Something I found a while ago that underscores a key point made in the last post. Says it all. Amusing in a “walk away in despair” kind of way – (more…)
August 15, 2013
Booze And Conferences
Posted by franc under cults, great idiots of the world, new new atheism, pseudo-skepticism | Tags: alcohol, booze, freeloaders, getting shitfaced LOL, Korsakoff's syndrome, professional victims, rape inflation, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, wet brain |[14] Comments
August 14, 2013
Minutes From The House Un-Atheist Activities Committee
Posted by franc under cults, gender, great idiots of the world, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, pseudo-skepticism, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, stupidity, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: alcohol, baboons, booze, defamation, freethoughtblogs, Jen mccreight, jenny mccarthy, Lawrence Krauss, lawyers, libel, lynch mobs, Michael Shermer, professional victims, PZ Myers, rape accusations, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, slander, Stephanie Zvan |[18] Comments
The harassment must cease, the shameless harassers must be named.
Anonymous asked: “to the people asking for evidence on these accusations: missing the point. Believe survivors.”
“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” — Douglas Adams
I admit I have been very lax in my baboonology for the bulk of this year. This is a combination of mostly having better things to do coupled with what I guess can be called cognitive RSI – the gibberish at freefromthoughtblogs and skepchick, for me, is a cumulative toxin and repeat exposure does not allow for immunisation, but rather the nausea has steadily increased to the point that it is now actually painful to see. Nevertheless, I have maintained a reasonable level of awareness of their relentless psychodramatics and 唱板板 via private channels and various news feeds.
It was the latter that pointed me to a link containing the first quote above, which leapt out from the surrounding sea of yet another pernicious, well poisoning, muckraking, pro-baboon tumblr page. The statement in itself maligns no one directly – its real repugnance lies in what it expects of the reader. It is perhaps the most succinct précis I have seen to date that represents what, ultimately, is freefromthoughtblogs’ and skepchick’s true mission statement –
“scrutinise and question everything; ‘everything’ of course, does not include us. Us you believe, always and without evidence, for we are faith based organisations. Every time you doubt anything we say, no matter how preposterous, we drown a kitten”. (more…)
May 19, 2013
The Skepchick 12 Steps
Posted by franc under cranks, cults, drugs, education, new new atheism, pseudo-science | Tags: 12 steps, alcohol, alcoholics anonymous, drugs, freethoughtblogs, narcotics anonymous, Rebecca Watson, recovery, skepchick, SMART Recovery |[11] Comments
The Skepchick Serenity Prayer – click to embiggen
A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles (accepted by members as ‘spiritual principles,’ based on the approved literature) outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems. Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939. The method was then adapted and became the foundation of other twelve-step programs. — the cesspit of lies
Powerlessness, Twelve-Stepism, and the Siege Mentality
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol–that our lives had become unmanageable.”
The idea that he is powerless over alcohol lets the user off the hook by absolving him from personal responsibility for his addiction while simultaneously granting ultimate power to the addiction itself, power so great as to be invincible by human standards. (more…)
grey lining 