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This is Thunderdome, the unmoderated open thread on Pharyngula. Say what you want, how you want.
Status: UNMODERATED; Previous thread
yay mods! Even the thunderdome should be a creeper free zone.
comradebog:
<snicker>
Leaving aside your laughable conceit that your comments are reasonable, it is clear that irony is also something beyond you.
(Not at all obsessed, you. Nope, not at all! :) )
Comrade Bob has been banned for extremely creepy and disgusting behavior, with a fine fillip of stupidity.
Thanks PZ
Indeed. There’s no need to argue against word salad. The only thing anyone needs to do is laugh at it.
As for you, comradebob, apparently silencing is yet another one of those concepts your peabrain cannot grok. No one is silencing you. What people are doing is expressing their desire to exercise their freedom not to have to associate with your rancid ass.
In with that theme in mind, I will not personally be returning to participate in the Thunderdome thread until I see that comradebob is banhammered.
Sorry, shitbag but that is a piss poor defense. Even for the people I like, I do not need to point out that “I like you”. Besides, you have done more than state “I like you”. You have also asked to exchange photo, claim that we would be great friends and lesbians are lesbian only until the biological need to procreate overwhelms them. Also, “feisty” is a typical sexist putdown to a legitimately angered woman.
Call that a lie by omitting.
Also, where is the consensus that Stephen Jay Gould.
Also, I am not stalking you. I am mocking you. But you are so self centered, you ignore the fact that no one here likes nor respects you. Even those people that most of us regulars have low regard for have shown their disgust for your actions.
Take your white hood and just leave.
This page of comments somehow seems…less contaminated…can’t put my finger on the reason.
Thank you.
Amphiox! Look! Up at 503. Please come back!
It was getting creepy in here. Thanks, PZ.
BTW, PZ, I don’t know if you’ve noticed already, but I think Mabus has been spotted here.
Yaaay!
Thank you, PZ. The level of creepiness was past red line.
And also http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GiHbefYn7tQ/UH8CZLl6hXI/AAAAAAAAALc/2rx7yXfPaHg/s1600/kermitFlail.gif
Geez, PZ. I didn’t even get time go grab a coffee, and now I have to come back??
*grumble, grumble*
So, this along with rajkumar from a while back (were there any others) starts to define the borders of the Thunderdome. I’ll get to scrub one more “here be monsters” off my map…..
Nightjar:
I was wondering about that one.
Fuck you, comradeshitstain. You are a truly lamentable waste of oxygen, and cordially invited to FOAD.
Couldn’t agree more. His obsessive defense of RD is borderline something unhealthy.
Thank you PZ. I really hate running hushfile. It makes the pages jump all over the place.
Being the asshole that I am, I can’t help but wonder how the latest racist and the asian supremacist from days of yore would get on in a cage match.
(Recalling the relative competence of the two, I suspect the comrade would soon be embarrassingly abasing himself)
oldmrbear @493:
You’re not telling me anything I didn’t know. And, evaluating your “Good, gracious goobers, sigh, you are a persistent one” with comradebob’s:
Fuck off².
I just retweeted a photo of Bob Newhart, Peter Frampton and Bill Murray.
I was amused by how utterly random it is.
Translation: “Quiet, woman! Your behaviour is masculine and unbecoming. It’s not your place to point out that I’m a sexist fuckwit!”
For your amusement. Watch as an Elevator Truther points out that there is a conspiracy against Richard Dawkins and Micheal Shermer.
Janine, drosera has never had much entertainment value, and their performance in that thread is miserable, just tiny circles, drawn over and over and over again.
I know, Caine. But I loved that last line in the screed I linked to. It validates my calling him an Elevator Truther.
And Truther truly has entertainment values.
I’m amused at being ostentatiously ignored by drosera in that thread; the truth of course is that drosera has no good response to my comments and this is the most face-saving way to cope with that fact.
Heh.
Thank you, PZ. The place smells better already. /snark
Nightjar (#510),
Doing the rounds of the blogs I had heard Mabus had been sighted over at Slacktivist recently, but that’s almost certainly a typical Mabus nym on the Pharyngula thread (archangelmikes) — over at A+ he’d used similar nyms such as opsarchangel, opsarcangels, opsarcsangels (among many).
freefink (#433),
No. The sexism is all too obvious (have a look at Stephanie Zvan’s most recent thread). The transphobia is more evident in the dehumanising and degrading nature of comments about transgender people implicitly denying their assertions of gender identity, by deliberately misnaming or misgendering them. I discovered that a comment I had written about gender-neutral pronouns (where I expressed a personal preference for an invented pronoun like ‘ze’ over the singular ‘they’ or the straight-forward binary pronoun ‘she’ as the least wrong options) had been highlighted for general mockery over at the other place.
This led to the (re)invention of their unofficial forum policy on gender-neutral pronouns, which is to use the dehumanising neuter pronoun ‘it’ (don’t ever refer to people as ‘it’ unless you know they’re happy being dehumanised) combined with the generally problematic s/he (again, binary-identified trans people may want a specific pronoun rather than the combination of two, and some genderqueer people may wish to stress neither of the gender binary options).
Some transgender people in the atheism/skepticism community who are severely marginalised by society in multiple ways have been especially attractive targets for mockery over at that other place. In such cases, it’s not just transphobic language or dehumanising language that is being employed, the mockery there is sexist, ableist, classist, racist, and demonstrates huge gaps in empathy, understanding, and basic humanity. Having read SGBM’s comment from last December, I agree we shouldn’t be encouraging people to go over there.
John, drosera hasn’t had a good response to *anyone* in that thread. Tiny circles, ’round and ’round.
Thanks, PZ.
Caine, what I saw was vague flapping as the moth was strangely attracted to the Rebeccalypse.
So, is the Elevator Incident a strange attractor or the godwin of internet feminism? :)
Over at Almost Diamonds, Ham comments:
It’s more than clear what the ‘pit is all about, even to us who refuse to venture there, as hate sites aren’t our thing, but for those who are particularly dense, this post should help in making the obvious, well, obvious.
John:
I think it has breached a new level and become both.
It is the Maltese Falcon. It is the suitcase that Jules and Vincent were sent to retrieve.
Janine, that has Scottish name, you know. :)
The Godwin attractor?
What? A MacGuffin?
Wow. Just wow. Are they trying to calculate how to do the most harm with the least effort, or is it mere incompetence? I may have difficulty parsing text that uses xe or hir, singular they may be sometimes awkward, and she may be wrong just as often as he, but at least they still acknowledge that the subject these words identify is a human being.
Dog gone it Caine, what can I say. I’ll bite. That big stinky bait is too much to resist. I’ll just have to deal with the hook later.
I don’t image I’m writing anything you don’t already assume but in my opinion that’s a piss poor translation. YMMV.
On the other hand, you did catch me blind sided. I was more worried about goober, than persistent. I scoured the internet for goober sensitivity. My only serious hit was peanut allergies. Persisting, I tried a little for twisty obscure associations. The best I could muster was that Goober and Gomer were cousins in fictional Mayberry. Jim recently got married up the road in Seattle. Therefore I am homophobic. Even for me that seem to be a stretch. I figured I was safe. Wrong. I dropped the ball. Caine grabbed on to “you are a persistent one” and ran for a touchdown. (Damn my metaphors are getting all mixed up here). Live and learn.
I hope that hook isn’t barbed.
John, the word dude:
No matter how often I look up definitions, in the heat of battle I invariably get confused. Analogy, metaphor, simile and metonymy are my current problems. Any good suggestions for keeping them distinct in my mind. Perhaps some simple tips for a simple mind?
oldmrbear:
Seeing that in the last T’dome I said that I took 8th graders to Six Flags over Georgia (the largest U.S. producer of goober peas), I simply assumed that you were being an asshole about my living in the South. Ranked against the other assholishness, it was peanuts.
Crap, I forgot all about your Six Flags comment. My subconscious in action. I apologize to you for that.
oldmrbear:
It is my pleasure.
Here’s one: before you essay any such figures of speech, consider your intent and use (say) Wikipedia to confirm the form, then actually read what you’ve written before submitting it.
(Also, don’t forget allegory)
For the benefit of of our house sexist fuckwit bear, from a post by A. Noyd:
I won’t hold my breath expecting you to understand, however, if you think all the sexist crap you have vomited up all over is going to be forgotten, you are sadly mistaken. It’s obvious that you don’t care in the least about being a sexist assclown and perpetrating harm, however, we do care. Your sexism is blatant in your writing – you address women very differently from men. You’re a condescending, fuckwitted git who is upset that he has no upper hand in the power dynamics here and those damn uppity women keep calling you out. Tsk.
Hi ck, as far as the pronoun (s/h/it) goes, it’s not exactly an original joke — on Twitter, one of the ‘Elevator Truthers’ with a nym of ‘Dawkinsia’ (oh, I wonder who xe’s modelling hirself on?) was abusing the transgender women bloggers here at FTB, Natalie Reed and Zinnia Jones. For my trouble in reporting the Dawkinsia account as spam, I was referred to as ‘she/it’ because xe ostensibly couldn’t work out what the appropriate pronoun was — and ‘it’ it isn’t!
I don’t care whether they mean s/h/it to be merely a joke or whether they wish to be openly abusive. It’s not incompetence at work (contra Hanlon’s razor), it’s their brand of being assholes.
Caine to oldmrbear:
Hm. Not to me.
:|
—
Xanthë, well, duh.
(That’s their “thing”)
Also for the benefit of the entitled senescent ursine, this analogy comes courtesy of occasional commenter Hershele Ostropoler, via John Scalzi’s Whatever blog:
(In case you don’t get the point: you’ve been stepping on toes here repeatedly, and either refusing or being terminally slow to get off those toes when prompted multiple times. Don’t be an ass. Learn some new tricks, like good-naturedly apologising instead of quibbling and doubling down.)
Will 8th grade basics and mnemonics do?
A simile uses like or as. Look at the word. It has the consonant L for like AND the consonant S for as.
A metaphor figuratively states that something is something else. “Truth is beauty.” Imagine a scale: You can put truth on one side and it will balance with beauty on the other. OR (the ending of metaphOR) you can switch them around and they will still balance. “Beauty, truth.”
An analogy is a paired simile. Up is to down as in is to out.
Metonymy is fun shorthand. If you don’t want to say the whole phrase “United States film industry,” say “Hollywood.” If you want to shorthand “the administration and/or staff of the executive branch of the United States Government,” you say…. If you want to refer to a meal being served when there’s really no concern about the menu, you say something like a $500 per plate fundraiser.
athyco, um, I think oldmrbear was wagging his, um, tail at me.
John:
You must have one of those fabled manginas tucked away somewhere.
athyco,
yes, yes and thank you!
Definitely searching for mnemonics.
As for 8th grade basics I’ll take those too. The 8th grade one one of the most miserable years of my life. It wouldn’t surprise me if I missed some of the basics. I had just lost my hearing and the kids were not about to let the disability go unpunished. The only good thing about the 8th grade was a couple of outstanding teachers and the fact that 10th grade was even worse.
Thanks again for the tips (and sorry about making the post all about me again…)
Xanthe:
Not by a longshot. Long ago, in far away internet, that was being used in the galaxy known as usenet.
And thank you too John, for your response.
Xanthë,
Thanks for sharing the comment. There is a lot of wisdom packed in there.
I do have a nasty habit of being snarky when I feel insulted. I’m working on it. That’s why I’m here.
While in the back of my head, I thought he might be, John, the 30 years of teacher in me couldn’t let it go by just in case.
Besides, he did apologize to me about “goober” without trying to protest my calling him an asshole OR making fun of my peanuts joke.
athyco,
I did so want to acknowledge your peanut joke. But there was just no way, given all the other context. It was cute though.
John Morales,
Sorry, no I wasn’t trying to wag my tail in any derogatory way. It was an unloaded question on my part. You previously responded in a way I could relate to, so I thought it worth an ask. My reputation precedes me, and it’s not unreasonable for you to assume as you did.
Think of the tail wagging as just an uncontrollable sign of interest.
Reminds me of my old rescued Rottie. Oh how I hate when people chop off the tails of little dogs. Even so, nothing filled me with more delight than watch that little nub wag.
make that “watching”
oldmrbear, it has nothing to do with your reputation (you haven’t yet got much of one, with me), and everything with my
pecynicism and experience.(You’re over-playing your hand, well though you play it)
Caine, thanks for the comment by A. Noyd.
Yes, I’m sure you have a long memory and the ability to hold a grudge.
We are similar in that way.
[musical interlude]
Got my mind set on you
oldmrbear @553:
We understand that; we feel that snarky is not a bad thing if you’ve actually been insulted without good reason. I tell you this: we felt we were snarky and insulting you for good reason. Really now…people dealt with what we felt was the substance of your very first comment on Pharyngula (let alone Thunderdome) so you may have forgotten something. Do you remember the first paragraph you gave us as your chosen introduction?
You just might be good company if there’s a jaw drop and a “DOH!” over that.
Athyco:
Don’t hold your breath. From their first appearance here at Pharyngula (and not in TDome), there has been an open contempt for social justice issues and those who fight on that score; open, ongoing sexism scattered about with complete disregard for us subhumans and a repeated resistance to thinking.
I cannot say I’m surprised. Stupid jokes aside, it does seem that more often than not, the most harmful choice is used by that crew in their efforts to damage FtB, regardless of how much other collateral damage it inflicts.
Aw, crap. I hadn’t seen anything outside the Dome. Yeah, then, breath not held. :(
ck, they are parasites, and FTB is one of their raisin dates.
(mmmm… dates)
athyco,
Yes, athyco you are right. I’ll just add that at least on the receiving end sometimes it’s difficult to recognize the good reason.
Not that I really want to draw any more attention to it, but my comment here in T-Dome was not my first on Pharyngula. After extracting my foot, I decided to restrict myself to the Dome until I was ready for prime time. Another bad habit of mine is over-sympathizing with an underdog, ignoring how he may have earned the status, and looking for common ground. Doesn’t work too well.
To be continued, after dinner…
Oh, P.S.
I also lost my self-control and ventured a comment in the current discussion of trolls. Damage was minimal, I hope.
Mr bear:
Are you really this obtuse? Do you not see the disdain with which you are shown? You are no comrade, but you are a sexist ass. I do not have quite as many fuck you’s to direct your way as I do toward everyone’s not-so-favorite Islamophobic bigot, SteveoR, but here, take 2 fuck you’s and don’t bother calling in the morning.
Mmmm, food. Salmon fillet, baked potato, garden salad and a cold Clausthaler.
A friend recently gave me a small collection of spice blends, the Two Snooty Chefs brand. So I brushed the fillet with olive oil, sprinkled some Snooty Salmon Chemise on top and grilled. Happy tummy time.
athyco, I came in brashly, full of snark and myself. The folks handed it all right back. Some with good reason, some without.
Hi Tony – Right back atcha there. When I deal with others, I allow a certain amount of social respect towards others. Not much, just enough allow a peaceful beginning. After that respect must be earned. You just burned your allotment and have gone in the hole. So with your choice of introduction, you don’t have to worry about comradeship. I recently did something similar, so I speak with some experience.
Mabus update: here (Ed Brayton’s Dispatches) and here (A+ forums memberlist, login required)
Huh. You “recently” did something similar, but have learned little to show for it. oldmrbear, what would you think about acknowledging to Tony that you’re a work in progress, as you began to do in #567? No? Well, that quickly do you show that I am a trusting fool.
Again, that is. I can’t forget the douglas11something episode. My benefit of the doubt node is out of kilter. With work, I may be able to suppress it down to misfiring only once a month or something.
Sorry athyco, don’t endanger your trust, make me earn your respect. As for Tony, after that intro, it is difficult to open up and be vulnerable. Tony, I acknowledge my assholeness, despite appearances I am trying to learn, and the results may be hard to see just yet. Despite your fierce facade, you may actually be a decent human being and it would be my loss not to know.
Now for some thought thundering around my dome:
When pondering on the concepts of social privilege especially in regards to sexism and racism I find it useful to think in terms of acute and chronic pain and the protective nature of privilege. For someone well endowed with privilege like me. Many bad things in life are temporary, like acute pain. Yeah, it hurts like hell, makes me cry or scream, anger flares and I’m apt to strike out. Yet through it all there is the knowledge and the security of knowing that by this time next year, the pain will be gone.
Those less fortunate than myself do not have that knowledge and protection. Their pain is chronic, it never goes away. The pain itself doesn’t have to be huge, it’s the chronic nature that destroys the human spirit. No relief and litlle hope. Crushing.
Now I can’t remember if that’s a metaphor, analogy, simile, allegory or what ever, but it is a tool I can use to keep my head centered.
athyco, is the douglas11something episode something you can share?
@ oldmrbear
For someone claiming they want to learn, you are rather verbose.
(Really, it is OK to lurk moar.)
theophontes:
you make it very difficult to control my snark. but that is my problem.
Learning is not a passive absorption process. I’ve been listening for years. The next step is to practice. To see if I actually understood the concepts and procedures. That’s why I’m here. Sometimes it ain’t very pretty.
Do you have something constructive to offer?
To whom-the-fuck-ever mentioned chap-hop here a couple weeks ago: Damn You Straight to Hell.
I have purchased a ukulele and listen to at least one song by Mr. B every day.
OOOH! This must be shared: http://youtu.be/oP3c1h8v2ZQ (Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories)
@ oldmrbear
1. Notice that 25% of the comments here are yours.
2. If you lurked more, you might understand a lot more before you comment. That might endear you more to the commentariat.
theophontes
Fair enough, I’ll ponder on it.
Now, perhaps you noticed in your analysis that I offered an actual idea up in 573. A transition from reactivity to conversation. Even if just a baby step. I’m not gonna twist your arm, but if you want to comment on my little tool that would be cool too.
Musing here; you may want to skip it.
The whole “earning respect” thing has always struck me the wrong way. Even the motivational poster “Respect: Give it. Get it. Got it?” felt too transactional to me.
I’m not an employer, doling out respect dollars, docking your pay for this, awarding you a bonus for that, making you work for it–sulky if you feel underpaid and scornful if you think I’m running a poor respect business by paying you too much for the current market.
To me, oldmrbear, your idea of “respect” looks authoritarian: regimented and metered and obligated, as joyless as year after year after year with gifts only on birthday and Christmas. I see respect as an amalgam of many gifts gathered and offered–small or large–as they become available: Recognition. Openness. Challenge. Empathy. Evaluation. Acceptance. Responsibility. Trust. Not all of them are needed in equal amounts; they can change from relationship to relationship and within a relationship over time.
I’d tell my students that they didn’t have to give me the whole “respect” package, but they’d need to determine the strengths they had that would allow us to work together. If recognition, evaluation, challenge, and responsibility were their strengths, they could throw in the occasional openness or trust or empathy in order to get better at them over time. As the adult in the room, I’d try to show them the whole package as often as possible, but I had my strengths and weaknesses, too.
So, no. I won’t be making anyone earn my respect.
oldmrbear:
Type Trumped! into search. Douglas1102’s first comment is at 115. Later in the thread, the Thunderdome link will take you to the rest.
If you actually slog through it all, you’ll understand why I say that I can’t explain it.
Athyco:
No one can explain that. I don’t know why anyone would even want to try.
Along with my shiny new laptop, I got an arc touch mouse. I quite like it, but I really wish they made the center scroll textured.
@ dysomniak
That would be cm’s who linked you to Mr B. Then I went ahead and linked you to Professor Elemental (“Fighting Trousers“). As we are both sock-puppets of Rebecca Watson, you would be justified in blaming her.
@ oldmrbear
Frankly, I fail to get the gist of what you are trying to say there. I am sure it makes perfect sense in your head, it is just that it is not coming across that well in your comment. Do not take this too personally – as many do the same (myself included).
@ Caine
Yay for the new computer.
…This is the place to leave ranting, right? Because I’m too fucking angry to speak now. This is about the lawsuit against McCormack for giving herself a DIY medication abortion in Idaho:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/111368/the-rise-diy-abortions
WHAT. WHAT.
Jane Crow legal punishments against pregnant women, personhood and fetal rights bills, and now WOMEN have no legal standing re pregnancy EXCEPT WHILE PREGNANT? *raaaage* And this was integral to Roe v Wade. I have no words for my disgust.
athyco @ 581
Good Morning. Musings are good and I generally find them way more approachable than pronouncements. I hadn’t thought much about the authoritarian aspect. That is museable. My concept of respect does have a huge component of defense. Not too surprising, given my reactionary nature.
My comments to you were certainly influenced by this defensive nature. My empathy was triggered by your statement “I am a trusting fool”. My first thoughts were, no, no, no, watch out! Betrayal of trust is nasty, painful business. Run! So rather than put my sensitive trust on the line, I’ll put the onus on the bad guy to earn my trust/respect. And lots of it for a good buffer. Kinda fuzzy thinking I know.
Thanks for the musings, they will give me something more to ponder on this rainy Sunday.
I’ll Be Around-Yo La Tengo
The song is quiet and low key YLT. The video? Also quiet and low key. And it has a recipe for spicy tortilla soup. But still, what the fuck just happened?
athyco,
Thanks for the tip in 582. I’ll take a peak after chores.
Mwha-ha-ha.
That would be me. ;-)
Classical ukelele:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTIv8hP-UIA
Somewhat more modern:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKpzCCuHDVY
Mwah-ha-ha-ha. ;-)
I wasn’t aware that Chet Atkins had covered my 2nd-favourite Chopin piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIF-rXVVN5U
… but I’m happy to find out that he did.
It never ceases to amaze me how much some people can make any situation all about them. *shakes head*
Well, rather than get terribly irritated by that, I think I’ll have an early night, haven’t slept for a couple of days.
My first favourite is, of course (because I love A minor):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9KVy30eKWE
We can argue which of the Ballades takes the prize. (I’m 50/50 between #1 and #4.)
theophontes @ 585:
No worries. Communication failure is nothing new to me. My only hope is to double down and practice, practice, practice. ;) (Think 25% is impressive? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet…)
“Frankly, I fail to get the gist of what you are trying to say there.”
OK, fair enough. Moving past a couple of feeble self-deprecating double entendres… In the referenced post I was using the concepts of acute and chronic pain to better understand aspects of social privilege, sexism and racism. I have a long time personal relationship with both types of pain. I understand both and the distinction between them is clear in my mind.
Due to my privilege I don’t experience sexism the way others do. I think of my experience in terms of acute pain. Yeah it hurts, but ultimately it will pass. Mostly just a pain in the arse. To better understand the experience of others, an experience I will never have, I remind myself of chronic pain. Soul crushing, never ending chronic pain.
Hmm, I don’t think I’m improving on my previous attempt. I’ll stop.
It is true that I tend A minor. (See previous Bach links.)
But I will also do A major.
K488. Win.
@ oldmrbear
(Think 25% is impressive? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet…)
Link here.
Ok, that really went way above my head.
Hi cm, the concert rondo KV 386 (completed by other people, cos people dismantled Mozart’s manuscript into lotsa pieces and bits got lost) is worth checking out too.
Speaking of motormouths, we’ve got someone heading towards 33% on the ‘I have no idea what I’ve gotten myself into’ thread – which would be impressive if the guy wasn’t a complete asshat. (I’m finding it difficult to read the thread without the browser deciding to keel over and die, which would be a laughable cause and effect of being exposed to the amount of stupidity on display there by the threadhog.)
Xanthe:
He’s not *that* bad…
…ok, maybe a wee bit.
In another forum, I participated in a discussion on the 2nd Amendment and gun control. Some think that the right to bear arms enshrined in the 2nd Amendment is absolute regardless of the type of “arms”, whether they be handguns or “assault weapons”. Others responded that if the 2nd Amendment is interpreted in such an absolutist fashion, then we would have to allow the private ownership of nuclear weapons (or other WMDs). The 2nd Amendment advocates claim the argument is ridiculous, either by asserting that the 2nd Amendment couldn’t possibly be interpreted in such a way to include nuclear weapons, or that even if we did allow the private ownership of nukes no citizen would seriously purchase them.
Comments? Is the argument bringing up the possibility of private nuke ownership an appropriate one?
The private nuke thing is a rhetorical strategy known as “reductio ad absurdum”.
Just did a mini-slog through the Douglas11something thread. At least from comment 115 through the end of the thread. I didn’t check the dome to see if he actually went over there.
Athyco, there is a lot to not understand over there. Some stuff I do understand. The important thing, at least in my mind, is that you found a reason to mention it in a comment to me. You do understand the association. I do to, I think. I saw what you did and yes I see more than a little bit of myself over there. Well , make that just a pinching thumb to index finger bit, for ego’s sake.
Scientology and L Ron Hubbard advertisements on the Super Bowl? Was that national? I don’t usually watch TV, but today I had “the game” on in the background. Have these advertisements been around for a while? It may be time to re-up over at Operation Clambake.
This is from September 17, 2012. The NRA Shit List
Yes, it does link to the NRA’s site.
Okay, I’m back.
The attention seeking of various people here is over and you have now branched into blustering, lying and twisting which will now be exposed. First recant, delete or edit this mockery as it is inflammatory and adds nothing to the debate:
Next, this is the dumbest, most idiotic thing I have read in years:
Apparently you are in ignorance of the universal negative fallacy. And then claiming the only truths are scientific is absurd exposing your vast ignorance and attention seeking. Apparently you need a lesson on Hume, Comte positivism, logical positivism and its death with Popper putting the last nail in the coffin. Hume himself acknowledged that historical testimony is the vast majority of valid evidence. Positivism and logical positivism saying the only truths are empirically verified died a slow death starting at the end of the nineteenth century and buried in the mid-twentieth century after Popper clarified that nothing can actually be empirically verified, and that to be truly scientific a statement/hypothesis must be able to be contradicted by a possible or conceivable observation. So much for your God must be scientifically proven idea. And so historical evidence is just as valid. Further, science relies upon inductive inference assigning a probability and does not therefore prove anything. It is not absolute so it is absurd to claim the only truths are scientific and God must be proven with conclusive scientific evidence. Because of Poppers critiques of falsifiability instead of verificationism, science is philosophically based so you have no clue what you are talking about saying stuff like, “Philosophical necessity won’t count for squat.” Science is based upon philosophical necessity, w/o that, there is no science genius.
And the previous was the dumbest thing I have read in years, until seconds later I read this:
Saying if abiogenesis is too complex to occur naturally then God is even moreso limited is just inexcusably idiotic. Complete non-sequitur and bizarrely irrational. You just lost any credibility as even rabid atheists and anti-theists can see the stupidity in this. The super-natural creator is subject to and limited by the natural laws of His creation. Right. Do you realize how many logical fallacies you just employed? Strawman, non-sequitur, limiting omnipotence.
1) Your whole premise rests on a several logical fallacies such as making the creator subject to and limited by His creation, limiting omnipotence; limiting omnipotence and reducing it to your level of ignorance; attempting to make your finite ignorance the standard raising your finitude to omnipotence/omniscience.
2) Then the logical fallacy of strawmanning this issue. In order for the unbeliever to rationally approach these issues, they logically are obligated to treat them as hypotheticals and analyze them for what they claim to be. You cannot change definitions and insert your a priori biases as you have. You must take the Biblical accounts with the definitions as they are and analyze them for what they claim to be, not change God into a caricature of what you want to mock in willful ignorance and bias as you have. God by definition is omnipotent, beyond, separate from and not subject to His creation. A painter is not limited to and subject to his painting but by your assertion they are.
Next, you keep making assertions and then throwing up links instead of properly quoting the section of the article you think supports you. And the reason you do this is because you are lying about what your link says apparently hoping no one will call you on your bluff. Didnt work. So in the future learn how to make an argument which means to state your claim/assertion and then quote the evidence that you think supports your assertion here for all to read, couple that with logic for a valid/successful conclusion. So making an assertion then copying a link isnt an argument or even evidence. A link is merely so the evidence you quote can be located verified. So do not try this tactic of falsely asserting and then posting a link hoping you wont get, again.
Now then, as for your false assertions. First, the vid we talked about before stated hundreds of nucleotides in the alleged NATURAL PREBIOTIC ENVIRONMENT, which is obviously false and inarguable. The best you have done is falsely assert a few others. Read your own article genius, TNA is synthetic having nothing to do with the alleged natural prebiotic environment:
And this article has next to nothing to do with abiogenesis, it speaks of bioenergetics proposing cell membranes become less leaky so your bluster here is exposed as false, “As far as abiogenesis is concerned, I recommend this article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867412014389 , for the latest on the research hypothesis I think is most promising:”
This has nothing to do with the universal genetic code forming naturally genius.
Finally the last thing I will expose before making one more comment to you as I don’t want to go too long in one comment is this is just baloney when you say:
These are nucleosides, not nucleotides which you blustered about here in ignorance when you claimed this.
One last thing. The fundamental problem here that you didn’t and cannot address is that the vid that was linked to was a joke and flat out wrong asserting absurd speculations with no evidence as factual reality in spite of contradictory evidence. It assumed w/o justification a prebiotic atmosphere, a prebiotic atmosphere with, many fatty acids, a prebiotic atmosphere with many fatty acids and hundreds of nucleotides. None of which are remotely factual and the Sutherland, Powner and Gerland experiment showed this, it started with artificial, unnatural synthetic ingredients putting them through an artificial, unnatual synthetic process with intelligent intervention at many crucial steps to purify results, remove lethal by products and add phosphate buffers. I posted the evidence from Powner himself admitting this so it isnt arguable.
Just a reminder of the vid we were talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg
annejones, why do you imagine your god has a penis?
(You keep evading this question)
Anne Jones, did you ever address cubit?
Wow, annejones, what a lot of bluster, signifying absolutely nothing… I don’t suppose you realised in amidst that train wreck, that your arguments don’t actually work the way you suppose they do? All you are in effect saying is “my opinion is there is a god”, for which you can adduce no evidence at all, and assemble a disastrous farrago of faulty reasoning in support of your non-argument. Any rational person would take a look at that and say, “no”. 2/10 for effort.
annejones, what is your background in biology?
I’ll put this here for reference – turns out when women are given the choice between being housewives and getting a divorce, they choose divorce over losing their career.
But but female privilege! You mean that women have… *LE GASP* ambitions?
Sorry fuckwit, we are explaining the world to a delusional fool. If your deity isn’t imaginary, you will provide evidence for it. Physical evidence that would pass muster with scientists, magicians, and professional debunkers as being of divine, and not natural (scientifically explained), origin. Something equivalent to the eternally burning bush. Otherwise, all you have is you fallacious presupposition that your deity isn’t imaginary.
Likewise, your babble is a book of mythology/fiction until you provide the conclusive physical evidence to show it is inerrant and the word of your imaginary deity. But, if you can’t show your deity exists first, and you haven’t done that, nor can you do that with your idiotic and fallacious “god of the ever shrinking gaps” fallacious fuckwittery.
I’m waiting for your evidence, say the coordinates of the eternally burning bush. Until then, blather on, but I won’t bother to read your meaningless blather and bombast. You are to stupid to realize you have already lost the argument, and can’t win it with nothing but attitude.
Something I just noticed:
Er…
Men aren’t more likely to value family over success – , they just rather sacrifice the woman’s success rather than their own.
Wash your mouth with soap before you try to drag history into your dreck, anniejones. Historians don’t just take anyone’s word for it. The most important rule of historical research is that people make shit up all the time, so parallel lines of evidence are the gold standard. Just like in any other science. Trying to elevate your opinion to the level of historical evidence is an insult to anyone who studies it.
annejones: So write a paper and get it published.
I don’t know what is sadder – that annejones’s posts are so feeble, or that it takes her several days to cobble one together.
carlie’s link:
I have to question the sample of women in this study being a fair representation of young women today. The reason I say this is that I literally do not personally know a single woman who has actually done this (divorce to raise her children alone because her career would be threatened). Rather, ALL the mothers whom I know who have sacrificed their careers to raise their children do so very willingly for the sake of the family. My wife included.
Possibly, but I wouldn’t at all think most mothers would value a high-paying career more than an intact family, if they had to choose. Again, I see absolutely no evidence of that in my life.
If they already have a family, many women (just like many men) tend to care about what happens to them. That does not mean if they don’t already have a family, many women (just like many men) wouldn’t prefer a successful career to having a family. And if that family included a spouse who insists they have no kind of career but instead has to stay at home to raise the kids, not because they are constrained economically to do so but because that is supposed to be their ‘natural’ role, I wouldn’t be surprised if many would want a divorce. I know I would, but I wouldn’t want kids at all. Many would not be willing to go to such lengths to ‘sacrifice’ for their children, generally because they don’t assume it would be good for the children no matter what the marriage is like.
And, of course, her decision was entirely her choice, pure free will. No influence at all of patriarchy that educates women to priotitize housekeeping over personal achievement. No influence at all from your awfully oblivious self as well. No siree.
consciousness razor:
I understand that. But that isn’t the context of the question. It specifically mentions what would happen “once children arrive” and “for whatever reason, they couldn’t sustain an equal partnership”. Because how can women “divorce and raise their kids alone” if they don’t have children to begin with?
But maybe I am wrong and the study actually does give an accurate and a fair representation of women’s opinions. But all this study actually shows is that most women may think they would divorce and raise their children alone if confronted with the situation, but in reality they are more likely not to do so when actually in the situation. I have known several women who I think would think that is what they would do. But again, I don’t know a single mother who has actually done it once children arrived.
Are you suggesting you know more about my wife than me?
On the one hand we have data from research carried out by a qualified and trained sociologist, along with an analysis of research done by others, and on the other we have your personal experience.
And you think we should go with your personal experience why ?
Joey, your personal opinion/anecdote is not, and never will be,evidence. So, either cite a study from here, or shut the fuck up.
Are you suggesting you know more about your wife than herself?
Matt Penfold:
You don’t have to. Just giving my opinion. And as I mentioned previously, I’m aware that I very well could be wrong about it.
Do you personally know a mother who left a marriage and raised her children by herself specifically because her career would be threatened if she remained in the marriage?
But again, there is a difference in what women may think they would do than what they actually would do. The study gives data supporting the former, whereas my personal experiences is evidence against the latter.
Do you personally know a mother who left a marriage and raised her children by herself specifically because her career would be threatened if she remained in the marriage?
Yes.
joey, #600:
Granting the hilariously ahistorical reading that the Second Amendment even describes a right for private ownership of “arms” in the first place, of course it’s appropriate to explore the implications of the argument that the right is absolute. What could be inappropriate about that?
Exploring those implications produces results that are manifestly absurd, and it becomes necessary for those who argue for an absolute reading either to justify the absurd results (explain why it’s OK for citizens to own nukes, even if just in theory), or to reconcile the concept of an absolute Second Amendment with the impositions of restrictions on the types of “arms” that may be privately owned (explain how the right can be absolute and qualified at the same time).
vaiyt:
Absolutely not, nor have I ever suggested it. Though I am pretty sure I know more about my wife than you.
So please tell me, what else do you think my wife feels about staying with our children?
It is, indeed, harder to divorce if there are children involved. This is one reason that abusers sabotage birth control: to retain control of the person and make it harder for them to leave. But unless you’re arguing that that’s a good thing, the better position to take socially would be to make it easier for women (and men) to divorce abusers, even if children are involved. Including making it easier for single parents to have careers and still raise children.
Sorry, posted early on my previous. Continued to joey:
The point, of course, is (as Amphiox) points out, to paint absolutists into a rhetorical corner. Of course private citizens shouldn’t be allowed to own nukes – no-one who makes that argument could be taken seriously. So that means that the Second Amendment can’t be absolute, and there have to be some restrictions. Once the principle of restrictions is conceded, the discussion becomes a matter of where to draw the line. If not nukes, then what else is forbidden? Tanks, grenades, SMAWs? Assault rifles? And can there be licensing restrictions even for those “arms” that are permitted?
Your opinion is not worth anything, so why offer it ? You chose to offer your opinion, which indicates you think it is worthwhile. You need to show why your opinion is worthwhile. In otherwords, you must provide evidence to support your opinion, which you failed to do. You need to explain your failure to offer evidence as well.
Because your wife represents all women.
So tired of this fucking trope. But my wife is not like that so what you are arguing is invalid. Also, how you you claim to know my wife better than I do.
Not that much should be expected from “sticks sharp” joey.
annejones, your habit of never making clear who you are addressing/quoting is frankly irritating, and the fact that you don’t provide links to the threads on which the comments you are responding to appear doesn’t help. I never know who you’re talking to when you say “you”, and since I have better stuff to do than figuring out what the fuck you’re on about I’ll just quickly respond to the part where you “quoted” me (at least for now):
No, dear, they are bases. Just like A, T, C, G and U. Link any of those to a sugar and you have a nucleoside. Link a phosphate group to that nucleoside and you have a nucleotide. Don’t pretend you know what you’re talking about, okay?
Also, I never said “In addition to the five nucleotides you mention, there’s”. You made that part up. I mentioned I, Ψ, X, D, Q, Yt in addition to A, T, C, G, U. If you really want I, Ψ, X, D, Q, Yt to correspond to nucleosides, then that’s fine by me. In that case, I mentioned those nucleosides in addition to adenosine, thymidine, cytidine, guanidine and uridine. Happy?
Don’t say things that are wrong. We know a lot about the prebiotic earth because it left its mark everywhere. Take note, there is both positive evidence here which suggest theories as well as negative evidence which invalidates theories. The papers I reference are inconsistent with every creation story ever proposed by religions.
All concepts must be falsifiable in order to be useful or even considered. The intelligent design concept, for example, is falsifiable. It makes the claim that biology exhibits traits indicative of intelligent agency in their design. Every biological structure to my knowledge can be explain by unguided action, and every structure whose mechanism for origination is well known occurred entirely naturally without intelligent guidance. This is both a positive indication that intelligent design is likely wrong, and an negative indication in the systems we are certain of that intelligent design is falsified. A reasonable person, therefore, cannot support intelligent design without extraordinarily compelling evidence.
Lulwut? Do you actually work in any scientific field? I know the driving force for scientific genius in my field isn’t philosophical necessity, but a driving need from the public to find answers. I work in nanotechnology and opto-electronics, and the biggest driving force for us to find answers is the need for solar power to be cheap and the need to store vast quantities of energy (also, cheap flexible electronics. That would be cool too). We are then constrained by the materials we have access to and the theories and facts which describe systems we do understand and (most importantly) the way the world really works. Nowhere in there are we driven by philosophical babble.
Philosophy did not generate science. Human need generates science. That same human need causes us to generate philosophy and mathematics and many other disciplines.
An idea is worthless unless it causes action. Ideas that cause action must make claims about the structure and nature of reality (which is firmly within the realm of science). All supernatural claims to date have either been 1) falsified or 2) don’t contain a cause to action. In other words, gods are either bullshit, worthless or both.
… really? You’re claiming that the formation of stable lipid bilayers has nothing to do with abiogenesis? I’m just a chemist, not a biologist, but the connection here is obvious to me. Natural formation of separate aqueous environments is a necessary condition for the propagation of those same environments. The structure of those membranes confines the chemical reactions that allow their propagation (which we know occurs abiotically, I’ve done it personally in a variety of solvents). Really, you should spend some time learning how things work before claiming how they must have come to be.
It is necessary to grant this interpretation because it is the supreme court of the United States interpretation, and that’s the only one that matters. (District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008))
Oh dear, annejones. I had hoped for better.
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Of course the bible is a work of fiction. Just like every other “holy” text of every other religion humans have invented over the ages. You really don’t get to have a text treated as if it were anything other than human-invented, just on your say-so, you know. How seriously would you take someone demanding you treat the koran as the word of god? Tsk tsk.
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You think it’s OK to claim the existence of an intelligence not subject to any of the laws of physics, offer no actual evidence for this other than your own opinion, and expect to get taken seriously? Oy.
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Of course, if you have any grounds other than unevidenced opinion for believing this intelligence exists, and that it happens to match the contradictory figure described in various different parts of the bible and other xtian texts, please feel free to adduce ’em. I won’t hold my breath, though.
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Oh, and don’t forget Ockham’s razor. There is nothing for which adding goddidit adds to our understanding. Resorting to goddidit for abiogenesis or the big bang is no better – no cleverer, no more useful – than praying to Zeus to go easy on the thunderbolts.
dobbshead, @637:
Yes, it is, regrettably, necessary to grant it in practice. That doesn’t mean it isn’t hilariously ahistorical, or that alternative readings can’t be discussed, endorsed and promoted. The Supreme Court can, after all, change its mind.
Or announce that a ruling is not applicable to future cases.
Janine:
I never suggested that she does.
Yup, I noticed the grammar flub right after I hit submit. Sorry.
I don’t recall ever using the words “sticks”, but I do know that I have used the word “sharp”. But you do know where I got the “sharp” rhetoric from? It’s from Stenberg vs. Cahart and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
casus fortuitus:
Thank you, casus. I completely agree with your reasoning.
Now, can you guess where I’m going with this? I’m guessing most others already do considering the lack of responses.
Gotta head back to lab. Missed enough work for the day.
(Well, I guess this is directed at me too)
annejones:
So what?
Look, it’s very simple: TNA is a nucleic acid. You said there are only two types of nucleic acids, RNA and DNA. Therefore, you were wrong.
Again, it’s very simple: TNA is simpler than RNA. TNA is capable of Darwinian evolution. TNA folds into tertiary structures. Therefore, it is relevant for abiogenesis research.
No, joey, consider me caught in your ingenious trap. What sophistic place are you going with this?
And joey zooms right over my point. About how common it is for some men, when talking about issues that effect women, use their wife an the example to try to refute the point.
Also pulling that case out does not excuse the inanity of arguing that women will going through nine months of pregnancy in order to “abort” the fetus when out of the body but still attached because of the fear of “sticks sharp” in their body.
joey,
Oh, let’s see… you are a despicable asshole who wants to discuss at what point should the “this woman is now nothing but an ambulatory incubator” line be drawn?
Nowhere. Fuck off.
I shudder at the thought.
@joey:
For one, I think you do not speak for her.
You’re going to try and argue that bodily autonomy should not be absolute? By all means go ahead. I’d love to see you make an ass of yourself.
I personally know several women who chose to divorce and be a single parent because of their ex’s insistence on them giving up their careers and staying home. I also know several couples where the man decided to sacrifice his career in order to be a househusband and stay at home parent.
CM’s: Damn you! ::shakes fist briefly, goes back to strumming ukulele::
I do love the UKOGB (here’s one I don’t think has been posted here yet: http://youtu.be/pLgJ7pk0X-s), but I must say that (aside from Mr. B,) my two favorite uke players are Kate Micucci (of Garfunkel & Oates), and Amanda Fucking Palmer (even if she does use a pick: http://youtu.be/Ni6qaNUcd9E)
You cannot, annejones, assume properties such as omnipotence or omniscience in a creator, without actual positive evidence for them, anymore than you can assume the creator itself.
Nothing you have said has added anything cogent to your argument as demonstrated by your very first post. You may as well have kept it to that one post for all the good anything else you’ve posted has done for your arguments.
Harp all you want about the complexities, unknowns, or difficulties, real or imagined, with abiogenesis theory. It does not matter. Every argument of this sort you apply against abiogenesis bounces back to you and applies with even greater force to the idea of a creator.
If a process such as abiogenesis is too complex and difficult to arise spontaneously, then a creator entity intelligent enough to direct it is even more complex and difficult to arise spontaneously. If said creator entity can be viewed as not subject to the requirement of having to arise spontaneously, then neither does the original process itself either.
Even if you can demonstrate that abiogenesis by all currently envisioned means are impossible, that does not provide you any viable argument in support of a creator of any kind. The explanation does not default to god in the event that abiogenesis or evolution or relativity or what have you turns out wrong. Any number of alternative explanatory frameworks as yet unimagined still remain as hypothetical possibilities.
You cannot logic or rhetoric your way out of the circle. It can only be broken with POSITIVE EVIDENCE.
We have POSITIVE EVIDENCE for portions of abiogenesis theory. That gives us the impetus to pursue those theories further, and look for more positive evidence.
There is NO positive evidence for creator theory, and thus we do not pursue it. If you wish for creator theory (theories, actually) to be considered, then you must provide the POSITIVE EVIDENCE to get the ball rolling.
It does not necessitate complete evidence or absolute proof. Just a small piece of real, POSITIVE EVIDENCE that a creator does exist. But you do not have even that.
And so Joey coems along with his gender essentialism, ignoring the experience of transgender persons, those who do not conform to gender roles, and those who do not identify as a particular gender.
Hohum, so goes evopsych.
Nightjar, vaiyt:
Is that really where he’s going with that? I hope not, I don’t like the idea of being implicated in such stupidity.
We humans do not yet have the nanotechnology by which we can grab atoms with little machines and assemble molecules brick by intentional brick.
“Synthetic” chemistry means creating a certain set of starting conditions, tossing in the ingredients, and letting the laws of chemistry proceed as they would.
We humans also do not yet possess the capability of altering or suspending those natural laws of chemistry.
And that means that ANYTHING and EVERYTHING we can do with synthetic chemistry can occur naturally, if the those crude starting conditions that we set up should arise naturally, somewhere in the universe. Indeed, MUST occur.
If I use a bulldozer to dig a hole, in order to study how a ball might roll down its slope, that does not mean that balls would not roll down slopes without intelligent intervention.
casus fortuitus:
Joey could discuss the geology of the Grand Canyon and it would come around to gender essentialism and/or women not having full bodily autonomy. Or at least, this has happened in every conversation Joey has been involved in to date.
I don’t know of any cases where the court changed it’s mind on a major issue without first changing the makeup of the bench. (I might just be ignorant, law isn’t my field) Unless the constitution is amended, the conclusions in Heller will most likely stand until the bench is mostly replaced.
Also, many of the views the court takes are dramatically ahistorical. I doubt the founders expected that the first amendment would ban school lead prayer. I also doubt that the drafters of the 14th amendment expected it to extend rights and protections to homosexuals. The history and intent of a law can only inform its interpretation so much. The bill of rights as a whole wasn’t meant to apply to the states at all, so trying to interpret it in that light is itself an ahistorical exercise.
Most of the current gun control proposals, however, don’t really tread on the decision in Heller as far as I can see. Expanding background checks and training requirements does not preclude a law abiding citizen from exercising a right to self defense, or even a right to firearm ownership. Free speech is limited in cases of fraud, libel and incitement. It’s reasonable to limit a right to firearm ownership to protect the public’s interests by the same logic.
One thing I think is funny/tragic is that the debate is focusing so much on ‘assault weapons’, which are largely irrelevant, and regulations for pistol ownership aren’t being discussed seriously.
That you think that the bioenergetics of lipid membranes have nothing to do with abiogenesis is telling.
You are trying to argue against the possibility of a process occurring about which you KNOW NOTHING. Think about that for a moment.
If someone came to you wishing to discuss the moral teachings of Jesus Christ without having ever read the bible, or any of the testaments or any of the apocrypha, who went on to demonstrate that he was not even aware of Christ having been crucified, and insisted on continuing the conversation even after said deficiencies in his theological knowledge had been pointed out to him, what would you think of him?
That is how you appear to us on abiogenesis, annejones.
Aryan Jesus thread isn’t very serious, but I won’t derail it anyway. The word “guyliner” appeared in the comments. Now, I don’t think Rob in Memphis meant anything bad with it, but it’s one of my (oh so many) pet peeves.
It’s a fucking eyeliner.
Not guyliner.
It’s just called guyliner so that men who wear it would be less “degraded” by using women’s cosmetics.
What matters is that they HAD THE CHOICE, chose it willingly, and were not coerced into it by any state agency with the power of law.
That is the only thing that matters here. All else is irrelevant.
Casus fortuitus:
That would be *old* stupidity from Joey, as in same old stupid shit. We went the rounds of “what if/9 months pregnant/sharp sticks, fear of” crap well over a year ago. Joey never misses a chance to vomit it all up again.
Christ was crucified? Citation needed.
annejones, look up “directed panspermia”.
Do you think that it is silly?
Understand that creator god theory is nothing more than the most extreme and unlikely example of directed panspermia.
He was, in the same manner that one can say that Harry Potter was scarred as an infant, within the context of a discussion of the literary works of J. K. Rowling.
Beatrice:
Well, yeah. Wouldn’t want men feeling all emasculated for wearing cosmetics, golly, just think of how degrading it would be to compare them to a historical example of a cosmetics wearin’ man, like…Ramses. :D
Seriously though, I get it more now after reading Misogyny. The emphasis of “evil femininity comin’ to get you!” placed on scent, cosmetics and dress throughout the ages is overwhelming.
dobbshead
To be perfectly honest, I don’t give a quarter dram of homeopathically diluted rat piss what the founders expected. Or what they wanted, or what they meant. They’re dead, they don’t get a say anymore; we need to decide things based on reality as it stands today, and not what a bunch of centuries-dead aristocrats thought it ought to.
This is probably true, and is the reason for this:
Heller explicitly protects unlimited handgun ownership, so until it’s overturned, that’s basically a no go, no matter how much sense it makes.
@casus fortuitus,
Yeah, I’m afraid so, going by the sentences he quoted and bolded. Like:
“Of course it’s appropriate for me to explore the implications of WHAT IF THE WOMAN DECIDES TO ABORT 30 SECONDS BEFORE BIRTH OR JUST BEFORE THE UMBILICAL CORD IS CUT! What could be inappropriate about that?”
And:
“Of course she can’t kill the baby in those situations… so that means bodily autonomy cannot be absolute! Restrictions! Where to draw the line!”
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Yeah, this is so our joey.
Understandable. But his stupidity is not your fault.
Neither do I. I just brought it up because people were remarking that the current reading of the 2nd amendment is ahistorical. Since the reading of pretty much every other amendment is also ahistorical, that criticism is a very weak one.
Heller explicitly protects unlimited handgun ownership
That wasn’t the reading of Heller that I got. When I get a chance, I’ll look more carefully at the decision (unless you have a specific quotation). I thought Heller prevents the state from banning pistols, but New York City is still appealing its handgun licensing system. Their argument is that just because we can’t ban pistols doesn’t mean we can’t regulate their ownership.
Public school lead prayer.
But I’m not sure if the founders would have expected or anticipated public schools.
One can make the argument that handguns are legitimately self-defence weapons. That was what they were first designed to be and do. A comparatively short range weapon, with a smaller caliber bullet than rifles (which pre-dates them), small and short for ease of use and maneuver in closer quarters. Meant to be used as a weapon of last resort as the enemy closes on your position with bayonets (or other bladed weaponry), after you’ve fired your rifle round and don’t have time to reload.
The rifle on the other hand was always an offensive weapon, meant to hit the enemy at the greatest possible range, before he can close on you and threaten you, a weapon of surprise attack and initiative.
The “assault” rifle, or course, was first designed to assault trenches defended by static machine-gun emplacements.
What gooey our pet wannabe tyrant slavemaster of women and doctors continually failed to recognize was that it was not the mere act of exploring the implications of the argument that was the inappropriate thing, it was the MANNER in which he chose to do that exploration that was the inappropriate thing.
I don’t know any women who have or would consider entering into a marriage with a man who would threaten her career for any reason.
I don’t know any men who would think it was appropriate to exert unilateral influence over their direction of their partner’s career.
Perhaps I am casually acquainted with people who hold such views, but among my network friends and family, egalitarian marriages are the norm.
I think joey and I must exist in vastly different cultural milieux.
dobbshead:
I take your point. However, there are degrees of wrongness, and an interpretation of the Second Amendment based on an originalist approach that finds a right for private gun ownership is much wronger than either of the other examples you provide.
Also, the ahistoricity of the interpretation in Heller is especially relevant, because the Supreme Court asserted that it was arguing from history.
Regardless of all that, it was a throwaway comment in the first place, and wasn’t intended as a substantive criticism of the decision. Remember that I took it for granted, anyway.
dysomniak (or anyone else concerned with facial hygiene), for the soup-loving chap:
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Amphiox
Not really. The earliest battlefield use of pistols was as a cavalry weapon, to soften up the enemy before driving a charge home. A muzzle loading musket was too unwieldy to use on horseback, and a slowmatch was right out. Pistols used the more expensive wheellock (until the flintlock became standard on both due to improvements in springs and metal technologies), which didn’t need a length of burning fuse on hand to fire. They were initially too expensive to be used by common footsoldiers. Outside the cavalry, pistols in the military have,like swords, been carried by officers, not the rank and file, who typically get pikes/muskets/rifles w/bayonets. The initial civilian uses of pistols were crime and duelling. In fact, the first written record of pistols is an ordinance banning them in city limits, because they could be carried concealed and used by muggers and assassins.
RE joey:
Ugh. Thanks for the heads up, all. Guess I’ll brace myself for the inevitable awfulness, and apologies for giving him the ammunition for it!
Oh I’m afraid you’ve got quite the wrong bloke there. As much as I prefer Mr. B’s more sophisticated tunes my facial hair preferences more match the Professor’s, as Mr. B said, “half a beard.”
re: guyliner – I really hate the trend for creating portmanteaus to designate a male-appropriate version of a “feminine” thing. Guyliner. Manscaping. Manorexia. Manties.
The worst I have ever seen was some lifestyle article that used the word “mantrum” Because tantrums are totally a woman thing, don’t you know.
A chinstrap?!
*gasps*
My Viking heritage has given me somewhat-ginger sidies.
I’ve never felt the need to push through the itching to find out what colour a real beard would be. ;-)
Burgundy:
It’s those pesky uteruses, forever consigns us to bitches be hysterical and shit.
*eyeroll*
Naw, the fur doesn’t even grow that evenly on my jawline. I just maintain a perpetual stubble.
The second most famous Presley in rock has died.
vaiyt:
And you do?
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Caine:
I do too. I think it’s great!
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casus fortuitus:
But your reasoning is sound, casus. I wouldn’t call it stupid.
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Ogvorbis:
Nah…I don’t think I’ve ever brought it up in the free will discussions…
…at least not yet.
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Sally:
You know what, I don’t know any men who would do that either.
Same here. But we may have differences in what we mean by “egalitarian”. Just because I’m the “breadwinner” of the family doesn’t mean our relationship is not egalitarian. Why could it not be considered egalitarian? The way I look at it is she definitely has the toughest job of the two of us by far, staying home with our four children. I don’t have to remind her of that, but I do…very often.
Maybe not.
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Gotta head home.
It’s sweet of you to say so, joey, but please be sure to apply that sound reasoning carefully, in case you warp it out of all recognition.
joey,
Yeah, it is. It just doesn’t work the way you would like to in the case of bodily autonomy/abortion.
Go ahead, joey, rewrite those paragraphs you quoted from casus fortuitus to make your case. Do it. I’m looking at them and I’m seeing the problems you’re going to run into already, but I’ll let you do the exercise.
Not yet? Do you intend to?
Because now I’m curious. How would that work?
Thunderdome dump:
Ever done any rage cleaning? I scare the kittehs if I yell and storm about, but I had to do about three hours of rage cleaning today. Yeah, baseboards, I do have a butterknife wrapped in a dishcloth! Aha, BBQ grill that wasn’t cleaned after the last use, a wire brush and steel wool for you! Hold still, ceiling fan blades!
PZ posts about Sarah Parmenter. Stephanie did that multi-linked NSFW post. Ophelia’s tweet twit unilaterally and unctuously declares such a limited “truce” that he can still tweet snipe with his pals about “Ophelia” or “OB” as long as there’s not an @ to her (for now–you see, he says that he’s a rascal who probably will @ her in the future). Then Rebecca has a post on objectification with the latest artwork she’s received. It’s….aaaarrrrrrrrrggggghhhhh.
Argumentum ad NO U, truly a mark of sophistimacation.
No, I do not presume to talk in your wife’s name. I’m just making an inference based on a simple fact – we’re all soaking in patriarchy. In the context we live in, a woman making the choice to abandon her ambitions to be a housewife, especially in the household of a head-in-the-sand oblivious idiot like you, cannot be presumed to be free of pressure.
You mentioned your wife is not alone. Isn’t it a remarkable coincidence that every housewife you know happily laid down their dreams in favor of their spouses’? I suppose all of them were as free of external influence as your wife. Whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess.
Once upon a time, in this very Thunderdome:
Thanks for the promotion, but I’m good with fool. :D
But you are right–in Bizarro Universe, where PZ Myers is a creationist. If Katherine’s experiences, and that of others wouldn’t matter, there would be no gender studies, and if I really didn’t care, I wouldn’t know about them. And bring them up! Sometimes it’s good to keep an eye on the proportions. I made the terrible mistake of writing about “biological men”, instead of writing “male” (I also have the “not my native language” joker card) and made clear that gender and sex are different things. So what else do you want? Her experiences weren’t even in the game, besides her hinting that she has some. How can I discount anything I don’t even know anything about? But no worries! Everyone has a weak side, mine is lacking this respect thing, yours is being wrong all the time. Speaking of which, you’re also wrong about the “you’ve been wondering” part, you called attention to yourself. I’m not this bob dude and don’t plan on making advances. You are just “someone’s wrong on the internet” so far, which is neither terribly bad, nor working in your favor. So plenty of room for improvements in any direction. Hope that wasn’t too irreverent this time.
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On the topic of the ingroup using their arcane word blacklist to brute force against newcomers to see if they have foul thoughts (i.e. “demanding apologies or explaining themselves submission power fantasies”): Let’s see what Steven Pinker has jotted down (and please do ruin your eyes and read the article):
What that means is that there is at least some little tiny disagreement that playing word sheriff is effective at all, and then you may lookup “euphemism threadmill” as well, by the same (awesome) guy. Now of course, overt sexist/racist language, or anything that promotes fascism, racism, or music of the band “Supertramp” should be policed. I guess were on the same page on this one.
Owlglass, instead of being an overly verbose jackass, you could apologize to Katherine from claiming that she is the queen of gender issues.
Oh, wait, that means that you might have to show respect and think about what you are saying.
Also, I am hardly drawing attention to myself.
Xanthë:
Thank you, that’s awesome. But I’m not sure it’s better than (shifting keys into D-major!) KV 382!
(Yes, that is an apocalyptic Brendel photograph!)
Yes. I use the word “egalitarian” to mean “embodying the principles of equality.” You use it to mean… something. I’m not sure what.
Voluntarily entering into an unequal relationship does not magically transform the inequality into equality. Your wife is not working. She is not developing skills that will serve to further her ability to take care of herself if you should die or suddenly decide to up and leave. She is dependent on your for economic security (which, in today’s world, also means food and shelter security). You are not dependent on her for economic security. You are dependent on her for unpaid labor. That’s not equality. No matter how many warm fuzzies either you or your wife feel about it.
On the ukulele theme “IZ” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I
Nah, I think you’ve got the “being wrong all the time” thing pretty sewed up, in addition to being a disrespectful jackass.
There’s a greasemonkey script at the wiki for putting the sidebar back on the right. Yes!
NEW THREAD.