(March 8, 2019 at 4:02 pm)DarthFritz82 Wrote: Hello all,
This is my first post and I thank you all for allowing me to join your forum, as well as the gracious welcome i received.
So I guess that I have always been an atheist or at the very least this is what I have always been labelled by others.
For me I would suppose that I would be a solid 7 on the Dawkins scale for atheism and give the notion of an invisible cosmic wizard no credence whatsoever.
I was lucky enough to not have any religious indoctrination at all and my parents never discussed it nor dismissed it.
I suppose these days with logical and rational arguement, I tend to be careful in my turn of phrase as I know that the claim is completely unfalsifiable from both ends of the spectrum and cannot be proven or disproven.
However for me it is akin to not being able to dismiss the theory that fluorescent rabbits may orbit within the rings of an exoplanet.
I may not be able to prove my point but I know its garbage.
What are your positions on atheism? Do you to take a careful position given the logical arguements put forward that it cannot be proven nor disproven?
Where do you see yourself on the Dawkins Scale?
I'm glad you've never dealt with any sort of indoctrination. I had religion pushed on me a little bit in my youth but I would say it was nothing too extreme.
I'm also a 7 on the Dawkin's scale and consider myself, effectively, a gnostic atheist. I know god isn't real in the same way I know the fluorescent, planet orbiting rabbits aren't real and give both concepts about the same amount of respect as scientific proposals. Despite the small amount of indoctrination my family imposed on me I was able to see through the veil at a pretty young age; around 14 years old. The massive amount of push-back I got from my father when I used to naturally question things as a child was the main thing that made me suspicious.
This, along with a few other factors lead me to become an agnostic theist, then an agnostic deist, then agnostic atheist and finally gnostic atheist.
To be honest, it's not an idea I have too much interest in exploring more until some actual evidence is presented for the idea.
But there's plenty of cool people here to discuss a number of things with and I hope you decide to stick around.
Welcome!
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
