dawg2357
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re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/22/14 at 1:57 pm
[quote] It succinctly communicates what a person believes with respect to the existence of gods[/quote]
Yes, but then how could a baby be said to be an atheist. They merely "lack" belief in God. A lacking of a belief cannot be a belief in respect to something for it is a mere lack of belief. I...
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re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/22/14 at 1:45 pm
[quote]It is, in the very strictest definition, an atheist.[/quote]
It is this strict definition that I have issue with. Now if one wanted to change it slightly to say that an atheist is someone who has the potential to believe yet still lacks that belief then I would be fine with that. However...
re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/22/14 at 1:24 pm
To claim that atheism is the default where even babies are atheists just seems odd to me. The baby lacks belief, but it is not an atheist.
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re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/22/14 at 1:16 pm
He was arguing atheism wasn't a belief system. Unless you want to say absence of belief is a belief system. ...
re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/22/14 at 1:14 pm
Ah but that is the belief the atheist needs to defend for I would argue that it is key to atheism. It is the philosophical position of the atheist....
re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/22/14 at 12:58 pm
Ok substitute "atheist" for metaphysical naturalist. I would say you now have a belief. ...
re: Satanic Temple puts up display at Michigan Capital
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/22/14 at 12:49 pm
[quote]Atheism is the default. When you are born, you have no belief in a God of any sort. You are effectively, an atheist. If no one EVER introduced the idea of God to you, then you'd have to create the idea on your own but you weren't born with it either way.[/quote]
I disagree. Under this def...
re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/19/14 at 10:07 pm
[quote]I haven't met many of these, at least not ones who will admit it.[/quote]
I have, but I'm one of them or at least I like to think I would have the intellectual honesty to reject a false belief no matter how dear it is to me personally. Now I don't think its the majority.
An interesti...
re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/19/14 at 9:53 pm
Agreed. The point I have been making is that the truth value should be what is attacked not where it came from. If we just kept stating you believe what you believe because of where you were born, then there would be no meaningful dialogue. Who would want that?
[quote]Moreover, your average...
re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/19/14 at 9:26 pm
Many theists will say the same thing. The theist will say that they have reasons for believing and that they have no reason for being an atheist. Some will say they could be convinced either way. ...
re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/19/14 at 9:12 pm
This is true of everyone including atheists. The way one views the world is central to one's life. It is just as hard for the atheist to let go as the theist. No one wants to be wrong and that bias will play a factor in all thought processes.
You can analyze and think to yourself that yes a ...
re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/19/14 at 2:15 pm
[quote]You can say the same for any religion. Mormonism, Islam, Buddhism etc. That doesn't give any of them any more credence as the absolute word of god.[/quote]
I'm well aware. Im not using the argument that because someone outside the faith comes to it later renders that particular faith true...
re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/19/14 at 10:36 am
[quote]If you were taught the precepts of the Christian religion regarding the concept of being saved, burning in hellfire etc. at age 18 instead of being conditioned at birth you would see it for exactly what it is....bull shite.[/quote]
I don't see the relevance of such a statement. How one co...
re: Official Dragon Age: Inquisition Nonstop Fapathon
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/16/14 at 2:46 pm
Add in chaotic focus, fire mine + searing glyph, and fade shield and you have quite a powerful spell as well. You get 1600% weapon damage plus a dot which totals to 1600% from fire mine and searing glyph. The damage is further increased by chaotic focus which takes away 50% of your barrier to incre...
re: What would you say to a Yazidi woman raped by ISIS who wanted an abortion?
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/14/14 at 8:27 pm
[quote]People like you, who like to judge others and tell the rest of us how to live...yea...pretty evil actually. [/quote]
If declaring the actions of another as immoral is evil then declaring the act of judgement as evil is likewise evil for you are judging the one who judges. It could be said...
re: What would you say to a Yazidi woman raped by ISIS who wanted an abortion?
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/14/14 at 5:48 pm
[quote]You answered your own question why your world is imaginary. You don't base your reality on what you see and experience, which make you delusional and see things that truly don't exist. In another words, your entire perception of reality is imaginary.
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Then everyone could be said ...
re: What would you say to a Yazidi woman raped by ISIS who wanted an abortion?
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/14/14 at 4:34 pm
[quote]Let's say for a second it's THE ONLY interpretation of God's Word. I would think that a man like you would put his own daughter's well being over God's Word. It's what I think separates good people from pious dickheads like him. He puts God's Word over his daughter, which I think is a sign of...
re: ISIS beheads 4 kids
Posted by dawg2357 on 12/13/14 at 8:38 pm
[quote]It it's the former...the act of 'dying' is a expansion beyond the individual's limitations into an infinite and Conscious - and loving - Being. If it's the latter...'dying' is the dissolution and absorption of the unique characteristics which form a particular individual (form of life)...into...
re: Why do most conservatives embrace a lack of evidence re: climate change but not religion?
Posted by dawg2357 on 11/22/14 at 8:51 pm
I agree. Even if the event in question actually occurred, the swaying power of such an argument would be extraordinarily weak. ...
re: Why do most conservatives embrace a lack of evidence re: climate change but not religion?
Posted by dawg2357 on 11/22/14 at 8:34 pm
[quote]Because their is a ton of evidence to support religion. From old books from the bible to modern day visits to Heaven and meetings with Jesus. [/quote]
Why must one accept these books? Why not the Upanishads or the Quran? Likewise some Muslims make similar claims of near death experiences...
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