Topic: How often do you visit the JREF forums?

[Citizen Skeptic]

i like the mix of topics and posters here. 

[Nene]

I very seldom visit because of the amount of traffic there. 

You reply to a post, check back two days later, and the thread is now six pages longer.  You've got to go through six pages to see where the conversation is going, if someone has already made the point that occurs to you (they usually have), and then do it again for any other thread you're following. 

That what turns me off too. I mostly go there before TAM or something, to find some extra infos, etc.

[ShadowSot]

 I go there fairly often.
 
 I don't post much, but plenty of stuff to read.
 I tend not to read the stundies as they cause me physical and mental pain.

[Chew]

With the killing of OBL, this month's Stundies are shaping up quite well.

Some gems:

Probably they could shoot down the barrel of Bin Laden's gun, rendering it harmless.

i really hope he is dead but how many doubles did sadaam have and what about all these transfusions and dialysis stuff he had is it possible to transfer dna by transferring his blood saturating someone elses body over a 10yr period

If the Bin Laden Lynching Raid at the "mansion" was staged, we need to figure out who the "wife" and kids really were.
Have there been any DNA tests on the kids? Will there be?
Probably not, to keep them in custody and "protect them" from the lime light. So they have a plausible reason for not letting anyone independently verify who they were. We just have to accept their story.
What mother would want herself and her kids to be around:
* the most wanted man on Earth, who was in constant danger of just such an attack?
* What wife would want to sleep with a man twice her age? .
* What wife would want to share him with other wives and sleep with him once a week?

[Chew]

May's Stundies are beyond mindboggling.

[migopod]

May's Stundies are beyond mindboggling.

Wow.  What the sources of the quotations? Are they from the JREF forums or the wider intertubes?

[Chew]

May's Stundies are beyond mindboggling.

Wow.  What the sources of the quotations? Are they from the JREF forums or the wider intertubes?

The whole internet is fair game but most of the quotes come from the JREF and the David Icke forum.

[Joe B]

I'm a big fan of 10 and 17.

[Beleth]

       

I used to post there all the time.  I even wrote the original Million Dollar Challenge FAQ, although it's gone through some major revisions since then.

Then the moderation got out of hand, so I stopped.

What he said.  I still read a few topics, but the 'atmosphere' is so toxic I just can't enjoy posting much.  The anal rape of intellect there, in regards to one of the most contentious and fun topics for skeptics to discuss, is like the pall of death hanging over the place.

Their most recent travesty of moderation is in the form of "thou shalt not link to any for-profit enterprise, not even if it's one that furthers the skeptical cause."  The reasoning behind this is pure spite.

But the good news is that it means kookbreaker, and his wonderful science store Spectrum Scientifics, might be contributing here more often.

[Mr. Crowe]

I haven't been there in years! Back when I was first becoming a skeptic, I spent hours every day for weeks going through the million dollar challenge claims, watching, who was I back then, Kramer? whittle all the claims down to nothing or into the occasional preliminary test, which always came up negative... Read all about Uri Gellar (whom I owe for my introduction to skepticism), read all the issues of Swift I could find time for...

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I couldn't wait til the end of the month to post this Stundie nomination:

http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/06/13/a-simple-question-feminists-have-yet-to-answer/#comment-96335

http://www.illuminativini.com

And you fuckers say they do not exist? They have their own winery FFS. How many guys here have their own winery?

I have done all I can. Those few who save themselves? I think there is ‘something next’. Those who are gutless and prefer to be slaves? What use are you other than omegas?

[Joe B]

       

I used to post there all the time.  I even wrote the original Million Dollar Challenge FAQ, although it's gone through some major revisions since then.

Then the moderation got out of hand, so I stopped.

What he said.  I still read a few topics, but the 'atmosphere' is so toxic I just can't enjoy posting much.  The anal rape of intellect there, in regards to one of the most contentious and fun topics for skeptics to discuss, is like the pall of death hanging over the place.

Their most recent travesty of moderation is in the form of "thou shalt not link to any for-profit enterprise, not even if it's one that furthers the skeptical cause."  The reasoning behind this is pure spite.

But the good news is that it means kookbreaker, and his wonderful science store Spectrum Scientifics, might be contributing here more often.

The moderation is kinda odd in the things it's lax or strict about. They tolerate total kooks, obvious trolls and people pushing absolutely abhorrent ideas as long as they can stay somewhat civil, which leads to them having a lot of crazies to play with (including multiple holocaust deniers!), but then they are really really strict on certain other things

[Entropydave]

I visit frequently, but very rarely comment - they take no prisoners and are a bit too unfriendly and hardcore for my tastes.  Plus they have their resident cranks there too - which really they should just ignore with their crazy ideas like "the whole of physics over the past 200 years is wrong and I am right" - threads like that can go on for 30 or 40 pages - IMO this is such a waste of time and intellect...

[Joe B]

I made a funny. I might get an award for it. You can help.

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=213183

[Chew]

June's Stundie Finals

My favorites:

numbers dont mean anything to me really. theyre just man made units to quantify nature, which doesnt use numbers. sure, you can count how many things there are, but trying to predict what nature is going to do by calculations is impossible.

For all the Atheists out there, try to deny this! If there is no God, how does the sun stay burning when there's no oxygen in space?

There is a plenty of proof, but unfortunately it is entirely unprovable.

A valid argument is valid regardless of who makes it.

C'mon now, I don't want to get into it with you again, but really. If your statement were true that would mean that anyone in the world could make an argument on anything at all, and according to you it would be valid. Do you really believe that?? Of course maybe it comes down what you mean by valid.

There is no reason that WTC 7 should have acquired any downward momentum in the first place.

Sirius, the dog-star, is so called because it lies in the constellation Canis Major. Canine, Latin for dog, was shortened by the Masons/Hollywood to K-9 in Doctor Who and Rin Tin Tin K-9 Cop. NASA even has a Mars rover called K-9. Since K is the 11th letter of the alphabet, K-9 is numerically 119 or 911.
Before 1679 the constellation Columba (the Dove) occupied the same space as (was one with) Canis Major/Sirius. Since then the two constellations have drifted apart, but symbolically the Illuminati still associate the Dove with Sirius/Isis/Mary. The Columbine “blazing star” flower, Colombe meaning Dove, is a 5-petaled flower. In ancient Egypt the hieroglyph for Sirius included a 5-pointed star. In the U.S. District of “Columbia” the Masons built numerous 5-pointed star pentagrams into the roads/architecture. Is it not coincidental how the 5-sided Pentagon building would be attacked on 9/11, the same day it began construction 60 years prior? And is it not interesting how the numbers 911 and 5 relate back to Sirius the K-9, and Sirius the Columbine 5-pointed blazing star?

Now, I see how the 1999 shootings at Columbine were foreshadowing for 911. I see that April 20 could be a numeric reference. Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889.

What's next? Canceling flights due 2 2 many mozzies in the air? Grow some gonads Qantas! The ash cloud will improve fuel economy, due 2 thickened gravity.