RE: Is atheism a belief?
March 11, 2019 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2019 at 7:23 pm by GrandizerII.)
(March 11, 2019 at 4:54 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(March 11, 2019 at 12:14 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Is the correctness of a postulate not also a belief?
Atheists think that the postulate "God exists" is probably not true.
Some atheists do; others don't. Some atheists simply see no reason to think it's true, but they don't have an opinion on whether this is true or not anyway. These atheists are atheists "by default" in the same way that many of us are "a-solipsists" by default.
Put another way, some atheists will say "it may be true, it may be not, I don't know". In this case, they're not expressing a belief.
Quote:If that's a belief, then atheism is a belief.
That's a belief, but it's not atheism in the broader sense.
(March 11, 2019 at 5:35 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I do think women as an overall population are more likely to do dumb stuff, like panic and just slam on the brakes in the middle of a busy intersection. That's my wife's go-to signature move. But when a man panics, he's much more likely to gun the engine and take out a car full of kids. The last thing they'll ever hear is his goddamned car horn, which couldn't possibly help in any way, but by which he announces, "Get out of the way, this is your fault" just as he broadsides them at 100mph.
Give me women, and whatever little traffic quirks they might have or trouble with the mechanics of parallel parking or whatever makes men so smug, over an overconfident asshole any day of the week.
You've majored in psychology (if I remember correctly), so you know very well about implicit biases and self-fulfilling prophecies and reinforcement of attitudes and such. You should know better than to make such broad stereotypes.