (horse trousers as we called them) We call them turd...

shoutinghorse wrote:

Meh, clearly a Nazi.

Police in Barcelona say it's a terrorist attack according to the Sky News Newsdesk on Twitter, plus local news says two armed men have entered a restaurant following the crash.

Report of Truck of Peace in Spain. This one will have nothing to do with Islam, which is a religion of peace and the religion bears no responsibility. The Charlotteville guy? That one was 100% fueled by white nationalist hatred and the whole group is to blame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nphGfI...

Don't know if everyone is bored senseless, or simply numb to the subject by now - but here is an alt-right summary of the events at Charlottesville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D5yFW1XcRQ Not bored or numb. My curiosity has already been satiated through my own investigation, which I already po...

Shadow minister makes truthful tweet. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/0F47/production/_97411930_champion.png Shadow minister has to go: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40952224 No surprise there... As with the anti-Trump stuff in America, by kowtowing to the PC cult, it looks like t...

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