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Kirbmarc wrote:All in all I've reconsidered what was said and I have to admit that I overreacted by threatening a lawsuit, I was concerned since attacks on my character have happened in the past and are happening on my facebook account since I've publicly come out as an apostate. I've re-read what was said more lucidly and while Aneris used inflammatory language it doesn't constitute defamation.

I'm willing to close it off and apologize to Aneris to some extent over some of my failings in the debate if she's willing to apologize for having called me Alt-Right, "in service of a neo-nazi agenda", and all the other insults she's used.
Don't apologize to that idiot. WTF? She does the same shit Rush Limbaugh and others made a career out of . Yellow journalism. Take a left-wingish parade of 100,000 people. Take a picture of the Marxist Leninist or Trotskyite idiots or the Maoist idiots - all 10 of them with their big fucking streetwide banner and then claim 'what did I tell you, the parade was just a bunch of Marxist Maoist hate mongers! Rush would always play the interview somebody would have of a lunatic idiot in the demonstration and make it out that the nutter represented the entire protest. And both sides do this shit.

For both sides who do this shit, fuck them, fuck them all. Specifically, fuck you aneris. Stick that thin edge of the wedge slippery slope crap giving cover to the nazi's up your ass and see how you like it.

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ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:Well fuck. Bad results from my initial liver blood tests and physical exam. Turns out the little bastard doesn't like alcohol. This information should be more widely spread, I think. Let's see how things go from here. GI doctor is pessimistic, but here's to proving him wrong.
Oh, no! We're falling apart around here. We need some good, clean, healthy activities.

Lets beat off and go bowling, whaddya say?

http://imgur.com/mhQQfTF.jpg

(I hope you confound your doctor with a record recovery)

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MacGruberKnows wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:All in all I've reconsidered what was said and I have to admit that I overreacted by threatening a lawsuit, I was concerned since attacks on my character have happened in the past and are happening on my facebook account since I've publicly come out as an apostate. I've re-read what was said more lucidly and while Aneris used inflammatory language it doesn't constitute defamation.

I'm willing to close it off and apologize to Aneris to some extent over some of my failings in the debate if she's willing to apologize for having called me Alt-Right, "in service of a neo-nazi agenda", and all the other insults she's used.
Don't apologize to that idiot. WTF? She does the same shit Rush Limbaugh and others made a career out of . Yellow journalism. Take a left-wingish parade of 100,000 people. Take a picture of the Marxist Leninist or Trotskyite idiots or the Maoist idiots - all 10 of them with their big fucking streetwide banner and then claim 'what did I tell you, the parade was just a bunch of Marxist Maoist hate mongers! Rush would always play the interview somebody would have of a lunatic idiot in the demonstration and make it out that the nutter represented the entire protest. And both sides do this shit.

For both sides who do this shit, fuck them, fuck them all. Specifically, fuck you aneris. Stick that thin edge of the wedge slippery slope crap giving cover to the nazi's up your ass and see how you like it.
Maybe some on both sides do that. But suggesting that all on both sides do so sure looks exactly like the same thing as what you say Limbaugh did, and what you're accusing Aneris of having done, i.e., judging all for the "sins" of the few.

Sometimes all of a group can be faulted, at least to a greater or lesser extent. But bit of a stretch to insist that everyone in a group is always culpable, and to the same extent, for the actions of any member.

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Re: Give Me a Urinal or Give Me Death!

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Ape+lust wrote:
ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:Well fuck. Bad results from my initial liver blood tests and physical exam. Turns out the little bastard doesn't like alcohol. This information should be more widely spread, I think. Let's see how things go from here. GI doctor is pessimistic, but here's to proving him wrong.
Oh, no! We're falling apart around here. We need some good, clean, healthy activities.

Lets beat off and go bowling, whaddya say?

http://imgur.com/mhQQfTF.jpg

(I hope you confound your doctor with a record recovery)
Wait, Comhinc was at Skepticon?!?

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Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Wait, Comhinc was at Skepticon?!?
He has been scarce since Carrier's lawsuit.... :think:

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Steersman wrote:
MacGruberKnows wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:All in all I've reconsidered what was said and I have to admit that I overreacted by threatening a lawsuit, I was concerned since attacks on my character have happened in the past and are happening on my facebook account since I've publicly come out as an apostate. I've re-read what was said more lucidly and while Aneris used inflammatory language it doesn't constitute defamation.

I'm willing to close it off and apologize to Aneris to some extent over some of my failings in the debate if she's willing to apologize for having called me Alt-Right, "in service of a neo-nazi agenda", and all the other insults she's used.
Don't apologize to that idiot. WTF? She does the same shit Rush Limbaugh and others made a career out of . Yellow journalism. Take a left-wingish parade of 100,000 people. Take a picture of the Marxist Leninist or Trotskyite idiots or the Maoist idiots - all 10 of them with their big fucking streetwide banner and then claim 'what did I tell you, the parade was just a bunch of Marxist Maoist hate mongers! Rush would always play the interview somebody would have of a lunatic idiot in the demonstration and make it out that the nutter represented the entire protest. And both sides do this shit.

For both sides who do this shit, fuck them, fuck them all. Specifically, fuck you aneris. Stick that thin edge of the wedge slippery slope crap giving cover to the nazi's up your ass and see how you like it.
Maybe some on both sides do that. But suggesting that all on both sides do so sure looks exactly like the same thing as what you say Limbaugh did, and what you're accusing Aneris of having done, i.e., judging all for the "sins" of the few.

Sometimes all of a group can be faulted, at least to a greater or lesser extent. But bit of a stretch to insist that everyone in a group is always culpable, and to the same extent, for the actions of any member.
Sorry. Make that 'And both sides have assholes like Steersman the asshole who do this asshole shit.

Thx for the catch asshole.

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
PZ Myers, Russian collaborator wrote:Some people tried to start a new movement called Atheism Plus, in an effort to combine concern for our social needs and it got shattered by the New Atheist
At least he's admitted defeat.

We beat you, you stupid, fat, geoduck-humping loser!
That's more bullshit than his usual standard of bullshit.

A+ suffocated itself shortly after declaring oxygen to be triggering. Holy fuck. They banned EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO OFFERED ANY CONTRARY OPINION ON ANYTHING. The horrible New Atheists had no power over them. They killed themselves because they created a space too safe for any human to be able to live in it.

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MacGruberKnows wrote: <snip>

Sorry. Make that 'And both sides have assholes like Steersman the asshole who do this asshole shit.
Chuck you, Farley.
MacGruberKnows wrote:Thx for the catch asshole.
Any time, dickhead.

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Sunder wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
PZ Myers, Russian collaborator wrote:Some people tried to start a new movement called Atheism Plus, in an effort to combine concern for our social needs and it got shattered by the New Atheist
At least he's admitted defeat.

We beat you, you stupid, fat, geoduck-humping loser!
That's more bullshit than his usual standard of bullshit.

A+ suffocated itself shortly after declaring oxygen to be triggering. Holy fuck. They banned EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO OFFERED ANY CONTRARY OPINION ON ANYTHING. The horrible New Atheists had no power over them. They killed themselves because they created a space too safe for any human to be able to live in it.
Yea, though one might argue that Atheism Plus has metastasized, that it was only the first manifestation of the disease. Apropos of which, a video posted by The College Fix in their WATCH: Five years of campus craziness in four jaw-dropping minutes of intensity:

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Ape+lust wrote:Here goes greaseweasel Peez again, lying his ass off about the causes and history of the Schism; blaming Dawkins for losing hearts and minds, and consequently losing the effectiveness of the movement.

Through the article, the Director of the Christian Institute concurs with Peez's assessment. This doesn't give Peez pause, in fact he posted the link in one of his tweets.

Who would've guessed he could so easily recast himself as a martyr and get away with it?
Paul Myers got himself interviewed by a Russian propaganda rag? It's like, just when you think someone can't sink deeper into the mud, you take a second look and it turns out he's standing in cow dung :lol:

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ConcentratedH2O, OM wrote:
Well fuck. Bad results from my initial liver blood tests and physical exam. Turns out the little bastard doesn't like alcohol. This information should be more widely spread, I think. Let's see how things go from here. GI doctor is pessimistic, but here's to proving him wrong
About 6 yrs ago a good friend of mine was hospitalised with alcohol related liver failure, the Doctor told his wife he had at best only a 30% chance of surviving and told her to prepare for the worst. Long story short, he was a heavy drinker, everyone knew he had a problem but when confronted he came back with the usual "I just like a drink, is all, no problem, I can handle it"
Anyway not only did he recover, he has stopped drinking, his liver is functioning again and although he now has to live with diabetes his quality of life is better than its ever been (his words) Lost a lot of weight, plays Golf and has taken up power walking and cycling.

There's always hope.

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Ignoring the (in)correctness of their views, FTB and A+'s real downfall was simply banning dissent.

Paul did occasionally figure out that it's better to let there be dissent but to manage it. It's fucking scummy behavior no doubt, but it's a guaranteed method of keeping interest.

But when you ban everyone who might argue with you, then go on to ban anyone who, while they're trying to walk on eggshells, occasionally put a foot out of line, the result is no engagement. Nobody's interested. And anything they might think to say they'll second-guess whether it's worth it, whether it might get them in trouble.

Having an enemy to fight is a great boon. That's why protest groups are doing better than our poor old A+. Even if many of their enemies are invented, playing tribes at war keeps them from turning inward.

This is another reason why I don't think counter-identitarianism is a good idea. You're more likely to win in the long term by letting them thin their own ranks through directing frustration inward. It's still important to take stands on some issues, but choose your battles carefully, and definitely don't start unnecessary ones just for the sake of a laugh.

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Makes sense to me Sunder.

Also, although the microcosm (ie the A+ forum) may reflect the macrocosm of the A+ adjacent groups (FTB, Skepchick) - Rebecca,, Myers & Aronra at least did not claim to be a part of A+ at the time,

But even without complete buy in - they are still damned by their own actions eg a willingness to no-platform their opposition, when they have the power to do so.

Can't say I'm sorry to see them go - if you start calling people 'rape-apologists' and 'rapists' with no evidence, and think these whole 'due process' or 'freeze peach' things really are a step too far - then you're damn right that are going to get push back. Diddums!

And now Myers at least seems to have a retroactive time-share membership in A+. Well have your cake and eat it - you fat fuck.

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It is quite enjoyable to see that Myers & Friends have almost completely lost any modicum of influence they may have had in the A/S community just 6 years ago.

Thank you, Elevator Guy!

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Over here in dear old blighty, Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince Philip is standing down from Royal duties. He will be sorely missed :D

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Kirbmarc wrote:All in all I've reconsidered what was said and I have to admit that I overreacted by threatening a lawsuit, I was concerned since attacks on my character have happened in the past and are happening on my facebook account since I've publicly come out as an apostate. I've re-read what was said more lucidly and while Aneris used inflammatory language it doesn't constitute defamation.

I'm willing to close it off and apologize to Aneris to some extent over some of my failings in the debate if she's willing to apologize for having called me Alt-Right, "in service of a neo-nazi agenda", and all the other insults she's used.
Don't threaten a lawsuit. This is a silly forum and stupid people happen. I think everyone here understands that slinging shit is fine and her behaviour reflects on her. Not you.

But also don't apologise. You've done nothing wrong. Also, don't put conditions on an apology because that makes you weak.

Also I like you and you are great. :D

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Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
PZ Myers, Russian collaborator wrote:Some people tried to start a new movement called Atheism Plus, in an effort to combine concern for our social needs and it got shattered by the New Atheist
At least he's admitted defeat.

We beat you, you stupid, fat, geoduck-humping loser!
I had no idea what a geoduck was and probably shouldn't have googled it.

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Kirbmarc wrote:All in all I've reconsidered what was said and I have to admit that I overreacted by threatening a lawsuit
...which would have been thrown out for not being deducible to any existing person, either by name or by image.

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shoutinghorse wrote:Over here in dear old blighty, Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince Philip is standing down from Royal duties. He will be sorely missed :D

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My favorite is his quip to a blind woman with a seeing-dog:

(paraphrased) "They should have eating-dogs for the anorexics."

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Sunder wrote:A+ suffocated itself shortly after declaring oxygen to be triggering.
I don't know if you invented that but I'll try to keep it in my internal phrasebook ;-)

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Ah, close enough!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... exics.html

And unsurprisingly:
However, Doreen Williams, the Director of Anorexia and Bulimia Care in Britain, thought the Prince's comments both "hurtful" and "unhelpful".

"It's a bizarre comment to make, and a terribly unwise thing to say," she said.

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Yelp review:

I employed Kirbmarc Inc. to dig a drainage trench in my backyard.

Very shoddy workmanship. Worst job ever.

I've even starting to have my doubts as to his membership in the Nationalist Socialist party.

yrs.

Disgruntled of Tunbridge Wells

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Lsuoma wrote:
d4m10n wrote:Hope the Swiss and the Germans have an ancient duelling code to fall back upon in these degenerate times.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk
The Ehren-Codex should suffice. It was OK for Clive Candy and Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff.
Talhoffer's Fechtbuch, surely...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... A_080r.jpg

Yes, that's a man with a club in a waist deep hole, fighting a woman who has a half-brick in a sock (well, rock in a veil... ).

:popcorn:

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MarcusAu wrote:Yelp review:

I employed Kirbmarc Inc. to dig a drainage trench in my backyard.

Very shoddy workmanship. Worst job ever.

I've even starting to have my doubts as to his membership in the Nationalist Socialist party.

yrs.

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Yelp review:

I employed Aneris Inc. to build a shed at the foot of my garden.

Beat the shit out of my kids, pepper sprayed my elderly mother and painted "Nazi lives here" and swastikas all over my property. Also, kicked my dogs to death and took a shit on my doorstep.

Strongly suspect membership of the Antifa domestic terrorist group. Can confirm though that they're not bullies.

yrs.

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Re: Anerisgate. Calling people Nazis is a dick move, and loses you the argument. Aneris, you need to stop digging and acknowledge that you shouldn't have done that.

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paddybrown wrote:Re: Anerisgate. Calling people Nazis is a dick move, and loses you the argument. Aneris, you need to stop digging and acknowledge that you shouldn't have done that.
She didn't explicitly call people nazis but she did call them as "laying the pipes for neo-nazism" or "in service of neo-nazi agenda".

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Kirbmarc wrote:
paddybrown wrote:Re: Anerisgate. Calling people Nazis is a dick move, and loses you the argument. Aneris, you need to stop digging and acknowledge that you shouldn't have done that.
She didn't explicitly call people nazis but she did call them as "laying the pipes for neo-nazism" or "in service of neo-nazi agenda".
That's calling people Nazis in my book. All it does is get people's backs up and ends all chance of reasonable discussion.

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paddybrown wrote:
Kirbmarc wrote:
paddybrown wrote:Re: Anerisgate. Calling people Nazis is a dick move, and loses you the argument. Aneris, you need to stop digging and acknowledge that you shouldn't have done that.
She didn't explicitly call people nazis but she did call them as "laying the pipes for neo-nazism" or "in service of neo-nazi agenda".
That's calling people Nazis in my book. All it does is get people's backs up and ends all chance of reasonable discussion.

Just do what I do and scroll through her posts, it also has the advantage of not nodding off half way through her drivel.

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Sunder wrote:Ignoring the (in)correctness of their views, FTB and A+'s real downfall was simply banning dissent.
The problem for them was that the "dissent" often exposed their bullshit, and mocked 'n' ridiculed their entire agenda. SJWs don't like it when people exposed them for the crooks that they are!

It woz the Pit that won it. FTB and Atheism+ (and The Orbit) all failed because we stood up to them. As well as the fact that they are a bunch of talentless wankers, of course.

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MarcusAu wrote:Makes sense to me Sunder.

Also, although the microcosm (ie the A+ forum) may reflect the macrocosm of the A+ adjacent groups (FTB, Skepchick) - Rebecca,, Myers & Aronra at least did not claim to be a part of A+ at the time,
If I recall, Myers wanted it to succeed, and always spoke positive about it.

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feathers wrote:
Ape+lust wrote:Here goes greaseweasel Peez again, lying his ass off about the causes and history of the Schism; blaming Dawkins for losing hearts and minds, and consequently losing the effectiveness of the movement.

Through the article, the Director of the Christian Institute concurs with Peez's assessment. This doesn't give Peez pause, in fact he posted the link in one of his tweets.

Who would've guessed he could so easily recast himself as a martyr and get away with it?
Paul Myers got himself interviewed by a Russian propaganda rag? It's like, just when you think someone can't sink deeper into the mud, you take a second look and it turns out he's standing in cow dung :lol:
I agree with PZ on this....
If there is no God, we need a better foundation for morality, we need human interactions and atheists just haven't grasped that yet," Mr. Myers added.
It is certainly clear that PZ needs some kind of morals. He really has no morals currently.

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CommanderTuvok wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Makes sense to me Sunder.

Also, although the microcosm (ie the A+ forum) may reflect the macrocosm of the A+ adjacent groups (FTB, Skepchick) - Rebecca,, Myers & Aronra at least did not claim to be a part of A+ at the time,
If I recall, Myers wanted it to succeed, and always spoke positive about it.
Peez knew it was insane and used all kinds of excuses to stay away. Now he's the one retconning the shit out of what happened.

Dillahunty could counter Peez and corroborate what everyone knows about APlus. But he's a self-serving lump of chicken fat.

Rebecca didn't like it. Ra was wary. They could see what a freakshow it was. Hell, Rebecca did them a favor and made Grimalkin a Skepchick, only to get bit in the ass when she went berserk over Rebecca using the word "stupid."

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CommanderTuvok wrote:
MarcusAu wrote:Makes sense to me Sunder.

Also, although the microcosm (ie the A+ forum) may reflect the macrocosm of the A+ adjacent groups (FTB, Skepchick) - Rebecca,, Myers & Aronra at least did not claim to be a part of A+ at the time,
If I recall, Myers wanted it to succeed, and always spoke positive about it.
PZ invented all but the name. He'd been bickering about the insufficiency of 'dictionary atheism' for years.

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Phil_Giordana_FCD wrote:Ah, close enough!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... exics.html

And unsurprisingly:
However, Doreen Williams, the Director of Anorexia and Bulimia Care in Britain, thought the Prince's comments both "hurtful" and "unhelpful".

"It's a bizarre comment to make, and a terribly unwise thing to say," she said.
That's actually a pretty funny joke. Very cruel... but also funny.

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That magical moment when you inform the Board that a usable CRM, a defined corporate brand and the finalisation of the new 3yr strategy are pre-requisites for a major website redevelopment and the prez responds with "no I want a new site now"

There is something about websites that brings out the crazy.

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Once McWrong had defined the ideology - Myers took the little red book of 'A+theism' and ran with it - using it to define the ingroup and outgroup - and treat anyone who was not following his dictates (eg Silverman going to CPAC) as a non-person.

He's got not excuse to behave like an arsehole - but it certainly suits his temperament.

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free thoughtpolice wrote:I don't recall this being posted, Tony the Shoop wrotea poem on punching Nazis.
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” ‘Fair’, you would ask, you foul
scented ass?!
What fairness have you shown
to our kind?”

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Hey you all! Just dropped by to do a vanity search on the undead thread for "scented", even though you've probably forgotten me by now *sniff*, and this poem keeps tripping me up, lol. Good god! Why do people write these things called "poems"? I don't understand it. :lol:

Speaking of which, I took that personality test that one of you posted at the top of one of the pages which asked me if I liked poems (I glance at the top sometimes to see what's up), and I seem to have scored very low on the amiability part. They seem to think that if you argue with others, even though you are compassionate and empathic about other people's feelings and the homeless etc, that you must be arguing about the wrong things.

Maybe people who hate poems, don't see why people get emotional, and don't understand abstract ideas, must be meanies and nazis.

Also, they probably strongly weight the 2 questions regarding traditional vs progressive politics in a biased way, such as subtracting points from amiability etc.

Also, I should have gotten a great score on work ethic, but they gave me a midrange one. Lying liars.

AM I THAT MUCH OF A CUNT TO ONLY SCORE A 3 ON AMIABILITY??? You fuckers better answer honestly, or I'll fuck your shit up!!! :x :x :x :x :x

Lol, please make sure 'scented' is somewhere in your reply. I look forward to your answers. All the best, love your old pal Scented Nectar. :romance-grouphug:

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Scented!

Nice of you to beam down. How are things going - are you over that No Mans Kie (or whatever it is called) yet?

Hopefully you are happy productive or non-productive - or whatever you need to be.

Let us know what you have been up to. And I'm not sure what to make of the personality test - but I can certainly say I've met worse that you (and not just on the Internet!) :)

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MarcusAu wrote:Once McWrong had defined the ideology - Myers took the little red book of 'A+theism' and ran with it - using it to define the ingroup and outgroup - and treat anyone who was not following his dictates (eg Silverman going to CPAC) as a non-person.

He's got not excuse to behave like an arsehole - but it certainly suits his temperament.
The left in general has one moral value that takes precedence; compassion.

My progressive Christian relatives are not so different from leftist atheists and groups like the American Humanist Association. All moral decisions converge on compassion.... do unto others... the golden rule.

Well, if you make compassion the singular virtue and keep drilling you end up with communism. Haha. Whenever I read an article or opinion from the AHA I think..."Wow, these guys sound like communists."... and then I remember that they really are essentially communists.

The real 1984 is coming from the left. This group includes religious and non-religious people. The funny thing is that many of these people are indeed really nice people. That's part of the problem. Niceness is a virtue that gets out of control very quickly. In order to be nice giant piles of social rules are perpetuated including "language police" and even "thought police."

We need more robust moral models than this, but many people don't see it. A robust model still contains elements of honor, loyalty, duty, hard work, truth, fairness, etc. This is the kind of thing Jordan Peterson is really talking about in some of his lectures.

When I first started to get really vocal and active about my atheism I would often say "Atheists are not communists!" Now I realize that almost all vocal atheists actually are communists. Haha. How fucked up is that!?!?

PS.... side story about thought police. I was out to dinner with my wife and another couple who are very long term friends. Somehow we got into a discussion about older men still finding young girls to be sexy. The ladies said it was "disgusting". I replied that it is natural for men of any age to find healthy attractive young women to be sexy. This impulse doesn't go away. Social rules make it less acceptable for older men to sex up the young ladies. Most men have enough honor and impulse control to keep their behavior within acceptable boundaries.... but... the fact the men find women sexy isn't really "disgusting". Funny, but this is one of those strange thought police rules. Haha.

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Scented Nectar wrote: Hey you all!
Scented is back!

https://media.giphy.com/media/8oe1ekRC6kjPq/giphy.gif

How's things with my coffee-muse? Still exploring the darkest corners of a hostile universe? Any plans to make a triumphant return to the 'pit?

I've missed you :(

Everyone is mean to me when you're not here...

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MarcusAu wrote:Anyone seen Scented Nectar or Parody Accountant recently?

[youtube][/youtube]
Hi there! :)

I don't know where PA is, but how the hell did that drippy, slow, radio-friendly, 'music' get paired up with a Sid Vicious picture?

Here's what I'm playing in the background right now to heal the bad melody left in my ears...

[youtube][/youtube]

So catchy. It's been in my head the last few days.

Anyways, hope you're doing well. I'm still around, just spread too thin. Mostly at youtube and a bit of disqus. I'll keep showing up every few months like the type of houseguest who drops by unexpected every so often to see how you're doing and say hi, but also to eat your food and crash in your spare room. Only I won't show up right at dinner time. And I might not stay the night. :)

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John D wrote:
It is certainly clear that PZ needs some kind of morals. He really has no morals currently.
PZ has morals, but they're derived from the vacuous ambient cant (a good rock band name) he gets from the SJW mileu. Ultimately that is as useless as Christian morals or Satanic morals, or any other dogmatic system. If you're not THINKING about what is right and wrong, you're doing it wrong.

Let's take an example, Carrier, who was as big a mouthpiece to A+ as anyone, only saw the light when the metaphorical brick was thrown at his head. Then he was all "epistemological error" and shit. Then, and only then, did he start to think about things a little...and get a few things right.

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Scented, nice to see you around again!

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Ape+lust wrote: Dillahunty could counter Peez and corroborate what everyone knows about APlus. But he's a self-serving lump of chicken fat.

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If memory serves wasn't DillaCunty's wife heavily involved with the A+ shit? I could be wrong but I seem to remember that was the reason he was so reluctant to criticise it. .. This was of course long before she was distracted with 'making eyes' at Cult of Dusty. (Allegedly) :shhh:

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Scented Nectar wrote:
AM I THAT MUCH OF A CUNT TO ONLY SCORE A 3 ON AMIABILITY??? You fuckers better answer honestly, or I'll fuck your shit up!!! :x :x :x :x :x

Lol, please make sure 'scented' is somewhere in your reply. I look forward to your answers. All the best, love your old pal Scented Nectar. :romance-grouphug:
Scented - All of the pitters are getting very low amiability scores. Mine was a 6.

To me this does make sense. This doesn't mean you are cruel.... but it means you are not a "follower". I think most of us here play by our own rules and are not easily lead. It is almost the defining quality of this group.

My family discussed this test with me and they thought my scores made sense.... high openness, high conscientiousness, average extroversion, very low amiability, low neurosis. (an atheist engineer that likes poetry)

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feathers wrote:
Matt Cavanaugh wrote:
PZ Myers, Russian collaborator wrote:Some people tried to start a new movement called Atheism Plus, in an effort to combine concern for our social needs and it got shattered by the New Atheist
At least he's admitted defeat.

We beat you, you stupid, fat, geoduck-humping loser!
I had no idea what a geoduck was and probably shouldn't have googled it.
And it's pronounced gooey-duck, BTW.

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Scented Nectar wrote:Lol, please make sure 'scented' is somewhere in your reply. I look forward to your answers. All the best, love your old pal Scented Nectar. :romance-grouphug:
Heh. I was thinking of you not too long ago when I ran across your 10-year-old doppelganger:

http://imgur.com/4GToB56.jpg

So, Peez has been quoted, alongside some Christian poobah, about Dawkins ruining atheism in one of Vladimir Putin's propaganda rags. His needy desperation has made him shameless.

I'm happy to see you again. If you can, stay for a while :D

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Steersman wrote:
Malky wrote:
Malky wrote:Phil a new sport for you!!

[youtube]dKX9wTI8Gpg[/youtube]

[youtube][/youtube]
Sorry was trying to get the video to show - can someone fix for me?
You probably posted and used (with the "youtube" brackets) what you get when you click on the "Copy URL" in the video when you right-click on it, i.e.,

Which of course doesn't work - seems the "youtu.be" part of the URL is not supported. What you apparently need to do is start with the URL from the address bar, i.e.:


And delete everything to the right of and including the "&feature", i.e.:


And then put that in the YouTube brackets like:

Code: Select all

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKX9wTI8Gpg[/youtube]
And then, Bob's your uncle:

[youtube][/youtube]

Impressive video though.
Steers, you've taken on the traditional, ancient, teaching of SlymePit youtube embedding. I'm proud of you, son. When I abandoned the post, I felt a bit bad, but I see now that everything's going to be alright. :)

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Phil the Greek's top kek comments:

1966: "British women can't cook".

1969: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?" To Sir Tom Jones after a Royal Variety Performance.

1981: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." During the 1981 recession.

1984: "You are a woman, aren't you?" In Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman.

1986: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." To a group of British students during a royal visit to China.

1988: "It looks like a tart's bedroom." On seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park.

1992: "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." In Australia when asked to stroke a koala bear.

1993: "You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a pot belly". To a Briton he met in Hungary.

1994: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" To a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands.

1995: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test." To a Scottish driving instructor.

1996: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" In response to calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.

1997: "Bloody silly fool!" Referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.

1999: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." Speaking to a group of young deaf people in Cardiff who were standing near a steel band.

1999: "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." Referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh.

2001: "You're too fat to be an astronaut." To 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Prince Philip he wanted to go into space.

2002: "Still throwing spears?" Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit.

2002: "You look like a suicide bomber." To a young policewoman wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

2009: "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians.

2009: "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" To designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard.

2010: "Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" To Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie Pointing while pointing to some tartan in Edinburgh.

2010: "Do you work in a strip club?" To 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub.

2012: "I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." To 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent.

2013: "The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." On meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital.

2013: "[Children] go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." To Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban and now campaigns for the right of girls to go to school without fear.

2017: "You look starved." To a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men.

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Sulman wrote:How long 'til she's back in NJ?

HEY OOH HEY!, there's about 46 other states that can have that bitch before it's our turn again.

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MarcusAu wrote:Scented!

Nice of you to beam down. How are things going - are you over that No Mans Kie (or whatever it is called) yet?

Hopefully you are happy productive or non-productive - or whatever you need to be.

Let us know what you have been up to. And I'm not sure what to make of the personality test - but I can certainly say I've met worse that you (and not just on the Internet!) :)
You must have just not said all the wrong things to me like 97% of the people out there. :lol:

I'm kind of over NMS. The storyline replacement and how it doesn't go anywhere finally made me quit. It's a love/hate type of leaving though. I still have pangs of wanting to fly around in the beautiful scenery and land on new planets etc. Maybe the team will put out another game without Sony or any company replacing the story.

Or maybe Sean Murray will sell licenses to the game engine, since he wrote it himself. I hope he didn't sell that to Sony. If he still has it, there could be a huge blossoming of similar games. Maybe people could expand on the library of base models and other things. Maybe not just the sci-fi visual style that I like so much, but a zillion other styles too. That would be incredible.

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Bhurzum wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote: Hey you all!
Scented is back!

https://media.giphy.com/media/8oe1ekRC6kjPq/giphy.gif

How's things with my coffee-muse? Still exploring the darkest corners of a hostile universe? Any plans to make a triumphant return to the 'pit?

I've missed you :(

Everyone is mean to me when you're not here...
You guys be nice to Bhurzum, or else!!! I might even be here when you don't know it, so watch your backs! :x

There, that's taken care of. Ahh, coffee. I might have a second one today. I'm probably finished with NMS, but I'm hoping some similar games come out with just as pleasant graphics.

I have such good intentions when it comes to the Pit (and Gab now too), but I only stay for bits and pieces these days. I'm mostly at youtube and a bit of disqus. I don't keep caught up in the long run. Even in the old days, I only kept up on the Undead Thread.

I should come back again more often though. I've missed (some of) you too.*

*Scented has been taken away for medication. She was starting to get sentimental and nice and stuff.

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Hunt wrote:Scented, nice to see you around again!
Hello! I flew back to earth. I decided to retire here. :D

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shoutinghorse wrote:
Ape+lust wrote: Dillahunty could counter Peez and corroborate what everyone knows about APlus. But he's a self-serving lump of chicken fat.

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If memory serves wasn't DillaCunty's wife heavily involved with the A+ shit? I could be wrong but I seem to remember that was the reason he was so reluctant to criticise it. .. This was of course long before she was distracted with 'making eyes' at Cult of Dusty. (Allegedly) :shhh:
She could dish the feminist cant as well as anyone, of which she did plenty with the Godless Bitches, but I don't think she associated with actual APlussers. It was rare for any of their ostensible supporters to show up. Greta tried, but didn't last long. I think Thibeault also popped in and popped right back out. That cheery little dipshit Oolon slotted in like he belonged there, though he did get whacked early on for trying to drag in outside drama (Slymepit). The Blockbot was his contribution to Atheism Plus. Mostly though, everyone stayed away. It was ironic that APlus was a failure among justice warriors from day one.

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John D wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:
AM I THAT MUCH OF A CUNT TO ONLY SCORE A 3 ON AMIABILITY??? You fuckers better answer honestly, or I'll fuck your shit up!!! :x :x :x :x :x

Lol, please make sure 'scented' is somewhere in your reply. I look forward to your answers. All the best, love your old pal Scented Nectar. :romance-grouphug:
Scented - All of the pitters are getting very low amiability scores. Mine was a 6.

To me this does make sense. This doesn't mean you are cruel.... but it means you are not a "follower". I think most of us here play by our own rules and are not easily lead. It is almost the defining quality of this group.

My family discussed this test with me and they thought my scores made sense.... high openness, high conscientiousness, average extroversion, very low amiability, low neurosis. (an atheist engineer that likes poetry)
They are probably socialists (communists by any other name still smells like shit). They don't like people with leadership tendencies who are also confident (the liking yourself questions). I'm strongly for following rules though, but maybe my politics makes them the 'wrong' rules. Also, I don't tend to trust people by default - a learned quality since I used to over-trust.

Well, if we all got low amiability scores, then I'm in good company. And the company's testing interpretation is at fault. I've always felt very comfortable here. It's somewhere that I can be myself, and there's good conversation.

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Ape+lust wrote:
Scented Nectar wrote:Lol, please make sure 'scented' is somewhere in your reply. I look forward to your answers. All the best, love your old pal Scented Nectar. :romance-grouphug:
Heh. I was thinking of you not too long ago when I ran across your 10-year-old doppelganger:

http://imgur.com/4GToB56.jpg

So, Peez has been quoted, alongside some Christian poobah, about Dawkins ruining atheism in one of Vladimir Putin's propaganda rags. His needy desperation has made him shameless.

I'm happy to see you again. If you can, stay for a while :D
Post menopause, my eyes aren't so big and don't bug out quite as much. They've sunk in a bit. I've aged. Maybe I'll bravely post a pic later. I promised to take one today to email someone who hasn't seen me in a long time anyways. My videos from 5-7 years ago look like someone else.

Well, I've got to do a couple things, but I'm coming back today. Maybe I will stay a while again this time. It's been too long. :)

I'll pause after posting this one, do some things for an hour or two, and then continue reading steadily from your post onwards. I've been all out of touch regarding those FTB freaks too. That Peez you speak of sounds familiar.

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Everyone knows the Nazis didn't lay pipe.


They had jews and gypsies and gays and jazz musicians to do that.


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Lsuoma wrote:Phil the Greek's top kek comments:

1966: "British women can't cook".

1969: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?" To Sir Tom Jones after a Royal Variety Performance.

1981: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." During the 1981 recession.

1984: "You are a woman, aren't you?" In Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman.

1986: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." To a group of British students during a royal visit to China.

1988: "It looks like a tart's bedroom." On seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park.

1992: "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." In Australia when asked to stroke a koala bear.

1993: "You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a pot belly". To a Briton he met in Hungary.

1994: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" To a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands.

1995: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test." To a Scottish driving instructor.

1996: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" In response to calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.

1997: "Bloody silly fool!" Referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.

1999: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." Speaking to a group of young deaf people in Cardiff who were standing near a steel band.

1999: "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." Referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh.

2001: "You're too fat to be an astronaut." To 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Prince Philip he wanted to go into space.

2002: "Still throwing spears?" Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit.

2002: "You look like a suicide bomber." To a young policewoman wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.

2009: "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians.

2009: "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" To designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard.

2010: "Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" To Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie Pointing while pointing to some tartan in Edinburgh.

2010: "Do you work in a strip club?" To 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub.

2012: "I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." To 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent.

2013: "The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." On meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital.

2013: "[Children] go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." To Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban and now campaigns for the right of girls to go to school without fear.

2017: "You look starved." To a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men.
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Kirbmarc wrote:
paddybrown wrote:Re: Anerisgate. Calling people Nazis is a dick move, and loses you the argument. Aneris, you need to stop digging and acknowledge that you shouldn't have done that.
She didn't explicitly call people nazis but she did call them as "laying the pipes for neo-nazism" or "in service of neo-nazi agenda".
As Marine Le Pen is calling for a frexit from the EU, is she laying a French drain?

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John D wrote: ...The real 1984 is coming from the left...
I don't know why this would be a surprise to anyone. Animal Farm and 1984 (or 1948) are Orwell's commentarys on communism and Stalinism.

And if anyone thinks that the weird panopticon of a totalitarian surveillance state is the stuff of fiction - then they should count their lucky stars that they can be so blissfully ignorant and that they were not alive in 1940s or 1950s Russia. (Which was a problem many at the time managed to get over quite quickly).

...I really should read the Gulag Archipelago at some point...or rewatch The Crucible...or something...

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