Typical of blogs that don't want discussion, only agreement.
It was a matter of time and not entirely unexpected. The baboon board lynch mob has finally arrived and are baying for blood. There were a couple of dozen in the queue before me, and my number finally came up. So many lynchings, so little time…
I think I am supposed to be surprised, spontaneously void my bowels and fall prostrate in terror. In fact, I briefly noted that yes, I did receive their cleverness, and really, they should tell someone who cares. I have otherwise been bound down by too much pre-crassmass nonsense to even consider any more.
The baboon blogs have in the meantime multiplied. Some are from turds like Greg Laden and Rorschach (or whatever else the chickenshit1 calls himself) who you wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire, let alone respond to. The latter is the baboon board’s Chief Censor and led an abortive spurious complaint letter campaign to National Geographic to censor and/or shut down Abbie Smith and ERV. This time around he’s promising to alert the Federal Police. Good-o. Love to hear how you get on.
Others, like The Naked Emperor’s I have simply not had time for. There are some however that are far closer to home and from people you indulged with a partial degree of trust, not quite as much as what they seem to think, but nevertheless, you allowed them into your life to an extent, despite your guts telling you that one day they would turn like vipers. These are the ones that are more important as they have more misinformation at their disposal, and thus a larger paint palette to play with when crafting even deeper distortions.
"I never tell fibs. I used to be in marketing"
Chrys Stevenson, aka Kirsty Vensson and other variants, is such a creature, and my gut feelings are vindicated. Chrys used to be what can only be described as a groupie once upon a time, as any of the folks that abandoned SensitiveLand around the same time I did can readily attest. This was yet another site that surrendered to the ideological derangement of new, new atheism, and it ceased to be a place for open discussion and became a “me too!” fest of gender feminism and neo-puritanism also in the business of finding and lynching scapegoats a la the baboon board. Funnily enough, Chrys used to defend me back then for doing precisely the same things I do now – unmasking charlatans. But back then I was useful. I am no more. Stay tuned, I fully expect Chrys will shortly be rewarded with a guest blog with the baboons. Her integrity can be bought at such a low, low price. Expediency is the first and only commandment.
Chrys pretty much epitomises the precise rot that is ruining the whole godless movement – the idea that “there’s one law for them, and another one for us”. On the one hand, other people are expect to meet extremely high, very rigid and often confusing standards for ethical and moral behaviour. At the same time however, this is coupled with the refusal to apply these same standards demanded of others to one’s own behaviour. This is exceptionalism. But more importantly, when you distill it right down, this what the true essence of hypocrisy is . My true evil lies in rubbing people’s noses in this fact.
I finally sat down to compose a response tonight (after being labeled a coward for not doing so I might add. Apparently I’m “hiding”), completed it, posted and was greeted by that familiar “Your comment is awaiting moderation” response that is universal amongst those with dirty consciences and who don’t want discussion, only agreement. So be it. I have reproduced the whole thing below. It is unlikely to be released, and if it is, it will almost definitely be in a reality corrected version, the way all baboons treat “erroneous” and “irrational material”. Anyway, here it is.
1 – Here you go you cripple. Someone will actually visit your blog. Only feel sorry for you because you’re the most pathetic of a very sorry bunch. More so even than Laden. People *have* to feel pity.
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Really have better things to be doing than dealing with lynch mobs, but let’s get something straight up front, as there is an awful lot of creative enhancement going on (see Myers Law) – I am not a different person in any way to that of 3 years ago. Chrys, you used to love me then, because my attentions were focused on people you did not like (e.g. Bart the spammer). I would pick apart their deceptions and get them to expose their true natures in public. You would send me emails like these –
date: Sat, Feb 20, 2010
Bravo. Sometimes I could just hug you Felch, and fully intend to do so in March.
Now that I have moved on, I still focus my attentions on people that behave badly, tell fibs and harm others. But now, my attention is on people who do this that you choose to turn a blind eyed to – like PZ Myers, who does little more than orchestrate lynch mobs nowadays to publicly humiliate those that criticise or laugh at him, and even tries to endanger their livelihoods with very nasty personal attacks1. Now suddenly I am bad because I have been writing about PZ’s bad behaviour. So Chrys, you are emulating Myers here and doing the same thing – and it should be noted, publicly disclosing someone’s personal information without doing the slightest bit of verification (also a very “Myers” thing to do2). I think you are probably being enticed by the offer of a blog on the oxymoron that is “freethought”blogs.com. It is always sad when your bad gut feelings about people turn out to be true.
And this is the nub. We now have a good price estimate for what friendship and confidence is worth to you – for a gold star from teacher you will snitch on the other kids in the class. Not even 30 pieces of silver.
People like you Chrys are the very reason I do not trust anyone online, and always wear a flea collar. And you are also evidence why I am not being paranoid. Roll around with dogs, you get fleas y’know?
As for this issue of me “hating” you Chrys, that is the kind of exaggeration typical of people without clean consciences. I was ambivalent about you, extending benefit of the doubt, even up until a few days ago. Even after you had directly harmed two other friends mine and were working secretly to undermine the Atheist Foundation of Australia in the lead up to the last GAC in Melbourne3. ::shrug:: Chrys, you assumed I hated you because I expressed exasperation at your repeated martyr theatrics on Facebook and said so. Like PZ Myers and his pals, you are totally incapable of differentiating “criticism” from “personal attack”.
As for the people chiming in in your comments section about mean old felch being the reason they left AtheistNexus – as usual, no evidence. There never is. At best, there is the Angie Jackson defense – “It was so horrible I deleted it!!!” These kind of accusations are routine. I know former moderators from there and they were sick of the repeated substance free accusations, in all cases from people I had caught doing something slimy. You shared their opinion.
All of this is why atheism has become a lost cause. It has been overrun by people, like you, who prefer gossip to substance and who want to inject their zero-tolerance-of-the-other personal ideology into it at any cost. Ideologues generally need scapegoats to sacrifice on their altars. I am one of a growing number of such people that get targeted as a result. It’s nauseating, and it’s very sad. The new, new atheism consists mostly of folks like you Chrys – they, like you, only ever behave honourably while you are useful or until a better offer comes along.
Goodbye.
Footnote – quite a number of my regular readers have offered the comment to me that this sounds like “a woman spurned”. While I shudder at that thought, it does otherwise reek of revenge for unspecified and imaginary crimes. There is no doubt some evil I inadvertantly committed, breaking some incomprehensible taboo. But, seeing as there are baboons involved, it is also just as likely that there isn’t and she was just bought off after being identified as a like minded and unprincipled harlot for sale.
1 – amongst the things that have happened to dissidents: interference with job interviews, threats to academic/professional employment, imputations of mental illness posted to public profiles, warnings of your danger sent to secular organisations, notifications to protection agencies that your family needs protection from *you*, “blacklisting” and miscellaneous public disinformation such as this blog post etc. Standard McCarthyist operating procedures.
http://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/Phawrongula_Wiki#Articles
2 – no one really cares when a bloodthirsty mob needs to be satisfied. This is “populism”, not “reason”. They are not interested in consequences or damage, especially to those not involved. Spectacle is all that matters. In fact, if you peruse the villification about me on Myers’ site you will notice the complete absense of any citation or evidence that can be verified. And what little does actually have a link to reality has been deformed beyond any resemblence to reality. This is “Myers Law” – all information gets corrupted for strategic advantage.
3 – Have I ever made an unsupported claim here that doesn’t have verifiable evidence? Please, do I look like Myers?
grey lining 
December 15, 2011 at 2:00 am
Note: I’ve received a very long comment from Victor. I am not going to publish it. I know this will anger some, but I am not going to give a forum to someone who has harrassed a woman he doesn’t even know with months of vile, misogynist invective and threatened a physical assault upon one of the speakers at the forthcoming Global Atheist Convention.
LOL Proving your points one after the other. No defense, no trial, guilt by association. Guilty because I sez so. Lost cause indeed, it’s difficult to believe now that secularism — at least in America — isn’t worse than religion.
December 15, 2011 at 2:04 am
I wouldn’t expect anything less.
December 15, 2011 at 2:21 am
Nor would I. That’s mainly for the record so it can’t conveniently disappear as the truth often does in baboonland. Just another illustration for all to see of how these people operate.
December 15, 2011 at 2:36 am
Thanks. Really makes the “woman spurned” camp sound more credible. ::shudder:: I still side with the “ethical destitute” theory myself.
And seeing there is no chance of dialogue, I also need to leave an extract from a footnote I gave her just in case there is any more “enhancement” –
December 15, 2011 at 9:40 am
Not publishing franc’s comment is her prerogative. My response in one of mere disappointment. What I do find objectionable is what follows Chrys noting the comment has been received but will not be published: a reply to the contents of the unpublished comment. Very poor form.
December 15, 2011 at 11:47 am
Well, again, baboon SOP. There is also the implication that it was too “vile” to publish, again SOP. No, her reasons for not allowing even a redacted or “enhanced” version are twofold –
1) Even when I set my mind into derangement / paranoia overdrive, there is nothing in the comment that supports the elaborate demonology they have constructed of me, and
2) It raises uncomfortable questions for which Krusty has no answer, as despite external appearances, she herself know are true
No such thing as a sophist demagogue that can deal with reality or criticism. You can draw your own conclusions, but I think handling it in this way speaks volumes in itself.
December 15, 2011 at 2:26 pm
“… a reply to the contents of the unpublished comment. Very poor form.”
Yes indeed. That misandrist Dworkin wannabe, Skeptifem, does the same thing: Posts harsh and critical replies to comments that she refuses to allow see the light of day.
December 15, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Oh be fair John. Skeptifem, like Fred Phelps and WBC, are not in the same league as the baboons. They just hate people and there is never any ambiguity. They are consistent and they never try to insinuate into peoples lives with “trust me” smiles painted on their faces.
December 15, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Well, this is true.
December 15, 2011 at 5:04 am
So true it hurts. This is the crux of all of humanity’s problem, if I can make so a bold diagnosis. Today’s atheism is a microcosm of the world at large. Tribalism leeches out the reason from people’s arguments until they’re hurling epithets in place of rational opinions or – perish the thought – facts. This isn’t news, of course. Oddly though, the accusation of tribalism is itself is now being used to derail debates. Apparently, your opinion stains you with the war paint of those who hold the same opinion, no matter what other progressive or barbaric stances they may espouse on the side. This is where we are as species. The sham of politicking: throwing the baby out with the bath water so you can bludgeon your opponent with the wash tub.
I’d also like to suggest another hobbling feature of today’s atheism. There’s a troubling dearth of wit and subtlety (present company excepted). Maybe it’s the Internet. The point has been missed in so many conversations, it’s a wonder its face hasn’t shown up on a milk carton. I feel dirty every time I slap a smiley onto a comment. It has to be done though, lest a cunning, absurdist barb be mistaken as, say, an intent to physically assault – maybe in that most sacred of pockets, the cunt, even.
Why is that? Maybe, as atheists, we have a hard time giving up the trappings of the religions we left behind, like the authoritarianism or sacrosanct ideas, or people, or body parts, so that every goddamned thing has to be so goddamned serious. Maybe some of us sciencey, brainy, indoor-kid types had enough humour gleaned from our tragically awkward school days that we tend to emulate those sadistic, dehumanizing pranks visited upon us in those impressionable years. Maybe the only things we find funny now have been distilled from the nerdy comedy we took refuge in back then, dredging up Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters and Ex-Parrots for the lulz, so that anything inventive, current, and disarmingly insightful fails to register as a joke at all. I find the funny to be the most tragic victim of this past year.
December 15, 2011 at 9:07 am
A huge part of the problem is called The Peter Principle.
As an volunteer organisation grows, the useless dross rises to the top, until they exceed their abilities, but not their petty ambition.
The useful folk have all left the stinking ship long prior, to actually get real stuff done in the real world, as opposed to building petty little empires sitting on endless pointless committees.
I made the mistake of joining a Lion’s Club here for a while, assuming that they were all about doing good stuff for the local community.
Boy, was I disappointed! Mostly a bunch of extremely petty, boring, stupid, venal twats, who strove to be on as many committees as possible so that they could host as more banal coffee-mornings than their rivals.
They recognised that such was the closest that they would ever get to a position of POWER, which is how they get their jollies.
Not ‘getting things done’, for as much as I tried to rev them up to acheive things, even if only sporadically, the concept was ENTIRELY FOREIGN to them! And I mean that. The concept of mucking in to actually get something useful completed was not permitted entry into their tiny little minds, and they will actively sabotage completion of important projects as this will mean more meetings for them to attend!
Sad But True.
This appears to be what is happening to many of the atheist organisations, all of the skeptical groups, (CFI in particular), and increasingly the humanist and secular clubs.
“Maybe, as atheists, we have a hard time giving up the trappings of the religions we left behind,”
Many (most?) of us (here in Australia at least) have been atheist since birth.
Yanks, Saudis and Iranians seem to automatically assume that the rest of the globe is like them.
Well, it ain’t mate! 😉
December 15, 2011 at 11:29 am
That petty power fetishism is ubiquitous. I’ve sat on housing and worker co-op committees, sat in on condominium strata council meetings, and participated in various ad-hoc organizations where there were always a few who relished having the floor to have their say, inevitably stealing everyone’s evening by repeating the same points over and over again. The time wasted on this exercise in “empowerment” inevitably stymied any progress we hoped to achieve in the time allotted. That may be what’s at play here. The signs are there: ineffectual drones steeped in so much unbridled, unrequited anger that searches for an object to home in on, you can actually smell them seething. All they need is a venue to vent, and that’s what they’ve got.
It’s plausible that this particular addiction is what’s drawing the chirping hordes together into their little coven of disapproval. But tribalism is the glue. You need a common enemy to transform that unfocused anger into a more keen and visceral hatred: the dirty, rotten other. The question on my mind, if it even matters, is what gives these junkies the greater buzz? The illusion of power, or the expression of outrage?
Us and them. Can’t stand that particular dichotomy myself. I’m no good at picking sides. I’ll leave that task to others. I usually end up where I’m most comfortable.
As for my assumption about lingering religiosity, yeah, well that’s my North American bias coming out. It’s hard to find anyone over here that wasn’t born and raised under some theistic tradition. We’re a bit more secular in the Great White North, but only just. I didn’t intend to tar all atheists with that legacy. It’s just that when questions pop into my head like, “What the hell is wrong with these people?!?!” I am genetically inclined to find easy answers like, “It must have been God!” 😉
December 15, 2011 at 9:26 am
Wouldn’t matter to the baboons whether the smiley was included or not included in any such comment. Don’t include it and the comment is verifiable proof of the Disturbed MindTM. Do include it and the smiley is verifiable proof of the Disturbed MindTM. Facts are, after all, drawn from conclusions.
December 15, 2011 at 11:59 am
One of my mottoes is “smileys are for reetards”. This is what underscores most the slow death of intellect and articulateness. It means nuance and subtlety are dead arts and everyone is reduced to a level of incomprehension that you need to hold their hand and walk them through every statement. I refuse to use smileys and always have as it is semantic corruption. Of course, this is what causes most of the grief, but is outweighed by the fact that it also highlights the sheer imbecility of those that have no repertoire to rely on other than dung flinging, i.e. the entire baboon horde spring to mind.
Stephen, you do realise you will now be blacklisted don’t you?
December 15, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Stephen, you do realise you will now be blacklisted don’t you?
I’ve had the occasional passing wondering about that.
It would be a source of ‘one can but laugh’ amusement rather than opprobrium. If one so mild as me is to be blacklisted, then let it be one more datum in evidence of their methods.
Perhaps a t-shirt would be in order: I was denounced by the NNA and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
December 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Parge: I’d also like to suggest another hobbling feature of today’s atheism. There’s a troubling dearth of wit and subtlety (present company excepted).
I have been saying this for years. Welcome to the new, new atheism. This is a most appropriate quote –
This is as true as Popper’s concept of “falsifiability”. The first actions of all despots and ideologues everywhere are to criminalise criticism and mockery. Why? Because they do not have enough substance with which to withstand it. They cannot defeat it using conventional rhetoric within acceptable codes of behaviour. Therefore, it must be destroyed. This is what is happening at the baboon board. The Emperor is naked, the acolytes are imbeciles and no amount of reasoning can ever change that. So they have a jihad. It is exactly like islamists burning embassies over a bunch of cartoons.